Stupid Republican idea of the day

Alex Jones thinks the train crash involving multiple Republican members of Congress was a terrorist attack and a deliberate attack on Republicans.

Well, no mention so far of either men in the truck being minorities. I’m sure Mr. Jones will be all over it if one of them is. :frowning:

The President pro tem of the Pennsylvania State Senate says he will not comply with the state Supreme Court’s ruling ordering the legislature to turn over demographic data to the court so that the court can draw up election maps if the legislature doesn’t come up with new non-gerrymandered maps.

Can State Senators be arrested for contempt of court?

Does he actually not know how trains work?

To be fair to someone who doesn’t deserve fairness, the republicans were on the train, which would put the terrorists in the truck, and the truck was mobile. If the republicans had been in the truck and the terrorists on the train, then the accusation would be even stupider.

The Attorney General of Missouri, who is running for the Republican nomination to challenge Senator Claire McCaskill, says human trafficking is the result of the sexual revolution.

Michigan state Senate candidate calls the judge in the Larry Nassar trial a feminazi.

Hm. Never mind. It looks like Saari is a Democrat. Just another idiot.

Richard Spencer is asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit against him because no lawyer in the state of Virginia is willing to represent him.

Holyshit! You done struck gold there.
Put it in the other thread where it can be admired as a rare treasure.

What a total douche. Are you sure he’s (D), and not just “(D)” in the Fox News sense?
If he’s the “Mike Saari” on this Wikipedia page, he’s listed under the Republican primary.

Yep, Mr. “Feminazi” is a Republican.

What a tool.

That’s concerning. Richard Spencer is a noxious tit, but legal representation should not be a roght which is waived when the person in need of it is an asshole. :confused: See also: the jury recusions in Martin Shkreli’s case. We want these people to lose quickly and brutally, not be forced off the field because no umpire won’t cheat them.

I wonder if the typo might have been deliberate sabotage by a Trump-hater. :slight_smile:

If one were to make a deliberate typo, hoping it wouldn’t be caught before printing, what would you pick? Surely not State of the Onion or Spate of the Union or even (blaming spell-checker) Address to the Congruous. (And an extreme effort like Redress at the Mongrels / Shite of the Bunion would just get one fired.)

I think State of the Uniom would be about right. Blatant enough that literate Americans would laugh, but not obvious enough that Trump-mentality aides would catch it.

Got some ideas how this can be accomplished in the context of civil suits? If so, I’m sure we’d all love to hear them. Maybe he could get those nice Koch boys, or perhaps a Mercers, to place one of their lawyers at his disposal.

Actually, from their position, that might be a sound strategic move. The civil suit moves forward, leads to Spencer’s penury and disappearance from the public eye, and the oligarchs suddenly have one fewer embarrassment tied to themselves. All for less than half the cost of buying a U.S. senator.

Clearly that is correct. There was no human trafficking, slavery, or even prostitution before 1960. Right.

Emphasis added.

When I worked for a public library system, the most important thing I learned WRT press releases was to MAKE SURE there was an “L” in pubLic library when you sent out the release.

I’m sure it would be pretty easy to introduce that typo into this administration… “public good,” “public welfare,” “public infrastructure and enhancements”… The possibilities are endless.

There isn’t any applicable “right” here. The right to legal representation applies to criminal defendants, not to civil cases such as this one.

Also, he says that he tried about a dozen attorneys and couldn’t find one. Hardly an exhaustive search.

You don’t get out of being sued because you make a half-assed attempt at finding an attorney and fail.

What he means is he can’t find one of the Usual Suspect right-wing “law firms” like Liberty Counsel to represent him for free.

Has he tried Dewey, Cheatham and Howe?