[Balalaika music]
Moskva – proved too much for the man
(too much for the man)
(he couldn’t make it)
So he’s leaving th life he’s come to know,oh
He’s leaving (leaving)
On that midnight train to Tbilisi Georgia
Trump never screws up. He was asking USSR Georgia to vote for him. Depending on where he intends to move to, he’s being smart.
It doesn’t really fit here but I can’t resist:
US ELECTION LATEST: Shocking New Poll Predicts Dark Horse Victory For Write-In Candidate Seymour Butts With 589% Of Votes.
That sounds like something a Trojan would say.
I remember University of Caucasians Lost among Asians.
100% Agree.
Not even close – I’ve never lived or studied anywhere west of Iowa. I think I remember it from a long-ago Sports Illustrated article on the USC-UCLA rivalry.
Unless, of course, you’re in the process of buying Trump coins, Bibles, or other assorted crap.
Lapdog Lindsey complains about how the Democrats are unfairly associating Trump with his good buddy “Martin Luther King on steroids”.
To paraphrase Boondocks…
“I really should have some Approvals over this”
Quoted (approximately) from Graham in your link
"It would be unfair to say that someone you wrote a letter about or even your own pastor that you owned every stupid little thing he did, we’d be crucified politically politically if we did that "
I think I’m allowed to say this in the Pit:
Lindsey Graham has the smallest testicles in the world. The man absolutely lacks any conviction whatsoever.
You can say that because we’re in the Ball Pit
Lindsay Graham’s complete U-turn from John McCain BFF to Trump toady is one of the most baffling things I’ve seen in recent politics. Trump must really have some dirt on Lindsay that he desperately doesn’t want to get out.
It’s not baffling at all.
Graham is the ultimate lickspittle. He attaches himself to whoever he sees as the biggest swinging dick alpha male he can find and publicly expresses his subservience to him.
When that’s somebody like John McCain, who had ethical standards at all, Graham is left with room to still look like a relatively normal person under the bounds of ‘normal’ politics.
When that person is Trump, who has no ethics, Graham is left with no room to look normal and appears to be the weak-willed toady he’s always been.
Graham was convinced that Trump was unelectable in 2016 and stated that he didn’t vote for Trump, and he predicted that the GOP would get ‘slaughtered’ in that election.
When he realized that Trump was attracting many more voters than he (Graham) anticipated, he quickly became DJT’s #1 fanboy. And he’s remained that way ever since.
I’ve always said that Graham is a remora. He’ll attach himself to the biggest shark he can find.
A Haitian group is suing Trump and Vance for knowingly spreading false claims about immigrants eating cats and dogs.
I’m not a lawyer, but I always understood libel/slander suits to be tough to prove because you have to show that the liar knew the story was false and knew or should have known it could cause harm, or spread it in order to cause harm. Many times it’s tough to prove one or the other parts of that, but here we have Vance admitting to making it up and Trump’s history of demonizing immigrants and calling for violence against groups or individuals he doesn’t like - and his supporters’ history of responding to such calls. How many people who testified against Trump, or participated in lawsuits against him or otherwise criticized him publicly, have received death threats? It would be hard to say he would be unaware that could happen.
Again, not a lawyer, but looks to me like they have a decent case.
This isn’t that kind of suit. They’re asking that criminal charges be brought against Trump and Vance.
Well, even better. And if T&V are convicted, civil suits will hopefully follow.
Unfortunately they don’t.
We have very strong free speech laws in this country and the exceptions are few and far between. It’s my understanding that groups can’t sue for defamation only individuals, so unless Trump and Vance singled out a specific Haitian that they said ate cats they can’t be sued of defamation.
But as Procrustus says they aren’t going that route. The criminal route as also going to be a non starter. In order to be criminal either they would have to order the bomb threats directly or they would have to incite, in which case the actions would have had to taken place almost immediately after Trump and Vance made their statements. In fact there aren’t any direct crimes listed in the complaint.
This is really just a publicity stunt to draw attention to Trump and Vance’s misdeads.