@raphjd If Christians are going to keep telling us over and over again that Christ hates the Gays, then it shouldn't be our fault for listening to them.
Striking a juror based on their religious views is nothing new. It's why so few Catholics make it onto capital punishment juries. The Attorney General just cares here because it involves LGBT issues and if the State loses this case, then it will owe the plaintiff money for wrongful termination.
GOP donor Anton Lazzaro, along with the head of the Young Republicans at University of St. Thomas, guilty of sex trafficking little girls. I guess all of those GQP believers didn't realize that the call was coming from inside the house all along.
I don't know how lowering the score by two questions will really help Delaware's diversity issue, but I can say that it's nice to see that Delaware is modernizing its process to be more like the other states.
As a part of my firm's process of hiring and overseeing attorneys around the country, I can tell you that Delaware is a bitch to find available attorneys for employment. It only holds its bar exam once a year (and I don't think it's even held it the last couple years) and the population is so low. Also, it has a residency requirement for its lawyers meaning that if you want a Delaware licensed attorney for your multi-jurisdictional law firm, you have to find an attorney willing to live and work in Delaware.
It took us months of advertising and interviews to find a suitable attorney in Delaware.
@blablarg18 said in RFK Jr attacks CIA, USA war machine, & censorship - in one statement:
Those companies cannot exist without that immunity, and they were told that if they did not censor the President's [sic; Biden Regime's] opponents and critics of these policies, they would lose that immunity...
Both Democrat and Republican forces are constantly threatening those companies with repeal of Section 230. Democrats threaten to repeal it because they want those companies to censor more hate speech than they already do. Republicans threaten to repeal it because they believe those companies disproportionately censor conservative users more than liberal users.
It's really just a race to see which side actually does it, and by doing so, destroys the Internet as we know it. For example, this message boards like this one won't survive the repeal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/
Apparently, Florida wants to indoctrinate its children into believing that human chattel slavery was a good thing.
Saying slavery helped blacks by teaching them trade skills is like saying Auschwitz helped Jews hit their target weights. It's an absurd and grossly inappropriate misrepresentation of the atrocity.
First, right-wing conspiracy nuts who think they aren't already eating bugs in their food are clueless about where some food ingredients come from.
Second, the statements by NPR are not mutually exclusive or contradictory. Eating bugs is already common in some places in the world and is advocated as a small portion of environmentalist plans to mitigate climate change.
The "bug eating" conspiracy that NPR is pointing out is racists is the "Great Reset" theory floating around in dark corners of right-wing Internet. And some elements of it could be considered racist.
So, you're meme is wrong, as per usual.
@MrMazda said in Two Women Are Told They've Broken the Law by Criticizing Male Attempting to Breastfeed a Child: Report:
You say it yourself.... SIMILAR.... SIMILAR is NOT the same. There is a difference. One is naturally occurring and the other is not.
And you are assuming that similar but different means worse. You are assuming that naturally occurring means better.
Wild almonds are natural, but I'd much rather eat the genetically modified cultured almonds that don't have enough cyanide in them to kill me. Cultured almonds are similar (same shape, color, texture, and nutritional value) but different (not bitter and not full of poison) to natural almonds.
@blablarg18 said in Report says Israel had NO covid deaths, for normal people under 50:
The lesson is: for the majority of people - apart from smaller-scale, targeted measures to protect highly co-morbid people - all those Nazi Fascist measures you just quoted & love so much, were unnecessary.
You can't know they were unnecessary because you don't have a counterfactual world within which they weren't done and no deaths occurred. They were done and no deaths occurred; you cannot prove the lack of cause and effect.
It's like saying we didn't need smallpox vaccinations because smallpox would have just went away on its own like it did. No, it went away BECAUSE OF the smallpox vaccinations.
@raphjd said in Report says Israel had NO covid deaths, for normal people under 50:
I wonder how you would respond if Trump did all this.
My money is on you would be hysterically screeching "oppression"
You would lose that bet.
Guess that shows that travel restrictions, lockdowns, government seizing control of hospital resources, contact tracing and cellphone surveillance, and home quarantining supported by government-mandated fully compensated paid leave for employees... worked to keep their citizens safe.
Just to keep our usual gaggle of transphobes honest, it is possible to pump a man full of enough estrogen and prolactin hormones to make him produce breast milk with a mixture of lactose, proteins, and electrolytes similar to a woman's colostrum or milk. And, of course, the act of breastfeeding is for more than JUST feeding the baby (as some women "breastfeed" even when they fail to produce milk), because of its effects on the baby, i.e., the skin-to-skin contact.
@jaroonn is correct about the parties switching, starting in the 1960's thru the 80's. If @raphjd had ever taken a political science class in a university, then he'd know that. But, as we all know, @raphjd thinks reading books makes you dumber.
But, for context...
The Great Switch: How the Republican & Democratic Parties Flipped Ideologies
"In 1964, Democratic president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. In the 1964 election, Republican candidate Barry Goldwater publicly opposed the new law, arguing that it expanded the power of the federal government to a dangerous level.
It was this argument that led to a final, decisive switch. Black voters, who had historically been loyal to the Republican Party because of the 1866 Civil Rights Act, had already been switching to the Democratic Party.
However, upon hearing Goldwater’s argument against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the majority of Black voters left the Republican Party in favor of the Democrats. They saw the Democratic Party as advocates for equality and justice, while the Republicans were too concerned with keeping the status quo in America.
As the 60s and 70s continued, Democrats sought reform in other places, such as abortion and school prayer. White southern Democrats began to resent how much the Democratic Party was intervening into the rights of the people.
By the 1980s, white southern Democrats had become Republicans, and the majority of the south was now Republican. The Republican Party now is solidly conservative while the Democratic Party is the liberal one."
After Years of Political Hype, the Durham Inquiry Failed to Deliver
...[T]he much-hyped investigation by Mr. Durham, a special counsel, into the Russia inquiry ended with a whimper that stood in contrast to the countless hours of political furor that spun off from it.
Mr. Durham delivered a report that scolded the F.B.I. but failed to live up to the expectations of supporters of Donald J. Trump that he would uncover a politically motivated “deep state” conspiracy. He charged no high-level F.B.I. or intelligence official with a crime and acknowledged in a footnote that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign did nothing prosecutable, either.
Predictably, the report’s actual content — it contained no major new revelations, and it accused the F.B.I. of “confirmation bias” rather than making a more explosive conclusion of political bias — made scant difference in parts of the political arena. Mr. Trump and many of his loyalists issued statements treating it as vindication of their claims that the Russia inquiry involved far more extravagant wrongdoing....
@blablarg18 said in China closes LGB+ center:
No, boycotts aren't cancel culture.
The Dixie Chicks weren't just boycotted, though. They were blacklisted by hundreds of music stations. I think several DJs got fired for daring to play their music. If their music was played by a station, then it would get inundated with calls and complaints. Lots of those calls would be violent threats against the radio station if it dared to play the music again.
There were protests, with one of them using bulldozers to destroy Dixie Chicks CDs. Brands were forced to cancel their promotional deals with the Dixie Chicks. I think even their tour bus driver quit in protest.
Fellow country music star Toby Keith urged his fans to cancel the Dixie Chicks by using pictures of them and Saddam Hussein as a backdrop at his concerts.
You clearly don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Dixie Chicks controversy is seen as one of the first and prototypical examples Cancel Culture, and there's even documentaries about it. God, you're such a moron.
@blablarg18 said in China closes LGB+ center:
Most of the ideas libs love - cancel culture, lockdowns "green" or otherwise, "cultural Marxism" pitting groups against each other to achieve Cultural Revolution, censorship, political correctness, social credit score & deplatforming, one-party rule, late abortion blending into infanticide, etc..... all from China.
Cancel culture - Boycott the Dixie Chicks
Pitting groups against each other to achieve Cultural Revolution - The Southern Strategy
Censorship - Book bans, library closures
Political Correctness - "Go woke, go broke"
Social credit score & deplatforming - "Down with Bud Light because it advertised with a trans person!"
Late abortion blending into infanticide - "Let's block the distribution of medical care so that trans children kill themselves!"
You aren't describing attributes of Liberals. You're describing the shitty conduct of everyone, on both sides, in the modern world. You just refuse to see your own side doing the same ol' shit.
@raphjd Eric Holder, then Trump's William Barr and Sec. of Treasury Wilbur Ross hot on Holder's heels. Of course, I'd argue that Kissinger, the Secretary of State in the 70's, was a higher ranking official than Holder.
It's hard to get an Attorney General for criminal contempt of Congress, because the mechanism is that Congress votes to hold the AG in criminal contempt, which is then transferred to the DOJ and the 90+ US Attorneys...however, all those US Attorneys work for the AG. None of them are going to prosecute their boss. Not saying what Holder or Barr did was right...just pointing out it's hard for Congress to pin down an AG.
If an AG refuses to prosecute himself, then Congress has to pursue civil contempt in court. And that's usually a pointless activity because it takes too long and the politics of Washington will have changed by the time it's resolved. For example, it took 7 years for the case against Holder to resolve, and it was settled for nothing in the end right as Steve Bannon was in the news for being held in contempt for ignoring a Congressional subpoena.
@blablarg18 said in China closes LGB+ center:
But remember - Per Lib Doctrine, CHINA IS THE FUTURE & what a great model they have. (Not)
Why do you think liberals love China? Is it because you're still retarded and think liberals are all a bunch of commies?
I know a lot of liberals and none of them are fans of China. In fact, American businesses (like Google) are constantly criticized in liberal circles for helping maintain the Great Firewall of China. I don't think you know liberals as much as you think you do.
Oh, but that's right...you only know about the strawman "liberals" created by the Right's talking points.
So here we have a GOP committee headed by Jim Jordan, who disrespected Congressional subpoenas when he ignored one issued to him by the Jan. 6th Committee, complaining that Mark Pomerantz disrespected Congressional subpoenas...which now that Jim Jordan is the one issuing them, totally should be respected now.
Now, tell me you're not an attorney without telling me you're not an attorney.
@blablarg18 said in Former Prosecutor Against Trump Takes the Fifth in Deposition Before GOP Committee:
USA "5th Amendment" only lets you refuse questions WHEN. ANSWERS. WOULD. INCRIMINATE. YOU.
Nope.
@blablarg18 said in Former Prosecutor Against Trump Takes the Fifth in Deposition Before GOP Committee:
USA 5th does NOT allow refuse questions because you feel like it.
I'll give you this one.
@blablarg18 said in Former Prosecutor Against Trump Takes the Fifth in Deposition Before GOP Committee:
Only because your target of a criminal case - which Pomerantz isn't yet
This hasn't been true since the 1800's.
@blablarg18 said in Former Prosecutor Against Trump Takes the Fifth in Deposition Before GOP Committee:
and answes would incriminate u more, like making u testify against urself.
Nope.
First, good on the police for catching a sex offender.
Second, I'm pretty sure drag queens right now, just like everyone else, can't perform in retirement homes because virtually all of them are still on COVID lockdown, i.e., no one in or out unless you're visiting a specific resident. I know before my grandmother passed, we were reduced to seeing/speaking with her through glass like a prison.
And third, this trans person's last sexual crime is interesting in the sense that I don't think they would even have been prosecuted here in my state. They were a 19 year old having consensual gay sex with a 17 year old. I think my state's version of a Romeo & Juliet statute would render that not a crime.
@raphjd I'm not her fan and I carry no water for her; however, it is particularly rich of him to criticize her for accepting lavish gifts in the same monologue within which he praised and defended Clarence Thomas.