The funniest part of this story is that Biden TRIED to make non-compete-clauses illegal in employment contracts back in January, and the GOP fought him tooth-and-nail. Now their racist hero has been hoist on his own petard. #GoTucker! Get sued! Go broke! nytimes.com/2023/06/12/bus…
Pure Comedy: "Justin Wells, Mr. Carlson’s former executive producer, said on Twitter that the next episode of Mr. Carlson’s show, expected on Tuesday, would feature Mr. Carlson’s response to the indictment of former President Donald J. Trump." #GoTucker
That’s going to be amazing. We know Tucker hates Trump. But he’s going to feel the need to defend Trump in order to keep his audience. And yet he’s intelligent enough to realize Trump is clearly guilty. And yet he just got fired by Fox and can’t withstand losing more audience...
The ancient Silent & Boomer haters who love Fox News can’t figure out how to watch Tucker on Twitter. Many don't even KNOW he’s on Twitter. So he needs everyone who’s still paying attention and can’t afford to lose anyone by attacking Trump.
I really hope Tucker goes through with defending Trump on Tuesday. I can't imagine a funnier scenario than him setting himself up to lose a multi-million-dollar non-compete case in order to defend Trump, a man he hates, and knows is a guilty piece of stupid lying trash. #GoTucker
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Very easy to pledge that you will pardon Trump if you become President when you know with 100% certitude you won't even place in the top 5 Republicans challenging Trump for the GOP Nomination.
Similarly, if I win $100 Billion in the lottery, I promise to give one billion of my winnings to @VivekGRamaswamy to run for a position he's actually qualified for, like the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana or something similar.
I suppose he's running to be Trump's Vice President, but he should probably recall how Trump nixed running with Nikki Haley because she had what he called "a complexion problem." He's a third generation professional bigot, bro, he's not picking you or Haley or Scott.
@kabirakhtar@Anusien@stevendeknight OP is saying your union lets the studios craft the legal language of your deal and they included "Generative AI" the same way they introduced a highly specific word to our 2008 WGA contract which we BELIEVED covered Streaming TV & Films, which was the word "Subscriber-supported."
@kabirakhtar@Anusien@stevendeknight That was the last time the WGA allowed AMPTP lawyers to parse a vernacular agreement into legalese. Why? Because they knew in advance that they had secret plans to someday introduce Ad-supported VOD (AVOD), and they included the S as a way to distinguish it from SVOD & cheat us.
@kabirakhtar@Anusien@stevendeknight Which they later DID, which is why 15 years after we WON "all streaming," the WGA still doesn't have robust AVOD language covering all "Streaming" in our contract… like we believed they had given us in negotiations. Like they assured us they were doing.
It really is quite impressive this moment we're at. For the last 45 years, unions have been a dirty word in the US. Republicans, long the party of the wealthy, have tarred unions as criminal organizations, all of them controlled by the Mafia...
Starting with Jimmy Carter, Democrats abandoned unions and strove instead to get campaign donations from corporations, a policy eagerly embraced by Bill Clinton who paid them back via deregulation (leading to mega-mergers, bank failures, and neverending corporate scandals)…
Clinton's anti-labor nastiness was continued by Bush Jr. and even Obama, who ran on passing "card check" legislation making it easier to unionize… and then immediately dumped it the second he became President. Trump was NYC mafia-connected anti-labor trash, so we expected zero…