About Last Week
Ukraine Still "Experiencing Invadedness"
About two weeks from now – March 18, to be exact – the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Murthy v. Missouri (it used to be called Missouri v. Biden.)
In nutshell, that’s the government censorship case about how pretty much every agency called up Twitter and Facebook and Google and told them to crush (delete, throttle, suspend) anything they didn’t like.
The facts of the case are crystal clear: yes, various people in DC pressured (or found they didn’t need to pressure because the target already agreed) to do something the government itself cannot do and that is muzzle free speech.
From the “Twitter Files” to so much other information that has come out in the past year or so, this happened. Definitely. Really. It’s in writing.
So a few states and a few people who were specifically designated for kneecapping by the government sued and last year a federal circuit judge said “wow – you’re right!” and issued an injunction ordering a slew of government agencies to stop, well, breaking the law.
That injunction was stayed by an appeals court and that is what is on the Supremes docket on the 18th – whether or not to allow the injunction to stand until at least the end of the surrounding court proceedings.
As you may have noticed recently, the media is self-defeatingly in favor of the government censors and simultaneously hates the MAGA Supremes.
Just this past week, the court decided to hear Donald Trump’s immunity case soon as part of its regular docket of stuff to do. That means the ruling won’t be out until the summer which has Democrats and their flunkies furious and accusing the Supremes of making sure Trump’s criminal trial for whatever it is this time probably won’t finish before election day.
In other words, following standard procedure is the same as helping Trump and therefore the Supreme Court is an illegitimate hotbed of rabid MAGA lunacy bent on destroying democracy.
Now, what will happen if the Supremes let the injunction against inappropriate federal contact with certain media and tech outlets stand? The reaction from the press – whose very existence is owed to the lack of censorship – will scream bloody murder.
So far, in its defense, the government has tried a couple of things – first, saying it never happened and, second, if it did it was in the public’s interest that they be shielded from what we have decided are lies.
Well, it did happen and and the first amendment says you can’t do that nor can you get anyone else to do it for you.
But this is how the media will spinscream it: The court is only allowing the injunction to stand so Trump’s lies can move about freely before the election and that’s the most evil MAGA thing ever!
The blatant unconstitutionality of the government’s actions will never be mentioned.
Winning the conflict between freedom and oppression is on the top of the to-do list of the woke/media/deep state and they know they cannot lose lest the actual truth comes tumbling out.
Speaking of conflicts, Ukraine is still “experiencing invadedness,” as our progressive wordsmiths – they gave us ‘experiencing homelessness’ for vagrant and ‘involved in the justice system’ for thief, etc. - would say.
Leaving aside for the moment the reasons for and impacts of Russia’s invasion (the reason is that Putin wanted to do it and thought Joe Biden would be a pushover, forgetting the, um, family ties to the nation that could be revealed if Putin won,) the war, unlike the Israel-Hamas war for some reason, has been a cause celebre’ of the left.
This is because it was Putin who did it and Putin is evil and Putin got Trump elected and Putin gave Trump hookers and Putin loves Trump and Trump loves Putin and Trump wants to be Putin and Trump want to rule the world as dictators and blah blah blah.
But ask yourself: would the progressive world be so rabidly pro-Ukraine - pro-Ukraine to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars - if it had not been Putin who invaded?
What if a coalition of Ukraine’s neighbors – Poland, Belarus, Moldova (Transnistria,) Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania - had invaded instead?
In this scenario, does the left still fly blue and yellow flags in front of their house, put blue and yellow markers on their social media accounts, donate to Ukraine charities, and continue to push for more and more US aide for the beleaguered but plucky nation?
No – they do not. There would be nowhere near the level of intensity and commitment demanded and emotion in the discussion.
The support of Ukraine is not about Ukraine, it’s about Putin and, therefore, because they colluded to win the 2016 election, about Trump, too.
And therefore Ukraine must be supported.
This is not to support the invasion: Putin is a power mad nutjob with nukes and that is not at all a good thing. The invasion was wrong and Putin’s decision has cost thousands of lives. And our allies nearby (Poland, etc.) must be protected, so support for Ukraine is not an inherently bad thing. And it is in the national interest and it is the ethical thing to do.
But the emotional attachment of those who are running the show (save the neocons who want the United States permanently at war with someone or another) is not based on wanting to help Ukraine – it’s based on wanting to stop Putin and harm Trump.
Speaking of progressives harming people, in California there was once a bill in the legislature to increase the penalties for people found guilty of child sex slave trafficking.
A slam dunk, right? Who could possibly oppose that?
Turns out a lot of people – in fact much of the “criminal justice reform” movement - did.
The bill – which would reclassify human trafficking as a “serious” felony eligible for the application of the “three strikes” law and third strike, bye bye forever (in theory,) hit a snag.
After passing easily through the state senate, it hit the state assembly’s Public Safety committee. There it hit a wall with the committee’s six Democrats all abstaining when it came to vote to move it along to the full house (the committee, chaired by one Reggie Jones-Sawyer, is full of staunch decarcerationists from safe districts .)
This really happened. Eventually, Gov. Gavin Newsom, sensing that Democrats being seen as stopping a bill that would increase punishment for CHILD SEX SLAVE TRAFFICKERS would not be a good look for his presidential ambitions intervened and got the bill through.
And now, here’s the fun part:
Besides George Soros and his ilk, there are four women who have been bankrolling a big chunk of the woke/justice reform/whatever the hell it is effort in California and elsewhere: The very progressive Smart Justice PAC and the very very rich women behind it – Quinn Delaney, wife of a San Francisco developer (note – I’d start saving your money, Quinn), Kaitlyn Krieger, wife of the guy who co-founded Instagram, Patty Quillin, wife of the guy who started Netflix, and Elizabeth Simons, daughter of a hedge fund billionaire.
I wish I could marry money and therefore automatically be taken seriously…at least to my face.
For example, their PAC has given money to a trio of Los Angeles City Council members - Nithya Raman, Hugo Soto-Martinez, and Eunisses Hernandez recently. All three are members of the Democratic Socialists of America and are so far to the left they would make a Berkeley sociology professor blanche.
In other words, just another normal day for the Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse.
But there was another donation that strikes one as curious: $125,000 (for a city council race) to Reggie Jones-Sawyer. Remember that name? He’s the guy who infamously blocked the child sex trafficking bill in his legislative committee (see above.)
Yeah – Jones-Sawyer opposed tougher sentences for monsters who sell children for sex - and not just opposed but actively fought the bill.
He’s termed out of the legislature so, like almost every other termed out pol, he is playing political musical chairs and running for the Los Angeles City Council in District 10.
And if that’s district sounds vaguely familiar, that’s because it was once represented by Mark Ridley-Thomas, now a convicted federal felon. After Ridley-Thomas (what is it with hyphenated evil politicians?) was bounced by the council, Heather Hutt was appointed to take his place and that’s who Jones-Sawyer is running against her in the March 5 primary.
With the help of many, many local unions and, of course, the Four Horsewomen.
There’s progressive, there’s woke, and then there’s batshit evil and opposing tougher sentences for CHILD SEX SLAVE TRAFFICKERS falls into that last category.
Know what else falls into that batshit evil category? Giving people who oppose tougher sentences for CHILD SEX SLAVE TRAFFICKERS money to keep them in elected office.
But the episode was embarrassing so the Four Horsewomen had to pay him back for at least trying to keep CHILD SEX SLAVE TRAFFICKERS out of jail.
Between the four ladies they have at least five children.
Thanks, mom.
Time to cancel Netflix? Maybe, as that could make more time to read a Substack series by Kelly Johnston from “Against the Grain.”
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A former lobbyist, he has just published a series of articles taking a deep look at how lobbying is actually done in DC. It makes for fascinating reading, as do his newest pieces – in light of Mitch McConnell finally going away - on how the senate elects its leaders so do check out the link above.
Today we will not have a thank you epigram but a thank you meme. Put on your physics hat and prepare to laugh:
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