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Cooper & Kirk, FPC File Supreme Court Petition
GunBanCase.com - BREAKING: Cooper & Kirk, FPC File Supreme Court Petition for Review in Folajtar v. Barr Second Amendment Challenge
WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 11, 2020) — Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced the filing of a petition seeking a writ of certiorari asking the United States Supreme Court to review the Third Circuit’s decision in Lisa Folajtar v. Attorney General Barr. A copy of the petition can be viewed at gunbancase.com.
Ms. Folajtar is represented by David H. Thompson, Pete Patterson, and Steven Lindsay of Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, Joshua Prince of Civil Rights Defense Firm, P.C., FPC Director of Legal Strategy Adam Kraut, and FPC Director of Research Joseph Greenlee, who authored the authoritative article on the history of arms prohibitions based upon his original research, also available at gunbancase.com. The Foljatar case was recently discussed in multiple major news outlets, including an article by New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak, “Justice Barrett’s Vote Could Tilt the Supreme Court on Gun Rights,” and a Fox News editorial by law professor Jonathan Turley, “Gun-rights case tailor made for Justice Barrett, Supreme Court. Here's why.”
“The courts would never countenance an attempt by the government to permanently bar Ms. Folajtar from exercising her fundamental rights to free speech and free exercise of religion merely because she at one time was convicted of a nonviolent felony,” explained Supreme Court counsel of record, David H. Thompson of Cooper & Kirk, who recently argued before the High Court for the petitioners in Collins v. Mnuchin. “Yet the Third Circuit held that the government can forever strip Ms. Folajtar of her fundamental right to possess firearms for self-defense based on a one-time conviction of a tax offense. As Judge Bibas explained in dissent—and as Justice Barrett explained in a similar case when on the Seventh Circuit—such a punishment has no connection whatsoever to the historical justification for limiting the Second Amendment rights of certain individuals: dangerousness. It therefore is unconstitutional, and we hope the Supreme Court agrees to hear this case and confirm that the government has no basis for depriving nondangerous individuals of their Second Amendment rights.”
“The Government’s argument that a person’s inalienable right to keep and bear arms can be denied in perpetuity as a result of a single non-violent felony conviction is neither supported by the text of the Constitution nor the history and original public meaning of the Second Amendment,” said attorney Joshua Prince. “As Judge Bibas makes clear in his dissent, the lifetime, total ban imposed upon Ms. Folajtar, and others like her, is not longstanding and has no connection to any governmental interest.”
“Ms. Folajtar is a law-abiding woman who simply wishes to exercise her natural and fundamental right to self-defense in her home,” commented Adam Kraut. “The Government’s lifetime ban applied to her cannot withstand constitutional scrutiny. And more, there exists a certain irony that the Government strips an individual of their Second Amendment rights for making a false statement on a tax return when our Founders took up arms against the King after refusing to pay taxes.”
“There is no historical precedent in American history for disarming nonviolent persons like Ms. Folajtar,” noted FPC’s Joseph Greenlee. “In fact, some founding-era laws expressly allowed people who mishandled or withheld money owed for taxes to keep their firearms. As Judge Bibas explained in his Third Circuit dissent, historically, individuals were disarmed only if they were dangerous. We hope that the Supreme Court will hear this case and put an end to the unjust and ahistorical prohibitions on nonviolent felons.”
“The Supreme Court should grant review in this case to right an outrageous injustice that affects millions of non-violent individuals and clearly establish the proper test for lower courts to apply in Second Amendment challenges,” said FPC President Brandon Combs. “Ms. Folajtar’s petition, lead by the outstanding counsel of Cooper & Kirk, presents an ideal vehicle for the Court to address these important issues in 2021, including many other cert. petitions already filed and that will be submitted this term.”
FPC recently filed another petition for cert. in a similar case, Holloway v. Barr. The petitioner, Raymond Holloway, is represented by FPC Director of Research Joseph Greenlee, Supreme Court counsel Erik Jaffe, Joshua Prince of Prince Law Offices, and FPC Director of Legal Strategy Adam Kraut.
Firearms Policy Coalition and its FPC Law team are the nation’s next-generation advocates for the right to keep and bear arms and adjacent issues, having recently filed several major federal Second Amendment lawsuits including challenges to the State of Maryland’s ban on “assault weapons” (Bianchi v. Frosh), the State of Pennsylvania’s and Allegheny County’s carry restrictions (Cowey v. Mullen), Philadelphia’s Gun Permit Unit policies and practices (Fetsurka v. Outlaw), Pennsylvania’s ban on carry by adults under 21 years of age (Lara v. Evanchick), California’s Handgun Ban and “Roster” laws (Renna v. Becerra), Maryland’s carry ban (Call v. Jones), New Jersey’s carry ban (Bennett v. Davis), New York City’s carry ban (Greco v. New York City), the federal ban on the sale of handguns and handgun ammunition by federal firearm licensees (FFLs) to adults under 21 years of age (Reese v. BATFE), and others, with many more cases being prepared today. To follow these and other legal cases FPC is actively working on, visit the Legal Action section of FPC’s website or follow FPC on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube.
Firearms Policy Coalition (firearmspolicy.org) is a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization. FPC’s mission is to protect and defend constitutional rights—especially the right to keep and bear arms—advance individual liberty, and restore freedom through litigation and legal action, legislative and regulatory action, education, outreach, grassroots activism, and other programs. FPC Law is the nation’s largest public interest legal team focused on Second Amendment and adjacent fundamental rights including freedom of speech and due process, conducting litigation, research, scholarly publications, and amicus briefing, among other efforts.
The Folajtar case is another important lawsuit that is part of FPC’s comprehensive strategy to defend freedom, advance individual liberty, and restore the Constitution and its guarantees for individuals throughout the United States. Individuals who wish to support the lawsuit can do so at JoinFPC.org and www.firearmspolicy.org/folajtar.
FPC is urgently seeking individual and FFL plaintiffs for a number of lawsuits that are being prepared to challenge laws and policies that infringe on fundamental rights, including (but not limited to):
Laws and policies that prevent individuals from purchasing and/or possessing so-called “assault weapons” (semi-automatic firearms with standard characteristics) and “high-capacity” magazines (standard magazines that hold more than 10 rounds)
Laws and policies that prevent 18-20-year-old young adults (under age 21) from obtaining handguns from FFLs and carry loaded, operable arms in public for self-defense
Laws and policies that prevent individual adults (over the age of 18) from carrying loaded handguns and other arms outside of their home
Laws and policies that prevent individuals from acquiring and/or possessing handguns and other arms without first acquiring a “purchase permit”
Laws and policies that prevent individuals from acquiring or possessing firearms due to a conviction for a non-violent crime, or mental health adjudication that did not involve an involuntary commitment
Laws that prevent honorably discharged veterans from acquiring or possessing firearms because they have been classified as “a mental defective” due to the agency’s determination that they “lack the mental capacity to contract or manage his or her own affairs” because they need assistance managing VA benefits and have a fiduciary
If someone you know meets the criteria above, or if you would be interested in participating in litigation as a supporting FFL, please contact us:
On the web at www.firearmspolicy.org/hotline
By email at potentialplaintiffs[at]fpchq.org
By phone at (855) 252-4510 (FPC Legal Action Hotline available 24/7/365)
If you would like to support FPC’s Folajtar case and many other pro-Second Amendment lawsuits, legal action, and research, please chip in $5, $10, $25, or whatever you can at https://www.firearmspolicy.org/donate or Join the FPC Grassroots Army at JoinFPC.org.
I fully expect a LOT of gun control laws to be overturned with the current makeup of the Supreme Court. As you can see above, people like Firearms Policy Coalition have just been waiting for this opportunity.
Welcome, again, Justice Barrett!
Sorry folks, I'm not linking all the links - if you're really interested, click on the FPC link, where all the links are easily clickable.
media wars?
As has been noted, much of the world has declared war on right, Republican, or conservative viewpoints. We've followed GAB's evolution off and on, here on SN. It would appear that, having overcome multiple obstacles in the past, GAB is under attack from a new angle.
This is the email from GAB:
At 8:38pm on Wednesday December 9th Gab received an email from Walden Macht & Haran LLP notifying us of a Gab account, @EnemiesOfThePeople, that was in breach of our Terms of Service.
The Gab account was created just a few days ago and featured the personal addresses, photos, and more of election and government officials, which is against our terms of service. The account also made direct threats of violence towards these individuals, which is against the law as well as our terms of service.
This type of content has no place on Gab and we have a longstanding history of zero tolerance for illegal behavior. At Gab we believe that free speech and open discussion are the best ways to solve problems and disagreements, not violence.
Within minutes of receiving the email alerting us to the existence of this account we took immediate action by backing up the account information for law enforcement and then terminating the account from our service.
We took it one step further by alerting the Gab community to this behavior and noted that our community members should report this type of illegal activity to our moderation team immediately if they come across it.
At 9:34pm, less than an hour after being alerted to the existence of this account, our attorney replied to Walden Macht & Haran LLP to let them know that we took immediate action to terminate the account.
At 3:49pm Thursday afternoon Reuters published an article covering this story and neglected to reach out to Gab for comment before publication. In the story Reuters falsely claimed that the account remained active on Gab even though it had been suspended within minutes of it being brought to our attention the night before.
We have since sent the following retraction request to the editor of Reuters as well as the three “journalists” on the story. We believe it’s important to transparently lay out the order of events here to highlight how “journalists” recklessly print whatever they want without fact checking or asking the subject of a story for comment on the matter at hand.
Click here to read our full email exchange with Reuters.
Please also share it so other people can learn how the legacy media vipers operate.
Reuter's article on the "enemies of the people" "enemies of the nation" and associated accounts.
https://news.gab.com/2020/12/10/gabs-statement-on-the-website-targeting-u-s-election-officials/
That link reiterates most of the contents of the email I received, along with a chain of emails with Reuters.
https://gab.com/a/posts/105353449973018161
An appeal from Torba for GAB members to be on the lookout for other accounts that violate the law, and violate TOS.
https://gab.com/enemiesofthenation
It appears that the account "enemiesofthenation" still exists on the servers, but the content is obscured. I have little idea what that means for legal purposes.
Having missed the opportunity to view the content published by "enemies of the people", I can't make a judgement on how bad it is. Obviously, it was bad enough that Torba felt he was obligated to take it down.
Waiting to see who, besides Reuters, goes on the attack over this incident.
Santa is a gay ass hoplophobic incel
Since this is 2020, tis the season for breaking little kids’ hearts and telling them they can’t have the toys they really want for Christmas. That seems to be the M.O. of a politically correct Santa at a suburban Chicago mall who told a tyke he wouldn’t bring him a Nerf gun this year. Because violence, or something.
That kind of thing may make Shannon Watts grin like the Grinch, but the confused little boy broke into tears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUUdW2bTa3Y
In a Facebook post, the kid’s mom wrote . . .
My poor baby. This was the first year Michael was excited to go see Santa. It was supposed to be magical but instead I had to watch my sweet little boy fight back tears because Santa told him No because of his own personal beliefs. I had to think fast and explain to him that this Santa was just a helper and not the real guy. I just wanted to console my baby and get him out of there, flipping out on Santa would have only made it worse. His Elfie is going to bring him a Nerf gun directly from the North Pole, from the real Santa, tonight.
The video - https://www.facebook.com/bellasabella/posts/10164251332880328 or https://twitter.com/WhiteHovse/status/1335855946405437440
Fortunately, the mall quickly canned Woke Scold Santa and sent the real Kris Kringle over to the kid’s house with an apology and a Nerf gun almost as big as he is.
Jolly Justice! The mall got rid of #WokeSanta & took the little boy the nerf gun. Worth a watch! #MerryChristmas & #StandUpForAmerica!
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) December 8, 2020
Let’s hope the PC jerk who made little Michael cry ends up boiled in his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Humbug.
Better get those Nerf guns before the next Sandy Hook!
Apparently, there was a video hosted on Twitter, showing the real Santa delivering the Nerf gun - but all I get is a "not found" message.
revisited my bittorrent client
I really don't torrent much. I set up my client (qbittorrent) long ago, was satisfied, and haven't looked at it much. Now and then, I add something to the download queue, when it completes, I use the download, and just leave the client run. It is set to upload 500% then pause the torrent. Nothing much to think about, it just runs at startup, and hangs around, waiting on me to add a torrent. My upload ratio is great, so I get good download speed even from strict superseeders. All is good.
Or, I thought all was good.
For some reason, I thought I would look at qbittorent this morning. Oddly, it appeared that I was feeding hundreds, even thousands, of leeches. Clients like Torrentstorm, Monotorrent, Flud, and a Chinese client with a numeric and random symbols string instead of a name. (internet search reveals that the Chinese client is named "Thunder") There were a few other clients with names I recognized, but very old versions. All of them were leechers that contributed nothing back to the swarm.
A couple more searches revealed that others have complained about that sort of nonsense, with Thunder being a leading cause of complaint.
A bit more searching, and I figured out that there are no real tools to block leech clients. The only real solution is to right click the individual torrents, and select "superseeder mode". Of course, you don't want to use "strict superseeder" in advanced settings if you care about the health of a slow swarm.
Having set all my torrents to superseeder, almost all of those weird clients have disappeared from my peers tab. I still see a monotorrent client, but apparently, it does some honest "sharing". A few torrentstorm clients are still listed in the peers tab, but they don't seem to be getting anything from me. The Chinese Thunder clients have completely disappeared.
There are still lots of other "normal" looking clients like utorrent, qbittorent, libtorrent, deluge, transmission. My upload speeds have decreased somewhat.
Hey, I don't mind sharing at all - uploading to 500% should prove that. But, I can't see any reason to feed a sea of leechers!
hi-tech and low-information voters
We have had a number of discussions on SN, regarding the influence the tech industry exercises in politics. This story offers a little insight into that influence. No matter your opinion in this 2020 election, you should give this story some real thought.
It's a moderately long read, but I encourage one and all to click on the link, and read it through.
And - disclaimer: I found this story because the Green site published it first.
This data expert helped Trump win. Now he’s built a machine to take him down
Former Facebook employee James Barnes is part of a team that’s tapping big data to nudge critical voters to the polls—amid intense efforts to keep them home.Starting in August 2019, you may have seen an ad in your Facebook news feed asking you to take a news quiz. If you didn’t know who controlled the Senate, for instance—about 30% of people didn’t—you would be classified as most persuadable, and you would become part of one of the largest and most sophisticated experiments of its kind.
On the internet, we’re subject to hidden A/B tests all the time, but this one was also part of a political weapon: a multimillion-dollar tool kit built by a team of Facebook vets, data nerds, and computational social scientists determined to defeat Donald Trump. The goal is to use microtargeted ads, follow-up surveys, and an unparalleled data set to win over key electorates in a few critical states: the low-education voters who unexpectedly came out in droves or stayed home last time, the voters who could decide another monumental election.
By this spring, the project, code named Barometer, appeared to be paying off. During a two-month period, the data scientists found that showing certain Facebook ads to certain possible Trump voters lowered their approval of the president by 3.6%. For the frantic final laps, they’ve set their sights on motivating another key group of swing-state voters—young Democratic-leaning voters, mostly women and people of color—who could push Joe Biden to victory.
“We’ve been able to really understand how to communicate with folks who have lower levels of political knowledge, who tend to be ignored by the political process,” says James Barnes, a data and ads expert at the all-digital progressive nonprofit Acronym, who helped build Barometer. This is familiar territory: Barnes spent years on Facebook’s ads team, and in 2016 was the “embed” who helped the Trump campaign take Facebook by storm. Last year, he left Facebook and resolved to use his battle-tested tactics to take down his former client.
“We have found ways to find the right news to put in front of them, and we found ways to understand what works and doesn’t,” Barnes says. “And if you combine all those things together, you get a really effective approach, and that’s what we’re doing.”
I think it is important to note what has been revealed here, as well as noting what is not claimed.
The research identified low-information potential voters, then experimented with changing the opinions of those low-information voters. What is not claimed, is that factual data was presented to these low-information voters. The only claim being made here is, they can identify potential low-information voters, then manipulate their opinions.
A multitude of outside anti-Trump groups such as Acronym have spent millions more to fill in the gaps. Earlier this year, Priorities USA and Color of Change launched a $24 million digital advertising campaign aimed at exciting Black voters in swing states. American Bridge and Unite the Country, two of the other largest progressive PACs, have tapped Mike Bloomberg’s political ad tech startup, Hawkfish to wage their own data-rich digital onslaughts through Election Day. Acronym was first out of the gate, and is thought to be the Democrats’ most advanced digital advertising project. By the election it promises to have spent $75 million on Facebook, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, Hulu, Roku, Viacom, Pandora, and anywhere else valuable voters might be found.
For a year that money went toward targeting low-information voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, and North Carolina, but by the end of the summer, the Barometer team saw its persuasion powers diminishing; they guessed that they couldn’t budge the president’s approval rating any lower. So Acronym redirected that cash to motivate another critical audience of low-information voters: new or unlikely Democratic-leaning people thought to be unexcited about Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris. Barometer’s scientists have identified 1.8 million such voters in six states—mostly women of color younger than 35 across Acronym’s original five target states, plus Georgia.
With more than $1 million per week in Facebook ads during the homestretch, “we’re trying to boost their enthusiasm,” says Kyle Tharp, Acronym’s VP of communications.
Despite upbeat polls and record early turnout numbers, Acronym’s battle was never going to be easy. These voters are thought to be some of the least-excited, and while Acronym has identified them as the easiest to persuade, they are also highly susceptible to the sort of BS that can keep voters home. Research has shown that low-information voters are not only less likely to vote but more likely to believe falsehoods; sometimes they’re called “misinformation voters.” And deterring voters with falsehoods and fear may be easier than motivating them with facts and hope. A false claim about voting, for instance, is much easier to spread on Twitter—or by anonymous text message—than it is to correct.
Again, we see specific demographics targeted, and swayed, with targeted advertising, meant to sway that specific demographic. And, we see that it works.
OK - a whole bunch of people voted for Biden, and the lower information people are going to cheer for this campaign.
The question is - how will you feel if/when you find yourself on the wrong side of a similar campaign?
Forget about the 2020 election for a few moments. I have a long track record of being opposed to the very concept of targeted advertising. I positively HATE the idea that any corporation can track you, or me, with fine detail. It sucks that your data or mine is available, and for sale to the highest bidder. And, here, we have a corporation openly admitting that they can, they have, manipulated voters into casting their vote for the corporation's chosen candidate.
Whether you be an R, a D, Independent, third party, or whatever - you should get involved with the investigations into the tech industries. Contact your senator and congress person, and demand that social media and hi-tech corporations be brought to heel.
The US needs something comparable to the EU GDPR, and we need it soon. We need to seriously restrict the harvesting of data, and we need to seriously restrict how that data is used.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90570689/acronym-james-barnes-facebook-2020-campaign-advertising
Please, read the full article. It should be a sobering read, if it doesn't outright scare you.
Election night
For reasons, I ended up watching CBSN on election night. For much of the night, I was impressed with CBSN. Their liberal bias was there, easily seen, but they contained themselves pretty well.
All the chatter seemed factual, and on target. The numbers seemed reasonable, even accurate.
Then - Trump made an appearance on television. FFS, it was, quite bluntly, childish whining. "We've won this election, and the evil Dems are withholding my coronation!"
At that point, the pundits fell back to repeating dem talking points, yada yada yada.
I've said it many times - if Trump could just STFU sometimes, the world would be a better place.
As for the numbers? Georgia is getting close, but Fulton county has problems and is unable to finish counting tonight. North Carolina is really close to an R victory, but they still have a lot of mail-in ballots that aren't counted. Penna boils down to Philly, and those aren't going to be counted tonight.
Michigan and Wisconsin aren't even close to being safely called yet. There are roughly 5 million uncounted votes remaining among those five states. That is more than enough to swing an election!
Arizona could possibly go R yet, but it seems highly unlikely.
Boys and girls, I do believe Trump is going to win. Once again, it's going to be a close thing, and Biden may or may not actually win the popular vote. But, I think Trump will get the Electoral College again.
I'll have more later, I just wanted to get my initial impression of Trumps whining out there before I forget how pissed off I am.
peaceful protesters
Portland Rioters Give Trump One Last Free Campaign Ad Before Election Day By Trying To Burn Down An Apartment Building, Smash Up University
The *PEACEFUL* protesters of Portland couldn’t resist another night of reckoning in their own city. This time they targeted the college that many of them went to: Portland State University. The antifa and BLM terrorists smashed up a Starbucks and attempted to douse the place in kerosene, with 300 apartments above the establishment.
This was after they took their anger out on one of the many symbols of oppression and systemic racism, Portland State University, which has been run by crazed leftists for years and basically serves as an indoctrination center. The terrorists smashed out the windows of Cramer Hall and targeted the campus public safety office.
The chief of Portland State University’s campus “police”, Willie Halliburton, who also moonlights as a comedian (@ComedyCopPDX on Twitter), said he was “disappointed” in the PEACEFUL rioting.
Meanwhile, anticipating a YUGE Trump victory, downtown businesses look even more boarded up than ever before.
Must I point out the keywords here?
with 300 apartments above the establishment.
This is an utter disregard for human life. Someone needs to get these dogs leashed - or shoot them down in their tracks.
I'm curious how the story would be spun, if the arsonists had succeeded? 10, 30, or 90 charred bodies eventually recovered from the debris - how would MSM and the left have spun the story? Undoubtedly, it would have been Trump's fault.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/portland-rioters-give-trump-one-last-free-campaign-ad-election-day-trying-burn-apartment-building-smash-university/
Fair, or not?
The title of the article is "Another Unhinged Leftist Teacher Caught on Video Lecturing 13-Year-Old Student for 10 Minutes on Why Trump is Racist (VIDEO)"
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/another-unhinged-leftist-teacher-caught-video-lecturing-13-year-old-student-10-minutes-trump-racist-video/
Better transcript-like account here https://mynorthwest.com/2258047/rantz-video-teacher-trump-racist-immigration/
Wow.
Another leftist teacher took time out to lecture a 13-year-old student for 10 minutes on why he should hate the president of the United States.
Unfortunately, for the teacher the student was recording the lecture and later posted it on the internet.A 13-year-old student recorded his teacher as he tried to convince him to stop supporting President Donald Trump.
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The teacher spent nearly ten minutes trying to get his student to agree the president’s immigration policy is a failure and that Trump is a racist.
It’s the latest in a long string of incidents where teachers bring their political bias into the remote learning environment. Had it not been for the precocious 8th grader, this would not have come to light. But the district claims the teacher didn’t do much wrong.
In light of another recent journal entry, some of you might think that I agree with bashing this teacher, as well.
https://soylentnews.org/~Runaway1956/journal/6159
However - I listened carefully to this "expose". Yes, Teach is a liberal, or at least he comes across as a liberal. I disagree with some of what Teacher says. But, this time, Teacher isn't terribly far off base.
The message I got from his speech was very similar to what Wikipedia will tell you. "You can't use the guy you are writing about as your primary source for information."
The kid seems to be old enough, and mature enough, to understand that when making a report, you should use multiple sources. It's fine to use Whitehouse.gov as one source, but you look further afield to find corroborating sources, or opposing sources.
Yeah, sure, I disagree with Seaman, pretty strongly. I think our border should be secure. SOME OF those people who cross our borders are terrorists - think MS-13. It is most certainly not "racist" to keep illegals out of the country, whether they be terrorists, or they be saints. Illegal is not a race.
So, I disagree with teacher. But, did teacher do "wrong" here? Not that I can see. Maybe if I could evaluate Teacher's interactions with the class for a few weeks, I could condemn him. Does he spend his teaching time belittling other students for supporting conservatives? Maybe not - he DID state pretty clearly that it would be just as wrong to make a report on Biden, using Biden's campaign site as a sole or primary source for information.
What do people think about this one? I think that Mr. Seaman may warrant a mild scolding from the administration - or not. He probably should be subjected to a bit of scrutiny, because no teacher should be indoctrinating students into his own political views.
On the other hand, teachers shouldn't have to shy away from controversial issues. The right leaning articles seem to be over reaction based on what I'm seeing here. This is not the sort of abusive conduct that I saw in the previous journal entry.
Congresswoman O'Crazio Cortez
Muh feeliez iz hurt!
AOC blasts GOP lawmakers for calling female colleagues by nicknames
By Kenneth GargerOctober 23, 2020 | 1:58am
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted Republican lawmakers for calling female legislators by nicknames after President Trump twice referred to her as “AOC” in Thursday night’s debate.
“I wonder if Republicans understand how much they advertise their disrespect of women in debates when they consistently call women members of Congress by nicknames or first names while using titles & last names when referring to men of = stature,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted early Friday morning.
“Women notice. It conveys a lot,” she wrote.
The Queens-Bronx congresswoman said her popular nickname, “AOC”, was born out of the community and should be reserved for “the people.”
“Government colleagues referring to each other in a public or professional context (aka who don’t know me like that) should refer to their peers as “Congresswoman,” “Representative,” etc. Basic respect 101,” the lawmaker added on Twitter.
Trump, while answering a question about balancing climate change and the economy, used the term “AOC plus three” two times during the debate.
The “plus three” is an apparent reference to Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, whom Trump also routinely refers to by another nickname, “The Squad.”
https://nypost.com/2020/10/23/aoc-blasts-gop-lawmakers-for-calling-female-colleagues-by-nicknames/
The QOTD seems appropriate here:
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded. -- George Orwell
The nappy headed fuck
Why? Hell, I ain't really sure.
He can't sing.
He can't dance.
He hangs with women of ill repute.
Has probably done more drugs than Trump & Biden combined. (Probably not as much as Hunter though.)
Doesn't have a single plank in his platform.
The only platform he's ever seen was at the subway.
He has some kind of faith, and believes in God.
Not sure if he has ever held an honest job, or earned an honest dollar, but who cares?
Has never engaged in, or funded, a revolution that I'm aware of.
Hasn't been caught cheating on his taxes, that I'm aware of.
I don't think he kicks puppies. (He looks like someone who might rub a cat's fur backward though.)
I figure he's about as qualified as anyone else on the ballot.
Yeah, I said I'd probably vote for JoJo. Well, shit, there were like 80 or 90 people on the ballot for president. I fell asleep twice, scrolling toward the bottom. Literally half of the physical ballot was taken up listing presidential and VP candidates.
Maybe if the silly fuck wins, things will get better. It's not like things can get a lot worse than the Ds and Rs have done.
