Never let a good crisis go to waste is unfortunately not an aphorism confined to one political party. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:
It’s probably worth flagging the fact that the president of the United States is promoting the establishment of a Ministry of Truth to restrict information in the United States in a suggested law called the “Charlie Kirk Act”.
It’s probably worth flagging the fact that the president of the United States is promoting the establishment of a Ministry of Truth to restrict speech in a suggested law called the “Charlie Kirk Act”.
President Trump’s Truth Social account posted a viral video from TikTok on Saturday in which a Trump voter named Elly May blamed the assassination of Republican political operative Charlie Kirk on the press, urging the president to push for legislation which would make “news corporations accountable for lying to the American people and spreading propaganda instead of truth.”
May frames the idea as a revisitation of the Smith-Mundt Act, but then goes on to describe authoritarian measures which have nothing to do with Smith-Mundt.
“President Trump, as a supporter who voted for you 3 times, I am hoping and praying that you will revisit what Barack Obama and Joe Biden got rid of back in 2013, which is the Smith-Mundt Act, which held news corporations accountable for lying to the American people and spreading propaganda instead of truth,” May says. “I think instead of bringing it back as a Smith-Mundt Act, you name it the Charlie Kirk Act, make it a law, and you make it damn near impossible for these people to continue to lie to the American public, which has brought chaos, hatred, division, and anarchy all across this country. Fines out their ass which will damn near bankrupt their companies should they lie to the American people ever again.”
Let the comrades talk in their echo chambers.
Easy to corral and when they stop talking, they start doing.
When San Fran Nan and the immaculate Chicago jesus messiah started telling the “disruptors” at commencement speeches to get out there and burn it all down, this is where we would end up.