Culture wars, voter fraud & secret agendas

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But the fact that Florida only plans to strip a special benefit from Disney — rather than, say, tossing its executives in prison — does not mean that it can punish Disney for its protected speech.

Think of it this way: Imagine that José owns a bar in Orlando. One day, José tells the local paper that he dislikes Ron DeSantis and plans to vote for DeSantis’s opponent in the upcoming election. The next day, the state sends him a letter informing him that “because you disparaged our great governor, we are stripping your business of its liquor license.”

José does not have a constitutional right to sell liquor for profit. And the overwhelming majority of Florida businesses do not have a license permitting them to do so. But if Florida strips José of his liquor license because the government disapproves of José’s First Amendment-protected speech, it violates the Constitution.

Disney’s ability to govern the Reedy Creek Improvement District is no different from Florida’s hypothetical decision to take away José’s liquor license. If Florida has a legitimate reason to strip away this benefit from Disney, the Constitution most likely would permit it to do so.

But no one can be punished because they express a political opinion.

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"It was a false report. I wasn't down [in the bunker]," on Friday evening, Trump said on Fox News Radio host Brian Kilmeade's show.

"I went down during the day and I was there for a tiny, little short period of time and it was much more for an inspection, there was no problem during the day," the president said.

Kilmeade, referring to the Secret Service, asked Trump: "They didn't say to you, 'You have to go downstairs, my responsibility is your welfare?'"

The president replied, "Nope, they didn't tell me that at all."

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Op maandag 25 april 2022 22:48 schreef NeeOfTochJA het volgende:
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“I feel exhilarated by the fact that this fellow finally, totally discredited himself,” McConnell told Jonathan Martin, one of the authors of a new book called “This Will Not Pass,” when asked about his feelings on the violence and the rioters.

Trump, the Kentucky Republican said, “was pretty thoroughly discredited by this.”

“He put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger,” he said, standing in a doorway of the Capitol after midnight. “Couldn’t have happened at a better time.”

“What do you hear about the Twenty-Fifth Amendment?” he asked Martin, eager for intelligence about whether the Cabinet and vice president might remove Trump from office, according to the book. Then McConnell said, according to the book, that he had spoken to Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) about issuing a joint statement telling Trump to stay away from the inauguration. A McConnell spokesman declined to comment on the book.

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Op maandag 25 april 2022 22:40 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Over censuur gesproken

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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 08:52 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:

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Ik ben benieuwd hoeveel Aaron Rupar betaald krijgt voor het dagelijks urenlang kijken naar Fox News.

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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 11:37 schreef Chivaz het volgende:
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Het kan weer op Twitter, het vrije woord is terug.

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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 08:52 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:

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Ik ben benieuwd hoeveel Aaron Rupar betaald krijgt voor het dagelijks urenlang kijken naar Fox News.

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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 11:37 schreef Chivaz het volgende:
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Het kan weer op Twitter, het vrije woord is terug.

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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 12:30 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:
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Goede zaak.

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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 11:37 schreef Chivaz het volgende:
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Het kan weer op Twitter, het vrije woord is terug.

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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 16:13 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Man man man je dacht echt dat dat niet meer kon? Typerend wel.

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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 15:20 schreef ATuin-hek het volgende:

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Zuckerbucks?

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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 16:36 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Nee dit kon niet, elke twijfel over de legitimiteit van de verkiezingen kwam met een waarschuwing of werd verwijderd. Ik heb de nodige accounts al zien verdwijnen door het over mogelijke fraude van de verkiezingen te hebben.

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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 17:11 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ah de labels tegen regelrechte leugens zijn nu verdwenen omdat Elon Musk Twitter heeft gekocht? Nee hoor daar waren ze al mee opgehouden en van verwijderen van accounts om die reden was geen sprake.

De labels werkten ook helemaal niet, ze kregen er alleen maar meer aandacht door. Hardcore MAGA-volgelingen hebben nl helemaal niets met feiten. Het is een sekte.

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"On both proposed initiatives, the courts agreed with us that the descriptions provided to potential Nevada voters were deceptive and inaccurate, and could not go forward," Wolf Rifkin attorney Bradley Schrager, who represented the plantiffs, said in a statement. "In both instances, people with agendas undermining confidence in our elections were found to be misleading the voters about their ballot measures. Today the justice system made clear that such tactics are not tolerable."

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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 17:12 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Het is goed Kijkert, als jij vind dat het zo is dan zal het vast wel zo zijn.

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In petitions sent to public school superintendents across the state, Chaz Stevens asked the districts to "immediately remove the Bible from the classroom, library, and any instructional material," Stevens wrote in the documents, which were shared with NPR. "Additionally, I also seek the banishment of any book that references the Bible."

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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 17:11 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ah de labels tegen regelrechte leugens zijn nu verdwenen omdat Elon Musk Twitter heeft gekocht? Nee hoor daar waren ze al mee opgehouden en van verwijderen van accounts om die reden was geen sprake.

De labels werkten ook helemaal niet, ze kregen er alleen maar meer aandacht door. Hardcore MAGA-volgelingen hebben nl helemaal niets met feiten. Het is een sekte.

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Twitter spokesperson Elizabeth Busby told CNN on Friday that "since March 2021," Twitter has not been enforcing its "civic integrity policy" in relation to lies about the 2020 election. That was the policy under which the company had suspended or even banned users for lying about the 2020 election, affixed fact-check warning labels to tweets containing such lies and limited others' ability to share those inaccurate tweets.

The civic integrity policy still exists, Busby said in an email, but it is "no longer" being applied to lies about the 2020 election in particular. Busby said that's because the policy is designed to be used "during the duration" of an election or other civic event, and "the 2020 U.S. election is not only certified, but President Biden has been in office for more than a year."

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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 19:18 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:

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Heb je het artikel uit de tweet ook gelezen ? Staat duidelijk in dat er wel accounts voor verbannen zijn en dat de policy daarvoor nog steeds actief is maar alleen niet gehandhaafd wordt op het moment omdat het geen verkiezingsjaar is.
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Op dinsdag 26 april 2022 19:18 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:

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Heb je het artikel uit de tweet ook gelezen ? Staat duidelijk in dat er wel accounts voor verbannen zijn en dat de policy daarvoor nog steeds actief is maar alleen niet gehandhaafd wordt op het moment omdat het geen verkiezingsjaar is.
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The texts, which were among those selectively provided by Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to the House select committee, show Rep. Scott Perry pushing to have the nation's top intelligence official investigate baseless conspiracy theories and working to replace the US acting attorney general with an acolyte willing to do Trump's bidding.

"From an Intel friend: DNI needs to task NSA to immediately seize and begin looking for international comms related to Dominion," Perry wrote to Meadows on November 12, just five days after the election was called for Joe Biden.

In the text, which has not been previously reported, Perry appears to be urging Meadows to get John Ratcliffe, then-Director of National Intelligence, to order the National Security Agency to investigate debunked claims that Dominion voting machines were hacked by China.

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Mr. Brooks and Mr. Gaetz were the prime offenders in the eyes of G.O.P. leaders. Mr. Brooks addressed the Jan. 6 rally on the National Mall, which preceded the Capitol riot, using incendiary language. After Jan. 6, Mr. Gaetz went on television to attack multiple Republicans who had criticized Mr. Trump, including Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, a member of the leadership team.

Those comments by Mr. Gaetz alarmed Mr. McCarthy and his colleagues in leadership -- particularly the reference to Ms. Cheney, who was already the target of threats and public abuse from Mr. Trump's faction in the party because of her criticism of the defeated president.

"He's putting people in jeopardy," Mr. McCarthy said of Mr. Gaetz. "And he doesn't need to be doing this. We saw what people would do in the Capitol, you know, and these people came prepared with rope, with everything else."

Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 2 House Republican, suggested that Mr. Gaetz might be crossing a legal boundary.

"It's potentially illegal what he's doing," Mr. Scalise said.