Can we just not with the fake court appearance? There's enough legitimate shit out there that can be addressed without adding to misinformation. Pretty damn ridiculous of Sarah Cooper to play along with it being real.
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"At what point does this get ridiculous?" - Judges react to Trump election lawsuits
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This is man that by all accounts is functionally illiterate and needs BIG PICTURES in his briefings just to understand what is going on...
they got around a hundred votes thrown out that were already sequestered and not tallied with the official count in PA
I hear this, but I also hear it was the request to have the poll watchers be 6 feet away. Which is it? Or is it more than one case they've "won"?
'OH GOD A JUDGE QUOTED BILLY MADISON AT A TRUMP LAWYER FOR REALSIES????' is approaching boomer level internet naivete.
Oversimplified answer. PA was going to throw out like 100 ballots because they came in late. Trump lawyers said hold on we want those thrown away. Judge and PA say okay we were going to throw them out anyways as they came in late in the mail. Trump lawyers patting themselves on the back. Not a real victory.
the 1-24 is in reference to the lawyers attempts to get votes thrown out iirc
The GOP already doing plenty of stupid shit up there like this. Getting angry over stuff like this is odd.
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Or maybe the other poster is right and it's referring to ballots being thrown out. Thought these were post election lawsuits.
The poll watchers "victory" isn't included because it wasn't after the election.
Or maybe the other poster is right and it's referring to ballots being thrown out. Thought these were post election lawsuits.
Y'all realize that believing something asinine is true, having someone pointing out it's false, and then you going "who cares if it's false, it's totally something a Trump lawyer would do!" is a classic thing Conservatives do when bullshit about Dems pop up... right?
It does nothing but degrade truth further and (clearly) distract from the actually bullshit at hand here. Let's have some critical thought please.
It does nothing but degrade truth further and (clearly) distract from the actually bullshit at hand here. Let's have some critical thought please.
Poll watchers could stand 6 feet away instead of 25 feet away.
edit: I may be wrong about that being a "case" that was won, but they did get that ruling in their favor.
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Yeah, you're right. People buying into things face value on Twitter isn't a critical problem in American culture or anything. This is a total new concept that a couple folks on Era invented.
Ah that makes more sense.
Relax about what? Telling people not to fall for what is blatantly a joke post when there's plenty of verifiably dumb shit out there, or about criticizing a rising media figure perpetuating fake news for lols? The fact that the GOP deals in misinformation campaigns is not really a good reason for us to do so as well. It in fact creates greater uncertainty the more it is committed, and helps perpetuate people's distrust of media or publicly available information. Why would you even want to defend people misrepresenting false stories as real ones?
Edit: weird edit, but okay, you upgraded me from needing to relax to bring angry.
Billy Madison is officially too old to be used as an obvious joke
Damn
I haven't but I did recognize the quote. Reading just the lawyer's part was enough to know it's fake though. Between this and "all the coronaviruses fit in a teaspoon", I'm surprised that people here are so much more gullible than I thought.
Fun fact, I got in trouble in middle school while walking to an assembly and quoting this scene with my best friend cause a teacher overheard us as we passed her in the hall. She thought I was actually angry at my friend and didn't like that I said, "YOU suck!" to him. Trying to explain to her that it was a quote from a movie did not sway her.
Era likes to pretend it's above "fake news," as only dumb grandparents watching Fox are duped so easily. Yet so many are duped by a meme as old as time. Come on.
The last bit is a quote from Billy Madison. I think it's fake lol
When you are white, wealthy, and not even judges want to hear your shit... Lmao. That decades' long luck streak is running out.
It's kinda sad how they have to point out who appointed which judges. The legal system in the US is a fucking sham.
Yep. Misinformation is a problem all around.
Yep. Misinformation is a problem all around.
Actually that the Trump Administration filed no brief but instead crayon drawings is the bigger giveaway
So Sarah Cooper made a video of her pretending to be a Trump lawyer (speaking, clearly not lip synching) and then someone wrote up a transcript of what she said, posted it on Twitter, and as a result some people think that it WAS a real thing a lawyer said and Sarah actually was lip synching the audio of the lawyer which she miraculously had access to?
C'mon people...
C'mon people...
Well if you want to make the case that the justice system is systemically corrupt and biased against your party and want to have a case to replace them with people who would toe the party's line because they're just "glad to have the job", one way of doing it is to make sure you file as many lawsuits as possible and see them all get shut down because surely the only explanation is that your claims are true if every single one of your lawsuit is shut down.
Lmao didn't actually read that part. Did a quick glance and what stuck out to me was the ending bit cause I see that line way too much.
Don't forget all the posters who don't bother to read OPs and just react to headlines.
The sooner people accept everyone is capable of falling for this shit the faster we can begin to correct it.
Considering the amount of people actually asking "is this real?" And the way it almost instantly derailed the thread, I think it's fair enough to ask that fake shit isn't posted in a thread about real shit, especially when the poster is responding that it is real
Is it though. I could imagine a sharpie riddled note. I too assume this is fake, but funny.
This is why Republicans are so desperate for judges. They know their voting power is trickling away where they haven't gerrymandered the fuck out of everything. If they could have installed partisan judges that would rule in their favor, they gladly would have.
Y'all ask how people fall for fake news and then how many of you fall for a fucking Billy Madison quote in a Tweet?
Yeah, responses to that post are just depressing. We go after the right for believing anything that fits their worldview, no matter how ridiculous, but it can happen here too.
Really gotta pay attention to sources.