A Win by Knockout!

A wee while back, your favorite Peasant was informed by Twitter,

of whom I've been a guest in its jail for rebellious, scurrilous,

highly improper right-wing tweeters that dare to sully their

pristine, left-wing to the point of woke social media site

with our deplorable, nasty, peasant-like points of view,

partaking of Twitter's hospitality at the tech giant's pleasure

where my stay has been made permanent. And as before, the

online communication colossus still steadfastly refuses to inform

your bound-up Peasant as to what the reasons are that I can't 

tweet anymore on the page I had on their site.   

But lo and behold! A white knight has come riding to Twitter

and has taken over the tech titan with a $44 billion buyout!

Elon Musk, the wealthiest person on the planet, now has 

ownership of the company and oh the reverberations rumbling

through its offices and halls! Many of the sizeable left-wing 

contingent at Twitter have resigned with alacrity, while lefties

all around the country have gone into major conniptions over

the news! Elon Musk isn't even a conservative but still knows

the importance of a free marketplace of goods and services

as well as the importance of freedom of expression in the 

public square. In fact, he was originally a hero to the lefty

crowd for building his Tesla electric cars, for which his 

erstwhile admirers commended him for making a car that

would lead us to ceasing to rely on fossil fuels and cars that

run on them; now Musk has nose-dived in their estimation 

while many others laud him and his purchase of Twitter.

And guess what his mission is: introducing the First Amendment 

to the lefties who have quashed free speech on their web site.

Yesterday I visited Twitter for the first time since my incarceration

in their "jail" for the offense of posting conservative material,

and I saw that I had been reinstated! 

Meanwhile I have opened an account and got a page on MeWe, 

a social media site which, in a non-partisan, non-ideological

fashion upholds the principles of free speech for anyone who

wishes to share a thought or an opinion, be they liberal,

progressive, conservative or moderate. After getting on board

with MeWe I have gained quite a following there, posting what 

subject matter will be in the blog's contents each week, just as 

I had done on Twitter and as I still do on Facebook. Furthermore,

I shall continue to seek out conservative along with pro-free speech,

First Amendment-rooted sites to sign on to, while posting such 

conservative stuff on Twitter so conservative that you ain't seen

nothin' yet!

Besides, it takes a heckuva lot more than suspensions and permanent

bans to silence The Peasant! As a right-of-center political blogger, 

your persistent Peasant is part of an online community of like-minded 

bloggers who are the itch that the Liberal Establishment can't 

scratch. And to have the world's wealthiest human on our side in our

battle to preserve our right to self-expression tilts the playing field

dramatically to our advantage! Three cheers for Elon Musk and the

First Amendment!

MEM  

America Unmasks

During the Coronavirus (a/k/a COVID-19) epidemic

the federal government, with many state and local

government units in tow, hastily wrote and mandated

many rules for us to follow, supposedly to protect us 

from catching the virus. Some places had more stringent

mask mandates than others, and some places had 

partial lockdowns as well as limiting the number of

patrons a restaurant, a bar, a store, or a house of 

worship could have. Some establishments were shuttered, 

with limited hours, causing the owners to not make enough

money to stay open, pay their rent, and pay their bills.

Many staff members of these businesses lost their jobs. 

Schools were closed and students had to do "remote learning"

with computers at home. "Safe distancing" was enforced.

Office workers worked from home, "telecommuting" along 

with performing their duties online. And many Americans 

chafed, choked, railed, and protested against these restrictions 

on their freedom of movement, association, and activity.

Then there were vaccine mandates some employees had to

submit to in order to keep their jobs, if they weren't already 

separated from their work by at least some of the afore-

mentioned conditions. 

Many, including some of their representatives in the halls of 

power, questioned the constitutionality of these rules/laws.

Well, many state and local governments ended their mask 

mandates while a federal judge, Kathryn Kimball Mizelle

ruled that the source of many of the federal laws concerning

protection from the pandemic, the CDC (Center for Disease

Control) greatly overstepped its statutory authority and 

never clearly explained its justification for the far-reaching 

mask mandate, which President Biden backed to the hilt.

The CDC based their actions on their reading and interpretation

of the 1944. Judge Mizelle said the agency stretched the meaning

of the word "sanitation" in the law, which was never intended 

to guarantee or support such broad control over the behavior 

of the people. The judge's ruling blocked the mandatory masking

on public transportation, i.e. airlines, trains, buses, taxis, and 

such. Furthermore, the mask mandates which came down from

all levels of government, were a waning health necessity, with 

scientists and doctors finding no definite health protection in

wearing said masks. The CDC had behaved like too many 

government bureaucratic agencies, making up rules with the

weight of laws, including dire consequences for anyone who

would disobey these rules masquerading as laws including

but not limited to stiff and steep fines. 

President Biden should rethink willy-nilly jumping on the 

bandwagon for the creation of these federal orders which

have no clear statutory justification, and to realize that only

Congress can write such laws, not unelected government

bureaucrats. Otherwise he will get a legal bruising in the 

courts at every turn if he continues to support these end runs 

around the legislative branch of the government. 

MEM

Twitter vs. The Peasant, Round 3

Just recently I received an online message from the Twitter 

twits, those censoring, totalitarianism-loving trolls who 

suspended my Twitter account a few months ago without

informing me as to the reason for their actions: they now

have decided to make me a lifer in their Twitter prison.

In other words, your jailbird Peasant will never be able

to tweet again, and that includes posting my announcements 

of my upcoming blog posts each with a brief blurb telling

their subject matter; life sentence, no parole. So this is 

what, at last, has become of my battle with Twitter.

Of course, the ungiven reason for Twitter doing this is the fact

that I had the audacity to put up some conservative content

(horrors!), much to the displeasure and discomfort of the 

Twitter solons. William F. Buckley said many years ago 

that "Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing

other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that

there are other points of view." Apparently this is the case

with the staff at Twitter.

So I now have an account at MeWe, a social media site which 

welcomes people of all political ideologies, as its staff are

not merely proponents but are practitioners of the 

First Amendment, only disallowing foul language and threats.

Your pleased Peasant heartily recommends MeWe for those

of you, my grand readers, to engage in political discussions 

with fellow conservatives and others with an interest in the

political scene without having to keep an eye out for left-

wing censorship. As I explore the internet for more like

sites, I shall make mention of them here on PWAP for you

all to note and to visit. Perhaps we shall meet up on some 

of these sites and get together for some wonderful visits!

Anyway, sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to 

name but three are inhospitable places for conservatives

and anyone else who does not buy into the politics and 

general philosophy of the left-wingers, as the latter would 

shut up and shut out the former rather than debate them.

After all, it isn't much fun to enter a gunfight with a pop

gun for obvious reasons. Conservative talk show hosts

Mark Levin and some others have discontinued their 

pages on some of these sites and have gone over to MeWe,

Parler, and other such sites, having so informed their 

audiences. Joe Pags was himself suspended by Twitter,

and former President Donald J. Trump was, like your

Peasant, permanently suspended (Suspended, heck!

I was banned and so was our 45th president!) by same.

We shall simply regroup on more friendly territory and 

dig in. We will have a level playing field, and on it shall

win our battle for freedom of speech and ultimately win 

our war for the heart and soul of our country.

Oh, as I go to press, a timely news flash: Elon Musk, the

world's most successful and famous entrepreneur and maker

of the electric-powered Tesla automobile, as well as the 

wealthiest human being on the planet, very recently began

purchasing shares of Twitter stock making purchases every

month since the start of the year. Musk now owns about 9%

of all outstanding shares in the social media giant, and this

week turned down an offer from Twitter to join their board

of directors; crazy like a fox, he knew he would be forbidden

to exceed a cap of 14.9% on stock ownership if he accepted 

a seat on the board but could buy many more shares, setting 

up a hostile takeover attempt. The motivation driving Musk 

is his elimination of Twitter's censorship of political views

diametrically opposed to those of Twitter (Musk himself has 

run afoul of Twitter's so-called fact-checkers and content

approval crew with his own Twitter account) and letting in

the breezes of free speech and unfettered political expression

to waft through the tech titan's facilities. If Musk's mission

is successful, would it mean that the Twitter jailhouse Peasant 

would cease being an inmate and once again be a rootin',

tootin, tweetin' righty account holder, tweeting my conservative

content to one and all? As they say in broadcasting, 

"Stay tuned"; here, as this blog is obviously of the print media,

I'll say "Keep reading".

MEM

NOTE: I just today found an error in the text of this post 

and went to correct it, but the site made the publish date April 19

when in fact it was posted last week. I don't know if this was 

because of me, or a quirk in Blogger. It may not make any 

difference, but your detail-conscious Peasant thought it 

important to point out to you, my dear readers. 

Anyway, thank you for your understanding.

MEM

Easter Gladness to You!

The Peasant wishes to extend Easter greetings and best wishes

to you, my beloved readers! May you all enjoy the company of

family and friends, and bask in the love of the One who made 

Easter possible through the frightening sacrifice He made.

And may we all meet here again afterward and enjoy each other's 

company and the poring through the latest political and economic

news! God bless you all!

MEM

Chick-fil-A Chickens Out

The Left is trying its hardest to make Americans, and
therefore America, think, talk, walk, eat, drink, and vote
as they tell us to. Being good little totalitarians, they
realize that they have to get everyone on the same page,
bar none, in order to transform our country into something
which we would not recognize and would want nothing to
do with, but they themselves would be deliriously
happy with. One of the ways in which they are trying to
accomplish this is to apply political and economic pressure
to businesses which either openly espouse support for
traditional view of marriage (heterosexual only) or keep
quiet and neutral on same. They try to force companies
to cease financial contributions to organizations which
these lefty "social justice warriors" deem bigoted,
reactionary, and anti-LGBTQ, such as the Salvation Army
and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes; these two entities
had long received such financial gifts from Chick-fil-A,
but that is over and done with thanks to a successful
campaign by the aforementioned far left-wing bullies.  

The backstory: in 2012 Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy,
a committed evangelical Christian, cheesed off these
enlightened souls by his own support for the traditional
view of marriage. A vicious political campaign was raised
against them, which included a boycott of their restaurants.
Earlier this year, three U.S. airports denied Chick-fil-A
concessions contracts --- no Chick-fil-As to set up shop
on their premises. Soon after, the campaign crossed the
Atlantic to pressure the landlord of the site where Chick-
fil-A was to open the first of their restaurants in the U.K.
Although the restaurant organization has, in fact, never
turned away customers which were openly gay or at least
thought to be by the restaurant managers, and has hired
openly gay people to their staffs, the lefty loudmouths
have accused the company of supporting organizations
"hostile to LGBTQ rights" and causes. 

COO Tim Tassopoulos recently announced that Chick-fil-A
will no longer give money to the "offending" organizations.
All this firm and its restaurants want to do is serve chicken
sandwiches and waffle fries, the likes being magnificently
delicious (yes indeed, your beloved Peasant has visited a
couple of Chick-fil-As here in the Milwaukee vicinity and
thoroughly enjoyed my meals!); they don't seek to wage
political fights over the rights and wrongs of the morals
regarding sexual behavior. And given their welcoming gay
patrons and employees, how have they harmed gay people,
or any of the other people represented by the other letters
in the name of this cluster of sexual grievance groups?
Whatever happened to the right of someone holding
and expressing an opinion which may not, at least in
some quarters, be popular, as long as they are not trying
to force it upon others? Seems that the Far Left has
become the biggest practitioners of this hostility to
First Amendment rights. And whenever they gain a
victory as they have in this instance, they become more
emboldened, they have more swagger, and they think
that they are invincible. To see Chick-fil-A knuckle
under to these totalitarians, even after weathering
boycotts and business property management owners
backing out of leasing deals while picking up the
patronage and the support of a growing number of
loyal customers, is not only disappointing,
it's sickening.

Add to all this is the fact that these LGBTQ radicals
do not speak for all gays or other sexual preference
groups; your inquisitive Peasant has heard gay people
call in to conservative radio talk shows, local and
national, stating that these rowdies neither speak nor
act for them. I have also read letters to the editor of
newspapers and magazines from gay readers to that
effect. But the LGBTQ crowd and their social justice
warrior allies never take "no' for an answer when they
declare their purpose and intentions; they have even
less time and patience for those whom they purport to
speak for when the latter do not accept them as their 

leaders and spokespeople than they have for the 
"usual suspects"; straight, white, male, heterosexual, 
politically conservative of politics and conservative 
of religious faith. 

And these putrid people claim to be doing all this in
the name of tolerance and diversity. God help us if
they ever decide to embrace intolerance and
homogenization! May Chick-fil-A locate their 

corporate spine and stand up to their oppressors 

and send them into full retreat.


MEM