Here Is 2022 In 6 Minutes: From A SCOTUS Assassination Attempt To A Nuclear War Threat
In 2021, it was difficult to imagine how drastically our society would change, but by 2022, serious crimes receive a pass, millions of illegal immigrants flood our borders, our currency is depleted by inflation and a record-high national debt, and censorship has gotten even worse.
Add the fear of nuclear war to the list of the new dreadful this year, which also saw Russia invade Ukraine.
The good news from this year is succinct but encouraging: Covid-19 seems to be mostly in the rearview mirror, Roe v. Wade was reversed, and Elon Musk acquired control of Twitter and is exposing the Big Tech censorship so detrimental to our democracy.
Violence and worse rhetoric are a result of the abortion ruling.
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization invalidated the Roe v. Wade judgement, which had been upheld by the Supreme Court for nearly 50 years.
The court’s judgment was leaked to the media in an unusual chain of events, protesters gathered outside the houses of the justices, and an armed man was apprehended close to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home and charged with attempted murder. Numerous churches and life-saving pregnancy centers were attacked by fervent pro-abortion protesters. A pro-life activist was detained by the FBI at his residence.
Extreme Party Politics
Today’s partisanship was best exemplified by the abortion debate, but President Joe Biden further polarized our country by disparaging a large portion of the populace in September when he claimed that “the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.”
Following up on past claims that Trump’s philosophy is “semi-fascist,” this was said.
Biden Losing Influence on the Global Stage
Biden also issued a “Armageddon” warning. His government retracted several of his anxiety-inducing statements on significant international flashpoints. He declared that if China invaded Taiwan, the United States would defend it, and that NATO would retaliate “in kind” if Russia used weapons of mass destruction against Ukraine. Additionally, his handlers retracted statements that Putin “cannot remain” and that the United States should send soldiers to the Ukraine.
However, the White House didn’t retract its statement when Biden attempted to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for inflation as well (we were aware that inflation was at a 40-year high more than a year before to Russia’s invasion). Biden consistently pointed the finger at Putin for the issue of the year, which impacts Americans arguably more than any other: their loss of purchasing power owing to inflation. A falsehood becomes the truth if it is said enough times.
Big Tech blocks dissent
The repression of free speech by Big Tech was made clear by Musk’s takeover of Twitter, but other other events in 2022 brought attention to enduring threats to our First Amendment rights.
Podcaster Joe Rogan nearly had his show canceled in February for using the n-word as well as for talking about topics that corporate media deem off-limits, like questioning the effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccination. Rogan made it widely known that the left won’t allow disagreement because he is not a conservative, a label that makes people more vulnerable to such termination. Many of his earlier episodes were removed by Spotify as a compromise.
The following month saw a significant Big Tech crackdown: Social media platforms outlawed “misgendering,” or correctly referring to people by their sex. A number of users were blocked from Twitter, including Tucker Carlson of Fox News, Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, John Daniel Davidson of The Federalist, and The Babylon Bee.
YouTube erased a video of remarks made by the former president Trump and a US senator at CPAC, a significant conservative gathering, in the same month. Representatives for YouTube said that the material contravened their policy on false information on electoral integrity. Ironically, censorship in big tech was one of the conference’s topics.
Information Battle Gets Hotter
Also in March, The New York Times finally acknowledged the laptop was legitimate and not Russian misinformation, more than a year after Big Tech barred the New York Post from reporting on it for detailing President Biden’s son Hunter’s exploiting the family brand through international business ventures.
Then, as part of the Department of Homeland Security, the Biden administration established a “Disinformation Governance Board” in May. (DHS). After complaints, it was shut down.
DHS and the FBI nevertheless keep an eye on social media for content they deem hazardous and exert pressure on tech companies to restrict views that diverge from the accepted wisdom. The government worked with tech giants to censor disfavored news stories and speakers, as evidenced by Musk’s recently published “Twitter Files,” which included fabrications to block Trump’s account and coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop (Twitter said Trump violated its policy of inciting violence and the laptop went against its policy on publishing hacked materials, but staff acknowledged in internal deliberations that these were just excuses to do what they wanted).
The Left Supports LGBT Ideology, but Some Oppose
This year saw the Biden administration further advance its radical leftist ideology together with Big Tech’s “misgendering” ban.
The year was started off by advocating for more insurers to pay for transgender surgery. It stated that if schools did not support the transgender agenda, it would stop providing lunches to low-income children. Men were housed in female jails, and those who did not share the radical trans ideology were fired from law enforcement.
When it was discovered that Disney was “queering” its films and television programs, parents began to rebel. States implemented laws forbidding schools from hiding their students’ sexual confusion from parents and prohibiting the teaching of sexual education to minors or the promotion of transgender ism.
After Lia Thomas, a transgender man, defeated female college swimmers, certain states passed legislation to protect female athletes.
New Beginnings in 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first female, black Supreme Court justice after receiving confirmation, among other firsts. She was also the first Supreme Court nominee to be challenged to describe what a woman is, demonstrating how transgender issues have come to dominate our discussion.
Another historic occurrence in 2022 was the FBI’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Once again, the Department of Justice is focusing its investigation on a political adversary in what is expected to be a protracted, drawn-out process.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX, was detained for allegedly scamming investors of millions of dollars, which was a fitting way to end the year. He contributed roughly $40 million to the Democrat Party during the 2022 midterm election season, making him the second-largest individual donor. Ryan Salame, an FTX executive, donated $20 million, mainly to Republicans.
Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that radical transgender ideology will disappear by 2023 or that Big Tech will stop censoring content.
We might feel powerless to change any of these things now that the November elections are over, but when Big Tech permits it, spreading the truth is our greatest weapon.
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