It must be nice being a MAGA and never having to think for yourself. In fact, as I understand it, thinking for yourself is one of the cult’s biggest taboos — you just keep on being mad about what Trump and the MAGA machine tells you you’re mad about, keep right on blaming who Trump tells you is to blame and employ the canned and yet stale and tasteless retorts as Trump does whenever confronted by anyone refuting his baseless contentions.
“Mike Weland the travesties the Dems/left have done to free speech is the real threat to this nation,” a gentleman wrote to my response regarding an incident at a recent Kootenai County Republican Central Committee meeting in Coeur d’Alene wherein a Democrat woman jeered and was dragged out by force. “Of course you call it ‘miss information’ ‘hate speech’ when anyone challenges the dem/left propaganda campaigns when it’s anything but. This has happened so many times even a blind and bitter partisan hack like yourself must see it at least sometimes. Anyway booing and screaming profanities at a meeting with the sole intention of disrupting the event shouldn’t be tolerated. And neither should refusing to leave when asked and biting security. Maybe actually look into Idaho code and see that it’s actually an unlawful act. If this had been maga people doing exactly the same thing at a democrat function you’d have written a frothing harangue of the actions as soon as you heard of it. Your bias and intellectual dishonesty are as obvious as they are predictable. It’s like pulling a string in your back and listing to the same canned response over and over. Forever.”
As usual and forgive my canned response, I must beg to differ. Please explain to me what travesties the Dems/left have committed as regards free speech? In fact, can you explain to me just when it was that Democrats became evil and the mainstream media an enemy of the state?
Now I’ll grant you that on day one Donald Trump, the gent who says what he means and means what he says, did sign an executive order “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship.”
My momma did her best to dissuade me from lying and she did a good job of it. Telling even a little white lie to this very day leaves me physically ill. Mr. Trump’s mom didn’t fare as well, as he lies every time he wags his tongue, taking a perverse but obvious delight in the reactions he gets.
Let’s take a quick look at his order … why, it doesn’t do what the title say it gonna do — it doesn’t protect free speech at all (gasp)!
“Over the last 4 years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve,” Trump ordained in his petulant third-grade bully style. But pay attention to what comes next. “Under the guise of combatting ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘malinformation,’ the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate. Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.”
Why goodness golly me, what he is protecting here is his ability to lie! And blaming Joe Biden! Way to obfuscate and own the libs at the same time, Mr. president! That last irrefutable line is a nice touch — and the ploy of a con artist giving each listener something they want to hear.
In no culture of which I’m aware is lying a positive attribute.
In fact, the Bible so many MAGA say they abide is replete with scripture to discourage prevarication; “For the word of the Lord is right; and all His words are done in truth” (Psalm 33:4), “You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie to one another.” (Leviticus 19:11), “A righteous man hates lying.” (Proverbs 13:5). When Charlton Heston brought the stone tablets down from Mount Burning Bush, Number Nine said “thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor,” which can be simplified to, “don’t @#% lie.”‘
No matter how you use them in a sentence, “disinformation,” “misinformation” and “malinformation” are each synonymous with the word “lie,” meaning to deliberately tell an untruth.
His vision of an America made great again is dependent on the MAGA faithful doing one key thing, just the same as any conman — believing Trump’s lies and the non-existent promises they think they hear when he “means what he says.”
And while they try to proclaim they aren’t, it’s the GOP responsible for “saving our kids” in libraries nation-wide by censorship, banning books, passing laws punishing librarians for the action of its board.
And what is Trump doing as we speak? I’ll give you a hint; you can read all about it in Project 2025, the “conservative” GOP blueprint to a happy and wholesome fascist state Trump claims to know nothing about but whose every step to date is right down that tome’s primrose path to perdition.
Trump, having already spent a term villainizing the free press protected by the constitution, is now limiting media access to his White House to those that pass “the Gulf of America” test … in other words, to those willing to disseminate lies and propaganda … his lies and propaganda … rather than news.
And what does not-president Trump’s Project 25 demand?
“The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors,” it states in the foreword. “This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.”
But isn’t that censorship? Why silly me, my bad! When it’s the words you dislike being censored, it falls under a different rubric, such as “protecting our families” or “making America safe for God and conservatives,” provided, of course, that it’s the God and conservatives who pray at the Heritage Foundation altar and no other.
So …if we don’t say the words, maybe the queers will go away? If that works, I can think of a lot of words I’d be banning instead of their choices; cancer, rhinovirus, global warming, murder, Brussel sprouts and boiled okra.
So back to Coeur d’Alene. Did that Democrat trouble-maker have the right to jeer? Maybe, maybe not — that depends on the nature of the meeting and that’s a question being considered. But the question that nags at me is more fundamental.
That high school auditorium had a pretty good crowd in it when the MAGA Kootenai County sheriff — the one person in attendance she should have been able to trust — made a feeble and unsuccessful attempt to do KCRCC chair Brent Regan’s bidding and eject her.
The crowd was heard at times cheering the MAGA lies and propaganda … the very things Teresa Borrenpohl was jeering, and rightly.
One of the things cheered most loudly was when the woman was wrenched from her seat by three unidentified men with such force her coat and shirt were nearly stripped away.
They refused her pleas to identify themselves, the MAGA sheriff did a fine job standing back and standing by and not one gent in that venue came to her aid — they laughed and cheered, especially when the view almost reached the point of titillation.
A room filled with men, and not one stepped forward to help a woman in distress.
Is MAGA so callous they’d blame the lone woman, saying she was a liberal playing the victim? Yes they would — that’s just what they did. That’s the price, gentlemen, of mindlessly believing another man’s lies. You lose whatever redeeming qualities you may once have possessed just to retain membership in the safety your cult.
Bad news, fellas. There is no safety in any cult. Only regret. And the lifelong guilt of knowing you were once so gullible.
Notice what’s printed at the bottom of Phase I of the Epstein files, released today to 14 “influencers” invited to the White House for a briefing from co-vice president J.D. Vance, a quick traipse through the Oval Office to be flattered by a liar and initial recipients of the document every scoop-seeking mainstream journalist would cry for, the Epstein files, handed them personally by Attorney General and Sister Christian Pam Bondi?
Have you heard the coverage?
“One thing is certain: this man (President Trump) is fed up with a media that rejects and loathes him on a second term and is open to embracing a new wave of journalists willing to approach his presidency with a fairer angle and a sharper lens,” Influencer Jessica Reed Kraus posted. “That’s where we come in. He could not have been more complimentary. He was sure to praise our views in comparison to legacy media, which he speaks of in past tense, as if they’ve all died.”
Nice job, Jessica! And she probably finds it normal for a President of the United States to append this profound drivel to the cover page of a presidential press release:
The Most Transparent Administration In History
The 45th and 47th President of the United States
Donald J. Trump