Elon Musk made much of his fortune on electric cars, which are sacred to moonbats. Yet all he had to do was promise to restore some free speech to Twitter for tolerant liberals to turn on him.

Did you think free speech is a good thing? Wrong, shrieks CNN:

Former CIA case officer and current CNN intelligence analyst Robert Baer appeared on the cable news network on Friday to discuss the opening up of Twitter by new CEO Elon Musk.

Roars Baer:

“Putin will be all over Twitter if there’s no regulations on this.”

Turns out free speech is a Russian plot.

In a Twitter poll, 72.4% approved of restoring the accounts of some who had been banned for failing to conform to leftist ideology. However,

Without evidence, Baer added, “And so when he’s talking about the popular voice, Musk, he’s really talking about Russian intelligence.” …

The CNN security and intelligence analyst bizarrely asserted, “And you know, this freedom of speech is just nonsense because you can’t go in a movie theater and yell ‘fire.’ It’s against the law.”

Beneath the skimpy Russia! Russia! Russia! fig leaf, the liberal establishment media is now saying outright that speech contradicting Democratic Party talking points should be illegal.

We are past the point where the progressive viewpoint could be supported by rational argument. Two things allow Democrats to keep a grip on their belief system: (1) a propaganda bubble provided by the liberal establishment media; and (2) blind unreasoning hatred of the enemy because he is the enemy, a hatred that has grown so intense thanks to deliberate stoking by Biden that it is alarming to behold. The second of these qualifies Republican canvassers for combat pay.

In Hialeah, Florida, Christopher Monzon drew a target on his own back by wearing a Marco Rubio shirt and Ron DeSantis hat while distributing flyers for Rubio on Sunday. The consequences include internal bleeding, a broken jaw, and the need for facial reconstructive surgery.

Reportedly,

[Javier] Lopez confronted the canvasser as he walked in front of his house and said “you can’t pass by here, this is my neighborhood.”

The victim had crossed the street to avoid Lopez…

But because Monzon failed to turn tail and run away,

Lopez rushed towards the canvasser, grabbing him and slamming him to the ground.

There he punched him in the face. A second assailant apparently kicked him in the head.

At least Monzon wasn’t shot in the back, as recently happened to an 84-year-old woman who was passing out prolife pamphlets in Michigan, or deliberately struck by a car, as happened to teenager Cayler Ellingson, whose alleged killer Shannon Brandt was released on absurdly low bail.

Hialeah Police Department spokesperson Jose Torres says there is “no indication” the attack was politically motivated.

The local media spin Monzon as the violent extremist. He had been arrested at a protest while wearing a League of the South shirt. This is a “neo-Confederate” hate group, according to the leftist hate group Southern Poverty Law Center.

Lopez was probably politically motivated. The media definitely is.

On tips from TCS III and MrRightWingDave. Hat tip: Legal Insurrection.

Shannon Brandt got out on absurdly low bail after deliberately killing 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson, apparently for being a Republican. Let’s see how gentle our liberal-run “justice” system can be on whoever shot an unnamed lady in Lake Odessa (pop. 1,994), who was canvassing for Right to Life of Michigan.

From the Detroit Free Press:

The organization said the 84-year-old was going door-to-door to talk about Proposal 3, a Nov. 8 election proposal seeking to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.

The volunteer was shot in the back/shoulder area while leaving a house during a heated conversation, the organization said in a media statement issued Saturday.

Fortunately, she was treated and released, so this is unlikely to rise to the level where actual criminal charges might be filed, although police are investigating.

Let’s hope the FBI stays out of it; otherwise, a SWAT team might be dispatched to the victim’s home.

The passage of Proposal 3 would be bad news for babies, accomplishing at the state level what liberals used to pretend the US Constitution does. It would establish abortion as a “right.”

Although the motive for the shooting is unknown, this may help put it into context:

Unity will be achieved when no one dares publicly disagree with the Democrat platform.

MrRightWingDave, Wiggins, and TCS III.

The Biden Regime’s campaign to persuade half the population to regard the other half as dangerous extremists is bearing fruit. In McHenry, North Dakota (pop. 66, make that 65), 19-year-old Cayler Ellingson has been prevented from casting Republican votes by 41-year-old Shannon Brandt, who allegedly killed him with his SUV for political reasons.

Local Valley News Live reports:

Brandt told State Radio that the pedestrian was part of a Republican extremist group and that he was afraid they were “coming to get him.” …

Brandt admitted to consuming alcohol before the incident, and stated he hit Ellingson with his car because he had a political argument with him. Brandt also admitted to deputies that he initially left the crash scene, then returned to call 911, but left again before deputies could arrive.

Court documents say just before the crash, Ellingson called his mom and asked if they knew who Brandt was. She said yes, and told her son she was on her way to pick him up.

He called her again shortly afterward to say that he was being chased.

Brandt was charged with criminal vehicular homicide. He complained about being held on $50,000 bail. Next time he runs over a deplorable, he should do it in New York.

Hundreds of Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots were only the beginning. The Dark Brandon speech signaled that we can expect more violence. The Democrat establishment is destabilizing and mobilizing a nationwide army of unhinged losers.

As noted at Breitbart,

Just this week, a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll found that the dehumanization campaign launched by Biden and the corporate media has resulted in 73 percent of Democrats living with the insane belief that “there are tens of millions of dangerous MAGA Republicans backing violence and trying to overthrow the constitution.”

It has become a cliché because it is true: what Democrats accuse their opponents of doing, they are doing themselves.

On tips from KirklesWorth, Wiggins, Blackjack, and Jester.

Tomi Lahren is not especially controversial. But these days, conservatives do not have to be out of the mainstream for their presence to set off a riot. Presenting the current state of liberal tolerance:

Lahren, also an Outkick host, is used to being confronted by angry liberal protestors who attempt to silence her conservative views, calling it “pretty routine stuff” she encounters frequently when speaking to college students. It was no different on Thursday when she was set to speak [to University of] New Mexico’s Turning Point USA chapter inside a large event space at the student union. She saw a few signs claiming she was a “White supremacist,” but thought the presence of campus police would deter any serious resistance.

Evidently blonde hair is enough to qualify a conservative woman as a white supremacist on campus nowadays.

Lahren was told the brownshirts would be kept out of the student union so that she could speak. That didn’t last:

“I start my speech and you can hear the chants and you can hear the screaming and the expletives. And again, nobody really thought anything of it. They’re just, you know, fired up. And I didn’t really think too much of it until they started pushing past the officers and banging on the doors so much that these double doors are visibly moving and shaking and they are smashing into the windows. And that’s when it became incredibly chaotic,” Lahren continued. “Everybody was worried that they were going to get inside. They were pushing officers in front of the doors and pushing them out of the way. I mean, attacking them. It started to get very ugly and very violent, very fast. Of course, we could only see through these little windows in the front the room we were in, so we couldn’t really see exactly what was going on out there.”

She had to cut short her speech and retreat with campus police officers to a back kitchen, where they barricaded themselves like settlers under assault by savages.

Albuquerque and New Mexico State Police took part in her evacuation via a loading dock. That’s the kind of country we live in, now that Black Lives Matter has established that leftist mobs do not have to obey the law.

Police then drove Lahren and her father around the city to make sure nobody was following them before dropping them back off at their hotel.

Meanwhile, moonbats took to social media to denounce the university for letting Lahren speak and to crow triumphantly about their victory over freedom of speech.

Liberal language alert:

Lahren drew the proper lesson from this appalling experience:

“This happening has actually inspired me to do more campuses, because we cannot allow them to intimidate us and back us into a corner, into the silence. That means they win. And I will never let that happen.”

We have come a long way from the campus free speech movement of the 1960s. Too bad we have been traveling in the wrong direction.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Joe Biden’s bellicose demand that Americans regard their fellow citizens as enemies for being Republican found a receptive audience in academia. Take for example Professor Silke-Maria Weineck of the University of Michigan, who wrote in The Chronicle of Higher Education that Republicans are “the enemy.”

Via The College Fix:

“[I]t is not merely acceptable to denounce the GOP — clearly, loudly, profanely,” she wrote. “It is our ethical and professional duty.”

Weineck ostensibly teaches German and comparative literature. But like liberal churches, liberal arts departments have been subverted and hollowed out, their original content replaced with moonbattery.

She wrote further that Republicans have a “longstanding contempt for knowledge and expertise” in fields that include “history, public health, climate change, or ecology.”

Being a member of the liberal intelligentsia, Weineck is an expert in history, public health, climate change, ecology, and any other field you care to name.

As David Strom notes at Hot Air,

It’s not just one deranged professor spouting off. This attitude is nearly a consensus at colleges and universities.

The flagship university of the academic establishment is Harvard.

At Harvard more than 80% professors identify as liberal or very liberal. Of those, nearly 40% chose “very liberal” to describe themselves.

Only 1.4% self-identify as conservatives. 1.4% Not one of those professors described himself as “very conservative.”

Given what we know about liberal tolerance, only a bold soul who doesn’t care about tenure will let slip a conservative opinion in the leftist echo chamber that is Harvard.

Returning to Weineck,

She wrote that Republicans are “ready to wage open war with colleges, intent on confiscating the social capital they wield” and this “is a moment of considerable peril.”

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if she were right?

Academia is to the moonbat ruling class that is destroying America what the Death Star was to the evil empire in Star Wars. That’s where every evil concept rammed down our throats by the rest of the establishment originates. Nowhere else could you find people with nothing better to do who are demented and malevolent enough to come up with doctrines like our state religion, Critical Race Theory.

By definition, half of the population is right of center. Wherever center is nowadays, it is clearly beyond the pale from the viewpoint of the maniacal ideologues who have converted American universities into reeducation camps.

Weineck’s University of Michigan is a state-supported school, although even private schools receive massive infusions of money from Big Government. In addition, de facto dictator Biden unilaterally declared that we have to pick up much of the student loan tab of 20-something adolescents pursuing degrees in moonbattery instead of productive employment.

Being forced to subsidize the mealy-mouthed Marxist propaganda on NPR and PBS is bad enough. Academia costs us hundreds of $billions. How is it right that we should have to pay for information warfare waged against us?

On a tip from TCS III.

We know what fascism means according to the dictionary. Basically, it is a form of militant socialism similar to liberalism, but without the self-loathing. But that’s not how kids are being taught to define it:

A teacher from Madison High School in San Diego claimed fascists are synonymous with the “modern-day Republican Party” and “white, Christian, heterosexuals,” according to a student at the school. Speaking on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation, the high school student detailed the teacher’s unhinged definition of a “fascist.”

Impressionable kids walked into class September 1 to see written on the board,

As it is currently constituted, the Republican party is now a fascist organization that no longer fits the category of a conventional Democratic party.

Sounds like the Dark Brandon speech really struck home among educators.

But the teacher didn’t stop there. He continued with his radical left-wing indoctrination by listing whites, Christians, and heterosexuals as groups that are “fascist.”

If you are white, you are fascist. If you are a Christian, you are fascist. If you are not a sexual deviant, you are fascist. To sum up, if moonbats hate you because of where you get pigeonholed by their identity-based ideology, you are fascist.

This is what students learn in English class.

The student took pictures to document the brainwashing he was forced to undergo. You can see why teachers’ unions are so adamantly opposed to cameras in the classroom that would allow parents to monitor from home.

A passage from Through the Looking Glass comes to mind:

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

The creed that has appropriated the title “liberalism” is based on postmodernism. Language is seen as tool used to control not only people but reality itself, or what passes for reality within the context of relativist postmodern hogwash. This is why revisions to the Newspeak Dictionary are made so relentlessly.

“Fascism” no longer means what it has always meant; it means whatever our masters among the liberal ruling class find it advantageous to pretend it means.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Joe Biden croaks about “unity.” The belligerent rhetoric barked by his main spokesmoonbat provides some insight into what he means by the term:

Never mind runaway inflation, communist China on the march, and impending economic ruin due to the incompetence and irresponsibility that characterize Democrat rule (or as Democrats call it, “Our Democracy”). We have a bigger problem. Half the population of the USA is a threat that must be subdued, marginalized, and presumably eradicated if we are ever to achieve unity.

Maybe the strategy is to kick the hornet’s nest until they get a response, which they will exploit with the help of the media to demonize opposition, as with January 6. Or maybe they are serious and plan to eradicate resistance so they can have unity under Their Democracy.

On a tip from Wiggins.

A frightened animal is a frightening animal. You never know what it might do. That’s why it is a bad idea to corner one. By the same token, moonbats are never scarier than when they are afraid. Nothing terrifies them like an intelligent, articulate countermoonbat. That’s why Ben Shapiro’s brief presence at a booth his Daily Wire paid for at a Dallas podcasting conference sent them into a gibbering panic:

Podcast Movement, a major annual conference for the podcast industry, issued a profuse apology on Thursday after attendees complained that Shapiro was spotted at the event near the Daily Wire booth.

The #1 most successful political podcaster in the world shook a few hands and graciously posed for some photos. Moonbats went nuts.

“As a trans person, as a queer person, as someone with a uterus, this does not make me feel welcome. This does not make me feel safe,” one of the conference attendees posted on Twitter after sharing a picture of Shapiro standing by the Daily Wire booth.

When a trans weirdo shrieks “Jump!” all the liberal establishment wants to know is “How high?” Even so, the response was a new low:

This from the people who bark endlessly about tolerance and diversity.

Note that we are talking not about a controversial or belligerent character but Ben Shapiro, who is characterized by mainstream conservative views and an unthreatening demeanor. Note also that it is not anything Shapiro said or did that caused the hysteria, but the mere fact of his physical presence.

It is a short step from here to gulags and gas chambers.

On tips from Varla and Bluto.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh can tell you all about what kind of people we are up against.

When he was nominated to the Supreme Court, Democrats outrageously lied that he is a serial rapist, producing witnesses that no adult would regard as credible. When it was leaked that he might help restore the integrity of the judicial system by overruling Roe v. Wade, mobs of thugs assailed his home; the White House pointedly refused to condemn this.

In the midst of the siege, an armed moonbat showed up at his house with the admitted intent to kill Kavanaugh. The Democrat-controlled media barely mentioned this. Rather than tone down his rhetoric in the aftermath, Joe Biden egged on the liberal mob to be “viscerally angry.”

Leftist thugs reacted to Roe’s repeal by following orders from prominent Democrat Maxine Waters to harass their opponents in public. Kavanaugh was driven out of a DC restaurant, being forced to escape through a back door rather than eat in peace like a citizen of a civilized country.

The response from an increasingly arrogant White House: “This is what democracy is.”

Seeing is believing:

Now we know what they mean when they repeatedly bark the phrase “our democracy.” They are referring to a system under which anyone who puts up resistance is relentlessly intimidated by goons.

The Biden Regime is encouraging people to violate federal law. But if laws could be used against powerful Democrats, Biden would be in Leavenworth facing a firing squad for treason.

Morton’s Steakhouse now faces the wrath of the mob for daring to serve food to someone leftists don’t like. Moonbats are bombarding it with bad reviews to wreck its reputation.

Other members of the tolerant Democrat base are offering bounties for information on opportunities for the mob to set upon Supreme Court justices who do not vote as they are told:

A liberal protest group is offering cash to anyone who sees the conservative justices of the Supreme Court and provides their location.

The justices targeted by the group ShutDownDC are John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett. The group tweeted that it is willing to give “$50 to anyone who gives a confirmed sighting and $200 if the Justice or Justices are in the same area 30 minutes after their location is given.”

Twitter apparently has no problem with this. It clearly violates the guidelines…

Twitter, the platform on which ShutDownDC announced its “bounty,” does not allow users to “engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so.”

…but with leftists, all ethics are situational. Jordan Peterson has been banned from Twitter for refusing to pretend that Ellen Page is a man. Meanwhile, this is still up on Twitter, despite the attention it has drawn:

Hold on, it gets even more disgusting. Chasten Buttigieg, the homosexual paramour of our supposed Secretary of Transportation, with whom Pete Buttigieg canoodled for months on end instead of showing up for work at the height of the supply chain crisis, approves of the mob’s behavior — and taunts Kavanaugh:

“Sounds like he just wanted some privacy to make his own dining decisions,” [Chasten] Buttigieg tweeted.

Responds Jon Gabriel of Ricochet:

“What happens if MAGA types start showing up where ever you and Pete go? This continued escalation is a dangerous game, especially since Kavanaugh just had an assassination attempt on him. You don’t want the world you’re advocating for.”

Oh yes he does want it, if he is anything like his “husband” Pete and the rest of today’s Democrats. As for what would happen if MAGA types were to stoop to similar thuggery, the ongoing January 6 inquisitions make that clear.

On tips from Wiggins, TCS III, Bluto, Blackjack, KirklesWorth, MrRightWingDave, and Varla.

Jordan Peterson has been banned from Twitter for refusing to delete the following:

Remember when Pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.

The reference is to a mentally ill actress who had herself surgically mutilated by a scoundrel in the delusional belief this would transform her into a man.

Why was this tweet such a serious thought crime that Twitter would rather further discredit itself by banning a major intellectual figure than let it stand? Why would Peterson rather die than delete it? Read his explanation here or watch him explain below:

Meanwhile, as intellectual giants are banned for observing that women are not men, Twitter has no problem with calls to assassinate a Supreme Court justice for doing his job by defending the Constitution from politicization:

Shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned, a Twitter user with the handle @redfrnn, who has since deleted his or her or xis account, tweeted: “i’m going to assassinate supreme court justice Clarence Thomas.” The same Twitter user had just before that tweeted a photo of a gun, saying: “im considering buying a mac mini.” Twitter, however, did not find this murderous psychopath to be in violation of their rules, despite the fact that those rules say, “You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people.”

Thomas is a conservative, so he doesn’t count as a person from the viewpoint of the radical leftists running Twitter. Neither does Donald Trump:

On New Year’s Day 2022, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted, “Martyr Soleimani is an eternal reality that will live on forever. His assassins – including Trump & the like – will go down in history’s garbage bin, but of course after receiving retribution in this world for the crime they committed.” That “retribution in this world” bit was a clear threat, but Twitter did nothing to restrict Khamenei’s account.

Qasem Soleimani was a top terrorist taken out on Trump’s orders.

Nor did Twitter do anything to the account of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps when it tweeted nine days later, “The Islamic Republic of Iran considers vengeance against those responsible for the Baghdad crime to be the right of all believers; whether they are drops in the ocean or bits of sand in the desert they’ll seek vengeance next to the criminals’ homes.”

This was a call to all Muslims worldwide to assassinate a former US President — whom Twitter had permanently banned on a bogus charge of encouraging violence.

Imagine a ballgame where the referees are avid fans of one team, vehemently hate the other team, and don’t even pretend to be fair. That’s the situation we are in with liberals controlling the information infrastructure.

On tips from Blackjack and ABC of the ANC.

As part of the Long March Through the Institutions, leftists are subordinating the medical profession to their rigid and bigoted ideology, the American Medical Association already having gone full Marxist. The implications for private medical practice are not good:

Early Sunday morning, the Twitter account Libs of TikTok shared a tweet from a doctor who reportedly worked at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in Mattoon, Illinois.

In an apparent response to the Supreme Court’s decision, she said she planned to withhold treatment from certain patients.

Consistent with her ideology, this tolerant liberal has it in for white men who vote conservative:

We are reaching the point where it is unsafe to seek medical care unless you belong to a “marginalized” group.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

In the West, we used to enjoy being able to speak our minds. Now we have cancel culture. Unless we share the pernicious and depraved ideology of the ruling class, we either keep our mouths shut or recite lies, lest our lives be destroyed by woke lynch mobs. This is for the best, according to academia:

“Cancel culture” has its benefits, according to an online anti-racism course being taught to over 100 British academics.

“Union Black,” a class being taught by The Open University, teaches professors that “In relation to racial/social justice, cancel culture has been shown to realize benefits.”

What else would you expect of the “Open” University in the land of George Orwell?

These benefits, according to class materials, include “holding people or entities accountable for immoral or unacceptable behavior” and “promoting collective action to achieve social justice and cultural change through social pressure.”

In other words, the benefit is that silencing dissent allows leftists to impose leftism. That is now the purpose of education — which could be why cancel culture is so prevalent on campus:

The College Fix … recently identified nearly 200 cases over the past academic year in which professors, students, mascots, paintings, honorary degrees and the like were either canceled or protested on campus. To date, The Fix’s Campus Cancel Culture Database has collected over 1,500 examples of cancelations or attempted cancelations.

Not even academia is more adamantly opposed to freedom of speech (i.e., freedom of thought) than woke globalist corporations like Santander Corporate & Investment Banking:

The Open University began the course in 2021 and it is now taught in 90 UK universities including schools in Leeds, Liverpool, Bristol, and Imperial College London.

The course is backed with 500,000 pound investment by Santander investment.

We may as well be ruled by the Chinese Communist Party for all the tolerance the liberal establishment has for dissident opinion.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.