Meanwhile, as we focus on the election, unelected top plutocrat George Soros is seizing control of over 200 radio stations, including platforms for big name conservatives like Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, and Sean Hannity. With Democrats in control, the skids are greased:

[Last] Wednesday, the FCC reportedly adopted an order to approve the purchase, meaning that in a matter of days, Soros will likely take control of communications to over 165 million Americans with the help of unvetted foreign investors whom Democrats have spared from the FCC’s customary national security review process.

No one familiar with their border policy could expect Democrats to protect America from nefarious foreign elements.

Soros took advantage of radio network Audacy’s bankruptcy to become its primary shareholder through Soros Fund Management.

Audacy asked the FCC to approve the transfer of its broadcast licenses to the reorganized company.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and other critics noted, however, that such a transfer would be problematic as the reorganized company would exceed legally acceptable foreign ownership limits.

Legal limits don’t apply to friends of Democrats.

Audacy requested that the five-member FCC, which has a Democratic majority, take the unprecedented step of not only waiving the foreign ownership restriction in order to allow the purchase to move forward but of putting off a national security review of the stations’ foreign-interest holders.

The FCC acceded along partisan lines, confirming the political implications.

NPR president Katherine Maher, a censorious alumna of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader program who previously worked at the National Democratic Institute, which is primarily funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, provided a possible clue as to why her fellow travelers might want to take control of American radio stations.

Opines Maher:

“Control over the flow of information in a closed society can be tantamount to control over the state.”

A closed society is exactly what Soros et al. have in mind. This is why they call it Open Society Foundations, in the moonbat tradition of calling everything the opposite of what it really is.

If you liked what George Soros did to public safety by installing pro-criminal DAs throughout the country,* you’ll love what he does to radio.

Liberals have tried and failed to compete with conservatives in the talk radio format. Anyone remember Air America? So they will destroy it.

The internet has marginalized radio to some extent. But Democrats will be coming for that too. Consider where Google is putting its money:

On tips from Wiggins, MrRightWingDave, Mr. Freemarket, and The Great Cornholio

*Including Alvin Bragg (New York), George Gascon (Los Angeles), Kim Foxx (Chicago), Kim Ogg (Houston), Larry Krasner (Philadelphia), Chesa Boudin (San Francisco), Kim Gardner (St Louis), Marilyn Mosby (Baltimore), Monique Worrell (central Florida), Jason Williams (New Orleans), Pamela Price (Oakland), Jacqueline Sartoris (Cumberland County, Maine).

A week ago, Hillary Clinton looked scarier than ever on MSNBC proclaiming that those who express views she disagrees with should be thrown in jail. The consequences of this fiend returning to the White House would not be pretty — and it could happen:

Hillary Clinton confirmed she is open to joining a Kamala Harris administration if the Democrats win the White House in the November election.

Shrieks Shrillary:

“Well, certainly, unofficially I want to be as helpful as I can, and would do anything I was asked to be helpful.”

In case the hair isn’t yet standing up on the back of your neck, she continues:

“I’m very optimistic about a Harris-Walz administration because I think it not only has the capacity to deal with all the problems we know but maybe to lower the temperature in the country.”

Prominent among those problems from her point of view are you and your right to express views that conflict with Democratic Party dogma. By “lower the temperature,” she means suppress dissent.

Comrade Cackala is so conspicuously incompetent, it is difficult to believe she wouldn’t be limited to the role of DEI figurehead. But that’s no cause for relief if the country is run by people like this:

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Imagine how any of the Founding Fathers would have reacted to this:

You home is not your home. It is the government’s home.

If people like Kamala Harris are allowed to consolidate power, this will not even vaguely resemble America.

On tips from WDS 2.0, Varla, and Wiggins.

Rendering the Supreme Court moot by packing it with rubber stamps so that it can no longer serve as a brake on tyranny is only one aspect of a broader attack on our freedom planned by Democrats. As legal expert Jonathan Turley details, the liberal establishment has been laying the groundwork in both academia and the media to rescind the US Constitution so as to impose the brand of government it has protected us from for centuries:

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley law school, is author of “No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States,” published last month. …

In the New York Times, book critic Jennifer Szalai scoffs at what she calls “Constitution worship.”

Szalai suggests that we need to be “saved from” the Constitution.

In a 2022 New York Times op-ed, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,” law professors Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale called for liberals to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.” …

The Nation’s Elie Mystal calls the Constitution “trash” and urges the abolition of the U.S. Senate. Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law School complains that Americans are “slaves” to the Constitution.

Liberals particularly hate that the Constitution upholds our right to dispute their ideology:

Barbara McQuade of the University of Michigan Law School has called free speech America’s “Achilles’ heel.” In another Times op-ed, “The First Amendment Is Out of Control,” Columbia law professor Tim Wu, a former Biden White House aide, asserts that free speech “now mostly protects corporate interests” …

That which leftists accuse of protecting corporate interests, no matter how incongruously, has been marked for destruction.

George Washington University Law’s Mary Ann Franks complains that the First Amendment (and also the Second) is too “aggressively individualistic” and endangers “domestic tranquility” and “general welfare.”

Anyone who wants to deprive you of your right to your opinion and to defend yourself is your enemy. That goes double for Democrats, who intend to impose Soviet-style single-party rule.

On a tip from Varla.

In response to the German government demanding he dox the person who called leftist pol Ricarda Lang fat, Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba said, “This is why I no longer travel outside the US.”

You can see why he would avoid the UK, which has degenerated into a police state regarding speech that does not conform to the government’s leftist ideology.

As for France:

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov was arrested at the Bourget airport near Paris on Saturday, according to French outlet TF1…

TF1 reported that Durov was under threat of a warrant due to the lack of moderation on the Telegram platform.

He faces 20 years in prison.

Durov founded Telegram in 2013 along with his brother. The messaging service has 950 million users worldwide and is seen as an uncensored free speech platform.

In contrast, those who provide platforms for free speech are safe in the USA, because we have the Constitution. Right? Right?

Hold on:

Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who made waves as a key witness in the impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump, issued a warning to Elon Musk on Sunday after Telegram messaging app CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France. …

While experts and industry leaders sounded the alarm about the international free speech implications of his arrest, Vindman championed the move, taking to X to warn its CEO about the “growing appetite for accountability” before suggesting that Musk could be next.

Vindman confirms that he takes his talking points from the same source as the rest of the liberal establishment:

Vindman’s warning to Musk seemingly garnered significant backlash, prompting him to double down in a follow up post, where he railed against “free speech absolutists weirdos.”

Democrat pols and the media myrmidons who keep them in power have been instructed to call normal people “weird.”

If Democrats consolidate power in November, Vindman’s authoritarian attitude will be directly imposed by the White House:

Like Walz, Vindman looks the part — as if both were sloppily molded out of rotting dough. Strongman tyrants like Mussolini and Stalin are behind us. The impending tyranny will be as squishy-soft as a liberal’s skull.

On tips from WDS 2.0, Anonymous, and Eddie_Valiant.

Hell yes this woman, raised in a Marxist household, is a communist. Watch in horror as she proclaims she will disregard property rights to seize patents from their rightful owners on behalf of all-powerful Big Government:

The result will be the same as her prescription drug price controls: an end to innovation.

Ironically, if progressives consolidate control, progress will stop. When a society stops growing, it starts dying.

On a tip from seaoh.

Once the right of free speech is no longer acknowledged, the slope downhill into totalitarianism is slippery and steep. Britons will not even be allowed to pray silently for the children butchered at abortion abattoirs:

MPs voted for legislation last year that would ban silent prayer within ‘buffer zones’ 150 metres around the location of a clinic or hospital providing abortion services.

With some alarming exceptions this was not enforced, and according to subsequently published guidance,

“Silent prayer, being the engagement of the mind and thought in prayer towards God, is protected as an absolute right under the Human Rights Act 1998 and should not, on its own, be considered to be an offence under any circumstances.”

Under the tyrannical Two-Tier Keir, such tolerance won’t last:

Diana Johnson, the new policing minister, stated, “We specifically voted against proposals to allow silent prayer and consensual communication in safe access zones.”

Once again the suppression of dissent against the liberal sacrament of abortion emphasizes the association between authoritarianism and pure evil.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Family cattle ranchers personify America as it used to be. Federal agents in tactical gear personify what liberals are turning it into. So this story is emblematic:

A South Dakota ranch couple is fighting federal indictments served to them by a U.S. Forest Service agent who allegedly showed up unannounced on their front steps — armed and in tactical gear.

The paramilitary goon was Special Agent Travis Lunders, who came to intimidate Charles and Heather Maude of Caputa, South Dakota and to serve them with indictments for alleged theft of government property.

The government claims the fence put up by the ranchers is over a boundary with federal grasslands.

The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and/or a $250,000 fine. …

Several generations of the Maude family have ranched there since the 1910s, and the family also has leases on the adjoining national grasslands…

The disputed boundary is along a fence line that’s about 75 years old…

After 75 years, it is suddenly urgent that the Maude family be punished, presumably for letting their cattle graze on the wrong side of the disputed boundary. In the olden days, bureaucrats didn’t understand that producing food offends the weather gods, whereas letting land go to waste makes the weather gods happy, because like Democrats they hate humans.

Also in the olden days, Americans would not have put up with ham-fisted Nazi tactics of the type we now see more and more often (e.g., Mark Houck and Roger Stone).

On a tip from R F.

In the name of Islam and mass immigration, left-wing authoritarians continue to tighten their grip on the throat of free speech in the country George Orwell called Airstrip One.

Consider the fate of David Spring of the Outer London borough Sutton:

A 61-year-old man [who] made threatening gestures at police and chanted “who the f*** is Allah” during large-scale disorder in Whitehall has been jailed for 18 months.

“Threatening gestures.” It is doubtful that the Two-Tier Keir regime would have a problem with threatening gestures from Blacks Lives Matter rioters, before whom Starmer literally knelt in obeisance. Spring’s actual crime was his nonobsequious attitude toward Islam.

Spring is retired:

He now spends a lot of time for his wife, who has suffered ill-health.

Let’s hope she’s still alive when he gets out of prison.

Unlike his wife, Spring will have plenty of company:

Over 1,000 people have been arrested in connection with the disorder in Britain following the deadly mass stabbing of multiple young girls by a migration-background teenager in Southport, England. The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) boasts that 1,024 people have been arrested, and 575 people have been charged so far.

Britons as young as 11 have been arrested for speaking up in defense of the nation their rulers are systematically eradicating via replacement migration.

As Wayne O’Rourke learned, you can now be imprisoned for “anti-establishment rhetoric.” From the state media:

O’Rourke, of Salix Approach, Lincoln, was arrested on Sunday afternoon, Lincolnshire Police said.

The charge relates to posts made from a social media account, the force added.

Nottingham Magistrates’ Court heard the posts were alleged to contain anti-Muslim and anti-establishment rhetoric.

The UK is not a free country by any reasonable definition. If leftists prevail in November, the USA will follow it down the rat hole into totalitarian misery.

On tips from Bluto, seaoh, and ABC of the ANC.

Three weeks ago, Kamala Harris was no more popular than Joe Biden, whose administration has been a conspicuous failure. If the media is able to keep her in the White House, this will signify a major step in the consolidation of power by leftists. Soft tyranny will transition to hard.

The groundwork has been laid. Consider the IRS following the discordantly named Inflation Reduction Act. As Forbes reported in 2022,

The Schumer-Manchin tax bill … raises taxes and will give the IRS billions to go into what the Wall Street Journal called “beast mode.”

The bill did nothing to reduce the inflation Democrats have caused, but it did hand an extra $80 billion of our money to the IRS.

That $80 billion is more than six times the current annual IRS budget of $12.6 billion.

How can the IRS spend all of that? You guessed it, the bill says a whopping $45.6 billion will be for enforcement, and make no mistake, enforcement is the main directive from Democrats to the IRS.

Enforcement entails weapons:

An official report published by the Government Accountability Office said that at the end of 2017, the IRS had 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition in its weapons inventory.

That was before the Democrats gave them another $80 billion to spend.

Ronaldus Magnus said the most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” That applied to a soft tyranny.

After benevolent pretenses have been dispensed with, the scariest words will be, “I’m from the government and I’m here to take your money.”

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

Careful what you say about the war of extermination British authorities are inflicting on their people. Lisps Mark Rowley, London’s chief of police:

“We will throw the full force of law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you.”

The crimes committed online are what George Orwell called thoughtcrime.

Lest you burst out laughing at this bureauweenie for threatening people who reside not only outside London but outside the UK, consider that British authorities have already called for extradition for thoughtcrime. From the government media:

The director of public prosecutions says his teams will consider seeking the extradition of social media influencers allegedly playing a role in the violent disorder gripping the UK from abroad.

A pro-Islam Harris/Walz administration would be happy to comply.

On tips from Wiggins and Chris Neilson.

One advantage of socialized medicine is that it allows increasingly hostile Big Government to deny healthcare to disfavored groups:

Britain’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting has threatened to deny healthcare to “racists” after a pair of nurses from the Philippines were allegedly attacked with rocks while traveling to work in a taxi in Sunderland, England, during anti-mass migration protests.

While neither of the two nurses was harmed, they claimed they were “terrified” by the attack…

This is not the first time health officials have said they would deny alleged racists healthcare. In 2019, the North Bristol NHS Trust said it would withdraw treatment from those who engaged in racist or sexist language or behavior.

No need to throw rocks to incur the wrath of Britain’s moonbat establishment — as Jeremy Clarkson observes:

Clarkson has urged Sir Keir Starmer and media outlets like the BBC to “calm down” with the “rhetoric” that those protesting up and down the country at the moment are all “far-right”. …

“Today, I’m surrounded by farmers and plasterers and brickies and butchers and all I hear, all day long, is that there’s too much immigration,” Clarkson penned.

“But if they say this out loud, or if they go on a march, they are told by the London elite that they are far-right extremists or racist thugs. For the most part, they’re not. … There was a time you’d have called them the salt of the earth.”

However, nowadays normal people are denounced as “weird.”

On tips from ABC of the ANC and seaoh.

Normally, if we want a preview of the totalitarian dystopia we will subsist under if Democrats prevail, we turn to California or New York. But Michigan under moonbat rule will serve just as well:

Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has launched a campaign to root out supposed “election misinformation” – by urging the state’s residents to report each other.

As if more chaotic divisiveness was needed ahead of the November vote, the idea here, in one of the swing states, seems to be to get people to keep an eye on their neighbors, and if what they see and hear is interpreted as “misinformation” – report it, complete with a photo, “if possible.”

A document from Benson’s office provides a Michigan government email as the address for such reports, while the call to this type of action can be found on the official page about “voter education resources.”

These resources unsurprisingly include links to left-wing propaganda platforms like Snopes and PolitiFact.

Benson’s efforts complement those of Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who has laid the groundwork for massive election fraud.

On a tip from The Great Cornholio.

The communist rulers of East Germany relied on citizens to rat each other out to the Stasi. In our society, the emphasis is on technology. Soon we will have cars informing on each other:

A patent application from the automaker [Ford] titled “Systems and Methods for Detecting Speeding Violations” was published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Jul. 18 2024, and was originally filed by Ford Jan. 12, 2023.

In the application, Ford discusses using cars to monitor each other’s speeds. If one car detects that a nearby vehicle is being driven above the posted limit, it could use onboard cameras to photograph that vehicle. A report containing both speed data and images of the targeted vehicle could then be sent directly to a police car or roadside monitoring units via an Internet connection, according to Ford.

Next, Ford might patent a microphone that starts up with the engine and reports racist or homophobic comments to the FBI.

On tips from Wiggins and R F.