Hey @yoyoel - how did you convince @elonmusk to let you retain the chief of groupthink role at Twitter when you don’t follow (as far as I could tell; I eventually gave up) a single account that might directly challenge your political assumptions or commitment to censorship?
Wouldn’t it at least “look better” for you to pretend you’re interested in the views of the most influential Twitter users that don’t share your views, so you could at least *simulate* giving a damn or being open to “evolving”?
Guess what: It's not just the feds; the states are doing it too. Our client Rogan O'Handley (@DC_Draino) got the receipts via @JudicialWatch ... and a Cali federal judge dismissed the case
Our firm does a lot of defamation work. Like my colleagues, I have worked both sides of these cases. Here's an example of a fairly recent dismissal I obtained for a defamation defendant agudah.org/legal-issue-af…
In another fairly recent case I represented a defamation plaintiff (a Democratic mayor in NJ) in a lawsuit against political rivals (Republicans) who falsely maligned his professional ethic newjerseyglobe.com/local/bergenfi…
The defendants' motions to dismiss were all denied; the case was eventually settled.
They CAN install a mentally incompetent version of someone who was never too smart in the first place as POTUS, and loyal party members and institutions will proceed as if nothing is wrong and as if he is actually making decisions
The Fetterman debacle, however, has demonstrated that, at least at the state level, there is (please God!) a limit to getting away with this... at least for a normal state; for Pennsylvania is not New York or California.
Why does it appear that it will (please God!) not work?
Just spitballing here, but probably because at the national level, the apparatchik / media / plutocracy complex will serve fine to both pull off such a coup and maintain the (shabby) illusion that the POTUS is for real.
National politics has been a performance for a century.
I am SO proud of this graphic, and want to thank @Apple for making it so easy to lift those clown pictures from their backgrounds through the new iOS
Also thanks a ton to @nytimes for always being there with the inspiration. Hardest working people in show biz, I mean that
Also, a tremendous hand, please, for @JackPosobiec for indulging me in a very rare (for me) request for a RT. I hardly do that any more, I'm supposed to be above that, but I told Jack - and forgive me, I just had to share this - damn, Jack, this graphic is SO funny. I mean it.