Said Marco Rubio, quoted in "'Witch hunt': Ex-EU commissioner Breton denounces U.S. visa ban targeting ‘censorship'" (CNBC).
The Trump administration imposed visa bans on Thierry Breton, a former European Union commissioner behind the Digital Services Act (DSA), and four anti-disinformation campaigners, accusing them of censoring U.S. social media platforms.... The DSA forces tech giants like Google and Meta to police illegal content more aggressively, or face hefty fines....
Breton... wrote on X: “Is McCarthy’s witch hunt back?” He added: “As a reminder: 90% of the European Parliament — our democratically elected body — and all 27 Member States unanimously voted the DSA. To our American friends: Censorship isn’t where you think it is."
I can't find anything by Breton explaining his idea of "where" censorship really is. Try to persuade us, Thierry. Give us a chance to argue with you. If you've got a good idea put it up for sale in the marketplace of ideas. Prove us wrong.
ADDED: Breton seems to be giving priority to whatever the majority decides to do. We Americans have traditionally put individual rights above majoritarian choice. I suspect that when he says "Censorship isn’t where you think it is," he means it's never censorship when it's done democratically. Believe that, and you don't believe in individual rights.
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100% of EU tech regulation is aimed at US companies as a way to extort US-only taxes and fines so they don't have to raise domestic taxes. The EU tech sector is negligible so it is an easy way to target foreigners.
Just to be clear, censorship is a bonus. The underlying assumption is that the companies won't be able to routinely comply so then the EU can harvest fine revenue from them.
"Anti-disinformation" = Soviet pro-Censorship fascism. Straight up.
"If you've got a good idea put it up for sale in the marketplace of ideas."
The DSA makes the marketplace of ideas illegal.
"How dare you censor us for...censoring....!" CC, JSM
" If you've got a good idea put it up for sale in the marketplace of ideas. Prove us wrong."
She doesn't, and she can't. She knows it, they know it, hence, the control, censorship and punishment. The fines are a bonus. How long that continues is a good question. Until the EU is disbanded? Europe is totally controlled by islamists? Until the companies run out of money or patience? IDK, but Europe is in trouble. God help them.
"The DSA makes the marketplace of ideas illegal."
Exactly. They are not interested in the marketplace of ideas. They are interested in suppressing it.
Can the digital platforms just ignore their fines?
"To our American friends: Censorship isn’t where you think it is."
The Robin Hood Defense: Yes, I stole it, but you stole it first.
This is the major felony of "Conspiracy Against Civil Rights" and there should already be arrest warrants for all of them. That evil Jankowicz woman who was Biden's censorship czarina ought to be behind bars already, along with George Soros and all their henchmen who schemed to silence American citizens.
We need spectacular exemplary punishments for all of them, so the government scum never again dare to conspire with private organizations to infringe on the civil rights of Americans in a manner that would be totally illegal for government itself. Every American was a victim of their tyranny, so the venue ought to be in Wyoming or Oklahoma or Alabama, where it should be easy to secure a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 241 and/or 42 U.S.C. § 1985 and put these despicable enemy scum in prison for life.
This should also pertain to our Second Amendment rights too. I hope to see a busload of big-city mayors, police chiefs, and blue-state governors subjected to splashy trials and draconian punishment.
Total war on the Stasi monsters. Turn every organ and power of government towards their destruction.
Playing Devil's advocate, the censors in our own backyard are way worse. Censorship in Europe is practically tradition (a Roman one at that...), a fig leaf Thierry can hide behind, but ours can't:
"By the way, there are no working class censors. The dirty secret of content moderation all over the world is that it's a tiny sliver of educated rich correcting everybody else. It's telling people what fork to use, but you can get a degree in it, basically. The problem is America has the most useless aristocrats in history. Even the French dandies who were marched to the razor by the Jacobins were towering specimens of humanity compared to the Michael Hadens, John Brennan's, James Clapper's, Mike McFall's, and Rick Stengel's who make up America's self-appointed speech police. In pre-revolutionary France, even the most drunken, depraved, debauched libertine had to be prepared to back up an insolent act with a sword fight to the death. Our aristocrats pee themselves at a mean tweet. These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism, which is unique to them, no loyalty, no dreams, and no accomplishments. They are simultaneously illiterate and pretentious, which is very hard to pull off. They may have one idea, and it's not even an idea, but a sensation. Fear. Rightly so, because they snitch each other out at the drop of a hat. They're afraid of each other. But they're also terrified of everyone outside their social set, and they live in near constant dread of being caught with even one original opinion."
- Matt Taibbi
We are reading what Breton has to say, so where is the censorship he claims?
Censorship is ALL OVER the United States.
GO to the NY Post site. Try to criticize Jews. See how far you get.
No post critical of Jews will be posted. That's where the censorship is.
Do I want to criticize Jews? Yes, I do. Why? Because like all other races of people, they make mistakes. Same as whites. Same as blacks. Same as Indians.
Why are Jews the one single race that cannot be criticized in the US press?
If being democratically elected excuses all sins, then what was wrong with McCarthy's witch hunt?
If government regulations were a source of economic or military strength, the EU would be a global superpower. Unfortunately for them, the only people enriched or empowered by the EU’s regulations are the bureaucrats and the rent seekers. Sadly, we have far more government than we can afford here, too.
Meanwhile, last night Trump threatened to remove broadcast licenses from outlets that criticize him too much.
“If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J. Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their very valuable Broadcast Licenses be terminated?,” Trump posted on Tuesday. He then answered his own question: “I say, YES!”
They are "anti-disinformation campaigners" in the same way that Antifa are "anti-fascist."
"Why are Jews the one single race that cannot be criticized in the US press?"
Responsum Intra Quaestio Tuam
Shorter EU: if Parliament wants it, it’s not censorship.
"Shut up!", he explained.
Timely rant
Breton... wrote on X: “Is McCarthy’s witch hunt back?”
Yes, except we now call it "Breton's witch hunt".
He clearly doesn't realize, that various American legislatures are always voting to censor ideas they don't like. But we do not regard those votes as legitimating their censorious impulses. Quite the opposite.
"Why are Jews the one single race that cannot be criticized in the US press?"
Duh! Because the Holocaust!
I’m not your friend, Breton, and McCarthy was right
"'Witch hunt': Ex-EU commissioner Breton denounces U.S. visa ban targeting ‘censorship'" (CNBC).
It is so amusing, and pathetic, to observe a censor whining about being "censored."
I can't find anything by Breton explaining his idea of where censorship really is. Try to persuade us, Thierry. Give us a chance to argue with you. If you've got a good idea put it up for sale in the marketplace of ideas. Prove us wrong.
If they were capable of arguing their ideas in public they wouldn't favor censorship. So that's not going to happen.
"Why are Jews the one single race that cannot be criticized in the US press?"
Because you're a delusional nutcase.
Since EVERYONE gets criticized in the US press. And black female Democrat get a LOT less criticizing than Jews get, which you'd notice if you weren't a freak and a loser.
But is pretty much is an unceasingly correct tell: Jew haters are losers
Propaganda is not about arguing facts and logic on their merits, it’s about framing issues in terms of group identity, do you want to belong, or be ostracized, think hard before you think too deeply!
The Israeli state is not the same thing as the world’s Jewish people and to criticize one is not to hate the other
It gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling to have the Europeans told to take a hike. They are pretentious, and never waste an opportunity to point out what savages we Americans are. "Pay back is a mo******cker!"
They banned the guns. Then they banned the knives. So it's really no surprise sharpened tongues were next on the chopping block.
McCarthy was right about socialist migration in the woke of Germany's defeat.
Paul z
"If actual witches, in this case Soviet infiltraitors, are found, is a "witch hunt" a bad thing?
Was there anyone targeted by mccarthy who turned out not to be guilty? Got names?
Also, how did mccarthy censor? He had no powers to do anything but investigate and expose. Revocation of security clearay, any legal or civil actions were by executive branch.
Even worse, we knew from before mccarthy via the venona transcripts of the 40s that the people he was accusing were guilty.
And, for security reasons, good or I'll, the executive branch said nothing but demonized mccarthy.
The venona transcripts and sovietsrchival materials released in the 90s have exonerated mccarthy
Yet there are still people who have not gotten the memo.
When the legend becomes fact, print the legend"
John Henry
According to Breton, Breton should just shut up.
imTay said, "The Israeli state is not the same thing as the world’s Jewish people and to criticize one is not to hate the other."
An idea growing in popularity within the marketplace. I expect the volume of those shouting "loser!" to grow louder in proportion.
I love the "the Jews can never be criticized" caucus. Never be criticized? That's all we are, and all we've ever been. For centuries at this point. Cut the crap. That civil people note we're less than 90 years since the concentration camps. They have witnessed the October 7 mass rapes and beheadings, and presently see the masses gathering again to call out for the extermination of Jews. You'll have to try to NOT be surprised when they tell you to STFU with your whining about Jews not being criticized.
Jews are regularly and always being criticized. And frankly, we can take it, unlike some of you out there. Because it's been that way since Biblical days. But because we can take it, doesn't mean we're not going to push back. As you would if people were chanting for the extermination of whatever your ancestral group was, less then 90 years after a good try at fully exterminating you.
In this day and age, social media and 'influencers' have far more reach than legacy journalists. And from what I can see, there is a fully healthy criticizing of Jews on both the left and right going on. It's a full time job for some. And more than a few are making a good living at it.
So cut the crap. Quit whining that you aren't seeing enough Jew criticism. I've seen enough to last me two lifetimes.
Anyway...back on topic. We could have had this as our misinformation Czar. And who wouldn't have loved that?
Nina Poppins.
"I suspect that when he says "Censorship isn’t where you think it is," he means when it's never censorship when it's done democratically."
Of course, democracy is another thing Breton has a problem with.
The U.S. may have to start supporting the smuggling of Starlink dishes and modem into the EUSR.
"The U.S. may have to start supporting the smuggling of Starlink dishes and modem into the EUSR."
I really don't understand what leverage the EU has here. Just ignore their fines. Does that mean the digital companies have to give up a physical presence in Europe? Fine. As to access to their platforms by the EU citizenry, let the EU ban that, if they can.
There WERE many commies in the US government. Too bad McCarthy got drunk.
In addition to European, there's a decidedly feminine aspect to modern censorship as well - "Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition. Other writers who have proposed their own versions of the Great Feminization thesis, such as Noah Carl or Bo Winegard and Cory Clark, who looked at feminization’s effects on academia, offer survey data showing sex differences in political values. One survey, for example, found that 71 percent of men said protecting free speech was more important than preserving a cohesive society, and 59 percent of women said the opposite."
Michael Barone has similar thoughts -
“In general, women are more risk-averse than men, and thus more supportive of welfare state measures and more reluctant to support military action. They are also, as we have seen on female-dominated campuses, more willing to suppress speech that is seen as irritating or hurtful. 'Highly educated women,' as Australian educator Lorenzo Warby writes, 'are proving all too willing to trash other people’s freedoms to protect their emotions.'"
If I lived in a hyper-feminized society, I'd expect nothing less. Wait...
"We" above refers to us spy agencies starting in 1943.very closely guarded secret until released publicly in the 90s.
They were hundreds of thousands of intercepts of Soviet encrypted communications. Many were decrypted in the 40s revealing infiltration at the highest levels
Fascinating stuff.
John Henry
I really don't understand what leverage the EU has here."
Well, they have leverage over revenue sources from the EU the American social media companies generate. They also have the ability to choke the internet pipeline and/or prosecute their own citizens who use these services. They could, of course, try jamming satellite feeds that open the door to EU citizens to bypass censorship laws but that has problems for the EU's own business interests.
I agree, all of these fines should be ignored on principle and let the Thierrey Breton's of the world attempt to enforce their rulings but EU citizens need to make their own defiant stances.
"Well, they have leverage over revenue sources from the EU the American social media companies generate."
If that's bigger than the fines, that's a business decision I guess.
"They also have the ability to choke the internet pipeline and/or prosecute their own citizens who use these services."
Pass the popcorn.
McCarthy and Democrats underestimated the insidious migration and infiltration of ideas and practices of leftist conception.
So in order to punish those who apparently censor free speech, the country that will soon require you to disclose your JD Vance couch memes on entry is banning entry of those who have spoken and acted freely.
Screw the Europeans! For over 50 years the Europeans have insisted the USA defend them via NATO while they never have lived up to their obligations. Now Europeans are attacking our freedoms and businesses at the same time the ask us to defend them. NUTS!
Breton... wrote on X:....
I don't know if it's doable, but I bet if Elon turned X off for the EU for a week they'd be on their knees begging. (Once they got away from the angry torch and pitchfork wielding mobs, that is.)
John Henry @ 12/24/25, 11:43 AM
Re: McCarthy(ism)
My first exposure to the history of Soviet spying during the late 1940s and 1950s was Whittaker Chambers' 1952 memoir, "Witness."
What an amazing story that is. I'd recommend it to anyone who presumes to comment on that time in history.
Still fucking that chicken, eh Kak?
Not happening Kakles. Glorious Leader Vance shall welcome and appreciate all J.D. memes. Vance memes only glorify and reflect positively on his benevolent and fatherly administration.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances"
The Founders of the country which has rapidly and completely outstripped and overtaken Europe to become by far the most successful nation on Earth put that provision front and center.
They meant it. We take it very, very seriously. It's not a negotiable proposition. Nor is it one that can be voted away by 27 bureaucrats. One of the big differences between you and us, Thierry.
What unified blocks of voters live in Europe? Small voting blocs can wield extreme power in politics by acting as a unified force, leveraging their collective votes to influence policy, determine election outcomes in close races, and pressure candidates to address their specific concerns.
And don't get me started on mccarthy and the Hollywood blacklist!
John Henry
Censoring people = Democracy in Action
Punishing Censors = McCarthyism and authoritarian.
Of course, all they have to do is get the ACLU to sue and some Biden/Clinton judge will force Trump to issue a Visa. Because judges actually run the executive branch.
The essence is this -- western Europeans, along with Canadians, Aussies, and bloody near anyone else have no Natural Rights ... only whatever privileges their government wishes to allow them.
In Canada, if you defend against a home invasion, even with a baseball bat, YOU go to jail, and the perps walk, especially if they're brown. It's illegal for women even to *carry* pepper spray for their own protection. Pastors have been arrested for quoting scripture that some people don't like.
The US is indeed exceptional.
Yes, use the full might of the US government to punish people on behalf of Elon Musk.
Dementia Donnie has checked all the way out.
Also, how long can MAGAts deny Pedo Mussolini’s riding the Lolita express to rape children?
Why the heavy, redacting? Why the dragging of the feet on releasing the Epstein Docs?
Why did Trump have Epstein killed, if not to hide the fact that our president liked to rape little girls?
Merry Christmas, you fulilthy animals.
It’s not a witch hunt that Breton is not allowed in the US. But I’ll bet he weighs more than a duck.
I think no other President would have done this. I love it. Fuck em.
Wow, Hag, that's some serious psychosis you have going there. I'd seek help if I were you.
“I suspect that when he says "Censorship isn’t where you think it is," he means when it's never censorship when it's done democratically. Believe that, and you don't believe in individual rights.”
Or the self-evident truth that those rights exist independently of what the state or 50% +1 of the population thinks.
It seem Bart Hall beat me to it.
Yes, as the old saw goes, Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. That’s why we’re a republic.
Kak found the bottom and it's right where he left it 14 months ago. Running out of material?
Mister democracy:
"Breton—who remains infamous as the EU’s self-styled “digital enforcer”—responsible for the bloc’s infamous online censorship mechanism, the Digital Services Act—boasted about Brussels’ interference in Romania as if it was not only acceptable but even a moral obligation to cancel democratic elections based on the outcome. He then went further to add that Germany can expect the same treatment if the voters dare to elect AfD in next month’s federal elections.
“We have to prevent interferences and make our laws apply,” Breton said, referring to the alleged Russian involvement before admitting actual EU interference. “We did it in Romania, and we will obviously have to do it in Germany, if necessary.”"
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/former-censorship-tsar-admits-eu-role-in-annulling-romanian-election/
This man is clearly unfit for any position of power over other humans. That's why the lefties agree with him. Slavery, Jim Crow, communism, judicial interference with elected branches. I see a pattern here.
Prof: "I suspect that when he says "Censorship isn’t where you think it is," he means when it's never censorship when it's done democratically"
Yes, he's French. Democracy for them means that an elected government gets all the powers of Louis XIV or Napoleon. They don't consider that the next step could be that elected all-powerful government cancelling future elections.
But they're French. Excitable, emotional people. (I can say that because I'm partially French.) CC, JSM
"But is pretty much is an unceasingly correct tell: Jew haters are losers."
Yes indeed. I think Dave Chapelle said something about that.
The question is, what's cause, and what's effect?
So Trump states Europe is suppressing free speech; then, at 1am this morning he threatens a national television network in the US with cancelling their broadcast license because he doesn't like the coverage of him by the network. Who is suppressing speech? Do these incompetents in this administration even try to be serious people instead of a bunch of clowns?
Breton... wrote on X: “Is McCarthy’s witch hunt back?”
No, more like strict scrutiny never left: Compelling government interest. Narrowly tailored. Least restrictive means.
Minitrue is an aspirational goal of mssier breton
If it were not for the 300,000+ Americans sacrificed in Europe in World War parts 1&2 they would all be speaking German.
A little gratitude would be in order.
Or if not for that, perhaps for NATO and the 1,000,000,000,000 we've spent on it over the years. And we are not even European!
Or perhaps, just go fuck yourselves.
Elon Musk owns 94% of X. If he decides to pull the plug and not allow Europe Access, there is probably nobody that can stop him. Let'em all go to Bluesky.
Also, who is going to launch Europe's satellites? Oh, that's right, they don't have any. 60-70% of ALL mass to orbit since Sputnick in 1957 has been launched by E. Musk and Co.
Fuck Europe.
John Henry
Jupiter said, "The question is, what's cause, and what's effect?"
Paraphrasing an old Russian proverb, “Zionism's defenders will always tell you about what happened to 'them', but they will never tell you why...and if you want to know why buy Mel Gibson a drink!"
Breton... wrote on X: “Is McCarthy’s witch hunt back?”
Never forget - following the fall of the Soviet Union, documents demonstrated that McCarthy was almost 100% right.
100% of EU tech regulation is aimed at US companies as a way to extort US-only taxes and fines so they don't have to raise domestic taxes. The EU tech sector is negligible so it is an easy way to target foreigners.
Big tech could, if they wanted, put an end to this in very short order - simply cease providing Google, Amazon, X, etc. services to the EU and see how long it takes them to fold.
From Grok (Edited for brevity)
Jon Richelieu-Booth, a 50-year-old British IT consultant from West Yorkshire, England, made headlines in late 2025 after being arrested in the UK over social media photos he posted of himself holding firearms during a vacation in Florida.
Upon returning to the UK, someone complained to West Yorkshire Police, interpreting the posts as threatening (possibly linked to a separate photo of a house and a business dispute). Police visited his home in mid-August, warned him about his posts, and then arrested him on August 24 on suspicion of "possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence" and stalking. His devices were seized, disrupting his work, and he faced multiple arrests and bail conditions over the next months.
The case was ultimately discontinued by the Crown Prosecution Service in November 2025, with no charges filed. Richelieu-Booth described the ordeal as "13 weeks of hell"
This kind of crap is why our ancestors left England and Europe.
Screw you King Chuck
John Henry
They used to launch their rockets from a base in the guyanas which probably inspired the drax homebase in moonraker
Not naming anyone here specifically, or on X or Bluesky or elsewhere, but a lot of people seem to think they are free to accuse Donald Trump of being a "pedo" when the is no evidence that he ever was beyond speculation and rumor fanned by the press.
I suspect that this kind of thing is actionable. I think it will be hilarious if DJT is just collecting these tweets and comments and then one day WHAMMO!! a massive suit against all these people. Sue them each for $10mm or so for defamation. Drag them into court and make them prove he was a pedo. Remember, he has no obligation to prove he is not.
When he wins, take their house, car, fillings from their back teeth and put a lien on all future earnings. All to go to the Trump Presidential Library.
I think he is doing precisely the right thing with the Epstein foofaraw. Let these folks get waaaaaay out on a limb then saw it off.
John Henry
The moonraker set up also resembles a german private rocket venture called otrag that was based in the congo for some reason
It's never censorship when it's done (D)emocratly.
They follow marcuses doctrine of 'repressive tolerance' its too dangerous to let some people speak or write,
So Trump states Europe is suppressing free speech; then, at 1am this morning he threatens a national television network in the US with cancelling their broadcast license because he doesn't like the coverage of him by the network
When government agencies, in cahoots with ideologues and rent-seeking cronies in the NGO or private sectors, form a conspiracy to suppress and punish the opinions of private individuals, it's qualitatively different from forcing broadcasters holding a license to use the limited resource of the public airwaves to comply with the terms of the relevant laws governing the radio spectrum. Dissemination of false information on the public airwaves is not a constitutional right. But it IS a right on the Internet or cable TV. That's the difference.
Good!
To be clear, there is the European Space Agency, that more or less depends on Arianespace, which launches the Ariane rockets. That has sufficed for Euro satellites for many years. Its not a patch on SpaceX, but it does work. Expense is the major issue. They launch from French Guyana.
Ariane is part owned by Airbus.
Thank you buwaya
The Euros are flexing their bureaucracy. The EU bureaucracy is too big for its britches, and too intrusive/ambitious for its agreed charters. This has caused plenty of issues, mainly a matter of Germany leaning on Eastern European governments over bullshit pettifogging matters. Poland most (unjustly) affected.
Brussels bullshit is tolerated for the sake of the economic benefits of the EU. But there are a lot of people that would like to see it pruned.
List of recent Ariane launches. 4 in 2025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ariane_launches_(2020%E2%80%932029)
Not competitive with SpaceX, but its there.
The EU: government of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats.
Witness24 on X: "🇬🇧 Adam Smith‑Connor, British Army vet and father, was convicted for silently praying near an abortion clinic in Bournemouth, praying for his son lost 22 years ago and for those facing difficult decisions. Despite being peaceful, the court said his bowed head and clasped hands https://t.co/2letSZGe2i" / X https://share.google/1x6Yur04UyMShybZd
Disapproval of abortion... human rites are a wicked solution, a model of Capitol punishment.
Censors don’t like being censored themselves. Who knew?
From X by way of Instapundit:
When elections were annulled in Romania, Thierry Breton, the former EU commissioner, said:
"We did it in Romania, and we will do it in Germany."
So isn’t he saying that the “democratically elected” EU governments are not, in fact, democratically elected?
Kakistocracy said...
So Trump states Europe is suppressing free speech; then, at 1am this morning he threatens a national television network in the US with cancelling their broadcast license because he doesn't like the coverage of him by the network. Who is suppressing speech? Do these incompetents in this administration even try to be serious people instead of a bunch of clowns?
There is no good reason to give NBC, ABC, and CBS that bandwidth.
I have just as much a right to it as they do.
Cut the Eurowienies off, then make them beg...
"If it were not for the 300,000+ Americans sacrificed in Europe in World War parts 1&2 they would all be speaking German.
A little gratitude would be in order."
I think the Germans would be just as happy if we'd stayed home. And Britain might still be free.
“ Too bad McCarthy got drunk.”
He was from Wisconsin, in Wisconsin heavy drinking is normal.
“ This kind of crap is why our ancestors left England and Europe.”
Europe has never had the interest of the common man as a goal. The elites are who matters. Neo Royalty is the objective. If you were catholic in the wrong place, burn them out. If you were reformed in the wrong place, burn them out. Thank God for America.
In America the Quakers ran Pennsylvania and the Catholics ran Maryland. And they all banded together to fight the oppression of England. No one is free unless they fight and defeat their oppressor. Canada and Australia take note.
AFAIAC, every commie should be blacklisted.
The Hag is nothing but a troll, a keyboard warrior, a gobshite. If I met her on the street and she said one or more of those insults to me, I'd punch her in the mouth and laugh as she went downward toward the pavement.
Marcus, the keyboard warrior might be the mouth breathing MAGAt who impotently threatens violence……using his keyboard. Quiet piggy.
Be best!
How about an in-person meeting? An Althouse commenter convention? I think some of us wonder about some of you.
“Kites [a kind of hawk] over pigeons” was how Thomas Jefferson termed Europe (European governments) in 1787.
Never forget: Breton was not ELECTED to anything. The EU that ACTUALLY passes law are entirely non-democratically placed into office.
It does not matter if 98% of the EU supported it since 0% of the voters had a say in it, one way or the other.
Kakistocracy said...
So in order to punish those who apparently censor free speech, the country that will soon require you to disclose your JD Vance couch memes on entry is banning entry of those who have spoken and acted freely.
It's amazing, the stupidity of the Left.
news flash: no foreigner has the right to come into the US. We can ban them for any reason we want
That is not a "free speech" issue. They are welcome to have their free speech in their country
Not ours
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