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In 'Chilling' Attack on Press, Trump Sues Des Moines Register Over Preelection Polling (www.commondreams.org)

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So how was this professional Pollster so far off? Claimed Harris win by 3 points and instead Trump won by 13 points. That’s a 16 point swing right there. Days before an election. Honestly, I’d think that was a bit sus from an objective professional pollster too. Now would I then spend time suing her? Prolly not- not unless I thought it was done intentionally, in which case she cast the first stone.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ah yes. The best kind of election interference posting the results of your poll. Maybe Harris should sue too since it was so far off and gave her false hope. Hell better idea lets toss the pollster into jail for fucking up so bad. In fact any poll that was wrong straight to jail. Off by more than your margin of error? Straight to jail. Post a poll the God Emperor hates? Believe it or not straight to jail

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I was really excited myself! Can I sue too?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

I’m simply talking about fairness. If you had a specific example in regards to Harris I could take that statement serious. No one is claiming throwing anyone in jail. I think that by not taking this seriously and instead creating extreme hypothetical cases your not only not going to be taken seriously- but actually do the cause a disservice. By not honestly engaging and instead being absurd -you’re proving you have no argument and instead would just like to throw ad hominem around to avoid actual constructive conversation. Which is how we deal and figure out how we got here in the first place IMO. Best of luck

[–] [email protected] 102 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe the press shouldn't have propped him up the last several years by pretending his insanity was worth discussing the merit of, while simultaneously shitting in everything Biden tries to do to clean up this shitbag's messes.

Having trouble seeling sympathy for what they brought in themselves. They knew what he was

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

Come on. Surely the King of the Face Eating Leopards wasn't actually going to eat their faces! Right?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I mean this is just very obviously a waste of time. I honestly hopes this shit draws his focus for the next 4 years because tilting at this windmill will give him less time to do actually dangerous shit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Didn't ABC just pay? It looks like this tactic is working.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is extortion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Totally and it is working. But this makes sense when one of our two parties is drowning in propaganda. Why would the conservative leadership and elites have any interest in an independent news media?

What is so interesting to me is how quickly they shifted any discussion of free speech to be about what you can post on twitter, and not about the gov't restricting speech. It was truly amazing how quickly it worked as the conservative supporters just ate it up.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can't someone at this point charge him with Barratry -- abuse of the legal system? Bar his fat arse from filing any more suits for at least his term of office this time around.

Ah, who am I kidding, the US legal system has no teeth (for some), it's all reliant on 'customs' and 'norms' at its base, as we have seen recently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Best I can do is Bariatry

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If this isn’t laughed out of court then the Republic is well and truly lost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

It probably won't see court. Like the ABC lawsuit, the point is to intimidate with the threat of government retaliation later if they don't roll over.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If a fruitless lawsuit is "chilling" to them, wait until he sends in the military to attack anyone who criticizes him.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's the cops and brown-shirts responding to his stochastic terrorism that worries me.

The military at least pretends to follow their own rules.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Brown shirts?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Brown Shirts = Nazis

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thank you. I hadn’t heard that expression before.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

Modern day, it's usually referring to MAGA gun nuts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

oof, that's more than I ever wanted to know about brown shirts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well, they say knowing history is the key to not repeating it. It's looking like that needs to be amended to knowing history gives you an idea of the splatter mark you're about to leave when the train you see coming a mile away is approaching the part of the tracks you're tied to, but are otherwise powerless to do anything other than sound dramatic to people tied next to you who insist that surely the train will stop in time......

...actually nevermind. It'll stop us from repeating it, totally for realsies. *gets shit-faced drunk*

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's a really unpleasant feeling, isn't it? Being Cassandra is the suck.

It's astonishing and demoralizing how many people I respected don't know history. A good chunk of them tell you there is no train even though they have to shout to be heard over the horn.

I managed to quit drinking this summer after a hospital detox. Now I'm stuck raw dogging reality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Raw dogging it sucks. I got sober years ago, but I had a couple bad relapses. Now I'm at a point where I can get drunk once or twice a week without it taking over my life. Not everyone can do this though so be careful.

I can't get drunk when I have to work the next day. I don't know how I used to do it every day. The hangovers are fucking brutal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I take a gummy and a variable amount of ibuprofen every night with dinner. Helps some with sleep and pain.

My hangover crutch was modafanil. However, I may just have to be done drinking. Sucks, but it was destroying my life. I'm much healthier. I miss bourbon and the brain numbing fog like great sex with a crazy lover.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah I can't even drink liquor anymore. I drink a six pack of high abv and I'm pretty sloshed. That would barely touch me when I was in active alcoholism drinking a liter of vodka every day.

Good choice on the gummies. It's hard for me because my favorite drug is mushrooms but that takes planning and I don't have easy access right now. But my very close second favorite is alcohol. It fixes my fucked up brain. Also I love weed and alcohol together but I don't like weed on its own.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dear moron,

Forecasting isn't magic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Although I agree he's a moron, this and many of his actions are not moronic, but rather authoritarian.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You can be dumb as shit and an authoritarian.

I promise they go hand-in-hand.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's both.

He's definitely not smart enough to understand that a "wrong" prediction about a probabilistic outcome isn't a failure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Crude, black and white thinking is characteristic of the right wing. That's why they can never understand that a vaccine can still be worth it even if some people still get sick.

[–] [email protected] 133 points 5 days ago (3 children)

So let me get this straight: past, current and future lawsuits are cancelled, or on indefinite hold because of „political interference“ and „presidential immunity“ but he can sue whoever the fuck he wants? Make it make sense, America.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

You just did. The sense is in the name. "America - where nothing makes sense."

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 days ago

Government of the working class by the ruling class for the ruling class.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago

He can't be punished because of the "implications" but he is free to punish whoever he likes because fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 5 days ago (3 children)

He is a pathetic little man, isn’t he?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

How anybody can look at that fat sack and shit and go "yeah, that's the "strong man" I want to lead my country" is so beyond me.

They see themselves in him and that's why they love him. They're every bit as repugnant and unintelligent as he is. He has failed upwards his entire life and they're all just waiting for the moment it happens to them.

But it won't. He hates the poor. He has said it to their faces, and they cheered.

These people need to be put in reeducation camps.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago

Most fascists are.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

yes, yes he is

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

And so are his voters.