It's good to see the pendulum swing back from the Far-Left toward the center again

[connda]

The women on ABC's The View are again forced by their media networks legal team and producers to read "Legal Notices."  The pendulum of discourse has been swinging to the far-Left since 2016.  The new rules of discourse were that the Left could slander, libel, and defame anyone they wish to as they WERE the MSM and therefore they WERE "the only trusted sources of information and news and the purveyors of 'the truth'."  If they said "Trump is Hilter," then by golly, it was the truth that Trump is Hitler.  If you attempted to make a case that Trump isn't Hitler, then the Left's "fact checkers" would call your argument "Disinformation" and you'd be censored.

Well the writing is on the wall - this paradigm is going to change - "biggly" as President Trump would say.  The MSM is now very cognizant that the once "open season" on their political enemies and their favorite social issues is coming to an end beginning with lawsuits addressing their own slander, libel, defamation, and disinformation.  Actions will again have consequences - legal consequences.  Therefore although it's business as usual for the typical viciousness of Progressive talking-heads, their own legal teams are now protecting their company's business (Walt Disney Inc) interests and their stockholders from legal actions.

A week ago or so it first was The View's Sunny Hostin force to read a "legal notice" after her claim that Matt Gaetz engaged in Child Sex Trafficking over state lines. 

Now last Friday the ABC legal team forced the host of The View to read (count them) four separate legal notices. 

The days of the Progressive Left playing fast-and-loose with slander, libel, and defamation framed as "the truth" are over.  And it's the main-stream media's own legal teams and producers who are putting their foot down.  The Progressive pendulum has reached its far-left apex and is now heading back toward the rational center.  That's a good thing for society as a whole.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/hosts-of-the-view-forced-to-read-four-legal-notes-in-one-episode/ar-AA1uFIPQ

[mdr224]

For the USA at least. Europe is still lagging but will change when the wars end

[connda]

3 minutes ago, mdr224 said:

For the USA at least. Europe is still lagging but will change when the wars end

Europe and the UK are slipping into full-fledged totalitarianism in a way reminiscent of Orwell's 1984. People are now being throw into prisons for "Wrongthink," and "Newspeak" is the only officially condoned language.

Given Trump's win and a move back to embracing US Constitutional protections, thankfully the US is going to be swinging the other direction, at least for the time being.

[Nick Carter icp]

26 minutes ago, connda said:

People are now being throw into prisons for "Wrongthink,"

 

   Who has been jailed for thinking something ?

Where were they jailed for thinking something ?

[BritManToo]

5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Who has been jailed for thinking something ?

Where were they jailed for thinking something ?

I'd like to tell you, but then I'd be saying it, which is a worse offence than thinking it.

[BritManToo]

54 minutes ago, connda said:

If you attempted to make a case that Trump isn't Hitler, then the Left's "fact checkers" would call your argument "Disinformation" and you'd be censored.

Even worse if I suggested COVID vaccine didn't work, masks didn't work, and lockins at home didn't work. Not to mention climate change, sea level rise or carbon dioxide.

 

I'm not suggesting that of course, because I fear the reaction.

Edited 1 hour ago by BritManToo

[Patong2021]

There has not been any shift in the pendulum. what we see are manifestations of anger and frustration. It is seen in democracies all over the world.

The UK did not go right wing when it gave Boris a massive majority in 2019 any more than the UK having gone left wing woke when it gave Labour a majority in 2024. Voters were looking for stability,integrity and good government.  If the voters next turn to another party, it will be because of disgust with labour and not an embrace of another political  manifesto.

 

The electorate of the USA did not suddenly embrace right wing extremism with their selection of Donald. Trump. A large core section of voters has always occupied the conservative right wing spectrum. They were never nice people. It has elected  politicians like Spiro Agnew and Nixon. There has always been a core group in the Democrat party who embraced idiotic impractical and irresponsible political positions. In between were centrist Americans who wanted someone to listen and who wanted hope. They thought Eisenhower would bring security and peace, when in effect he left Kennedy the nightmare of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and the foundations of a war in Vietnam.   The USA went to the dishonest Kennedy because he delivered the fantasy of Camelot. They went to Reagan, the man who plunged the USA into debt, supported brutal despots and who transacted with drug cartels, because he offered hope and a return to  the imagined glory days of the USA. And on an on it goes. 

 

The Democrats lost the  2024 presidential election because they lost their way and didn't listen to the people. The voters wanted simple solutions and action on longstanding problems. Trump's election platform answered their demands. The voters will turn on Trump just as they have done on most US presidents. Had Roosevelt not die in office, they would have turned on him too.

[stevenl]

LOL, there is no far left in the US and the MAGA cult is way to the right of center.