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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Not sure if this has been brought up but the irony is too delicious. Apparently protesting infringes on free speech.
In the case of Trump inciting violence at his rallies, his lawyers argues that the protestors don't have the right to do so at his rallies because it infringes on his free speech.
TAPPER: Did you ever witness or experience, God forbid, anything like that at Fox?
PALIN: I wouldn't put up with anything that would be perceived as intimidating or harassing.
TAPPER: But you said you're “former,” so was that part of the reason you left?
PALIN: Um, you can ask them why I'm no longer at Fox. You know, I'm not going to speak for them. My contract wasn't renewed — that is, um, that's the line.
TAPPER: I don't want to be a jerk, but it sounds like you experienced something.
PALIN: Um, I just, you know, it was just time to part ways and get out there in, you know, I guess a more diverse arena to express views and speak for the public, and that's what I've been able to do now.
TAPPER: All right, well, I'm not going to push any farther on that.
Fox News- #1 with sexual predators
edited 20th Apr '17 7:54:53 PM by MadSkillz
Alex Jones has been formally diagnosed with NPD by a doctor.
This was from someone else's meeting with him:
He piles up food onto a plastic plate, and then he suddenly takes off his shirt without explanation. With his bare torso, he sits there and shovels meat into his mouth, a caricature of manliness, but also a show of power to the reporter sitting in front of him. He can do as he pleases.
Then Jones gets up and holds out a sausage. “Wanna suck?” he asks.
I believe that Palin would be contractually obligated (via NDA) to avoid saying anything that could be seen as derogatory towards her former employer.
Also, in the "No Shit, Sherlock" category's winner of the day...
Edit: Frankly, I don't feel that much sympathy for Palin. Empathy, sure — nobody "deserves" to be put in that kind of position. And maybe she has some tragic backstory of intellectual neglect by her parents. But she chose to go to Fox, a business that is almost comically misogynistic in its political stance. This isn't "walking down an alley at night in attractive clothing"; this is "wearing a tank top and short-shorts to the local sexual predators convention". It's "rubbing meat juice on yourself before hopping the fence at the lion exhibit".
edited 20th Apr '17 9:00:57 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Re: Julian Assange: Oh, gee, it's almost like allying with far-right political figures tends to lead to getting burned. I mean, as much as it sucks to be on the USA's shitlist and all, I find it really hard to sympathize with a fascist-enabling sex criminal who's getting hoist his own demagoguing borderline-fascist orange petard.
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The man clearly has problems... with shirts. If he doesn't like Shirts, he should just not wear them. Sure, it wouldn't be pleasant for everyone else to see an overweight man without a shirt, but still... /j
In all seriousness, that doesn't sound like the sanest man in the world. Then again, Jones peddles Conspiracy theories for a living, so he mustn't be the sanest man to begin with.
edited 20th Apr '17 9:00:03 PM by DingoWalley1
I'd celebrate authorities finally going after Assange if it weren't so comically self-serving and hypocritical. The same people calling for his arrest now were gleefully cheering him on when he was releasing damaging material about Clinton. But how dare he expose the dirty secrets of the Trump administration?
edited 20th Apr '17 9:00:04 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Get ready for a new round of tensions with Iran.
So, get ready to go back to the bad old days of our strained relations, saber rattling, and a strong possibility of a bogus Middle East war all over again. Because the US just had to elect a rapist, white supremacist man child. (Here's a really good NPR story/interview about events and looking ahead
.)
In other news, last year during the NY democratic primary there was a mystery about over 100,000 voters wrongly purged from the voting rolls, mostly in Brooklyn. Wild accusations flew at the time that it was connected to Clinton, and a plan concocted by the DNC, but a year later here's what we know so far:
However, the vast majority of it took place in a single Brooklyn congressional district, represented by Nydia Velasquez, and the vast majority of those purged were hispanic
raising theories that Velasquez, who was facing two primary challengers at the time, had perhaps been targeted by enemies within the party who were trying to artificially weaken her support. (If so, they failed, as Velasquez prevailed and continues to represent the district.) Considering that getting elected in NYC can very much be a game of who has the best connections and who can kiss the most rings, this is, sadly, not far-fetched. (My earlier not about the names being added back to the rolls? Happened after the primary in question.)
The results so far, a year later? The state Attorney General is working on a lawsuit against the Board of Elections
, the mayor's calls for reforms went largely unheeded and Governor Cuomo is letting reform wither on the vine
, notably declining to push for either ethics or election reforms during budget negotiations with the legislature.
At the Board of Elections, one person was fired for their role in the purges, another suspended without pay, but is still not officially let go after a year.
I know there are a fair contingent of NY area posters who participate in this thread, I urge you all to try to push state reps and senators for change and to get your friends to do so too.
edited 20th Apr '17 9:57:53 PM by TheWanderer
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |Yep. But the most important thing, to me, is that keeping the deal in line is not something that is going to happen automatically, it requires deliberate effort and action on the part of Trump and the Republican congress to keep up our end of the deal. And at this point I'm entirely willing to believe they will not do so, even with Iran in compliance.
And that is going to set off a whole bunch of dominoes, the same way Bush doing his best to break Iraq caused a ton of unintended consequences.
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |

It was only a state for a few years I think