“They ought to be banned, they really ought to be banned.”
While most people forgot about Al Gore a decade ago, the 75-year-old environmental tycoon with a net worth in the hundreds of millions (also a former vice president) has doubled down on his flavor of green fascism in the name of saving the planet from everyone but himself.
Gore is making $2 million a month from his “green investment firm” which has been having some problems. Its assets fell from $39 billion to $30 billion and its biggest fund suffered a 28% decline. And investors may be rethinking whether a firm that pays Gore $2 million a month so it can claim it’s saving the planet by buying Microsoft, Amazon and Adidas stocks is worth it.
But Gore is keeping busy. At COP28, the UN climate summit, he demanded that voting rules be changed so that a majority of countries, rather than a full consensus of nations, could impose mandates on the United States and oil-producing nations. That means a bunch of third world countries would have veto power over our entire economy. Good for them, really bad for us.
Fresh off insulting the Saudis and the UAE ($100 million of Gore’s money came from Qatar, a foe of both, linked to Hamas which used his failed leftist cable network, Current TV, as a springboard for its failed terrorist cable network, Al Jazeera America), he decided to also go to war against freedom of speech and the internet.
Despite inventing the internet, Gore showed up to a Bloomberg Green event to rant about “algorithms”. Algorithms are not, despite what some Gore fans (all 12 of them) think, named after him, and it was pretty clear that the elderly belligerent massage enthusiast was not too clear about what they were either. But in the traditional fashion of leftists wanting to ban something by comparing it to Hitler or AR-15s, he went with the assault algorithm analogy.
“If you have social media that is dominated by algorithms that pull people down these rabbit holes that are a bit like pitcher plants, these algorithms, they are the digital equivalent of AR-15s,” Gore ranted. “They ought to be banned, they really ought to be banned. It’s an abuse of the public forum.”
(But not the kind of rabbit holes that convince people that the planet is going to blow up unless they invest a lot of money in Al Gore’s fund to save the planet by buying Amazon stocks.)
Gore was blathering about algorithms because they provide a legal argument for censorship. Conservatives are concerned about social media algorithms censoring them while leftists complain that social media algorithms aren’t doing enough censoring. When taking Chinese money during his vice presidency, Gore had claimed that there was “no controlling legal authority”, but like most leftists, he’d like there to be a controlling legal authority for speech.
Toward the end of his spiel, the old tobacco salesman turned planet-saver got to his real point.
“These devices are the enemies of self-government, and they’re the enemies of democracy. We need reforms for both democracy and capitalism, both sets of reforms are possible,” he said.
Leftists have spent 7 years howling that democracy is under threat. Everything they do is in defense of democracy. When they rig elections, criminalize political dissent and terrorize opponents, it’s because they’re trying to save democracy from “authoritarianism”.
(And sometimes you have to ‘authoritarianize’ the global village in order to democratize it.)
On stage at a forum funded by a billionaire and to an audience of like-minded elites, Al Gore argued that democracy, like capitalism, needs to be reformed. There’s something wrong with democracy, much as there is with capitalism, and the thing that’s wrong with it is that there’s too much of the wrong kind of speech. The First Amendment needs to go, just like the Second Amendment, because we can’t just have people owning AR-15s or opening their mouths.
Al Gore’s fortune came from promising to reform capitalism by making it “sustainable”. What he actually did was be a very well compensated frontman for an ex-Goldman Sachs exec named David Blood (he has joked about naming the firm ‘Blood and Gore’, but that might have been too much on the money in more ways than one) to put a green label on noted environmental stocks like Microsoft and Amazon. Instead of people just buying whatever stocks they wanted, they would invest in an ESG fund that would promise the stocks are politically the ‘right kind’.
Speech works the same way. Making speech sustainable will require ending this anarchic situation where anyone can say whatever they think. There will be guidelines and an approved list of things you can say. Perhaps there may be a 7 day waiting period for some kinds of controversial speech. The really dangerous forms of “assault speech” will have to be banned for the good of the public and the planet. The Founding Fathers had never owned an AR-15 or had access to the internet and so the 1st and 2nd amendments were never meant to apply to them.
If people are free to say whatever they want, they might recollect the time that the noted doomsday prophet for profit warned that “there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”
That was in 2009.
Al Gore may have a poor grasp of ice and the internet, but he does understand crisis. The power to denounce something as dangerous invents a crisis that allows the government to step in, gate it off and limit access to the right sorts of people. Like Al Gore and his political allies.
And there’s nothing Al Gore knows better than how to pound the podium and declare a crisis.
The ‘Al-gore-rithms’ that Al Gore would like to see imposed would replace the AR-15s of free speech with the water guns of approved speech, and the pollution of popular speech for the unpopular sustainable green speech certified by the experts and the elites of the ruling class.
Free speech is the enemy of self-government and democracy, Gore claims. And so the salvation of self-government and democracy must be totalitarianism. We can’t have democracy or self-government with free speech. Only when the emissions from our mouths are as closely regulated as Gore would like to regulate the emissions from our kitchens and our cars will our self-government be saved from our selves and our democracy from the ‘demos’.
Al Gore wants to save democracy the way he saved the planet. But who will save free speech and the planet from totalitarians who promise to save the things that they want to control?
Wellington says
Evidence again how traditional liberalism, seriously flawed since it began to incorporate socialistic ideas as far back as the mid-19th century (N.B., liberalism before this had no socialistic errors in it as evidenced by such people as Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson who are the true ancestors of modern conservatism, thus demonstrating how liberalism and conservatism have “pulled a 180” over the past two hundred years or more; yes, people like Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump are the true heirs of Smith and Jefferson), has now descended into something even worse, i.e., Leftism, and which is just totalitarianism in thin disguise.
Al Gore could serve as a poster boy here for this descent into rot. Actually, pretty much a perfect fit.
Keys says
Yes, and put John Kerry on that poster too.
Both disgusting hypocrites.
Hoi Polloi says
Both are also failed presidential candidates, interestingly. We have too many perpetually angry failed candidates out shouting anti-citizen messages.
mike says
then Gore can’t talk anymore
his talk is killing the planet
somehistory says
Hypocrites. When they are filthy rich, they expose their hypocrisy. gore is one of those extra heavy creeps….can’t blame his weight on being poor and can’t afford a healthy, sliming diet….who wants to do as he pleases while limiting the same behavior in others. gore wants to speak freely on any and all subjects, but the rest of us should be forced to remain silent.
Another billionaire has decided that biden and the gang should reduce social security to all who receive it because the government owes trillions and giving people some of their money back…well, that’s just a waste.
So many selfish, deceitful, evil people in positions of power, wanting to put and keep everyone else under their dirty thumbs.
Hoi Polloi says
And all gathering for sumptuous feasts while they tell us to eat bugs.
somehistory says
and then OT
“Blinken blasted for ‘lecturing’ Israelis, as John McCain’s 2014 warning about diplomat resurfaces”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/blinken-blasted-for-lecturing-israelis-as-john-mccain-s-2014-warning-about-diplomat-resurfaces/ar-AA1lfD7G?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=fab97ed6d8df4fc0be8f180778724ba8&ei=18
Troybeam says
According to Al Core the world should have imploded years ago and since the world has not its time for Al Gore to shut his trap.
WPM says
From the picture Al Gore could cut down on his food intake ,I wonder how many cows he inhales a year to save the planet from their farts? How do idiots with idiotic ideas make hundreds’ of millions of dollars solely on their their connections of holding a federal elected office? Barry Obama ,the Clintons ,Bushes Bidens and Biden family members and so many others ?
somehistory says
the un hypocrites gorge on beef, while saying Americans should eat less meat. they’d have us all starve if they could arrange it.
Bob Blackthorne says
“they’d have us all starve if they could arrange it”
They’re WORKING ON just that!
Stang says
Oh, they’re working on the starve thing. In places like the Netherlands and Canada they are attempting to cut fertilizer by 30% to start, then going from there. Coming to a neighbourhood near you
somehistory says
“Soylent Green” “A futuristic thriller about Earth’s overpopulation and food crisis in 2022, where Soylent Green is the only option for survival.”
Notice the year,,,,,
WPM says
You do not get that large eating only fruit vegetables and “bugs” .Private jets many large palaces all over the world ,and he wants the average American to take the bus everywhere , live in a shoe box apartment ,have one child ,and kill themselves at age 72 threw the Canadian style MAID program that will be coming if the demorats win the 2024 presidential elections. I think he should offer himself to be roasted on a spit alive and served long pig style to the poor.
tgusa says
Every single day Gore devours enough carbon that could easily feed a family of four. Did Gore drive a covered wagon to the climate conference because if he didn’t he is killing the planet.
Emilie Green says
“with [an incredibly undeserved ] net worth in the hundreds of millions “
tgusa says
Food offerings at the summit include juicy beef, slabs of succulent meat, smoked wagyu burgers, philly cheesesteaks, melt-in-your-mouth BBQ, African street BBQ, fast casual Mexican fare and an Asian option that has a touch of French flair.
The rest of us can eat dirt.
Transmaster says
Al Gore, and John Kerry are examples of fart gas taking a corporeal form.
Jim Harmon says
Earth to Al: “Hey Fatso, you suck.”
Goofy says
Brilliant article, brilliant observations
It has enriched my life to learn that we are indebted to Al Gore not only for the internet but for the Al Gorithm as well. Al Gore, the Creator of All!
He should be ashamed of himself, but that is probably the one and only thing he is incapable of!
Western democracy and its success was built not on prerequisites of ownership of land etc. to participate in running society but on the recognition of man, every man as having been created in the image of God. Everyone should be respected as such on par with any other member of mankind whether his or her ideas are welcome or not!
With Christianity gone from the public square to avoid anyone being offended (“in the last days many will be offended”, look it up in your Bible) democracy is no longer the expression of what we believe in, on what we hold dear but has been turned into a tool to achieve demonic corporatist, fascist interests, including the new green fascism!
These reflections of mine are exactly what this self made prophet of doom will have All Gorized away!
There will indeed be testing times coming which by far will exceed those preached by the global flood preacher, known for his water front properties, who has no clue that God made a covenant with mankind never again to drown it. He probably believes that it was the warriors of the present day’s sexual smorgasbord who invented the rainbow!
May Al Gore and all other people of deception and evil repent when it is still possible.
Keys says
All Gorized! 😄
BTW – besides the internet, did you know he also invented al-gor-ithms?
Yes, all algorithms are named after Al Gore.
beeaware says
Evidently Gore has been talking to TruthSocial.com and X.com about eliminating freedom of speech, as BOTH have hired Muslim editors. I’m currently banned on X, for 11 hours, if it happens again I’ll be potentially banned for life. TruthSocial.com Muslim editors apply a + between words to blur my posts, make text headlines visually difficult to read. Many of my posts on TruthSocial.com never show up. Freedom of Speech on both social platforms doesn’t exist. How can Freedom of Speech exist, with Muslim editors?
horyu says
It looks like it’s not just old Al’s private plane that’s been doing the guzzling!
James Lincoln says
Al is even “rounder” than Chris Christie.
E T says
Ha ha when I looked at his picture it reminded me of a song when I was a kid. It was called “Oh What A Face”, it was hilarious. One line said “He took her to the pig farm, told her to wait down by the rail, when he returned he couldn’t find her — the farmer had put her up for sale”.
I usually do not like commenting on a persons looks BUT how much more of madmen, methane producers like Gore, do the “little, unwanted, useless eaters, the common people need to tolerate?
He will not be happy until 95% of the population has expired.
Remember when Reverend write said “God damn America”, I say damn the World Economic Forum and ALL the politicians who spew their shit. ENOUGH people, ENOUGH of the madness.
OLD GUY says
Oh how painful the desire to feel important must be for people like him.
Kepha says
Those on private jets chomping steaks,
Tell small folk to apply brakes
On protein consumption.
Now that takes some gumption!
I fear we are now ruled by fakes!
BTW, Uncle Kepha has a bigger footprint than Al Gore’s. But that has more to do with shoe size than the amount of carbon resources or other utilities.