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Good luck getting him to pay up.

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But really, both parties are the same.

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SNL once did a skit making fun of this guy as a kid.

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What a weird SNL sketch. I was expecting the punchline to be something like we find out his kid is in his 20s, or something like that. But no, there was no punch line.

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Back when Giuliani was elected mayor, his kid was acting up during the inauguration. SNL did a skit about it, with Farley playing the kid, and it was hilarious because, well, Chris Farley. So then they did at least one other skit, the one above, with the recurring character.

Here we go, the first skit:

I found the actual inauguration too:

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Isn’t this technically a violation of the 1st amendment?

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It’s literally a violation of the 1st amendment. This is Florida telling a private company what it can and can’t say.

This is all just posturing for a Presidential run. He knows it’ll get challenged and struck down immediately, but he can then complain about “activist judges” and score even more points with the Trump base.

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Time for the Satanic temple to run a candidate somewhere and demand to be able to post on DJT’s blog under this law.

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Following the letter of that law a person could file to become an official candidate for any local political office and then go on one hell of a racist, insane, hate-filled bender on Twitter or Facebook and the companies would face $25,000 per day fines and lawsuits from the general public if they banned the account. But I’m sure that wasn’t the intent behind the law at all


/s

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One of the hilarious aspects of this Florida law, under the heading of “they almost get it”is when De Santiago said that social media platforms have become modern public squares. And then doesn’t even go anywhere near the idea of actually creating, facilitating or incentivizing actual public media platforms. So private companies have de facto become the public square on social media and we’ll just ignore that. So close but no cigar.

10594

Popehat or some other twitter lawyer thought there was a GOP competition to pass the most blatantly unconstitutional law. It is certainly an early favorite.

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It is sort of funny (funny-sad, not funny-ha-ha) that Republicans now consider “candidate” to be a protected class. And, I mean, obviously they only mean Republican candidates, but they’re not saying that part out loud. Yet. But they’ll certainly attempt to enforce it that way.

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The 2nd best part after the flagrant unconstitutionality of it is that it makes an exception for Disney.

If you own a theme park, you’re excluded from this law. You can do whatever you want. I’m sure it’s just a random thing they threw in there, it’s not like Florida has some massive theme park-owning megacorp or anything.

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The thing, these days I would expect the FL and US supreme courts to uphold it.

The only thing that would stop it might be Social media banning Florida and playing corporate hardball. Perhaps Disney as well to throw on more pressure.

“restore freedom or the mouse gets it”

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Gorsuch wouldn’t be on board. I even think Kavanaugh would be iffy. Barrett I’m unsure on.

Thomas and Alito would love it, but that’s not saying much.

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If that happens, tech giants find spare change in the couch and buy theme parks.

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I mean, that’s certainly hilarious, but I’m sure Twitter and Facebook would prefer destroying the bill and the potential for future bills from other states with this bullshit in court. Although it would take away DeathSantis’s ability to whine about activist judges. So that would be hilarious.