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POTUS 45.10 - Stage Two in Perpetuity
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The Supreme Court will have a field day with that.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: POTUS 45.10 - Stage Two in Perpetuity
No court is going to back Trump with the plute idea that his rights to his image trump the First Amendment right to lampoon a public figure. That would mean if I copyright my name or image and then run for office you can't use them for satire.
He can go f-ck himself and take his gang of brownshirt as-sholes with him. BB doesn't need my money for legal defense but I'd contribute. Time to countersue and bankrupt this sick f-ck.
No court is going to back Trump with the plute idea that his rights to his image trump the First Amendment right to lampoon a public figure. That would mean if I copyright my name or image and then run for office you can't use them for satire.
He can go f-ck himself and take his gang of brownshirt as-sholes with him. BB doesn't need my money for legal defense but I'd contribute. Time to countersue and bankrupt this sick f-ck.
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Deutsche Gopher Fan
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Re: POTUS 45.10 - Stage Two in Perpetuity
Newt g, a totally honorable man himself, wants to abolish the CBO
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/335148-gingrich-abolish-totally-destructive-cbo
Newt g, a totally honorable man himself, wants to abolish the CBO
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/335148-gingrich-abolish-totally-destructive-cbo
Re: POTUS 45.10 - Stage Two in Perpetuity
And if memory serves, if it's parody of a public figure, it's fair game.
Also, if you change a certain percentage of the "appearance" of a (c) thing, it's fair game.
And if memory serves, if it's parody of a public figure, it's fair game.
Also, if you change a certain percentage of the "appearance" of a (c) thing, it's fair game.
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
bronconick
Yep, still here
Re: POTUS 45.10 - Stage Two in Perpetuity
How ****ed up is 2016+ politics when it's entirely believable
It's pretty clearly a fake.
How ****ed up is 2016+ politics when it's entirely believable
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Deutsche Gopher Fan
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Re: POTUS 45.10 - Stage Two in Perpetuity
And the GOP body slammer has won the house seat.
And the GOP body slammer has won the house seat.
It's pretty clearly a fake.
Sorry about that, I should have read it before posting... but it sounded like something he'd do.
St. Clown
Liberal Rebel Scum, apparently
Re: POTUS 45.10 - Stage Two in Perpetuity
Strictly speaking, the letter referencing using Trump and his family's images within the context of selling Bloom County goods. To me that reads like the lawyers have admitted by omission that it's open season (rightfully) when using Trump's image within comic strips to simply lampoon Ego Supreme.
The letter: https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybr...793262484769/1577899202240827/?type=3&theaterhttps://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1577899202240827/?type=3&theater
Strictly speaking, the letter referencing using Trump and his family's images within the context of selling Bloom County goods. To me that reads like the lawyers have admitted by omission that it's open season (rightfully) when using Trump's image within comic strips to simply lampoon Ego Supreme.
The letter: https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybr...793262484769/1577899202240827/?type=3&theaterhttps://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1577899202240827/?type=3&theater
state of hockey
He fixes the cable?
100% expected.
FadeToBlack&Gold
Microlot Marxist
Re: POTUS 45.10 - Stage Two in Perpetuity
For the next 18 months, the media will hammer him, and he'll call them all "liberal maniacs". Par for the course.
For the next 18 months, the media will hammer him, and he'll call them all "liberal maniacs". Par for the course.
walrus
Wind up workin' in a gas station
Re: POTUS 45.10 - Stage Two in Perpetuity
If thats all he does the media will be lucky.
If thats all he does the media will be lucky.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: POTUS 45.10 - Stage Two in Perpetuity
Democracy now hangs by the thread of the Judiciary. The Executive is a criminal and the Legislature are cowards, the media are paid agents of the 1%, but the courts are still independent. That's why the meatheads hate "liberal judges" so much. It's the one thing they don't have total control of.
The lights are this close to going out. We have never been in such trouble, and one of the major parties is so short-sighted and greedy they will let it happen as long as they get their slice. Truly disgusting.
Democracy now hangs by the thread of the Judiciary. The Executive is a criminal and the Legislature are cowards, the media are paid agents of the 1%, but the courts are still independent. That's why the meatheads hate "liberal judges" so much. It's the one thing they don't have total control of.
The lights are this close to going out. We have never been in such trouble, and one of the major parties is so short-sighted and greedy they will let it happen as long as they get their slice. Truly disgusting.
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ScoobyDoo
NPC
Re: POTUS 45.10 - Stage Two in Perpetuity
When the majority really truly feels that they are oppressed and the have the Oligarchy feeding that machine with piles and piles of money what do you expect?
Frankly it seems a forgone conclusion.
Look what happened this week on Trump's trips. Look at how he acted towards Saudi Arabia compared to NATO. "Some people just want to watch the world burn." never rang more true.
When the majority really truly feels that they are oppressed and the have the Oligarchy feeding that machine with piles and piles of money what do you expect?
Frankly it seems a forgone conclusion.
Look what happened this week on Trump's trips. Look at how he acted towards Saudi Arabia compared to NATO. "Some people just want to watch the world burn." never rang more true.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: POTUS 45.10 - Stage Two in Perpetuity
I don't expect anything from the apes, but I do expect greater responsibility from the humans.
These forces have always been there, bubbling below the surface. The majority of people will gladly give their freedom and dignity for three hots and a cot -- hence the wage slavery of "working." And, truth be told, they weren't using them anyway. What would most apes do if they had the freedom to pursue their actual happiness? Drink, watch TV, and make little apes. The unexamined life of the consumer.
Democracy is a human system for ensuring that all humans have the chance to thrive. Since the birth lottery is random and privilege doesn't correlate with anything except luck or an ancestral criminal, the only way to ensure that all humans get a vote and a chance to thrive is to ensure all apes do too. Even though the first thing they often try to do is vote away their freedoms (and ours).
We face the Arab Spring Paradox, always, everywhere. We believe in freedom and in democracy, but the majority is never more than a couple missed meals or dividend checks away from voting away their freedom to the first strongman who beats his chest. The majority in all countries is exactly the same: the substratum from which humans occasionally emerge. More and more frequently as parochialism and superstition erode, but still not frequently enough to dependably win free elections.
There are conservative humans -- not the boobs we see on the teevee, but they're out there, the Burkes and Buckleys, the Tafts and whoever it is the Romneys and Bushes pay to think for them. They're aware of the problem and their solution is to weight the system for their friends, to push so much money down the chimney of democracy that it's blocked and only their buddies wield power. The two problems with this approach are (1) it's immoral, and (2) money, and their buddies, aren't all that more likely to be human than any other random sample. Plutocracy doesn't help the human project forward.
That leaves liberal humans -- mostly in the universities. Most of them are unaware of the problem and think all apes would become human if you just gave them enough love and freedom. That is nonsense. Humans may not actually pop out of the womb as such but whatever the differentiation is it is has already taken root by the time we're walking. In Kindergarten the division is already there. Some of it is intelligence, that's the superficial difference. But the sort order of tolerance and, for lack of a better word, awareness is also already there.
Humans and apes can already smell each other at a very young age, and the apes are already scared of and violent towards The Other in their midst. Many liberals know this from experience but have willfully suppressed it because it conflicts with their ideology -- standard ape behavior, but there are after all some liberal apes, too. For those liberal humans who do recognize and face the problem, it's an earnest dilemma. Playing it wrong could, up until very recently in history, result in assault or death. Law has been an amazing invention to help navigate it, as has democracy (other useful inventions include literacy, the free market, religion in the absence of facts and science in their presence).
The point is, this is nothing new and our ancestors faced a much tougher landscape. We are now more organized, in better contact with one another, and have built many strong institutions to protect us against the periodic onslaughts of the apes. This is just another such period and it will pass like the flu. In the meantime, we all work to bolster those institutions, keep cheerful with humor (an outstanding human invention -- maybe the best of all), and hold hands to keep each other's spirits up.
Only the apes think that's gay.
I don't expect anything from the apes, but I do expect greater responsibility from the humans.
These forces have always been there, bubbling below the surface. The majority of people will gladly give their freedom and dignity for three hots and a cot -- hence the wage slavery of "working." And, truth be told, they weren't using them anyway. What would most apes do if they had the freedom to pursue their actual happiness? Drink, watch TV, and make little apes. The unexamined life of the consumer.
Democracy is a human system for ensuring that all humans have the chance to thrive. Since the birth lottery is random and privilege doesn't correlate with anything except luck or an ancestral criminal, the only way to ensure that all humans get a vote and a chance to thrive is to ensure all apes do too. Even though the first thing they often try to do is vote away their freedoms (and ours).
We face the Arab Spring Paradox, always, everywhere. We believe in freedom and in democracy, but the majority is never more than a couple missed meals or dividend checks away from voting away their freedom to the first strongman who beats his chest. The majority in all countries is exactly the same: the substratum from which humans occasionally emerge. More and more frequently as parochialism and superstition erode, but still not frequently enough to dependably win free elections.
There are conservative humans -- not the boobs we see on the teevee, but they're out there, the Burkes and Buckleys, the Tafts and whoever it is the Romneys and Bushes pay to think for them. They're aware of the problem and their solution is to weight the system for their friends, to push so much money down the chimney of democracy that it's blocked and only their buddies wield power. The two problems with this approach are (1) it's immoral, and (2) money, and their buddies, aren't all that more likely to be human than any other random sample. Plutocracy doesn't help the human project forward.
That leaves liberal humans -- mostly in the universities. Most of them are unaware of the problem and think all apes would become human if you just gave them enough love and freedom. That is nonsense. Humans may not actually pop out of the womb as such but whatever the differentiation is it is has already taken root by the time we're walking. In Kindergarten the division is already there. Some of it is intelligence, that's the superficial difference. But the sort order of tolerance and, for lack of a better word, awareness is also already there.
Humans and apes can already smell each other at a very young age, and the apes are already scared of and violent towards The Other in their midst. Many liberals know this from experience but have willfully suppressed it because it conflicts with their ideology -- standard ape behavior, but there are after all some liberal apes, too. For those liberal humans who do recognize and face the problem, it's an earnest dilemma. Playing it wrong could, up until very recently in history, result in assault or death. Law has been an amazing invention to help navigate it, as has democracy (other useful inventions include literacy, the free market, religion in the absence of facts and science in their presence).
The point is, this is nothing new and our ancestors faced a much tougher landscape. We are now more organized, in better contact with one another, and have built many strong institutions to protect us against the periodic onslaughts of the apes. This is just another such period and it will pass like the flu. In the meantime, we all work to bolster those institutions, keep cheerful with humor (an outstanding human invention -- maybe the best of all), and hold hands to keep each other's spirits up.
Only the apes think that's gay.
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Handyman
Hug someone you care about...
Re: POTUS 45.10 - Stage Two in Perpetuity
Yeah can you imagine if Obama had sold the Saudi's weapons then insulted all of our allies in the same calendar week? They would have lynched him.
Yeah can you imagine if Obama had sold the Saudi's weapons then insulted all of our allies in the same calendar week? They would have lynched him.
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