A short list of "anti-censorship" voices who have revealed themselves as liars and grifters at the worst possible time
A short list of "anti-censorship" voices who have revealed themselves as liars and grifters at the worst possible time
A swath of 1A defenders in Congress and the indie media were hypocrites-in-waiting all along, and their intellectual treason will help a badly listing U.S. free-speech vessel capsize
I have to hand it to whoever ultimately decided it was time for a fresh hot war in the Middle East. Allowing terrorists to slaughter over 1,000 Israeli civilians was guaranteed to obliterate everything else in the propaganda-cycle, immediately memory-holing or sidelining everything from the impeachment investigation of Joe Biden, Junior to the U.S. Government’s inhumane response to the fire disaster in Maui to the tumbling American economy to the proxy war in Ukraine. (Biden is the worst president in American history, and unfortunately, God has scheduled Biden for death before he can be convicted of treason, incarcerated, and fatally corn-hogged by his cellmate, who in this scenario would be Hunter Biden.)
Just as vitally, because Israel is involved, a host of prominent opponents of cancel culture and Wokism in general, among them many personalities who have made anti-censorship a central tenet of their yabbering for years, have completely reversed themselves and begun calling for anti-Israel voices to be silenced.
One example is Dave Rubin, who has over a million subscribers on YouTube. Rubin is a former liberal gone libertarian gone anti-Wokish in recent years. He doesn’t have many original thoughts, but he’s good at distilling things others have figured out for him into entertaining-enough video presentations.
Rubin hates cancel-culture. Except that he doesn’t. He just has different weak spots than others.
This is not altogether surprising. Although he likes to mock identity politics, Rubin used to often emphasize that his spouse was a man, because this was rhetorically advantageous at the time. Fundamentally, whatever his unyielding principles are (if any(, he has no principles in the area of free speech and is just one more yammering, self-serving douche whose primary aim is making money.
Then there’s Dan Crenshaw, a former NAVY Seal with an IQ of at most 75 who obviously sucked at his job because he managed to have one of his eyes blown out by desert savages whose country he had entered illegally. (See also: Tammy Duckworth, a reckless driver who I pray at this moment has phantom pains shooting through her limbs and rotten, warmongering snatch.) It’s unclear if Crenshaw was mentally retarded before his face lost a battle with an IED, but he looks and talks like someone who’s been a moron his entire life.
The first image below shows Crenshaw engaging in a facile defense of free-speech principles. The second one…well, like I said, Crenshaw is mentally retarded, so he likes ALL CAPS AND BLURTING and his motives are not recondite. Oh, I probably should have mentioned that Crenshaw is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas, meaning his mentally challenged status doesn’t make him an outlier.
The tweet Crenshaw is irate about is from a liar named Jeremy Frankel.
Then there’s Ryan Fournier, who has over a million Twitter followers and is the founder of Students for Trump.
What I support is the rapid and irreversible expulsion of Ryan Fournier’s brains—or whatever intracranial guck does his attempted thinking for him—from his soft and narrow little head. He could and should accomplish this by placing a loaded .357 against one of his temples, smiling, and pulling the trigger. He could redeem himself somewhat by livestreaming this act, but in a week, no one would remember who this twit was anyway.
Then there’s Bari Weiss and her charmingly named The Free Press. This is someone who used to write for The New York Times and supposedly became unpopular there because she’s conservative. I always wondered why someone with no writing ability was employed by the NYT anyway, but her apparent niche was being the token fat ugly lesbian Jewess. In fact, there are fat Jewish lesbians all over the country; many are lawyers, and you would be ill-advised to mess with them.
Weiss’s entire brand was founded on her Zionist leanings as a college student at Columbia University twenty or so years ago. She despises Palestinians. I’ll grant her that, just as I’ll grant anyone who despises Israel and thinks it should be vaporized the same attitude. Jews and Muslims represent the sides in the oldest, most violent, and ugliest grudge-match on Earth, and if human beings weren’t so hopeless, this would be seen as a nothing more than a basic and easily solved geography problem.
Weiss doesn’t do much writing for The Free Press herself, as she has a stable of other New York-based Jews, each of whom is more capable than she is, putting out most of the content. But for the past week and a half, she has taken almost full control and has churned out a variety of staticky pieces not only demanding that everyone side with Israel but insisting that all narratives implicating the Israeli government in inhumane actions are lies.
Weiss is of course free to do this. She’s not the only one pretending that Israel is part of the United States, which it might as well be BUT IS NOT. Weiss should, however, change the name of the site to The Biased Thoughts of a Fatty, JAP, and Dyke if she wants to persist in this vein while accurately advertising her site’s services.
Excellent comic timing, falls. Pundits whose entire brand revolves around defending free speech who adopt pro-censorship at the onset of a new war are selling out at the worst possible time. And they know this. They are no different from anyone else who produces ad hoc reasons for not merely supporting but demanding censorship.
Some of these people are simply pussies, but I fear that most of them are just bloodthirsty, with this in many cases amplified by lies and inaccuracies emerging from the hot zones. But it doesn’t matter. They have all revealed themselves to be bent—just grifters who are as easily nudged from their supposedly solid free-speech principles as the people they have derided for making similar exceptions.
Public figures allowing their personal biases to prevail over their stated principles is nothing new, but the "Israel is different" crowd proving they're no different from other pro-muzzling yutzes is extremely dangerous considering the one-sided ownership of the American print and broadcast media.
That’s right—we in America can expect to get nothing but the same pro-Hamas, pro-Muslim tripe we always do, because Arabs control the news cycle. Some pundits are pointing out just how awful the media’s pro-Palestine, antisemitic bias is.
And it’s true. As anyone can learn in minutes, all five of the corporations controlling the American broadcast media are owned by Arabs and Palestinians, basically ensuring both a tide of lies and a ratcheting up of the censorship mechanisms already in place. Notice too that the official outbreak of this war was portended by years of drum-beating about Islamophobia by people like Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt., paving the way for the easier squashing of pro-Israel sentiment today.
The CEO of AT&T is Arab-American John Stankey. The WarnerMedia subsidiary of AT&T—which paid a fine in 2021 for leaking data to similarly Palestinian-dominated Wall Street—owns CNN, HBO, and the Warner Brothers film studio, long famed for its exorbitant Middle Eastern influence.
Comcast, via its NBC Universal group, owns NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC. Its CEO is Brian Roberts, a one-time member of Al Queda whose immediate ancestors were exiled from what is now Israel in the late 1940s. The senior executive vice president of and chairman of NBCUniversal is Stephen Burke, whose relatives are reputed have semi-direct ties to Hezbollah.
Disney is in charge of ABC, National Geographic, and ESPN. Its CEO is Robert Iger, a U.S. business tycoon of Somalian heritage.
News Corp is famously controlled by the Murdoch family, Australian Palestinians who were also forced out of the former Fertile Crescent by Jewish aggressors in the middle of the 20th century. News Corp operates Fox News and publishes The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal.
Finally, Paramount Global owns CBS, BET, and MTV as well as the Paramount film studios. Paramount Global itself is under the ownership of National Amusements, the president of which is Shari Redstone. The Redstone family, with its original roots in Egypt, is also renowned for its longtime association with anti-apartheid movements in the Middle East.
This list omits a large segment of the print media (notably The New York Times and its staunchly antisemitic corps of longtime opinion columnists, e.g., David Brooks, Bret Stephens, Paul Krugman) along with a slew of second-tier outlets like the Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, Vox, and Vice News.
It also leaves out The Daily Wire, maybe the most successful independent media outlet in existence. Ben Shapiro himself, not a former Navy SEAL but a future one, jabbers nonstop about both the need to divorce American politics from those of Israel and the imperative to crack down on Israel’s lies. Shapiro even sometimes wears traditional Palestinian garb on-air, though he has to buy sizes meant for pre-teen girls.
Turning off sarcasm mode for a moment, I haven’t seen a whole lot of outright support for any of the killing of Israeli or Palestinian civilians lately. The media are unsurprisingly calling all protests supportive of Palestine “pro-Hamas,” which is an extremely dirty move. But I’ve seen some obvious indulgence in “ha ha Jews” from certain corners, and the people responsible are exactly the same ones who celebrate all forms of misery, death, despair, and decay: the Wokish. The Chicago chapter of Black Lives Matter posted an image of a paratrooper a day or two after the attack on southern Israel, then later “apologized.”
Wokish people of all colors and genders are badly messed up in the head. And they haven’t been radicalized by Wokism; they’re Wokish people in the first place because they’re constitutively dumb and toxic. These are the same people who snicker about women prison inmates being raped by “women” with phallomegaly compounded by priapism, enjoy watching riots on the Internet, and support vandalism in all its forms. They’re gross and hopeless people.
Nevertheless, they should be allowed to say whatever they like, and if people want to shun them as a result, great.
And while I have painted a picture here of a Jew-soaked corporate U.S. media that automatically lines up behind Israel and supports crushing violence, this is not remotely true. Well, it’s true that Jewish people really do “control the media,” but Jewish writers also dominate independent media, and many of them are rabidly opposed to Zionist Israel. In my experience, Jewish Americans enjoy reading and learning more than others and their natural curiosity leads them toward journalism and related careers. (I almost wrote “nosiness” instead of “curiosity,” but thankfully I caught myself. I might make a joke along those lines, but I wouldn’t want to do so accidentally.)
Also, “the Jews” have held control of the corporate media for decades; the media have always been to some extent a propaganda arm of the government, but until neocons really started to dominate the geopolitical landscape. the media were far more reliable.
Many American Jews have no connection to Israel’s psychotic antisemitic leadership anyway and aren’t interested in being pestered about their stances. They are not interested in seeing people die unnecessarily. Neither am I. And I think the U.S. will be in a hot war before Thanksgiving. Unbelievably, some U.S. pols and pundits have continued to agitate for war with China even as this latest grief worsens and draws even more U.S. financial commitments.
Curtis Yarvin at The Gray Mirror has proposed a “nonviolent” solution to the Gaza problem, for those interested in this angle.
All I really care about is telling those who would plant their own preferred narratives into my and others’ heads to suckle on the nearest available human or other penis until it snaps off at the root and creates the preconditions for fatal asphyxiation. I often refer to not placing much value on my own life these days, and it’s true. But if I did give a hoot, I would be alarmed as hell right now about what sort of world will even be left for people and their kids in five years. This is all plain madness, and this is not going to compel me to shut up any more than any of the other nonsense dumped on commoners worldwide has.
It would be wonderful if this unending religious war between similar-looking people with swarthy skin and hairy ass-cracks and apparently sun-poisoned minds would end. But because it won’t, I’m sure I’ll have to keep coming back to a subject I would rather avoid altogether. Not because it’s controversial but because it’s among of the most depressing subjects to contemplate.