Sunday Tab Clearing

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Sunday Tab Clearing

Steven L. Taylor

September 15, 2024

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Via the AP : Physician sentenced to 9 months in prison for punching police officer during Capitol riot.
Via The Verge: Elon Musk is absolutely not a ‘free speech absolutist’
Lydia Polgreen in the NYT: Trump Has Crossed a Truly Unacceptable Line.
Via CBS News: Ronald Reagan’s former staff back Harris-Walz ticket: “Today is a choice between integrity and demagoguery.”
It takes a minute, but he does, in fact, meltdown (and never answers the question about the actual data). Given the lies, you would think he would be willing to lie about the stats, but realizes that he is, in fact, using Maduro’s figures and doesn’t want to be tied to that.

https://twitter.com/madrid_mike/status/1834004580616863803

Another Trump supporter getting upset over facts:

When John Bolton says on Newsmax that we are safer under Biden then we would have been under Trump, the host loses his mind and they have an epic battle. I know people hate Bolton, but this is fantastic – he debunks every fake narrative they created about his foreign policy. pic.twitter.com/GdSr6pcfdv
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 12, 2022

9 responses to “Sunday Tab Clearing”

Matt Bernius

September 15, 2024 at 12:19 pm

I had been meaning to post on the Miller clip. MAGA (both the campaign and it’s supporters here) regularly tell us that we cannot trust the FBI data that shows most crime going down in the US.

And then they turn around and suggest the data shared by the Venezuelan government. You know, the one that just faked an election.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/regime-dominated-venezuelan-supreme-court-rules-maduro-election-winner-despite-allegations-fraud

Oh… I guess that despite him being a leftist, Trump respects Maduro for doing what he could not.

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Flat Earth Luddite

September 15, 2024 at 1:02 pm

@Matt Bernius:

I guess that despite him being a leftist, Trump respects Maduro for doing what he could not.

No, it’s just that he’ll always slavishly genuflect to those that he perceives are stronger than he is.

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Flat Earth Luddite

September 15, 2024 at 1:09 pm

Steven:

Elon Musk is absolutely not a ‘free speech absolutist’

Water continues to be wet. Sunrise continues to rise in the east. Generalissimo Franco is still dead.

Trump Has Crossed a Truly Unacceptable Line.

Bwa haha hahahaha hahahahahaha. Not to the true believers.

I’ll pass on St Ronnie s staff comments.

But the last bit was truly hysterical. Luddite loves him a good meltdown!

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Joe

September 15, 2024 at 2:42 pm

@Flat Earth Luddite: “Trump Has Crossed a Truly Unacceptable Line” again.

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Steven L. Taylor

September 15, 2024 at 5:08 pm

@Flat Earth Luddite: @Joe: Yeah, I had the same reaction to the headline. I thought she made sufficiently good points to share the link.

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Kingdaddy

September 15, 2024 at 5:23 pm

The article on Musk’s willingness to suppress opponents of authoritarian regimes contains this howler from history’s greatest political philosopher:

Like I said, my preference is to hew close to the laws of countries in which Twitter operates. If the citizens want something banned, then pass a law to do so, otherwise it should be allowed.

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Kingdaddy

September 15, 2024 at 5:27 pm

The Venezuelan journalist showed, as have a few other of his peers lately, that if you don’t let the interviewee dodge the question, you’re doing your job, and a public service.

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Kurtz

September 15, 2024 at 6:12 pm

@Kingdaddy:

The article on Musk’s willingness to suppress opponents of authoritarian regimes contains this howler from history’s greatest political philosopher:

Like I said, my preference is to hew close to the laws of countries in which Twitter operates. If the citizens want something banned, then pass a law to do so, otherwise it should be allowed.

Taxation is only theft in the US. The US is the only one with rigged elections.

It amuses me when anti-immigration folks will complain about government intervention in the economy as tyrannical but then turn around and say that economic migrants aren’t legitimate–they should fix their own countries.
Flat Earth Luddite

September 15, 2024 at 7:58 pm

@Steven L. Taylor:

No, her points were absolutely spot on. But once again, I remain convinced that %rump could murder someone in downtown NYC, on live television, and not lose a vote. For that matter, I suspect that he could be caught “with a live boy or a dead girl” (as the scandal tag from my youth used to refer to it) and not lose more than (maybe) 10 votes total, nationally. To say that I just don’t get it is a vast understatement.

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