Because NYState is breathing down your company's neck, and you need to refresh the headlines? (BTW: "Big Tech" is not a thing like "Big 10." You can't sue a label.)If Facebook, Twitter and YouTube can censor me, they can censor you—and believe me, they are, writes Donald J. Trump https://t.co/bMFTFypGwm
— WSJ Editorial Page (@WSJopinion) July 8, 2021
"One of the gravest threats to our democracy today is a powerful group of Big Tech corporations that have teamed up with government to censor the free speech of the American people," the op-ed begins. "This is not only wrong—it is unconstitutional. To restore free speech for myself and for every American, I am suing Big Tech to stop it..."
So the "class" this suit is an action on behalf of is: all America? Has the Court had enough time to toss this turkey out on the street yet? And no: Trump didn't write this:
"This coercion and coordination is unconstitutional," Trump continues. "The Supreme Court has held that Congress can't use private actors to achieve what the Constitution prohibits it from doing itself. In effect, Big Tech has been illegally deputized as the censorship arm of the U.S. government. This should alarm you no matter your political persuasion. It is unacceptable, unlawful and un-American."
He couldn't put that sentence together if you spotted him all the words and left him alone with paper and pencil for 8 hours. Neither can his supporters:
Which has to be why they are his supporters.Does...
— KevinlyFather 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇼🇸🇿 (@KevinlyFather) July 8, 2021
Does Ben Garrison not realize that Don Quixote was completely insane and is the literary exemplar of futilely raging against an imaginary foe? pic.twitter.com/E0A42hBJ4l
Unlike Ben Garrison, I read through all 900 pages of Don Quixote. The windmill kicks his ass, he routinely winds up helping criminals who also kick his ass, his mouth writes checks he never delivers, and the moment he achieves clarity that he was never a hero, he dies. pic.twitter.com/PIvDe2JO9O
— the infamous taco (@taco_x86) July 8, 2021
I'd guess Trump watched the musical, didn't read the book, either. It's amazing how many times people who have college-granted degrees prove they never read the book but watched the show, instead. When I read it you don't have to get too many pages in to realize that Don Q. is presented as a dolt because he read cheap novels instead of serious stuff. OR: MODERN EDUCATION AMONG THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES. I can't remember which Brit intellectual it was who started his lecture by saying "Don Quixote, which, like you, I've never read all of . . . "
ReplyDeleteYeah, I always loved the fact Quixote had marinated his mind in romances of the chivalric kind, and come up a bumbling lunatic. All the biting satire of that novel was removed to make it into a bad play. Brought to you by the same people who still think Swift advocated eating babies.
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