Eh, Trump has two major things going his way when it comes to the Dems.
1. The whole desire to fact-check. Trump says something like "A third of X are Y!" and the media will trip over itself explaining that Trump was lying because it's only 31% of X that are Y. Four Pinocchios!
2. The "Directionally Correct" thing that we saw with, for example, the tariffs. "I agree that tariffs are good but we should use them like *THIS* rather than like *THAT*". (And it only gets worse if this or that politician has actually read Uncle Milty.)
But he touches on some of the dynamics of this situation and, yeah, it's not great. There's a drip drip drip of new information that, if not calculated, is unfortunate enough to suspect that it was calculated.
Guessing that the poster he lifted from was this one:
Can't find the elephant one so I'm guessing that the above was somewhere across the street and the elephant one was done from memory (because there are a couple that are *CLOSE* but don't have the frock or the hat and there are a ton of posters that it could be an amalgamation of).
The worst pushback that I saw was from Emily Ratajkowski. I don't want to engage in too much freelance psychoanalysis but I kinda got the "intrasexual competition" vibe rather than something deeper.
I'm pretty sure that we're *ALL* members of the press. When the First Amendment was written, "the press" was just a guy who had one. That's it.
If we want to argue that Mr. Metcalf was acting inappropriately by being somewhere that he wasn't wanted and that the people there had every right have him leave, well... I suppose that's one of those things that we're going to find the limits of in the next few months as the story unfolds.
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"Therefore, censorship didn't happen. Q.E.D."
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"Well, the censorship wasn't *ABSOLUTE*. Therefore, it didn't happen."
At least "private companies can do whatever they want" had the benefit of acknowledging what happened rather than trying to deny it.
(But maybe we'll get to "but it was good though".)
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The weird thing is that people were, in fact, censored for the opposite.
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Eh, Trump has two major things going his way when it comes to the Dems.
1. The whole desire to fact-check. Trump says something like "A third of X are Y!" and the media will trip over itself explaining that Trump was lying because it's only 31% of X that are Y. Four Pinocchios!
2. The "Directionally Correct" thing that we saw with, for example, the tariffs. "I agree that tariffs are good but we should use them like *THIS* rather than like *THAT*". (And it only gets worse if this or that politician has actually read Uncle Milty.)
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Surely it's good news.
If the polling goes down hard enough, even the rats will moderate.
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Looks like he was swatted last night.
FA.
FO.
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Townhall now has a column: Did the Trump Administration Set a Trap for Democrats and Media on the 'Maryland Father' Case?
Yes, yes. Guy Benson, Townhall, Fox News, etc.
But he touches on some of the dynamics of this situation and, yeah, it's not great. There's a drip drip drip of new information that, if not calculated, is unfortunate enough to suspect that it was calculated.
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Guessing that the poster he lifted from was this one:
Can't find the elephant one so I'm guessing that the above was somewhere across the street and the elephant one was done from memory (because there are a couple that are *CLOSE* but don't have the frock or the hat and there are a ton of posters that it could be an amalgamation of).
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We never find the sauce. We merely become the people who believe in it.
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The worst pushback that I saw was from Emily Ratajkowski. I don't want to engage in too much freelance psychoanalysis but I kinda got the "intrasexual competition" vibe rather than something deeper.
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Oh, you can continue to believe Fauci. No one will censor you for bragging about doing so.
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Is that the article from February again?
(Clicks link.)
It's the article from February again.
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A rat done bit my sister Nell
But Katy's on the Blue
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Nothing to be done, I guess.
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Lab Leak is now the official position of the USG.
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Also, Maribou's bod has informed us that the snow is still coming.
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I mean the "mangia sauce".
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OH YEAH WRESTLEMANIA
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Maggi Seasoning Sauce?
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Well, the good news is that the cops were called and the guy was removed without any particularly weird tasing incidents.
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Are you familiar with the fallacy "Begging the Question"?
It's an important one!
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As far as I can tell, the Republicans have a "whatabout" for every single "precedent" that the Democrats claim are being set.
The rubicon, they say, has already been crossed.
As such, the argument "what if the shoe were on the other foot?!?" becomes toothless. "What, you mean like last time?"
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I'm pretty sure that we're *ALL* members of the press. When the First Amendment was written, "the press" was just a guy who had one. That's it.
If we want to argue that Mr. Metcalf was acting inappropriately by being somewhere that he wasn't wanted and that the people there had every right have him leave, well... I suppose that's one of those things that we're going to find the limits of in the next few months as the story unfolds.
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Nothing to be done, I guess.
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Not to nitpick, but that excludes more than 5% of humans.