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Month: August 2025
Muzzling Free Speech
…and also causing financial harm.
I seldom regard lawsuits with the same awe that the Powdered Wig Brigade may do (except when it comes to gun rights), but I think I’ll make an exception here:
In what could become one of the most significant free speech and digital rights cases in American history, Wimkin Social Media and its founder, J.C. Sheppard, are initiating a massive class-action lawsuit. Their targets are a formidable alliance: Big Tech companies, their advertisers, the Biden administration, and legacy media giants. This landmark legal action isn’t just about one company’s survival; it’s a defiant stand against what they call the “systematic silencing, blacklisting, and demonetization” of conservatives in the United States.
Wimkin’s legal action seeks to recover staggering financial losses while serving as a rallying point for every conservative content creator, publisher, and platform that has been censored, banned, or financially crippled by the combined power of Silicon Valley, Washington D.C., and their media allies.
Wimkin’s legal action is a comprehensive effort to hold those responsible accountable for a coordinated campaign to suppress conservative viewpoints. The defendants include Apple, Google, Meta (Facebook), YouTube, X, TikTok, the Biden administration, and major advertisers and aligned media outlets. The lawsuit claims this coordinated effort, disguised as “safety” and “misinformation control,” has caused severe financial and reputational harm, directly violating constitutional protections. Due to the ongoing nature of these losses, Wimkin’s legal strategy invokes equitable tolling to preserve the statute of limitations, ensuring that damages as far back as 2019 can be claimed.
No, I’d never heard of Wimkin before, either. But anyone who takes on The Man — in this case, Leftists and their corporate lickspittles — has my support.
But wait! There’s moar!
Sheppard’s fight doesn’t end in the courtroom. He is also drafting a bill for Congress that would demand “real reparations” for conservatives who can prove financial losses from 2019 to the present because of politically motivated censorship or deplatforming. Sheppard draws a sharp contrast between this initiative and progressive calls for slavery reparations. “The left demands reparations for events that happened over 150 years ago, when no one alive today experienced them firsthand,” Sheppard states. “We’re talking about real, provable, measurable damages that have occurred in the last six years—damages that have destroyed livelihoods, stifled innovation, and robbed millions of Americans of their right to speak freely.” Sheppard believes the total recovery could exceed a staggering $500 billion.
Good luck, my son. Hit them where it really hurts: their fucking wallets. Stick it to The Man, bigly.
Impressive
So some guy decides to take a drive in his old car.
The drive happens to be from Rhode Island to California, the guy is famed car collector Fritz Burkhard, and his old car is a 1937 Bugatti Atalanta:
…worth about $30 million.
I like his attitude:
“If people just park their cars to show them and keep them in the garage they miss 70-80 percent of the fun.
“They don’t know what that is. These are machines to be driven. They are pieces of art, but you don’t tack them on the wall.”
There is no mention of how his insurance agent felt about it.
Quote Of The Day
Talking about the current brouhaha in Britishland over local town councils taking down British or England flags while leaving Palestinian flags flying:
“If raising your own country’s flag is seen as an act of rebellion, then maybe your country is under foreign occupation.” — Alex James
Thank goodness we have laws about this kind of thing Over Here, because let me tell you that any similar reindeer games by local municipalities would result in both lawsuits (if they were lucky) and possibly gunfire.
If I (or any other proud Americans) want to fly our national flag, it will be flown regardless of whom it might “offend” or “trigger”.
Thursday Landscape
Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire (2005)
Don’t be fooled by the sunny skies; it was freezing cold.
Of Course, It Would Be
…Volkswagen, who are taking that extra step towards eventual self-immolation:
Auto Express reports that German automaker Volkswagen has introduced a subscription-based model for unlocking the full potential of its ID.3 electric car, a new model available in the UK. While the ID.3 Pro and Pro S models are listed on the configurator as producing 201 horsepower, buyers must pay a monthly subscription fee of £16.50 ($22.29) to access the car’s maximum output of 228 horsepower.
Considering that sales of the ID.3 outside Yurp can probably be measured in single figures per month, nobody Over Here should care about this. (And if this lawsuit succeeds, well…)
But in this case of bastardy, it’s very definitely the principle of the thing that matters.
Fuck them, and the batteries that power their accountants’ laptops.
Gotta say that it’s this kind of chiseling that makes me want one of these oh so badly:
Anything without a chip or batteries will do, come to think of it. Even a replica with a (non-electric carburetor-fed) VW Beetle engine.
