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Whoa..Need to Bring It Down a Notch There Little Guy

Zelensky Rages at Biden and Trashes NATO

Volodymyr Zelensky is not happy about how his Sugar Daddy Biden and the NATO Allies are handling Ukraine. Zelensky lashed out at the alliance decrying that he was left out of some meetings and that there is no timeline set to admit Ukraine into NATO.

“Ukraine will be represented at the NATO summit in Vilnius. Because it is about respect. But Ukraine also deserves respect. Now, on the way to Vilnius, we received signals that certain wording is being discussed without Ukraine. And I would like to emphasize that this wording is about the invitation to become NATO member, not about Ukraine’s membership.”

Now I realize his country was invaded by Russia and that his recent counter-offensive has not gone well. But as a leader, part of diplomacy is maintaining a level head. That’s especially true when the other nations he’s attacking are paying the bills and funding his fucking war effort!

Zelensky complains that “certain wording is being discussed without Ukraine” at the ongoing NATO summit in Lithuania. That makes sense, though, because Ukraine IS NOT A MEMBER OF NATO!

The Little Napoleon seems to want to operate as part of NATO without actually being in NATO.

“It’s unprecedented and absurd when time frame is not set neither for the invitation nor for Ukraine’s membership. While at the same time vague wording about “conditions” is added even for inviting Ukraine. It seems there is no readiness neither to invite Ukraine to NATO nor to make it a member of the Alliance.”

You know what else is unprecedented? The admission of a state into NATO that is in an active war with a nuclear power. If Ukraine were to be admitted tomorrow, all of NATO would be at war with Russia the New York Minute Zelensky takes to makes an Article 5 declaration.

There will be a negotiated settlement at some point because the idea that Ukraine is going to retake Crimea just ain't gonna happen. It's always been considered as part "Mother Russia."

Again, I sympathize with the little man despite the accusations of corruption in his country that have turned so many conservatives off. Russia invaded and his people are fighting valiantly. That’s to be respected. Regardless, there are geopolitical realities that must also be respected, and Zelensky should show a little fucking gratitude to the taxpayers of nations that have spent themselves into debt to prop up his military instead of coming off as an ungrateful bastard.

Otherwise, his epitaph could have read - 'Just the little comedian that took on the Russian Army. And Lost'.

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Leftists Argue Government Censorship is the Highest Form of Speech

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The American Left believes it has gained enough power and that Americans are now sufficiently ignorant enough that it no longer sees an important value in maintaining protections for free speech, at least at a federal level, and has publicly switched its enthusiasm from speech to censorship. It now lovingly speaks of the valuable “speech” of government censors and of the ‘chilling effects’ of extremist judges who interfere with them.

When Judge Terry Doughty issued an injunction in Missouri v. Biden that banned the government from “specifically flagging content or posts on social-media platforms and encouraging, removal, deletion, or suppression”, all hell broke loose.

Now, lefty academics and experts want to not only reverse the polarities of free speech, but they are just as worried that any protection for free speech will interfere with government censorship. To justify this inversion of civil rights, they have also inverted the concept of censorship so that the true form of free speech is to prevent others from speaking.

Evelyn Douek, a Stanford law professor warned that preventing the government from colluding with corporations to censor citizens would have a "chilling effect".  In traditional free speech jurisprudence, 'chilling effects' were inflicted by the government, but now Liberals who might have once worried about free speech now fret that the government will be inhibited from censoring free speech.

According to Leah Litman, a law professor at the University of Michigan, preventing the government from censoring citizens was… censorship.

Crying censorship has become the last resort of censors who demand the right to censor. After arguing that censorship by some of the biggest companies in the world was really speech, lefty legal scholars are arguing that government censorship is free speech, and that when judges prevent the government from censoring, the government’s speech is being violated.

After abandoning free speech, lefty legal scholars now celebrate the virtues of censorship in the glowing language once used for promoting reverence for a free exchange of ideas.

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