VIDEO: "Freedom backfires: 'Tucker shows 'humiliating' montage of comedians backtracking on Cuomo.'"

Ironic, isn't it, how the very "freedom" necessary for comedy enables the destruction of comedy. It's almost as if "freedom" isn't all it's cracked up to be. Maybe it all comes down to authority--that is, which side, Patriots or Globalists, holds it--after all.

Why Star Trek doesn't discuss the news media much (SPOILER: Liberalism).

Spawned by a discussion on YouTube.

Scene from TNG, Season 4, Episode 2: "Family."

After defeating the Borg, the crew of the Enterprise experiences shore leave in various ways. Captain Picard's return to his family's vineyard in France has some extraordinary repercussions. -- IMDB

Scene below shows Picard's brother Robert ("Ro-BARE") seeming less than sensitive to the fact his brother was severely injured as a POW and hero who had fought to save the planet from Borg conquest.

MY INITIAL COMMENT:

Been years since I'd seen that. Robert's not just a jerk, but almost a traitor. He seems to ignore the whole, "We were fighting to keep lazy civilians like you from being assimilated, so you can keep your silly vineyard" aspect of the whole thing.

SOMEONE'S REPLY:

By his own admittance, he didn't know the details of what went on and I kinda doubt Federation News Services would just go out of their way to announce, "the heart of the Federation was minutes away from being conquered by cyborgs from outside our known space". :B

MY RETORT:

...That refers more to the actual physical assault on Picard, though the line still seems a bit implausible and just a means of forwarding the storyline. As for news media, that would mean the Federation government controls information flow at North Korean levels. Even the level of cooperation between the current liberal/Left American administration and the like-minded MSM wouldn't be enough to cover up a battle that occurred within toy-telescope range of Earth. Star Trek doesn't like to talk about the media much, given the liberal politics. Imagine SNN (Subspace News Network) reporting on the "mostly peaceful" travel of the Borg cube to Earth, while OEN (One Earth Network) breaks the story on the coverup about the side effects of the Borg's vaccine..., ur, implants. OEN would, of course, have to be Cancelled by all the interstellar social media platforms. And if Picard spoke out about it, he'd suffer the same fate a commander in another "space force" recently did from speaking out on another matter that didn't match the liberal line. Better, the Star Trek people probably think, to leave "the media" with a cameo shot in "Star Trek: Generations."

Mark Dice trolls grocery store over "racist" watermelons.

"Civil rights" got us this.

When you go against nature, there is no answer.

THE DAILY FUDD: E138: "CZ 527 .223s warranted to fire 5.56mm."

It's always a question--though sometimes overplayed--whether a civilian .223 Remington firearm can safely fire military 5.56mm ammo.

The CZ 527 series will indeed do so, making it a legitimate if very minimalist 5.56mm option for the American 2A civilian Militia practitioner.

Carbine version: CZ 527 Carbine | CZ-USA

For US-based customers, our .223s will happily eat 5.56, since CIP doesn’t differentiate between the two cartridges and just has the higher pressure as its standard. So our .223s will shoot everything from the cheapest Russian steel to match .223 brass ammo.

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TDF INDEX: Cats, Guns, and National Security: THE DAILY FUDD index.  https://catsgunsandnationalsecurity.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-daily-fudd-index.html

TEXT LINK: "The Unparalleled Invasion," by Jack London -- alternative future history of confronting China threat from 1910.

Focuses on 1975-76 and the world countering the threat of China.

Interesting to see this (written in 1910) in context of little or no wireless communication, airship-focused airpower, and no nukes. Not workable against China today... Well, probably not.

Try using a text reader and treat it as a short audiobook. Even a computer voice kinda brings it alive.

Picture and full synopsis here.

Audio (at 1:09:49 point):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY_5QD96TiU&t=4189s

FULL TEXT: The Unparalleled Invasion

by Jack London

INTRODUCTION:

It was in the year 1976 that the trouble between the world and China reached its culmination. It was because of this that the celebration of the Second Centennial of American Liberty was deferred. Many other plans of the nations of the earth were twisted and tangled and postponed for the same reason. The world awoke rather abruptly to its danger; but for over seventy years, unperceived, affairs had been shaping toward this very end.

The year 1904 logically marks the beginning of the development that, seventy years later, was to bring consternation to the whole world. The Japanese-Russian War took place in 1904, and the historians of the time gravely noted it down that that event marked the entrance of Japan into the comity of nations. What it really did mark was the awakening of China. This awakening, long expected, had finally been given up. The Western nations had tried to arouse China, and they had failed. Out of their native optimism and race-egotism they had therefore concluded that the task was impossible, that China would never awaken....

CONTINUED AT LINK.

Teaser-spoiler excerpt:
Following upon the alarm raised by Burchaldter's figures, in 1970 France made a long-threatened stand. French Indo-China had been overrun, filled up, by Chinese immigrants. France called a halt. The Chinese wave flowed on. France assembled a force of a hundred thousand on the boundary between her unfortunate colony and China, and China sent down an army of militia-soldiers a million strong. Behind came the wives and sons and daughters and relatives, with their personal household luggage, in a second army. The French force was brushed aside like a fly. The Chinese militia-soldiers, along with their families, over five millions all told, coolly took possession of French Indo-China and settled down to stay for a few thousand years.

VIDEO: "Top Military Animals in History From *CATS* to Elephants."

Cats discussed at 8:53 point.