OK snowflake. If you wanna keep normalizing terrorists, I can’t stop you.
Assuming (probably falsely) you actually read my post, and this is what you came back with, my evaluation of your intelligence and wit is thusly proven.
If you actual DID read it, then you’re just fucking trolling, which, I remind you, is still a board offense, even in the Pit. But either way, facts are obviously not getting through to you. Which (schadenfreude away!) puts you in the same group of reality denying fuckwads as the shooter, Trump, and his enablers. Which gives me a strange frisson of joy. And the absolute desire not to read anything from you again - because I don’t see any point in feeding hypocritical trolls.
So a well-earned ignore for you, and let me rephrase my prior closing:
FUCK OFF YOU WITLESS TROLL.
Good job. Triple down on the stupid.
Dumbass.
Blatant trolling,
Hey, give the guy a break, he’s only got about five, maybe ten adjectives/adverbs in his vocabulary.
No, you didn’t.
I am so enjoying this.
Right after he demonstrated how he creates them.
Well, they were bound and determined to prove me wrong! It is to laugh. But seriously, as a comparative newcomer, I do respect the generations of the posters who kept this place what it is for decades. It’s a shame to watch one descend into lunacy.
Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Still, the other reason to ignore them and move on is to not hijack the thread, which serves a much more useful purpose than the troll does. So, for a second time, I bring the gift of schadenfreude back to the thread!
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/politics/peter-navarro-contempt-of-congress-case
“[Navarro] has offered neither a sworn affidavit nor testimony from him or the former President. His contention rests only on his counsel’s representations, which are not evidence,” Mehta wrote. “Without actual proof, the court cannot find that there was a formal invocation of privilege by the former President.”
Which brings up shades of the CFSG claiming to declassify documents with his (tiny) mind. “Of course I exert privilege by thinking about it! The Best Privilege. Everyone says so! I have the bigliest brains, and the strongest privilege!” Hopefully no one on the board will run to TFG with that idea either…
Another fun legal quote in the ruling.
“Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start,” he wrote. “No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim.”
Cognizable legal claim. That is brilliant.
I’m pretty sure America normalized terrorism a long time ago. Nearly any American citizen can go into a store, buy a high powered weapon and do as they please with it. And this happens every day. It has happened enough times in the past twenty years to make 9/11’s casualties look like a rounding error. And yet little to nothing can or will be done about this situation and soon enough there will be another story in the news about another crowd of innocents somewhere who would be considered victims of terrorism if it happened anywhere else in the world. But in the US it will just be another day of the week. Thoughts and prayers.
Having said that, what is so special about the word terrorism? It used to be the right wing that fixated on magical words. Remember, “Radical Islamic Terrorism”? The war couldn’t be won because Obama wasn’t willing to say it! That kind of shit. Does it actually matter if the recreationally outraged of the internet come to a consensus on whether or not this was an act of terrorism or just the regular kind of shooting into a crowd that is de facto legal in the US? Like is the prosecutor reviewing the posts here to check? “Ah shit, ParallelLines at the SDMB didn’t specifically call it an act of terrorism so we’ve got to let the perp go! Curse you, Second Amendment, you got us again! If only we could call it terrorism, we’d actually be able to fight it, just as Republicans tried to teach us during the Obama days!”
Awesome post.
What gems they have in the Republican Congress.
Too bad Ms. Boebert doesn’t ever follow grandma’s advice.
Indeed, as the article states:
Quoting the line online Wednesday, Boebert tweeted: “Be kind. Don’t be ugly,” which sparked confusion among Twitter users who noted that the platitude seemed the opposite of her MO.
Yeah, that chick’s a lot of things but kind ain’t one of 'em.
Nailed it!
How did you get to be this clueless? I’d suggest you read more, but reading for understanding is apparently way beyond you.
And to not only contribute to the derail, is this massive fine going to finally discourage lawyers from working for Trump? … Yeah, I’m just going to answer it myself. No, because there are plenty of stupid lawyers out there. The Washington post writes that Trump wanted to drop this lawsuit, but was convinced by the lawyer. It’s almost so one can have sympathy with Trump* for telling the lawyers they should cover the whole fine.
*footnote for Yookeroo: This clause is a rhetorical device. I do not actually have sympathy for Trump. Trump is an irredeemable, opportunist, racist, classist authoritarian, and I hope his gilded trappings of wealth all get torn from him and he goes to jail before he dies.
I have…I guess not sympathy but empathy for him. As in I do pity him and how messed up he must be and miserable. But yes, I also want him to be rolled in honey and dipped in the legal/financial nest of fire ants for as long as it takes to make him disappear.
I do too, just by reflex, but I wanted to make sure Yookeroo understood my post wasn’t secretly about how much I love Trump.
Trump, despite all his well-documented faults, does have one uncanny political instinct: Give The Money to The People.
Surprisingly Keynesian in his approach, Trump had no problem sending out COVID checks (probably because he thought his name would be on it) to everyone and, today, he comes out in opposition of:
The eagerness I feel in watching Trump vs the GOP re SS and Medicare spending, with Trump taking the side of the most Keynesian Democrat vs his own party, fills me with anticipatory schadenfreude.