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I certainly hope that Tribe is right. A summary judgment for Dominion will deter future misbehaviors of Murdoch’s propaganda machines.

I'm no lawyer, but none other than Laurence Tribe thinks Dominion Voting Systems' request for a $1.6 billion summary judgment against Fox News is likely to succeed.
For others who are not legal eagles, a summary judgment is one in which the facts are so compelling that a judge finds no need for a trial and decides the case on the information that has been presented in the brief.  In this case, Tribe thinks that Dominion has provided enough evidence that Fox News deliberately spread lies that Dominion's voting machines were faulty and denied Donald Trump the 2020 election.
“I have never seen a defamation case with such overwhelming proof that the defendant admitted in writing that it was making up fake information in order to increase its viewership and its revenues,” Tribe told the Guardian. “Fox and its producers and performers were lying as part of their business model.”
One such piece of proof was a tweet put out a day after the election by Fox reporter Jaqui Heinrich who “correctly factchecked [a Trump] tweet, pointing out that top election infrastructure officials said that there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”  After the tweet, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity went ballistic.  They asked to get Heinrich fired because the truth was hurting their ability to broadcast misinformation and that was interfering with their ratings, and with Fox News' stock price.  She took down her tweet the following day.
But all the tweets and compromising emails still exist and are included in Dominion's brief.
Fox News lawyers say the falsehoods knowingly spread by their anchors are protected by the First Amendment.  But others disagree.
“You may have a first amendment right to report on what the president said but you have no right to validate a statement that you know to be false,” said Steven Shapiro, former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and counsel or co-counsel on more than 200 supreme court briefs.
It's possible this landmark case could be decided quickly.  And it's not the only lawsuit Dominion has filed.  Billion-dollar cases against Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell are still active.
Personally, it would please me greatly if Dominion prevailed in all its cases and actually received multi-billion-dollar judgments.  For too many years, we've been inundated with known lies masquerading as truth and there have been few if any consequences.
Here's hoping that's about to change. 🤞

Like all social media trolls, they refused to accept clearly proven facts and evidence that didn't support their opinions.
They'd simply say that a quoted or cited source was "notoriously liberal" or "lying media" to indicate that it wasn't true. All trolls do that rather than engage with proven facts.

I don’t know what’s the plan B is yet. But isn’t that the goal of a primary?
I can tell you what I am looking for. A populist in economics and a moderate on social issues, and an isolationist in international issues. I don’t want fringes on the right or the left. There are some inherent contradictions of what I want. I maybe ask too much lol.

I don’t know what’s the plan B is yet. But isn’t that the goal of a primary?
I can tell you what I am looking for. A populist in economics and a moderate on social issues, and an isolationist in international issues. I don’t want fringes on the right or the left. There are some inherent contradictions of what I want. I maybe ask too much lol.

Well, they either have to ban those people eventually or revive the Politics section lol. I doubt that the moderator’s job will be easier as they hoped.

I don’t know what’s the plan B is yet. But isn’t that the goal of a primary?
I can tell you what I am looking for. A populist in economics and a moderate on social issues, and an isolationist in international issues. I don’t want fringes on the right or the left. There are some inherent contradictions of what I want. I maybe ask too much lol.

Oh dear August, the first one on my ignore list at the other site.

You maybe overly optimistic. As I have posted on the other site, those people used to spewing venoms in the Politics section there now have lost their outlets and it is bound to spill over into other parts of that site. 
 
My suspicion is money may be at the root of the differential treatment for certain posters at the other site. If you are a major donor, the site owner probably will be more tolerant toward infractions of rules.  

Oh dear August, the first one on my ignore list at the other site.

Oh dear August, the first one on my ignore list at the other site.

You maybe overly optimistic. As I have posted on the other site, those people used to spewing venoms in the Politics section there now have lost their outlets and it is bound to spill over into other parts of that site. 
 
My suspicion is money may be at the root of the differential treatment for certain posters at the other site. If you are a major donor, the site owner probably will be more tolerant toward infractions of rules.  

You maybe overly optimistic. As I have posted on the other site, those people used to spewing venoms in the Politics section there now have lost their outlets and it is bound to spill over into other parts of that site. 
 
My suspicion is money may be at the root of the differential treatment for certain posters at the other site. If you are a major donor, the site owner probably will be more tolerant toward infractions of rules.