Said President Joe Biden, in his farewell address last night.
There's a big difference between "military-industrial complex" and "tech-industrial complex." Eisenhower's phrase warns about the government and not merely private business. Biden's phrase only warns about private business. The "abuse of power" Biden identifies takes place outside of government, and he looks to government as a victim of abuse by private actors — citizens, speaking — and, potentially, as a cure — government, regulating speech.
The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit.
What about all the lies you told for power and for profit?!
We must hold the social platforms accountable to protect our children, our families and our very democracy from the abuse of power.
What about your abuse of power squeezing the "social platforms" to follow the narrative that served your interests?
MEANWHILE: On the NYT home page, we see Trump swooping in as the savior of TikTok:
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"The Hostess with the Mostest" nails it again.
His twenty something old speechwriters only know about the phrase "military industrial complex" because they see people using it on Twitter.
It was social media that told us about the “free press” hiding Joe Biden’s mental decline. It was Joe Biden’s Intelligence advisors that lied about his son’s laptop being Russian disinformation. I agree we’ve been under an avalanche of disinformation and it leaves office at the end of the week.
Let's dismantle the power of the military industrial complex before we move on to the next problem.
What about all the lies you told for power and for profit?!
What about your abuse of power squeezing the "social platforms" to follow the narrative that served your interests?
That's different. Shut up, you bigot.
Power isn't a thing. It's a confusion of four classical terms: officium, auctoritas, potestas and imperium. Make the power discussion say which is meant and it will shut down. Discussion depends on jumping from one term to another.
There's a big difference between "military-industrial complex" and "tech-industrial complex." Eisenhower's phrase warns about the government and not merely private business. Biden's phrase only warns about private business. The "abuse of power" Biden identifies takes place outside of government, and he looks to government as a victim of abuse by private actors — citizens, speaking — and, potentially, as a cure — government, regulating speech.
Demonstrating the difference in worldview of a public servant and a lifelong self-servant.
The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Golly gee how the heck did that happen? Just about 100 percent of mainstream media is all in on Washington propaganda, including Fox. When DC bad actors like the white house and congress are the editors…
For me his farewell doesn’t deserve a fisking. Monday can’t come soon enough…
The left is out of ideas now that abortion has been muted. They are out of favor and out of power, so the only option they have is to cheat in elections and pretend that people telling the truth are lying. They’re trying to keep an illusion of legitimacy when we all see their floundering and sputtering. They hid Joe’s disabilities and they’re hiding their own disabilities as well.
If nothing else, that speech proves Dana Carvey nails Biden’s cadence.
The problem is that the "industrial complex" crowd modeled the rest of government on the original MIC. We now have a Obamacare's Healthcare Industrial Complex (Transgender care = BIG PROFITS), the COVID/Global Medical Dictator Industrial Complex, the teacher's unions and $500K university admins Education Industrial Complex, the Black Denial of Responsibility Industrial Complex (equity/DEI), the Wall St.-401k Investing Industrial Complex (i.e., Pelosi's is such a brilliant investor...), etc.
Biden's handlers (speechwriters) are upset here because they've lost control over the press. They tried mighty hard to defend the status quo for 8 years, but faced clear defeat when Joe Rogan couldn't be canceled and when Musk bought Twitter.
Just 5 more days until Victory in America Day II. Free speech saved for at least 4 more years. There should be parades. Confetti. Cars honking. Flags flying proudly.
Fitting (and unsurprising) that Biden's warning about disinformation is itself disinformation.
The coming avalanche of tell all's will be delicious.
As usual....Miranda Devine nails it.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/15/opinion/miranda-devine-self-deluded-biden-is-spending-his-last-days-as-president-showcasing-all-the-same-lies-and-cementing-his-tarnished-legacy/
By far, the largest source of misinformation is the United States government.
Miranda is one of the best.
Joe Biden belongs on the ash heap of history.
What a disgusting, hypocritical man. Good riddance. The worst president in US history, rightfully earned.
The raisins on this guy!!! Get lost, Biden!
He’s worried about teh “tech industrial complex” because they are on to him.
People were probably interested in what Eisenhower had to say. Biden? Not so much.
Social media "fact checking" was just censorship with a wink, a nod & a little smile.
Roaches hate the light.
"The AI thing was very alarming. We had meetings this spring that were the most alarming meetings I’ve ever been in. Where they were taking us through their plans, and it was – basically just full government – full government control – like this sort of thing, there will be a small number of large companies that will be completely regulated and controlled by the government, they told us. They said don’t even start startups – there’s just no way that they can succeed – there’s no way that we’re going to permit that to happen." - Marc Andreesen
So...he wasn't lying.
Someone ought to throw a shoe at that miserable old c*cksucker.
The Dems won't break up big tech. You can easily bully Zuckerberg into censoring Democrat opponents. But a dozen mini Zucks would be like herding cats.
In the end, Biden’s destructive mendacity will elevate Trump’s second term.
The death rattle of the DNC-MSM disinformation complex.
When the dems has control oc the panopticon it was good and right
He also warned about science being captured by the Federal government and the used to push policy. No one ever talks about that. This quote is from the same speech by Eisenhower.
"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."
Until NPR is federally defunded, it's not even a whimper. Substance before symbolism.
Diversity (i.e. class-disordered ideologies) Industrial Complex (DIC), including: racism, sexism, genderism, etc., of which DEI is institutional, systemic.
An unprecedented number of human lives are Planned by the Abortion Industrial Complex (AIC).
The Social Industrial Complex (SIC) has insidiously evolved a dysfunctional population.
Medical Industrial Complex (MIC) is a first-order order forcing of progressive prices.
The Military Industrial Complex progresses in Spring.
Editors are disappearing. Did you look behind the sofa?
everybody forgot the debate
My disgust, distrust, and general hate for government knows no bounds.
The government earned it under Biden, even more so than historically usual.
The mortal gods phenomena are a feature of critical deference and dependence necessary for a sustainable captive population.
I don't know anything about the CEO of Tik Tok, but I want Ed Sullivan to announce him when he gets to the inauguration.
Squinty-eyed old man, mumbling his scripted lies - good riddance. Saw photo of Jill, Hunter, Kamala and Doug, sitting off-camera, a funeral wake farewell, all clad in black, grim, mourning loss of their perks and their media glory.
The "tech-industrial complex" certainly is dangerous. They got Biden elected.
He might have called it the "digital-industrial complex" or the "social media complex," since technology has much wider meaning.
Anyway, Trump did better against the complex than he'd do if he let them in the tent. He doesn't need fair weather friends like Zukerberg or Bezos.
" Social media is giving up on fact-checking. "
Let's talk about "lies and misinformation." Social media is NOT giving up on "fact checking" social media is firing the fact-checkers.
Biden's assignment was to read the speech on camera and try his best not to screw up too bad. It was all he could do to get through it.
He doesn't have the bandwidth anymore to think about the evil he's calling for there. It's all he can do to get through it.
When it's over, they'll give him some ice cream.
Being MAGA guided by a felon, degrades the Mafia to a Kindergarden.
Editors and "fact" checkers have too much centralized, unchecked power, and so we (the people) killed them and replaced them with community notes. This is exactly how it is supposed to work.
Fact checking not only lives on. A much better, more robust form of fact checking is emerging.
It all makes sense when you realise that when he says "democracy" he means "our power." Nor is he intentionally lying when he says that (though I can't believe there is full self-honesty there). He means it. He thinks that his people running things unimpeded is synonymous with democracy. He does not fear the overthrow of the country, but of the Democrats.
Joe Biden's administration was working with Facebook, Google, and Twitter to censor American's free speech. Including banning Trump - his major political opponent and the former President of the USA. BIden still wants censorship and so does the Democrat party and the MSM.
Biden tried to put Trump in jail. He tried to work with the Democrat run social media to ban him from those platforms. He got the News networks to ban him from their channels. It wasn't until they had to, that they decided to give Trump a live interview.
How fitting Biden would lie and accuse others of what he has done. How fitting Biden would use the propaganda word "Disinformation" which means everything and nothing as an excuse to push for more censorship. Literally, the worst POTUS ever. Ever.
Government regulation of speech and media is the only hope that Biden will be remembered for anything other than incompetence, corruption and abuse of power. His presidency was a demented puppet show.
I'd love to see the viewership numbers for Biden's farewell address. I'd bet they're astounding low. Even his robot Democrat voters don't care about him. Of course they don't matter anyways. All that matters is the Democrat party elite care. The average Democrat just votes D, no matter what. He's irrelevant to the national discussion.
Remember that the people so concerned about 'disinformation' and 'misinformation' pushed the "Hands up, don't shoot" lie and claimed George Floyd was choked to death. They were all in on Russian collusion and ruthlessly suppressed information about Hunter Biden's business deals. They claim to be concerned about money in politics but stand up and cheer when George Soros gets a PMOF.
Hypocrites, every last one of them.
Its typical of Biden that's he's never apologized to the American people for lying about Hunter's laptop and winning an election base on that lie. Or that he's pardoned his son, so any investigation trail doesn't lead to the "Big Guy". A corrupt liar - but if you can fake sincerity and being a "nice Guy", people wont get mad, no matter what you do. No wonder he wants "fact checkers" and censorship.
X-industrial complex is kind of like x-gate. Doesnt make literal sense but people know what you mean. It would be more accurate to say tech-government conplex, but it doesnt have that historical rhyme.
JSM
Or x-aholic.
JSM
Let's see: 33 years of neoliberalism sponsored by Democrats and unprecedented wealth creation among the superrich fostered by Democrats and now we're warned about oligarchy. Biden sounds the the boy accused of murdering his parents and asking for mercy because he's an orphan!
Biden is the corpse in Death on the Nile killed in the night by a procession of aggrieved Democrats. So many scores to settle!
Progressives have no shame: instead, they have projection. In Biden's farewell speech, as in the badgering of Pam Bondi by Democrat Senators yesterday, the common theme is "don't you dare do to us what we have done to you!" Ethics and morality from a strictly tribal viewpoint. Appeals to universal standards are merely tools, useful in disarming opponents, not binding on the in-group.
IKE was right. Morally right. Biden just said Free Speech is as large of a threat as the Military Industrial Complex. What an asshole.
Rather than working for peace, Biden's administration provoked a whole new European war and made sure the military-industrial complex was fed. Hundreds of thousands died.
More than hypocrites, they were conscious and strategic manipulators and "colluders." Predators. Psychopaths. Sociopaths. Organized criminals.
KAK!!! Enjoy your senescence…
I've learned not to wish time away, but Monday Jan 20th can't get here fast enough.
"Get behind me Satan!" - Matthew 16:23
I lived in the weapons belt of Massachusetts in the early '90s. I had a home, a job, and then one day, the USSR collapsed. Suddenly there was this thing called the "peace dividend" and the money stopped rolling in to Raytheon, Honeywell, etc, and real estate values collapsed, the unemployment rate was rising at 1% a month, I lost my job, I worked at a bank that went under due to the real estate crash, I lost my home in a short sale, and about $60,000. Anyway, I dealt with it, and moved on, and it has all worked out fine for me in the end, but the people who owned these companies? The people who own Raytheon and Honeywell, etc? They aren't just poor schmucks who have to deal with what life hands them.
"Can't sell our weapons because our enemy, the USSR is gone? Well, this Bill Clinton, he seems like a nice fellow who can be bought, we need a new enemy so that we can sell our weapons again, because this "peace dividend" is going to all the wrong people! By that we mean 'not us.'"
And as Bob Dylan said in "Masters of War," it was decided that after forgiving and converting the Germans to bring them to the side of God, now it's the Russians we must fight. And they fill the information space with disinformation in order to gin us up to fight in their wars. This way they stay rich and powerful. And you will never guess what, we have been fighting in wars ever since the fall of the USSR, from Yugoslavia to the Ukraine.
Oh, there is disinformation all right. Lots of it, designed by the CIA in the service of Joe Biden's puppet masters.
Not a single complimentary comment here, not only that, the hostility is notable, and asserted with evidence. Nothing from the Peanut Gallery?
Whoever holds the strings must hate Joe Biden. They've done nothing but humiliate and degrade him. And they've done it again here by making him read this speech.
Simultaneously, his clearly weak and inept administration played a factor in Hamass's motivation to launch the 10/7 attacks. Tens of thousands have died.
the reason that George H. W. Bush had to go, along with his Reaganite friends? Because they believed that the Cold War had ended, and we really should try hard to be friends with the Russians, and usher in the era of peace that they had all worked so hard to bring about. Bush Sr had to be dragged into Desert Storm, by Maggie Thatcher. This is why it was so important to get Bill Clinton elected. The purported peaceniks on this blog all hate Reagan and Bush Sr, but they were honorable men who wanted peace and tried to bring it about. The Democrats wrapped themselves in a false mantle of peacemaker, but they did it so that they could lead us into a new era of global conflicts, none of which, of course, were our fault. We just blundered into them, right? I don't know if the Democrat "contrarians" can really be so stupid as to not see this, or if they are part of some troll farm paid for by the MIC to support the Democrats.
With a Biden speech, it’s always been come for the idiocy, stay for the incoherence.
Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power.
Like, say, when fifty-one US intelligence agents conspired with your campaign to produce disinformation protecting you and your corrupt son?
When someone natters on about disinformation while failing to mention this, it’s the dog that didn’t bark.
…cannot…unsee…
One thing that Dylan got wrong in that song: they can buy forgiveness, all it takes is funding a firehose of disinformation through the media.
“Joe Biden will leave office just as he entered it — twenty pounds of bullshit in a ten-pound bag.”
Strange... "Big Daddy" got his 10% from those billionaires in the 'tech-industrial complex'... and yet he now warns us... Thank God he will be put out to pasture in a few days (but I bet he pardons Liz and all his grubby cohorts before he leaves.) Biden used that 'tech-industrial complex'... and now the worm turns...
Tech is the only industry in the United States that consistently outperforms, providing significant technical capacity to the nation and good, high paying jobs to its employees.
Maybe instead of being concerned about tech oligarchs we should wonder why other industries in the US are not keeping up with tech and do something about that. But I guess the best we can do is pay ransom to the ILA luddites, and attach “everything bagels” to the CHIPS act, degrading its capacity and effectiveness.
Goodbye, Biden. Hopefully after Trump’s kakistocracy we can finally get somebody who understands the scope and scale of the problems we are facing.
Projection is the mainstay for a reason. It makes it hard for the normies to sort fact from narrative. First lie wins; think of these projection based narratives as spoiling attacks on the truth.
Spoiling attack: A tactical maneuver employed to seriously impair a hostile attack while the enemy is in the process of forming or assembling for an attack.
In this case, what they need to head off is any understanding of the way that things really are.
Biden's kakistocracy. No matter how many times to try to deflect and project, the whole world knows that the Biden presidency has been a non stop farce of rake stepping misrule. You can try to disown Biden now, but we all know you supported his election. Sorry, but other people have a chance now, Kaki.
Its really amazing to read Ike's lofty farewell address with its simplicity and wisdom and then read a transcript of Biden's partisan, small-minded, bragging one.
Leaving aside his desire for Censorship, the speech gives away the Democrats "Game plan' for the next few years. They will now become the party of the "little guy" worried about Billionaires and a "rich oligarchy" "Malefactors of great wealth" controlling our society. Of course, the fact is they are the party of Billionaries, and Biden did zero in 4 years to conteract their influence. Quite the opposite.
Biden in speech, wants the constituion amended so POTUS cant be tried for crimes while in office. No one should be above the law, says Biden. Well, I hope Trump holds him to that. Lets see what crimes Joey Biden committed. And go after him.
"we should wonder why other industries in the US are not keeping up with tech and do something about that."
Other industries aren't keeping up with tech because those industries are tech's customers. It's a meta to infra one-way transactional relationship...half the time they can't even do their jobs or stay competitive without the solutions the tech industry provides (such as High Frequency Trading for instance).
Economics has been added to the long list of things you don't understand.
Spot on diagnosis of our post-1989 foreign policy. Although my go-to Dylan lyrics for any Biden speech are:
Idiot wind
Blowing like a circle around my skull
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol
Idiot wind
Blowing every time you move your teeth
You're an idiot, babe
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe
The Biden postage stamp:
https://x.com/bearmama76/status/1879667723011289368
YEP
Dis-information and mis-infomration are the buzzwords used by the corrupt left to hide their corruption.
Ann nails it.
Me--> Joe Biden is corrupt and the left who pimp him are corrupt, too.
May they f off and die forever.
Joe Biden, his spoiled brat greedy sex-obsessed drug addict bag-man son and his vile brother should all be prosecuted and imprisoned.
Josh Hawley brings it at the Pam Bondi grilling.
Conspired with your campaign and the media, I should have said.
What needs dismantling are the liars like Maddow, MSNBC, Joy Behar, Adam Schitt, Pretty Boy Vanity Project Captain California - they need to me mocked and ridiculed until they are rendered useless.
Think of all the "misinformation" and "disinformation" we've suffered from government and the media over the past number of years:
Russian hoax
social distancing
15-days to slow the spread
masking works (then double and triple masking)
lockdowns
cheap fakes
horse dewormer
injecting bleach
vaccines stop the spread
Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation
most secure election in history
pee tape
Wuhan lab leak is a conspiracy
That's just examples off the top of my head.
Tech Giants are now free to free themselves from they tyrannical leftist Soviet Democratic Mob and puppet masters of the corrupt Biden regime.
Biden to cry on Q.
Has anyone listened to that Eisenhower speech? I have, and Ike spoke about two dangers that day, but we only ever hear about the "Military/Industrial complex". The second danger Eisenhower related was from the "Government/Technological complex". The prospect of technology serving the government and not the citizens "is gravely to be regarded".
https://dumb.com/oldtimeradio/listen/118241/Uncategorized/Dwight_Eisenhower/610117___Eisenhowers_Farewell_Address.html
Or in the dustbin of history.
Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.
Ancient, shriveled testicles.
If he actually was a c*cksucker, the Democrats would have propped him up even longer.
The petrified prick needs to be flushed like the turd he is.
So, the dictionary definition of fascism. Antifa will be surprised!
Flush him off this mortal coil.
Thank you, Martin! Did not see your post when I put up Ike's speech.
"Darrin Bell, the cartoonist who made this, was just arrested with child porn on his computer."
Team Demo-pedo
Afghan withdrawal success
Capitol police murdered
insurrection
mostly peaceful protest
white nationalism
police murdering blacks
Martin, thanks for showing mew this part of Eisenhower's farewell: "The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.". I only knew the famous military-industrial complex portion. He was very right to be worried about and public policy becoming captive to a scientific-technological elite. That is exactly what has happened with covid, climate change, and the trans ideology .
Sop it!
Seen on Insty today:
"Listening to Biden give a farewell speech is like listening to an encore at a Yoko Ono concert."
My principles prevented me from supporting Trump. But now that he has won, my principles have changed. 😉
Felon, President Musk. You've really become trite.
I don't know if there are as many pedophiles as it seems or if they are just incredibly active. As a victim in my childhood I have no sympathy whatsoever with these people, particularly hypocrites like Bell. I see that the Reform party in the UK has pulled even with Labour in the polls. I'm hoping they can ride the grooming/rape gangs to an overwhelming victory in the next elections. In a parliamentary system they could undo a lot of what the spineless Tories and the vile Labourites have accomplished since Thatcher. Reform is literally the UK's last hope.
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