Running out of oys

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Ophelia Benson

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Oy.

Oyy.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1131672516622209024

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9 responses to “Running out of oys”

  1. Holms Avatar
    Holms

    Did it even register that the reporter was asking “who would you like to have executed?”

  2. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    Well nothing really registers. He heard an opening to repeat his rant about “his lover” and that’s pretty much it.

  3. James Garnett Avatar
    James Garnett

    REPORTER: Sir, the constitution says treason is punishable by death. You’ve accused your adversaries of treason. Who specifically are you accusing of treason?

    TRUMP: A number of people. If you look at Comey, McCabe, if you look at Strzok, his lover Lisa Page

    That is the very definition of slander.

  4. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    A bit of an aside, but how pink are his eyes? Is something worrying him? Keeping him up at night?

  5. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    James @3, not according to Popehat and other law bloggers/tweeters. Apparently something to do with hyperbole, insult and blah blah blah.

    I can’t help but feel that the ideal defamation law sits somewhere between the US and UK.

  6. James Garnett Avatar
    James Garnett

    Rob @ 5, it would have to hinge on whether or not Trump engaged in “actual malice”, as these things always do. I, for one, do not believe that Trump is stupid. I think he knows exactly what he’s doing and saying, and that he understands what “treason” is and prefers to ignore the actual constitutional definition. Of course, IANAL, but I think that a strong argument could be made that Trump’s assertions have met the standard of slander in the USA.

    As regards the UK vs. USA standards… I strongly agree with you. There has to be a reasonable middle ground between even the simplest utterance being defamation, and practically nothing reaching that standard.

  7. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    You don’t believe he’s STUPID????

  8. James Garnett Avatar
    James Garnett

    No, I think that he’s ignorant of many things, and has no intellectual curiosity at all, but he’s not stupid. He knows how to destroy people and lives, and he’s good at it. And relishes it.

  9. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    He has that skill, yes, but on the other hand he’s too stupid to be able to fake the role he wants to play. He’s always been too stupid for that. It burns him that the Manhattan toffs look down on him, and he’s not clever enough to act the part well enough to get them to accept him.

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