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Facebook Groomers, CNN Travel Writers Do Not Want You to Travel, and the Airing of Grievances

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Dec 07, 2023
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12.07.23

Anti-Social Media – FACEBOOK

As the press lashes out at Elon Musk for allowing people to speak, they charge that he is permitting bad things to be spoken. This is their focus, even while other social outlets are found to foster content that is far worse. 

The state of New Mexico is filing suit against Meta, parent of Facebook and Instagram, for not taking any steps to protect young users from becoming the target of child-porn predators and groomers:

Facebook and Instagram recommend sexual content to underage users and promote minors’ accounts to apparent child predators, the state of New Mexico alleges in a lawsuit against parent company Meta Platforms and its CEO. The civil lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New Mexico state court, alleges that “Meta has allowed Facebook and Instagram to become a marketplace for predators in search of children upon whom to prey.” It also claims that Meta has failed to implement protections against usage by children below the age of 13 and has targeted the age-related vulnerabilities of children in the interest of increasing its advertising revenue.

First Amendment Strike Force – THE FEDS

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In a move that could only be called "encouraging," the state of Texas has joined in a suit brought forth by The Federalist and The Daily Wire against the federal government. This entails shutting down the practice of the government from using a counter-terrorism agency to instead go after citizens and silencing voices here, domestically:

The three are suing to stop “one of the most audacious, manipulative, secretive, and gravest abuses of power and infringements of First Amendment rights by the federal government in American history,” says the lawsuit. It exposes federal censorship activities even beyond the dramatic discoveries.

If you think this may not have a chance, recall the case of Missouri v. Biden, when a judge ruled that the administration needed to refrain from influencing social media to silence dissenting voices on the platforms.

Presentation Paradox – CNN

As the idiots at the UN are gathering people from around the globe to fly their jets into an oil-producing country in order to lecture us about how we use fossil fuels, CNN is obediently following suit. Its travel division is actually proposing the idea of "carbon passports":

The tourism sector generates around one-tenth of the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving the climate crisis. The idea of a carbon passport centers on each traveler being assigned a yearly carbon allowance that they cannot exceed. These allowances can then “ration” travel.

And as is always the case with these socialistic proposals, the rationing will apply to us – the rabble – while the elites will continue to kite around the globe in order to allegedly save us. I have some travel advice, as I am about to suggest to anyone making these asinine proposals, about where they can go.

Reporting on the Mirror – WASHINGTON POST

  • This will be less impactful than the actors on strike.

Today, a battalion of Washington Post reporters and workers went on strike. This is supposedly going to bring awareness to their demands, but it will not be as impactful as they hope. This is due to the announced timeframe of being a 24-hour strike.

They want to insist that we will be lacking without their simping for the administration. Just humor them into believing this is the case.

Artisanally-Crafted Narratives – TAMPA BAY TIMES

The Tampa Bay Times is playing off the long-running gag from the TV show "Seinfeld," where Frank Castanza celebrated his fabricated holiday, 'Festivus." In keeping with tradition, the paper is asking readers to submit general complaints to follow the practice of "The Airing Of Grievances."

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