NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1)

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Godot’s corollary to Poe’s law:

There is no parody of a liberal viewpoint or activity that is so stupid and over the top that it won’t be believed by a substantial number of Conservatives.

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Maybe it was because of the football game?

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Newt Gingrich, who is an advisor to the Congressional Republican leadership, says that members of the 1/6 committee face jail when Republicans take over Congress.

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Here’s the full 74 page scathing ruling. And it is pretty damn scathing, towards the end he relates the parable of the emperor’s new clothes.

This is judge sounds really pissed, he included a long footnote about the plaintiffs trollish delaying tactics.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21183760-motion-for-preliminary-injunction-ruling-01212022

He summed it up

In sum, the defendants side of the scale sits empty, the plaintiff’s overflows

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I also want to mention that New Hampshire is at the heart of the Free State movement , a libertarian led effort to create a “government-free zone and people moving to New Hampshire to pursue this goal on the local level has been a thing for forever.

There’s a book about it called A Libertarian Walks into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling. The book is the true story of a New Hampshire town where lack of things like zoning laws and general maintenance and garbage management caused a bear problem, and more broadly about the Libertarian Free-State movement in general.

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I read that book recently. More depressing than funny.

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Thanks for that link; it was very interesting reading.

I was horrified at the details presented therein; there is quite a concerted effort to stifle the plaintiffs speech and to denigrate them in multiple contexts.

That’s what happens in an autocracy.

I liked what you quoted but also liked

It’s worth pausing to note just how shocking Defendants’ position is.

from page 62 and

UF does not just fail to make that showing, it doesn’t even try.

on page 63.

Judge Walker was pretty clearly (and justifiably) not impressed by and somewhat angry with the defendants.

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Here’s another free speech & employment case from clear across the freaking continent:

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Heh. That was worth waiting for.

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Florida: “This girl is too immature to get an abortion, so let’s give her a baby to raise.”

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Sarah Palin is suing the New York Times. The court hearing was supposed to start today. But Palin has tested positive for covid. She isn’t vaccinated.

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I feel sorry for Sarah Palin Covid.

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Biden called Steve Doocy a stupid son of a bitch after Doocy asked if inflation was a political liability.

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Good. An honest politician

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Republicans are aghast at the lack of civility from The President in 3…2…1

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I would like to see a liberal/progressive politician call a RWer a fucking moron. Or, at the very least, imply it by calling their ideas fucking moronic. Maybe the Ds would get some traction if they started using real profanity.

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I’m sure the free market will provide rocks to repel both bears and tigers.

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Well, a few weeks ago we had Fauci calling the esteemed junior senator from Kansas a moron on a hot mic. He didn’t say “fucking” but he did call upon the Christian savior.

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Florida’s shame Marco Rubio, who as far as I can see has never publicly said a word against the 21 of his Congressional colleagues who voted against* honoring the law-enforcement personnel who defended their lives on January 6 2021, today surrounded himself with law-enforcement personnel in a campaign event:

*the 21 ‘don’t honor LE who worked to save us’ that Rubio seem to feel are doing a great job:

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I don’t like insulting people’s mothers, but I appreciate the intent.