MAN, I’m having a tough time with free speech right now. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a supporter. But people with bad intentions have realized lying is a possible component of speaking freely and they’re doing it as aggressively as they can. In truth, it’s all they’ve got, lies. So, lie, they do. That’s one of the supposed reasons Elon Musk bought Twitter. He thought they were being FAR to civilized in controlling hate speech and lies and he wanted to unleash the worst impulses of internet anonymity again.

I think that, alone, would have created an insurmountable problem for him, long term, but he also antagonized the user base. He shook things up, all right. People began leaving in droves. So, he did what any pretend genius, real opportunist would do, he surrendered – voluntarily – the successful brand name he had paid so much for in the first place and replaced it with the generic, less-than, comparison brand, Brand X. THEN he started running ads for some rather unsavory things, and putting those ads next to brands that just want to sell toothpaste (or whatever) and those advertisers started fleeing. Elon called them names and threatened them in an attempt to charm them back.

Oh, but Elon knows better than everyone, right? He’s the big boy genius who just…knows things and should be properly attended (worshiped?), right? (It’s never good when these narcissistic delusionists start believing their own press…) Not according to the EU. The EU has a law, the Digital Services Act, that attempts to prevent hate speech, racism, and fake news on platforms in the European Union. So, while Elon is promoting hate speech, racism, and fake news by inviting known horrible humans back to his flailing platform, the EU has been watching and now they’re about to crack down on the guy.

His company (whatever the hell it’s called today) can be fined up to 6% of it’s global income (so, after a few years of Musk leadership, something like $1.28?) or be banned from operating across the EU entirely. I hear his next book it going to be called, ‘How to Turn $44 Billion Dollars Into a Small Pile of Scrap Metal in Just Three Years.’ It could just be me, but I’m not sure his dedication to hate speech, racism, and lies is paying off…

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Then again, there are those just…speaking their “truth.” Donny was at a political rally this last Saturday and said that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” That’s so…”Mein Kempf” of him. It’s kind of a wonder he didn’t name any of his his horrific offspring ‘Adolph.’ He has already called his political opponents “vermin,” you know, like any good dictator-wanna-be does, and described his plans to build camps. After all, OTHER dictators have camps. He wants HIS camps, too. And he knows just who to fill them with – anybody he doesn’t like. All of this after his infamous calling of the “Jews will not replace us” crowd some “very good people.”

NONE of this is a “tough on immigration” stance. It’s outright, pure, unadulterated racism…

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I’m not religious, but Donny is as close to “evidence” of it’s truth as I’ve ever seen. I recently heard a couple of talking heads…uh…talking, and one of them asked the other, “Why has nobody been able to replicate the success of trump in his rhetoric?” They adopt his style, they use his language, but they just don’t generate the following Donny gets.

Mostly, I think Donny gets away with it because he was raised to be exactly this kind of horrible human being with no conscience and absolutely no scruples or shame. His parents should be posthumously prosecuted for child abuse. But there IS another possibility.

I suspect that, perhaps, Donny is ‘The Beast’ of Biblical fame, the herald of the Anti-Christ. As such, he has protection from Satan none of the others have. If you take the story metaphorically, so the “Beast” doesn’t have seven actual heads, but seven different faces, he fits nearly perfectly. By extension, this makes MAGA unwitting followers of Satan. They sure act like it. Hell, they seem to enjoy it.

No, I’m going to stick to the “no conscience and absolutely no scruples or shame” bit…for now…but his followers are definitely in thrall to Satan…