jross

The worst case winner is a punishment to those picking outside the two party system for president, senate, etc. I'm with you on local elections...

Nader voters had it within their control to push Gore past Bush. They may have respected their choice but it was strategically a squandered vote. Once I realized this... I was done voting for the libertarians, writing in my preferred candidates, and so on.

"Allegedly" https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/conservative-influencers-attacked-allegedly-michigan-student-ann-arbor

I was worried about the midterms... then I remembered our dictator doesn’t allow elections. /s

I was once an idealist unrealist like Mathew. No chance against the money in politics.

Seemed sketch scoring to me… Freaking edge wrestling throughout.

That's too bad because the the people's journamlism makes it obvious what really occurs whereas the news spins, selectively frames, takes out of context, omits, and so on.

Sure it could be incompetence. BIAS will naturally be against the person causing the disruption. Unless that girl is in a very wrong physical way or something was seen, I wouldn't expect them to go back to inquire who was involved with holding them (to discover one sided assault). Note that the officers also didn't charge her with a crime and she walked out on her own accord. She was probably in shock but we don't hear her on body camera footage informing others that she was assaulted while being escorted on a long walk out to the building exit.

Most of the J6ers were rightfully pardoned, unquestionably. AND pleny of them should still be in jail. You don't get to do violence and get out of jail free. But because the DOJ was weoponized and made worse that it was preknown to occur, and the smallest of 'offenses' prosecuted and lives unnecessary damaged because of it, and entirely spun wrongly in a way that still has people in a trance, I supported pardoning everyone as a Masvidal message.

She is definitely to blame for what occurred. She didn't lead the mob or break any windows herself, but she was in the mob, and tried to climb through a broken window... and it was reasonable to expect a violent retort. Her entering through the broken window dismisses any consideration if she was one of the grandmas that walked through doors that gov funded staff were holding open. Interesting her family settled a 5M lawsuit with the gov, without going to trial and without the Gov admitting fault. I think she was definitely at fault, unarmed, hands up and all. The police have a right to defend, certainly with guns, against a mob entering broken windows getting close to where officials are. If we determined 50 years from now that J6 was an insider job or that the FBI allowed it to occur, or that the 2020 Election was indeed rigged... she still would be to blame in the context of the situation.

Does it cause you psychological discomfort to accept they didn't know she was assaulted, until seeing videos after?

There are plenty on film saying so. Famous people. Elected people. Of course not the whole party.

Do you realize your words are as toxic as Trump? You just have a different opinion of who to call scum.

Be real. Blake isn’t legally to blame for being assaulted but she is absolutely responsible for the situation that produced it. If she was not there recklessly instigating the fellas wouldn’t have been assaulting her or anyone else. She did commit a misdemeanor regardless of whether she is charged. That doesn’t mean she can be assaulted.

^^^ Yes. The heckler could be charged with a misdemanor by law. https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2917.12

What this does is establish that the law defined fighting words, and a court case literally uses “fascist” as an example of words said to a person that could qualify. There is a long history of crowds responding to the Blakes of the past in this way and much worse. It doesn’t make it for the crowd to assault Blake.

Not serious... Dead attempt given the scale of response obviously matters, not to mention Blake was protesting at someone else's event versus Kirk being an invited speaker at his own event.

Anyone with a tiny understanding of human nature knows that attending an emotionally charged political rally of thousands of opponents to loudly protest is a high-risk, provocative act. The court once defined "fighting words" as those that "by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace." The test was what men of common intelligence would understand would be words likely to cause an average recipient to fight. This changed because the violent retort could get out of hand and because we no longer have a shared common intelligence. Blake presents herself as the type of person belonging to the group that champions words are violence...

Fans of Ted Lasso. Memory of a goldfish.

Not so long ago, calling someone a fascist without a disarming smile was legally considered fighting words. There was even a time in history when the public actually had a duty to step in and handle a disruption like that. This dummy (and victim) knowingly instigated this. She was loud, angry, disrespectful, and intentionally caused a scene in the middle of a massive crowd that was completely against her.

Did anybody here or elsewhere say the assaulters should not have been removed? The people in charge of removing them were not aware she had been assaulted. Kevin Bacon say "Hollow, man."

Fraud is not a prioritized reason to avoid socialized health care.

^^ Awake in a trance ^^

No burka that I'd seen. Yes been invited to his apartment a few times. Wife does not speak english and I did not interact with her much. They recently moved... I worked with a Muslim girl who wore blue jeans inside and a burka outside. First time I joined her team on a large lunch outing I had no idea who it was.