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Speaking of Censorship of Conservatives
(See nearby.) Republican candidate for Senator from Tennessee Marsha Blackburn has had her campaign ad censored by Google:
Unfortunately, we won’t be able to show your ads on Google, our search partners, or on Display Network placements until you edit your ads or keywords to make them compliant with our policies….
Here are the ads Google says is inappropriate.
It seems it’s a violation of Google’s policies to depict the Left in an unfavorable light.
This is the nature of “free” speech to which we can look forward if the Progressive-Democrats succeed next week or in 2020 or later elections.
Another Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
There is a nascent movement, the #WalkAway movement, that for the last five months has been urging those disgruntled with the Progressive-Democratic Party to leave the party and form a different one.
Some said the Democratic Party has become hate-filled and hostile to opposing points of view while moving further to the left. Others say they were tired of the party’s “politically correct” culture.
The movement appears to have gained steam from the Kavanaugh hearing travesty.
Of course, it can’t possibly be a legitimate effort, though; it must be an effort by those Evil Republicans to break up the Progressive-Democratic Party. CNN‘s David Love says it’s fake and a Russian ploy. Because everyone knows those Republicans are in cahoots with Russia.
Republicans want to split up the Democratic political opposition and divide black and Latino voters. And Russia looks like it wants to help here, too. The most recent example of this strategy is the #WalkAway hashtag, which is presented as a grassroots effort by former Democrats who are critical of the party’s alleged intimidation, confrontation and lack of civility and want people to walk away from the party.
And this bit of Love’s hysteria:
#WalkAway has also now been connected to Kremlin-linked Russian bots, and it is now the seventh most popular Russia-influenced hashtag. The purpose of this now-astroturf campaign is to manipulate public opinion by creating the illusion that this is a popular movement. In reality, #WalkAway has become pure propaganda, a psychological operation.
It’s vast, and it’s right wing, and it’s fake, and it’s, it’s, it’s bad.
A Rejection
The “caravan” wants no part of sanctuary in Mexico.
Several thousand migrants—traveling in a large group from Central American countries to the United States—have turned down an offer by Mexico to help them find shelter and work in the country, The Associated Press reported Saturday.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto addressed the mass of people directly:
We know very well that what you’re seeking is an opportunity, you want to build a new home and a better future for your family and loved ones. Today, Mexico lends you a hand[.]
The lended hand was via an aid program called, aptly enough, You are at home.
That mass of people rejected the offer and restated their intent of “heading north.”
Now why would they do that? By their own statement, it’s clearly not sanctuary or refugee status they want. What’s the real motive here?
It’s Not Their Budget
They’re not the ones who have to live with it. Brussels is just sitting on the safety of the sidelines, carping.
The European Union took the unprecedented step Tuesday of rejecting Italy’s draft budget as incompatible with the bloc’s rules on fiscal discipline, escalating a battle between Europe’s establishment and populists in Rome.
Italy’s economic woes impact other members of the eurozone, of the EU at large? They don’t have to. The EU has no more obligation to bail out Italy—if the eventuality eventuates—than it had with Greece. Italy has no more need to put other nations ahead of its own economic well-being than had Greece.
If Brussels actually has an interest, it should work with Italy, not block it. That’s all on the EU, not on Italy.
Good, bad, or indifferent, it’s Italy’s budget, not Europe’s. Italy should press ahead, as though Brussels hadn’t squawked. National sovereignty matters.