When did he become so bad though? How long were they hiding it?

Love this footnote at the end:

One way to think about the divide among the six Republican justices is that Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett are Corporatists, while Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch are Individualists. When it comes to clear-cut business versus government cases, all six may tend to favor the private actors. But in our new world, where corporate and government interests have often merged, where private and public have sometimes blurred, the former three tend not to see the new corporate threats to individual liberty.

A new essay from Georgetown law professor Randy Barnett highlights this blind spot.

“Finally, libertarians need to be as concerned with corporate state fascism as they are with state socialism. There are no corporations in the state of nature. As some nineteenth-century libertarians recognized — and some left libertarians insist today — there comes a point at which the size and scope of private corporations can pose as great, if not a greater, threat to liberty than government power — especially as the two become intertwined in ways that are difficult to disentangle in practice as we have witnessed in recent years.

“Imagine, for example, if the current handful of cell phone providers began electronically screening our calls for subversive communications, canceling those who were found to transgress some alleged moral norm. Would the fact they are “nongovernmental” make them any less a threat to individual liberty?”

I missed this earlier today. Man is this guy hitting the nail on the head.

I'm not sure journalists were as clueless as he says but many if not most Biden supporters are. But, to be fair there is no way all of the reporters are in on some cabal. The answer is much simpler. You see it when these "journalists" or "reporters" change networks. They suddenly adopt different opinions. They are just mouth pieces. They say what they are told to say and don't say what they aren't supposed to say. That was what made the coverage of the debate so fascinating to me. It was my assumption that most of the talking heads knew Biden was in rough shape. But their bosses told them to go ahead and get the knives out.

The rank and file and many independents though. They are being tricked. I have a good friend that is troubled by Christians that support Trump. I was trying to explain the reasoning to him. One thing I told him was the mental condition of Biden is a big concern. And the Biden camp tries to play it off as a Trump conspiracy theory. He wasn't aware of how bad Biden was.

For years when my progressive friends open the door, and this isn't very often. I will try to make them see that they are being played just like the other party is doing. Its sad that one side can see how the other side is being manipulated and lied to but they are blind to it on their own team.

So many are being played as fools. I think many Bitcoiners are falling into this trap now. I'm not a Trump hater but don't put your hope in this guy. He's gonna let you down.

Madness is rare in individuals; but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. — Friedrich Nietzsche

This quote fits like a glove!

I think the first amendment does apply whether the speech is true or not. Of course, you can get sued for slander/libel.

Censorship is present all over the world, in some places more than others. We all know it and yet we have not done anything.

India is enjoying the worst of censorship media. But, nobody seems to care much about it here.