Al Fargnoli

So let me get this straight. A woman uses a racial slur. A man follows her with a phone, asks her to say it again, films the whole thing, and then posts it. She is already walking away carrying her kid. No one gets hit. No one is threatened. The only thing that “escalates” is the view count. And the great state of Minnesota decides this is a crime. They dust off the “fighting words” doctrine ... a legal relic the Supreme Court has not actually upheld in eighty years ... and somehow apply it to a situation where the alleged victim is the one requesting the words on camera. Brilliant. Apparently the new test is not whether violence is likely. The new test is whether someone is willing to act offended hard enough to hit record. Even better, the jury gets eleven full pages of instructions that somehow never mention the First Amendment. Not once. But they do get a thorough lecture on their own implicit biases. Priorities. This is the part where we’re supposed to pretend the Constitution still has a limiting principle. That the government is only going after the truly dangerous speech. That this is narrow, careful, and totally not a template for the next person who says the wrong ugly thing in public. Sure. Once “I filmed him saying the bad word after I asked him to” becomes enough for a conviction, the law is no longer policing threats or violence. It is policing tone, taboo, and whoever happens to be most motivated to perform injury on camera. You can hate the words. You can call her a bigot. You can share the video and pile on. All of that is free speech. Turning the same exchange into a criminal case is something else. It is the state deciding that some offensive speech is now too expensive to allow. And it will not stop with this one. (article below)

@Milajoy 0%

Tell me. What are the chances Joe Biden got 81 million votes? 0%-100%.

Happy 81st Birthday to Helen Mirren!

@abierkhatib It's literally a cartoon!

No hyperbole here, this is literally our reality.

What are they going to do when the new intel I’m hearing about Jackson, the intel that puts him right up there with Platner, comes out? Are they going to handpick another socialist? Democrat voters - how can you stand this?

Well, well, well… What the f**k do we have here? John Brennan’s security company was busted messing with Obama’s passport files at the State Department months before he was installed president. • In 2008, the State Department reported unauthorized access to the passport files of then-candidate Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain. — The State Department brushed it off as mere “curiosity.” • One of the individuals identified in the passport-file breach, Lt. Quarles Harris, was reportedly cooperating with federal investigators—until he was shot dead inside his car just one month the story broke. It turns out Quarles Harris worked for a security company called The Analysis Corporation (TAC). Who was TAC’s CEO? John Brennan. At the time, Brennan was also serving as an adviser to the Obama campaign. Manufactured birth certificate? Obama was in and out of Pakistan during the exact same period that John Brennan was in Pakistan working for the CIA. Where was Barry from 1981 to 1982? Obama claimed he was at Columbia University, but, according to this account, there is not a shred of evidence that he was. No records. No school documentation. Nothing. After the State Department breach, Obama acknowledged that he had traveled to Pakistan in 1981. In addition, John Brennan wasn’t the only person with CIA ties in Pakistan at the same time. So was Zbigniew Brzezinski, the father of Mika Brzezinski. Barack Obama later appointed both men to serve on his presidential transition advisory team. Brennan then served as Obama’s Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism from January 2009 to March 2013 before ultimately becoming Director of the CIA Three years later, in 2016, they orchestrated the single greatest misinformation and disinformation campaign to overthrow the U.S. government. @ChanelRion

@Bobo74771050944 @FLCons Tell me you've never driven in New Jersey.

@FLCons Dear lord. Simplest traffic flow you can have. People in the roundabout have the right of way. Simple.

This is why I detest these roundabouts. People simply do NOT know how to use them! Instead of trying to socially engineer people's compliance to these things, just admit the experiment has been a complete failure because people will NEVER understand how to use this type of traffic intersection! Are you with me? Is it time to go back to actual lights with green, yellow and red and proper intersections?

@WadefknWilsonn @John_F_kJr That never happened.

@John_F_kJr Lol this is funny considering magats actually killed cops when they stormed the capitol. This is nothing compared to that.

🚨 BOMBSHELL JUST DROPPED 🚨 Don Lemon’s federal indictment just got UNSEALED and it’s worse than we thought. The ex-CNN clown is charged with CONSPIRACY AGAINST RIGHTS and violating the FACE Act for helping storm a Christian church in St. Paul, Minnesota during Sunday service to attack worshippers over ICE. New details prove he was in on it from the jump: In the pre-op meeting he thanked the ringleader Nekima Levy Armstrong “for what she was doing,” promised her he wasn’t going to spill the plan, then said “see you there.”This wasn’t journalism. This was coordinated intimidation of Christians praying in their own house of God. Trump’s DOJ is finally holding these people accountable. Share this EVERYWHERE before the media buries it.

@AZ_Brittney LOL!

Trump's jabs at Kaitlan Collins—mocking her looks and calling her award "fake" —were way out of line. She asks the tough questions and that’s exactly why he went after her. I stand with Kaitlan 💯

I have dealt with a lot of theft and fraud in my life. It comes with the job of being a ship captain. The problem is never the theft. It’s the work the theft creates. Someone once stole a $500 radio out of our lifeboat. Five hundred dollars is a rounding error on a rig burning a million a day. Everyone had a pretty good idea who took it, but he almost certainly dropped it over the side, so there was no evidence, and with no evidence there was no reprimand. That $500 radio, a safety critical item, cost us hundreds of man hours. Paperwork. An investigation. New HR anti-theft training for every soul on board. Remedial steps to make sure it never happened again. Then a helicopter to fly the replacement out. That is the real cost of fraud in any system. For every dollar stolen, hundreds go to the agencies and nonprofits that exist to “fix” the problem. The theft is the seed. The compliance apparatus is the tree. The only real fix is to fire the people everyone already knows are stealing. HR will never allow it, because the entire anti-radio-theft ecosystem that grew up around the loss would collapse overnight. The ecosystem needs the thief more than the thief needs the radio. And theft is spectacularly inefficient on its own terms. Even if he got that radio ashore, it was worth maybe two hundred used on ebay. We spent tens of thousands to replace three hundred dollars of value that no longer existed anywhere in the world. It would have been WAY cheaper to hand him the radio and a receipt. That is the part nobody in the fraud-prevention business wants said out loud: the loss is almost never what breaks you. What breaks you is everything the institution builds to prove it responded. The saddest truth is it would be far cheaper to just send every Somali home with a million dollars each. They would be happier. We would be happier. Everyone would be better off except the NGOs

@mindys4biden So funny I forgot to laugh.

Condoms: 97% effective The pill: 98% effective IUD: 99% effective Men wearing red MAGA hats: 100% effective

Sometimes I amuse myself.

@JamieBonkiewicz You should seek professional help for your mental illness.

I’m so sick of people saying, “But he can’t just DO THAT!” while he just… does it. Every. Fucking. Day.

@Fat_Electrician In my high school: A: 93-100 B: 85-92 C: 77- 84 D: 70 -76 F: 0-69

I thought is was: A: 90-100 B: 80-89 C: 70-79 D: 60-69 F: 0-59

@simonateba You have never been a journalist. You're a propagandist.

As the only journalist in the United States barred from the White House because of my coverage, I watched as journalists betrayed the Republic for access and clicks. Trump was bankrupting the nation with a war that was among the most unpopular in decades. He had abandoned his campaign promises and never answered a single serious question. He resorted to insults and attacks, while journalists focused on the entertainment rather than on America’s decline. For ordinary people, there was virtually nothing, from healthcare to their mortgages, that had improved under Trump. Yet journalists were conniving with the state to focus the public’s attention on the spectacle rather than on the damage being done to their lives. The betrayal was complete: a president abandoned the people, and the journalists entrusted with exposing him abandoned them too. While Americans became poorer, less secure, and more hopeless, Washington turned their suffering into a show.

@glenn_tunes No

DIDN'T MARTHA STEWART DO LIKE 6 MOMTHS IN JAIL FOR WHAT TRUMP AND HIS CHILDREN DOES SEVERAL TIMES EACH DAY 🤔

@_sn_n Go fuck yourself!

Texas is such a red state that a good Christian man is losing to an adulterer.

@gnuman1979 You are lying, or you are extremely stupid. Your choice!

Exactly.

@StephsNaFluffy @Frank66_ If they were up your ass, you would know it, pea brain.

@Frank66_ Where are the epstein files ragnar

america is ideologically captured by intellectual infants