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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] 58 points 14 hours 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] 10 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] dotdi 95 points 15 hours 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.

[–] SarcasticMan 41 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] P1nkman 0 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] PoopSpiderman 78 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] danc4498 25 points 15 hours ago

Most fascists are.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

yes, yes he is

[–] Diplomjodler3 16 points 15 hours ago

And so are his voters.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sterile_Technique 23 points 15 hours 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.

[–] dohpaz42 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Brown shirts?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Brown Shirts = Nazis

[–] dohpaz42 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sterile_Technique 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

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

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

[–] Sterile_Technique 4 points 7 hours 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*

[–] Machinist 1 points 11 minutes ago

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] 23 points 14 hours 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] 10 points 14 hours 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 11 hours ago

Best I can do is Bariatry

[–] capital_sniff 6 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] cabron_offsets 14 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Dear moron,

Forecasting isn't magic.

[–] apocalypticat 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Manifish_Destiny 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

You can be dumb as shit and an authoritarian.

I promise they go hand-in-hand.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours 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] 5 points 13 hours 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.

[–] _t_o_ -4 points 13 hours 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.

[–] Catma 9 points 12 hours ago (1 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

[–] _t_o_ 1 points 52 minutes 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