Check…check…Is this thing on?
For at least the last 250 years or so, in the United States that’s pretty much all you had to do when you stepped up to a microphone to speak your mind.
As witnessed by hearing after hearing, by Twitter Files revelation after revelation, and by the fact that mic cords are being cut by the government throughout the nation, that simple process is no longer even vaguely enough…and that’s if you can get close enough to a microphone to use one.
When a hearing on censorship starts out the Democrats literally demanding to censor the witness, it has become clear the nation is beyond parody.
One of the leaders of the Democrat “Shut the hell up or we will harm you!” censorship cavalcade has been Stacey Plaskett, the Virgin Islands’ congressional delegate and ranking member of the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
Plaskett has a very good reason to be in favor of censorship: the late (however that happened) Jeffrey Epstein. Plaskett received campaign donations from Epstein and his cronies and is/was a political ally of the former First Lady of the Virgin Islands one Cecile de Jongh. De Jongh’s day job? Running the Epstein company that handled the expenses related to his pedophilia.
The Virgin Islands corruption runs deep, reports say, one of the reasons Epstein chose it as a place he could safely indulge in his monstrous behavior - https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-island-politics-stacey-plaskett-2023-6
So, yeah, Plaskett really really needs to be able to shut everyone up.
From a hopefully doomed career to doom loop…
IT IS NOT A DOOM LOOP!!!
Sorry for the all caps, but it is extremely irritating when San Francisco is referred to as being in a “doom loop” due its cratering, well, everything.
A loop goes back to where it started – what San Francisco, like Detroit before it, is in is a DOOM SPIRAL.
Spirals are directional, in this case down. Loops are not and imply things going in a circle until returning to where they started from.
It seems that even the people who write “doom loop” stories know the difference – take this Financial Times piece on what a disgusting mess the city is:
“Online discourse about San Francisco’s “doom loop”, a downward economic and social spiral (my bold underline italic) that becomes irreversible, feels less like hyperbole by the day. Even for a city that has always managed to rebuild after flattening financial and geological shocks, San Francisco — emptier, deadlier, more politically dysfunctional — seems closer to the brink than ever.”
Here’s the rest of the story: https://www.ft.com/content/71d8013d-9d94-441e-b2d1-3039c04397d6
There - I got that off of my chest.
Speaking of chest, I saw, wit, um, well…I better not go there…
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