Miami Herald: I’m done trying to understand Trump supporters. Why don’t they try to understand me?

[Llevron]

That fool really said that **** lmao 

[China]

Here are the Dumbest Moments of Turning Point USA’s Confab in Florida

 

Turning Point USA has emerged as the conservative movement’s MAGA Youth wing—an institution fixated on spreading the right wing gospel among high school and college students, with particular focus on a certain former president/reality TV host. At the group’s annual Student Action Summit in Tampa Bay this weekend, MAGAland’s most prominent pols, PR hacks, and media operatives turned up to fire up an assembly of thousands. It was a bit on the nose when neo-fascists gathered outside the arena, brandishing swastika-emblazoned flags. (Event officials quickly denounced the spectacle as having “nothing to do with TPUSA, our event, or our students.”) Inside, as you might expect of such a confab, things got pretty juvenile. Here are some highlights.

 

• Eternal 13-year-old Rep. Matt Gaetz (R.Fl.) strutted his misogyny while airing his thoughts on the outrage generated by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. “Why is it,” he demanded to know, “that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb.”

 

• Gun-mad restaurateur Rep. Lauren Boebert (R.-Colo.) sought to clear up a rumor I had never heard. 

 

 

Click on the link for more

 

Notice she didn't say she'd never been an escort, just that she'd never been one for Ted Cruz.

Edited July 25, 2022 by China

[EmirOfShmo]

14 minutes ago, China said:

• Gun-mad restaurateur Rep. Lauren Boebert (R.-Colo.) sought to clear up a rumor I had never heard. 

 

Notice she did say she'd never been an escort, just that she'd never been one for Ted Cruz.

That should be former restaurateur - her ****hole restaurant is closed.

[skinsfan4128]

8 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

Evidently, not much has changed. 🤣

 

HTTR!

[Die Hard]

3 hours ago, China said:

Here are the Dumbest Moments of Turning Point USA’s Confab in Florida

 

Turning Point USA has emerged as the conservative movement’s MAGA Youth wing—an institution fixated on spreading the right wing gospel among high school and college students, with particular focus on a certain former president/reality TV host. At the group’s annual Student Action Summit in Tampa Bay this weekend, MAGAland’s most prominent pols, PR hacks, and media operatives turned up to fire up an assembly of thousands. It was a bit on the nose when neo-fascists gathered outside the arena, brandishing swastika-emblazoned flags. (Event officials quickly denounced the spectacle as having “nothing to do with TPUSA, our event, or our students.”) Inside, as you might expect of such a confab, things got pretty juvenile. Here are some highlights.

 

• Eternal 13-year-old Rep. Matt Gaetz (R.Fl.) strutted his misogyny while airing his thoughts on the outrage generated by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. “Why is it,” he demanded to know, “that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb.”

 

• Gun-mad restaurateur Rep. Lauren Boebert (R.-Colo.) sought to clear up a rumor I had never heard. 

 

 

Click on the link for more

 

Notice she didn't say she'd never been an escort, just that she'd never been one for Ted Cruz.

Notice she didn’t say that the hadn’t had sex with Ted Cruz… just that he didn’t pay for sex with her.

[mistertim]

2 hours ago, EmirOfShmo said:

That should be former restaurateur - her ****hole restaurant is closed.

 

Yeah that place apparently caused food poisoning at least once, and some of the servers said she would stiff them on payment but then would turn around and use the restaurant profits on things like her fake boobs.

 

So basically 100% MAGA style.

[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

 

[China]

On 3/14/2019 at 11:17 AM, China said:

The Legal Argument in Nicholas Sandmann’s Defamation Lawsuits Is Basically “MAGA”

 

Nicholas Sandmann, the high school student at the center of the viral Lincoln Memorial confrontation in January, wants to “punish” CNN and the Washington Post for attempting to “assassinate” his character. He wants to teach the Post “a lesson it will never forget” and halt CNN’s “biased agenda against President Trump” and his supporters. In the process, Sandmann wishes to collect more than a half-billion dollars from the two outlets. The media targeted him because he was a “white, Catholic student who was wearing a MAGA cap,” Sandmann believes. Only $525 million in damages will fully compensate him and deter these “bullies” from “again bullying other children.”

 

This argument, laid out in Sandmann’s two lawsuits against CNN (filed on Tuesday) and the Washington Post (filed in February), is one part legal theory, two parts political screed. Sandmann’s lawyer, famed libel attorney L. Lin Wood, knows that these suits are a long shot: The First Amendment protects the press’ right to report on a national controversy without a full grasp on the facts, and to provide commentary that ultimately proves inaccurate. Wood’s defamation lawsuits are designed to scare CNN and the Post, to chill their future criticisms of “individuals perceived to be supporters of the President.” His crusade is just another skirmish in President Donald Trump’s attack on “fake news.”

 

Like most mainstream media outlets, CNN and the Washington Post provided an incomplete and unduly harsh description of the January encounter between Sandmann and Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist. On the basis of a viral Twitter video, reporters at these companies alleged that Sandmann, a 16-year-old March for Life participant wearing a MAGA hat, attempted to “harass,” “accost,” or “mock” Phillips. Commentators on CNN condemned Sandmann as racist and aggressive toward Phillips. Articles in the Post alleged that he threatened and intimidated the activist.

 

Within days, other videos of the event provided a more complete and nuanced picture of the encounter. Before Phillips arrived, Sandmann and his classmates from Covington Catholic High School had been taunted by the Black Hebrew Israelites, a notorious cult that hurls bigoted slurs at passers-by in Washington. These students say that they performed school spirit chants to counter the (indisputably vile) verbal assault. Phillips and his associates say they interpreted these chants as racist toward their nearby Indigenous Peoples March, which had concluded earlier in the day. He approached the students, beating a drum and singing a tribal song. At least one student—though not Sandmann—then made the “tomahawk chop,” an offensive gesture, and several wore MAGA apparel as they stood in front of Phillips. After about two minutes, the Covington Catholic students retreated to their bus.

 

The suit against the Post berates Jeff Bezos by name and demands $250 million in damages seemingly because that’s how much he “paid in cash for the Post.” It denounces the paper for ignoring “basic journalist standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented, biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump.” (Trump tweeted this quote and wrote: “Go get them Nick. Fake News!”) CNN gets similar treatment: “From at least as early as the November 2016 election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States,” the lawsuit states, “CNN has maintained a well-known and easily documented biased agenda against President Trump.” Apparently in support of this claim, the suit notes that “President Trump publicly and repeatedly branded CNN as the poster child of ‘fake news.’ ”

 

All of this may satisfy the president, but it likely won’t satisfy the courts. Wood insists that Sandmann is not a public figure, which would allow him to sue the media for mere negligence—a failure to take reasonable care to avoid unjustly injuring his reputation. It is debatable whether the Post and CNN even met that low bar: Drawing conclusions from a video rocketing around the internet is not clearly unreasonable when those conclusions later prove questionable in light of new evidence.

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

Former Covington Catholic Student Nick Sandmann Loses Defamation Lawsuits Against CBS, ABC, NYT, and Others

 

After years of politically charged litigation, former Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann has lost a round of high-profile defamation lawsuits against five mainstream media companies at the summary judgment stage. That’s according to court dockets and an opinion and order signed by a federal judge in the Eastern District of Kentucky on Tuesday.

 

Sandmann’s cases against ABC News, Rolling Stone magazine, CBS News, newspaper and television station owner Gannett, and The New York Times are now officially listed as “terminated” on the court record.

 

All parties moved for various forms of summary judgment, and a judge agreed to dismiss the cases by agreeing with the five media defendants and disagreeing with Sandmann’s attorneys. 

 

Bertelsman noted that CNN “filed an early motion to dismiss which the Court granted” on July 26, 2019.

 

“In that opinion, the Court held that none of the statements were actionable for various reasons: some were not ‘about’ Sandmann; some were statements of opinion; and/or some were not subject to a defamatory meaning,” Bertelsman recalled.

 

In other words, the case more or less flatlined once before. Sandmann filed a motion to reconsider; the judge agreed to resuscitate the matter on “narrow” grounds. At issue in the resurrected case were “Phillips’s statements that Sandmann had ‘blocked’ Phillips and ‘would not allow him to retreat,'” the judge wrote.

 

“[J]ustice required that discovery be conducted as to the context of those statements,” the judge recalled.

 

CNN settled with Sandmann in January 2020; NBC settled in December 2021. Those settlements left the five remaining aforementioned defendants; what followed was a round of discovery as to the five remaining cases.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[Cooked Crack]

 

[Larry]

 

 

[mistertim]

1 hour ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

This is coming from the dude who got canned by Fox News for sending unsolicited dick picks to female colleagues. But sure, it's women shaking their asses that's the epidemic, not guys sexually harassing female coworkers. 

Edited July 28, 2022 by mistertim

[Larry]

Hey.  They're the party of "yeah, we'll make your life worse.  but we'll protect you from boogy men".  

 

They won't protect your school kids from getting shot.  But their teacher won't be allowed to mention that his spouse exists.  

Edited July 28, 2022 by Larry

[Dan T.]

16 hours ago, China said:

 

 

 

CNN's attorney anticipating the discovery phase:

 

[China]

 

Why Republicans Can’t Stop Talking About Masculinity

 

Republican lawmakers and hopefuls seem particularly interested in the idea of masculinity lately. In a TV interview earlier this month, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley claimed the left was telling men their “masculinity is inherently problematic.” He also told interviewer Mike Allen he would make masculinity a signature political issue.

 

Click on the link for the rest

 

 

 

[TheGreatBuzz]

15 minutes ago, China said:

 

 

 

That article is over 4 years old.  Why is he tweeting it now?

[Larry]

Looking forward to Josh Hawley making his campaign about masculinity.  

[Captain Wiggles]

Quote

the model of masculinity in evangelicalism went from emulating the qualities of Jesus to emulating those of the actor John Wayne,

 

Lol.... this is exactly how I've been describing them for years. Especially the ones what open carry handguns round these parts of central NC. I got nothing against good samaritans but the whole white knight hero syndrome seems to also infect these types of folk.

[The Evil Genius]

Fwiw, Wayne was a raging racist & homophobe, so that persona fits the GOP.

Edited July 28, 2022 by The Evil Genius

[mistertim]

1 hour ago, China said:

 

Why Republicans Can’t Stop Talking About Masculinity

 

Republican lawmakers and hopefuls seem particularly interested in the idea of masculinity lately. In a TV interview earlier this month, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley claimed the left was telling men their “masculinity is inherently problematic.” He also told interviewer Mike Allen he would make masculinity a signature political issue.

 

Click on the link for the rest

 

 

 

 

And it also leads to them creating some hilariously unintentional gay content, like Tucker Carlson's commercial for "The End of Men" which includes manly men doing various things together in various states of undress (including tanning their balls...because reasons).

 

I remember reading a tweet response to that where a gay author/columnist said something like "I'm sitting here in my gay house, in my gay bed, next to my gay husband, writing a book about being gay, and this is the single gayest thing I've ever seen"   

 

Beautifully re-edited with YMCA in the background

 

 

[TheGreatBuzz]

I just looked at who started this thread.  We really had a poster with the screen name Bozo the kKklown?  I feel like I would have noticed that before. 

[Larry]

Just now, The Almighty Buzz said:

I just looked at who started this thread.  We really had a poster with the screen name Bozo the kKklown?  I feel like I would have noticed that before. 

 

I don't think that was his original name.  

[LD0506]

7 minutes ago, The Almighty Buzz said:

I just looked at who started this thread.  We really had a poster with the screen name Bozo the kKklown?  I feel like I would have noticed that before. 

 

Ahhh, those were simpler times........

[Cooked Crack]

 

[Dan T.]

2 hours ago, The Almighty Buzz said:

 

That article is over 4 years old.  Why is he tweeting it now?

 

Maybe because the head of the Claremont Institute - home of ultra right-wing nut jobs including insurrectionist lawyer John Eastman - just gave an address saying we need Donald Trump to run again because he is a "manly man."  Seriously, he called Donald Trump a "manly man."