DL Open Thread Wednesday July 5 2023
As good as Biden has been, he keeps trying to prove his centrist dipshit bona fides.
This is by far the most revolting nomination of the Biden administration, something so horrible and unnecessary that it’s almost impossible to wrap my head around it.
President Joe Biden announced Monday his intention to nominate a former appointee under former President Donald Trump with a controversial past in Latin America to the bipartisan United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
Elliott Abrams, who has served in three Republican administrations, most recently acted as the Trump administration’s special envoy to Iran and Venezuela where he was tasked at the time with directing the campaign to replace Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro.
Important to note that centrist dipshit bona fides are never proven, so you have to keep moving to the right.
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Biden White House Barred From Countering Wingnut Lies Online
Free speech, bitches! TL;DR
A federal judge in Louisiana ruled Tuesday that the Biden administration likely violated the First Amendment by censoring unfavorable views on social media over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, calling the efforts “Orwellian.”
U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty also issued a sweeping preliminary injunction barring numerous federal officials and agencies — including Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and all employees of the Justice Department and FBI — from having any contact with social media firms for the purpose of discouraging or removing First Amendment-protected speech.
The ruling and order from Doughty, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, are the latest developments in a long-running lawsuit spearheaded by Republican-led states alleging that the administration pressured social media companies to remove posts containing purported misinformation about the coronavirus, election security and other issues.
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Maybe using 3rd world slave labor so our shoes and TV’s can be “inexpensive” isn’t such a great idea after all?
The End of the Globalization Ideologues
MAGAts, being nothing if not ignorant, have no idea who Elliott Abrams is or what he’s done.
Centrist dipshit bona fides are burnished among policy and media elites. Which makes shit like this even more idiotic.
“The End of the Globalization Ideologues”? I doubt it, having shipped every job out of the country that they could they now turn to automation to be rid of even more workers. But the search, and the hot burning greed, of America’s predatory brand of capitalism will continue.
Sen. McBride was on CNN with Jake Tapper today:
https://twitter.com/SarahEMcBride/status/1676723857225396225
Thanks for the link.
There might be more important things to worry about than the appointment of an old GOP warhorse to the “bipartisan United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.”
What might that august body do? Issue a stern memo criticizing the hors d’oeuvres at a cocktail party at the US Embassy in Ottawa?