Have I Moved Further to the Right? - 4/30/2022

Elon Musk tweeted a meme showing the shifting sand of the political spectrum moving to the left, and while he doesn't feel he himself has changed, how not only has he gone from center-left to center-right, but he also shows the far left now mocking him as a bigot.

Elon's meme

The meme has been responded to by the left with many, many claiming that the right has moved further to the right. I have also seen excuses made for the left's lurch, claiming that the left hasn't really moved at all, it is just hostage to the far left wing of the party, and have been hijacked leftward. Listen up, dumbasses. Hijacked left and held hostage there is still moved left. You can't be over there and say it's not your fault. That don't cut it with me. Be honest or shut the f*** up.

This is really what they think. I say, no. Hell no.

The meme did make me think, and left me analyzing my own self. Have I moved to the right? I think the answer is that in some ways, yes, and ion others, no. Let me give you a couple of examples.

First, abortion. I have always been 100% personally opposed to abortion. But I believed that my opposition was based on my religious beliefs, and if someone else made that choice, in my opinion it was between that person and God. It was legal and basically none of my business. I never liked it, nor supported it. I objected any and every time tax dollars would be used for abortions. I have always been uncomfortable that the bullshit phrase, safe, legal, and rare was used while 600,000 - 700,000 babies were being aborted annually in the US alone. Abortion has become a form of birth control and in that regard I despised it, but left it between those having the abortion and God and kept my mouth shut.

Michelle Wolf's "salute to Abortion" infuriated me to my core.

Then along came Michelle Wolf, who prior to this was unknown to me. She did a song and dance routine which was essentially a Fourth of July style parade celebrating the joys of abortion. It rocked my sould and my conscience. I was furious and angry, mostly at myself for my tolerance of killing babies. This wasn't the important personal decision, something safe, legal, and rare that I had been tolerating. This was disgusting anf totally unacceptable. My sensibilities were offended. Deeply. Permanently.

The New York Senate passed, then disgustingly cheered passing a law that legalized abortions all the way up till 9 months.

On Jan 22, 2019, the NY Senate passed a late term abortion bill that allowed abortions in NY up till the baby came to term. That was bad enough. Then the savage baby-killers stood and cheered. At that moment I no longer supported a woman's bullshit right to choose. The baby-killers had moved so far out to the fringe, treated killing babies so callously and so casually, even celebrating it, not just in entertainment like the disgusting Michelle Wolf, but in what should be a dignified setting, the New York Senate. They lit the Empire State Building up in pink, just for good measure. Disgusting.

Did I move to the right? I guess I did. But why? Because the left lurched so far and so appallingly left that I became absolutely and totally uncomfortable to be their accomplice any longer.

I support building a wall AND I am pro-immigration. I'm pro LEGAL immigration and anti-illegal immigration. It's not that complicated and they're not conflicting positions.

Another issue that is telling about my perceived move to the right has everything to do with Trump's famous and infamous "Build the wall" stuff. Immigration is and always has been an important hallmark of the United States of America as a nation and as an idea. I support immigration. However, I detest illegal immigration, and I blame politicians from both sides of the aisle in Congress for not reforming immigration law. We need immigrants for our work force. Period. What we also need, however, is vetting of immigrants. This illegal shit, where within the millions coming over illegally are criminals, drugs and human traffickers, is totally unacceptable. It had to and has to stop. I figured if Trump got his wall, then the onus would be squarely on the back of Congress to do it's job and put reformed immigration laws on the books that would end, or at least nearly end the illegal flow by making a legal entry possible. 

So, while my support for the wall was described as racist, anti-immigrant, xenophobic, and all the other phobes, the truth is it was simply a pragmatic decision on my part to support the wall as hopefully a means toward immigration reform. Fat chance. Trump and all his supporters like me have been vilified and characterized as racists and bigots and pointed out as extremists. Well, call me names all you want, I'm not. I want immigration reform and I am and have been disgusted and unhappy with Congress for not reforming US immigration law. The wall was and is, in my opinion, a last resort because our elected officials refuse to do their jobs. They seem to find benefit in the division and refrain from addressing it. They'd rather incite the base by arguing the issue than to do their job and fix it. That doesn't make me a bigot and it didn't move me to the right at all.

The First Amendment - 4/29/2022

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." - The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The First Amendment is at risk here.

The Biden Administration is establishing a “Board of Disinformation Governance” under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a Federal law enforcement and security agency. "Federal" as in FUNDED BY THE US CONGRESS.

The DHS protects us from bad guys. Now that will include people who stray from leftist government narratives.

Just when I thought I couldn't possibly despise the left any more, they come at us with a totalitarian speech police force, which under communist and other dictatorships would be more accurately named the "Ministry of Truth" or "Ministry of Propaganda". I'm thinking Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Hussein, and all the other despots and evil villains of the last century are now being mimicked my our own government, a government which owes its existence to the premise that Freedom of Speech is a God given and inalienable right, and which, in its aforementioned Constitution, established our government as guarantor and protector of speech and other rights.

This all came about because the left had been using Facebook, Google, and Twitter to control discourse in our country. Those platforms became the modern town square, but since they weren't owned and operated by the U.S. Government (supposedly and or ostensibly), could do the dirty work of denying political opponents of the left an equal voice. All of these tech giants tilt way left, way, way left. I have read and heard some lying lefties claim they tilt right, but those saying that are lying or delusional. I personally think they're liars, but that's me.

I, along with many thousands of others, including the President of the United States, was kicked off Twitter on Jan 8, 2021, the day of the big purge. The small number of you who have followed this blog will I hope remember that I disagreed with and objected to the Jan 6th protests in Washington which supposedly were the catalysts for the big Jan 8 Twitter purge in which I was cancelled. I was not given even a hearing of any sort, not told what rule I had violated. I was neither given a warning, nor an opportunity to delete any offending tweet(s). I was purged with Trump. Period. The left was happy. They had a speech police in place in the form of big tech.

Twitter, Facebook, and Google, each in slightly different ways, but each in concert with the others, helped shape political discourse in our country in several ways. They banned and blocked voices that spoke up in opposition or disagreement with their own homogeneous political perspective. They tamped down the reach of voices with which they disagree using algorithms that reduce the number of interactions those voices have with their friends and followers. They use those same algorithms to increase the exposure of and the number of interactions with voices which did/do align with their political views. They make content rise to the top or sink deep down below in searches to either increase or decrease exposure to them, respectively. And lastly, they use extremely biased "fact checkers" to post warnings on information with which they disagree.

Elon Musk bought Twitter and, OMG, is going to make it a free speech platform!

Then Elon Musk bought Twitter and had the audacity to commit to Free Speech. One leg of their big tech three-legged stool of discourse control, Twitter, might no longer help control narratives. People with whom the left disagrees might soon be allowed to speak our minds. This cannot be! It must not be allowed! It must be stopped! Before I go further, let me state unequivocally, what Facebook, Google, and Twitter were doing was NOT a First Amendment violation. At least not unless we find out that they were doing it at the behest of or as agents for the U.S. Government. But even if not a violation of the First Amendment, it was NOT free speech, and it WAS/IS a form of censorship. That's why I would have First Amendment concerns if the U.S. Government or U.S. Government officials are found to have been sponsors of or participants in  it.e

So, Musk bought Twitter and vowed to return it to being a free speech platform. The meltdown on the left has been mind boggling, and is really proof that they knew all along that the public square free discourse deck was stacked heavily in their favor. They deserve the ugliest of meltdowns, exposing themselves and the sham in all its disgusting glory. I was thinking, good for them, rotten bastards that they are. Cry, babies. Cry your goddamned eyes out. Bastards!

President Biden's new Minister of Truth is a propagandist. Period.

Almost immediately the Biden Administration announced its Board of Disinformation Governance, and to make matters worse, President Biden named Nina Jankowicz, someone who, for example, denied the Hunter Biden laptop story, which we now know was 100% true, as being disinformation. She is a professional liar and highly partisan actor. The last thing our country needs is such a partisan with law enforcement authority controlling dialogue and making her partisan determinations what speech is acceptable and which will be countered by the US Government law enforcement Department of Homeland Security.

We all need to make our voices heard. This new government entity is unacceptable and totally unconstitutional. Democrats ought to be as outraged as Republicans over this development, and add in as embarrassed as hell over it, to boot. Call and write to your Congressman or Congresswoman. Call or write to your Senator. Call the White House switchboard. Write to your local newspaper. Talk about it and keep talking about it and if they try to stop us from talking about it, all the more reason for us to talk about it more, and louder still.

This new Board of Disinformation Governance is an ugly stain on US history. It is an affront to our Freedom of Speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. If the Biden Administration continues forward with this, it needs to go through the courts to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary, and to be tossed out into the street on its ear.