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Derek Elrod retweeted
Hey @Lakers , I think you need to hook this couple up with some complimentary court side tickets for the Lakers game of their choosing.
Who else agrees?
Derek Elrod retweeted
To say the very least on this, the congressman is incorrect on the law.
Two-party consent is relevant only to private oral conversations, and he has zero expectation of privacy here.
1st Amendment gives you the right to record public officials in public places as long as you're not interfering with their official duties.
Derek Elrod retweeted
"we got an anonymous phone call so you don't have rights anymore." Is a massive problem in the US. We have such a police state at this point that some random from the internet can swat anyone or petition a restraining order that directly disenfranchises an actual citizen.
Every person seeking public office should be asked one clear question: Will you support codifying the end of qualified immunity?
If the answer is no, we should spend every waking hour and every available dollar making sure they lose. @LackLusterYT
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Derek Elrod retweeted
This is an insane story. CPS said that Buttigieg couldn't be alone with his kids, and conducted a "forensic interview" with his four-year-olds, solely because of an anonymous caller's claim that someone else had told them Buttigieg told him many years ago that he had committed crimes. Abysmally bad judgment by the cops and CPS.
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.
Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. substack.com/home/post/p-203…
Derek Elrod retweeted
Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:
“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.
Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.
Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”
It’s deeply ironic that SNL treats breaking character like a cardinal sin when every single "Top 10 Sketches of All Time" list is just actors fighting for their lives trying to keep a straight face.
Derek Elrod retweeted
many people over estimate the consequences of trying something sloppy and failing and underestimate the probability of trying something sloppy and succeeding
Derek Elrod retweeted
Peter Thiel: If you graduated in 1970 with no student debt, compare that to the millennial experience: too many people go to college, they don’t learn anything, and they end up with incredibly burdensome debt. Student debt is a version of this generational conflict that I’ve talked about for a long time.
The rupture of the generational compact isn’t limited to student debt, either. I think you can reduce 80 percent of culture wars to questions of economics—like a libertarian or a Marxist would—and then you can reduce maybe 80 percent of economic questions to questions of real estate.
It’s extremely difficult these days for young people to become homeowners. If you have extremely strict zoning laws and restrictions on building more housing, it’s good for the boomers, whose properties keep going up in value, and terrible for the millennials. If you proletarianize the young people, you shouldn’t be surprised if they eventually become communist.”
Derek Elrod retweeted
The U.S. should not be blowing up boats without even knowing who’s on them.
There’s no due process in that — no names, no evidence, no oversight.
I’ll be co-sponsoring a War Powers resolution to make sure military action abroad has congressional approval. We can’t drift into another regime-change war. @BloombergTV
Derek Elrod retweeted
The Republican controlled Senate used the nuclear option today to override the 60 vote rule in order to confirm over 100 Trump nominees, yet continues to claim Democrats are causing the shutdown.
Spoiler alert, the Republicans in the Senate can also use the nuclear option to reopen the government and override the Democrats just like they literally did today to confirm Trump nominees.
yahoo.com/news/articles/sena…
