Buh buh buh -- MUH CORPORATIONS!!!

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., promised Thursday to protect Americans from "financial censorship" if elected president, arguing that financial companies acting out of "fear" of the government pose a threat to freedom that transcends partisanship.

"The ability to save and spend without political interference is a prerequisite for the exercise of meaningful dissent, and I will defend it accordingly," Kennedy tweeted. "This is not a right- or left-wing issue. It is about protecting democracy from powerful established interests. The digitization of currency has given government unprecedented powers to surveil and control economic life."

Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and fierce critic of COVID-19 restrictions who is challenging President Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, accused western governments of "financial censorship of political enemies" during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a Twitter thread, he pointed to the Canadian government's financial sanctions against "Freedom Convoy" protesters, comparing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's actions to Russian President Vladimir Putin's freezing of assets belonging to opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

"It's not outlandish to imagine that even here in America, your bank account could one day be frozen because of your politics, or comments you've made on social media," Kennedy wrote.

"After all, in 2010, Paypal, Visa, and Mastercard suspended WikiLeaks, at the behest of the U.S. State Department. GoFundMe blocked U.S. accounts from sending funds to Canadian truckers and planned to donate the money to their own preferred charities instead, backing down only when faced with a lawsuit. PayPal modified their acceptable use policy to fine users $2,500 for spreading what they deemed to be misinformation, a change they rescinded under pressure. Nonetheless, thousands of customers are currently suing PayPal for the arbitrary seizure of their accounts," he continued.

"These are the decisions of private companies, but often those private companies are acting out of fear of Congress or regulators, or directly at their bidding," Kennedy said. "Their decisions impinge directly on our rights."

David French and other corporate money-grubbing Fake Republican liberals are always insisting that gigantic institutions in league with government, and directly subsidized by government, cannot be regulated as far as their intent to censor the right.

But this is not some kind of general libertarian objection to demanding corporations do this and do that. Because if you suggest to David French that if we're claiming the government cannot legislate impositions on businesses, then it's also time to scrap EEOC and affirmative action and all those other limits on businesses' "freedom of association."

But no; David French and the liberal corporate Republican contingent will call you racist for even asking about those impositions. They do not object to government impositions on corporations imposed by the left -- only those proposed or supported by the right.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are determined to have no primary fight and to simply nominate Joe Biden against the wishes of their own voters:

Meanwhile:

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Biden: "I'm doing a major press conference this afternoon."

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UPDATE: White House officials say the president misspoke. No press conference this afternoon.

UPDATE - A White House spokesperson told CNN that Biden was "referring to a previously announced interview."

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