US Politics

One of those guys whose written more books than he's read.

Except that he didn’t write them.

this tacit recognition of biden's win is just the GOP donor dollars talking, surely?

It was within hours of their donors saying they'd withold money from the Georgia elections in the New Year. So, yeah.

Yeah. These are the words of the Republican Federal Judge in Pennsylvania that dismissed the Trump campaign's lawsuit.

This is pretty blistering as far as judicial temperament goes.

This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election, in terms of the sheer volume of votes asked to be invalidated. One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption, such that this Court would have no option but to regrettably grant the proposed injunctive relief despite the impact it would have on such a large group of citizens.

That has not happened. Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence. In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more. At bottom, Plaintiffs have failed to meet their burden to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.

Full decision here

I think that judge was a recent Trump appointee also.

Appointed by Obama in 2012 according to his Wiki.

Personally, I have always hated the politicisation of Judges in the US. Who cares what party they vote for?

However this has been a wonderful, if terrifying, test of the complex checks and balances in the US system. As opposed to this sort of fuckery.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/nov/23/tory-mps-rebuked-over-letter-to-judge-in-charlie-elphicke-references-case

Must have been a different ruling I was thinking of.

Edit: It was Judge Grimberg in Georgia who I was thinking of.

Who cares what party they vote for?

Basically everybody who isn't a judge it feels like when you read Twitter!

I understood this is to rubuff Trumps claim that he ordered her to do it?
Could be wrong though.

So good

As opposed to this sort of fuckery.

That has also been a pretty good test. They've been publicly told to go swivel.

when you read Twitter!

There's the problem.

There's the problem.

I didn't really get into Twitter until 2015 or so and left it about a year ago.

A journalist friend of mine always maintained that Twitter isn't reflective of the world at large and that it has a relatively small user base of very active users. This has been my calming mantra for a few years too. Fuck that place.

Although maybe it will become less of a toxic shit hole if Parler gathers momentum.

I only use it for customer service complaints when normal methods fail. Can't stand it.

Twitter isn't reflective of the world at large and that it has a relatively small user base of very active users

My gut feel says this too, but it seems to have quite a big impact on news reporting etc

but it seems to have quite a big impact on news reporting etc

I think you're right. The most competent journalists exist on there but exercise caution andc are over what and how they report. This is a minority of journalists IMO.

Of course, Tommy Robinson is a journalist and he's banned from there. Sorry, couldn't resist.

Speaking of Tommy Robinson. I wondered what he was up to. Turns out he's due in court on Monday. Shocked I am.

There were similar attempts at startup 'communities' trying to siphon off nazi snowflakes bawling about how partial Twitter was in 2016. They amounted to fuck all.

Could argue that is what Gab tried to be too

Lol, I've just remembered Menschn. Simpler times.

competent journalists exist on there

But it also hollows out journalism in general. I regularly find myself reading articles about what some politician or public figure said, then what the responses were and so on, and then realise halfway through the article that all the source material is from Twitter. No speeches, reports, public debates, press releases, meeting minutes etc needed. Lazy journos can just sit back and let the soundbites come to them.

Twitter is to the world what lfgss is to cycling.

Most cyclists just get a bike from Halfords and ride to work.

He was at the Old Bailey a few days ago too. Queue of jurors singing Crying by Roy Orbison as he passed was a particular highlight.

i found Twitter a much better experience when I unfollowed/muted/turned off retweets for certain people and really made my timeline focus on what I care about seeing. which turns out to be rugby league journalists.

i'm really ruthless and only keep someone on my timeline if they're adding to my life. i'm turned off a load of pro-EU and anti-tory mates because they post SO MUCH stuff and i'm like "yeah i know". i don't need machine gunning with FACTS about HOW SHIT THIS IS every hour of every day.