[AMV] #981 Cousin's Friend's Swollen Balls and Larry Elder

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Op dinsdag 14 september 2021 08:09 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Hij neemt alvast een voorschot.

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Op dinsdag 14 september 2021 00:51 schreef CharlesKinbote het volgende:

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Dat betwijfel ik ten zeerste. Ik snap ook nooit zo goed waarom Democraten altijd onkritisch als 'lesser evil' worden aangenomen; Democraten hebben de enige atoombommen in de geschiedenis van de mensheid gebruikt als militair wapen. En waarom knip je mijn post af trouwens? Ik bekritiseer expliciet het doofpotbeleid, en het achteraf markeren van mannelijke slachtoffers als "combatants" om schandalen te voorkomen.
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Dat zou je kunnen zeggen, maar dat zou ik een erg rare opmerking vinden, aangezien Obama meer bommen met drones heeft gegooid in zijn eerste jaar als president dan Bush in zijn gehele presidentiële carrière. Interessant rapport van Amnesty hierover (vanaf pagina 13 is vooral relevant voor deze post).

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Op dinsdag 14 september 2021 08:12 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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This is the Matrix. The machines are stress testing the system to see how far they can push things before losing entire crops due to our minds rejecting the program.

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Is the pic on the left the swollen testicle?

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I think you’re being unfair to testicles.

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Op dinsdag 14 september 2021 13:47 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Pillow-Guy zal haar vast uitnodigen om te zingen op de reinstatement ceremonie van Trump.

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Op dinsdag 14 september 2021 08:09 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Hij neemt alvast een voorschot.

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Op dinsdag 14 september 2021 13:13 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Similar to other media reports and books released since Mr. Trump left office, the book details how Mr. Trump’s presidency essentially collapsed in his final months in office, particularly after his election loss and the start of his campaign to deny the results. Top aides — including General Milley, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Attorney General William P. Barr — became convinced that they needed to take drastic measures to stop him from trampling on American democracy or setting off an international conflict, and General Milley thought that Mr. Trump had declined mentally in the aftermath of the election, according to the book.

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General Milley, who had become increasingly concerned about China’s growing military power and the potential for one misread move to set off combat between the world superpowers, first called General Li around that time on a secret backchannel. He wanted to assure General Li and President Xi Jinping that the United States was not planning to attack China.

On the Jan. 8 call, General Li suggested that Chinese leaders feared that the United States government was unstable. He pressed General Milley over the course of an hour and a half about whether the military was going to take action.

Despite General Milley’s reassurances, he feared that Mr. Trump might be trying to find a moment that he could seize on to remain in power, similar to Hitler’s exploitation in 1933 of an arson fire at the German Reichstag to help institute emergency powers, the book said.

But even after the call, General Milley concluded that the situation was “grave” and General Li “remained unusually rattled,” the book reports.

Mr. Trump, General Milley had concluded, did not want a war but might order the launch of some sort of military strike that would set off a chain reaction and lead to war.

“I continually reminded him,” General Milley is quoted as saying, “depending on where and what you strike, you could find yourself at war.”

Later that day, General Milley spoke to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was growing increasingly concerned Mr. Trump would lash out and use military force.

“This is bad, but who knows what he might do?” Ms. Pelosi said. “He’s crazy. You know he’s crazy. He’s been crazy for a long time. So don’t say you don’t know what his state of mind is.”

“Madam Speaker,” General Milley said, “I agree with you on everything.”

General Milley, who as the president’s top military adviser is not in the chain of command, tried to reassure Ms. Pelosi that he could stop Mr. Trump.

“The one thing I can guarantee is that as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I want you to know that — I want you to know this in your heart of hearts, I can guarantee you 110 percent that the military, use of military power, whether it’s nuclear or a strike in a foreign country of any kind, we’re not going to do anything illegal or crazy,” he said.

“Well,” Ms. Pelosi said, “what do you mean, illegal or crazy?”

“I can give you my word,” General Milley said. “The best I can do is give you my word and I’m going to prevent anything like that in the United States military.”

After speaking to Ms. Pelosi, General Milley convened a meeting in a war room at the Pentagon with the military’s top commanders, telling them that he wanted to go over the longstanding procedures for launching a nuclear weapon. The general reminded the commanders that only the president could order such a strike and that General Milley needed to be directly involved.

“If you get calls,” General Milley said, “no matter who they’re from, there’s a process here, there’s a procedure. No matter what you’re told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I’m part of that procedure. You’ve got to make sure that the right people are on the net.”

The general added: “The strict procedures are explicitly designed to avoid inadvertent mistakes or accident or nefarious, unintentional, illegal, immoral, unethical launching of the world’s most dangerous weapons.”

Then, he went around the room and asked each officer to confirm that they understood what he was saying.

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Op dinsdag 14 september 2021 21:34 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Wow. Stil. Het werd gesuggereerd wat hierboven staat.
Als je het nog leest en détail, gaan de rillingen over je rug.

Alleen zijn er weinig rep’s, die het willen geloven. Vrees ik.

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Op dinsdag 14 september 2021 21:55 schreef Jojoke het volgende:
Het verbaast mij niets. Ik kan mij nog herinneren dat het leger erop werd gewezen dat ze de ede hebben gezworen aan de Verenigde Staten en niet aan de president. Trump is een autocraat.

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Op dinsdag 14 september 2021 21:58 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Holy shit. Hier nog meer: tekst in de tweet.
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Op dinsdag 14 september 2021 21:55 schreef Jojoke het volgende:
Het verbaast mij niets. Ik kan mij nog herinneren dat het leger erop werd gewezen dat ze de ede hebben gezworen aan de Verenigde Staten en niet aan de president. Trump is een autocraat.

Gen. Mark Milley: 'We Take an Oath to the Constitution, Not an Individual'

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"Peril" offers a behind-the-scenes account of Trump's refusal to concede the election and how those around him tried -- and failed -- to contain his desperation.

On November 4, the day after the election, Trump seemed privately ready to acknowledge defeat, asking adviser Kellyanne Conway, "How the hell did we lose the vote to Joe Biden?" But after making phone calls to loyalists, including Rudy Giuliani, Trump embraced the false and damaging conspiracy theories of election fraud.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump took a light touch, the authors write, and Kushner told aides he did not want to be the point person for an intervention. Then-Attorney General William Barr tried to talk sense into Trump, telling him the claims of fraud were bogus. "The problem is this stuff about the voting machines is just bullshit," Barr said, according to the book.

"Your team is a bunch of clowns," he told Trump.

According to the book, a key figure from Trump's earliest days as president reemerged: former White House adviser Steve Bannon. The authors write that Bannon, who had been indicted in April 2020 and later pardoned by Trump, played a critical role in the events leading up to January 6.

On December 30, Bannon convinced Trump to come back to the White House from Mar-a-Lago to prepare for the events of January 6, the date Congress would certify the election results.

"You've got to return to Washington and make a dramatic return today," Bannon told Trump, according to the book. "You've got to call Pence off the fucking ski slopes and get him back here today. This is a crisis."

The authors write that Bannon told Trump that January 6 was "the moment for reckoning."

"People are going to go, 'What the fuck is going on here?' " Bannon believed. "We're going to bury Biden on January 6th, fucking bury him," Bannon said.

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“In truth we do not have a clue how many are infected in the USA. We are expecting the first wave to spread in the US within the next 7 days,” adviser Steven Hatfill wrote to Peter Navarro, the president’s trade director, on Feb. 29, 2020. “This will be accompanied by a massive loss of credibility and the Democratic accusations are just now beginning. This must be countered with frank honesty about the situation and decisive direct actions that are being taken and can be seen in the broadcast news.”

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After receiving Hatfill's message -- accompanied by an admonishment that "from now on, the Government must be honest" -- Navarro privately warned Trump in a March 1, 2020, memo that the federal response was "NOT fast enough" and that a "very serious public health emergency" was looming. Trump continued to downplay the virus's risks in public, assuring Americans the pandemic was being contained and that his government was being "totally proactive" in its response.

"We are, really, very highly prepared for anything," Trump said in a March 6 visit to the CDC, inaccurately claiming that "anybody that wants a test can get a test" -- amid testing shortages that would persist for weeks.

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"These exchanges add to the growing body of evidence that the Trump Administration knew the significant risk posed by the coronavirus but failed to execute an effective strategy to reduce the loss of American lives," Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) wrote Tuesday to Navarro, requesting all documents in Navarro's possession related to the government's response last year.

Clyburn also said he is seeking details on Navarro's compliance with federal records law and Trump officials' use of personal email accounts. According to Clyburn, the subcommittee has obtained more than 80 messages related to the government's coronavirus strategy that Navarro sent to other White House staff using a personal ProtonMail account.

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What happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was not a coup attempt. It was half of a coup attempt — the less important half.

The more important part of the coup attempt — like legal wrangling in states and the attempts to sabotage the House commission’s investigation of Jan. 6 — is still going strong. These are not separate and discrete episodes but parts of a unitary phenomenon that, in just about any other country, would be characterized as a failed coup d’état.

As the Republican Party tries to make up its mind between wishing away the events of Jan. 6 or celebrating them, one thing should be clear to conservatives estranged from the party: We can’t go home again.

The attempted coup’s foot soldiers have dug themselves in at state legislatures. For example, last week in Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini introduced a draft of legislation that would require an audit of the 2020 general election in the state’s largest (typically Democratic-heavy) counties, suggesting without basis that it may show that these areas cheated to inflate Joe Biden’s vote count.

Florida’s secretary of state, a Republican, knows that an audit is nonsense and has said so. But the point of an audit would not be to change the outcome (Mr. Trump won the state). The point is not even really to conduct an audit.

The obviously political object is to legitimize the 2020 coup attempt in order to soften the ground for the next one — and there will be a next one.

In the broad strategy, the frenzied mobs were meant to inspire terror — and obedience among Republicans — while Rudy Giuliani and his co-conspirators tried to get the election nullified on some risible legal pretext or another. Republicans needed both pieces — neither the mob violence nor an inconclusive legal ruling would have been sufficient on its own to keep Mr. Trump in power.

True to form, Mr. Trump was able to supply the mob but not the procedural victory. His coup attempt was frustrated in no small part by a thin gray line of bureaucratic fortitude — Republican officials at the state and local levels who had the grit to resist intense pressure from the president and do their jobs.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 05:16 schreef OMG het volgende:
Ik volg nu Steve Kornacki met z'n grote scherm. Gaat best vlot nu, 60% al binnen uit L.A. county.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 05:34 schreef OMG het volgende:
Dapper, ik wil zoals Steve nog wel wat same day vote zien verschijnen voordat ik naar bed ga.

Zullen de ninjas trouwens al klaar staan?

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 05:38 schreef OMG het volgende:
Oh, NBC called het net. Newsom blijft.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 05:58 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Was het nou werkelijk zó spannend? Mijn indruk was uiteindelijk dat het nogal hijgerig gedrag was van journalisten.
Alhoewel het wél nodig is om tussentijds nog wat rep. gehuichel aan de kaak te stellen.
Nu maar hopen, dat de dems doorzetten met op de trom slaan gezien het opiniestuk in post # 27.
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“ The obviously political object is to legitimize the 2020 coup attempt in order to soften the ground for the next one — and there will be a next one.”

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 09:57 schreef Mike het volgende:
Ik denk dat het voor Newsom uiteindelijk vooral goed uitkwam dat het alternatief van de Republikeinen Larry Elder was. Het werd in de afgelopen weken steeds minder een referendum over Newsom en steeds meer een race tussen hem en Elder.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 10:34 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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Klopt, maar 20 procentpunten verschil is wel een blowout hoor. Dat is niet alleen te verklaren door de kandidaat.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 11:12 schreef speknek het volgende:
Zoals ik het begreep ging de Republikein nooit winnen natuurlijk, maar zijn de recall regels in Californie zo debiel dat het enige dat hoefde te gebeuren was dat Newsom minder dan 50% kreeg, en daarna zou in principe degene met 25% gouverneur kunnen worden. Dat is de reden dat ze het voortdurend proberen.

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Op zondag 12 september 2021 18:48 schreef CharlesKinbote het volgende:

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wat een ongelooflijk naïeve tabel, schijnbaar is het feit dat Reuters en AP Iran al jarenlang framen als een staat die ieder moment nucleaire wapens kan gaan ontwikkelen en gebruiken

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For years, Bob Enyart used his conservative media platform in Denver to mock those who died of AIDS by name or call for women who receive abortions to face the death penalty. Recently, the radio talk-show host — who had successfully sued the state over mask mandates and capacity limits in Colorado churches last year — joined a chorus of conservative voices who have bashed the coronavirus vaccine and vowed to stay unvaccinated.

In Enyart’s case, he pushed for boycotting vaccination because of the debunked claim that the vaccines were developed using aborted fetal cells.

“While it is not inherently sinful to take an immorally-developed” vaccine, he wrote on his website last month, Enyart urged people to “boycott” the vaccines “to further increase social tension and put pressure on the child killers.”

But weeks after he and his wife, Cheryl, tested positive for the virus after being unvaccinated, Enyart died of covid-19, his radio co-host announced Monday. Enyart was 62.

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Op dinsdag 14 september 2021 09:14 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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In principe ben ik echt wel met je eens dat drones volstrekt onethische smeerlapperij is. Voor de daders slim, want het kost ze geen doden aan eigen zijde, maar het opent een Pandora box.

Maar je stellingen kloppen mijns insziens gewoon niet. De president bepaalt het drone-gebruik niet echt, het is het pentagon dat het voorstelt en de huidige president zet dan meestal gewoon zijn handtekeningetje. Had McCain gewonnen in 2008, dan had hij ook de drone aanvallen opgevoerd. Wat dat betreft zit er weinig verschil.

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Waarom je dit echter denkt terug te voeren tot atoombommen
Ten eerste is de Southern switch pas ná de 2e WO uitgevoerd, jeweetz, het moment waarop de republikeinen besloten alle wappies in hun gelederen te lokken en vervolgens de standpunten van die wappies gingen overnemen, terwijl de democraten al die wappies dus kwijtraakten en juist de wat meer progressief liberale kant uitgingen. Voor zover je daarvan kon spreken in die tijd, het bleven hyperkapitalistische Amerikanen natuurlijk.

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En ik bekritiseer niet zozeer je doofpot beleid; ik geef gradaties aan. Onder Obama kwamen de rapporten over casualties naar buiten, al vonden ze dat bij het pentagon/WH niet zo prettig, dus werkten ze het tegen. Trump stopte echter expliciet met het stoppen van tellen van slachtoffers zelfs. En uiteraard deed híj weer meer drone aanvallen dan Obama ooit deed. Wat dus dat voortschrijdende techniek impliceert (samen met GOP oorlogsretoriek uiteraard, de frame dat de GOP vredelievender is dan de dems is natuurlijk een beetje gekkigheid. Het liefst had Trump ook de hele familie uitgemoord van een 'terrorist' immers.). De eerstvolgende oorlog van de VS zal wederom een ophoging betekenen.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 18:18 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom defeats the recall effort to remove him from office

LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin New­som (D) defeated a recall campaign against him Tuesday thanks to a large Democratic turnout and broad fears within the state over the surging coronavirus pandemic.

Newsom rode a large Democratic turnout, which he and his proxies worked on ensuring for months in this very blue state. Even more important were public fears over the new wave of coronavirus cases. He has been among the most aggressive governors in the nation in demanding vaccinations and mask-wearing, policies his Republican rivals opposed.

"We said yes to all those things we hold dear as Californians," Newsom said Tuesday night. "We have so much more in common as a state and a nation than we give ourselves credit for."

The Republican front-runner, conservative radio talk show host Larry Elder, conceded more than two hours after the polls closed, telling disappointed supporters, "Let's be gracious in defeat."

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 18:41 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dankzij de Trumpisten komen er steeds veel mensen opdagen die op de dems stemmen.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 18:43 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:

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Mja, omgekeerd waren net als Democraten ook Republikeinen oververtegenwoordigd ten opzichte van hun registratie-percentage.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 18:30 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Het was inderdaad illegaal. Die man is meteen van z'n post ontheven.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 19:58 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Als hij niks verkeerd heeft gedaan is dat minstens zo illegaal. Voor hetzelfde deed hij gewoon zijn werk.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 18:41 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dankzij de Trumpisten komen er steeds veel mensen opdagen die op de dems stemmen.

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Court reinstates Nunes suit over reporter's tweet
8th Circuit says journalist Ryan Lizza republished story about lawmaker's family by highlighting it on social media.

A federal appeals court has rejected Rep. Devin Nunes' defamation suit over a magazine story about his relatives in Iowa, but the court revived the lawmaker's claim that he was libeled when a reporter linked to the story in a tweet more than a year after it was first published.

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a lower court judge correctly sided with reporter Ryan Lizza over the 2018 Esquire article, "Milking the System," about how members of Nunes' family quietly moved their farming operations to Iowa. However, the three-judge panel said that when Lizza tweeted out a link to the story late the following year, he essentially republished the story after Nunes (R-Calif.) had filed suit over it, rejecting what he said was an implication that the Iowa farm employed undocumented immigrants.

"The complaint here adequately alleges that Lizza intended to reach and actually reached a new audience by publishing a tweet about Nunes and a link to the article," Judge Steven Colloton wrote in an opinion joined by Judges Lavenski Smith and Ralph Erickson. "Lizza tweeted the article in November 2019 after Nunes filed this lawsuit and denied the article’s implication. The pleaded facts are suggestive enough to render it plausible that Lizza, at that point, engaged in 'the purposeful avoidance of the truth.'"

Colloton acknowledged that other courts have ruled that merely posting a new link to an old story doesn't necessarily constitute republishing it, but he said those decisions didn't foreclose the possibility it could sometimes be a republication.

Nunes' suit against Lizza and Esquire's publisher, Hearst Magazine Media, was one of a flurry of defamation cases he filed in 2019 against reporters, media entities and others, arguing that he was being trashed because of his support for President Donald Trump in ongoing investigations of Trump's ties to Russia. Many of the cases have been dropped or dismissed.

Lizza, who joined POLITICO as chief Washington correspondent in August 2019, declined to comment. Attorneys for Hearst who have represented Lizza in the suit did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. Nunes' attorney, Steven Biss of Charlottesville, Va., did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the decision.

One First Amendment expert expressed concern about the decision and said the case would merit review by the full bench of the 8th Circuit.

"It’s certainly a novel application of a couple of important libel doctrines, and a potentially troublesome one if the 8th Circuit’s ruling is allowed to stand," said Chip Stewart, a professor at Texas Christian University. "It’s an odd kind of bootstrapping argument. Nunes claims the underlying article is false. He sues over it. Lizza tweets the exact same story after the lawsuit is filed. And what was originally not actual malice now all of a sudden is, at least plausibly enough for a lawsuit to advance to further costly litigation. All over a tweet that changed nothing about the original story."

One curious aspect of the ruling is that it appears to open the door to lawsuits against anyone who tweeted or retweeted the original story with knowledge of Nunes' lawsuit, and to similar claims over members of the public or those with significant social media followings tweeting or retweeting stories after learning that the subject of the story is disputing it in some way.

If the decision stands, the suit would be returned to a district court judge for further proceedings. The appeals court decision did not find Lizza or Hearst liable for the retweet but left those issues for the district judge to revisit.

Stewart said the appeals court's ruling is also disturbing because it allows Nunes, a sitting member of Congress, to press on with his legal campaign against his critics.

"He’s not trying to win money from these lawsuits. He just wants the pain of litigation to deter other critics from writing about him. I’ll admit, I’m hesitant to say even what I’m saying here because I don’t want to trigger a lawsuit from him," the professor said. "It’s an intimidation tactic that can make a person’s life miserable for a while, and he’s relying on that to curb honest criticism of his duties as an elected official."

Another defamation suit filed by members of Nunes' family is currently being litigated in federal court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Colloton and Smith are appointees of former President George W. Bush. Erickson was appointed by former President Donald Trump.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 23:31 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:

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Hè? Een journalist schrijft een verhaal over Republikeins vertegenwoordiger Devin Nunes en zijn familie. Hij wordt vervolgens aangeklaagd door Nunes voor smaad. Dat verliest Nunes. Echter zou een verwijzing naar dat artikel, wat geen smaad was, meer dan een jaar later op Twitter wel smaad kunnen zijn, omdat het nieuw publiek zou bereiken?! Wat?

Het moet haast wel dat ik hier iets even niet volg, toch?

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 23:31 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:

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Hè? Een journalist schrijft een verhaal over Republikeins vertegenwoordiger Devin Nunes en zijn familie. Hij wordt vervolgens aangeklaagd door Nunes voor smaad. Dat verliest Nunes. Echter zou een verwijzing naar dat artikel, wat geen smaad was, meer dan een jaar later op Twitter wel smaad kunnen zijn, omdat het nieuw publiek zou bereiken?! Wat?

Het moet haast wel dat ik hier iets even niet volg, toch?

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‘The Decision Okays Gag Orders’: First Amendment Experts Sound Alarm on ‘Mind-Bending Interpretation of Libel Law’ in Devin Nunes Appeals Court Ruling

U.S. Circuit Judges Steven Colloton (who was appointed by George W. Bush), Lavenski Smith (another G.W. Bush appointee) and Ralph Erickson (who was appointed by Donald Trump)