• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    Wait wait hang on…are the rest of them like this? Can we just get brave journalists with integrity to ask them basic uncomfortable questions (and bring lawyers along!) and they’ll just…throw a little tantrum , say a ton of stupid shit and just leave?

    That’s gotta be great for their campaigning.

    Man. We gotta do this across the country! Imagine the excellent footage waiting to be mined for entertainment and democracy!

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      You’re describing The Daily Show (and its various offshoots) which, while wonderful, have not fixed the country for the last 30 years.

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      Yep, and we have not even begun changing course on being a joke. Its still full speed ahead. The republicans are still evil and clueless and the dems have changed nothing since Biden/Harris shat the bed and lost. Even out of power the Dems are delivering on their promise that “nothing will fundamentally change”.

      No politicians from either party ever mention the Mossad Epstein operation, or the Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese holocaust either. Not a single word in years.

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    He says: “Do you believe in the First Amendment?! Do you believe in my First Amendment right to express myself?!”

    Hey asshole Republican, read the First Amendment please. Here I’ll help you: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    The people laughing at you aren’t the government. They didn’t even stop you physically from trying to utter your garbage. They just laughed at you. You stopped talking yourself. The First Amendment doesn’t mean people have to listen to you, and it certianly doesn’t shield you from being laughed at when you say stupid shit.

    Mr. Republican, the fact that you don’t know how the First Amendment to the US Constitution works should disqualify you from holding the office where your oath includes: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;”

    How can you swear to support and defend the Constitution when you haven’t even read the thing?

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      Hey if you do your best to seriously fuck over anybody that you disagree with, you’re a loyalist trooper and a good person, right?

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      From the article:

      “This is the problem,” Harris complained to the crowd. “You all say you believe there’s a First Amendment, but only if you agree with you. You should let me finish the sentence, ma’am. You are rude!”

      Quite literally thinks it’s his first amendment right not to get shouted at when complete horse shit comes from his mouth.

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    Let’s game this out. Assume what he was saying is true. Prices went up because Democrats have environmental regulations. Ok, cool. So the Democrats are protecting the environment? What an excellent endorsement.

    When did prices shoot up? Just this year, right? Did the Democrats add these regulations this year then? Even though the House, Senate, and White House are controlled by Maga, somehow the party controlling all branches of the federal government was sidelined and wasn’t able to stop it. Is he saying the Maga party, and by extension the President, is weak and feckless? Bold of him to say.

    However, Occam’s Razor tends to indicate he is full of crap, and that disel prices went up due to fallout from an unwinnable war, initiated by a feckless President, as a distraction from the allegations that he raped children.

    Either way, good on the Democrats for protecting the environment, I suppose.

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      Prices went up because Democrats have environmental regulations. Ok, cool.

      Conservatives (regressives) refuse to accept higher prices for anything, including a higher quality of life. This, of course, only holds true until someone they elected skyrockets their cost of living and then the excuses come pouring in. The problem is they keep electing failures that skyrocket their cost of living without offering them anything in return.

      Sometimes you have to pay more for nicer things. Here’s a good example. I’ve spent my entire life in The Valley in California. When I was a kid I’d come down out of the Sierras on the freeway in the summer and you could literally see a thick layer of smog covering the valley with the tops of the skyscrapers peaking out above that layer. Then CA got serious about fuel refinement standards and SMOG laws and now that layer is all but gone. So I pay more TO BREATHE CLEANER AIR. And there’s way more people/cars in this valley than there used to be, so these regulations REALLY worked.

      And like you mentioned, the cost of living skyrocketing is so clearly and obviously tied to this admin’s awful policies that there’s no argument in reality against it. The problem is we’re all trying to point this out to actual, literal cult members.

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    Everybody needs to see that second video, where he demands that only a specific reporter isn’t allowed to record him because it’s a two party state, and he doesn’t give HER permission, even though it’s a public forum, and there are a dozen other reporters recording. And then he demands an officer come over and arrest her for violating the two party recording law, before walking away, telling the other reporters to blame HER for not getting their uncomfortable questions answered.

    What a coward, and a MAGA Traitor Pedophile.

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      Conservatives are all cowards. I’ve never met one with values that withstood the slightest scrutiny. Their god is Money, their religion is Greed, and Bigotry is their gospel.

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      I live in a two party consent state same as Maryland and the law only applies if you have an expectation of privacy. There is no expectation of privacy in a public place OR in a crowd of people.

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      The funniest thing was when the reporter handed her camera to another person and asked them to record for her. She technically wasn’t recording him.

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        Yeah, that was awesome. He thinks he’s getting one over on her, so she just says “Here you hold it” to her colleague, and then goes on asking her question, WHICH HE CLEARLY DIDN’T WANT TO ANSWER!

        Hilarious.

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      Thank you for doing what this article failed to do and describing that Twitter-hosted video. Hopefully it’s uploaded to a better network.

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        Wow, that is some MASSIVE sovcit energy 🤣

        The nice part is that now, any journalist who comes into his proximity will know that it’s a good idea to memorize that section of Maryland state law, and specifically where it is not applicable (public forums), to quote at him, chapter and verse

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        Just a heads up, that site immediately started trying to get me to install malware, make sure you got protection

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      Oh my god, I cringed so hard I’m gonna need physical therapy. I wonder if he felt good about that encounter walking away.

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        Oh, No, he’s going to play this encounter over in his head every single day for the rest of his life. This was the incident that ended his political career.

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    Republicans are enemies of America. At this point they have abandoned the constitution and are nothing more than pathetic Nazis. If you try to fuck the press you are an enemy of the constitution.

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    Whine and threaten, the conservative (regressive) way.

    Can’t govern while you’re whining and threatening.

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    “The facts are diesel prices have gone up. There’s no question about it. Why has it gone up? Because the Democrats have environmental regulations—” Harris tried to respond, only for audience members to groan, laugh, and shout at the Maryland first district congressman and chair of the right-wing House Freedom caucus.

    …

    Shortly after the debate, Harris, a staunch MAGA Republican who has avoided in-person town halls since 2023, tried to get a reporter arrested for recording his speech to a group of journalists. Harris incorrectly stated the reporter was breaking the law as she asked about his support for the war.

    What a F’ing snowflake.

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      Member of the party that wants to inspect genitals in a public bathroom believes he has a right to privacy in a public forum.