Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts

Sunday, January 24, 2021

F@{K MITCH MCCONNELL

 


No no no! I don't mean have sexual intercourse with him! Yuck! Gross! By that, I mean that Mr. Mitch should NOT be a senator, but rather he should be locked in a giant safe which is locked in a bigger giant safe which is itself locked in an even bigger gigantic safe which is then buried............ on an asteroid made out of the stinkiest rhinosehraus shit that's at least 10,000,000,000,000,000 light years from Earth. Then that asteroid should be sucked into the biggest and least escapable black hole the universe has ever produced. That way, this frog-joweled ersatz despot can never bother any of us ever again.

"Why should this happen?", you ask. I will get to that by the end of this blog post. Yes, it will definitely include stuff about Donald Trump, the 2020 election, and Trump's last days in office.  Sorry about that. I know we're all sick to death of see him and talking about him by now, but I need to say what I'm about to say so here it goes.

If you need to know my basic opinion of Trump, you can check out this old blog post of mine I made back in 2015 when he started campaigning.  You can also watch this old video I made in an attempt to do an impression of an "anti-sjw youtuber". 


(Drink a shot of zambuka every time you cringe).


I'm sure some people reading this might want to ask me if I think "the 2020 election was stolen from Trump due to massive fraud".  My response to that is I........................... don't care.  I think both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are bad choices to be president each in their own way.  If Trump and his "legal" team had somehow managed to flip enough electoral votes to Republican, then stupid dumb Donny

would stay on as president.  But, with the election results staying as they are, it means that stupid old creaky old Joe Biden becomes the president.  This contest was almost literally the Giant Douche/Turd Sandwich confrontation that South Park made an episode about. No matter which one of those two got in, America (and the world really) is in for 4 more years of absolute bullshit so I saw no need to "pick a side" for either one of them.  I can show you who I WAS rooting for with this one meme I made:


In my opinion, that result would've rescued America from this quagmire.  But I digress.


My approach to this period of time is from a free speech angle.  How will things of that nature go along under Joe Biden's administration?  Well, one big unfortunate development is the likes of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez demanding there be a list made of Trump's supporters and that they be essentially driven out of society.  

She, of course, is doing this in the wake of that crowd of people storming the Capitol building at that Trump rally.  Granted, that storming was the stupidest thing anybody could've done at that moment.


 From what I could see, these people thought they were having their big patriotic "throwing tea in the Boston Harbor" moment which is why they were taking selfies throughout the whole ordeal and posting them to social media.  However, what they should've realized was that this was actually their "jock fraternity demolishing the nerd's frat house" moment.  If you can recall that moment from the movie Revenge of the Nerds, you can see what I mean.

Anyway, as egregious as their actions were, resorting to full blown McCarthyism never helps anyone.  You can NOT have Mumbly Joe calling for unity in all of his pre-written speeches and then turn around to criminalize a huge percentage of Americans because of their opinions. That violates pretty much every constitutional amendment one can name.  Thankfully, not all Democrats (with more power in all the branches of government) feel this way.  Soon after AOC proposed the beginnings of her own HUAC (House Unwoke Activities Committee) hearings, another member of congress and even part of the "squad" Rashida Tlaib stepped forward and presented some legislation to contradict that.


I don't agree with all of Rashida's politics, but I'm in 100% agreement with her on this. Leave everyone's civil liberties alone. Expressing support for someone should not and never be an arrest able offence.

So, anyway, that's a little taste of free speech under Joe Biden's administration so far.  How would things have faired under a Trump 2nd term?  Well, one big example we all saw was his mishandling of Colin Kaepernick.  However one feels about Colin's gesture to disrespect the national anthem for his own reasons, it is his constitutional right to do so.  As I'm sure we can recall, Trump went on a rampage about this calling him a "son of a bitch" and demanding the NFL fire him.  Geez, talk about government overreach, imposing on a privately owned industry and demanding that a football player denounce his beliefs or lose his job. The same way compelled speech is not free speech, so too that compelled patriotism is not patriotism.  Trump should've left Kaepernick alone and kept doing his job.

But, the MOST heinous assault on free speech happened just one or two days before Trump left office, and this is where stupid evil Mitch comes in.


Trump had announced that he was going to pardon a huge number of people as his last act before stepping down.  A tremendous social media campaign was launched to convince him to drop the charges America had imposed on the embattled journalist Julian Assange thus setting him free.  I won't explain here why Assange is in such trouble and why he needs to be set free now. I'll just post a link to this article I found that gives a good overview of his situation.  The absolute basic issue is that Assange was essentially arrested for doing his job as a journalist by exposing war crimes in Iraq committed by Americans. So keeping him in jail is a threat to true journalism everywhere. If he is allowed to be detained even one second after I've typed this sentence, it means that the only "journalism" allowed are government sanctioned talking pieces who only praise the "deal leaders" in charge whether in public view or shadowy.

Miracle of miracles, the social media campaign had reached Trump's eyes and he was actually prepared to put Julian on his list of pardons.  This is when Flying Monkey Mitch McConnell swooped in and told him "NO"! Mitch even went so far as to threaten Trump (at the time a sitting president) with full indictment in the senate if he freed Assange.  So, Trump felt he had no choice but to deny freedom to Assange yet again.  His acquiescence to appease the senate was a useless gesture because they're going to try to convict him in the senate anyway no matter what.  Trump should've delivered a huge parting blow by pardoning Assange so that the esteemed journalist can get back to work and expose the traitorous actions of the deep state actors in Washington and thus create a better chance to have THEM locked up once and for all.

So, freedom and democracy are dying both because supposed "tough as nails" Trump is actually an easily frightened coward...

"...Brave brave Sir Donny..."

...but also because Bitch McConnell is a deeply evil man who should not be in power.  Of course it's not just him. There are plenty of black-hearted deep state officials working in Washington and in governments all over the world who want to squash freedom in the pursuit of power.  If we the people want to have a better and more free world, we need to champion the honest altruistic heroes like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden while holding big billowing flames to the feet of deep state tyrants like #BitchMcConnell (please get that trending) and/or the neo-McCarthyist scolds like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.

Keep up the good fight, everyone.  The next four years are going to be just as long as the passed 4 years. Buckle up.



Saturday, December 23, 2017

Is Kilroy Worth It?


I just recently got back from a vacation in the Philippines so I just now caught the tail end of the craziness surrounding the Kilroy Event.  I'm feeling a weird mixed bag of emotions about it and I'm not entirely sure what to say.  But, being someone who paid the $250 for the 'ultimate package' and making not just one but two blog posts promoting it, I guess I'm somewhat obliged to say something.

I'm not going to 'brutally attack' anyone for their opinions of the event. Everyone has their own reasons for feeling that way.  Tim Pool's experience is quite an eye-opener though.



Yeah, those contracts Tim talks about seem rather puzzling to me.
 They kind of have that 'insecure girlfriend/boyfriend' vibe to them in a way.  Just like the gf that insists "I SAW YOU CHECKING OUT HER BUTT!!!" or the bf that shouts "OOOOOOOH!!! SO YOU AND JIMMY ARE JUUUUUUUUST FRIENDS!!! REALLY???!!!", these contracts seem to be insisting, "YOU'D BETTER DAMN FUCKING WELL TAKE THIS CONFERENCE SERIOUSLY WITH NO BACKING OUT OVER SOME 'SCHEDULE CONFLICT' BULLSHIT!!!"  That's my interpretation anyway.

I'm also not too thrilled with the stifling of guests' speeches that lean more to the 'alt-right' or whatever term they prefer.  Maybe the organizers want to cut down on the inevitable Antifa violence, but that's not a good way to go about it.  Free speech means free speech for all and it should definitely remain that way for a Free Speech convention.  Like it's been said elsewhere, sunlight is the best disinfectant.  All views need to be put out into the world so that they can be challenged with debate and such.  Stifling any ideas is unconstitutional, undemocratic, and highly dangerous.  Those bad ideas will just fester underground which could manifest themselves in very destructive ways.
I know good ol' Dickie Spencer has expressed interest in speaking at this event.  I know he's, shall we say, the opposite of popular with many people.  But I think I thought of a solution that could please everyone, even the most adamant Antifa thugs.  Two words: dunk tank!  Let Dickie spout his views from the security of a dunk tank where nobody can physically hurt him, yet at the same time everyone has a great opportunity to release their outrage with him.  I see the price going as follows:

Ask Dickie a question: $2
Get 3 Balls to Throw at the Target: $3 (so $1 per ball)
1 question and 3 balls: $5

See, that could be fun for everyone.

But, in fairness, I'll let one of the event's organizers, whose youtube name is "Based Mama", tell it in her own words in her video embedded below.



So there we go. I went all "Trump on Charlottesville" there and presented both sides.  I'll let everyone reading this decide for themselves who's "Ghandii" and who's "Hitler" in this scenario.  My biggest concern about this event mostly involves me and the decisions I make for this day forward.

This blog post I'm making is meant to answer the question in the title: is the Kilroy Event still worth attending?

Like I said at the top, I paid the big $250 to help get this event going. However, I still have yet to book a flight and a hotel room in Phoenix, so my commitment isn't entirely 100% yet.  I figured I would deal with this event after my Philippines vacation first.  But now that that's happened, I can wrestle with this Kilroy situation more.

So, the question remains, do I think it's worth it to attend Kilroy and will I be going?  The answer to both questions is: YES!

I know lots of big speakers who were scheduled to be there have pulled out which looks very bad. However, I still think it will be a rather sizeable event with many people in attendance.  That's still an ideal environment for the self-promotion intentions I have going into this conference in the first place.  I can still schmooze with people and promote my book whenever and wherever possible.



Also, Andy Warski announced on his channel that even though he very angrily pulled out of Kilroy, he still intends to be in Phoenix to organize a pub crawl of sorts.  He'll do that to benefit anyone who paid good money to see him speak there.  I would gladly attend both Kilroy and that pub crawl.  That's just as good a place to promote my book as any. In fact it might even be a better venue for that.  So that's another good reason to be in Phoenix on April 21 & 22.

Another good reason for me to stay optimistic is that there is still time to turn this around. It's still just a few months away. There's plenty of time and opportunity for others to get involved and help make it a success.  Remember, this was inspired by the censorious nature of other conventions like the one experienced at VicCon last June.  Kilroy is supposed to be a huge piece of artillery against this climate of censorship.  Don't let our stealth bomber deteriorate into a slingshot.  Don't just sit back and watch it burn, dig your heels in and do something.  Just because they've "lost Faith", it doesn't mean we have to.



You saw what I did there I'm sure.  Should I have done that?  Well, it's too late now.

So anyway, that's my assessment of the whole Kilroy situation.  Whether you plan on attending, or just want to heckle and meme from the sidelines, it's all cool.  Whatever happens, it will be an exciting weekend destined for the history books.

See you Keks there or whatever.