That’s what the experts were saying in explaining why Carroll’s $83M judgement would likely withstand appeal. It was less than the magic 4:1 ratio.
Well of course she did, because transgender children don’t matter, they aren’t real people. Besides, once they are born, children aren’t important anymore.
And her apology is that it would be okay to bully real transgender children, and somehow it’s all the liberals’ fault anyway for “taking advantage” of her “good faith efforts to be accepting of differences”.
You know what would be a good faith effort to be accepting of differences? Accepting transgender people for their differences.
Yeah, “oops, I shouldn’t have just listened to the crowd about who he was,” isn’t an apology for vigilante abuse of fellow citizens. Sorry it was just a guy who was heckling the Guardian Angels, not a real migrant or real shoplifter.
At least Hannity posted a correction. You know, for journalistic integrity.
You know, that thing Hannity was fired from Fox over because he had so much of it.
Did you confuse him with Tucker Carlson? Hannity is still in the Fox fold.
According the cretin in question, her stunt was the fault of Transgender people.
Oops, sorry, Yes I did.
Yes. I speculate that the reason for punative damages was they invoked Jerry Sandusky’s name and likened Mann to a pedophile. There’s probably an assumption that Mann’s actual scientific standing wasn’t affected because mainstream climate science continued to back him.
Gen. Mike Flynn wants to throw out the First Amendment.
“If we are going to have one nation under God which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God and one religion under God”
Absolutely! Now, Mike, tell us which religion.
So much for the “Judeo-Christian” gaslighting.
Is it possible to strip him of his pension?
Not that it would make much difference because he’d be well paid by Fox and OANN for screaming about “woke” this or that but it would tickle me.
Well, why not? They’re already trying to get rid of democracy in favor of a Trump dictatorship.
You know, I wonder about those MAGA legislators supporting Trump. Don’t they realize that if Trump actually gets elected, Congress will be in the chopping block? I mean, that’s straight out of the Dictator’s Handbook (not a real thing).
Wrong!
They already screwed the pooch when they didn’t impeach and remove the guy from office no later than January 9th, 2021.
I can imagine not doing it on January 7th - everyone’s tired and hopped up from the commotion, the session hadn’t ended until well after midnight - but they should have been ready to go with impeachment on the 8th and removal on the 9th, in short order. Let Pence be the answer to a trivia question in the 2100s.
But let’s face it - Congress (by which I mean Republicans in Congress) not standing up for its prerogatives in this case simply means that future chief executives will learn the lesson that they can stir up a mob to attack Congress and not be punished for it - heck, if Trump wins the election this November, he’ll be rewarded for it.
Congress is effectively no longer a coequal branch of government. If they attempt to defy Trump - or the next proto-dictator demagogue - he’ll simply stir up another mob to attack them - and this time, it will work. The next steps after that will have a nice procedural veneer on them to try to reassure people that the forms are being obeyed and that what just happened isn’t really what’s happening, but everyone will know who’s in charge.
But, that’s the Republican party for you. “Party over country, and self over all.”
I’m almost curious enough to look up those guys and see their backgrounds and how they’ve arrived at those conclusions. Dare I?
I can’t tell you from first-hand experience. I just remembered seeing a book with that title when @Irishman said there wasn’t one.
If you have Kindle, you can download a free sample.
No surprise here but now we have data…doubt that it will help much though:
The authors, Tom Schaller, a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Paul Waldman, a former columnist at The Washington Post, persuasively argue that most of the negative stereotypes liberals hold about rural Americans are actually true.
Yet another piece where systemically poor representation is cited as part of the problem (of the disproportionate influence rural white voters have on national elections).
Color me chagrined.
Though technically it’s not really a handbook, but an analysis to describe the functional workings of politics. Whereas I meant an actual handbook - a list of steps to follow.
No question, Republicans had their out right then, put Donnie in the rearview, take a few lumps from hardcore Trumpers but with solid justification even most MAGAs would have bought into. I know my neighbor took down his Trump flag the next day. (Yes, an actual flag like one seen in the insurrectionist’s footage).
Instead, they let fear of rejection by their own base drive them to bow to Trump and guarantee their own irrelevance. They helped promote Donnie’s lies and thereby paved the way for his dominance of the Party and possibility of returning to the White House.
Which will be to their own detriment. Witness how the GOP leadership is about to be taken control of by Trumpers who plan to funnel all the party money into Trump’s pockets instead of supporting party candidates in other elections.
I submit that if Trump wins and takes office, it won’t even take another mob attack. Trump will eliminate Congress to guarantee his own power growth. Whether it’s Hitler or Palpatine or Netenyahu, you eliminate the alternative institution of power to consolidate your own.
And the MAGA dimwits in Congress will assist in their own dismissal.
And my point is that that self-serving drive will be the root of their own displacement.
From the Amazon page:
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political science professor and generator of political forecasting models.
He’s apparently created a model, the Predictioneer’s Game, that has shown real world success in predicting political outcomes.
Alistair Smith is another politics professor at New York University.
Genuine question: how does that generally work when it happens (granting that it’ll differ depending on country and circumstance)? Like, when it was theorized that Trump would just ignore the election results and not leave, I struggled to imagine the military paying attention to him or security briefings going to him in such circumstances, so I’m comparing situations here. I assume that loyalty of the military is key. Does the public have any effect whatsoever either way?
What you describe is a complete breakdown of the government.
If the military is ignoring the president like that then it is a teeny-tiny step to a coup.
And if that happens all hell will break loose. Not just the US. Globally.