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She’s legally in the clear because Trump is an adjudicated rapist.

I only wish this were true. Remember that CBS just got finished paying out a multimillion dollar settlement and forced one of their own reporters to apologize for merely reporting that Trump was found liable for rape. Now, granted, there was all sorts of shady stuff going on behind the scenes as CBS was trying to preserve (and was ultimately successful in preserving) a merger.

But as we all know, all victories like that do is embolden Trump further. Especially in an environment where he's essentially stacked the courts with his own cronies and can easily judge-shop until he gets what he wants topped off by a Supreme Court system hellbent on anointing Trump king. We've seen courts reach back to medieval times and ancient countries to find justifications for their pro-Trump rulings, and I could easily see a judge ruling in Trump's favor not because of the merits of the case but simply because Trump.

Let's be realistic, it wouldn't even be the first time.

EDIT: To answer everybody's replies. Yes, I know it was a bribe. But Trump was ultimately successful in his goal of getting CBS to pay out and to force Stephanopoulos to apologize for simply reporting facts as written in the court record. And when he's successful, he uses that tactic again, and again, and again. He gets one country to bow to his will on trade, and suddenly he's flinging tariffs everywhere. He got one college to bend the knee, and started an attack on universities. He got one corporation to back down, and has been attacking the press since. It's what he does. He was successful with CBS, and is much more likely to use the same tactic on her. He has no legal basis to stand on in 99% of these cases, but he does it anyway because he knows that in the end, the Supreme Court is likely to back him up simply because he's Trump.

That's the point I'm trying to make. Yes, his case against her would be baseless. But in this political environment, against this person, in this court system that ultimately leads to this Supreme Court, the fact that it's baseless doesn't matter. He has a very real chance of getting his way not based on the merits or the law, but simply because he's Trump and the courts have decided for some reason that he gets to play by a different set of rules.

Yes.

Right. My point is that they (or at least, the Democrats) will pass this with the well-intentioned point of extending protections of EMTs or law enforcement who are engaged in legitimate activity like you said, and will instead be used almost exclusively as a way to protect ICE and punish brown people. I want to support a law like this because of the people that it is intended to help, but also fully acknowledge the reality of the world we live in and know how a law like this will most likely end up being (ab)used in the real world. Hence, the conflict.

This is the kind of propaganda fluff piece you get when the President of the United States is allowed to threaten the media with punitive EOs, frivilous lawsuits, and legislative retribution if they don't start saying nice things about Trump.

Expect more of this in the future. Shame on AP for even running this garbage.

Honestly, I don't know how I feel about this. On one side, I'm all for increasing penalties against those who bring harm to legitimate emergency service workers who are just trying to do their jobs, including cops.

On the other hand, I just see this as a tool that ends up being used against brown people who fight against ICE raids, or to drum up charges against brown people in order to justify their deportation.

Isn't this the same guy who just makes up tournaments at his own golf courses that he always mysteriously "wins"?

Serious question, what would you do if you were in America? Call your buddies and organize a march? Start offing people by yourself? Stand on a street corner with a sign? Donate money to a contradicting politician?

I'll go further than that. What do you expect to accomplish? What are you expecting other citizens to actually accomplish? And what do you think the realistic results of your actions will be?

People keep saying to arm up, as if ICE is going to just show up to your door, see that you're armed, and say "Aw, shucks". They'll go home while you stand on your front porch, standing triumphantly as the evil authorities slink away while the rest of the neighborhood claps?

No, what's going to happen is that they'll call in reinforcements. And by "Reinforcements", I mean they'll have enough people to play Team Deathmatch with your driveway as their base. If you're lucky, they'll drag your ass out of the house, cuffed up and in your underwear at 3 in the morning. Most likely, though, they'll just remove the splattermark that used to be you from the walls with a squeegee after they're done accounting for the 278 rounds, 2 grenades, and a flashbang that they sent into your bedroom. Oh, and if you are alive, now you've got felony gun possession and attempted murder charges tacked to you (or outright murder of an officer if you manage to kill a cop), giving them the exact charges needed to justify the removal you were trying to prevent in the first place.

Planning on storming the capitol alone? The most you can expect is being the subject of another "Man with manifesto shot, killed at state capitol building" article on CNN for about 5 minutes before you're forgotten completely. Well, outside of the stigma that your family will have to deal with every time they have to explain that they're the son/daughter/brother/whatever of "that guy. You know the one. The one that tried to shoot up the capitol that one time....."

Organizing a resistance? Yeah, good luck getting any kind of organization together without getting infiltrated long, long before you achieve any meaningful number or manage to gather any meaningful amount of resources. All it takes is just one suspected member carrying a cell phone and they'll just round up the entire group and send them on an involuntary tropical vacation.

So for all the Rambos out there who think that they're the next John Connor or something, feel free to tell us exactly what you think we should be doing.

The fuck, was this guy an idiot?

"Maybe he will stop these wars." Fucking LOL, are you kidding me? He was literally campaigning on glassing Gaza and turning it into beachfront property for the wealthy. "Maybe we'll see what's up with this Epstein shit". The man was neck deep in Epstein shit. How many pictures of Trump and Epstein together over the years do you need? He's probably got more pictures of him with Epstein than he has of his own kids. "Seeing what's up with this Epstein shit" would mean him finding a nice new home on the sex offender registry.

You knew what he was like. You spent the entire election season stumping for him on your podcast. You helped create this. You don't get to play dumb and absolve yourself of responsibility for your role in allowing all of this to happen in the first place. Fuck you.

Why are they wording this as if it's some kind of secret plan, quietly happening behind the scenes?

It's not like gerrymandering is a new concept or something.....

Heck, I'm surprised Abbot's response to this isn't "Yeah, no shit sherlock. What's your point?"

Well. They didn’t though. In court they say that they don’t, they wouldn’t, and would never dream of defying court orders.

I'm not sure exactly what the rest of your stream of consciousness was supposed to say, but they absolutely did testify in front of the Supreme Court that they would defy court orders that they didn't like.

It's close, but it's still not as good as Trump supporters praising MAGA and denying COVID exists as they are literally taking their dying breaths.

How is this remotely newsworthy? Trump has been openly defying court orders since the start of his 2nd term. Heck, they testified in front of the Supreme Court that they intended to defy court orders they didn't like. They've said it during press briefings. At this point, they might as well start selling T-shirts.

Anyone planning on doing anything about it? No? DIdn't think so.

They'll probably just say that every individual child has to be named, and that children that do not yet exist can't be plaintiffs in a lawsuit.

I've never understood this logic. If they were able-bodied enough to do that kind of labor, wouldn't they be....you know.....working? They're on Medicaid for a reason, right?

Yeah, I know, I know. The GOP and logic don't mix. I get it. But it just boggles my mind how simple concepts like this escape them.

I think it's less about politics and more about the way the US handles things in general.

We don't take preventative steps, even to problems we can see coming a mile away. We don't discuss alternatives. We pretend the issues don't exist until we can't pretend the issues don't exist any more. Then, after a few rounds of running around like our hair was on fire while trying to convince people "Nobody could have seen this coming!", we react. And by "react", I mean grossly over-react and enact the first knee-jerk reaction we can think of regardless of whether it actually solves the problem, and even if it just ends up making the problem worse. And then it's all about keeping up the security theater.

It's the American way.

Honestly, if it takes the Trump administration to get rid of pointless security theater policies like this that have never actually accomplished anything or stopped an actual attack, I'll take it as a win. Silver linings and all that. Even a broken clock is occasionally correct, even if only for a second.

To be fair, this is generally the result whenever a company allows its AI to be trained on unfiltered data from the general public. This is far, FAR from the first time an AI went full racist in record time once it was allowed to start interacting with people.

It reminds me of a conversation I had with another user the other day. If a reservoir contains 99% water and 1% shit, the entire reservoir is still undrinkable. These companies keep allowing people to spill far more than 1% shit into the reservoir and wonder how we still end up with nothing but 100% undrinkable shitwater.

With that said, this result is only exacerbated by the fact that the people who would be interacting with Grok on X are themselves more likely to be anti-semitic due to the political leanings of the site and the ideology that is allowed to openly spread since Musk took over.

After this administration, good luck getting the undocumented to cooperate with law enforcement on anything ever again.

At this point, these aren't even protests any more. They're glorified parades. All they'll accomplish is making people feel good about themselves for mildly going out of their way on their day off from work to attend a protest that will barely get any news coverage at all and will be all-but-forgotten by breakfast in the morning. They're nice-and-neatly scheduled, at pre-approved places, held on the weekends, where they can easily be ignored by the very politicians that these people are protesting against in the first place.

Wanna actually protest? I'm not saying pitchforks and torches and guns and stuff. Protest at the offices of these representatives. Make it impossible for those office workers to conduct business or even get into their office. Demand that your representative get on a god damned plane even if they're in the middle of DC to fly home and address their concerns. Prepare to stay for days if you have to. Do not move even if the authorities tell you. Stay and camp. Block traffic. Prevent local businesses from conducting business until they also pressure the representatives to show up. If they do force you to disburse, show up the next morning. Let them waste resources driving you out every single day.

Protest their houses too. Every single one they own, if they own multiple. Don't let them sleep comfortably in their own beds. If they're renting those homes to others, don't let them sleep comfortably until they call their landlords and demand they show up. One way or another, make these representatives fear being pulled out of office by the short-and-curlies, if not outright fear for their lives.

I mean, you can continue to pull your government-approved permits to hold government-approved protests at government-approved locations on a day that is most convenient for you, between the hours of 9 and 5 while making sure to not so much as mildly inconvenience the very people you're protesting against, and then keep wondering why nothing ever changes. But if you can organize 10,000 people to show up at what amounts to a glorified Kumbaya session, you can have those people show up in front of their homes or offices just as easily and at least have a chance of putting real pressure on these people.

Let it be known, now and forevermore, that Nougat is the sworn enemy of SatansMaggotyCumFart.

Let it also be known that multiple things can be inferred from the previous statement, each ickier than the last.

Do with this information as you wish.