MAGA hasbara out in full force today to try spin their orange calf & leader's dangerous, reckless remarks at his unhinged rally where the Jan 6 insurrectionists and traitors were praised. He also said some immigrants weren't human. Used words like "bloodbath." Very fine people.

— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) March 17, 2024

It was like an antisemitic conspiracy theory that became real and suddenly it disappeared from everywhere. I wonder why

"I don't know if he's serious," President Biden tells me when I asked if he expects to debate Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 election. "I don't know if he's serious."

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) March 17, 2024

for !chuds

Ana and Cenk explaining how the CIA doesn’t do bad stuff anymore. pic.twitter.com/jXVyo1455z

— Aaron (@_Aaron_448) March 12, 2024

In Opinion

Donald Trump is obsessed with “the deep state.” We went on a road trip across the U.S. to find the people behind this scary-sounding entity. Turns out, they’re kind of awesome.

Watch: https://t.co/Qr9gS0QdV8

— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 19, 2024

I think we can all agree the left has grown complacent these past 4 years in the U.S. with the Biden Presidency.When we came together to defeat Donald Trump and saved the world from Fascism I think people grew way to comfortable with the idea that the Revolutionary Antifascist Party (Democrats) would protect us.I mean who doesn't love AOC?Heck, I'll admit on some harder days to hitting the booze a little to strong and donating to Sanders whispering "Our day will come" before confirming my credit card details.

But now Fascism on the verge of taking over the world again and Trump explicitly saying he was going to be a lot more mean this time around, I think we need to take off the gloves and stop being so civil with literal Hitlerites.

I've been engaging in research (watching random war footage) and discussion (Comment sections) with colleagues (Politically Extreme Schizophrenics) on the current revolutionary struggles being held around the world, and one seems to be the most valuable.

In Palestine the Communists seem to be working with Jihadists to fight Imperialism.That's when I realized that Jihadists are actually the most effective revolutionary groups at countering neo-liberal hegemony around the world.

To the benefit of everyone I have made a list of benefits that the revolutionary proletariat would gain from converting to Islam and engaging in Jihad.

1. You get the opiate of the masses (Opiates feel good)

2. No Shaving facial hair for men (Neck beard friendly)

3. Most Jihadists already know Soviet AK-47 is better than M16

4. Get to call people Islamophobic more often

5. +3 holy damage to all attacks and +2 to constitution rolls.

KBJ doubles down: “My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.”

That is, quite literally, the entire point of the First Amendment—of the entire Bill of Rights. pic.twitter.com/gWMCaHDG1W

— System Update (@SystemUpdate_) March 18, 2024

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON (@Billclinton)

READ UP ON THE GREATEST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/william-j-clinton/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bill-Clinton

>b-but Bill hasn't done anything!!!

https://millercenter.org/president/bill-clinton/key-events

>Longest economic expansion in America's history

>More than 22 million new jobs

>Highest homeownership in American history

>Lowest unemployment rate in 30 years

>Raised education standards

>Largest expansion of college opportunity since the GI bill

>Connected 95% of schools to the internet

>Lowest crime rate in 26 years

>100,000 more police in America's streets

>Enacted most sweeping gun safety legislation in a generation

>Family and Medical Leave Act for more than 20 million Americans

>Smallest welfare rolls in 32 years

>Higher incomes at all levels

>Lowest poverty rate in 20 years

>Deactivated more than 1,700 nuclear warheads from the former Soviet Union

and much more...

What are your hopes for Bill's future?

Has Bill done a good job in protecting America?

How are you enjoying the Clinton administration so far?

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THREAD THEME:

!neolibs

What he actually said:

China now is building a couple of massive plants where they're going to build the cars in Mexico and think, they think, that they're going to sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border. Let me you something to China, if you're listening President Xi and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal. Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you're building in Mexico right now and you think you're going to get that, you're going to not hire Americans and you're going to sell the cars to us? No. We're going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you're not going be able to sell those cars. If i get elected. Now, if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole -- that's gonna be the least of it. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it.

Protectionist trade policies are fascism, sweaty.

Reportmaxxing opportunities:

Then someone needs to eliminate *rump

He needs a tight, straight jacket and his mouth gorilla glued shut

More like a dirt nap.

It will be his blood

A bloodbath when his head explodes.

Other threads:

https://old.reddit.com/r/conservativeterrorism/comments/1bgjg4s/trump_bloodbath_trump_warns_bloodbath_if_biden/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1bgk2x7/trump_says_there_will_be_a_bloodbath_and/

https://old.reddit.com/r/inthenews/comments/1bgjs73/trump_promises_there_will_be_bloodbath_for_the/

https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1bgfwgc/the_violent_j6_style_rhetoric_is_starting_i/

!reportmaxxers

I want that poster dead because he's stealing oxygen and food that could support a dog or three.

Nathan Wade has resigned from #FaniWillis team

So Fani stays on pic.twitter.com/rDnYCoy46e

— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) March 15, 2024

Supreme Court outlines when officials can be sued for blocking people on social media

Former President Donald Trump's frequent use of Twitter lurked in the background as the justices weighed whether an official's activities online can constitute government action.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that members of the public in some circumstances can sue public officials for blocking them on social media platforms, deciding a pair of cases against the backdrop of former President Donald Trump's contentious and colorful use of Twitter.

The court ruled unanimously that officials can be deemed "state actors" when making use of social media and can therefore face litigation if they block or mute a member of the public.

In the two cases before the justices, they ruled that disputes involving a school board member in Southern California and a city manager in Michigan should be sent back to lower courts for the new legal test to be applied.

In a ruling authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court acknowledged that it "can be difficult to tell whether the speech is official or private" because of how social media accounts are used.

The court held that speech can be viewed as state actions when the official in question "possessed actual authority to speak on the state's behalf" and "purported to exercise that authority."

While both officials have low profiles, the ruling will apply to all public officials who use social media to engage with the public.

During October's oral argument, Trump's use of Twitter — before it was renamed X — was frequently mentioned as the justices considered the practical implications.

The cases raised the question of whether public officials' posts and other social media activity constitute part of their governmental functions. In ruling that it can, the court found that blocking someone from following an official constitutes a government action that could give rise to a constitutional claim.

Trump himself was sued when he was president, with the courts ruling against him, noting that he often used his Twitter account to make official announcements. But that lawsuit was tossed out as moot once he left office in January 2021. At that point, Twitter had disabled Trump's account, although the company's new owner, Elon Musk, has reversed course as part of a major overhaul that has included changing the site's name. In other disputes, however, courts have reached other conclusions.

The California case arose after two members of the Poway Unified School District Board of Trustees, Michelle O'Connor-Ratcliff and T.J. Zane, blocked parents Christopher and Kimberly Garnier from commenting on their Facebook page in 2017. O'Connor-Ratcliff also prevented Christopher Garnier from responding to her Twitter posts. Zane has since left office.

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2022 ruled for the couple, upholding a similar decision by a federal judge in the Southern District of California. The appeals court concluded that the elected officials were acting in their official capacities.

The dispute in Michigan began in March 2020, when Port Huron City Manager James Freed, an appointed official whose Facebook page described him as a “public figure,” posted information there about the city's efforts to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. After resident Kevin Lindke posted comments criticizing the city's response, Freed blocked him.

Freed argued that the no-longer-active Facebook page was a personal page that he used to share pictures of his family and comment on his daily activities. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding a lower court decision, agreed in a June 2022 decision, ruling that Freed was not acting in his official capacity and that therefore his Facebook activity did not constitute state action.

Freed's page was somewhat different from the ones at issue in the school board case because it included a lot more personal content, making it much less clear whether it was an official page.

The court is wrestling with a whole series of social media-related free speech issues in its current term, which runs until June.

!chuds

And America’s gold-standard national election surveys show a similarly sharp decline, with non-white proximity to Democrats now at its lowest since the 1960s, before the civil rights movement and the 1964 election which aligned Black voters with the Dems and against the GOP pic.twitter.com/6rR70oieTJ

— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 11, 2024