Rubio declares war on global censors

Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Winston Churchill once warned that "appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last." When it comes to the crocodile of censorship, history is strewn with defenders who later became digestives. Censorship produces an insatiable appetite for greater and greater speech limits, and today's censorship supporters often become tomorrow's censored subjects. This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stopped feeding the crocodile.

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Turley has become a caricature of himself.

Nazi Propaganda is the only "Free Speech" in play here.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-03 12:27 PM | Reply

Turley is such a pathetic sell-out; calling both Vance and Little Marco's speeches, "Churchillian".

If it ain't Trumpian Gestapo speech, Turley, and the thread OP, hate it.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-03 12:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Corky and Snoofy are clearly among the global censorship crowd.

Stalin called people like them "useful idiots".

SAD!

#3 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-03 12:43 PM | Reply

#4 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-03 12:44 PM | Reply

Laura Mohr,

Do you favor global censorship?

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-03 12:46 PM | Reply

Laura Mohr,
Do you favor global censorship?

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-03 12:46 PM | Reply

I favor letting other countries run their country like they want to and staying out of their business. That's what I favor

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-03 12:48 PM | Reply

BTW Why aren't you up in arms with Trump punishing universities that allow pro Palestinian protests on their campuses hmmmmmmmmmmmm???

#7 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-03 12:55 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Laura Mohr,
Do you favor global censorship?

#5 | Posted by BellRinger

You do.

You are non-existent on Trump censorship threads.

Everyone said you were just a tool who didn't really believe in Free Speech. Everyone was right.

#BiglySad #LilJeffy

#8 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-06-03 01:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"Corky and Snoofy are clearly among the global censorship crowd."

^
Give us some examples of the "global censorship" we support.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-03 01:44 PM | Reply

Corky and Snoofy are clearly among the global censorship crowd.

Sure sure. Now.

How do you feel about Trumpy suing CBS for $20 Zillion dollars over CBS's free speech 1st amendment right to make its own editing decisions?

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-03 01:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Jeffy is clearly among the pearl-clutching Trump Cult crowd.

I just hope he never meets Turley in public... the fawning and puling and slobbering would be embarrassing for even passersby.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-03 01:48 PM | Reply

OMFG it's a Johnathan turley thread. I should have known. How embarrassing.

#12 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-03 01:53 PM | Reply

I guess glen greenwald was unavailable.

#13 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-06-03 01:53 PM | Reply

" You are non-existent on Trump censorship threads"

Point me to one.

Unlike you, of course I oppose viewpoint discrimination. I also understand the difference between free speech and harassment both verbal and physical. But being a lefty you suck balls hen it comes to equivalence. All this tells me is thx personal attacks belie the fact that you all favor censorship just so long as your ideological foes are the target.

#14 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-03 04:14 PM | Reply

" How do you feel about Trumpy suing CBS for $20 Zillion dollars over CBS's free speech 1st amendment right to make its own editing decisions?

#10 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY AT 2025-06-03 01:47 PM | FLAG: "

About the same as I feel about Fox News being sued and paying out $20 zillions dollars. Or, did you forget that happened?

#15 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-03 04:16 PM | Reply

About the same as I feel about Fox News being sued and paying out $20 zillions dollars. Or, did you forget that happened?

#15 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Fox News was NOT sued by the President of the United States or for a single editing decision. So the two cases are even not remotely similar.

Did you know that? Do you feel differently now that you know?

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-03 04:20 PM | Reply

*crickets*

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-03 04:37 PM | Reply

" Fox News was NOT sued by the President of the United States"

Is the Trump DOJ suing or is Trump, as an individual suing?

#18 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-03 06:16 PM | Reply

I oppose censorship. To any extent that the Trump administration is engaged in it, I oppose it.

Now, do any of you feel the same way about what Rubio is doing here?

#19 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-03 06:18 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Is the Trump DOJ suing or is Trump, as an individual suing?
#18 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

You don't know? Did you just hear about it here? The CBS lawsuit is obviously a frivolous lawsuit designed to threaten intimidate and suppress opposition and limit free speech AND even free trade.

No laws were violated by CBS it was just speech that the Mad King does not approve of ...

And if you don't know the answer to the question you just asked then how can you oppose it? And does it really make a difference? It's Trumpy's lawsuit regardless of who he hires or forces to do his dirty work.

And yes I would obviously be opposed little Marco's meddling with and threatening to retaliate against foreign nationals because of something the Mad King might disagree with.

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-03 06:50 PM | Reply

Fox News being sued

I am not surprised you don't know the difference between defamation and free speech.

#21 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-04 07:46 AM | Reply

LiL Marco should work to clean up the ---- in his own party with book and word bans before commenting on the rest of the world.

I am sure their is a bible verse he can spit out that he ignores covering the topic.

#22 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-04 07:47 AM | Reply

Gutes deutsch still claiming to be against censorship?

#23 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-04 11:20 AM | Reply

" Gutes deutsch still claiming to be against censorship?

#23 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2025-06-04 11:20 AM | REPLY | FLAG:"

Yes. Unlike you.

#24 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-04 12:53 PM | Reply

"To any extent that the Trump administration is engaged in it, I oppose it."

To what extent is the Trump administration engaged in censorship?
What are you talking about?
???

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-04 12:55 PM | Reply

Yawn.

These idiots keep asserting the caricature they've been told to believe is true while they actually become it.

Keep blowing smoke, gutes deutsch. I'm sure they'll leave you be when your time comes.

#26 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-04 12:56 PM | Reply