LIBERAL BETRAYALS

At least for the moment, the bipartisan project to muzzle the US population is hitting a bump on the road and causing even a bit of a ruling class fracas due to the Biden admin’s oafish move to create a DHS department dedicated to “combat online disinformation”, seen by many as a transparent attempt to really police free speech, which is totally unconstitutional.

This is being done because the empire is actually losing the battle of communications at a critical moment in its troubled history. Global capitalism simply cannot cope with the very issues it continually trigers:  economic immiseration for the masses and grotesque inequality; endless wars; an unstoppable ecocide, and, perhaps, the most politically flammable issue, incurable unemployment.

On the heels of the Biden administration’s announcement of a “Ministry of Truth”-esque “Disinformation Governance Board” in the Homeland Security Department, Florida’s GOP Governor Ron Desantis responded by insisting that he will do everything in his power to protect liberty and not let the federal government stifle free speech under the guise of exposing propaganda and misinformation by foreign governments. Jimmy and The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal discuss how the Democrats are becoming authoritarian and ceding the freedom-defending zone to right-wingers like Ron Desantis.

Caleb discusses the reasons why he is certain Breadtubers like Vaush and Jason Unruhe are doing US imperialism’s bidding, while pretending to be on the radical left. 

Prominent liberals like former Labor Secretary Robert Reich were up in arms about the prospect that mega-billionaire Elon Musk might purchase controlling interest in Twitter and change the social media site’s policies about banning content deemed “misleading” or “inflammatory.” The idea that actual free speech might be brought back to Twitter is apparently unthinkable for Reich and his ilk. Jimmy and American comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the threat of free speech to authoritarians on the left.

Much of the Western population are such babies, and basically believe that the entire world is like a Marvel Comics movie, that they wouldn’t be able to understand it anyway. There are people, however, who would not be swayed by the “Russians are just evil and that’s that” narrative if they were allowed to hear the other side. Even with the censorship, we are seeing normie conservatives begin to slowly back away from this childish narrative.