Nunes WISHES he was the first mouth sewed to Trump’s anus. More likely he’s eighth or ninth. At best.
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Over 450K this afternoon. Barbra, you’re fantastic.
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I approve.
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That would be hilarious!
I like this inflatable one:
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Sidenote; the term ‘voodoo economics’ referencing Reaganomics was coined during the Republican primary to that race by none other than George H. W. Bush.
It is a surprisingly well made movie and no nearly as gross as you might think. The idea of course is really gross. Then again, I’ll argue that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre isn’t particularly gory, but it is extremely intense.
Such a glowing unsolicited recco; it’s what I believe they call ‘damning with faint praise.’
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Surprisingly interesting, but not for the squeamish; begins with a discussion of Ed Gein.
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As I said (repeatedly now) I doubt he can prove it. But the lawsuit is not frivolous merely because a plaintiff has a high hurdle to overcome.
His claim is a legally valid one - subject to the usual requirement for a plaintiff to persuade a judge.
Also - it’s not just stuff that one could class as satire or parody, he’s suing about. Sure most of it is, but there’s also stuff in there which is flat out accusations that he’s committed crimes.
The pleading is a bloated mess of crap that any sensible judge should require be trimmed to a core of actually potentially actionable statements asap but there is some stuff in there that goes beyond satire or parody or mere political comment.
I also wouldn’t take whether any particular person was sued over something by someone or not as a guide to whether what was said was actionable.
Especially in the field of defamation of political figures there are all sorts of reasons why people don’t sue.
Among them is the difficulty of proving your case to the required standard but also the utter pointlessness of it.
Whether you sue or not doesn’t change whether people believe it. If there was going to be any damage, it’s already been done. If you do sue, it looks like your opponents got to you. You also draw a lot more attention to the story and you look petty and vindictive even though you are the one claiming to have been wronged. You spend a lot of money and time fighting a case which you’re never going to get any real benefit out of - time and money you could be spending doing other more productive stuff.
It’s generally a bad idea. But some people you just can’t help. So you get what we have here…
And of course some are just petty and vindictive or genuinely think there’s a massive conspiracy out to get them.
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Um…no. Bush the Greater coined that term during the 1980 primary hen he was running against Reagan.
‘84 brought us a sitting president asking his opponent “where’s the beef?” during a nationally televised debate. I remember that election well. My state was the only state Mondale won. (For the pedants, yes, he also took DC, but that’s not a state.)
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Politics 101, as told by HST:
This is one of the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times of trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level of political mythology in a story about one of Lyndon Johnson’s early campaigns in Texas. The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumor campaign about his opponent’s life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his own barnyard sows.
“Christ, we can’t get a way calling him a pig-fucker,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that.”
“I know,” Johnson replied. “But let’s make the sonofabitch deny it.”
@DevinSow?
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Oh the things that come up when you intentionally thrust your own stupid ass into the spotlight…
Not sure why that isn’t OneBoxing… the headline is:
Stunning video of Devin Nunes defending the N-word emerges after his disastrous lawsuit against parodies
While defense of the n-word is the focus of the article, I think they buried the lede a little. Nunes is fine with smears, as long as they’re done against black democrats.
“I think there’s people that have every right to say what they want. If they wanna smear someone, they can do it.”
And of course he considered Obama to be a totalitarian.
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Devin Nunes … wants to make it harder for the public to sue companies that harm them, which is why he cosponsored last year’s Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act entities that benefit him personally.
Nunes has explained away his lawsuit as an attack on “fake news,” but never acknowledged the cow was also fake.
Is his mom fake too?
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