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On the post: Virginia Court Rejects Prior Restraint, Says Old Law Used In Attempt To Ban Books Is Unconstitutional

jimb ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2022 @ 10:59am

Ever notice now...

Ever notice how the people who want to ban books, or restrict speech, or heavily moderate online postings "for the good of the public" and "to let parents decide" always want to make those decisions themselves? They don't trust "the public", or eve "the parents" to make the decisions, whatever they say. Just more of the epidemic of hypocrisy.

On the post: Texas School District Decides To Just Ban All Books Flagged For Review… Including The Bible

jimb ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2022 @ 09:19pm

"law and order..."

"Now just wait a minute! Wait just a minute!" "When we said we were 'in favor of law and order' -- that didn't mean we wanted it enforced on our guys!" When did "conservative" become a synonym for 'hypocrite'?

On the post: Devin Nunes Claims The Right To An ‘Unimpaired Reputation’ Is A ‘Sacred Right’; Oh And Also Needs To Cough Up Info On How He Got Hired

jimb ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2022 @ 12:28pm

Reputations are earned, not entitlements...

Devin Nunes is "entitled" to exactly the reputation he has earned, every bit of it, by his actions and his life history. As is any of us, including Devin's cow. Mr. Nunes has, by his actions and his associations, earned -every bit- of the online ridicule and derision that tag and follow him... and each lawsuit and in-court tantrum earns him a bit more of his reputation. That he doesn't seem to understand this earns him yet a bit more. Keep going, Devin, and let us watch you earn a reputation as a slow learner, too.

On the post: Michigan Supreme Court Says Photographing, Fingerprinting People Without Probable Cause Is Unconstitutional

jimb ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2022 @ 03:10pm

Did the court also...

order that all the -other- GRPD photos and fingerprint records from this illegitimate program be deleted? They are all gathered under illegal circumstances.

On the post: Trump Says It’s Defamation To Call His Lying About The Results Of The 2020 Election ‘The Big Lie’

jimb ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2022 @ 03:28pm

The truth...

Truth is an absolute defense against 'defamation'. While Trump's lawsuit will make the news, it will be thrown out of court. "Big Lie" or just 'a lie' is a matter of semantics. And I'll go further and make another absolutely truthful statement: Trump is a big liar.

On the post: Devin Nunes Loses Yet Another SLAPP Suit, This Time In California

jimb ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2022 @ 08:33pm

Once again, a Republican let the truth slip out...

Recently, someone close to the Trump Insurrection let loose with an accidental slip-up, and the truth leaked out. "we have lots of theories, but no evidence." Nunes is working hard to build a country where facts and truth are not needed, and those in power can slam people they don't like without cause, without evidence, without facts... this suit is more of this. "They say bad things about me, so they must be shut up. I'll use the courts and the law, and my money, to force them to silence." It's good to see that isn't working. Along with facts and truth, Devin, your cow told me to remind you that you need evidence to go to court. And also that the law doesn't just mean whatever you think it does. What a pathetic fool.

On the post: Trump’s ‘Free Speech’ Social Network, Truth Social, Is Banning People For Truthing The Truth About January 6 Hearings

jimb ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2022 @ 05:44pm

Well, since a well-know 'principle' of the Trump Republican party

... is hypocrisy, I can't say I'm surprised at all. Truth Social - say anything you want, as long as -we- like it. And don't say anything bad, ever, about Trump. We don't like that. Sometimes "Truth" is just another lie.

On the post: The Pile On Blaming Video Games For Texas Shooting Begins

jimb ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2022 @ 07:50pm

It's the guns...

The problem is "video games"! And it's the guns. The problem is "mental illness"! And it's the guns. The problem is "violent movies"! And it's the guns. The problem is "not enough praying"! And it's the guns. The problem is "a culture of violence"! And it's the guns. Take the guns out, take the guns away, get rid of the guns --- and you still have all those problems. Yes, that's true. But you don't have the gun violence, the mass shootings, the 100+ a day 'ordinary non-news gun deaths'. It's the guns. The problem is the guns.

On the post: Judge Is Not At All Impressed By Trump’s Lawsuit Against Twitter; Dismisses It Easily

jimb ( profile ), 09 May, 2022 @ 06:02pm

The question this all raises for me...

is where does Trump get his lawyers? What graduate of any reputable law school would even file this lawsuit? Trump, of course, hires "only the best people". He might try actually paying them for once, and see if he can get a lawyer with actual competence. Of course listening to his lawyers advice would require admitting that he knows less than they do, so that's just 'not Trump'. What a LOSER Trump is, over and over, and over and over. Loser, loser, loser. I keep hoping he will run out of time soon, and put us all out of our misery.

On the post: Wisconsin Town Lawyer Lies To Journalist, Sues Activist Who Pointed Out His Lie

jimb ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2022 @ 08:32pm

a difference of opinion

"Kelly offered her interpretation of a public statement by Village Attorney Smith and her opinion that people who say false things in public are lying." Actually, in my experience, people who say false things in public (in their function as public officials) are usually Republicans.

On the post: How Would Senator James Lankford React If A Democratic Senator Demanded Fox News Explain Its Editorial Policies?

jimb ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2022 @ 04:58pm

you are under the mistaken impression...

that a Republican Senator would care about being a blatant hypocrite. Sen. Lankford, should a Democratic Senator criticize Fox "News" in the same way his letter attacks Youtube and Google, would condemn that Democratic senator wholeheartedly and vigorously. Being a hypocrite is not a 'bug' for Republicans, it is a proud 'feature'. They are not only hypocrites - the are loud and proud about it.

On the post: Lauren Boebert Threatens Disney’s ‘Mickey Mouse Trademark’ Extension, Which Isn’t A Thing

jimb ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2022 @ 06:49pm

MICKY ??

A Mickey-Mouse threat from a Mickey-Mouse politician. Once again, Boebert removes all doubt...

On the post: Trumpists Admit That Their Own Social Media Platforms Aren’t Much Fun When They Can’t Use Them To Own The Libs

jimb ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2022 @ 07:46pm

What a boring place...

Everyone is just like me.

On the post: Performative Conservatives Are Mad That A Search Engine Wants To Downrank Disinformation

jimb ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2022 @ 03:00pm

Well sure, ranking results by relevance is the whole point of search engines...

But then, 'missing the point' is the whole point of today's Trump "conservative".

On the post: Devin Nunes Loses Appeal Of SLAPP Suit Against Liz Mair

jimb ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2022 @ 06:06pm

anti-SLAPP should allow slapping back

Seems to me that after winning or being dismissed from a case in an 'anti-SLAPP' law victory, the winning person should get their legal fees paid by the person filing the original SLAPP lawsuit. That might discourage filing frivolous or baseless lawsuits in the first place. And where does Nunes get all the money to pay -his- legal fees; it's not like he's a "billionaire" con man, like his boss.

On the post: Hawaii School, Police Department On The Verge Of Being Sued For Arresting A Ten-Year-Old Girl Over A Drawing

jimb ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2021 @ 05:42pm

Johnny was picking on Tameka...

And Tameka called Johnny a "poopy-head". And now Tameka has a record.

What's wrong with this country?

None of the "adults" in this little saga behaved like adults. Not a word about what happened to the alleged bully... was this bullying investigated? Was anything done to discipline the bully, if the bullying was confirmed, by the school?

More blaming the (Black) victim... just another confirmation of how unbiased the American 'justice' system is. Curious about the races of the alleged bully, and of the otherwise uninvolved parent who pushed the school to call in the police... who wants to bet they are 'other than Black'? No takers... damn, no surprise there.

On the post: Because Of Course: Trump's SPAC Deal May Have Broken The Law

jimb ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2021 @ 03:14pm

of -course- it's a scam...

Any prudent investor who is considering putting out significant sums of money probably should know better than to buy a 'pig in a poke'. So I can't see why -anyone- would put money into a SPAC up front, without knowing who they are going to merge into. And any prudent investor would, had they known this was a Trump company, have done due diligence (or even a small bit if Googling...) which would have turned up Trump's 'record' with returns for outside investors. There's a reason why Trump's "corporate empire" is a private company... but leaving that aside, those fools who did pony up money, not knowing the destination, and now discover that this enterprise carries Trump's name (bad enough) or will have Trump involved in it's management (far, far worse!) should sell out to gullible Cult of Trump fools as soon as possible. This is all a scam, and I have to wonder how many of the shares on the market now were grifted to Trump and are now being converted to cash in his pockets before the world catches on.

On the post: Trump Announces His Own Social Network, 'Truth Social,' Which Says It Can Kick Off Users For Any Reason (And Already Is)

jimb ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2021 @ 03:31pm

What does Trump know about 'truth' in the first place...?

So on TRUTH Social you can -

Post outright lies - no problem.
Post racist diatribes - no problem.
Post bigoted rants - no problem.
Post criticism of Trump -- oops, bye-bye.

Strangely, to me that sure sounds like 'cancel culture' made real. Another Trumpian hypocrisy, in it's full glory.

On the post: Minnesota Dept. Of Public Safety Now Handing Out License/Insurance Carriers In Hopes Of Keeping Cops From Killing More Drivers

jimb ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2021 @ 09:15pm

or they could, you know...

train their police officers to not shoot people, not to be on such a 'hair trigger' in every encounter with the public. Oh, wait, that would mean that the -police- would be making the effort to stop killing so much... sort of like that old "protect and -serve-" thing that doesn't happen so much. Never mind.

On the post: Data Again Shows That U.S. Broadband Is Painfully Mediocre

jimb ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2021 @ 09:47am

not really surprising - "American Exceptionalism" strikes again

It's not really surprising that Americans pay more for less, and get mediocrity in performance and endless glitzy, empty promises of excellence 'real soon now'.

We seem to have applied the "conservative", market-based solution to broadband, and we've seen how well that works in healthcare, in pollution control, and in banking and finance. The problem is "conservative" and 'public good' (in both the civic and the economic sense) do not co-exist.

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