“It’s just completely contrary to everything America is about. We want to tell the truth. We haven’t always done it as a nation. We want to tell the truth.The idea that, you know, a billionaire can buy something and say, ‘By the way, we’re not gonna fact check anything,’ and you know, you have millions of people reading, going online, reading this stuff. Anyway, I think it’s really shameful.”

—-President Joe Biden, attacking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg decision’s to end its biased, censorious fact-checking system that relied on partisan propaganda operations like PolitiFact and Snopes.

What’s shameful is a President of the United States advocating speech censorship. Like many of Biden’s brain-addled outbursts lately, however, he has committed the cardinal political sin of saying what he and his puppeteers really believe out loud. So now we know, at least those of us who weren’t paying attention before and couldn’t read the metaphorical neon signs flashing before our eyes, Joe Biden and his entire party advocates the censorship of free speech on social media, including opinion, adverse positions and anything that might expose its rotting proto-totalitarian party for the threat to democracy it has become. Thanks, Joe! But it was pretty obvious already.

I’m glad that I have waited to post the resolution of the “Worst President Ever” inquiry until tomorrow, because so much applicable information has been flowing regarding just how awful Joe Biden has been. I think all who have read the series carefully have figured out that the finals are going to come down to Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Woodrow Wilson and Biden, and it doesn’t take a PhD to guess who the last two competitors will be either. Once I thought the ultimate “winner” was clear-cut, but Joe is fighting for the title to the bitter end.

He and his fellow censors circulated lie after lie before and during the Presidential campaign (among them that only Donald Trump lies) yet Biden has the astounding brass to talk about wanting to tell the truth. You know, truth like Biden being sharp as a tack. “Truth” like the border being secure.

Censorious governments love social media because nothing in the First Amendment stops the government from “persuading” platforms to censor speech the government would rather not have to deal with. Corrupt factcheckers, almost all promoting the Left’s agenda, are only too happy to be paid to help out. If a privately owned social media platform wants to blot out opinions, stories, analysis or reports that don’t hew to progressive narratives (like BlueSky is doing now), it isn’t technically “censorship,” but, of course, it is. In fact, it’s government censorship when the message sent from Olympus, as the Twitter Files amply demonstrated, amounts to a coded, “Nice little platform you have here….be a shame if anything were to happen to it….on the other hand, we can be mighty generous to our friends…”

To Biden, and at least the 25% of Americans—who are these people?—who told pollsters this week that he was a good or great (!!!!!) President, shutting down conservative speech is a desirable thing—after all, these people are Nazis and garbage, the truthful Democrats informed us—-and opening up public forums to unpopular or debatable views is “shameful.”

Prof. Turley has relentlessly flagged the Democrats’ embrace of censorship; I’m pretty sure it drove him to vote for Donald Trump, hardly his favorite person. Just going back to July, Turley exposed the blue censorship campaign here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Is Biden’s advocacy for censorship the most blatant by any President? To be fair, John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts, and Wilson used his own anti-sedition laws during the First World War to imprison war protesters. But America’s respect for free expression supposedly had advanced since then. Not really: those in power have just become more cagey about it.

And then Joe had to spoil it all by saying something stupid like “It’s shameful.”

Hit it, Frank and Nancy!