{"id":32323,"date":"2025-02-18T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=32323"},"modified":"2025-02-17T19:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T00:33:11","slug":"little-marco-grew-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/little-marco-grew-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Marco Grew Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marco Rubio slams CBS journalist for suggesting free speech caused the Holocaust\" width=\"783\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N0TaN2brgyE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the above linked video CBS journalist Margaret Brennan confronts Secretary of State Marco Rubio about JD Vance\u2019s statement that Europe has a problem with free speech.\u00a0 She condemns Vance for defending free speech in Germany where she declares free speech was responsible for the Nazi genocide against the Jews.<\/p>\n<p>I found this video interesting because I wouldn\u2019t have guessed that Rubio would be as agile as he showed himself to be.\u00a0 He fired back that he disagreed with her premise and forcefully stated that there was no free speech in Nazi Germany but there was a totalitarian state there.\u00a0 And it blamed part of its population for economic and social problems and had no moral qualms with murdering these innocent men, women and children on an industrial scale.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never held the opinion that Marco Rubio was all that sharp.\u00a0 But he did a very competent job making Brennan seem ridiculous.\u00a0 Maybe he\u2019s wised up over the years, maybe he\u2019s more confident nowadays to speak sensibly out in the open because Trump has his back or maybe Brennan is just such a lightweight and her logic was so ridiculous that any half intelligent person can make her look like an idiot.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever the cause it was stunning to see just how stupid her case sounded.\u00a0 But Brennan can\u2019t take all the blame.\u00a0 After all free speech is not the law of the land in Germany, England or France.\u00a0 In fact, in Germany there are laws that ban the distribution of materials from groups like the Nazis or other \u201cunconstitutional organizations.\u201d\u00a0 These laws are being used to try to suppress the AFD (Alternative for Germany) party because they want to restrict immigration.\u00a0 So, JD Vance advocating for free speech is actually radicalism in a place like Germany.\u00a0 But Margaret Brennan managed to make it sound completely ridiculous by trying to blame the Holocaust on free speech.<\/p>\n<p>What you see here is the difference between the American conception on free speech and the European fear of speaking uncomfortable truths.\u00a0 To them some things are too dangerous to say or even think.\u00a0 And that is the viewpoint that the Democrats tried hard during the Biden administration to import.\u00a0 That is the reason for the emphasis on misinformation.\u00a0 Apparently, people can\u2019t be trusted to make up their minds about what is true and what isn\u2019t.\u00a0 We are too stupid to figure out what\u2019s true so the government and the media have to tell us.<\/p>\n<p>And that is why organizations like CBS fought like hell to make sure Donald Trump didn\u2019t become president.\u00a0 Because if he did people would be allowed to say what they really thought about things like transgender identity or how bad crime is and whether millions of illegal aliens were a good thing or not.<\/p>\n<p>So here was CBS trying to condemn JD Vance for outraging Europeans with the opinion that denying their people free speech would come back to bite them.\u00a0 And it was a useful demonstration of where main stream media\u2019s true beliefs sit.\u00a0 They are solidly behind the globalist position that regular people should just shut up and take at face value whatever the \u201cexperts\u201d in the government (except Trump) or the media or the NGOs tell them.\u00a0 And if you voice a dissenting opinion then your guilty of spreading disinformation and in a perfect world you\u2019d be silenced and sent to the reeducation camp.\u00a0 Very interesting indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to JD Vance and (surprisingly) Marco Rubio.\u00a0 I guess Little Marco grew up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the above linked video CBS journalist Margaret Brennan confronts Secretary of State Marco Rubio about JD Vance\u2019s statement that Europe has a problem 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