No, sir, you can’t sue people for getting it wrong.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, an organization most recognized for its work bolstering conservatives on the nation’s campuses, announced on Tuesday it would represent the pollster J. Ann Selzer, at no charge, against Donald J. Trump’s lawsuit accusing her of consumer fraud for a poll that predicted he would lose Iowa. “Punishing someone for their political prediction is about as unconstitutional as it gets,” said Bob Corn-Revere, the group’s chief counsel. “This is America. No one should be afraid to predict the outcome of an election.”
Trump accusing someone else of consumer fraud is hilarious. Remember Trump University? All those gilded tchotchkes in his gift shoppees? His hair? His makeup? His shoes?
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8 responses to “Gilded pot to gilded kettle”
Where’s the ACLU? Busy scrambling to protect trannies from fascists?
Yea hear that the ancient prophesy of H R Mencken has come to pass: “On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
Ian McKellen shared a longer version on Twidder a few weeks ago.
Twice.
Hence in full knowledge. Good point.
It’s a bit incorrect to call (whoever said it – the link just goes to an NYT grab basket) “The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, an organization most recognized for its work bolstering conservatives on the nation’s campuses,” That says more about the speaker than it does about the organization; whoever said it is expressing their political opinion, that they believe free speech to be a conservative issue. FIRE took over from the ACLU (which became a strictly partisan organization and now preaches all trans, all day) as America’s foremost free-speech organization. It bolsters conservatives only insofar as conservatives’ rights to free speech are curtailed; when it is liberals whose speech is suppressed, it bolsters liberals.
Re Mencken – as he lived before the televisual era, let alone the social media one, he did not spot how the “force of personality” would be conveyed to the masses. I feel the force of Trump’s personality so much that it gives me vertigo and nausea. The problem, is that millions of Americans seem to like this kind of personality.