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hclasvegas: Did you watch RFK make his case ?
Yes, and RFK Jr is an idiot.
RFK Jr claims that president Biden is the first president "in history" that has used federal agencies to censor political speech by forcing media companies to censor his political critics.
Jeez, how many factual errors are in that claim? And remember, this all started with RFK Jr complaining that a Biden administration official had emailed Twitter in January 2021, asking the platform to remove Kennedy’s false post about the COVID-19 vaccine causing Hank Aaron’s death.
Aaron did not die from a COVID-19 vaccination.
Now first, evidently RFK Jr doesn't understand what true government censorship is, historically. Perhaps he's never heard of the Sedition Act (Adams and Wilson administrations). Or the Records of the Committee on Public Information.
Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower prosecuted the Communist Party of America’s leaders under the Smith Act.
Lincoln in May 1864 issued an executive order commanding Union Army Maj. Gen. John A. Dix to "arrest and imprison in any fort or military prison in your command the editors, proprietors, and publishers" of newspapers that printed a forged presidential proclamation calling for the drafting of 400,000 more troops.
Jesus, If Lincoln was president today, he would have thrown Trump's gigantic Behind in prison long ago.
Second, RFK Jr was not a political candidate at the time he referred to being "censored".
Third, Biden didn't force media companies to do anything.
Fourth, no one was silenced. Kennedy is still on Twitter today and has 2,000,000 idiots following him.
Presidential administrations have always used the power of the presidency to advance policy goals. And in the cases of a public health and safety crisis during a global pandemic or when facing the continued spread of false election claims the government has a right to address those topics through general attempts to limit the spread of dangerous or false information. That's not a threat to democracy.
The Supreme Court will decide whether the administration's actions crossed the line into coercion, but a majority of them sure seemed skeptical of that claim during March oral arguments.
RFK Jr is a nut bag, plain and simple. The Kennedy family said they'd never vote for him. Every last one.
