Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

The majority opinion was very clear that discriminations against LBGTQ+ for essential services is prohibited.  So this opinion expressly does not open the floodgates to hotel, job and restaurant discriminations.  In fact, this case is tightly limited to instances where creative speech protected by the first amendment conflicts with the general 14th amendment equal protection laws. 

Rod, do you think a black web designer should be forced by the state to create a web page when asked by a white supremacism group?  Do you think a Jewish web designer should be forced by the state to create a web page for a Nazi group if asked?  I don't.  (I get it that Nazi's and whites are not a protected class, but this is not a legal point, it is a point designed to help you see it from the web designer's point of view.)

This case is about free speech, and the Court was very firm that speech can not be coerced by the state.   Bravo.    Jim

"...to help you see it from the web designer's point of view.)"
Whereas I'm glad you point out for the cons that the examples you've given are not a protected class and "not a legal point", I think it's you that sees it differently from the web designer's point of view. I think you genuinely see it from an altruistic point of view whereas I suspect the web designer in question does not. Otherwise, you would not have a concocted story behind the legal crusade that precipitated it. I suspect the whole charade was calculated as part and parcel to the relatively recent uprising against a targeted group by the Republican party as a political move to motivate its base and advance its right wing agenda by using conservative members of SCOTUS to do their bidding for them. The GOP party generally functions by creating boogeymen to be afraid of and, in this case, they've targeted a vulnerable community to serve their purpose in doing so. This is the same party that thrives on conspiracy theories of our kids becoming indoctrinated in schools by the group in question, by promoting deep state conspiracy based upon allegations without evidence, and by promoting an imaginary war on woke depending upon the GOP candidate one happens to list to on any given day.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

The resident communist claims this conspiracy theory he just created above:

Otherwise, you would not have a concocted story behind the legal crusade that precipitated it. cxI suspect the whole charade was calculated as part and parcel to the relatively recent uprising against a targeted group by the Republican party as a political move to motivate its base and advance its right wing agenda by using conservative members of SCOTUS to do their bidding for them

Then in a stroke of amazing irony/hypocrisy, he makes charges that Republicans are creating and concocting conspiracy theories, as he imagines here: 

"This is the same party that thrives on conspiracy theories of our kids becoming indoctrinated in schools"

You can't make it up folks!   LOL

Our resident Dick takes sentences out of context, strings them together, and viola! and yet again concocts his own version of reality.
Let's look at the facts from ABC News:
"The words "pedophilia," "grooming" and "child abuse" have also been tossed around by conservative figures and legislators in the debate about LGBTQ content, inclusion and treatment in schools."
"Some Republicans seem to be resurfacing these false stereotypes as a political tool to rile up their base and further marginalize LGBTQ people, experts say."
"The focus, the experts say, echoes the language used by the far-right conspiracy theory of QAnon, which promulgates the false notion that there is a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophile power players who control the government."
"It's yet another opportunity to exploit people who are feared, because they actually may obtain power," said Susan Englander, historian at San Francisco State University."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/republicans-false-pedophilia-claims-attack-democrats-lgbtq-people/story?id=84344687

So, this is in fact, how and what Republicans are doing and not a conspiracy theory on my part...

Originally Posted by James Lacey

The problem seems to be Jim that Rich believes his hyperbole; in other words, to him, it's not an exaggeration at all; it's reality. No way we can pierce that kind of distorted worldview.

I'd modify that to state he believes the hyperbole he reads on any of the right wing websites or audio sites he reads or listens to that forms the alternate reality of daily life for all of them...

Speaking of buying votes, it appears some members of the forum forgot the covid relief checks that Trump insisted bear his signature...

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

So then when every Democrat in Congress pushed for MORE Covid relief, then you're beating down everyone in your Marxist Democrat party as engaging in a scheme to buy votes, correct?  

Glad we cleared that up, that you are of the mindset that your Dems can't stop engaging in Vote buying schemes.  

I don't know that every democrat pushed for more covid relief but if they did, it was at a time when it was needed. That said, they didn't want their names on the checks...

Originally Posted by James Brown

No doubt, but he didn't buy enough votes!    

Well according to him, and probably the resident dick as well, he did because he said he won the election...

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

The Resident communist claimed that I said Trump won the election.  

Didn't say anything of the sort.  You might want to get your facts straight.  

The resident dick omitted the fact that I stated "probably" rather than "actually" but, considering he generally supports Trump and also posts on any suspected/perceived cases of voter fraud, other than the most common source in the 2020 presidential election, that being republican voter fraud, it follows that he could be expected to follow the party line...

Looks like the quote button isn't working again, but, really, who wants to read dick's poop again?
The nonsense about firing the Ukrainian prosecutor, for example, has been covered ad nauseum and the actual  reason is because that particular prosecutor refused to investigate corruption in his own country and that was an international demand and not only from the US. 
As for the rest, we, like the GOP, are still waiting for evidence of these allegations. It's noteworthy that the right wing extremists in the house who want to impeach Biden because he hasn't built a wall on the border but not because of the unfounded allegations put forth by Comer, Grassley and the rest because they all grudegly acknowledge there's no evidence...

https://www.ft.com/content/e1454ace-e61b-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/03/what-really-happened-when-biden-forced-out-ukraines-top-prosecutor/3785620002/

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I asked which EU nation was responsible as you claimed.  

Name the country.  It was achieved by Biden when he bragged about getting Shokin fired.  

So I'll wait for your evidence.  I've already read the spin given by the leftist rags you linked as I've read that assertion given by USA today.  

I would like country names please since You made the claim.  

I'll check back.  I'll expect your regular failure.  

Also, I asked for 10 sources since you made the claim that it was covered and covered all over the place ad nauseum.  

I don't have to jump through your hoops to satisfy the like of you since it should be obvious, other than to an obtuse moron,  that the prior sources I've cited (Financial Times & USA Today) didn't make up their stories but try Britain, Ukraine and:
"But there is a long list of Western organizations, governments, and diplomats, as well as Ukrainian anti-corruption groups, that wanted to see Shokin fired."
"They include the International Monetary Fund, the European Union, the U.S. government, foreign investors, and Ukrainian advocates of reform."
https://www.rferl.org/a/why-was-ukraine-top-prosecutor-fired-viktor-shokin/30181445.html
It's like a dick to post a deflection like he did with the where's your outrage over Kavanaugh being targeted schtick. Well, it wasn't because of Schumer or a president going on social media and listing his address.
Leave it to the resident dick: earning his name on any given day...