Probably the same law firm representing the two women suing colleges over rich people cheating at the admissions game, but only colleges in California. Coincidence? I think not.
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Wouldnāt that mean, that tit for tat, all Electioneering must be to standards we hold Madison Avenue too in truthfulness and honesty? That would require overturning SCOTUS precedent, so seems more like a pipe dream than anything else (much like this lawsuit is, I didnāt know there was a lawyer as ridiculous with filings as Klayman and Kobach. Okay, I give lawyers alot of credit here, I have met a few good ones.)
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Making fun of public figures is as American as it gets. All the way back to the founding, protected first Amendment speech. Wonder if King George Nunes has been taking tips from Putin here - crack down on the satirists?
I guess in the conservative playbook, youāre only allowed to lie about your opponents if itās done humorlessly, in a serious effort to harm.
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You say that NOW you hypocritical fraudā¦but up until Donnie became your lord and master you thought EVERYONE not YOU was fair game.
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I understand that Nunes has been elected chair of the Doofus Caucus.
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āAnd look, we want to get to the discovery process.ā
Definitive proof that his cow IS probably smarterā¦and a better lawyer than his own highly questionable choice.
Could the judge penalize this attorney for a frivolous filing?
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I have a feeling that Nunes would be featured on the asshole of the month page if the magazine was still around today. Hustler had Trump figured out in 1990 .
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Funny how his current neck resembles that in the Hustler pieceā¦
He wants to get to discovery because thatās the whole and only point: punishment thru exposure of trade secrets and costs. THAT is the precedent that matters here. All he needs to do is shop for a judge that lets him survive a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim and he has succeeded to the tune of millions in punitive legal fees and potential exposure of internal corporate secrets, including (and I have no doubt heās going to be asking for this) CODE. Heās going to demand their algorithms and all of the code that runs the platform. Guaranteed.
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Whinny little snowflake.
Probably not. Discovery is a bitch, sāall Iām sayinā.
I just looked. 345,000. 
The Constitution is a VERY elastic document for Nunes and his ilk.
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Probably from Devinās Momās twitter feed.
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Manyās the time I pour a drink and settle in to watch a whole John Oliver show on YouTube. Some of the best long-form journalism you can get.
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I think we need to keep your āor heās pretending to beā part of our discussion. Given Dotardās recent musings about SNL, people ādisappearingā from Twitter, and the need for some control over these private companies, it seems reasonable that during one of those secret visits to the WH, Nunes was given marching orders to bring this discussion back into the public sphere, regardless of the potential for ridicule or for a successful lawsuit. Now the idea of limiting speech to protect a specific political position is part of our public discourse.
We can make fun of him, can become āNuneās Goatā on Twitter, and jeer about the absurdity of his ideas. We also need to point out that the right to do those things is enshrined in the Constitution.
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So I searched for #tuckercarlsonfuckshisroomba on twitter. There now is a parody account. Funny stuff.
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Well, as our interim scoutmaster Jeet Heer says, this is certainly calculated to have a chilling effect. Criticize me, prepare to get cleaned out with lawyerās bills. And if you could force a Supreme Court case that would loosen the standards for libel against public figures, the more risible public figures would be a lot better off. I think Nunesās role in current public life is to be a catās paw for people (and cows) smarter than him.
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What if the Republican Party keeps calling me a socialist? I can sue them?
Okay.
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