https://twitter.com/joejohnscnn/status/1348707666189840384?s=20
https://twitter.com/laraseligman/status/1348684244491628544?s=20
https://twitter.com/AlishaGrauso/status/1348434628718170112?s=20
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I have it on good authority that it’s 94% - HIGHEST EVER in Republican Party!
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Seems like there’s no way Trump meets the Brandenburg standards for incitement. It would be really bad if Trump was prosecuted but then gets the charges dismissed because what Trump said was protected by the First Amendment. Then Trump gets to be all TOTAL EXONERATION! WITCH HUNT!
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https://twitter.com/UltraONIX/status/1348707117411127298
Not sure if this is hack data or just scraping the public site.
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I was just thinking about farewell speech, Obama gave his on Jan 10th, does trump even give one?
Further behind than ever itt but can Unstuck issue a press release saying we also banned Donald Trump?
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I assume the answer is LOL no, but can a judge force Amazon to allow Parler back on its platform?
given Quinnipiac had florida +12 dems, it is
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Obviously it’s terrible and scary, but polls were like high 90 something approval basically always. So progress!
I don’t see how. Parler might have a breach of contract claim depending on their agreement with Amazon, but that would just result in Amazon giving them money. A judge ordering AWS to host them would be ordering “specific performance”, which is pretty rare and (if memory serves me right) only applies in circumstances where the consideration is unique and monetary damages won’t make the Plaintiff whole.
If I contract to sell you a piece of land, the court might order that I give you the land if I breach, because no two pieces of land are alike. Same thing if I contract to sell you a Picasso. If I contract to sell you server space, the court will just make me pay you whatever that space costs on the market if I breach.
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I could do some research and look this up, but I figure some of you may know offhand. Was McCarthyism as pervasive among the population as MAGA/Q stuff? My initial instinct is fuck no, not even close, but I figured I’d ask anyway.
I’m pretty sure that “gunk” helps protect marine animals against infection.
71% among repubs and 33% overall is like shockingly rock bottom. It’ll clearly go back up to like 96%/42% or something if he makes it the next ten days without nuking Chicago or openly calling for the Proud Boys to lynch Democrats.
Trump really is in a pickle in terms of a pardon for himself. He’s taking a risk by trying to do it himself, and he cant get one from Pence without leaving office. And even then Pence could decide not to. That’s why I think asylum somewhere isn’t off the table. Wonder if his buddy Netanyahu would take him?
It’s interesting.
But if Pence’s refusal to use the 25th is a sign that he’s scared of MAGA repercussions for him or his family, the same would presumably apply if he reneged on a deal to pardon Trump.
More people had an opinion, positive or negative, on Joe McCarthy than on QAnon and McCarthy was around 50% national approval at his peak.
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Given that Communist Russia and people supporting Communism in America were both real things, I’d assume it was way easier to smear anyone you wanted as a Communist and more widespread than Q. Only thing that cuts the other way is that Internet allows crap to spread faster and easier.
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If anything I think McCarthyism was more pervasive because it wasn’t some anonymous “insider” posting on some random corner of the Internet, it was a sitting Senator “investigating” alleged Commies because of a Truman executive order. SCOTUS eventually had to reign McCarthy in but at his peak in 1954 50% of the public approved of him.
Lots of similarities to current alt-righters, too
Although far-right radicals were the bedrock of support for McCarthyism, they were not alone. A broad “coalition of the aggrieved” found McCarthyism attractive, or at least politically useful. Common themes uniting the coalition were opposition to internationalism, particularly the United Nations; opposition to social welfare provisions, particularly the various programs established by the New Deal; and opposition to efforts to reduce inequalities in the social structure of the United States.
One focus of popular McCarthyism concerned the provision of public health services, particularly vaccination, mental health care services, and fluoridation, all of which were denounced by some to be communist plots to poison or brainwash the American people.
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