With the proximity of the pardon, it’s hard to believe that Trump himself isn’t behind this.
Trump unsure if he can pardon himself, so he gets his freshly pardoned lackey to publish a dubious legal theory on how they might invalidate election results.
Trump posted a wingnut video on his YouTube channel in the last few hours. I watched the first few minutes, the last few minutes.
Nothing new or truthful, just doubling down on the same old. Nothing definite, but gives his believers the impression that he’s going to do something soon. (Nothing legal, the election isn’t in his hands.)
“ McDaniel is inviting roughly a dozen potential 2024 presidential candidates to the RNC’s January meeting in Amelia Island, Fla. — the most explicit move she’s made yet to show that the committee will be impartial going forward and not simply an extension of Trump’s political machine, even as he openly mulls a comeback bid.”
Nope. That stank is as permanent as the BO of Jerry Seinfeld’s beemer. It will never go away. It’s like Ancient Greek god punishment.
Ronna, and all of 45’s enablers, will be forced, like Sisyphus or Prometheus before them, to eternal punishment, such as trying to find a parking spot at a mall at Christmas, in a car that smells indistinctly of vomit, piss, or shit; that is both too cold and too warm, but whenever they see an open spot on the next row over, it is taken just before they get to it.
I haven’t been able to grok the section 230 thing. I thought section 230 basically meant that if a Russian bot posts fake news on Facebook about Hilary Clinton that Facebook isn’t liable for defamation. Trump is opposed to this and wishes that Facebook would have been liable for such things? He wants Parler to be on the hook for publishing whatever its users post?
I expect that as usual he has no idea what he really wants, or what anything really means. Theres no way he came up with attacking Section 230 all by himself.
Analysis Although the Trump administration is in its final days, the destructive partisan politics it has persistently fanned are still in full effect at the FCC.
On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee passed the presidential nomination of Nathan Simington as a commissioner of America’s communications regulator 14-12 along party lines. That was despite serious questions over Simington’s involvement in a widely pilloried effort to get the FCC to create new rules governing the shield used by online platforms to avoid legal repercussions from what their users share, give or take a few caveats.
Simington was an author of the brief sent from the Department of Commerce (DoC) to the FCC, requesting that it look at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (DCA). Policymakers are appalled that a semi-autonomous regulator is being pushed to do Congress’s job and effectively create new law at the urging of the White House.