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Covington student's lawsuit against WaPo dismissed

 
 
 
Half-Life said:
Angry Floof said:
Which cities, specifically? We know a lot about Republican run states and they are shitholes by all human measures: health, education, poverty, inequality, and more. So please show us the data regarding the cities you're talking about.


:rotfl: Yeah, because bigots can only be one kind of bigot. He's a bigoted lowlife asshole in every way. What a silly argument that his assholishness can't be criticized unless it targets people of color. Or whatever it is you think you're saying there. "He's also a lowlife asshole to white liberals, therefore, he's not a racist." :rotfl:
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I understand some Republican cities are poor. But, Trump is right. Elijah Cummings has been in power since 1996 and has done nothing to help Baltimore. It is a disgusting crime infested city, no doubt. Elijah also claims to support black lives matter and has done nothing to stop the crime or help the black youths stop turning to crime and gangs. Why can't he be criticized? Are we supposed to pander to him just because he's black and pat him on the head and say, "You're doing a great job!" like you're patronizing a 5 year old?
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First, Trump is President of the United States and Baltimore is in the USA. If Baltimore is such a disgusting crime infested city, why has Trump do nothing to help MAGA in Baltimore?

Second, there was no dispute over anything to do with that district, so Trump has no reason to start to criticize a congressman of color about the alleged state of his district.

Third, as anyone who has the slightest idea about a federal system would know that congresspeople do not run cities - mayors do.

Apparently Mr Trump feels that pandering to the alt right, bigots and racists will help him get re-elected.

Third,
 
laughing dog said:
Half-Life said:
Angry Floof said:
Which cities, specifically? We know a lot about Republican run states and they are shitholes by all human measures: health, education, poverty, inequality, and more. So please show us the data regarding the cities you're talking about.


:rotfl: Yeah, because bigots can only be one kind of bigot. He's a bigoted lowlife asshole in every way. What a silly argument that his assholishness can't be criticized unless it targets people of color. Or whatever it is you think you're saying there. "He's also a lowlife asshole to white liberals, therefore, he's not a racist." :rotfl:
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I understand some Republican cities are poor. But, Trump is right. Elijah Cummings has been in power since 1996 and has done nothing to help Baltimore. It is a disgusting crime infested city, no doubt. Elijah also claims to support black lives matter and has done nothing to stop the crime or help the black youths stop turning to crime and gangs. Why can't he be criticized? Are we supposed to pander to him just because he's black and pat him on the head and say, "You're doing a great job!" like you're patronizing a 5 year old?
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First, Trump is President of the United States and Baltimore is in the USA. If Baltimore is such a disgusting crime infested city, why has Trump do nothing to help MAGA in Baltimore?

Second, there was no dispute over anything to do with that district, so Trump has no reason to start to criticize a congressman of color about the alleged state of his district.

Third, as anyone who has the slightest idea about a federal system would know that congresspeople do not run cities - mayors do.

Apparently Mr Trump feels that pandering to the alt right, bigots and racists will help him get re-elected.

Third,
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Trump is right to point him out. Cummings is criticizing the border facilities and Trump is saying to fix your district first. If Elijah was as passionate about his city as he is about the border, Baltimore would be much improved. It is nothing but "fake outrage."

Just like when people protest climate change, but we point out how China and India are polluting the globe even worse and they should go form activist groups in China and India, people say "no we don't care enough to do that." Fake outrage.
 
Half-Life said:
Angry Floof said:
Which cities, specifically? We know a lot about Republican run states and they are shitholes by all human measures: health, education, poverty, inequality, and more. So please show us the data regarding the cities you're talking about.


:rotfl: Yeah, because bigots can only be one kind of bigot. He's a bigoted lowlife asshole in every way. What a silly argument that his assholishness can't be criticized unless it targets people of color. Or whatever it is you think you're saying there. "He's also a lowlife asshole to white liberals, therefore, he's not a racist." :rotfl:
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I understand some Republican cities are poor. But, Trump is right. Elijah Cummings has been in power since 1996 and has done nothing to help Baltimore. It is a disgusting crime infested city, no doubt. Elijah also claims to support black lives matter and has done nothing to stop the crime or help the black youths stop turning to crime and gangs. Why can't he be criticized? Are we supposed to pander to him just because he's black and pat him on the head and say, "You're doing a great job!" like you're patronizing a 5 year old?
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Cummings district is the second wealthiest black-majority district in the country. Also the second-most-well-educated majority-black district.
 
Half-Life said:
laughing dog said:
First, Trump is President of the United States and Baltimore is in the USA. If Baltimore is such a disgusting crime infested city, why has Trump do nothing to help MAGA in Baltimore?

Second, there was no dispute over anything to do with that district, so Trump has no reason to start to criticize a congressman of color about the alleged state of his district.

Third, as anyone who has the slightest idea about a federal system would know that congresspeople do not run cities - mayors do.

Apparently Mr Trump feels that pandering to the alt right, bigots and racists will help him get re-elected.

Third,
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*Fake outrage*
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FIFY
 
Half-Life said:
laughing dog said:
First, Trump is President of the United States and Baltimore is in the USA. If Baltimore is such a disgusting crime infested city, why has Trump do nothing to help MAGA in Baltimore?

Second, there was no dispute over anything to do with that district, so Trump has no reason to start to criticize a congressman of color about the alleged state of his district.

Third, as anyone who has the slightest idea about a federal system would know that congresspeople do not run cities - mayors do.

Apparently Mr Trump feels that pandering to the alt right, bigots and racists will help him get re-elected.

Third,
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Trump is right to point him out. Cummings is criticizing the border facilities and Trump is saying to fix your district first. If Elijah was as passionate about his city as he is about the border, Baltimore would be much improved. It is nothing but "fake outrage."
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Apparently you are as ignorant about the federalism as our President is: as anyone who has the slightest idea about a federal system would know that congresspeople do not run cities - mayors do. Cummings does not have the power to fix any district, let alone his. Furthermore, Mr. Trump is trying to shift the focus from his concentration camps by pandering to racists, the alt-right and their dupes with this,

I noticed you ignored my first point, so I will repeat it - Trump is President of the United States and Baltimore is in the USA. If Baltimore is such a disgusting crime infested city, why has Trump do nothing to help MAGA in Baltimore?


Half-Life said:
Just like when people protest climate change, but we point out how China and India are polluting the globe even worse and they should go form activist groups in China and India, people say "no we don't care enough to do that." Fake outrage.
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How surprising - an idiotic red herring.
 
Half-Life said:
laughing dog said:
First, Trump is President of the United States and Baltimore is in the USA. If Baltimore is such a disgusting crime infested city, why has Trump do nothing to help MAGA in Baltimore?

Second, there was no dispute over anything to do with that district, so Trump has no reason to start to criticize a congressman of color about the alleged state of his district.

Third, as anyone who has the slightest idea about a federal system would know that congresspeople do not run cities - mayors do.

Apparently Mr Trump feels that pandering to the alt right, bigots and racists will help him get re-elected.

Third,
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Trump is right to point him out. Cummings is criticizing the border facilities and Trump is saying to fix your district first. If Elijah was as passionate about his city as he is about the border, Baltimore would be much improved. It is nothing but "fake outrage."

Just like when people protest climate change, but we point out how China and India are polluting the globe even worse and they should go form activist groups in China and India, people say "no we don't care enough to do that." Fake outrage.
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before criticizing a post on a message board, don't you think you should first clean up your desk.. put all those papers away.. empty the ashtray.. throw out the garbage.. perform a disk defrag.. clean up your unused icons... empty the recycle bin... patch all your software... run a bench marking tool and tweek your bios settings to be perfect?
 
Half-Life said:
I understand some Republican cities are poor. But, Trump is right. Elijah Cummings has been in power since 1996 and has done nothing to help Baltimore. It is a disgusting crime infested city, no doubt.
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Halfie, if America is so disgusting to you, why don't you go back to where you came from?
 
blastula said:
Half-Life said:
I understand some Republican cities are poor. But, Trump is right. Elijah Cummings has been in power since 1996 and has done nothing to help Baltimore. It is a disgusting crime infested city, no doubt.
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Halfie, if America is so disgusting to you, why don't you go back to where you came from?
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If America is so bad why doesn't His Flatulence go back where he came from?
 
EXCLUSIVE: 8 Covington Catholic Teens Sue ‘Most Egregious High-Profile Individuals’ for Defamation

Lawyers for eight Covington Catholic students (John Does 1-8) filed a defamation lawsuit on Thursday in Kentucky’s Kenton County Circuit Court against 12 individuals — lawmakers, journalists/media figures and social media personalities included.

Attorneys Robert Barnes (disclosure: Barnes has written columns for Law&Crime) and Kevin Murphy began the suit by going back to January 18, 2019, when, they say, “A field trip to our nation’s capital for a group of minors from Covington, Kentucky turned into a social media nightmare that changed their futures forever.”

This was when MAGA hat wearing high school students (Nick Sandmann, in particular) came face to face with a 65-year-old Native American man identified as Nathan Phillips. The lawsuit said that the defendants jumped to conclusions, painting the plaintiffs as racists, lying about an event they didn’t witness firsthand, and libeling the minors. (Note that these minors are bringing this lawsuit through their parents.)

“Several of our Senators, most-famous celebrities, and widely read journalists, collectively used their large social media platforms, perceived higher credibility and public followings to lie and libel minors they never met, based on an event they never witnessed,” the lawsuit said. “These defendants called for the kids to be named and shamed, doxxed and expelled, and invited public retaliation against these minors from a small town in Kentucky.The defendants circulated false statements about them to millions of people around the world. The video of the entire event, known to the defendants, exposed all of their factual claims against the kids as lies. The defendants were each individually offered the opportunity to correct, delete, and/or apologize for their false statements, but each refused, continuing to circulate the false statements about these children to this very day on their social media platforms they personally control.”

The defendants have been named as follows (Law&Crime is not including a copy of the lawsuit here so as not publicize their addresses): 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico), CNN’s Ana Navarro, Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, comedian Kathy Griffin, ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, Reza Aslan (formerly of CNN), Kentucky entrepreneur Adam Edelen, Princeton University History Professor Kevin M. Kruse, activist and journalist Shaun King, Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery and Rewire.News editor-in-chief Jodi Jacobson.
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$50,000 each. These wealthy people can certainly afford to defend themselves, but they'll spend more on defense than they would have lost had they settled. And in order to avoid this all they had to do was issue a retraction.
 
CNN first tried to have the case dismissed. Now they just settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. We can't know for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Covington kids were now part of the 1%.

Oh, and the case against WaPo was reinstated.
 
Jason Harvestdancer said:
CNN first tried to have the case dismissed. Now they just settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. We can't know for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Covington kids were now part of the 1%.
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Link?
Oh, and the case against WaPo was reinstated.
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Reinstated? As in it was ... dropped? closed? won/lost? and then opened again? What does reinstated mean legally speaking regarding a law suit?
I think it's actually just ongoing, Jason, not reinstated. It's just not concluded yet. But, of course, I would admit wrong if you provide links to any of this.

edit: I see a reason.com article, but it also doesn't say where it's getting the information. Traveling through some other links, it appears that the only backup for this is Sandmann's tweet earlier today that they settled.
 
Jason Harvestdancer said:
CNN first tried to have the case dismissed. Now they just settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. We can't know for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Covington kids were now part of the 1%.

Oh, and the case against WaPo was reinstated.
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The Covington kid (singular, whose family sued) is the son of a Fidelity VP.

It wouldn't surprise me if he were part of the 1% to begin with.
 
 
Eh, they could very well be nuisance value settlements.
 
Jason Harvestdancer said:
Derec said:
Tom Sawyer said:
Just one more example of how decent, hard working racist trolls are bring oppressed by the elitist left wing judiciary when they ask for nothing more than to dominate society solely because of how they were born.
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If you actually followed the case, the Indian was actually the racist troll in this case, and WaPo misrepresented what happened. I hope the boys appeal.

By the way, the judge is a Jimmy Carter appointee. Is it any surprise that he ruled the way he did?
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I understand the basis of the Judge's ruling. Basically the WaPo, when they referred to the kids as racist, were quoting the Native who confronted them. He is the one who made the false statements, they only quoted him.

So now, if you want to say something untrue and get away with it, find a homeless person. Give him $5 and a bottle of booze, and ask him to say something bad about someone. Then quote him over and over and over...
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We have that... its called Facebook
 
Angra Mainyu said:
Perhaps, but I think it's improbable they would settle for a small amount, given their willingness to sue. But we probably won't find out.
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Maybe there will be some unusual purchases, like for example a Koenigsegg or a huge house. That would be a hint of a favorable settlement.

I must say the news media behaved deplorably during that incident; they completely misrepresented what was happening to drive their "white people bad, minorities good" narrative.
 
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