jakee

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  1. jakee
    Lol. Where do you get the cheek to talk about whether anyone else's responses are helpful? You said conservatives condemned Kaepernick's protest because they disagreed with the subject. The subject was racial inequality and unfair treatment of minorities by police. If you dont mean conservatives will condemn any protest on that subject, what did you mean?
  2. jakee
    Do you have a point that follows from that? (Not to mention the obvious counterpoint that if the cops who victimise black people vote it will be for Trump.)
  3. jakee
    You said they condemned Kaepernick's protest because of its subject. Racial inequality was its subject. As best as I can tell, that is what you said. How about instead of just moaning you take a positive step to explain yourself for once?
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    When you said that's why they condemned Kaepernick's protest.
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    I guess that's the one good thing about the otherwise baffling gap between election and inauguration. If Trump wants to challenge the result there's plenty of time to get a definitive ruling from the courts. If Trump then refused to leave when he was no longer legally President I'd imagine the Secret Service might have something to say about it.
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    You said that right wingers will condemn any protest about perceived racial inequality of treatment by the authorities, no matter whether it ends up violent or stays peaceful.
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    The subject of Kaepernick's protest is the same as the subject of the current protests. I guess you're saying they can't win?
  8. jakee
    a) He said 'threat of' b) He also said 'charged'
  9. jakee
    But you said it yourself in the OP - the looters are not protesters, therefore whatever the looters are doing should not reflect badly on the people who are protesting.
  10. jakee
    Is that what you see? It's amazing how bias can skew your viewpoint.
  11. jakee
    Sure, but I think you'll struggle to find anyone who doesn't already see that as self evident. Also not quite sure what reason you had (other than your Trump Defense Syndrome) to bring the Don into it.
  12. jakee
    And yet it does not mean that protest is not also happening. What's your point?
  13. jakee
    Yep. To be fair, any reference to Cohen being in prison for a dodgy payoff to Trump's pornstar girlfriend is funny, don't you think? Now what about your double standard, any comment?
  14. jakee
    His statement was a joke. It was also factually correct, in that a number of people are in prison for actions taken to help and protect Trump. Now I'm curious - when I said that Mark was either lying or stupid for stating outright that there were no churches left in Edinburgh you whined and whined about how unfair that was when there could by some remote possibility be some other expanation, yet here you are now calling Bill's statement idiotic when you know it was simply humorous. How do you justify that contradictory behaviour?
  15. jakee
    And now he's completely pulling out of the WHO. Turns out 'make America great again' is the task he is creating for his successor.
  16. jakee
    He'll be pardoned by the 29th. If they wanted him to spend a day in lockup they should have marched him straight there from the courtroom. Well, surely they should have done that anyway but hey ho.
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    covid-19

    jakee replied to gowlerk's topic in Speakers Corner

    Sure. That's why the US incarceration rate is such a joke - the people are just so darn free they don't know what to do with it. Nice one Big Brother.
  18. jakee
    That's when the government was told not to do it. It's kinda the opposite. And in which of those cases did they say it was OK for the Executive branch to decided on a case by case basis whether specific instances of speech should be legally protected based on their interpretation of the political viewpoint being expressed? Again, that's the very real difference between his position and Biden's. Again, you should be aware that it's very obvious that you are avoiding this point, most probably because you know it is right. Why in the end? Why do this first? Why not go through Congress in the beginning?
  19. jakee
    Yeah, exactly my point. When on that date did anyone write down that it was ok for the government to decide which speech is legally protected and which isn't on the basis of political correctness? Again, that's the difference - a point which you are clearly determined to avoid addressing, which means you probably know it's right. The President doesn't get to change it by EO, because that's not how the law works.
  20. jakee
    No. Really not really. That doesn't mean he had to draft an EO that put his government in the position of being the arbiter of politically acceptable speech. It also doesn't mean he had to make the EO specifically reference his motivation as being pissed off at the treatment of one of his own tweets. Why in the end? Why not in the beginning?
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    If you're going to go back that far, why not calculate how much we owe Iran as a result of operation Ajax? Not only is it worse than anything they've done to us, everything that's happened since stems from it.
  22. jakee
    No, his stance is different from Trump's, so that makes it different. Biden wants to treat all speech the same, Trump wants the government to decide which speech is honest and which speech is politically biased. How about you take the time to post a response that isn't just based on your knee jerk pro Trump bias?
  23. jakee
    Not really. Trump wants to punish the social media companies for being mean to him (the Executive order specifically references beng a reaction to the fact check of his Tweet) which is dangerous behaviour for any head of state. Also, while Biden wants to simply get rid of 230, Trump wants to police it on a case by case basis, with his Justice Department tasked with determining whether individual flags, deletions or fact checks are a result of following across the board policy or political bias on the part of the media companies. Go on, tell me you think that's a good idea.
  24. jakee
    I think he's talking about one of the damaged parties suing Trump for what he tweeted about Klausutis, not about whether Twitter should do anything about it. But while it would be great to see him pay for such a despicable act of casual cruelty, a lawsuit would probably only serve to amplify his lies and further upset the bereaved
  25. jakee
    That's not all he tried to run as.