Tuesday, April 26, 2022

When the left lost Jack Dorsey...

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rrb said...




There has been one salutary effect of the weeks-long efforts of Elon Musk to gain control of Twitter, and the debate over the freedom of speech that ensued: now the Left’s foremost individuals and institutions are out in the open about their hatred for the freedom of speech. The authoritarian heart of the Left has been exposed, as has their war against the foundational principle of any free society: the right to express oneself even if one’s opinions don’t coincide with those of the powerful and/or moneyed elites. Barack and Hillary hate the freedom of speech and want you to think it’s a dangerous toy, too dangerous for you to play with. And now three pillars of the unctuous and hypocritical Leftist “human rights” establishment, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have come out against it as well.


https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/04/25/human-rights-watch-aclu-amnesty-international-clutch-their-pearls-in-horror-at-elon-musks-purchase-of-twitter-n1592725

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

On Tuesday, writing for The Washington Post, Philip Bump laid out how former President Donald Trump continues to stick to his "Big Lie" that the 2020 presidential election was stolen with voter fraud, despite 539 days of claiming the fraud exists and failing to provide any proven examples.

And he was actually held to account for this in his recent interview with right-wing British personality Piers Morgan, which ended in him storming off the set.

"'Frank Sinatra said the best revenge is massive success,' Morgan said to Trump in the premiere episode of 'Piers Morgan Uncensored,' adding: 'Is it your best revenge? Rather than talking constantly about the last election?'" wrote Bump. "'I don’t talk constantly,' Trump replied, accusing Morgan of raising the subject. 'I don’t talk about it very much.'"

"Trump does, in fact, talk about his allegations that the election was stolen constantly," wrote Bump. "He had a rally in Delaware, Ohio over the weekend during which a reporter noted that he brought up the subject 'multiple times.' There are myriad examples of his giving an impromptu speech at an event hosted at Mar-a-Lago in which Trump suddenly starts riffing on the election results. It has been incessant in the nearly 540 days since the election occurred."


Ironically, noted Bump, this interview happened the same day as a huge dump of emails from the aftermath of the election, including Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner sending former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows information debunking a ballot conspiracy theory in Georgia, and strategist Jason Miller giving Meadows poll data saying Trump's own voters, at least at the time, wanted him to move on.

"Morgan does appear to have tried to crack the defensive wall Trump has built around his ego," concluded Bump. "It didn’t work. But it did show that, 539 days after the election, Trump still has nothing to back his claims of fraud. And that, 539 days later, neither Trump nor his most fervent supporters like you, care."

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

In response to a near death experience that I reported here, rrb claimed that that the Easter Bunny had come down his chimney and shat chocolate eggs all over the place.

Were they bitter, or sweet chocolate, rrb?
______

But in all humility and seriousness,
anyone who wants to can now watch this video.

Warning. It might begin to change your life and make you a better person.
_______

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZuSb6yjfo

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Perhaps Elon embodies a kind of radical honesty and self-awareness not shared by other denizens of the site. People who seem to spend half their lives complaining about Twitter, on Twitter, seem stunned by the idea that a shitposter would ultimately buy it. Catch up! It doesn’t feel like a complete coincidence that all social media platforms are owned by men you’d run a mile from, socially.

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Musk is one of them – a brilliant, horrid, ridiculous and very occasionally endearing grotesque. A sort of intergalactically successful Dominic Cummings. And yet, despite Elon’s give-a-toss gift for making himself what Twitter users might call the “main character”, I can’t detest him entirely. If he pulls off the radical green energy transition embodied in Tesla, or even just one of his other wildly ambitious schemes, humans might have to accept some of the shit that’s gone with it. Accept it angrily, of course – how else, we’re on a social media platform! – but accept it nonetheless. A huge number of other people in public life behave appallingly and achieve absolutely nothing but harm.

But if endlessly righteous folk do balk at the mere idea of necessary evils, why do they act like their own involvement in Twitter is one? It isn’t. It’s easy to focus on the high-profile people who are always on Twitter. But the sheer numbers of highly successful, highly creative and highly interesting people in the worlds of arts, business, science and beyond who AREN’T on it should tell a much more powerful story. They are part of all kinds of era-defining creative and commercial conversations and breakthroughs – and somehow manage to do it all without lavishing half the day scrolling past a bunch of other people having a row.

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Lanier has cast detailed doubt on whether most Twitter advocacy is even meaningfully effective, despite sometimes appearing to be so. If you spend your day caught up in online fighting, it’s preferable to tell yourself you’re involved in consciousness-raising for your cause. An alternative view is that you are simply obsessively polarising your particular debate, to the point where compromise – boring, unfashionable, yet historically always necessary – becomes a more distant possibility.

My “unpopular opinion”, in one of Twitter’s tellingly popular phrases, is that those who spend a significant amount of time arguing on it work for the platform, and not for their cause. The Musk takeover at least makes it easier to see whose pocket you’re putting money into as you delude yourself you’re winning arguments. I’m certainly not saying I follow this rule, but in general I think arguing on the internet is like playing real tennis: even if you win, you’re still a twat.

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

Anonymous said...

Told Ya So!!!
Dropping unExpectedly
Consumer confidence index April
107.3

rrb said...



Sorry pederast, I've never viewed child porn and I'm damn sure not going to start now.

Shove your sicko you tube link up your ass.

Anonymous said...

Elon Musk a true visionary has the Socialist Movement with a weggie.

Anonymous said...

Since James loves them young.
I too will pass on his child porno link.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

:-)

But in all humility and seriousness,
anyone who wants to can now watch this video.

Warning. It might begin to change your life and make you a better person.
_______

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZuSb6yjfo

rrb said...



Lanier has cast detailed doubt on whether most Twitter advocacy is even meaningfully effective, despite sometimes appearing to be so.


LOL. Short memory.

Twitter was the left's most favorite hobby horse during the Arab Spring, where it was the most powerful medium on the planet to bring the Moose-Limb brudderhood to power.

Big fucking mistake that turned out to be, but at least Twitter had it's moment in the sun for all the leftists who swooned over that occasion.

The left started out by making Musk's purchase of Twitter the end of the fucking world, and now they've pivoted to declaring it instantly not that relevant.

LOL.

Leftists are so cute when they don't get their way.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

In a statement following news of the acquisition, Derrick Johnson, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, struck a cautious tone.

"Do not allow Twitter to become a petri dish for hate speech, or falsehoods that subvert our democracy," Johnson said in part. "Protecting our democracy is of utmost importance, especially as the midterm elections approach. Mr. Musk: lives are at risk, and so is American democracy.”

Trump said that he is not going to use Twitter again. But if his own platform fails again 🙄???

C.H. Truth said...

On Tuesday, writing for The Washington Post, Philip Bump laid out how former President Donald Trump continues to stick to his "Big Lie" that the 2020 presidential election was stolen with voter fraud, despite 539 days of claiming the fraud exists and failing to provide any proven examples.

What a lie...

There are literally dozens of examples..

The fact that some people are too bias to listen to anyone other than CNN isn't Trump's fault.


What is missing... after 5 years of investigations....

Is proof that Donald Trump is a criminal.

But doesn't stop you from spewing hateful nonsense every single day about the "bad orange man". Do you seriously believe that "civil suit" in NY is going to do what Robert Mueller Special Counsel, The FBI, the SDNY prosecutors, and everyone else didn't....



So please Roger.

If you insist every day showing us how obsessed you are with Trump being a criminal (when not only are there no crimes proven, there have been no charges brought)....

and you insist upon judging what Elon Musk hasn't done but you are afraid he might do...

or any number of other hypothetical injustices you preach about excessively even though they actually do not exist.



Please, please... just because you are not informed enough to know about the election fraud... don't pretend your lack of insight proves a lack of of evidence.

The fact that you do not understand Calculus, doesn't mean it doesn't exist or remains unproven.


Leave the smart stuff to smart people Roger.

Stick to making up stuff about those you hate.

rrb said...



This is absolute fucking comedy GOLD:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1518782147405963265


rrb said...


What a lie...

There are literally dozens of examples..


Examples are legion, and the left believes that if you simply memory-hole them and silence those who would speak of them, they simply cease to exist.

This has been standard operating procedure since the left seized Twitter and silenced the right.

And yesterday shit just got real.

LOL.

Take away the alky's ability to lie and you've silenced him.


Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

:-)
I am sending this to friends
(an now enemies):

I have recently had my interest in near death experiences piqued by some of the newer research and, of the several videos I have recently watched, if I had to recommend one general overview, it would be this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZuSb6yjfo

Dr. Bruce Greyson, a pyschiatrist, is perhaps THE most balanced, significant, and non-doctrinaire of the current researchers dealing with this intriguing phenomenon. His book AFTER is recommended reading.

Blessings!

rrb said...

Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...

In a statement following news of the acquisition, Derrick Johnson, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, struck a cautious tone.

"Do not allow Twitter to become a petri dish for hate speech, or falsehoods that subvert our democracy," Johnson said in part. "Protecting our democracy is of utmost importance, especially as the midterm elections approach. Mr. Musk: lives are at risk, and so is American democracy.”



Hilarious.

NAACP grifter gets his knickers in a knot because an actual African-American bought Twitter.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If Elon Musk has his way, the effects on Twitter of his buying up the social media platform will end up being the least of our problems.

To get a sense of how bad this could get, it’s instructive to look at the parallels between Musk’s Twitter acquisition and the creation of Fox News.

When Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch started Fox News in the late 1990s, they envisioned the channel as a counterbalance to the rest of the supposedly liberal media, a cudgel to deploy against the news media to get coverage for manufactured controversies and right-wing misinformation.

Musk views Twitter in much the same way that Murdoch and Ailes saw Fox at its inception. To Musk, social media companies haven’t just gone too far in addressing extremism, bigotry, and disinformation – they shouldn’t be addressing these issues at all. Musk’s vision of Twitter isn’t simply as a platform free from constraints, but as an instrument to counterbalance the “woke” social networks.

As Twitter’s new owner, Musk will open the floodgates of hate and lies by undoing a host of very basic protections against harassment, abuse, and disinformation. There is a reason why banned users—ranging from Roger Stone and Marjorie Taylor Greene to QAnon and Infowars conspiracy theorists to white supremacists—are all celebrating this acquisition and gleefully anticipating the restoration of their accounts.


rrb said...



To get a sense of how bad this could get, it’s instructive to look at the parallels between Musk’s Twitter acquisition and the creation of Fox News.

Because before Fox News the left had a monopoly on the flow of TV news.

An alternative offering the rest of the story - that is, information unflattering to the left, was unheard of.

The left demands to be able to dominate the conversation with their views ONLY, and anyone who is a threat to that is the Naziest Nazi since Hitler.

To the left, opposing viewpoints must be squelched, squashed, silenced, banned and destroyed.

Because diversity. Except diversity of viewpoints. That's hate speech.

The left openly hates the freedom of speech and if Musk accomplishes nothing else at least he has gotten the left to tacitly admit THAT MUCH.


C.H. Truth said...

If Elon Musk has his way, the effects on Twitter of his buying up the social media platform will end up being the least of our problems.


There you go again Roger!

You apparently are so smart as to know what Elon Musk will do in the future with a company he hasn't finalized his sale with and all of the repercussions of said future knowledge?


Can I ask... do you have a time machine or crystal ball to look into the future like the rest of the soothsayers you follow?

Or how is it exactly that you have such a keen understanding of future events?


And if so... why do you waste this ability on how social issues are affected, rather than lay down some money on the NBA playoffs or the upcoming MMA events?

With your ability to predict the future, you should be rich!


Tell us Roger... should be buy Tesla stock?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for Covid on Tuesday, her office said.

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Her office said she has exhibited no symptoms and will isolate while she continues to work from her residence, said her spokeswoman Kirsten Allen.

Harris has not been a close contact with President Joe Biden or first lady Jill Biden. She is the highest-ranking official in the Biden administration to test positive for the virus.

The positive result came from rapid and PCR tests. 

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

There are a lot of things I should have done before, but I have to live on and enjoy life as it is.

A friend told me to buy a shares of Amazon just as it was available. A couple hundred shares now????

rrb said...

Musk buys Twitter and Jizzo tests positive for the Chinese Sneeze.

It's been an awesome week and it's only Tuesday!

Any chance Jizzo succumbs to the illness, alky?

I know you have that crystal ball and can tell the future and all.

LOL.




C.H. Truth said...

Hey Roger....

Do the T-wolves make it out of the first round?

rrb said...



LOL. The Twitter thread that just might get me to join Twitter.:


https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/26/men-dont-have-periods-sara-gonzales-tweets-everything-and-then-some-twitter-has-suspended-conservatives-for-saying-before-and-its-glorious/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If they get it done, it won't change the election results but??

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who late last year all but killed the Biden administration’s Build Back Better legislation, said on Tuesday that any new Democratic budget reconciliation bill should be focused on combating inflation and reducing the deficit.

Manchin outlined his vision of what a scaled-down bill should include to a small group of reporters after a meeting he said was focused on inflation with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).

“Reconciliation to me is about getting inflation under control, paying down this debt, getting a handle on what’s going on,” Manchin said. 

Manchin indicated that the way to do that included making changes to the tax code. He outlined on Tuesday part of what he could support on tax changes as part of a reconciliation bill, including increasing the corporate rate to 25 percent, putting capital gains at 28 percent, getting rid of “loopholes” and “making sure everyone pays their fair share.” 

Democrats view the next month before Memorial Day as a key time to try to revive reconciliation, a budget process that would allow them to pass a wide-ranging policy bill through the Senate that could not be blocked by a GOP filibuster.

They would need Manchin and every other Democrat to agree to the bill.

Manchin, as he’s previously indicated, also wants half of any revenue to go toward deficit reduction, saying that it’s the “only way you’re going to fight inflation.” 


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3463842-manchin-scaled-down-bill-should-focus-on-inflation-debt-reduction/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I haven't paid attention to the NHL playoffs

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Or the NBA.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

They play today

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

imberwolves

(2 - 2)

at

Grizzlies

(2 - 2)

Playoffs Round 1 · Game 5 (Series tied 2 - 2)


C.H. Truth said...

If they get it done, it won't change the election results but??


A tax increase right before an election!

Good plan!!!

Can you tell us Roger when you look into your crystal ball if this passes?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

By the end of May

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If they get it done before the summer recess?? But it would take every Democrat plus Harris..

rrb said...



They would need Manchin and every other Democrat to agree to the bill.

Manchin, as he’s previously indicated, also wants half of any revenue to go toward deficit reduction, saying that it’s the “only way you’re going to fight inflation.”



Manchin is enjoying skyrocketing approval at home in WVa. I doubt he would fuck that up by signing on to a tax increase 7 months before the mid-terms.

Try thinking this shit through alky instead of just mindlessly plagiarizing stories you could not possibly begin to understand.



Myballs said...

So Musk is now radical for what? Making electric cars or supporting free speech?

Anonymous said...

RRB What a wonderful fearful two faced Socialist Democrat was that.

Ban some one like , oh , I don't know, Trump?

Now that assist is against Twitter banning.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1518782147405963265

Anonymous said...

This is a TRUE African-American winning.

Elon Musk.

When do the leftist her celebrate him?

Anonymous said...

A bridge too far.

"Try thinking this shit through alky instead of just mindlessly plagiarizing stories you could not possibly begin to understand"

rrb said...



RRB What a wonderful fearful two faced Socialist Democrat was that.


Ari Melber from MSDNC.

THE place for laughingstock politics.

Anonymous said...

Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. 2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

They can't negotiate with a madman.
14.13 EDT
The Guardian’s Russia affairs correspondent Pjotr Sauer reports:

Russian president Vladimir Putin told the UN secretary-general, António Guterres on Tuesday evening that peace talks with Ukraine are continuing via a video link and that he hopes they would bring “some positive outcome”.

Putin, separated from Guterres by a long table, also repeated his earlier claims that Moscow was not involved in the alleged atrocities that took place in Bucha earlier this month.

“Russia was faced with provocation in Bucha, something the Russian side had nothing to do with,” Putin said during the meeting in the Kremlin.

“Russian forces had no connections to Bucha. We know who did it. We know who prepared this provocation, the means they used. We know who they are.”

Ukraine has accused the Russian military of executing civilians in Bucha that Russian troops occupied for several weeks before withdrawing.

Putin further blamed Ukraine for stalling the negotiation process, saying he would not sign a security guarantee agreement with Ukraine without the territorial questions of Crimea and Donbas being resolved.

“Nevertheless, talks are ongoing, and they are going in an online format,” Putin said

“I hope this will lead us to some positive outcome.”

The Russian leader also said that there were currently “no direct military operations” going on around the besieged Azovstal steelworks.

“It is simple really … The military operations have ended there. They have stopped. Part of the armed forces of Ukraine who were deployed in other industrial areas have surrendered. Almost 1,300 people,” Putin said.

“Yes we hear there are civilians there, the Ukrainian army must release them or they are acting as terrorists like Isis in Syria.”

rrb said...



The Guardian’s Russia affairs correspondent Pjotr Sauer reports:


No one cares alky.

Fuck Ukraine.



Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Taegan Goddard says he's not leaving Twitter because, he says,
"I love Twitter. I sometimes hate it too."

But, he says, he thinks the furor — particularly on the left — over Elon Musk's purchasing of Twitter is misplaced, though he will tell you why he thinks that only if you become a member of his blog.

Anonymous said...

Gasoline continues to rise.
BIDEN failures continue.

Anonymous said...

Affirmative action VP Harris has Covid.

Shall we act like liberals do.



rrb said...



LOL -

The “smartest man” His Fraudulency Joe Biden knows had an affair with his brother’s widow and then urged her to get tested for HIV.

The New York Post reports that Hunter Biden was desperately insisting his brother’s widow, Hallie Biden, get herself tested for HIV as their affair limped to its conclusion in July of 2018.

The emails, which were found on the laptop the “smartest man” Joe Biden knows left in a Delaware computer shop and lost ownership of, show a frantic Hunter Biden “scared sick” about HIV.

“TODAY. I am getting tested today. I have been sick scared Hallie and you [hang] up on me,” Hunter wrote. “You need to inform me of the result.” He added, “The love you give is so disturbing.”

The subject line of the email was in all caps: “YOU NEED TO GET TESTED FOR HIV HALLIE.”

The affair began after Hunter’s brother, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, died of cancer in May of 2015 at age 46. Hunter was still married at the time and the marriage was apparently irreparably damaged by the affair. Hunter’s wife filed for divorce at the end of 2016.



https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/26/nolte-hunter-biden-brothers-widow-affair-get-tested-hiv/


rrb said...




EXCLUSIVE: Joe's missing millions!

Financial records reveal Biden had $5.2million in unexplained income - as emails show he paid Hunter's legal bills for one megabucks Chinese deal and was tapped as 'big guy' to get a 10% cut in another


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10728521/Financial-records-reveal-Joe-Biden-5-2million-unexplained-income.html



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

You will lose your minds

By Pete Williams

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday hinted that it might be open to allowing President Joe Biden to shut down a Trump administration program designed to restrict immigration at the southern border.

The outcome did not appear certain after nearly two hours of courtroom argument, but the court’s conservative majority appeared to be considering the option of letting the program end. 

Several of the justices appeared skeptical of claims by two states that the Biden administration acted improperly in briefly shutting down the “Remain in Mexico” policy, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols. It requires people seeking asylum at the southern border, mainly from Central and South America, to wait in Mexico while their claims are decided.

After Biden shut the program down, Texas and Missouri sued, and a federal judge in Texas ordered the government to start it up again. Judd Stone, the Texas solicitor general, told the court Tuesday that under federal immigration law the government must either detain people who enter the U.S. illegally or send them to Mexico to wait. Only a limited number, on a case-by-case basis, can be allowed to remain in the U.S., he said.

Stone said the government wasn’t evaluating the thousands of immigrants allowed to wait in the U.S. carefully enough, but Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, appearing for the Justice Department, said they were reviewed individually.

Justice Samuel Alito was skeptical. He suggested their process was like the limited security screening given to baseball fans entering Nationals Park.

“You’ve got a little check list. You go, boom, boom, boom," he said. "That’s what you think Congress meant by a case-by-case determination?”

Because Congress has never provided enough money to detain all those who cross the border, Stone said, the government has no option but to send the remaining immigrants to Mexico to wait. He said the Biden administration was violating a provision of immigration law requiring detention.

But several justices noted that Congress has never provided enough detention capacity. 

“Could you have brought the same lawsuit against the previous administration?” Justice Clarence Thomas asked.

“Congress may want detention, but it hasn’t come up with the money for more beds,” Chief Justice John Roberts said.  

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The states don't have the authority to address immigration laws

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court-consider-whether-biden-can-end-trump-era-remain-mexico-p-rcna25409

rrb said...

Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...

The states don't have the authority to address immigration laws



No shit, alky.

What they do have is the right to secure their borders.

Known as the guarantee clause, Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution states, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them from Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.”

Therefore, governors, attorneys general, and state legislatures must take emergency measures–beyond the scope of what has been attempted to this point–to follow through on the primary function of government: protecting its citizens.

The Constitution provides states an appropriate “self-help” remedy under Article I, Section 10, Clause 3, which stipulates that, “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit delay.”



https://americarenewing.com/issues/policy-brief-how-states-can-secure-the-border/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Even the very conservative justices questioned the authority of states to overturn federal legislation.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh gave repeated indication during oral arguments that he believes ending MPP would run contrary to Congressional intent. Kavanaugh asked Prelogar, “is there any indication… that anyone in Congress expected that if there was not sufficient detention capacity that hundreds of thousands of people would be just paroled into the United States without being lawfully admitted?”

Justice Samuel Alito argued that MPP is an option that must be used when there is insufficient capacity to detain all affected individuals.

Chief Justice John Roberts was also concerned about the federal government’s lack of capacity to detain all asylum seekers pending resolution of their applications. “There is no limit to the number of people you can release into the United States, right?” Roberts pointed out.

Prelogar responded that the limited detention capacity in the U.S. operates as an “inherent limit” and Roberts agreed, saying “everybody knows there aren’t nearly enough beds to take care of the problem.”

Prelogar argued that, “contiguous territory return cannot be the solution here,” reminding the justices that DHS is constrained by Mexico’s limited consent.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the conversation to raise the question of “significant public benefit.” Under the statute, a finding of “significant public benefit” is necessary to support the grant of parole. Barrett asked Prelogar whether the government considers any “significant public benefit” in not releasing into Mexico. Prelogar answered that the question of whether of parole versus placement into MPP can be considered a “significant public benefit” is a question for the DHS secretary and not individual immigration officers.

Prelogar lectured Barrett at length about the wisdom of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas‘ decision to discontinue MPP. “It’s not as though return to Mexico is costless,” Prelogar said, “It involves an enormous investment of our diplomatic resources and our engagement with that bilateral negotiation.”  She continued, “The secretary is well justified in thinking that in light of the tremendous cost that he identified with the program and in light of his determination that it actually detracted from other strategies and programs he thought would be more effective in stemming the tide of irregular migration, that he was well justified in making that policy determination.”

When Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone took the podium, Justice Sotomayor posed a question of historical context. She raised the government’s long history of releasing people on parole as evidence of Congress’ intent. “When Congress knows that something is happening and it responds or fails to respond, it tells us something about its intent,” she argued. Sotomayor continued, “At no time in American history has any administration followed [Texas’] interpretation’ and attempted to detain every single illegal immigrant.”

Both sides are very awesome!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Prelogar ended with a rebuttal framing the issue before the justices as one of the utmost national concern regarding the appropriate role of a federal district court to issue sweeping injunctions. Prelogar explained that Mexico’s consent is needed to operate the MPP program, and that extensive coordination with the Mexican government is essential.  “The idea here that a single district court in Texas that is mandating those results, that is compelling the Executive engage in those ongoing negotiations,” and is doing so under a “constant threat” from the State of Texas “shows that something has powerfully gone awry here,”

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/as-scotus-considers-fate-of-trump-era-remain-in-mexico-policy-one-justice-says-texas-would-leave-u-s-immigration-decisions-in-the-hands-of-mexico

rrb said...

Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...

Even the very conservative justices questioned the authority of states to overturn federal legislation.



Dumbass, the states aren't trying to overturn anything. They are simply acting in their own interests to secure their own borders because the Slow Joe regime has abdicated it's constitutional responsibility to secure and protect the border.

"Migrant Protection Program?"

How about an American Citizen Protection Program?

Shoot the cocksuckers. We already lost one National Guardsman. Let's not lose another to this idiocy.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...



Under Musk, some fear Twitter's moderation progress could unravel

The trust and safety team at Twitter could lose steam under its new owner, according to experts.


Brianna Wu knows firsthand how bad the harassment on Twitter can get. A software engineer and game developer, Wu was targeted with death and rape threats during GamerGate, an online harassment campaign against women in the gaming industry that started in 2014. 

Wu, who has more than 100,000 Twitter followers and has used the platform throughout her career, said she consulted with the company’s trust and safety team in an unofficial, unpaid capacity from 2014 to late 2021.

Now, after years of working with the company on reducing hate speech and harassment, she said tech titan Elon Musk could undo the platform’s progress. 

Elon Musk buys Twitter: Here’s how the platform could change

“I want Twitter to do well. I just have no faith that under Elon Musk that Twitter would continue to be a place where women, people of color or LGBT people could use it at all,” she said.

On Monday, Twitter announced that Musk would acquire the company for $44 billion and take it private. 

Musk has declared himself a “free-speech absolutist” and has stated that he opposes most efforts to ban or moderate content on Twitter that go beyond what the law does to regulate speech, even though Twitter has devoted attention to curbing hate speech, harassment and misinformation on the platform.

Given Musk’s stance on the issue, Wu isn’t alone in her concerns. 

Numerous experts, politicians and advocates, from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to Adam Conner, vice president for technology policy at the Center for American Progress, are already starting conversations about how platform moderation could change with Musk at the helm, and what it could mean for society. 

“Musk purchasing Twitter is dangerous for our democracy,” Warren said. “It means one billionaire decides how millions of people will have an opportunity to communicate with each other.”

rrb said...

Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...

A war or invasion rrb. You are fucking stupid



TWO MILLION ILLEGALS to date, you drunken sot.

That's an invasion of any sovereign nation on earth.

Let Putin roll 2,000,000 Russians into Ukraine and you would be going apeshit.

Indy Voter said it best - You are a FUCKING MORON.

rrb said...

Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...

A war or invasion rrb. You are fucking stupid



TWO MILLION ILLEGALS to date, you drunken sot.

That's an invasion of any sovereign nation on earth.

Let Putin roll 2,000,000 Russians into Ukraine and you would be going apeshit.

Indy Voter said it best - You are a FUCKING MORON.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

What could be undone

Musk’s anti-censorship ideals could reverse years of policy progress at Twitter and allow harassment to flourish, according to Wu and other experts.

“Around 2014, it was really obvious that the way we were handling harassment and moderation policies wasn’t working across the tech industry,” Wu said. “The sense that I had at Twitter was that the trust and safety team was constantly running up against the business interests at Twitter.”

According to Wu, who is currently executive director of the progressive political fund Rebellion PAC, Twitter’s trust and safety team was more successful under founder Jack Dorsey’s leadership as CEO. Dorsey stepped down in November 2021. Del Harvey, who was Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety for 13 years, left her position a month earlier. Since they left, Wu said the company stopped reaching out to her.

“It became harder and harder for the trust and safety team to do their jobs and keep updating these policies through the Trump era,” Wu said. “We’ve seen a lot of progress made from about 2014 to 2018, and then it really dropped very precipitously to where these policies are hanging on by a thread today.”



Conner said he’s concerned that Twitter’s new owner could scare away the company’s remaining trust and safety experts.

“If this causes an exodus, that will be a real shame,” said Conner, who was Facebook’s first employee in Washington, D.C. “That will take years to rebuild, if it’s even possible.” 

What Twitter could become

Experts warn that a move away from moderation could make Twitter a more inhospitable place.

Like Warren, Wu believes that loosening moderation on Twitter could be bad for democracy. 

“I would posit to you that rape threats, death threats, doxxing — this is just not part of a healthy American conversation about where we need to go,” Wu said. “So I really worry that rather than heal these vast rifts in the American discourse, I think it’s going to make them even worse.”

Conner said that less moderation on the platform and more harassment and hate speech could have a chilling effect on people using Twitter, ultimately hurting free expression. “The rules are not just things to suppress speech but to allow speech from as many users as possible,” he said. 



“Elon Musk will have to learn the hard way what everyone who has run Twitter has learned,” Conner said. “An unmoderated space is not one that functions for long.” 

Kate Klonick, an assistant professor of law at St. John’s University and an expert on how social media platforms are governed, said it’s not clear to her how Musk will change the platform, despite his statements so far. 

“If enough people there understand that having good online governance makes money for the site, that might sway him,” she said. 

If Twitter does change, though, allowing more harassment and hate speech, it would be like a burger restaurant suddenly becoming vegetarian, she said. 

“You have built a certain kind of customer base that expects a certain type of environment,” she said. 

She said one possibility is that Twitter develops a “friends of Elon” culture that’s defined by Musk’s personal relationships and whims. 

“We can expect more of that if you have all of the power housed with one person,” Klonick said. 

Matt Perault, a professor and expert in tech policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a former Facebook employee, offered a more optimistic view on change at Twitter, saying that moving away from intense moderation would make Twitter stand out from the Big Tech crowd.

“He’s proposing an alternative,” he said. “And an alternative in the market will, I think, create competitive pressures.”


rrb said...

Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...

A war or invasion rrb. You are fucking stupid



TWO MILLION ILLEGALS to date, you drunken sot.

That's an invasion of any sovereign nation on earth.

Let Putin roll 2,000,000 Russians into Ukraine and you would be going apeshit.

Indy Voter said it best - You are a FUCKING MORON.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musk-fear-twitters-moderation-progress-unravel-rcna25932

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Reagan let hundreds of thousands dummy 🙄

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I think it is a good idea but I want Ukraine to eventually join NATO. It would wrap up Russia from all of Europe.

The Biden administration is open to Ukraine becoming a “neutral” nation to secure a peace deal and would respect a Ukrainian agreement to swear off NATO membership, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday.
Still, speaking to a Senate committee, Blinken reiterated the United States has seen “no sign to date” that Russian President Vladimir Putin is serious about “meaningful negotiations.”
As world leaders seek to pressure Putin to end the conflict, the Russian leader met with U.N. Secretary General António Guterres. During the meeting, according to the United Nations, Putin agreed “in principle,” to the participation of the United Nations and the International Committee for the Red Cross in evacuating civilians from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol — where such efforts have been a persistent struggle.
In earlier remarks Tuesday, Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned of the next phase of war: “Time is not on Ukraine’s side.”

anonymous said...

Nothing good is going to come out of Elon's leadership.....I envision an even wilder bunch of Bullshit that Facebook promotes....more conspiracies, fake science news.......JFK jr coming soon except with more participants....Oh well, like I avoid Facebook and twitter because of the lack of facts, nothing will change except for the weak minded idiots who live in their alternate universe!!!!


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I will never argue with rrb because he is not sane and is a white supremacist asshole

Caliphate4vr said...

I’d say it’s because you’re incompetent, Alky

anonymous said...

Sad that 70% of R's believe trump was robbed......15% of the US voters agree with the QANON BS that the country is run by a cabal of pedophiles.......And a free wheeling Twitter will just ad to that vast amount of stupidity the already exists without help from another fake free speech site!!!!

Anonymous said...

The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit April 26, 2022 at 3:08 PM

I will never argue with rrb..."

Because RRB , beats you like you beat your ex-wife.


Caliphate4vr said...

And now we need



Ed Markey
@SenMarkey
Elon Musk and a handful of billionaires now have dangerous influence over the most powerful online platforms. They can't be trusted, and self-regulation has failed. We must pass laws to protect privacy and promote algorithmic justice for internet users, especially for kids.

rrb said...



Algorithmic justice.

LOL.

I wonder which fucking genius on his staff wrote that?

rrb said...

Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...

I will never argue with rrb because he is not sane



Says the aging drunk locked down in an insane asylum.

LOL.

I'm free to move about the planet at my leisure, alky.

Your key to freedom is a door code you're not allowed to have.

So tell me... who's not sane?


anonymous said...

Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
And now we need

Ed Markey

And lets not ignore Rand Paul the fake Dr. spewing Russian propaganda at a hearing today saying Ukraine was part of Russia and the invasion was due to NATO expansion....no wonder why Markey has concerns about Twitter.....as I posted earlier that an open forum of Bullshit thoughts will affect the weak minded R's amongst us....like the 70% who think trump won without a shred of evidence or truth!!!!!!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

rrb is happy London (CNN Business) - In a dramatic escalation of tensions with the West, Russian energy giant Gazprom informed Poland's state-run gas firm PGNiG said that it will "entirely suspend" gas supplies along the Yamal pipeline starting Wednesday morning, PGNiG said in a statement on Tuesday.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Hours after the deadly Capitol attack on 6 January 2021, the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, told a reporter he was “exhilarated” because he thought Donald Trump had finally lost his grip on the party.

Biden finds Murdoch ‘most dangerous man in the world’, new book says


Close to a year and a half later, however, with midterm elections looming, Trump retains control over the GOP and is set to be its presidential candidate in 2024


What’s more, McConnell has said he will support Trump if so.

McConnell’s short-lived glee over Trump’s apparent downfall is described in This Will Not Pass, an explosive new book by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns of the New York Times which will be published next week. The Guardian obtained a copy.

The two authors describe a meeting between one of them and McConnell at the Capitol early on 7 January 2021. The day before, a mob Trump told to “fight like hell” in service of his lie about electoral fraud attempted to stop certification of Joe Biden’s election victory by forcing its way into the Capitol.

A bipartisan Senate committee connected seven deaths to the attack. In the aftermath, 147 Republicans in the House and Senate nonetheless lodged objections to electoral results.

According to Martin and Burns, McConnell told staffers Trump was a “despicable human being” he would now fight politically. Then, on his way out of the Capitol, the authors say, McConnell met one of them and “made clear he wanted a word”.


“What do you hear about the 25th amendment?” they say McConnell asked, “eager for intelligence about whether his fellow Republicans were discussing removing Trump from office” via the constitutional process for removing a president incapable of the office.

Burns and Martin say McConnell “seemed almost buoyant”, telling them Trump was now “pretty thoroughly discredited”.

“He put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger,” McConnell is quoted as saying. “Couldn’t have happened at a better time.”

The authors say McConnell indicated he believed he would regain control of his party, alluding to a previous confrontation with the far right and saying: “We crushed the sons of bitches and that’s what we’re going to do in the primary in ’22.”

McConnell also said: “I feel exhilarated by the fact that [Trump] finally, totally discredited himself.”

anonymous said...

Here at my cabin in Ga being entertained by the Gov. race.....Purdue the disgraced senator versus Kemp the UGA idiot!!!! Purdue's who campaign is revolving around the stolen election and voter fraud ......other than that, can't tell what he is running on other than being against the state income tax roll back.....Looks like trumps endorsement is falling on deaf ears as Kemp has a commanding lead.....yes there is plenty of time, but Purdue's words are failing.....leaving a wide opening for Abrams to kick kemps ass this go around......oh well as it may be the beginning of toxic trump syndrome........and more hope for D's maintaining as Greeene's big stupid mouth may be her down fall!!!!!!!!! Next....Gosar.....Boebert and the other morons who are running against democracy~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

McConnell’s words ring hollow, in fact, as the 2022 midterms approach. Trump endorsements are highly prized and Republicans who voted for impeachment are either retiring or facing Trump-backed challengers.

Trump was impeached for a second time over the Capitol attack but as Burns and Martin describe, McConnell swiftly realised that most Republican voters still supported the former president – many believing his lie about electoral fraud – and that most Republicans in Congress were going to stay in line.

Burns and Martin describe how in Trump’s Senate trial, Democratic House managers sought to convince McConnell of their case, knowing his loathing for Trump and hoping he would bring enough Republicans with him to convict.

But McConnell, grasping a legal argument that said Congress could not impeach a former president, did not join the seven Republicans who did find Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection.

After voting to acquit, McConnell excoriated Trump, saying he was “practically and morally responsible” for the Capitol attack.

That did not change the fact that thanks in large part to McConnell, Trump remains free to run for office again.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

McConnell swiftly realised that most Republican voters like you Scott still supported the former president – many believing his lie about electoral fraud – and that most Republicans in Congress were going to stay in line.

Devotion to dictators has existed in history.

Anonymous said...

Twitter workers made a lot of Money on this Deal.

They should stand strong and reject Elon's Money. Be true to their ideology.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/26/mcconnell-exhilarated-trump-january-6-book-this-will-not-pass-burns-martin

Anonymous said...

Roger you told us you believed Trump stole the 2016 election.

Anonymous said...

Roger , you said In 2020 Bush Stole the Election from Gore

Anonymous said...

Bidenomics. = 33,240.18 -3,344.88  (-9.14%) year to date

anonymous said...

And the goat fucker gloats as his portfolio crashes......BWAAAAAAAA!!!!

rrb said...



Devotion to dictators has existed in history.


Indeed, drunkard.

The image of 0linsky's nutsack nestled on your chin is still fresh in my mind after all this time, alky.

LOL.

anonymous said...

And the vision of trumps mushroom dick up your ass is legendary!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I opened the fox News app and it looked like ch 😳

Anonymous said...

Why has the Leftist here stop telling us about the "Great BIDEN Economy"?

Anonymous said...

My portfolio is just fine.
My wife and I invest in US Ibonds.
We have for all of the Bush "W" years, skipped the Lost Economic years.

BIDEN years are going to be 7+ percent safe returns.

Caliphate4vr said...

Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
I opened the fox News app and it looked like ch 😳


I opened my front door and walked outside, when’s the last time you could do that?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

FYI. I don't live in a nursing home. I'm free to come and go anytime I need or need. I'm here because of stupid things I did. I went out two days ago to go to the gym. I worked out for an hour aerobic exercises and flexibility and strength.

Most of them are really old and some of them have alzheimerz disease. When their family's visit it is not easy to watch.
Mark Shipper has IED and he is irrational and angry and steals candy and other things.

Like I said before it is my fault but I'm very healthy and I can't wait until I have gotten back in shape!

Caliphate4vr said...

I'm free to come and go anytime I need or need

And then someone gave you plastic utensils, cut your nanners for you and dispenses your meds.