How is it that in the exceptional and indispensable USA, a former American president can be denied his constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech by a private communications company?

How can a mere private company cancel the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

How is it possible that the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of the lowest American can depend for a former US president on who owns Twitter? And Facebook? And Google? And the New York Times?

How can Americans, especially conservatives, think they live in a free country when a former president of the United States can have his Constitutional Rights cancelled or granted by a private company CEO?

Isn’t this a case of the “private sector” controlling the government?

How can any people be free when they are denied access to facts, open debate, and truth?

The head of Homeland Security, a Nazi-era institution now assuming a governing role in the USA, has established a US Ministry of Truth with the power to shut down all who challenge the official narrative. How is it possible that a presidential administration dares establish in the USA a Nazi-era Gestapo institution with the power to cancel truth? And still be supported by 45% of the population? How can a country with 45% of its population completely stupid beyond all belief survive?

What is the matter with “Biden Democrats”? Are they unable to comprehend that freedom, liberty, the rights for which the founders of the country fought for, are at stake?

How can anything be more valuable than truth?

Why are minority rights, racial rights, transgender rights, lesbian rights, homosexual rights, and whatever new rights will be discovered tomorrow, more important, more valuable than TRUTH?

Where are the American people? Where are their elected representatives in the House and Senate? Where are the media, the watchdogs of democracy? Where are the courts, the law schools, law associations, the protesters standing in defense of liberty, which is based in free speech, a constitutionally protected right? Why does no influential group defend the rights granted by the US Constitution? No university or bar association in America is protesting the replacement of truth with elite-serving fiction.

Why do Americans just sit there while an American Nazi, the head of “Homeland Security,” creates an Orwellian state in the USA? We just witnessed in the USA, allegedly a free country, the Biden appointed head of Homeland Security say that his Gestapo agency has the right to determine truth in the United States of America.

In America the respect for truth is so weak that the Nazi is still head of America’s “Homeland Security.” The American Nazi was not fired. He was not even reprimanded for elevating censorship above the United States Constitution.

It is a massive joke than any Western country is a “free country.” As the entirety of the Western World is now thoroughly Nazified, little wonder the Nazified Western governments support, at the peril of their own existence from incoming hypersonic ICBMs, the Nazi regime in Ukraine. Putin is a Russian liberal, and therefore weak, but Putin is not weak enough to allow Russia to succumb to Western Nazism. End times approach while dumbshit Americans worry about transgender rights and the boundaries of Nazi Ukraine. Americans have entirely forgotten their own rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and do nothing to protect them.

Freedom in the West has been thrown into the trash bin of History, not by conquerors but by the West itself.

Russian Intel Chief Reveals What US State Department Has in Common With Nazi Ministry of Propaganda.

The biggest problem with today …

There’s no justice.

We endured COVID fascism for over two years — with no consequences for the guilty parties. Virtually all of the offending governors, mayors and Presidents are still in office. Ready to strike at the first sneeze, so long as it suits their political whims of the moment.

We endured obvious election fraud in 2020. No consequences. All those who benefited from the fraud are in office, licking their chops over their next “reelections.” Anyone who questions the results is silenced. We’ve even got a Disinformation Board in place, headed by a lunatic and backed by the power of the strongest government/military/police of what was once the strongest nation in human history.

And remember Canada? The Prime Minister-turned-dictator not only arrested and imprisoned the peaceful, heroic protesters against that government’s COVID fascism; it froze the bank accounts of the people who gave a mere $10 or $20 to support them. It’s THAT bad. Yet it’s all over now. It’s forgotten. Everyone who did these terrible things is still in office. You can believe they will be worse the next time. They have learned nothing, because there’s nothing to learn: except that formerly free people will now tolerate ANYTHING.

Celebrities, sports stars and corporate executives say stupid, insane, collectivist, irrational and racist things on Twitter. No consequences for them. I’m not suggesting there should be legal consequences for whatever they say. But THEY certainly suggest the same against those of us who dissent. Remember, Mark Zuckerberg pleaded for government regulation. Not because HE wants to be regulated. He believes what our dictators believe. He knows he’ll be safe under their rule; he just wants to make sure that rule is imposed on all of us. Zuckerberg is an undeserving billionaire-fascist. So are all the others — virtually every wealthy CEO of every big company is a Green Fascist/Medical Fascist/Communist. They don’t deserve to do well, or be happy. Yet there they remain — egging on our literal destruction.

Black Lives Matter organized an armed terrorism campaign against America’s great cities, with the open endorsement of the mayors and Governors charged with protecting those cities. Not only did all the killers and destroyers of property go free. Their leaders wine and dine on the finest food and booze in the most gigantic oceanfront mansions on the East and West coasts. They sneer and laugh at their own supporters who funded it all, and who will continue to fund it all.

There is no justice. That’s a demoralizing thing. It takes its toll on the human spirit. The demoralization will ultimately come back to bite the powers that be. At point, in some way, heads will roll. Look at human history: The French Revolution. The Russian Revolution. Many others. Most of these did not lead to better results. The fall of the Soviet empire — a glorious moment back in 1991 — eventually led to Putin.

Probably the only revolution ever to end well was the American Revolution. The benefits of THAT revolution were amazing, and lasted for 200-plus years. And unless everything massively changes and reverses — completely and totally — this will be the generation who lost it all.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

“It is disgraceful,” Senator Ted Cruz said. “And Joe Biden used to be chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Joe Biden knows it’s disgraceful. He’s literally threatening the lives of these justices by the mob they’re unleashing. It’s the same thing we saw with Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots, where the left embraced them. And now they’re embracing mob violence to get their partisan outcome.”

Thugs and terrorists in suits. These are not your daddy’s Democrats. These are full-blown, legalized mobsters, terrorists and totalitarians. Joe Biden has gone along for the ride. Do you seriously think this can possibly end well? Will an election stop these people?

It’s dangerous.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

As Russia continues its brutal invasion of Ukraine and its increasing atrocities toward civilians are revealed, most of the world is increasing moral condemnation and economic sanctions against the perpetrator. Hundreds of international corporations, such as Unilever, Coca-Cola, and McDonald’s have pulled out of Russia completely or suspended their operations there. These companies have forsaken billions of dollars of their Russian investment. Kudos to all of them.

Although many corporations curtail their operations or pull out of Russia based on what their government’s or the European Union’s economic sanctions require, the reasons to leave go beyond those. Even big tobacco companies like British American Tobacco have come to the conclusion that the moral condemnation of Russia is more important than the large Russian market and their investment there.

Yet, over 200 corporations still resist implementing their governments’ economic sanctions and continue to do business-as-usual in Russia. (A continually updated list of both resisters and those that have pulled out is being maintained by Yale School of Management).

The case in point is the Finnish tire maker Nokian Tyres which owns and operates a manufacturing plant (which accounts for 80% of its production) outside of St. Petersburg. CEO Jukka Moisio recently said that Nokian Tyres should continue its Russian operations because it produces only car tires there. If Nokian Tyres were to abandon its plant in Russia, he argued, it would be used for making tires for military vehicles for the war against Ukraine. In other words, according to Moisio, Nokian Tyres is doing more good than harm by continuing its Russian operations and shouldn’t abandon its significant assets there.

How should these companies’ actions be evaluated morally? What kind of guidance does morality offer to companies about doing business in authoritarian countries whose regimes don’t hesitate to initiate physical force against those who disagree with them, whether their own citizens or those of “enemy” countries?

Most of us understand the importance of morally condemning evil actions and of supporting the economic sanctions that add bite to the condemnations. I suspect that most, including the corporations themselves, perceive forgoing Russian energy (and paying more for the alternatives) and the financial losses from pulling out of Russia as a noble sacrifice necessary to help Ukraine.

Some likely consider Nokian Tyres’ cost-benefit rationalization as practical but not moral, because it seemingly serves the company’s self-interest (maintaining cash flow and avoiding the loss of significant assets).

But both evaluations are mistaken. Each suffers from the same fundamental error: misunderstanding of self-interest.

Nokian Tyres’ cost-benefit calculation does not serve the company’s self-interest. The pragmatic calculation constitutes abandoning moral principles – such as integrity and justice – and financially supporting a murderous regime hell-bent on taking over a peaceful neighbor, for short-term financial gain.

Pursuing self-interest is challenging—but necessary if the business is to survive and succeed (maximize profits by creating value for customers). Achieving long-term self-interest is hard; it requires a consistent application of valid moral principles, not abandoning them. Failing to morally condemn an evil regime – failing to apply integrity and justice – only emboldens such a regime and allows it to extinguish freedom completely. In such conditions, achieving self-interest is impossible.

Those who regard the refusal to buy Russian products and companies pulling out of Russia as noble self-sacrifice are also mistaken. Both actions are noble and moral, but they are not self-sacrifice, despite the short-term hardships and financial losses they may cause.

It is a mistake to do business in authoritarian countries in the first place due to the political risk it poses. An authoritarian government can nationalize foreign companies’ assets, as Iran did to the British and American oil companies in the 1950s (and as Putin is threatening to do now). Or such a government can make companies complicit in atrocities, as Nazi Germany did to German chemical and automobile manufacturers and banks. Or the government can merely funnel money from state-owned oil and natural gas companies to finance rogue, immoral wars, as Russia is doing.

Foreign companies that made this mistake in Russia have been evading reality; they cannot claim that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could not have been predicted. The signs have been there for a long time, even before the Russian takeover of Crimea in 2014.

The least Nokian Tyres and other foreign corporations operating in Russia or trading with Russian state-owned companies can do now, is to condemn the Russian government and pull out. The same applies to dealing with the Chinese Communist government and with other dictatorial regimes.

That would be a big step toward a more peaceful and freer world in which businesses can maximize profits and the rest of us can prosper.

Jaana Woiceshyn teaches business ethics and competitive strategy at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada. How to Be Profitable and Moral” is her first solo-authored book. Visit her website at profitableandmoral.com.

Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.”

In the movie classic “Cool Hand Luke,” the convict Luke, played by Paul Newman, explains that to his fellow inmates after winning the pot in a hand of poker without even a pair of deuces.

President Joe Biden should take notice. For, right now, “nothing” is the hand he is looking at going into the 2022 election.

With the economy the predominant issue, the last business day of April brought disquieting news for Democrats.

“Nasdaq Caps Worst Month Since 2008,” blared Saturday’s lead headline in The Wall Street Journal. “Dismal Data Fuel Stagflation Fears,” ran the top headline in the Financial Times.

“Market Plunge Reflects Alarm of Pain Ahead,” blared The New York Times. Subhead: “Decline in April was worst in two years.”

“Trajectory in Question as Markets Tank Again,” said page one of The Washington Post. To what was the Post referring?

Nasdaq had closed down over 4%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down over 900 points on the day. The S&P 500 was off 3.6% Friday, raising April’s loss to nearly 9% of its value. Not since World War II has the S&P begun a year with a worse performance.

This bloodbath in the markets is piled atop an 8.5% inflation rate and a shrinkage of 1.4% in the GDP over the first quarter. If a similar decline follows in the second quarter, the economy on which Biden’s party stands or falls in November will officially be in recession.

With Biden’s disapproval rating already running 10 points higher than his 42% approval, the economic issue could bring an even larger rout of House Democrats than would be normal at the midterms.

The issue now ranked second as a national concern is the crisis on the border where 2 million illegal migrants crossed over in Biden’s first year and the “gotaways” who evaded every U.S. official while sneaking in are estimated in the hundreds of thousands.

Some 8,000 migrants now cross the U.S. border every day. And according to the Biden administration itself, half again that many will be crossing daily if Title 42, which enables border authorities to turn back migrants into Mexico for health concerns, is lifted this month.

Third in voters’ concern is the explosion in violent crime, especially “mass killings” that involve four victims dead or wounded, not including the perpetrator. This year, mass killings are nearly matching the record number set in Biden’s first year.

There was a time when mass murder, like the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago by the Al Capone gang, or Charlie Starkweather’s murderous rampage across the Great Plains in 1958, were rare events.

Now people shooting up malls, trains and subways, and running down people with cars and trucks are daily occurrences.

Biden is not responsible for the explosion of carjackings and mass killings or cop shootings. But his party has come to be identified with its left wing’s campaign to “defund the police” and refocus on the “root causes” of crime, the social conditions said to produce criminals, rather than the criminals themselves.

The Republican Party has come to be identified with solutions that involve more police, more prosecutors and more prison cells and inmates, which, increasingly, is where the country is at.

In addition to the issues turning against the Democrats, Biden has himself become a drag on the party. His low poll numbers, verbal foot faults, visible frailty and perceived “cognitive decline” all handicap efforts to portray him as a strong, engaged and decisive leader.

The wild card in Biden’s poker hand is the war in Ukraine.

Biden has funneled $3.7 billion into the Ukrainian war effort and sent Javelin and Stinger missiles and, lately, heavy artillery. He is pressing Congress for an additional $33 billion — $20 billion of that in military aid — over the next five months of this fiscal year.

Thus far, the U.S. political class in this capital has been largely united and supportive of the Ukrainians.

But dissent is rising. Why, it is being asked, are we so focused on the Eastern borders of Ukraine when the Southern border of the United States is being breached illegally by 200,000 invaders every month, and thousands more “gotaways” — some of whom are sex traffickers, drug dealers, terrorists and members of Mexican cartels.

The future of the United States is not likely to be altered in a significant way by who eventually controls Mariupol or the Sea of Azov.

But more than 2 million migrants every year walking into the United States at will cannot but have an impact on the future character and composition of the nation that has lost control of its border.

Is whether Moscow controls Luhansk and Donetsk, which it did for the duration of the Cold War and for decades before, more important to us than whether the America we grew up in becomes more of a Third World than a Western nation?

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”