Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors
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De facto lèse-majesté legislation could have its uses between now and the end of the year.
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It isn’t clear that the lawyers can be disbarred. The DoJ is moving to preempt state bar discipline against their lawyers because outside groups have been referring too many lawyers for discipline. Supposedly, the high rate of state bar referrals was caused by weaponization, not misconduct.
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In addition, by reading the ArsTechnica story, which contains the image of the "threatening message", are we readers also subject to prosecution? What if on our next walk on a beach, we were to also see a similar arrangement of seashells. Would it be a "see something, say something" situation?
Seriously though, deluging the FBI with reports of similar seashell patterns, might just point out how absurd this allegation against Comey is. Mind you, I'm not a fan of Mr. Comey. The ill timed release of Ms. Clinton's email issues may have tipped the 2016 election in 45/47s favor.
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It is a lifestyle choice. I almost feel bad for them.
Almost. Life must really suck being that angry at everything all the time. I am looking forward to the eventual prosecutions of most of these individuals. Fingers crossed.
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Add in their indictment of the SPLC, which sounds like it is going to get torpedoed amazingly fast. I wonder if the judge just throws it out before even getting to jury selection.
What scares me is, how much longer will the judiciary stand as a semi-bulwark against this Stalinist crap?
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I do hope this at least ends any pretense that prosecutors couldn’t get an indictment on cops that fatally shoot people if they wanted to.
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Watching the circus that is America, run by a reality-bereft clown that the majority of Americans voted for, is both saddening and frustrating. Now America and the Western World are suffering the consequences of your vote.
Did you not learn anything from his 1st term?
Did you not learn anything from his 1st term?
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Pretty sure I've heard Gordon Ramsey say to 86 a plate meaning to dump it in the trash.
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The Dunning-Kruger effect describes this exactly: more experienced folks assume they are just average, and less experienced people assume they are above average.
Or, to be glib: MAGA is too dumb to know how dumb they are.
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Be aware that tech billionaires have gone bat shit crazy thinking about the power of AI and have sold their souls to the devil; our religious types are looking forward to the rapture; we have a demented idiot as President; the powers behind the government are the nutso rightists of Project 25. And the only thing standing between these crazies and America's demise (taking with it the constitution, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and the rule of law) as a democracy is the coming election.
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Most American's didn't vote for Trump. Of those who voted, only 49.8% voted for Trump.
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I plan to make approximately 8,647 references to it this week in casual conversation.
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Ken White over at the Popehat Report has a great commentary on this: https://www.popehat.com/p/the-comey...hlid=657f38babaa67d3f60ec307d70948596527e10db
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Some of us are old enough to remember gun targets with Obama's picture on them... deemed "Freedom of Speech".
https://www.tampabay.com/news/polit...-selling-gun-targets-using-president/2279875/
And some of us are old enough to remember things like this:
https://www.cubebik.com/shop/kidnap...l-bumper-sticker-221116-132132-07e1e3c02e246/
So yeah... he's the biggest snowflake on the planet and his entire cult is right there with him.
Edit: just found another
Florida gun shop taking heat (again) for selling gun targets using President Obama's face
https://www.tampabay.com/news/polit...-selling-gun-targets-using-president/2279875/
And some of us are old enough to remember things like this:
Funny Joe Biden Funny Truck Tailgate Decal Sticker Wrap – Vinyl Graphic Decal Bumper Sticker
https://www.cubebik.com/shop/kidnap...l-bumper-sticker-221116-132132-07e1e3c02e246/
So yeah... he's the biggest snowflake on the planet and his entire cult is right there with him.
Edit: just found another
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More proof of the absolute disconnect between the poor and the rich. They don't even understand the number's 86 meaning > it means taken off the menu. Trump impeached!? Sure. A threat on his life? That's a stretch around the globe. The fact that they even tried, is a direct attack on the 1st amendment, but that's nothing new for the Orangutang King Wannabe.
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Amazing coincidence! That's the same number as the combination on my luggage!
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Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
This type of drive-by has been addressed, ignored, mocked, and problematic for the speaking up lurkers posting it for over a decade at this point.
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The problem is that politics isn’t staying confined: this prosecution is driven by the same people and policies which are destroying the American scientific system, giving large tech companies carte blanche to abuse their users, and destabilizing the global economy.
Ars has covered politics since the late 90s for that very reason. Things have gotten worse since then as tech runs more of our lives but it’s not like there was a period where we could just see cool science news without the background of DRM, government surveillance, or the Cold War which funded an awful lot of that cool science.
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It is cool to do that. Makes you great. That is worth a few silly sacrifices today. Bunch of snowflakes can't handle that! Red pill darlings, red pill. Better stay in your caves.
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Update: now I am stuck with the song "Pretentious Moi" in my head. Ça Va?
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This is what happens when you elect deeply stupid evil people to office. There was a time when I thought the opposition were good people that just had a difference of opinion, but now it is literally Nazis on one side and the good people on the other side.
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"CoPilot - pad out this unhinged short message to 9 pages please, preserving all the content from the original post."
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I was just listening to an NPR segment on this lawsuit. The lawyer that NPR interviewed explained that while 86 was a term most commonly used in restaurants etc, it also has organized crime/mob implications of killing someone.
So now the lawsuit makes perfect sense. The current regime thinks of itself as a an organized crime cartel, and that Trump thinks of himself as a mob boss. So of course anyone saying 86 47 is calling for violence - because that is how the current regime would use the term.
So now the lawsuit makes perfect sense. The current regime thinks of itself as a an organized crime cartel, and that Trump thinks of himself as a mob boss. So of course anyone saying 86 47 is calling for violence - because that is how the current regime would use the term.
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That's pretty much how you can tell what they are thinking in all things... it's all projection. Whatever they claim someone else for doing, that's always how they think about whatever it is and what they would do. They whine about '86' because that's what they would mean when they said it. When they whine about "they would use that to go against political opponents" it's because that's what they'd do, etc. It's pretty easy to figure out what they are thinking that way.
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If we could legally enshrine this so the conservatives were forced to confront it, it would be revolutionary in culture and politics. It would still apply to liberals but not nearly as thoroughly or transformatively as how many legal and cultural walls conservatives try to willfully ignore but would be forced to confront if they had to second guess everything they had to say as their own projection even if it was cultural theatre.
It would shatter their current voting coalition if they had to consistently, even if it built even more cultural resentment that they have toward liberals, consider legal or financial consequences to being caught projecting as a caveat to freedom of speech.
It's being yoked to that exact cultural theatre that they fear most, even more than liberalisms continuation itself, not being allowed to project anymore when telling on themselves as most human beings do when you listen to them for five minutes.
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The problem with history books about all this will be the superabundance of footnotes. Every sentence will need to end with a footnote, with some variation of:
"I'm serious. This really happened."
"No, really, I'm not joking"
"With all due respect to Alfred Jarry, the book you currently hold in your hands is not intended to be read as an absurdist farce."
"Similarities to the 2006 file Idiocracy are entirely coincidental."
"Yep, he really said that."
"This quotation is yet another example of herp derp--a linguistic pattern that rapidly became ubiquitous among the ruling class in the US beginning around 2016."
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Personally, I consider very publicly reposting Comey's pic on major social media under my own name to be a patriotic, public duty. And I did my duty today.
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