90 Miles From Tyranny

Monday, July 9, 2018

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #312

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

The Left's ATTACK on CIVILITY & FREE SPEECH

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Progressives from Berkeley to Bristol would rather shut down a debate than stomach opposition views. Fascists at California and other universities have perfected the strategy of shutting down free speech. No longer willing to endure conservative opposition to its progressive social and political posts, ESPN.com has just joined the club by shutting down its comments section.

The liberal Deadspin and Awful Announcing blogs are both applauding ESPN's decision.

Awful Announcing's Jay Rigdon says the sports world is better without the comments section:

"To some people, predictably, this move is a sign of something much more sinister: censorship of a free-flowing conversation where people weren’t afraid to call out ESPN on their obviously over-the-top liberal agenda."

Rigdon's blog message included examples of people who have written comments in opposition to ESPN story points.

Posting on RedditSports, "Ivan Drago" commented, "Only a matter of time when they couldn’t properly control groupthink. Pretty much every narrative they tried to control went haywire on them." One person responded to Drago: "Site went to shit a few years ago when they stopped focusing on sports and started focusing on politics."

An Auburn fan posting on a college football board, "The Rig" expressed more of the same: "They realized the best way to silence their critics is not to give them a voice at all." The Rig inspired 61 up votes in agreement.

Rigdon will not miss the reader comments, writing, "While these commenters will no longer have the ability to directly reply to posts in comments that no one but the commenters ever really read, it is certainly the end of an era. The ESPN comments brought us so much, uh, well, nothing really, over the years. ... It is fun that ESPN chose a holiday week to pull the plug with very little fanfare, though. RIP, comments."

Samer Kalaf, of Deadspin, said ESPN is now unfairly "silencing thousands of morons":

"No longer will you be able to read an ESPN.com article and then underneath receive the dumbest possible reactions to it. The Worldwide Leader has phased out its Facebook-hybrid comment sections, as confirmed by a company spokesperson this week. None of the keyboard mashing will be archived—they will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

"This is an abomination. Chintzy Instagram memes are no substitute for jokes that were plagiarized from somewhere else, or completely indecipherable opinions on Colin Kaepernick."

Kalaf said the only good thing those commenters ever did was "Saying Tim Tebow sucked by comparing him to literally everything else.

Rigdon claims the decision to do away with comments makes sense. ESPN will save the money previously paid for its Facebook-based comments system. Now it's clearing the comments after each story and trying to guide readers from the original story to the next story appearing immediately below.

ESPN excused away the removal of reader comments by saying, “...

Will the NeverTrumps ever come to the realization that President Trump is executing the conservative agenda most of them have been dreaming about for the past three decades? Finally, the answer to their prayers is here, yet many NeverTrumps like Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin continue to slam this administration.

What will it actually take to get these nitpicking resisting NeverTrumps to taper down their sour-grapes anti-Trump rhetoric? Please, we implore you to look in the mirror and maybe just come to grips with reality. Your fellow conservatives on the right are asking you kindly to please stop going after a president who is doing positive things for our country.

Reality tells us President Trump is governing well right of center. The unemployment rate is low, consumer confidence is high, and the stock market has soared to record highs. In addition, Trump has placed a stellar constitutional conservative in Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court with another conservative justice on the way.

GDP growth is now exploding. President Trump is standing up to the globalists in the European Union while also attempting to denuclearize North Korea. America is no longer apologizing to the world, but again leading the world with a president who believes in American exceptionalism.

Massive numbers of job-killing Obama EPA regulations have been reversed. The U.S. is now actually on track to become number one in oil production very soon, another positive thing that will promote more U.S. job growth. Trump has also instituted an economy-revitalizing phase-one tax cut with more ensuing phases on the way. Are you paying attention, NeverTrumps? The forty-fifth president of the United States has made the U.S. respectable again, crushing the terror group ISIS in less than a year. The U.S. border is no longer wide open, and, slowly but surely, a wall is being built.

Where would we be with Hillary Clinton right now? Probably still stagnating within the two-percent GDP growth Obama attempted to make the "new normal." Is it far-fetched to think Loretta Lynch would be a current justice on the Supreme Court with another leftist justice on the way? Would James Comey now be the sitting U.S. attorney general and possibly...