‘The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship’

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The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship

“The emerging campaign to pressure Spotify to remove Joe Rogan from its platform is perhaps the most illustrative episode yet of both the dynamics at play and the desperation of liberals to ban anyone off-key. It was only a matter of time before this effort really galvanized in earnest. Rogan has simply become too influential, with too large of an audience of young people, for the liberal establishment to tolerate his continuing to act up. Prior efforts to coerce, cajole, or manipulate Rogan to fall into line were abject failures.”

—Glenn Greenwald

Biden’s First-Year Anniversary

Last week—well, Thursday, January 20, 2022—marked the one-year anniversary of Joe Biden having officially become the 46th president of the United States.

With his job-approval number still low—suggesting that, realistically, the incumbent Democrats will not be able to hold their majority in the United States House of Representatives (and, perhaps, United States Senate)—I came across some impressive content which helps to explain partly why Biden is terrible.

I submit this one excellent video, published to YouTube on January 21, 2022, by RT’s Caleb Maupin:

Old Man Stern

Former shock jock Howard Stern, who turned 68 on January 12, 2022, is reportedly guarded about COVID to a point in which he rarely leaves his residence.

Stern wants to, let’s say, ostracize people from society if they don’t get vaccinated. This would include denial of medical attention and care in hospitals.

Jimmy Dore had his fun with this, and the January 7, 2022 video is below, but I will mention this: In a 1990s book by Stern, he wrote how so much of NBC’s Saturday Night Live—and the people most famously attached to it (like original Not Ready for Primetime player Chevy Chase)—is no longer funny. He attributed this to the series, and much of its cast, with having gone from anti-establishment to becoming part of the establishment. Well, this is also what has happened with today’s Howard Stern.

Stern is, well, Old.

Kim Iversen Will Vote Republican

Last month, Kim Iversen—who no longer publishes her videos to YouTube but who I was able to come across on Rokfin—told her viewing audience she will be voting for the Republican Party. 

(Note to readers: An asterisk * appears before Kim Iversen’s name. This is how I will handle going forward any recommended Videos by any source not directly with YouTube.)

Iversen explained.

And I will quote the essential part of her statement in the following indents.

I think I have moved politically. 

I always identified myself as liberal. My whole life—I have always been liberal.

The only party I actually registered for is the Green Party. I saw their statement yesterday [Wednesday, 12.08.2021; Statement From Green Party US Steering Committee on COVID-19 Vaccines and Mandates]. 

The [Green Party] said they’re all about mandate and lockdown. They’re real iron fist about it. They said, “We’re about mandates. We’re about lockdowns. But, we’ll give you this. We’ll make sure your rent gets paid. We’ll get you food stipends. And you won’t lose your job or anything like that. But, we’re going to mandate you. Lockdown—and all that.” So, the Green Party is forever crossed off my list.

And, actually, at this point: I will never vote—until there is a real, serious shift in the political ideology of the Democrats (or in anybody in the Green Party platform themselves)—I will not vote for anyone—I don’t care how great candidate [he or she is]—I will not vote for [the Democrats] anymore.

I am calling it right now.

I will not vote for anyone who is a Democrat or a Green Party member. That means—they take money from the party, and the party expects them to fall in line. And because I feel, at this point, Democrats have done more damage to my life than any Republican has done to me…I will not vote for a single Democrat.

And, in fact, I am telling you right now. 

I am voting Republican in both the next elections [2022 and 2024]. The election in the [2022] midterms—Straight Republican. I don’t care who they are. I won’t even look into them. I won’t even care. I’ll just go—“Republican!”

Because I know what the Republican platform is.

They’re against mandates.

Whether I agree completely with Kim Iversen—for her complete statement—is not important. What is important is that Iversen has informed and explained her position to her viewers. I understand. I very much understand. And, for me, I am rejecting the Democrats when it comes to my willingness to participate voting in general elections.  If I was a resident in the state of Maine, with ranked-choice voting, I would assign the Democrats to last place. So, this video is one I appreciate. Perhaps readers will as well.

I will provide a link to the video below. Kim Iversen’s statement starts at about 30 minutes in. (I am not sure if I can embed the video. Progressives Chat is through Google. YouTube is owned by Google. And it may be that I cannot directly embed a video from Rokfin.) 

Outrage over Shooter Segment, Plus Heavily Vaccinated Countries Face Lockdowns and More…

‘What Is Breadtube….?’

Breadtube has been addressed by numerous content creators, recently, and it is likely best explained by RT’s Caleb Maupin. 

Caleb Maupin gave an interview last Friday, January 7, 2022. I thank host Sabrina Savalti, a.k.a. Sabby Sabs, for this. (She recently quit her job, which was unrewarding. I wish her not only well, in general, but for greater success as a content creator. As a bonus: Max Blumenthal also recently interviewed Caleb Maupin available on Rokfin. Link: Foreign Agents #17—Caleb Maupin on BreadTube and the Synthetic Left.)

Also regarding Caleb Maupin: I recently added him to recommendation Videos. 

With some changes to the Videos recommendations—which include sliding down Ron Placone and moving up Russell Brand—I have eliminated The Political Vigilante’s Graham Elwood and Status Coup’s Jordan Chariton. My decision follows their recent, expressed stances on vaccines and/or mandates. (The Daily Poster’s Walker Bragman used to be listed. So, I didn’t need to consider him here in January 2022.) This decision, on Elwood and Chariton, is not intended to totally dismiss them. I choose, at this time, to not to continue recommending them.

In the meantime, here is the interview with Caleb Maupin:

Thank You, Betty White!

I had planned to write and publish the topic for Monday, January 17, 2022 as a “Happy Birthday” for actress Betty White. That is the date she would have turned 100.

She came close.

Very close.

The television icon—and seven-time Emmy winner—died in her sleep at age 99 last Friday, December 31, 2021.

This loss does hurt because White was a reminder to me why, even in this terrible period in U.S. history, and how bad politics has affected so much of showbiz to the point of overall lackluster art, I do like the performing arts and appreciate talented actors. White was a very natural, bright light. With her roles as two very different situation-comedy characters—Sue Ann Nivens on CBS’s The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on NBC’s The Golden Girls—White played a sexually inappropriate cooking-show host followed a sweet but often dumb widow and counselor while never allowing for either of them to end up as jokes. Part of it was the creation and writing of those characters, yes, but a bigger part what how White portrayed Sue Ann and Rose. There was nothing cheap or cartoonish. White played them as individuals who have hearts. She also did this with class. 

It will take some time to get used to this fact—that Betty White is no longer alive—but this is part of life. 

I recall, after she hosted in 2010 NBC’s Saturday Night Live—and Facebook members campaigned for her to do that (and she did win an Emmy doing so)—White appeared via satellite on Oprah Winfrey’s former daytime talk show (which ended in 2011).

At that time, White was 88. Winfrey asked White if she does give thought to end of life. By this point, White’s Golden Girls cast mates—Estelle Getty (2008), Beatrice Arthur (2009), and Rue McClanahan (2010)—had, over the course of three consecutive years, died. White was born before each of them. She also survived her Mary Tyler Moore regular cast mates. (Four of them, before White, died in 2021. Cloris Leachman was in January; Gavin MacLeod in May; and Edward Asner in August.) White was also born before of each of them. (Ted Knight died in 1986; the star of the show Mary Tyler Moore in 2017; and both Georgia Engel and Valerie Harper in 2019.) And, incredibly so, White really hung in. 

Betty White told Oprah Winfrey that she reached that point of acceptance. That she was certainly aware of how far she had come. A perception, yes, of her remaining time being very precious. White resigned herself to being accepting that, when her time is up, she is ready. That she did a lot. She achieved much. And her life was full. Well, that was 2010. Turns out White had 11 more years. That is really impressive. Remarkable.

Thank you, Betty White!