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To be fair NK might have conducted all the tests it needs to finetune and finish its program. Don't forget that Israel, India and Pakistan all have just a handful of nuclear tests between them, but that was enough for those three countries to develop an arsenal. Further testing is only really relevant if you want to go bigger and bigger, but once a NK warhead can blow up a city do they really need more power?

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 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 Wolfblade wrote:
Forutantely, current libel laws prevent the president From suing based on libel.

Wonder how long that it will take before he starts pushing congress to change that, and then how long until they start trying to pass a bill to loosen the libel laws.
I'd like to see it happen. In general I feel like media is able to get away with too many blatant lies that are ultimately a use of free speech that harms individuals and/or communities. I'm sure Trump & co would be shocked when after opening up those laws they found themselves targets of lawsuits while being unable to go forward with any themselves. Turns out you can't sue the truth.


Why would you want to loosen libel laws? You can sue the president for libel, but the president cannot currently sue you for libel, and that's due to the size of their platform. I.e. if I say "trump is a piece of gak," who cares? I mean, what's the size of my platform? A toy soldier forum? But if the president says "Wolfblade is a piece of gak," the size of his audience is not just the entire US, but potentially foreign nations too.

Loosening libel laws would mean I could be sued by the president despite my totally insignificant platform (especially when compared to the president's)

As for the media's lies, as much as I hate to say it, even Fox "News's" right to lying must be protected to keep doing so, that however does not mean they should be exempt from the consequences of it. If there is an actual case of libel that can be proven, then they (all news, not just Fox) should be held accountable.

(Maybe I just misread what you posted, but I don't feel like I did)

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I may be wrong, or over simplifying things, but I think the difference between the UK and US is that while in the US you have to disprove the claims of the person libelling you in order to win, in the UK the onus is on the person making the libellous claim to back it up with evidence or they will lose. This makes it harder to win libel cases in the US especially if it’s a case of one person’s word against another. Happy to be corrected if wrong.

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 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I may be wrong, or over simplifying things, but I think the difference between the UK and US is that while in the US you have to disprove the claims of the person libelling you in order to win, in the UK the onus is on the person making the libellous claim to back it up with evidence or they will lose. This makes it harder to win libel cases in the US especially if it’s a case of one person’s word against another. Happy to be corrected if wrong.


No that's basically it.

In point of fact you don't have to just disprove the claims in the US to win a libel/slander case. You have to show both that the claim is false, that the person who made it knew it was false, and that they made the claim anyway with intention to bring you harm by making it. And yes if your first thought hear that is "well that's impossible to prove" you'd be right!

So basically libel/slander is pragmatically impossible to prove in the US. When such suits are filed it's usually to force settlements, add pressure in other legal matters, or to go fishing.

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 LordofHats wrote:
 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I may be wrong, or over simplifying things, but I think the difference between the UK and US is that while in the US you have to disprove the claims of the person libelling you in order to win, in the UK the onus is on the person making the libellous claim to back it up with evidence or they will lose. This makes it harder to win libel cases in the US especially if it’s a case of one person’s word against another. Happy to be corrected if wrong.


No that's basically it.

In point of fact you don't have to just disprove the claims in the US to win a libel/slander case. You have to show both that the claim is false, that the person who made it knew it was false, and that they made the claim anyway with intention to bring you harm by making it. And yes if your first thought hear that is "well that's impossible to prove" you'd be right!

So basically libel/slander is pragmatically impossible to prove in the US. When such suits are filed it's usually to force settlements, add pressure in other legal matters, or to go fishing.
Yup. If things were more like the UK then there would be more motivation to actually make sure there was evidence to justify claims before making them. Obviously not a cure but any improvement would be a relief given how bad things are right now.

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 Wolfblade wrote:
I.e. if I say "trump is a piece of gak," who cares? I mean, what's the size of my platform? A toy soldier forum? But if the president says "Wolfblade is a piece of gak," the size of his audience is not just the entire US, but potentially foreign nations too.

Loosening libel laws would mean I could be sued by the president despite my totally insignificant platform (especially when compared to the president's)


That isn't libel in the first place. Libel must be a false statement, and "Trump is a piece of gak" has no truth value.

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On 4/20...

Sen. Chuck Schumer to introduce bill to “decriminalize” marijuana.

New found respect for federalism? ...or, midyear campaign electioneering?

>implying any party has ever cared about federalism when it gets in the way of their policies.

But it may also be related to NY politics, we have some bills that are stuck in the state senate for legalizing and taxing recreational marijuana. Might be to get rid of their "it's illegal federally" argument.

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More Scott Pruitt shenanigans in the news, what a surprise.
   
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Which was he most recent one? It's hard to keep track.

Remember when Van Jones got forced out because he had once signed a truther petition?

Man, what a different time.

I repeat, somewhere Tom Price must be absolutely kicking himself. The dude resigned over high-end travel costs early on when the opportunity for grift was so, so much greater had he just stuck in there.

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Well Tom Price was probably a bit of a disappointment when it came to sabotaging ACA (and thus far whatever was done to hamstring it did not involve him), whereas when it comes to policy on the EPA (which is defanging the agency) Scott Pruitt has done marvelously as far as Trump is concerned, which is part of why I think he might see it to the end of Trump's term, scandals and all.
   
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Purchased home from a lobbyist using a shell company to hide the transaction and failed to report it:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/04/21/politics/scott-pruitt-nyt-oklahoma-home-shell-company/index.html

Meeting with the condo lobbyists:

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 feeder wrote:
Sounds like a make-work program for the DNC lawyers. There should be wide bi-partisan support for these Job Creators.


People mocked the DNC in 1972 when they launched a law suit against the RNC, alleging the RNC was behind the Watergate break in. Remember it was years before the greater public began to understand scale and scope of the RNC involvement in the Watergate break-in. But the DNC knew it and called the RNC out straight away, launching their suit against the RNC just 4 days after the break-in. And in hindsight it was amazing much how the Democrats got right - the people they named as primary targets all ended up going to jail over Watergate, and yeah, the Democrats won the case and the Republicans had pay $750k in compensation.

Not that it was ever about the money, and nor is it about the money this time. This is about using legal process to make public as much of the RNC's 2016 criminal work as possible, and making sure everything uncovered through that process or by Mueller's investigation is constantly kept in the news.

That isn't to say this was genius ploy that is certain to work. It's an obvious next move, and whether it works will depend on the skill of the DNC lawyers. It's all about execution from here. But they've just been gifted a how-to guide from Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti, so they're already one step ahead in the game.


 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
I look forward to the counter counter suit when somebody from the Pentagon demands payment for all those Lend Lease jeeps and trucks.


Russia negotiated a settlement of the debt in 1972, Russia handed over about $750m. It was about half of the value of aid they requested, which itself was heavily discounted, but the deal was made.


 whembly wrote:
Everyone... please read the DNC's court documents...

Its... freaking hysterical and will likely be thrown out before the discovery phase.


The suit as it currently stands is well short of the evidence needed. It strings all the pieces together in a way that is probably very close to what happened, but there are large gaps in their supplied to evidence to prove all those elements fitted together as the DNC allege. If this was all the evidence we can ever expect to see in the investigation, then I think the DNC case could be seen as a stunt more than a genuine suit. But you're kidding yourself if you think that all we know right now about 2016 is all we will ever know.

Just compare to the DNC suit they filed in 1972. Just four days after the break-in, the DNC was there with a suit naming all the major RNC players including Nixon. Now you think this current case lacks evidence - when they started their suit in 1972 they didn't just lack evidence, they straight up lacked anything even suggesting the RNC's involvement, apart from the obvious motive. But the case wasn't begun and ended in those 4 days, instead the DNC case developed and was substantiated over the course of the Watergate investigation, and all along the way re-submissions were used strategically by the DNC to make sure Watergate kept driving public discussion.

By laying out the bones of the case now, the DNC have positioned themselves to do exactly the same thing as last time. As more evidence comes forward they'll substantiate and develop their submission.


 feeder wrote:
The first step of the Nixon impeachment was a 1m lawsuit by the DNC for damages related to the break in.

Maybe looking to repeat?


The DNC filed their case with a judge who was a prosecutor on Watergate back in the day. Yeah, the Dems know their history and they're looking to repeat.


 Ouze wrote:
I repeat, somewhere Tom Price must be absolutely kicking himself. The dude resigned over high-end travel costs early on when the opportunity for grift was so, so much greater had he just stuck in there.


Price had lost Trump's support though. Not for his blatant grift and abuse of the public purse, Trump didn't care about that. Nah, Price sat alongside Ryan and convinced Trump of the big plan to lead with repeal and replace of Obamacare, because that would be easy and give them a warchest to go and fund their tax cut. That ended in total disaster, as Republicans couldn't produce a bill that carried more than about 20% support among the general public, even with the weight of 8 years of promising 'repeal and replace' Republicans couldn't swallow that turd.

The grand scheme that Price and Ryan sold to Trump ended in disaster on its first step. Republicans were then forced to turn to their deficit financed tax bill with no cover of money saved elsewhere, and Trump's legislative reputation was now fixed in place as 'all he can do is the same old GOP tax cut'.

Price had to go, the travel was just the final push.


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Purchased home from a lobbyist using a shell company to hide the transaction and failed to report it:


At some point we need to talk less about what Trump will do, and instead talk about what federal prosecutors will do.

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The records link Hannity to a group of shell companies that spent at least $90m on more than 870 homes in seven states over the past decade. The properties range from luxurious mansions to rentals for low-income families. Hannity is the hidden owner behind some of the shell companies and his attorney did not dispute that he owns all of them.

Dozens of the properties were bought at a discount in 2013, after banks foreclosed on their previous owners for defaulting on mortgages. Before and after then, Hannity sharply criticised Barack Obama for the US foreclosure rate. In January 2016, Hannity said there were “millions more Americans suffering under this president” partly because of foreclosures.

Hannity, 56, also amassed part of his property collection with support from the US Department for Housing and Urban Development (Hud), a fact he did not disclose when praising Ben Carson, the Hud secretary, on his television show last year.


https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/22/michael-cohen-sean-hannity-property-real-estate-ben-carson-hud?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Eh, I don't think the Hannity stuff really matters. I mean, it would be a serious deal if Hannity was a journalist working for a reputable news organization with ethics, but literally none of those things are true. As long as his ratings are OK, then, as they say, he's only in trouble if he gets caught with a dead girl or a live boy.


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 Ouze wrote:
Eh, I don't think the Hannity stuff really matters. I mean, it would be a serious deal if Hannity was a journalist working for a reputable news organization with ethics, but literally none of those things are true. As long as his ratings are OK, then, as they say, he's only in trouble if he gets caught with a dead girl or a live boy.

It continues to de-legitimize Fox News as a media agency. Obviously the loyalists won't care and the left-wingers were already set against Fox but for independents it continues to underscore 'Fox News is just a propaganda machine and doesn't care about employing the worst people' keep in mind this is after O'Reily, after several lawsuits of sexual harassment, and all the other glorious crash-and-burns Fox has pulled in the last two years. Like the GOP it is becoming a case where loyalists buy the party line but the rest of the nation places little to no value on their narrative. This is important because it means they are increasingly distancing themselves from growing demographics in order to cling to shrinking ones--it's another layer to the overall trend of the GOP setting itself up for more than failure in the next election but for the next decade, perhaps longer. If one was trying to destroy the party entirely what we see is how they'd do it.

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 Ouze wrote:
Eh, I don't think the Hannity stuff really matters. I mean, it would be a serious deal if Hannity was a journalist working for a reputable news organization with ethics, but literally none of those things are true. As long as his ratings are OK, then, as they say, he's only in trouble if he gets caught with a dead girl or a live boy.


Laura Ingraham just got so hammered that even when she issued a complete apology the campaign against her didn't let up, and the sponsors kept dropping out. And all she did was make fun of a kid applying for some colleges. I think Hannity is very vulnerable to something very similar. Not exactly on attacking the raid on Cohen without telling people Cohen had been his lawyer, or even about building property empire built on foreclosures he was pretending to be outraged about. I mean that proves the guy is a sleaze but that's not going to cost you a gig on FOX News.

But Hannity is also facing a lawsuit over Seth Rich that hurt grieving parents in a way that cuts through politics and gets people to say that ain't right. I think he probably would have moved past that as well, even if the case is lost and FOX pays out, he could have fallen back on just being a journalist who ran a story he believed in. But it's the combination of all these things things, showing Hannity is making up lies and working to his own agenda in a way that really hurts people, I think there's a real vulnerability. If someone can put all that together in a way that makes it clear to advertisers how far outside the norms of decency this guy, then advertisers will drop off in very large numbers.


Edit - got my insane FOX News made up stories flipped. Hannity is being sued for Seth Rich, not Pizzagate.


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It continues to de-legitimize Fox News as a media agency. Obviously the loyalists won't care and the left-wingers were already set against Fox but for independents it continues to underscore 'Fox News is just a propaganda machine and doesn't care about employing the worst people' keep in mind this is after O'Reily, after several lawsuits of sexual harassment, and all the other glorious crash-and-burns Fox has pulled in the last two years. Like the GOP it is becoming a case where loyalists buy the party line but the rest of the nation places little to no value on their narrative. This is important because it means they are increasingly distancing themselves from growing demographics in order to cling to shrinking ones--it's another layer to the overall trend of the GOP setting itself up for more than failure in the next election but for the next decade, perhaps longer. If one was trying to destroy the party entirely what we see is how they'd do it.


Yep. The thing about FOX News is it rates a couple of million views on average. If that was all their impact then FOX News would have no impact. It'd be less relevant than the Libertarian Party. But FOX News has impact way beyond that because the stories it focuses on and how it covers them impact how other stations cover news. When FOX spent 10 minutes breathlessly reporting on the latest conservative made up nonsense, then other outlets are more likely to cover the same thing, or shift their coverage from 30 seconds to a minute, and maybe also pick up some of the FOX News framing of the issue.

But the more FOX News marches off the reservation, the more that impact on other media declines.

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 sebster wrote:
 Ouze wrote:
Eh, I don't think the Hannity stuff really matters. I mean, it would be a serious deal if Hannity was a journalist working for a reputable news organization with ethics, but literally none of those things are true. As long as his ratings are OK, then, as they say, he's only in trouble if he gets caught with a dead girl or a live boy.


Laura Ingraham just got so hammered that even when she issued a complete apology the campaign against her didn't let up, and the sponsors kept dropping out.

Has she issued a second one? The "apology" she gave was pretty passive aggressive and not really an apology.

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 Wolfblade wrote:
 sebster wrote:
 Ouze wrote:
Eh, I don't think the Hannity stuff really matters. I mean, it would be a serious deal if Hannity was a journalist working for a reputable news organization with ethics, but literally none of those things are true. As long as his ratings are OK, then, as they say, he's only in trouble if he gets caught with a dead girl or a live boy.


Laura Ingraham just got so hammered that even when she issued a complete apology the campaign against her didn't let up, and the sponsors kept dropping out.

Has she issued a second one? The "apology" she gave was pretty passive aggressive and not really an apology.
IMO the first apology was damming regardless, for calling into question any subsequent apologies. At any rate I think what she did was very serious on a moral bankruptcy/just being a terrible human being front. And I think that a person willing to say what she did in that context deserves to be kicked out of journalism.

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 Wolfblade wrote:
Has she issued a second one? The "apology" she gave was pretty passive aggressive and not really an apology.


Yeah, it was a crap apology. More to the point it was only done because she'd seen the financial impact, so it was hardly genuine and no reason for people to let up from the boycott.

The point is, though, that Ingraham's offences were nothing compared to Hannity's. She mocked a kid who'd just been through a tragedy for applying to a reach college. Hannity straight up lied about his direct personal connections to the news he was covering. The difference is Ingraham's breach had a clearly identifiable victim, while Hannity's crime had no individual person clearly harmed.

But that could change if people can find a way to connect what we know about Hannity's deceitful coverage to the Seth Rich story and the hurt that caused to the victim's parents.

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 Ouze wrote:
Eh, I don't think the Hannity stuff really matters. I mean, it would be a serious deal if Hannity was a journalist working for a reputable news organization with ethics, but literally none of those things are true. As long as his ratings are OK, then, as they say, he's only in trouble if he gets caught with a dead girl or a live boy.



The Daniels attorney pushing this supports my theory that he is being compensated by the DNC, else he would not comment as it's not relevant to the case.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/clinton-stars-central-villain-gops-midterm-strategy-153319503--election.html

They just can't let her go.

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 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 Wolfblade wrote:
 sebster wrote:
 Ouze wrote:
Eh, I don't think the Hannity stuff really matters. I mean, it would be a serious deal if Hannity was a journalist working for a reputable news organization with ethics, but literally none of those things are true. As long as his ratings are OK, then, as they say, he's only in trouble if he gets caught with a dead girl or a live boy.


Laura Ingraham just got so hammered that even when she issued a complete apology the campaign against her didn't let up, and the sponsors kept dropping out.

Has she issued a second one? The "apology" she gave was pretty passive aggressive and not really an apology.
IMO the first apology was damming regardless, for calling into question any subsequent apologies. At any rate I think what she did was very serious on a moral bankruptcy/just being a terrible human being front. And I think that a person willing to say what she did in that context deserves to be kicked out of journalism.


She is not a journalist, any more than MSNBC's or CNN's evening talkers.

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 Co'tor Shas wrote:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/clinton-stars-central-villain-gops-midterm-strategy-153319503--election.html

They just can't let her go.


She holds no public office, she is running for nothing, the GOP holds the majority of governorships, majority of congress, majority of the senate, and the presidency - and they still insist as portraying themselves as the aggrieved victims. There are near-daily tantrums on twitter of perceived slights and persecutions from the oval office.

In my lifetime politics got fething weird, man.

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Apparently the dumpster fire is using anti-Semetic terms to insult Jewish people that disagree with him. Referring to Chuck Todd as 'Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd'.
   
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I think "sleepy eyes" being a roundabout antisemetic slur is a reach - I have never found Trump's insults to be subtle.

I think he's just trying to stay consistent in this week's theme:



Man, I don't care who you are, that's kind of funny.

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http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2018/always-worse-than-we-know/

Link explaining what it means.
   
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Secret Squirrel






Leerstetten, Germany

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/politics/donald-trump-cell-phone/index.html

So in the age of "but her emails", how does everybody feel about the use of a personal cellphone and all the security vulnerabilities and lack of accountability that come with it?
   
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Humming Great Unclean One of Nurgle






Meh. Seems like a liberal news outlet making a big deal over something small. Afaik Obama's cell phone use never caused problems.

Road to Renown! It's like classic Path to Glory, but repaired, remastered, expanded! https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/778170.page

I chose an avatar I feel best represents the quality of my post history.

I try to view Warhammer as more of a toolbox with examples than fully complete games. 
   
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Secret Squirrel






Leerstetten, Germany

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Meh. Seems like a liberal news outlet making a big deal over something small. Afaik Obama's cell phone use never caused problems.


The special secure Blackberry phone that was given to him to replace his private cell phone?

   
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Wise Ethereal with Bodyguard




Catskills in NYS

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43874891?

Hopefully he's OK, but this may be it. He is 93 and they were very close.

Homosexuality is the #1 cause of gay marriage.
 kronk wrote:
Every pizza is a personal sized pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.
 sebster wrote:
Yes, indeed. What a terrible piece of cultural imperialism it is for me to say that a country shouldn't murder its own citizens
 BaronIveagh wrote:
Basically they went from a carrot and stick to a smaller carrot and flanged mace.
 
   
 
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