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• On the post: Utter Insanity: Trump Lawyer Suggests Former Trump Cybersecurity Official Should Be 'Taken Out And Shot' For Saying The Election Was Secure

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2020 @ 11:12am

  Right now, in some dank corner of North Carolina, or maybe the Dakotas, there's at least one pea-brained Q militia member furiously Googling "drawn and quartered", and looking up Krebs' address.

• On the post: Trump Campaign Gets Laughed Out Of Court For Claiming A Bunch Of Unvetted Webform Submissions Is 'Evidence' Of Voter Fraud

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2020 @ 09:10am

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  It's the typos that make it look so authentic.

• On the post: Trump Campaign Gets Laughed Out Of Court For Claiming A Bunch Of Unvetted Webform Submissions Is 'Evidence' Of Voter Fraud

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2020 @ 09:08am

  Re:

  A modern-day "between a rock and a hard place".

• On the post: Over At Politico, The AT&T Monopoly Gives Tips On Fixing A Broadband Problem It Spent Thirty Years Creating

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2020 @ 07:28am

  Standby for "helpful" legislation from Sen. Marsha Blackburn in 3... 2... 1...

• On the post: Apparently The New Litmus Test For Trump's FCC: Do You Promise To Police Speech Online

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2020 @ 11:51am

  He can't fire them all... we think...

  The larger irony is undeniable: an Administration with a single-minded goal of removing all regulations and restrictions is seeking... to add regulations and restrictions. But one voice has been conspicuously absent in all this -- the Commish himself, Ajit Pai. He may be many dastardly things (as we all have noted, almost gleefully), but something seems to have him stopping short of trashing the First Amendment. Is it his law degree? His oath? Some inherent-but-invisible sense of honor? No real matter; but this is one bandwagon he won't jump on, despite multiple invitations, and it remains to be seen if he'll get called out for it.

• On the post: Actual Facts Undercut Media's Narrative That Law Enforcement Task Force Broke Up A Multi-State Sex Trafficking Operation

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2020 @ 06:00am

  Re: Helping to fuel Q-Anon

  I hear Hillary Clinton bought each of the marshals a slice after they wrapped things up in the pizzeria basement.

• On the post: French Government To Make Insulting Mayors A Criminal Offense

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2020 @ 06:06am

  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan just called... says he now like France better than Germany.

• On the post: Confused Critic Of Section 230 Now In Charge Of NTIA

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2020 @ 07:25am

  Re:

  ...and for this Administration, all heads are acting heads, by design. No formal approvals, easy discharge when the mood strikes.

• On the post: Verizon Forced To Back Off Charging Extra For 5G

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2020 @ 07:29am

  But they NEED that extra money for the COVID-transmission technology! Cancer, mind control, bird-killing... this stuff doesn't come cheap.

• On the post: AT&T Fires Hundreds Of DC, HBO Execs In Latest Example Of 'Merger Synergies'

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2020 @ 07:10am

  Re: Re: The swamp is as full as ever

  I hear that drinking drain cleaner will cure that... I think it was the gypsy medical expert Dr. Feelgood who told him.

• On the post: Tweeters Were Criminally Charged For The Crime Of Trying To Identify A Police Officer… Who The Police Revealed In The Charging Docs

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2020 @ 01:34pm

  Helps, too, to know a little about the town of Nutley. It's been an upper-middle haven since the 19th century... tree lined streets... long ago, heavily German-American but almost exclusively Italian-American for 50 or 75 years. Planning on taking a northern NJ Sopranos tour? You'll wind up in Nutley; that's where character Christopher Moltisanti shot up the bakery staff when he couldn't get his sfogliatella quickly enough.

  For decades, one Italian-American family owned the local newspaper and occupied the mayor's office; the library board is run by decree by a 90+-year-old capo. You get the idea - the connectedness helps keep the town pure and unsullied (wink, wink), and the locals like it that way.

  Not surprising that the PD would take umbrage at someone making such an out-of-line request targeting goomba officer PJ. And the requester is lucky that the response was only a threatened indictment, and not a horse's head.

• On the post: CBP Privacy Impact Assessment Says It Can Pull All Sorts Of Data And Communications From Peoples' Devices At The Border

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2020 @ 07:12am

  Objecting to a digital cavity search makes you suspicious, of course. Search justified!

• On the post: In 10 Years Of Existence, The Long-Running French Farce Known As Hadopi Has Imposed Just €87,000 In Fines, But Cost Taxpayers €82 Million

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2020 @ 06:09am

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  No, that song title rhymes with "poopie". Which actually brings us back around to Hadopi...

• On the post: Tennessee Court Strikes Down Law Criminalizing Calling Political Candidates 'Literally Hitler'

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2020 @ 10:37am

  Too bad this statute has been invalidated... I found it helpful!

  When I look at that handbill, I understand that Adolph Hitler has risen from the dead, his scorched molecules reassembled themselves, and he was running for office in Tennessee in 2009. It could also be that he successfully slipped away to Brazil in 1945, and chose to run for office at a spry 119 years of age; but I'm not too sure about that.

  But either way, this whole thing has created confusion in my mind... and isn't that the best reason to criminalize something?

• On the post: Gullible Maine & DHS Intel Officers Believed Teen TikTok Video Was Serious Terrorist Threat

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2020 @ 06:35am

  I hear there's a moose on TikTok who reveals Bill Gates' role in the COVID conspiracy while busting a hot move... hello, MIAC?

• On the post: Law Firm Southtown Moxie Responds Hilariously To Stupid Cease And Desist Letter

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2020 @ 06:25am

  Ms. Harper - Next Target!

  Hmm... both fitness and finance, whichever Financial Moxie addresses, can really make a person work up a powerful thirst. So imagine searching for the solace (or services) that FM can offer, and instead winding up here:

  https://www.drinkmoxie.com/

  They've been selling that cola for centuries... bet they've got some deep pockets. Ka-ching! And it's unlikely they'll reply with an email full of Barbies(TM).

• On the post: Patent Troll Gets Court To Order Startup It Sued To 'Edit' Blog Post; Troll Now Asks Startup To Get Us To Change Our Techdirt Post

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2020 @ 01:50pm

  Redact this

  You know, that black-bar-redaction technique is pretty boring... so last-year. Wouldn't it be nicer to overlay the offending text with some other random hash...

  I don't often ask this, but I'd like for everyone in our community to TROLL-TROLL-FUCKING-PATHETIC-BRAINLESS-PATENT-TROLLING-DICKHEAD-TROLLS..."

  That ought to prevent anyone from reading the harmful comments in the original. Okay, Your Honor?

• On the post: U.S. Court Of Appeals Hears Arguments That Lawsuit Against Disney For 'Pirates' Shouldn't Have Been Dismissed

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2020 @ 10:57am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Actually, Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, which opened in New York in 1879, and is a tale about "a band of tender-hearted pirates"(Wikipedia).

• On the post: Idiots Begin Attacking US 5G Cell Towers Because, Idiots

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 19 May, 2020 @ 07:56am

  Wow... rare occurrence at TD for two spam messages to sneak by the filter. I'll bet it's that nasty 5G! Time to grab my matches and gas can and look for a cell tower...

• On the post: Court Tosses Lawsuit From Man Claiming Twitter Discriminated Against Him For Being A Heterosexual Christian

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 15 May, 2020 @ 01:19pm

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  If he could guarantee that all the mail would be straight and white, our President would rush to the aid of the Postal Service.

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