Disney Lucasfilm Strikes Deal With Its Red China Business Partners to Produce Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Under the Star Wars License

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Presumably, this version of Star Wars will have the franchise's (anemic, admittedly) anti-authoritarian messaging stripped out.

From "Disney Star Wars Is Dumb:"

Now that the CCP's pet gerbil has been placed into the U.S. Presidency, and with the possibility of Bob Iger being appointed as ambassador to China, the propagandist possibilities are endless.
James Waugh, VP of Franchise Content & Strategy for Lucasfilm, says that the author of this story will bring very specific Chinese perspectives to the world building. Though it’s likely that James conflates the perspective of the Chinese people with the perspective of the CCP, which are entirely different and separate.
Chen Yang, the Vice President & Chief Editor of China Literature, claims that this effort will show online literature's "inclusiveness." Amusingly however, we already know that this "inclusive" story will feature an exclusively Chinese sector of the galaxy.

Below, Kathleen Kennedy proudly introducing her new Chinese Communist Propaganda Merchandizing Opportunity, plus some of the propaganda they're already pumping out.

Lucasfilm's new project with China Literature that takes place in certain part of the Star Wars galaxy where only a certain type of people are found that will NOT be translated to English... Thanks @ItchyBacca & @JarJarAbramss for the info! pic.twitter.com/8dlnAhTWCT
— thatstarwarsgirl77 (@thatstarwarsgrl) January 15, 2021

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CoRpOrAtIoNz ArE oUr FrEnZ

That Star Wars Girl gets the object of the Chinese Communist critique wrong. She reads it as a critique of the Communist Party ruling class.

But that's not it. It's how they depict the West:

Reading the fan translation of the Chinese Star Wars story. I’m actually genuinely shocked the author was allowed to get away with these horror s that actually reflect the darker side of Chinese society..😳 https://t.co/GiKZdWuDQs pic.twitter.com/phVT4HqAXp
— thatstarwarsgirl77 (@thatstarwarsgrl) January 15, 2021

Interesting. I was unaware of that thanks for the info 👍
— thatstarwarsgirl77 (@thatstarwarsgrl) January 15, 2021

Someone was just saying something about corporations being our frenz but I didn't catch it all.

Posted by: Ace at 04:25 PM

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1 Bam

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2021 04:25 PM (kTF2Z)

2 I'll fetch the otters.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2021 04:26 PM (kTF2Z)

3 I firsted first

Posted by: Hands at January 15, 2021 04:27 PM (786Ro)

4 Well, looks like Chinese propaganda will be unwatchable too.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2021 04:27 PM (kTF2Z)

5 Hmm...is China ready for Trans Heroes?

Posted by: runner at January 15, 2021 04:27 PM (7l4Sy)

6 Otters?

Attack Otters?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 15, 2021 04:27 PM (vqU+L)

7 >>>6 Hmm...is China ready for Trans Heroes?

oh no, Disney Star Wars cuts out all black people and gay kisses from the Chinese prints of its movies and advertising material.

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2021 04:28 PM (5+1A/)

8 Ruke, I am your father.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2021 04:28 PM (xfb67)

9 330 million Americans.
1.3 billion chinee.

Of course Disney is going to appease China for access.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 15, 2021 04:28 PM (BJLVZ)

10 Red Star Wars?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 15, 2021 04:28 PM (YboWf)

11 "Diversity" is only for the baizuo West. All these media companies deliver cuts of movies with no diversity to China, because China doesn't want to see black or gay people.

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2021 04:29 PM (5+1A/)

12 6 Hmm...is China ready for Trans Heroes?
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2021 04:27 PM (7l4Sy)

So I'm going to be cut out of more SW material?

Posted by: Rose Tico at January 15, 2021 04:29 PM (lNxD2)

13 Disney, GM and various other megacorps have US headquarters, but they are not domestic firms.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 15, 2021 04:29 PM (UZVEt)

14 Red Leader

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 15, 2021 04:29 PM (DjiZK)

15 ha ha ha

I've been saying for years that the Lucas accidentally wrote the rebels so that they were the bad guys, and now Disney agrees?

Posted by: Mr. Gray at January 15, 2021 04:30 PM (BDWWT)

16
What, did you think "Mulan" would be perceived as a mistake?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 15, 2021 04:30 PM (/UFpF)

17 The Patriarchy is back, baby!

Posted by: Greg Q at January 15, 2021 04:30 PM (02CFW)

18 Hmm...is China ready for Trans Heroes?
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2021 04:27 PM (7l4Sy)
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China Star Wars won't have that crap, except to portray the decadence and depravity of the enemy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 15, 2021 04:30 PM (UZVEt)

19 Amusingly however, we already know that this "inclusive" story will feature an exclusively Chinese sector of the galaxy.

With its very own interstellar virus lab!

Posted by: Jar Jar Binks at January 15, 2021 04:30 PM (W4eKo)

20 Is it anti capitalist so when toys don't sell in China, it will count as mission accomplished?

Posted by: Bete at January 15, 2021 04:30 PM (Ojki1)

21 Backstroke of the West.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:30 PM (TsFZr)

22 I'm looking forward to movies with space sword fights where people can fly and shoot lightning bolts and shit.

Posted by: f'd at January 15, 2021 04:30 PM (+y8uL)

23 A Chinese part of a galaxy far away, a long time ago? Sure, I guess that's par for Lucas's brain dead attempts at sci-fi.

Posted by: Stinky Wizzleteats at January 15, 2021 04:30 PM (LO5Qy)

24 Willowed:

This is a really good conversation about stable jobs (jobs that have existed over long periods of time), communities, and having multiple overlapping skillsets.

https://youtu.be/7pH4Hb5CZWE

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 15, 2021 04:30 PM (jOcSX)

25 I like how Chinese audiences are up-front about some things. Chinese audiences stayed away from some SJW movie, like maybe Ghostbusters or a Lena Dunham movie (I forget what it was). When asked why they didn't see the movie, they said something like, "We don't want to see ugly women."

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2021 04:30 PM (5+1A/)

26 Someone was just saying something about corporations being our frenz but I didn't catch it all.
Posted by: Ace

Be better Ace.

Posted by: Hands at January 15, 2021 04:30 PM (786Ro)

27 May The Fu Be With You!

Posted by: f'd at January 15, 2021 04:31 PM (+y8uL)

28 There are NO trannies in China.

Posted by: Zombie Mao at January 15, 2021 04:31 PM (W4eKo)

29 A rong, rong time ago
In a garaxy fa fa away...

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2021 04:32 PM (xfb67)

30 I am really glad that a few years ago I decided that any future purchases of DVDs or BluRays would be from secondhand stores.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 15, 2021 04:32 PM (awtm/)

31 Yup, can't wait to narrate parts of these stories for our glorious anti-Donnie overlords.

Posted by: Ron "Piss Hands" Pearlman at January 15, 2021 04:32 PM (lNxD2)

32 9
LOLOL!!!!

Posted by: Jmel at January 15, 2021 04:32 PM (iwzIb)

33 Use the Fu Lou!

Posted by: Take a crane stand Stan at January 15, 2021 04:32 PM (+y8uL)

34 I especially like the part where Walt bursts out of his cryogenic vault and burns the motherfucker down to the ground.

Then lights another cigarette.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 15, 2021 04:32 PM (Ndje9)

35 If only we could strike a deal to send Disney in its entirety to China. Everything. Send it over there, let them deal with it.

Our culture would improve as a result.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at January 15, 2021 04:33 PM (6/LtX)

36 12 "Diversity" is only for the baizuo West. All these media companies deliver cuts of movies with no diversity to China, because China doesn't want to see black or gay people.

Posted by: ace at January 15, 2021 04:29 PM (5+1A/)

Which is weird as after their "One child" policy created such a large male population you'd think they'd want to make that lifestyle more acceptable.

Unless of course they are planning to get woman from some other nations.

Posted by: Bete at January 15, 2021 04:33 PM (Ojki1)

37 Fool! You cannot defeat my Dragon-style lightsaber-fu!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:33 PM (TsFZr)

38 Star Wars...yawn

Posted by: Darth Wrayder at January 15, 2021 04:33 PM (ONvIw)

39 To fill out a bit:

The Chinese Star Wars heroes are going to be Chinese males, with some Chinese females along as side-kicks

I look forward to people translating it back into English, sharing Italy nd send SJW mobs after Disney

Posted by: Greg Q at January 15, 2021 04:34 PM (02CFW)

40 Kathleen Kennedy looks like a Star Class Struggle character who has had her face erased. You'd think she'd pop for the good plastic surgeon.

Posted by: motionview at January 15, 2021 04:34 PM (pYQR/)

41 Why would they bother? Oh, that's right. They can only copy our stuff.

Posted by: t-bird at January 15, 2021 04:34 PM (Lt1JN)

42 Red leader will be really red.

Posted by: WisRich at January 15, 2021 04:34 PM (G0vdT)

43 LOLOL!!!!
Posted by: Jmel at January 15, 2021 04:32 PM (iwzIb)
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Shouldn't that be ROROR?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2021 04:34 PM (kTF2Z)

44 Didn't see a nood, just knew it should be here by now

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2021 04:34 PM (Cxk7w)

45 You could create a culture in which it was normal to have sex with
someone whose two-dimensional picture you saw on a phone, once.
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And don't let that dick, Holbein, paint a picture for you too if he's been bribed!

Posted by: zombie henry viii at January 15, 2021 04:34 PM (ab0zp)

46 You come darksy now, Ruke.
You like darksy.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2021 04:34 PM (xfb67)

47 Use wire fu to avoid the Bat Flu! More crap Disney tossing out and this time to the Reds. Yay! We live in stupid times.

Posted by: turambar at January 15, 2021 04:35 PM (Gylu/)

48 Slo Joe and the Ho will be business partners with China so why not get that jump on it?

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2021 04:35 PM (Cxk7w)

49 So Chinatown in space Jake

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 15, 2021 04:35 PM (z/EeZ)

50 24 This is a really good conversation about stable jobs (jobs that have
existed over long periods of time), communities, and having multiple
overlapping skillsets.
i read that as "skillets".

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 15, 2021 04:35 PM (sGtp+)

51 LOLOL!!!!
Posted by: Jmel at January 15, 2021 04:32 PM (iwzIb)
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Shouldn't that be ROROR?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2021 04:34 PM (kTF2Z)
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Clever, but the Chinese language has the l-sound.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:35 PM (TsFZr)

52 Fu Man Chubacca!

Posted by: Muldoon at January 15, 2021 04:35 PM (m45I2)

53 Red China is built on communist lies.

Sooner or later, the dam will give way.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 15, 2021 04:35 PM (R/m4+)

54 Take the time and listen to the Derek Hunter podcast in the sidebar with David Reaboi. Interesting stuff.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 15, 2021 04:35 PM (xPl2J)

55 In Chinese Star Wars, they Ewoks are #6 on the lunch menu.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2021 04:36 PM (xfb67)

56 My Drunken Stormtrooper style is no match for your Jar Jar FU!

Posted by: Bubba Fett at January 15, 2021 04:36 PM (+y8uL)

57 So do they put Chinee heads on the characters when they release movies in China?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - PHD Cannibal Studies at January 15, 2021 04:36 PM (Dz5W3)

58 Business ideas:

Make tuna salad by feeding mayonnaise to the tuna fish!

Get the CCP censors off set by letting the CCP censors write the material!

Posted by: Bill "Blaze" Blazejowski at January 15, 2021 04:36 PM (pYQR/)

59 Ruke, I'm your father.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 15, 2021 04:36 PM (dJsTl)

60 I am really looking forward to the Chinese Star Wars Christmas Spectacular

Fa Ra Ra Ra Ra, Ra RA ra rah

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2021 04:36 PM (1DEky)

61 Corporate America is your friend. And as long you rigorously obey our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies during every moment of your waking life we will remain so. We care about you, and we'd hate to see you lose everything and end up living in a ditch just because you couldn't resist telling a tranny joke. We want our employees to happy and healthy, as long as you remain a perfect corporate spokesman 24/7. Otherwise we would be forced to withdraw your health insurance and the health insurance of your children. Is having independent thoughts that go against prevailing corporate orthodoxy really worth the safety of your children?

We love you and only want what's best for you. And what's best for you is to never violate any of our HR policies in word, thought, or action either at work or at home -- and definitely not on the internet. Don't you agree?

Posted by: CorporateAmerica at January 15, 2021 04:37 PM (Oyenf)

62 Clever, but the Chinese language has the l-sound.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:35 PM (TsFZr)

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Not according t Ralphie.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2021 04:37 PM (kTF2Z)

63 In Chinese Star Wars, they Ewoks are #6 on the lunch menu.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2021 04:36 PM (xfb67)
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Tastes like chicken...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:37 PM (TsFZr)

64 So- now it's Rucas Firms?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 15, 2021 04:37 PM (8hXCT)

65 25 I like how Chinese audiences are up-front about some things. Chinese audiences stayed away from some SJW movie, like maybe Ghostbusters or a Lena Dunham movie (I forget what it was). When asked why they didn't see the movie, they said something like, "We don't want to see ugly women."
Posted by: ace at January 15, 2021 04:30 PM (5+1A/)

China's government doesn't like ghosts in movies so the people never had the chance to show good judgement and not see the 2016 Ghostbusters (tend to be down on time travel as well, so not sure how the last Avengers movie managed to get into theaters there). This was another place Sony failed, as they knew they wouldn't have that market but still spent enormously on the film. Had it had a smaller budget, we might have been subject to a sequel.

Posted by: Bete at January 15, 2021 04:37 PM (Ojki1)

66 Clever, but the Chinese language has the l-sound.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:35 PM (TsFZr)

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Not according t Ralphie.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2021 04:37 PM (kTF2Z)
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...

Nice research.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:37 PM (TsFZr)

67 Red China is built on communist lies.

Sooner or later, the dam will give way.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 15, 2021 04:35 PM (R/m4+)

Yankee dog!!!!

Posted by: Sum Dum Chic at January 15, 2021 04:37 PM (Dz5W3)

68 I wonder how hard it will be to smuggle DVDs and BluRays of Chinese Star Wars back here?

Will YouTube prevent the posting of excerpts?

Or will Google want to take Disney down?

Posted by: Greg Q at January 15, 2021 04:37 PM (02CFW)

69 General Tsao's Ewoks?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 15, 2021 04:37 PM (z/EeZ)

70 Posted by: Bete at January 15, 2021 04:33 PM (Ojki1)

Mad max style breeding FTW!

And lots of buttsex for the dudes.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 15, 2021 04:38 PM (C35Jn)

71 So Lucasfilm has gotten the impression they're not China Woke enough.

Honestly, I don't know how they thread that needle. China doesn't like their shit for a variety of reasons, and not the same reasons Western audiences are turning away in droves.

But keep bending over, Dinsey. You and everybody else.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2021 04:38 PM (oQ94s)

72 Clever, but the Chinese language has the l-sound.

Burrshit.

Posted by: Zombie Mao at January 15, 2021 04:38 PM (W4eKo)

73 I can't wait for the episode where they build a fortified man made island from an atoll and militarize it.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 15, 2021 04:38 PM (8hXCT)

74 Diversity in popular entertainment is mandatory. And this satisfies the mandatory diversity in casting requirements because its all Chinese. Kinda like how diverse Hamilton is. I just cannot get enough of all this diversity.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 15, 2021 04:38 PM (H5knJ)

75 Han shot first!!!!

Posted by: pawn at January 15, 2021 04:38 PM (WKDxF)

76 So- now it's Rucas Firms?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 15, 2021 04:37 PM (8hXCT)

Incwedible weawy.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob -- Killn ain't hrd, its not killn thats hrd at January 15, 2021 04:39 PM (Dz5W3)

77 Dim Sum Tauntaun

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2021 04:39 PM (1DEky)

78 China's government doesn't like ghosts in movies so the people never had the chance to show good judgement and not see the 2016 Ghostbusters (tend to be down on time travel as well, so not sure how the last Avengers movie managed to get into theaters there).
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Curious. Do we know what their reasoning is on that?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:39 PM (TsFZr)

79 E-Wok stir fry

Posted by: Muldoon at January 15, 2021 04:39 PM (m45I2)

80 Clever, but the Chinese language has the l-sound.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:35 PM (TsFZr)

It depends on the vowel its next to. Asians don't consider vowels and consonants separately.

Posted by: Stinky Wizzleteats at January 15, 2021 04:39 PM (LO5Qy)

81 So Lucas went wok woke?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 15, 2021 04:39 PM (DjiZK)

82 General Grievous Chicken

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2021 04:39 PM (kTF2Z)

83 Dim Sum Tauntaun?

It stinks!!

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 15, 2021 04:39 PM (z/EeZ)

84 There was some Commie white Canadian actor who moved to Red China in the '70s (or '60s) and played bad guys in CCP-approved films.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 15, 2021 04:39 PM (ab0zp)

85 While we're celebrating how diverse this all-Chinese production is, can I ask how many gay characters are included?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 15, 2021 04:39 PM (H5knJ)

86 We're almost at Rollerball.

Posted by: Archer at January 15, 2021 04:40 PM (gmo/4)

87 Yankee dog!!!!
Posted by: Sum Dum Chic at January 15, 2021 04:37 PM (Dz5W3)
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Spanish fly!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:40 PM (TsFZr)

88 Clever, but the Chinese language has the l-sound.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:35 PM (TsFZr)

I had a Chinese professor for calculus III, I think, and his pronunciation of parallelogram said otherwise.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2021 04:40 PM (xfb67)

89 The force will emanate from a strange bat/pangolin soup.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at January 15, 2021 04:40 PM (6/LtX)

90 Mad max style breeding FTW!
And lots of buttsex for the dudes.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 15, 2021 04:38 PM (C35Jn)

All the young dudes (Hey, dudes!)
Carry the news (Where are you?)
Boogaloo dudes (Stand up, come on!)
Carry the news......

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 15, 2021 04:40 PM (R/m4+)

91 "I've come for the bounty on this running imperialist dog."

Posted by: Eisenhorn at January 15, 2021 04:40 PM (vBR+Y)

92 American Thinker published aninteresting statement a couple hours ago:

https://tinyurl.com/y3trtzl5

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM (IbxQb)

93 69 General Tsao's Ewoks?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 15, 2021 04:37 PM (z/EeZ)

Considering that George Lucas wrote the Ewok/Empire battle in Return of the Jedi as an allegory on the Vietnam War - the Ewoks were modeled on on the Viet Cong - then the Lucasfilm deal with China is sort of an intellectual homecoming, of sorts.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM (4tiP2)

94 I had a Chinese professor for calculus III, I think, and his pronunciation of parallelogram said otherwise.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2021 04:40 PM (xfb67)

I laughed. Ok, later.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob -- Killn ain't hrd, its not killn thats hrd at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM (Dz5W3)

95 Bullet to the head or no bullet to the head. There is no "try".

Posted by: Yo-Yo-Da at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM (786Ro)

96 Inclusive? China is about the most Racist and sexist culture on earth today.

They even discriminate against other Chinese Tribes, let alone try to be a black or Hispanic person in China.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM (oHd/0)

97 Ruke, I am your father.

OMG.. and you all just keep them coming. I'm dying right now!

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM (nxdel)

98 >>Considering that George Lucas wrote the Ewok/Empire battle in Return of the Jedi as an allegory on the Vietnam War

Don't do Toad, Kids.

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2021 04:42 PM (1DEky)

99 I laughed my asterisk off when I saw Star Wars The Phantom Menace (where really, Jar Jar Binks was the REAL Sith Lord - change my mind!!!) and the weird evil aliens had Chinese accents.

Could NOT pull that off nowadays. But I appreciated it then.

Posted by: Loki at January 15, 2021 04:42 PM (KqiMr)

100 Since it's flat they can skin it.

Posted by: DaveA at January 15, 2021 04:42 PM (FhXTo)

101 China Star Wars: Luke's an only child.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2021 04:42 PM (oQ94s)

102 Inclusive? China is about the most Racist and sexist culture on earth today.

Hold my grape drink, n****.

Posted by: Inner City America at January 15, 2021 04:42 PM (H5knJ)

103 With six Ewoks do you get won-tautauns?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 15, 2021 04:42 PM (z/EeZ)

104 Will their space meals consist of bat or pangolin?

Posted by: Bosk at January 15, 2021 04:43 PM (SWbVS)

105 The Gerbil in the WH

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at January 15, 2021 04:43 PM (4vNgL)

106 The good news is Star Wars is effectively dead and buried, so maybe even the Chinese are sick of it, too.

Thanks Kathleen Kennedy.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 04:43 PM (qoNQ/)

107 "Diversity" is only for the baizuo West. All these media companies deliver cuts of movies with no diversity to China, because China doesn't want to see black or gay people.

I guess ace that Gone with the Wind is only about 30 minutes long over there and Song of the South has only the animated parts.

Good old Devil Mouse Inc.

Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 04:43 PM (pO7gM)

108 Now witness the awesome power of this fully reverse-engineered Death Star.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 15, 2021 04:43 PM (m45I2)

109 I see this duel must be decided by our skill with the Rightsaber.

Posted by: Broseidon at January 15, 2021 04:43 PM (WheRu)

110 One small, green humanoid alien each. That's it.

Posted by: The Mandarin Mandalorian at January 15, 2021 04:44 PM (+y8uL)

111 American Thinker published aninteresting statement a couple hours ago:

https://tinyurl.com/y3trtzl5

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM (IbxQb)

Wow.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob -- Killn ain't hrd, its not killn thats hrd at January 15, 2021 04:44 PM (Dz5W3)

112 I had a Chinese professor for calculus III, I think, and his pronunciation of parallelogram said otherwise.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe

I had all Chinese professors for Calculus at UCLA. Couldn't understand a damn word they said (although later, I would become an expert at understanding horrific Chinese accents when I was in Grad School).
Worst years of my life. Had to basically learn Calculus on my own.

Wish the internet had been around them.

Posted by: Loki at January 15, 2021 04:44 PM (KqiMr)

113 Were the shareholders aware of this?

Posted by: Unkaren at January 15, 2021 04:44 PM (lRlNr)

114 Princess Rea?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2021 04:44 PM (oHd/0)

115 Curious. Do we know what their reasoning is on that?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:39 PM (TsFZr)

I've heard the ghost thing is about respect for ancestors. I'd guess time travel is probably that or not wanting the population to think of what the present could look like if things were tweaked in the past and contemplating if it would be better, but that is a WAG on my part.

Posted by: Bete at January 15, 2021 04:45 PM (Ojki1)

116 I am really looking forward to the Chinese Star Wars Christmas Spectacular
Fa Ra Ra Ra Ra, Ra RA ra rah
Posted by: garrett
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Thread winner.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 15, 2021 04:45 PM (ab0zp)

117 Turkish Star Wars* > CCP Star Wars

* "The Man Who Saved the World"
https://youtu.be/Ww0k-80n-zI

Posted by: Hands at January 15, 2021 04:45 PM (786Ro)

118
Is Nancy Mace a stooge for china, too?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 15, 2021 04:45 PM (/UFpF)

119 Will the Chinese Wuhan flu wipe out the empire in these new Star Wars?

Posted by: Loki at January 15, 2021 04:45 PM (KqiMr)

120 There are no cats in the Chinese version.. save for the ones on the Pork Flied Lice.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 04:45 PM (qoNQ/)

121 How in the fucking hell are they going to pronounce Millenium Falcon?

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2021 04:45 PM (1DEky)

122 78, Captain Obvious.
In a society that has a past of ancestor worship and placating angry spirits, they probably do not want to have movies open that can of worms.

Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 04:46 PM (pO7gM)

123 Obi-wan Chenobi ?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 15, 2021 04:46 PM (dJsTl)

124 111 American Thinker published aninteresting statement a couple hours ago:

https://tinyurl.com/y3trtzl5

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM (IbxQb)

Wow.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob -- Killn ain't hrd, its not killn thats hrd at January 15, 2021 04:44 PM (Dz5W3)

Major cave.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2021 04:46 PM (oHd/0)

125 China Star Wars: Vader doesn't blow up Alderaan. Instead he makes a deal with the British, to assume limited control over it... then alters the deal.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 15, 2021 04:46 PM (oQ94s)

126 I prefer spicy Manchurian Ewok instead.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 15, 2021 04:46 PM (ab0zp)

127 I had a Chinese professor for calculus III, I think, and his pronunciation of parallelogram said otherwise.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2021 04:40 PM

I had a chinese teacher for chemistry in high school.

Differentiating between the concepts of molarity, molality, and normality was exceedingly difficult for some reason.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 15, 2021 04:46 PM (awtm/)

128 Fuk yuo, gweilo!

- Didney Corporation

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 15, 2021 04:46 PM (poEUH)

129 Nothin warmer than the belly of an Uyghur for sleepin.

Posted by: Luke xiansheng at January 15, 2021 04:46 PM (w3rBT)

130 So I guess we see Han Soro frying awound in his mirenium farcon?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (9Om/r)

131 It amazing. Hollywood keeps finding more clever and inventive ways to go broke.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (yQpMk)

132 These are not the fake Louis Vuitton blaster holsters you're looking for.

Posted by: Obi-Wan Kennedy at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (786Ro)

133 Thanks for the answers.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (TsFZr)

134 >>>American Thinker published aninteresting statement a couple hours ago:

https://tinyurl.com/y3trtzl5

Folded faster than Superman on laundry day. So every conservative media outlet is now buying "the steal didn't happen." At least we know who we cannot trust.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (qoNQ/)

135 There are no cats in the Chinese version.. save for the ones on the Pork Flied Lice.

Posted by:

The difficulty is with the L, not the R.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (KAi1n)

136

Will there be a Chinese Frank Luntz too?

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (lg/F7)

137 The Craw!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (yQpMk)

138 Going by what that letter that AH was forced to publish, it pretty much says that actual journalism is dead. Long live Free Speech.

Posted by: pawn at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (WKDxF)

139 Han Collective and Chubacca

Posted by: x at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (0tE/i)

140 How much would it cost us to convince Disney to move all their worthless fucking shit to China?

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at January 15, 2021 04:48 PM (sWM8x)

141 Nothing harder than Chinese algebra.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 15, 2021 04:48 PM (BJLVZ)

142
We need to investigate Nancy Mace for connections/bribes to the beijing biden junta.

She's acting quite strange for a freshman "Republican."

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 15, 2021 04:48 PM (/UFpF)

143 96 Inclusive? China is about the most Racist and sexist culture on earth today.

They even discriminate against other Chinese Tribes, let alone try to be a black or Hispanic person in China.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM (oHd/0)

Yeah but they have a strange fascination with white people. Especially our beards. I can't tell you how many Chinese people have asked for selfies with me when I'm in China. And they always comment on my (very mediocre, short) beard.

But yes, they tend to only like Han Chinese, and even then, there seems to be an informal caste system amongst the Han based on where in China they are from.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 04:48 PM (UPoLF)

144
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM

Well that is the narrative and if not taken to court ( Michigan proved there was hanky panky) we are stuck with it and 2022 will go accordingly.
I am predicting the vote fraud will get better every year and Republicans will lose seats in Congress.

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2021 04:48 PM (Cxk7w)

145 Kennedy is asshoe!

Posted by: motinview at January 15, 2021 04:48 PM (pYQR/)

146 Either publish this statement or we sue you and no court will allow you to prevail, because we bought them too.
Straight up extortion.

Posted by: navybrat, in the bunker at January 15, 2021 04:48 PM (w7KSn)

147 It's too bad it won't be translated to English. I'm betting that the hero is actually heroic and all the good people have good values. That those values might be "socialistic" which some of us used to call being a good person *without* the aid of the state making you do it (note how any time anyone helps someone else the socialists will claim that it's socialism - oh, you helped your friend who was in a bind, that's socialism!).

Sure, it's propaganda about how it's good to be a good person and being good is rewarded. But that's hardly different from TLJ where Po was punished for being a bad boi and had to learn his lesson about being subservient to authority while all the grrrls in charge of things tittered on and were rewarded for being the best ever.

Of course, anything to do with China is Booo Hisss, because China.

But they are unlikely to have even a moment of tolerance for woke nonsense.

Posted by: Synova at January 15, 2021 04:48 PM (BD/yx)

148 THIS IS NOT CAVE!

Posted by: Chinese Grad Student at January 15, 2021 04:48 PM (1DEky)

149 I think there are also vampire stories in China where the vampires are also ghosts, not like our vampires who are Congressmen and women.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 15, 2021 04:49 PM (R/m4+)

150 My light saber doesn't work!

*Reads stamp on bottom*

Made n China.

Fuck!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2021 04:49 PM (kTF2Z)

151 Masks are require at Mos Eisley. Stay safe.

Posted by: A Scold of Chinese Star Wars Karens at January 15, 2021 04:49 PM (W4eKo)

152 Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.

Posted by: Xi Emperor at January 15, 2021 04:49 PM (fUm2i)

153 >American Thinker published aninteresting statement a couple hours ago:

https://tinyurl.com/y3trtzl5

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM (IbxQb)

Congrats! Mission accomplished!

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 15, 2021 04:49 PM (poEUH)

154 I got nothing to say about Star Wars but can I make a comment about that copper pipe crimper linked in the sidebar? So instead of taking a whole half an hour to learn how to clean and solder copper pipe, I should spend what must be several hundred $$ for a specialized tool that requires proprietary connectors and can't be used in tight spaces? I guess there's always a market for an expensive solution to a non-problem.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at January 15, 2021 04:49 PM (qc+VF)

155 We'll be viewing it at the White House with Xi

Posted by: China Joe at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (lRlNr)

156 Yeah but they have a strange fascination with white people. Especially our beards.

Rosario Dawson as Rei?

Posted by: Corey Booker at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (786Ro)

157 Galaxy been heah foh owa! You go long way now!

Posted by: Darth Hop Sing at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (HI3xr)

158 https://tinyurl.com/y3trtzl5

Folded faster than Superman on laundry day. So every conservative media outlet is now buying "the steal didn't happen." At least we know who we cannot trust.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (qoNQ/)

Holy shit.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (UPoLF)

159
American Thinker published aninteresting statement a couple hours ago:

https://tinyurl.com/y3trtzl5

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM

were they blinking in Morse code?

Posted by: Loretta at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (dY4CJ)

160 >>> 124 111 American Thinker published aninteresting statement a couple hours ago:
https://tinyurl.com/y3trtzl5
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM (IbxQb)
Wow.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob -- Killn ain't hrd, its not killn thats hrd at January 15, 2021 04:44 PM (Dz5W3)
Major cave.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2021 04:46 PM (oHd/0)

You should know not to believe your lying eyes. Trust the experts!!!

Posted by: This... is XiNN at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (TK8Ry)

161 Major cave.

They likely should cave. They have skin in the game, and after assessing the landscape probably concluded what most have: that Sidney KRAKEN Powell was full of it.

(I don't dispute that there was massive fraud. But think it was of the traditional variety facilitated in no small part by the mail-in scam. The Dominion stuff seems like a rabbit hole to me. Always has.)

Posted by: ear with asymmetrical balls at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (H5knJ)

162 Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 15, 2021 04:41 PM (IbxQb)

Wow, Brian; They don't want to be sued. That's utterly astounding!!!! I'm gobsmacked, floored even.

-Nothing untoward was done by anyone!! The election was completely above board. You've done your work here. We all believe you!! You can go now.

How many sarc tags do I need to put?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (VP4Cd)

163 >>> Either publish this statement or we sue you and no court will allow you to prevail, because we bought them too.

So America is already dead.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (qoNQ/)

164 The sad thing is in this version of Star Wars, they mistake Baby Yoda for a Pangolin and eat him.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (vqU+L)

165 I had a Chinese professor for calculus III, I think, and his pronunciation of parallelogram said otherwise.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2021 04:40 PM

I think I had the same guy at my University.

Posted by: Archer at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (gmo/4)

166 136

Will there be a Chinese Frank Luntz too?

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (lg/F7)

It is the same one. He has to justify that mil spent on his model, and money pays the same.

Posted by: Bete at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (Ojki1)

167 You mean like R2D2 who doesn't get translated and for no conceivable good reason cannot speak basic like every other droid?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (KZzsI)

168
off, Life of Brian sock

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (dY4CJ)

169 Re: American Thinker -- I couldn't afford to hire myself, let alone a lawyer experienced in defamation law. Well, I can afford to hire myself for free, but that requires a special kind of motivation.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (KAi1n)

170 American Thinker had some good articles today, threat of a court fight for a billion dollar company against a web site is no contest sadly. States can't even gain any headway against them.

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (Cxk7w)

171 Nancy Pelosi: Small Inauguration Is 'Not a Concession to the Terrorists,' but 'Recognition of the Danger of COVID'

All those National Guard troops are there to scare off the Chinese virus

Posted by: SMOD at January 15, 2021 04:52 PM (3aI0K)

172 Satans Retards, hard at work Chairman!

Posted by: Denny Crane! at January 15, 2021 04:52 PM (uc+oy)

173 (I don't dispute that there was massive fraud. But think it was of the traditional variety facilitated in no small part by the mail-in scam. The Dominion stuff seems like a rabbit hole to me. Always has.)
Posted by: ear with asymmetrical balls at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (H5knJ)

go read the affidavits on the Dominion machine security.

The ones that say that 'weighted' voting was turned ON in the registry of Dominion machines they looked at.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2021 04:52 PM (oHd/0)

174 CCP3O

Posted by: Muldoon at January 15, 2021 04:52 PM (m45I2)

175 You likey gwond Bantha horn?

Posted by: Archer at January 15, 2021 04:52 PM (gmo/4)

176 What gets interesting is whether the authors they accuse of fraud sue American Thinker for defamation. Somehow I doubt there's a dearth of contractual language on this.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 15, 2021 04:52 PM (KAi1n)

177 I read the AT statement. Why the hell is there a vote counting industry?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 15, 2021 04:52 PM (xfb67)

178 Arr your base are berong to us.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 15, 2021 04:52 PM (9Om/r)

179 Take out the communist propaganda and the chinese version of StarWars will be less woke than our Western versions. Btw, it seems like a lot of communist propaganda ends up in the western versions anyways, so perhaps we Americans would find the chinese version more to our likings.

Perhaps not. I don't give a shit either way frankly.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 15, 2021 04:52 PM (z79tQ)

180 Regarding the statement, American Thinker does not have the money for lawyers, was probably told by its insurers to grovel, and are afraid of being deplatformed as they do not run their own platform. The proof is in the pudding when PA Lt. Gov. argues saying that fraud existed in the election was not protected speech (which means sedition).

We shall see when some of the other defamation cases go to trial. Remember the requirement is you must prove the statement is false or has a reckless disregard for the truth using a clear and convincing standard of evidence. Mark Steyn's case has been going on forever for example which is defensive lawfare--not the truth of the matter.

The voting services company in question is a public figure and cannot assert its actions are private as they involve a dispute over a public contractor's actions.

However, normal liability coverage does not often cover defamatory actions or it means a court fight over it.

Don't play in the legal pool unless you want to be proven all wet.

Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 04:52 PM (pO7gM)

181 171 Nancy Pelosi: Small Inauguration Is 'Not a Concession to the Terrorists,' but 'Recognition of the Danger of COVID'

All those National Guard troops are there to scare off the Chinese virus
Posted by: SMOD at January 15, 2021 04:52 PM (3aI0K)

Yeah, because 20K troops sleeping on the floor in DC can social distance sooooo well.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (oHd/0)

182 Posted by: Brian in New Orleans

You have a one-track mind but that you for your service.

Posted by: Zombie Mao at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (W4eKo)

183 The sad thing is in this version of Star Wars, they mistake Baby Yoda for a Pangolin and eat him.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (vqU+L)
--------
Okay, I laughed.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (TsFZr)

184 169 Re: American Thinker -- I couldn't afford to hire myself, let alone a lawyer experienced in defamation law. Well, I can afford to hire myself for free, but that requires a special kind of motivation.
Posted by: SFGoth at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (KAi1n)

I wouldn't think Dominion would have a good case here. They're clearly a "public figure" (same analysis applies to companies, right? I have no idea, to be honest, but I would assume it's the same test) and "actual malice" is a VERY high burden.

The answer / initial defense would be "we thought what we was writing was true, and we have seen nothing to suggest that it's not true. Shall we got to discovery and learn more?" Right? I mean, why bend the knee like that?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (UPoLF)

185 All those National Guard troops are there to scare off the Chinese virus
Posted by: SMOD at January 15, 2021 04:52 PM

Also why the Mexican and Canadian borders are closed for the next month.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (2k7BX)

186 Also, I wonder what the "9 principles" of journalistic integrity they were talking about.

Oh wait, no I don't! HAHAHAHA!!

Posted by: This... is XiNN at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (TK8Ry)

187 147 It's too bad it won't be translated to English.
Posted by: Synova at January 15, 2021 04:48 PM (BD/yx)

It won't officially, but given Whoreywood can't stop the pirating of their movies online it will almost certainly be there, even with the Feds trying to crack down on piracy.

Posted by: Bete at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (Ojki1)

188 162 The election was saintly, peerless, and fucking perfect./

Posted by: CN at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (ONvIw)

189 go read the affidavits on the Dominion machine security.

The ones that say that 'weighted' voting was turned ON in the registry of Dominion machines they looked at.

Powell's being sued. So she'll get to prove the fraud, right? Truth is a defense, after all.

And when she doesn't?

Posted by: ear with asymmetrical ballsb at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (H5knJ)

190 Democrats surrendered to CCP.
All this weird stuff is string pulling.

Do it or get MOAR virus.

400000 dead

Posted by: torabora at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (mZLy8)

191
The villains in Chinese Communist cinema, if they are Chinese, are Taiwanese. In spy movies with a hidden enemy agent conspiracy, they are unmasked Taiwanese.

Considering that the midget homunculus George Lucas has revealed that the evil empire in Star Wars represented the United States, and the plucky rebels the Viet Cong, and woke sequels promote emasculating weakening of our society, this kind of communist knob gobbling is what the franchise has always been about in the mind of the creator.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (xku86)

192 No time for Force, Darth Jones.

Posted by: Chilled Jawa Brains at January 15, 2021 04:54 PM (HI3xr)

193 I saw the time stamp returns on the votes and multiple negative votes numbering in the 10s of thousands.
Nothing but the up and up I'm sure.

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2021 04:54 PM (Cxk7w)

194 185 to keep us from escaping

Posted by: CN at January 15, 2021 04:54 PM (ONvIw)

195 Well, you know what I meant.

Posted by: Zombie Mao at January 15, 2021 04:54 PM (W4eKo)

196 Folded faster than Superman on laundry day. So every conservative media outlet is now buying "the steal didn't happen." At least we know who we cannot trust.

You'll spend years in court battling to get your site back online, and the bank will close your account and leave the balance in pennies in the parking lot near the hobo hangout.

Posted by: China Joe at January 15, 2021 04:54 PM (lRlNr)

197 left out knowingly false in the above post.

Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 04:54 PM (pO7gM)

198 Disney is clearly a messBut China is there to investWith no trans or gay
Yet not woke in a way
They'll still show us Star Wars' CCP-ness

Posted by: TheHoser at January 15, 2021 04:54 PM (b9pgb)

199 Nancy Pelosi: Small Inauguration Is 'Not a Concession to the Terrorists,' but 'Recognition of the Danger of COVID'

Shame she wasn't so concerned during the George Floyd riots.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2021 04:54 PM (VP4Cd)

200 Down thread on one of those tweets someone is saying Chris Evans is negotiating with marvel to reprise Captain America.

DIAF Misneywars. DIAF

Posted by: TexasDan at January 15, 2021 04:54 PM (yL25O)

201 I don't remember voting for anyone named "Dominion".

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 15, 2021 04:55 PM (R/m4+)

202 It all makes sense if you lens it right.

Posted by: torabora at January 15, 2021 04:55 PM (mZLy8)

203 American Thinker picked a good time to disable comments, I guess.

I won't be reading them any more.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at January 15, 2021 04:55 PM (sWM8x)

204 171 There ya go, a logical explanation!

Posted by: CN at January 15, 2021 04:55 PM (ONvIw)

205 >>Will there be a Chinese Frank Luntz too?

Yep. Frank Runtz.

Posted by: Fly at January 15, 2021 04:55 PM (RbGtT)

206 >>>Down thread on one of those tweets someone is saying Chris Evans is negotiating with marvel to reprise Captain America.

Fuck that guy in particular.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 04:55 PM (qoNQ/)

207 170 American Thinker had some good articles today, threat of a court fight for a billion dollar company against a web site is no contest sadly. States can't even gain any headway against them.
Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (Cxk7w)

Just fucking ignore them, let them sue you.

Seriously, I would email Dominions lawyers back with "Sullivan v. New York Times." and move on with my life.

I doubt they'd actually move forward.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 04:55 PM (UPoLF)

208 Has Sidney Powell been GITMO'd? She has just, disappeared.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at January 15, 2021 04:56 PM (6/LtX)

209 >>>American Thinker picked a good time to disable comments, I guess.

I won't be reading them any more.

This will be the norm from now on. No one will fight, no one will mention election fraud, the left won. Officially.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 04:56 PM (qoNQ/)

210
James conflates the perspective of the Chinese people with the perspective of the CCP, which are entirely different and separate.

How do you know?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 15, 2021 04:56 PM (63Dwl)

211

Just remember the date, the date that Walt Disney's company unveiled its Chinese subsidiary, an enemy of the US. And that Beijing Joe was the one responsible.

Could that SERIOUSLY HETEROSECSUAL Chris Evans play Captain China?

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at January 15, 2021 04:57 PM (lg/F7)

212 Jar Jar Chinks FTW!

Posted by: ShainS at January 15, 2021 04:57 PM (pubRs)

213 Nancy Pelosi: Small Inauguration Is 'Not a Concession to the Terrorists,' but 'Recognition of the Danger of COVID'

right, keep telling yourself that auger tits.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 15, 2021 04:57 PM (9Om/r)

214 208 Twitter disappeared her, but that's the total

Posted by: CN at January 15, 2021 04:57 PM (ONvIw)

215 Why is there a vote counting industry?
Why is it located outside the USA?
Why is it run by non USA citizens?
Why did they need a $400 million buy in from the CCP?
Why are they busying themselves shutting down anyone bringing attention to these facts?

Posted by: navybrat, in the bunker at January 15, 2021 04:57 PM (w7KSn)

216 The sad thing is in this version of Star Wars, they mistake Baby Yoda for a Pangolin and eat him.

"Baby Yoda gives strong wang!"
--Wuhan wet market vendor

Considering that the midget homunculus George Lucas has revealed that the evil empire in Star Wars represented the United States, and the plucky rebels the Viet Cong,

Lucas changes his story every damned time someone talks to him. He's either pulling everyone's chain, is so dumb he can't remember, or just is one of those guys who lies like other people breathe.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2021 04:57 PM (KZzsI)

217 You want Four million dead? Forty million dead?

We can do that.

Posted by: CCP at January 15, 2021 04:57 PM (mZLy8)

218 Dominion if found there was fraud isn't just a monetary lawsuit, it's a criminal justice matter.

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2021 04:57 PM (Cxk7w)

219 I can't tell you how many Chinese people have asked for selfies with me
when I'm in China. And they always comment on my (very mediocre, short)
beard.
---------
That reminds me of the Barney Miller with the crazy guy who thought he was a werewolf who had Yemana believing it was true and he was transforming as he began going nuts in the cell; Barney comes out of his office to see what the commotion is about and berates Nick for not controlling the guy "He's changing, Barney!" [or similar], "Haven't you ever seen a beard before?" "Not in my family!"

Posted by: andycanuck at January 15, 2021 04:57 PM (ab0zp)

220 You'll spend years in court battling to get your site back online, and the bank will close your account and leave the balance in pennies in the parking lot near the hobo hangout.

Yep. It's cheaper just to have John Poulos killed that to defend yourself in a rigged court.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 15, 2021 04:57 PM (yQpMk)

221 The answer / initial defense would be "we thought
what we was writing was true, and we have seen nothing to suggest that
it's not true. Shall we got to discovery and learn more?" Right? I mean,
why bend the knee like that?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (UPoLF)

Or maybe, juuust maybe, perhaps, we might've been mislead about Dominion? Maybe just a little? I know, that's crazy talk.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (IbxQb)

222 I can't wait for the Haiwei voting machines to arrive for the next election.

Posted by: pawn at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (WKDxF)

223 Has Sidney Powell been GITMO'd? She has just, disappeared.

We've spirited her off to the reeducation colony on Covid Prime. For her own safety, of course.

Posted by: Zombie Darth Mao at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (W4eKo)

224

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman: "This idea that saying that Pennsylvania was 'rigged' or that we were 'trying to steal the election' -- that's a lie. And you do not have the right, that is not protected speech."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (63Dwl)

225 Powell's being sued. So she'll get to prove the fraud, right? Truth is a defense, after all.

And when she doesn't?
Posted by: ear with asymmetrical ballsb at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (H5knJ)

Well, ear, she wouldn't actually have to prove it's true, just that she believed it to be true based on honest and reasonable belief. Right?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (UPoLF)

226 Yeah, because 20K troops sleeping on the floor in DC can social distance sooooo well.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (oHd/0)

That's up to 25K and they are talking about more.

Posted by: WiNO at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (T4RS9)

227 189, you reversed the burden of proof. The burden is on the person or company alleging defamation. Strict scrutiny applies here so the narrowly tailored exception is defamation of character through libel or slander. That requires the plaintiff--Dominion, to prove that Powell either knowingly lied or had a reckless disregard for the truth and that Dominion's reputation was damaged by this action. The standard of evidence for the plaintiff is clear and convincing which is the highest standard in civil litigation.

It is a threat that won't win but can bankrupt people without paid legal staff. Powell can probably crowd raise the money and they might not like Mr. Croomer on the witness stand nor the CEO-any contradictory statements between their stand testimony and prior recorded statements is an issue.

Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (pO7gM)

228 Has Sidney Powell been GITMO'd? She has just, disappeared.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at January 15, 2021 04:56 PM

She is on Telegram as of a few days ago.

https://t.me/s/SidneyPowell1

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (2k7BX)

229 210 They really don't have any issue finding spies to "study," here.

Posted by: CN at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (ONvIw)

230 I saw the time stamp returns on the votes and multiple negative votes numbering in the 10s of thousands. Nothing but the up and up I'm sure.
Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2021 04:54 PM (Cxk7w)

Yeah. I don't need American Thinker to confirm what I already know - this bitch was rigged. Anymore than I trust all the stupid push polls.

Posted by: Pierre at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (EjQ00)

231 193 I saw the time stamp returns on the votes and multiple negative votes numbering in the 10s of thousands.
Nothing but the up and up I'm sure.
just subtracting off the dead voters.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (sGtp+)

232 The American Thinker statement isn't the interesting part. It's the wording of the preamble.

They published the Dominion lawyers' pre-written statement. It was done under duress.

Posted by: Oldstoke at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (sb+Cg)

233 Folded faster than Superman on laundry day. So every conservative media outlet is now buying "the steal didn't happen." At least we know who we cannot trust.

Good. Too many of these lawyers have been going on tv to talk smack. Not a good idea. Especially, if you're the client.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 15, 2021 04:59 PM (lRlNr)

234 One banana
Two banana
Three banana
FOUR!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 15, 2021 04:59 PM (W2Pud)

235

" PA Lt. Gov. argues saying that fraud existed in the election was not protected speech "

Then why in the hell do the Dems get away with doing it.

Oh right.

Fuck them.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at January 15, 2021 04:59 PM (lg/F7)

236 >>Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman: "This idea that saying that Pennsylvania was 'rigged' or that we were 'trying to steal the election' -- that's a lie. And you do not have the right, that is not protected speech."

Liar.

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2021 04:59 PM (BdgPA)

237 Down thread on one of those tweets someone is saying Chris Evans is negotiating with marvel to reprise Captain America.

Yeah that just tells me that the MCU guys recgonize that their franchise is packed with third run sub-par characters nobody knows or likes particularly. You see a lot of people running around with Star Lord tee shirts? Yeah he's kinda funny in the movies but he's not an iconic character.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2021 04:59 PM (KZzsI)

238 One wonders where the loyalties of the rogue Colombian drug cartel hippopotamuses lie, and how that will play out on Inauguration Day...

I can't bring myself to believe they will take their orders from Nancy Pelosi.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 15, 2021 04:59 PM (m45I2)

239 You want Four million dead? Forty million dead?

We can do that.

Posted by: CCP at January 15, 2021 04:57 PM (mZLy

Main Steam Stem wawue.

Posted by: Archer at January 15, 2021 04:59 PM (gmo/4)

240 218 And Garland Merrick will indict like crazy?

Posted by: CN at January 15, 2021 05:00 PM (ONvIw)

241 I know, that's crazy talk.

The first step to reeducation is recognizing you have a problem. Very good.

Posted by: Zombie Darth Mao at January 15, 2021 05:00 PM (W4eKo)

242 Well, ear, she wouldn't actually have to prove it's true, just that she believed it to be true based on honest and reasonable belief. Right?

And she's not gonna be able to prove that either.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 15, 2021 05:00 PM (H5knJ)

243 Yeah, some troll named kimonojeff, or something, was crowing this morning about the American Thinker collapsing to Dominion to avoid ten years in court for libel.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 15, 2021 05:00 PM (ab0zp)

244 >>>Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman: "This idea that saying that Pennsylvania was 'rigged' or that we were 'trying to steal the election' -- that's a lie. And you do not have the right, that is not protected speech."

Dude is a white trash pothead. Walks around like he's The Dude, and cannot complete a coherent sentence. PA is quickly turning into a shithole.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 05:00 PM (qoNQ/)

245 240. He will, in #2weeks.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at January 15, 2021 05:00 PM (6/LtX)

246 No one will fight, no one will mention election fraud, the left won. Officially.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 04:56 PM (qoNQ/)

The Lt. Gov. of PA is saying that mentioning election fraud is not protected speech.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 15, 2021 05:00 PM (H8QX8)

247 237 Down thread on one of those tweets someone is saying Chris Evans is negotiating with marvel to reprise Captain America.

Yeah that just tells me that the MCU guys recgonize that their franchise is packed with third run sub-par characters nobody knows or likes particularly. You see a lot of people running around with Star Lord tee shirts? Yeah he's kinda funny in the movies but he's not an iconic character.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2021 04:59 PM (KZzsI)

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Of course, they made the MCU with 3rd tier characters to begin with. No F4 or X-Men, just Iron Man of all people. We're now below 3rd tier, coasting on just on Marvel's brand.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, figuring this whole time thing out with Nolan at January 15, 2021 05:01 PM (NWM+b)

248 Dude is a white trash pothead. Walks around like he's The Dude, and cannot complete a coherent sentence. PA is quickly turning into a shithole.

correct

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 15, 2021 05:01 PM (j9HX3)

249 Or maybe, juuust maybe, perhaps, we might've been mislead about Dominion? Maybe just a little? I know, that's crazy talk.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (IbxQb)

Let's assume you're right, and Dominion did absolutely nothing wrong, there was just a bunch of suspicious stuff that it turns out all has honest explanations for it.

Reporting on that suspicious stuff is protected speech, and is why defamation laws are very wary of infringing on that kind of stuff. You can read a much more elegant version of what i'm saying in sullivan v new york times.

For a news organization to allow the threat of a lawsuit to keep them from reporting on a topic ... I mean, that's not something that happens in a healthy society.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 05:01 PM (UPoLF)

250 (I don't dispute that there was massive fraud. But think it was of the traditional variety facilitated in no small part by the mail-in scam. The Dominion stuff seems like a rabbit hole to me. Always has.)
Posted by: ear with asymmetrical balls at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (H5knJ)
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There was massive fraud they stole the election with that fraud. Whether it was paper ballots, electronic fuckery, scanning ballots more than once, whatever. The math just doesn't work for the outcome we got. Embrace the power of "and."

But I *do* suspect that Dominion contributed. and here's why: their post-election behavior. They had no response to any of the allegations for a week or so, refused any interviews, refused summonses and went to ground. Then they put up a bullet-list refutation and started suing. That is not good or honest behavior, and that kind of opacity has no place in American elections.

How they may have contributed, I don't know - vote-flipping, multi-scanning, injecting ballots via flash media into compromised systems, whatever - but their post-election behavior does make me think that contributed to the theft in some manner.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 15, 2021 05:01 PM (UZVEt)

251 why bend the knee like that?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

You funding the litigation? Discovery, alone, is exxxxxxxpensive.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 15, 2021 05:01 PM (KAi1n)

252 >>>Yeah, some troll named kimonojeff, or something, was crowing this morning about the American Thinker collapsing to Dominion to avoid ten years in court for libel.

Guy sounds like a tool.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 05:01 PM (qoNQ/)

253 Main stem stop wow.

Posted by: Po-han Skywalker at January 15, 2021 05:01 PM (gmo/4)

254 The Lt. Gov. of PA is saying that mentioning election fraud is not protected speech.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 15, 2021 05:00 PM

Next he'll be saying that Congress can do away with the electoral college by passing a bill.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at January 15, 2021 05:01 PM (2k7BX)

255
For whatever it's worth, my considered opinion is that Communist China is going to implode economically. They can't steal enough wealth from the West fast enough to stave it off, particularly after their paid agents here have destroyed Western economies as instructed. Their thieving lying bullshit is something they inflict on each other, not just us. Their products are poison, their bridges and buildings collapse, and throughout their society they are hiding trillions of dollars in bad debt. House of cards.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 15, 2021 05:02 PM (xku86)

256 Lucas said that he had sold his property to white slavers. Turns out, it was just regular slavers.

Posted by: James Schuler at January 15, 2021 05:02 PM (j7w9/)

257 And she's not gonna be able to prove that either.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 15, 2021 05:00 PM (H5knJ)

Well, in that case, she's fucked.

I haven't really followed what she's been saying or doing or what she believes though.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 05:02 PM (UPoLF)

258 @216

I think it's more along the lines that he just pinches himself that he was able to rip off Joseph Campbell and Akira Kurosawa and luck into a financial and cultural phenomenon, so he's always trying to make it about something more substantial than knights, quests, good guys, bad guys and damsels in distress.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 15, 2021 05:02 PM (vqU+L)

259 Posted by: ear with asymmetrical ballsb at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (H5knJ)

Is this a typo or is someone taking over "bear with asymetrical balls' nic?-If it's the latter it's in really bad taste.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2021 05:02 PM (VP4Cd)

260 Strangely enough one of the things that kicked off the American revolution was a libel case.

At the time, libel wasn't about truth or falsehood, it was about saying something defaming about a powerful figure. If you said it, then you were guilty, even if it was true. I can't remember the exact details of the case, but basically it went like this:

The jury was in one of the colonies, a governor or someone was suing someone for libel. The defendant's lawyer convinced the jury to negate the charge and find them not guilty because he argued "the truth is an absolute defense against libel"

how can it be libelous if its true?

Now we're at the reverse point: saying something the powers that be do not want to be said is grounds for persecution and destruction, even if its true.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2021 05:02 PM (KZzsI)

261 >>>The Lt. Gov. of PA is saying that mentioning election fraud is not protected speech.
Posted by: Ordinary American

Every citizen of PA believes Fetterman is retarded. Even leftists. The guy is a joke, and I doubt he could even spell the word constitution.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 05:02 PM (qoNQ/)

262
Yeah, because 20K troops sleeping on the floor in DC can social distance sooooo well.
Posted by: Romeo13

That's up to 25K and they are talking about more.
Posted by: WiNO

Seven Days In January

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 15, 2021 05:02 PM (63Dwl)

263 You'll spend years in court battling to get your site back online, and the bank will close your account and leave the balance in pennies in the parking lot near the hobo hangout.

Posted by: China Joe

---

"Nah, they'll be immediately thrown out since conservatives have no standing in American courts. Next!" -- SCOTUS, a division of the CCP

Posted by: ShainS at January 15, 2021 05:02 PM (pubRs)

264 The good thing is they can cut costs with chinese slave labor and can actually blow up people without CGI.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 15, 2021 05:03 PM (r+sAi)

265 242 bear, she does not have to "prove" anything. You reversed the burden here. The plaintiff, that is Dominion, must prove that her statements were false because she maliciously made them or had a reckless disregard for the truth. AND that Dominion was damaged by them financially. The standard that DOMINION has to reach is proving those that Powell either knowingly or recklessly made a false statement must be by providing clear and convincing evidence. An absolute defense to the charge is the truth but that is not required for Powell as Dominion is a public figure here.

Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 05:03 PM (pO7gM)

266 Of course, they made the MCU with 3rd tier characters to begin with. No F4 or X-Men, just Iron Man of all people.

Yeah, although he was already kind of Iconic, there was a song about him and he was the first armored superhero. Just never given a very interesting personality or backstory.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2021 05:04 PM (KZzsI)

267 The Lt. Gov. of PA is saying that mentioning election fraud is not protected speech.

Yeah - cause telling me its against the law makes me want to do it less ? To Hell with that guy. Come get me.

Posted by: Pierre at January 15, 2021 05:04 PM (EjQ00)

268 Or maybe, juuust maybe, perhaps, we might've been mislead about Dominion? Maybe just a little? I know, that's crazy talk.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (IbxQb)

Did you read the report from MI? No? Read it. It talks about code being changed violating Federal law. It talked about missing log files on the machines. It also discussed incorrect voting. But, hey, keep burning strawmen and getting high off of the fumes.

Posted by: WiNO at January 15, 2021 05:04 PM (T4RS9)

269 But I *do* suspect that Dominion contributed. and here's why: their post-election behavior. They had no response to any of the allegations for a week or so, refused any interviews, refused summonses and went to ground. Then they put up a bullet-list refutation and started suing. That is not good or honest behavior, and that kind of opacity has no place in American elections.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 15, 2021 05:01 PM (UZVEt)

I never thought Dominion as a company was behind anything, I think they just made a system that is very easy to cheat (probably with a wink and a nod), and well, people cheated.

That said, you're right. When the D's were accusing Diebold of stealing the election in 2000 and 2004, Diebold went on a big PR kick trying to convince the public their machines were reliable, and weren't used to make W president. Dominion starts suing news organizations. Interesting reaction.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 05:05 PM (UPoLF)

270 "Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman: "This idea
that saying that Pennsylvania was 'rigged' or that we were 'trying to
steal the election' -- that's a lie. And you do not have the right, that
is not protected speech."

Posted by: Bertram Cabo"

On the other hands 4 years of Russsia collusion without a shred of evince... Well that is all just fine and good. and protected by the 1st amendment,

Posted by: Ripley at January 15, 2021 05:05 PM (MxEKc)

271 266 Of course, they made the MCU with 3rd tier characters to begin with. No F4 or X-Men, just Iron Man of all people.

Yeah, although he was already kind of Iconic, there was a song about him and he was the first armored superhero. Just never given a very interesting personality or backstory.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2021 05:04 PM (KZzsI)

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The Black Sabbath song isn't about the Marvel character.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, figuring this whole time thing out with Nolan at January 15, 2021 05:05 PM (NWM+b)

272 Elections belong to the People, not voting software companies. They are hiding behind their "proprietary property" clauses. There shouldn't even be anything secret about them. "One plus one equals two" doesn't require state secrecy. "One plus one equals three" might.

Governments should not be able to farm out this most basic function. It allows private actors to claim freedom from public scrutiny while performing the most basic act of public policy.

Elections are the proprietary property of voters.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 15, 2021 05:05 PM (Ndje9)

273 I denounce myself for missing the Frank P[L]u[n]tz hairpiece thread.
Man, that's a bad piece. Just leave the badger alone Frank...

Posted by: Inogame - Trump won at January 15, 2021 05:05 PM (+2xjH)

274 Their products are poison, their bridges and buildings collapse, and throughout their society they are hiding trillions of dollars in bad debt. House of cards.

The pertinent question there is which house of cards will fall first?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 15, 2021 05:05 PM (W4eKo)

275 I remember web article in China they built 3 large city's, all the things a city needed and no one lived there. It was a big make work project. Was hard to believe most populous country on the planet had no people to put there but remember the ghost town pictures well.

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2021 05:05 PM (Cxk7w)

276 The Black Sabbath song isn't about the Marvel character.

Not intentionally, but everyone associated it with him. At least, everyone I knew did.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2021 05:06 PM (KZzsI)

277
I never knew that Sean was a Chinese name. Must be a member of the Oh Li Ari family.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 15, 2021 05:06 PM (EGyGV)

278 Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 05:03 PM (pO7gM)

For what it's worth, I agree with your analysis, but I am by no means a defamation expert, and am also kind of a moron.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 05:07 PM (UPoLF)

279 The Lt. Gov. of PA is saying that mentioning election fraud is not protected speech.

*****

Ironically enough though, saying that the horrid Ben Franklin Look-Alike Physician General of Pennsylvania is a woman IS protected speech.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 15, 2021 05:07 PM (m45I2)

280 "Powell's being sued. So she'll get to prove the fraud, right? Truth is a defense, after all.

And when she doesn't?
Posted by: ear with asymmetrical ballsb at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (H5knJ)"

It's likely to look like the courtroom scene from Idiocracy, so the truth won't matter anyways.

Posted by: there are only three star wars films at January 15, 2021 05:07 PM (EEVQU)

281 Blog break?

Posted by: irright at January 15, 2021 05:07 PM (SchQD)

282 Or maybe, juuust maybe, perhaps, we might've been mislead about Dominion?

If so they could have easily demonstrated it by allowing an audit performed by someone that wasn't in on stealing the election.

Posted by: Methos at January 15, 2021 05:07 PM (kOpft)

283 It's just old-style capitalism to unload your unsaleable crud off on Johnny Foreigner. Good for Disney for finding a gullible foreign mark willing to pay for their trash IP, sad for the Star Wars franchise that's come to this.

Posted by: All Just Part of the Plan at January 15, 2021 05:07 PM (dYe5S)

284 That's up to 25K and they are talking about more.
Posted by: WiNO

Seven Days In January
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 15, 2021 05:02 PM (63Dwl)

I can't figure out what the thinking is. Is it theater? Are they really panicked?

Posted by: WiNO at January 15, 2021 05:07 PM (T4RS9)

285 260 Christopher, You are referring to the Peter Zenger case and yes that played a part in the 1st Amendment drafting.

Zenger was a newspaper editor and published some not so flattering stories about the governor. He was being tried for seditious libel--that is a false statement that undermined people's confidence in the government under English law at the time. He asserted truth as a defense which I believe was not allowed in common law at the time. The jury though acquitted him despite the law.

Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 05:08 PM (pO7gM)

286 >>The Black Sabbath song isn't about the Marvel character.

>>Not intentionally, but everyone associated it with him. At least, everyone I knew did.

You didn't know any Sabbath Fans?

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2021 05:08 PM (BdgPA)

287 Fetterman in the flesh. Look at this junkie, er, Lt. Gov.

https://tinyurl.com/y4axmkcw

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 05:08 PM (qoNQ/)

288 I never thought Dominion as a company was behind anything, I think they just made a system that is very easy to cheat (probably with a wink and a nod), and well, people cheated. ...
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 05:05 PM (UPoLF)
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That is also entirely possible. In my first comment (which was rejected as spam, so I had to change it), I made a bigger point about "compromised systems." I think it is also entirely possible that the system are so leaky that they could be abused by someone(s) with knowledge. Also based only on behavior, the refuses of state Secretaries of State to permit auditing before the machines were purged points at the possibility of endpoint (as opposed to systemic) corruption. But whether they had inside knowledge is yet another question.

The whole thing - verification, the mail-in ballots, the counting, the machinery, the people running the machinery, the people selling the machinery, all of it - stinks to high heaven.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 15, 2021 05:08 PM (UZVEt)

289 "They told us to post this or we'll be sued into oblivion. So here, we're posting it."

Everything after that can legitimately be disregarded as ass-covering bullshit. Anyone who takes that as a true mea culpa is a fucking imbecile.

Posted by: Oldstoke at January 15, 2021 05:08 PM (sb+Cg)

290 255
For whatever it's worth, my considered opinion is that Communist China is going to implode economically. They can't steal enough wealth from the West fast enough to stave it off, particularly after their paid agents here have destroyed Western economies as instructed. Their thieving lying bullshit is something they inflict on each other, not just us. Their products are poison, their bridges and buildings collapse, and throughout their society they are hiding trillions of dollars in bad debt. House of cards.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

I think the fact that they have no brands of their own to speak of supports what you wrote. where are the Chinese brand electronics and cars?

Posted by: x at January 15, 2021 05:08 PM (0tE/i)

291 >>>Or maybe, juuust maybe, perhaps, we might've been mislead about Dominion? Maybe just a little? I know, that's crazy talk.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 15, 2021 04:58 PM (IbxQb)

=====

The first thing I thought before even reading the article is that I bet this is something that you think makes you look good.

Posted by: Swingin' for the downs at January 15, 2021 05:09 PM (SVRfQ)

292 Governments should not be able to farm out this most basic function. It allows private actors to claim freedom from public scrutiny while performing the most basic act of public policy.

Elections are the proprietary property of voters.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 15, 2021 05:05 PM (Ndje9)

I completely agree. There's no way to get around the trade secrets problem and the contracts signed between the municipalities and Dominion, and I completely get why Dominion makes them sign those contracts and works to hide their trade secrets and copyrighted software. Totally get it.

Which is why I think it's completely irresponsible for the US to be using private third party contractors to electronically run our elections. Either use paper ballots, or some kind of open source linux-like project if we *must* make elections electronic.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 05:09 PM (UPoLF)

293 "274 Their products are poison, their bridges and buildings collapse, and throughout their society they are hiding trillions of dollars in bad debt. House of cards.

The pertinent question there is which house of cards will fall first?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 15, 2021 05:05 PM (W4eKo)"

We're hiding trillions in bad debt, but the primary difference is that the Chinese have gamed their books to build infrastructure, stockpile strategic materials, and beef up their surveillance state, while we've mostly blown it on handouts and transfer payments. When the music stops, the PRC will be in a much, much better position than we are.

Posted by: there are only three star wars films at January 15, 2021 05:09 PM (EEVQU)

294 Hate speech, protected speech. To hear public officials throwing around these repugnant terms is sickening.

Posted by: JuJuBee at January 15, 2021 05:09 PM (GW6S8)

295 As I have previously posted, it won't be enough for you, the individual, to hear the Lie, you will be required to believe the Lie, you will be required to speak, to repeat it with your own voice.
No different than under Stalin. Stalin spoke and everyone in attendance was required to stand and applaud. Those who stopped applauding and sat down too soon were taken out and shot.

Posted by: navybrat, in the bunker at January 15, 2021 05:10 PM (w7KSn)

296 >>> 284 That's up to 25K and they are talking about more.
Posted by: WiNO

Seven Days In January
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 15, 2021 05:02 PM (63Dwl)

I can't figure out what the thinking is. Is it theater? Are they really panicked?
Posted by: WiNO at January 15, 2021 05:07 PM (T4RS9)

It's completely insane. Unless I see otherwise I'm going with pure psycho dick-waving....plus, the like the propaganda value of saying "Lookit how many troops we need to defend us from MUH INSURRECTIONISTS!!"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 15, 2021 05:11 PM (TK8Ry)

297 The whole thing - verification, the mail-in ballots, the counting, the machinery, the people running the machinery, the people selling the machinery, all of it - stinks to high heaven.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 15, 2021 05:08 PM (UZVEt)

It is absurd that our voting system is this byzantine. It makes absolutely no sense. Well, unless you are a conspiracy theorist and think it makes perfect sense if the goal is to make as many ways as possible for dishonest actors to cheat.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 05:11 PM (UPoLF)

298 242 bear, she does not have to "prove" anything. You reversed the burden here. The plaintiff, that is Dominion, must prove that her statements were false because she maliciously made them or had a reckless disregard for the truth.

From a shop perspective, Dominion's pleading is impressive. Just informed speculation at this point, but I suspect that it will be able to carry its burden and that Powell will need to present a defense. And even if she didn't have to do so, this is her opportunity to vindicate her reputation and prove the greatest conspiracy in American history. Wouldn't it be irresponsible not to?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 15, 2021 05:11 PM (H5knJ)

299 Christopher, You are referring to the Peter Zenger case and yes that played a part in the 1st Amendment drafting.

Yeah and jury nullification could go a long ways today again toward getting us justice.

Except, of course, the left would dox all the jurors and ruin not just them but the lawyer they listened to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2021 05:11 PM (KZzsI)

300 The first thing I thought before even reading the article is that I bet this is something that you think makes you look good.

*golf clap*

Posted by: Zombie Darth Mao at January 15, 2021 05:12 PM (W4eKo)

301 Whig, Powell's main advantage is that she understands litigation since she litigates. She may even, by now, have a fairly decent understanding of defamation law. You can't just scream "lawsuit" and scare her. The substantive problem is that we don't know what statements are literally, as made, wrong (i.e., false) and the issue is specific language -- you said X but it was really Y and Y is barely distinguishable from X, but it is not, literally, X. Then there's also the expense of hiring forensic experts.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 15, 2021 05:12 PM (KAi1n)

302 Amusingly however, we already know that this "inclusive" story will feature an exclusively Chinese sector of the galaxy.

Presumably it will also feature shitty driving.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 15, 2021 05:12 PM (YqDXo)

303 278, Harry, most people do not 'get' defamation nor 1st Amendment analysis. There is no way that Dominion can claim that it is not a public figure so NYT v. Sullivan more or less puts a court in a straight jacket. People do not get the idea that the person alleging defamation has the burden of proof because this is a civil case. And damn few plaintiff defamation cases ever meet the clear and convincing std. in a public figure case.

The assertion that Powell has to prove that her statements were true is simply not so as a matter of law. She can do that of course but not required.

Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 05:12 PM (pO7gM)

304 It's completely insane. Unless I see otherwise I'm going with pure psycho dick-waving....plus, the like the propaganda value of saying "Lookit how many troops we need to defend us from MUH INSURRECTIONISTS!!"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 15, 2021 05:11 PM

They're there by Trump's order.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at January 15, 2021 05:12 PM (2k7BX)

305 WELL WELL WELL

The election of Joe Biden continues to have magical effects:

Jefferson County (CO) schools to return to in-person learning January 25

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 15, 2021 05:13 PM (iTXRQ)

306 Those who stopped applauding and sat down too soon were taken out and shot.
Posted by: navybrat, in the bunker at January 15, 2021 05:10 PM (w7KSn)

If it's possible to commit suicide in a badass way then that would have been the way.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 15, 2021 05:13 PM (2DOZq)

307 While I don't agree with Brian's vocal defense of Dominion (see above for why - it all looks hinky as fuck to me), I do agree with him on one point: from the standpoint of challenging this immediate past election, it was a side show. There was more than enough evidence of outcome-changing fraud through traditional means like fraudulent ballots and various other red flags like the 4 AM vote dumps and huge number of Democrat president-only ballots to demonstrate how corrupt the election was.

I think Dominion was probably a problem, too, but that will take years or longer to prove because it's a very tough investigation with ephemeral information that has been purged by the SoSes. Dominion wasn't, however, necessary to prove out the fraud in 2020. Keep that in mind. Whether or not they were guilty or complicit, their input wasn't needed to pull off what the Dems did. It may well make it easier next time, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 15, 2021 05:13 PM (UZVEt)

308 Lucas has been anti American forever

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 15, 2021 05:13 PM (C61pD)

309 Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is a lying, steaming pile of actual shit. How can actual shit lie? I don't know. Don't bug me.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey -- Brooklyn Gun Nut at January 15, 2021 05:13 PM (fhGNb)

310 So I did a quick search to find out what the schedule for Trumps departure from Andrews is on Monday and my choice was AP Yahoo or USA Today. I chose USA Today and was actually laughing at the end of it. The entire article is just one falsehood after another with the obligatory sources said thrown in. Did you know that on the 6th Pence refused Trumps demand he overturn the election by throwing out electors votes and so Trump whipped up the mob-actual quote-who then went to the Capitol and violently trashed the place. It was amazing the start to end bullshit it contained.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 15, 2021 05:13 PM (ya2Ex)

311 It's completely insane. Unless I see otherwise I'm going with pure psycho dick-waving....plus, the like the propaganda value of saying "Lookit how many troops we need to defend us from MUH INSURRECTIONISTS!!"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 15, 2021 05:11 PM (TK8Ry)

Yes. It's theater/propaganda. The presence of troops will be cited as irrefutable proof of the threat of violence from Trump supporters. And the lack of violence from Trump supporters will likewise be cited as irrefutable proof of the necessity of such troops to prevent said violence.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 15, 2021 05:14 PM (nakwk)

312 "where are the Chinese brand electronics?"

Not addressing the likely massive IP theft etc involved, and not talking consumer-level brands, but, um, Huawei?

I know everything's going to be fine and we'll get 'em next season and "but the mid-terms!!!!", but - let's see if Trump's hitherto very successful and daunting jihad against Huawei evaporates like many of his other important accomplishments under the vandalism of the idiot children about to take power.

UK might be OK, the remarkably feckless BoJo might have no options, enough people in the country have a grudge agin' China over C19, and even much of the elected political class was on the verge of revolt over the issue (Huawei as part of the 5G backbone).

Germany, let's see. Huawei in the 5G, and possibly a resurrected Nordstream gas line with RUSSIA!!!!!!!!!, among the disasters that the American people (one way or another) have just invited on the world.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 15, 2021 05:14 PM (OTzUX)

313 Or maybe, juuust maybe, perhaps, we might've been mislead about Dominion?

Anyone reasonable and sane has to entertain the possibility. Anyone informed and who has been studying this knows that possibility is infinitesimal. The evidence is overwhelming that there was systematic, wide-spread fraud and only a colossal fool or someone in support of the fraud would argue otherwise, if they knew all the facts.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2021 05:14 PM (KZzsI)

314 American Thinker published aninteresting statement a couple hours ago:

https://tinyurl.com/y3trtzl5

Folded faster than Superman on laundry day. So every conservative media outlet is now buying "the steal didn't happen." At least we know who we cannot trust.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (qoNQ/)
************
Really... this is frightening. It's like they're some kind of captured POW with a gun to their head.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 15, 2021 05:14 PM (NpAcC)

315 Taiwan has lots of ladies to poach.

Posted by: Max Power at January 15, 2021 05:14 PM (Hucnr)

316 Back to below: 'Everything Is Broken' on TABLET Magazine is a perfect example of Scripts Run Amuck.

It's a text read, coders get over it leave it alone.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2021 05:15 PM (CZm2G)

317 R2D2's social score is too low so he gets melted down to make iPhones manufactured by Wookie slaves.

Posted by: Landofskybluewater at January 15, 2021 05:15 PM (Geoni)

318 Dominion would file suit in a deep blue city, guaranteeing a sympathetic jury. Now, you would think that an appellate court or, if it made it there, the Supreme Court would overturn on constitutional grounds. I'm not so sure anymore.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2021 05:15 PM (kTF2Z)

319 SFGoth, I realize that but people are putting the burden of proof on Powell when it is on Dominion.

I am too lazy today to pull up my Westlaw account but Ventura v. Kyle was about the only recent one in my memory that was successful.

Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 05:15 PM (pO7gM)

320 >>How can actual shit lie?

Never trust a turd.
That goes double for the one in my pants, Fat.

That could be anyone's!

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 15, 2021 05:15 PM (BdgPA)

321 Just relocate what's left of Hollywood to China and call it Shanghaiwood.

Half of it has already relocated to Bollywood where they make musicals and fun movies.

Posted by: President Elect Decaf at January 15, 2021 05:15 PM (hpVf/)

322 >>Fetterman in the flesh. Look at this junkie, er, Lt. Gov.

Nice prison pussy. I hope it gets used as such someday.

Posted by: Fly at January 15, 2021 05:15 PM (RbGtT)

323 -
Yes. It's theater/propaganda. The presence of
troops will be cited as irrefutable proof of the threat of violence from
Trump supporters. And the lack of violence from Trump supporters will
likewise be cited as irrefutable proof of the necessity of such troops
to prevent said violence.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 15, 2021 05:14 PM
--

Bingo

Posted by: irright at January 15, 2021 05:15 PM (SchQD)

324 Rich from RLM > Mike from RLM > George Lucas, portrayed faithfully by Rich from RLM

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 15, 2021 05:16 PM (C61pD)

325 There is no way that Dominion can claim that it is not a public figure so NYT v. Sullivan more or less puts a court in a straight jacket.

In a new world where the Supreme Court can claim that its most basic duty of acting as arbiter between the states is not applicable to an election... anything is possible.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2021 05:16 PM (KZzsI)

326 New York City sucks dick. I'm stuck here for at least one more year... then off to Florida. Which will also suck dick because of all the commie cockroaches moving from New York City.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey -- Brooklyn Gun Nut at January 15, 2021 05:17 PM (fhGNb)

327 Folded faster than Superman on laundry day. So every conservative media outlet is now buying "the steal didn't happen." At least we know who we cannot trust.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (qoNQ/)

I've been arguing with Clarice Feldman elsewhere about those gutless cowards raising the white flag. The Founders would shake their heads.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 15, 2021 05:17 PM (y7DUB)

328 >>>>Nothing untoward was done by anyone!! The election was completely above board. You've done your work here. We all believe you!! You can go now.

How many sarc tags do I need to put?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 15, 2021 04:50 PM (VP4Cd)

HAHA!!! You curb stomped that little weasel.

Posted by: Max Power at January 15, 2021 05:18 PM (Hucnr)

329 Yes. It's theater/propaganda. The presence of troops will be cited as irrefutable proof of the threat of violence from Trump supporters. And the lack of violence from Trump supporters will likewise be cited as irrefutable proof of the necessity of such troops to prevent said violence.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 15, 2021 05:14 PM (nakwk)

Except for the most rabid Dems, it looks insane to everyone. These were the same people letting several cities burn. A mild walk into the Capitol with a few Antifa thugs and it requires tens of thousands of troops.

Posted by: WiNO at January 15, 2021 05:18 PM (T4RS9)

330 Wow? OT - NRA files bankruptcy chapter 11:

https://archive.is/rzM0s

Reuters article archived so you're not giving them one thin dime.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 15, 2021 05:18 PM (L8ADy)

331 318 Dominion would file suit in a deep blue city, guaranteeing a sympathetic jury. Now, you would think that an appellate court or, if it made it there, the Supreme Court would overturn on constitutional grounds. I'm not so sure anymore.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2021 05:15 PM (kTF2Z)
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We're not going to be free again until all the server farms over amp.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2021 05:18 PM (CZm2G)

332 We're hiding trillions in bad debt, but the primary difference is that the Chinese have gamed their books to build infrastructure, stockpile strategic materials, and beef up their surveillance state, while we've mostly blown it on handouts and transfer payments. When the music stops, the PRC will be in a much, much better position than we are.

I guess that was my point. Their culture can absorb misery for a lot longer than we are capable of. They've been conditioned to do so. We have gone batshit crazy over a virus and the solution proposed to avoid misery is to spend, spend and spend some more. It is no longer even remotely sustainable.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 15, 2021 05:18 PM (W4eKo)

333 weighted' voting was turned ON in the registry

Whatever happened with the Indian guy with the straight party vs individual votes by precinct size graphs that were obviously code at work?

Posted by: DaveA at January 15, 2021 05:18 PM (FhXTo)

334 318 Duke,
Most public figure defamation cases are decided by summary judgment of a judge who determines whether the plaintiff made a prima facie case of meeting the clear and convincing std. required by law along with the other elements required by law.

Even Gen. Westmoreland v. CBS ended up being settled and he had a relatively strong case.

Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 05:19 PM (pO7gM)

335 >>New York City sucks dick. I'm stuck here for at least one more year... then off to Florida.

At least you ca go to Jackbar and flip.

Posted by: garrett at January 15, 2021 05:19 PM (BdgPA)

336 Yes. It's theater/propaganda. The presence of
troops will be cited as irrefutable proof of the threat of violence from Trump supporters. And the lack of violence from Trump supporters will likewise be cited as irrefutable proof of the ecessity of such troops to prevent said violence.

Posted by: Insomniac

***

The proverbial self-licking ice cream cone.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 15, 2021 05:19 PM (m45I2)

337 Yes. It's theater/propaganda. The presence of
troops will be cited as irrefutable proof of the threat of violence from
Trump supporters. And the lack of violence from Trump supporters will
likewise be cited as irrefutable proof of the necessity of such troops
to prevent said violence.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 15, 2021 05:14 PM
--
Bingo
Posted by: irright at January 15, 2021 05:15 PM

I buy that up to a point ...say, 5000 troops. That would be a very impressive and respectable showing for the above. But 25K and counting? Nah. Doesn't make sense.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at January 15, 2021 05:19 PM (2k7BX)

338 Our elites are destroying our civilization and practically handing it over to the Huns (the Han dynasty).

Posted by: President Elect Decaf at January 15, 2021 05:19 PM (hpVf/)

339 I don't recall any Dominion issues being a significant part, or part at all, of the voluminous exhibits (evidence) presented in the main 5 Trump election lawsuits (federal).

It's literally not where the action was/is, WRT this election, whatever may come out over time.

That almost literally nothing was done, by courts or legislatures, despite the massive (and in some cases obvious) evidence cited above, is the essence of the national collapse here. Congress of course had to smear itself with the same stain, just so the failure would be comprehensive.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 15, 2021 05:19 PM (OTzUX)

340 Nothing untoward was done by anyone!! The election was completely above board. You've done your work here. We all believe you!! You can go now. How many sarc tags do I need to put?

Well done.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 15, 2021 05:20 PM (W4eKo)

341 Lucas has been anti American forever

Posted by: BourbonChicken

---

I'm envisioning an image of the US Constitution with a big red stamp across it marked "American Graffiti" as its future.

But yeah, a headstone would be more appropriate ...

Posted by: ShainS at January 15, 2021 05:20 PM (pubRs)

342 Ahh, the Stalin bell. Seems like we're heading that way.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 15, 2021 05:21 PM (KAi1n)

343 American Thinker published aninteresting statement a couple hours ago:

https://tinyurl.com/y3trtzl5

Folded faster than Superman on laundry day. So every conservative media outlet is now buying "the steal didn't happen." At least we know who we cannot trust.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 15, 2021 04:47 PM (qoNQ/)
************
Really... this is frightening. It's like they're some kind of captured POW with a gun to their head.
Posted by: redridinghood

We're there eyelid blinking Morse code when they types that

Posted by: Jean at January 15, 2021 05:21 PM (Xih1H)

344 325 Christopher, not really. That would mean open season on the left because they dominate the media. At the end of the day, the media would reluctantly side with Powell because they would be extinct with their practices since Sullivan if that was not allowed.

She would win unless Dominion can prove its case but the litigation costs could be enormous.

Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 05:21 PM (pO7gM)

345 Those mutha fukkas should just move to the China if they want some sweet sweet china profit

freaking asschina

Posted by: will choose a nic later at January 15, 2021 05:21 PM (r4bSV)

346 Wow? OT - NRA files bankruptcy chapter 11:

They should sell Wayne LaPierre into slavery for part of the debt.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 15, 2021 05:22 PM (yQpMk)

347 Simple logic as well as statistical probabilities tells you Joe Biden did not get 82 million votes.

No way , no how.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 15, 2021 05:22 PM (2DOZq)

348 Anyone reasonable and sane has to entertain the possibility. Anyone informed and who has been studying this knows that possibility is infinitesimal. The evidence is overwhelming that there was systematic, wide-spread fraud and only a colossal fool or someone in support of the fraud would argue otherwise, if they knew all the facts.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2021 05:14 PM (KZzsI)

I'll agree.

But please replace "wide spread" with "consequential".

Don't fall for the narrative.

Posted by: golfman at January 15, 2021 05:22 PM (hOMhY)

349 In a new world where the Supreme Court can claim that its most basic duty of acting as arbiter between the states is not applicable to an election... anything is possible.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 15, 2021 05:16 PM (KZzsI)

I'm not surprised they punted on that one. In fact, I predicted it. The court wasn't even really wrong in saying that TX did not have standing re: how PA passes its election laws. NYT v. Sullivan, though, is one of those big cases that every law school student reads, every lawyer is familiar with, and I can't imagine the court overturning it or even trying to distinguish it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 05:22 PM (UPoLF)

350
I think the fact that they have no brands of their own to speak of supports what you wrote. where are the Chinese brand electronics and cars?
Posted by: x

Look at their military gear. Virtually everything is a shitty knockoff of Russian or Western gear. And the Chinese can't build a reliable jet or turbine engine to save their life. Which is why their sooper-dooper J-20 stealth fighter is a dog of an aircraft, as well as the sooper-dooper Z-10 attack helicopter.

The same problem plagues their J-15 naval fighter (a stolen copy of the Sukhoi Su-33), which is so underpowered that it can barely launch from their knockoff Russian-design carriers, much less carry enough ordnance to be a credible threat. The J-15 is so bad that the Chinese navy had to radically scale back their plans for the carrier program, because it would be a waste of money without a decent naval fighter.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 15, 2021 05:22 PM (EGyGV)

351 Just got my full size repro print of Chairman Mao from my good friend Harold Ford Jr.

The staff are hanging it the bathroom so I can gaze upon it as I bathe in the liquefied estrogen of my soy boi donors.

Posted by: Kath-Leen Qenn-Edy at January 15, 2021 05:23 PM (786Ro)

352 Fen, that was a shanking that would make bluebell proud.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2021 05:23 PM (kTF2Z)

353 VPN connections from Canada (Toronto, BC, Alberta) seem to work ok here for a while.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey -- Brooklyn Gun Nut at January 15, 2021 05:23 PM (fhGNb)

354 Wow? OT - NRA files bankruptcy chapter 11:

https://archive.is/rzM0s

Reuters article archived so you're not giving them one thin dime.

It sounds like this has to do with the NY lawsuit. They want to move everything out of NY state.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 15, 2021 05:24 PM (jOcSX)

355 Michigan county proved it was crooked.

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2021 05:24 PM (Cxk7w)

356 Re. The NRA Bankrupcy: expect a sizable influx of members for GOA in the near future.

Posted by: Jackal at January 15, 2021 05:24 PM (yicZh)

357 Posted by: Kath-Leen Qenn-Edy at January 15, 2021 05:23 PM (786Ro)

lol

Posted by: Marcus Gravey -- Brooklyn Gun Nut at January 15, 2021 05:24 PM (fhGNb)

358 What I want to know is, when the Democrats look out upon the 20,000 or so armed troops in Washington DC now, do they say to themselves,

"What was that General Order 66 thingy in that Star wars movie ?"

Posted by: Ssmls at January 15, 2021 05:24 PM (nKPgU)

359 I buy that up to a point ...say, 5000 troops. That would be a very impressive and respectable showing for the above. But 25K and counting? Nah. Doesn't make sense.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones

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The Dems ALWAYS GO BIG and then go home. Our side always bend over and just stay there ...

Posted by: ShainS at January 15, 2021 05:25 PM (pubRs)

360 They should sell Wayne LaPierre into slavery for part of the debt.

Those $10K suits are the gift that keeps on givin'.

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at January 15, 2021 05:25 PM (W4eKo)

361 American Thinker is my go to every morning, they have been solid even through today.

Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2021 05:25 PM (Cxk7w)

362 354 Wow? OT - NRA files bankruptcy chapter 11:

https://archive.is/rzM0s

Reuters article archived so you're not giving them one thin dime.

It sounds like this has to do with the NY lawsuit. They want to move everything out of NY state.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 15, 2021 05:24 PM (jOcSX)

===

They were morons for not doing that years ago.

Posted by: Jackal at January 15, 2021 05:25 PM (yicZh)

363 The Dems ALWAYS GO BIG and then go home. Our side always bend over and just stay there ...
Posted by: ShainS at January 15, 2021 05:25 PM

The troops are not a Dem operation.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at January 15, 2021 05:26 PM (2k7BX)

364 I buy that up to a point ...say, 5000 troops. That would be a very impressive and respectable showing for the above. But 25K and counting? Nah. Doesn't make sense.
Posted by: one of the quiet ones at January 15, 2021 05:19 PM (2k7BX)

Yeah we're at the point where the military force in DC is, you know, the size of an occupying army.

Fucking bizarre.

Not to mention the Metro police, capitol police, park police, secret service, FBI, ATF, etc. etc. etc.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 05:26 PM (UPoLF)

365 I am too lazy today to pull up my Westlaw account
but Ventura v. Kyle was about the only recent one in my memory that was
successful.
Posted by: whig

LOL, my Westlaw account only has CA state access.
I'm guessing that Dominion will cite judgments against vote fraud as meeting their initial burden, but yeah, as some say, "where's the lawsuit?" Ok, here it is.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 15, 2021 05:26 PM (KAi1n)

366 All the evidence you saw with your own eyes... Never mind. Hey look, Bobby Ewing is back and he's taking a shower...

Posted by: klaftern at January 15, 2021 05:26 PM (RuIsu)

367 N O O D

Posted by: Beijing Biden at January 15, 2021 05:26 PM (LilNs)

368 NRA
@NRA

BREAKING NEWS:
@NRA
Dumps New York to Reincorporate in Texas, Announces New Strategic Plan

"This is a transformational moment in the history of the NRA," says NRA CEO & EVP Wayne LaPierre.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 15, 2021 05:27 PM (NpAcC)

369 but, um, Huawei?
Posted by: rhomboid

not quite as impressive as Japan's lineup of brands

and Huawei's brand is "huge trust issues"

Posted by: x at January 15, 2021 05:27 PM (0tE/i)

370 339 rhomboid, it is technical but look up adjudication of votes and logging issue which is done via Dominion software. There is another, that the Data Integrity Group picked up on which was the data feed between county servers and Scytel vote reporting servers which then fed Edison (media) and SOS office results. There was demonstrated that the data feed was corrupt. That was raised in several state legislative hearings. The reason that it was not a primary claim is that most states have laws on election challenges that require an apparently valid claim that more illegal votes were cast than the margin of victory. It is not that the challenger won but that there is no way to tell who won. Thus, it is easy through datamining to determine if a voter moved out of state, if a voter voted out of county, was underage at the time of the vote, was excluded from voting due to felon, civil committal for mental issues, or non-citizen, and so forth. Then you get to cases like WI where the two counties, Dane and the one Milwaukee is in, classified people as shutins illegally in order to send them a ballot, in GA, ballot drop boxes violated state laws versus chain of custody, and so on.

Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 05:28 PM (pO7gM)

371 Just got my full size repro print of Chairman Mao from my good friend Harold Ford Jr.

The staff are hanging it the bathroom so I can gaze upon it as I bathe in the liquefied estrogen of my soy boi donors.
Posted by: Kath-Leen Qenn-Edy at January 15, 2021 05:23 PM (786Ro)

It's a ANDY WARHOL!!

AND HES JUST RENTING THE PLACE.

Posted by: DISINFORMATION CENTRAL at January 15, 2021 05:28 PM (hOMhY)

372 It's kinda funny. Whenever I buy something, I find out where it's made. First question: Is it made in China. Most specifically, mainland China. If it is, I move on and find an equivalent product made pretty much anywhere else in the world, America/Canada being top choice. Not the designed in America/Made by China gambit either. Actual North American hands/assets putting it all together. Or other, non-Chinese slave labor hands.

So now, for media of any sort, I'm going to have to start asking and investigating: Is it from China? Not shlocky kung fu sense of the notion, but is the Corporation assembling this production heavily invested in China? Do they outsource production there? Do they cow to overseas tyranny and play a bipolar game of freedom here in America (for promotional purposes) and then censor content to appease investment masters overseas? IOW is their product Western-world dominated or is it contaminated in the assembly line by CCP inputs and influences?

It's going to have to be another measure of due diligence on my part since corporate masters don't believe in it unless it has yen (or worse) attached to it. Is your movie/song/media wrapped by China? No sale.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 15, 2021 05:28 PM (HhXSr)

373 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 15, 2021 05:22 PM (UPoLF)M

So you disagree with Thomas and Alito on Texas standing ?

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 15, 2021 05:28 PM (2DOZq)

374 Ummm, Trump may not be the only one who can order troops into D.C., at least not from a fait accompli standpoint.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 15, 2021 05:29 PM (KAi1n)

375 I'm not a lawyer. Then again, the constitution is not a lengthy or particularly complicated document. SCOTUS could have had the hearings and then ruled against Texas. What they can't do, according to article 3, is simply decline to hear it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 15, 2021 05:29 PM (kTF2Z)

376 364 yeah we're at the point where the military force in DC is, you know, the size of an occupying army.

Most of whom probably hate the guy's guts

Posted by: Ssmls at January 15, 2021 05:29 PM (nKPgU)

377 I'm guessing they won't be landing the ship anywhere near the enforced labor camps or child slave labor camps? Repulsive, the stench of communism drips off the elites.

Posted by: Rose at January 15, 2021 05:29 PM (f/Wek)

378 I remember reading years ago that the CCP kept something like 70% of box office receipts. So I never knew why there was a push to expand into China. Except for when your business model consists of actively trying to alienate your original fan base.

Posted by: Dr. Darth Randall at January 15, 2021 05:29 PM (iWCRg)

379 I buy that up to a point ...say, 5000 troops. That would be a very impressive and respectable showing for the above. But 25K and counting? Nah. Doesn't make sense.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones

-----

The Dems ALWAYS GO BIG and then go home. Our side always bend over and just stay there ...
Posted by: ShainS at January 15, 2021 05:25 PM (pubRs)

That's my take. A bunch of them got together and kept upping the numbers. Or they do expect us to storm the Capitol. In that case, they don't have enough and I figure they would have loyalty problems.

Posted by: WiNO at January 15, 2021 05:29 PM (T4RS9)

380 Whig and rhomboid are having an internet discussion. Is that like crossing the streams?

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 15, 2021 05:30 PM (2DOZq)

381 Oh, and the retainer any even 2nd-tier law firm will demand will be quite substantial.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 15, 2021 05:32 PM (KAi1n)

382 SCOTUS eliminated independent states sovereignty.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 15, 2021 05:32 PM (CZm2G)

383 I remember being a kid in the 70s and 80s. Vote results were reported real quick, night of for hell's sake. Those old mechanical voting booths. Now there's fantastically advanced computerized balloting systems that can't be verified for weeks, counting needs to be shut down so people can go home and rest so the vote counters can count votes. How does a technocracy with New Fancy claim to be better than the super basic process that preceded it?

Posted by: Biden's Puddin' at January 15, 2021 05:35 PM (LU4JE)

384 The whole thing - verification, the mail-in ballots, the counting, the machinery, the people running the machinery, the people selling the machinery, all of it - stinks to high heaven.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 15, 2021 05:08 PM (UZVEt)

You'll never know for sure, because you have no standing. And since you'll never know for sure
SHUT UP, serf

Posted by: Judges, Reporters, D's, CCCP at January 15, 2021 05:37 PM (z79tQ)

385 btw, the same computer system run in many states thwarts the Framers decentralization of power--as does nationwide Fraud-by-Mail.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 15, 2021 05:43 PM (Ndje9)

386 bear, if you are still here,
Trials are relatively rare in such matters because Dominion must assert as a matter of law that its evidence is likely to prevail while Powell will assert and counter file that her statements were reasonable and were not a result of malicious knowingly false statements or a reckless disregard of the truth. The judge will then issue either permission for the trial to go forward or a summary dismissal as a matter of law. A dismissal decision can then be appealed to a higher court before any trial is scheduled by either party unless they agree to proceed. And then there is bench vs. jury trial, proper jurisidiction to hear the case which is complicated in diversity cases (Dominion hq is in Denver, dunno where Powell's residence is, and so on).

Dominion must put its best foot forward in initial pleadings because it has the burden at law of meeting the threshold for a case to proceed. We will see what Powell's reply shall be but never assume from one brief how strong a case may be.

Posted by: whig at January 15, 2021 05:43 PM (pO7gM)

387
"This is a transformational moment in the history of the NRA," says NRA CEO & EVP Wayne LaPierre.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 15, 2021 05:27 PM (NpAcC)

Wayne? He still runs the show regardless of his title, don't he? Kinda like Putin in Russia.
It'll be interesting to see the hot takes on this.
I'm not a fan of Wayne.

Posted by: Judges, Reporters, D's, CCCP at January 15, 2021 05:43 PM (z79tQ)

388 The villains in Chinese Communist cinema, if they are Chinese, are Taiwanese. In spy movies with a hidden enemy agent conspiracy, they are unmasked Taiwanese.

Considering that the midget homunculus George Lucas has revealed that the evil empire in Star Wars represented the United States, and the plucky rebels the Viet Cong, and woke sequels promote emasculating weakening of our society, this kind of communist knob gobbling is what the franchise has always been about in the mind of the creator.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 15, 2021 04:53 PM (xku86)

Don't believe Lucas' lies. The Empire was always half Rome, half Nazi Germany. Rome liked to crush rebellions to deter the others (see the razing of Corinth, Carthage, Jerusalem et al) and the Germans donated the helmets and slick uniforms.

His worlds are paper thin, and nobody has really been able to deepen them, hence the repetition of plots, villians, and stories.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 15, 2021 05:44 PM (eoQWY)

389 The sidebar link about the Lucasfilm civil war was also an interesting read. I don't follow Star Wars stuff all that closely but I'm going to ass-ume that since that giant retcon of all the third-party material that people actually liked (Admiral Thrawn books, various video games, etc.) happened at about the same time the movies started rolling out, that it was also that work of Ms. Kennedy and her SJWish harem.

Posted by: CppThis at January 15, 2021 06:18 PM (zcf1k)

390 It's a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. There are no Chinese, no African American, no American no Hispanic or any other earth-based ethnic groups. None of those groups exist at that time and in that place!

It's all CGI anyway so make each character a different color. Pull a crayon at random out of the Crayola 64 and there you go.

Posted by: JB1000 at January 15, 2021 06:22 PM (lV9Tz)

391 Just because Disnaey won't translate it into English doesn't mean someone else who isn't enterprising will not. And maybe then we'll see what else Disney is doing to a beloved story.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 15, 2021 06:23 PM (M7K2y)

392 Rep. Greene (R.-Georgia) is filing articles of impeachment against China Joe on day 1. The circus is just getting started! 2021 is gonna be lit🔥.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 15, 2021 06:24 PM (lRlNr)

393 216 Lucas changes his story every damned time someone talks to him. He's either pulling everyone's chain, is so dumb he can't remember, or just is one of those guys who lies like other people breathe.

I think George Lucas just lives inside his own head. A while back one of the superfans managed to corner him at a public event over the whole Han-shot-first thing, and his response was something along the lines of "it's my reality so I get to change it whenever I want to."

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