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It's not defamatory to call it a Nazi salute. Bannon did the Nazi salute, Elon Musk did the Nazi salute. That's the act, why they did it might be the defamation. "Bannon did the Nazi salute gesture to the crowd's delight." Fox News has made a mint on this sort of thing, have some balls.
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How can anyone make that argument when the President is Donald Trump? What really blows my mind is that Trump is top 1% at non-IQ stuff. He remembers everyone who ever wronged him, he has a top tier instinct for bullying, he bullshits brilliantly. Everyone who would know calls him a fucking moron.
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Ed Martin is a lot of things. A good writer he is not.
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Or his crypto, or his wife's crypto, or his shoes, or let him sue you and settle, or just write him a check, because God knows he's accepted straight up bribes at this point.
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You are on here? What sort of people do you hang out with that makes you think this is a thing? "People were told to stop saying master bedroom, breastfeeding, manpower, and brown-bag lunch, and to start saying primary bedroom, chestfeeding, workforce, and sack lunch." Find new friends.
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Maybe after they are done firing thousands of people who should have known better than to expect to have a government career helping people, the DOGE crew will fuck back off to Twitter to do exactly the same thing they are doing now, minus ruining good people's lives and American democracy.
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The amount of litigation this is going to generate is absolutely unbelievable. I don't know federal contracting, but terminating 10s of billions of dollars in contracts for "convenience" is bananas. These companies were issued signed contracts, presumably.
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Should have brought this one in Florida before Judge Cannon, I hear she strongly enforces the appointments clause.
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That is a real Chatterton-who-writes-for-the-Atlantic type argument to make.
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Are we sure he's in recovery? Didn't he say heroin helped his grades in college? Didn't he sell drugs in college? No offense to people legitimately working on their second chance, but that all seems relevant to the person in charge of healthcare in the U.S.
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"Democrats have, in the committee I'm on, votes unanimously to subpoena [Trump official whose fault this is] to defend this indefensible act. Republicans, including [Western State Senator] have blocked us. Please call the office of [senator most likely to flip] and ask them to vote to subpoena X."
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A ban on renewing memberships strikes me as a pretty clear violation of the right to assembly.
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Over ten years, right? So 10% cut? That it is exactly 10% does not bode well for this to be targeted at anything specific.
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That and not the footnote? "As Mr. Trump's defense lawyer said at the private meeting, this is not a quid pro quo, you fucking rubes."
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Twitter's lawyers during the sale to Musk is an exception to the rule that everybody at all firms are having their bills scrutinized like crazy.
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Best method of sending documents to reporters anonymously?
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If history echoes, sometime between June 30th and July 2nd is when either Elon or Trump will find themselves with a long knife in the back.
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The Night of Long Knives did nothing to stop the Nazis.
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"Good-faith" has once again been asked to carry the weight of the world in a bullshit document.
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Elon Musk thinks human beings below a certain net worth are cell-phone apps he is entitled to ignore or exist to give him money. He believes himself to be the star of the Truman Show. Poor people starving to death is a news ticker item to ignore for him, even though he is the cause.
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The truth is the worst defense against defamation because you need to prove it. Far better that the statements you are alleged to have made are not defamatory.
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Mine ran late by an hour and the pizza was cold. Should I vote Republican in the next election? I literally don't want to think and need help.
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Oooo, is this an admission by DOJ that Elon's official government communication method is via X DM? That seems FOIAble.
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Bailing out SVB was a mistake.
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"I didn't vote for ELON to take away my mom's social security checks" is a pretty good excuse for voting for the guy who promised to do things that were guaranteed to take away your mom's social security checks.
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If a general economic crisis does not tank Trump and Elon's approval rating democracy is over. Every Republican living paycheck to paycheck has to turn on the billionaire robber barons when they get fired because tariffs shutdown Detroit or Elon breaks SNAP and ends farming. Or not, we'll see.
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Holy shit. Schadenfreude, the website.
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Wait till he does Australia.
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Well shit, I guess all those pie in the sky calls for a general strike to cripple the capitalist machine just got 8 months of federal funding if they choose to do it. It's a shame about the end of the world though.
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School House Rock be like "I'm not even a bill, I'm just a directive of Congress and the president can ignore me or whatever."
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No one is impressed by this. Get better social media interns or younger consultants.
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Thanks for linking to the decision regarding his prior offenses. Blanket pardons for these guys was a really shitty call. Trump could have picked some subset without, you know, horrific prior violent felonies, but I guess that was too much work.
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Senator Kennedy is living proof that you become who you pretend to be.
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My recollection is that those DOJ honors programs were some of the most exacting and prestigious jobs you can get out of law school. Top 5-10% type-a for people who want to be senators one day jobs. Throwing away that talent and pissing it off seems real fucking dumb.
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Oh man, I forgot how hard it was to listen to this bullshit.
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Maybe, but the NYTimes could still be lazy with an accurate headline. "Elon Musk gives what appears to be a Nazi salute after inauguration speech, igniting online debate." Then the reporting can still be blah, but the headline less cowardly.
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No, but defamation is scary and calling a resident of Texas a Nazi because he throws a Nazi salute is risky business if you want to keep publishing. So news people are self-censoring out of fear. Because that's how fascism starts/works.
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Oh man, it's the policy of the federal government not to unconstitutionally abridge free speech? I suspect this administration is going to be pretty loose when it defines what it does as unconstitutional. Perhaps all abridging is unconstitutional, but some is more unconstitutional than others.
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As someone without an economics degree, I'm shocked that companies agree to buy goods at a price that benefits them, and that other companies are willing to sell them those goods at that price.
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Is there any chance the 11th Cir. rules before Sunday? If not, is there a point to this other than creating an even more thorough record of Cannons failure?
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And Republicans don't even mention that they will force trans men to use women's bathroom, just that they will exclude trans women. But that means they are going to force dudes to use women's restrooms and cause all sorts of bad results, probably including law enforcement involvement.
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Did these guys watch The Purge and think they could be those faceless overlords?
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Gaetz Arch nemesis is and has always been his girlfriends' curfew and homework obligations.
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If you aren't sick, you probably have no problem with your insurance. It's not like 50% of this country has cancer. I haven't been to the doctor for a long time, if asked, I am sure I would say I have good insurance, but I don't know. It is just a difficult thing to poll.
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"I'm a loser by a standard imposed by influencers that cannot be met therefore I'm voting Republican" is actually a huge demographic. The Bannon theory that unlaid vape enthusiasts are a secret Republican voting block has really borne fruit. The last few years, particularly because Musk is one.
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It sounds like this guy doesn't understand the law enforcement reporting privilege.
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What is Musk on about attacking a federal climate employee? Dude has personally made his fortune on climate subsidies.