jerrymahoney

My only US friends anymore are folks I have known for 50 years and -- as they are all international travelers -- would more likely visit me in Thailand before I visit them in US. Other than that, my only friends these days are Thai females who could not tell you who is the current US president.

And the canned answer you receive from Trump supporters is that we don't care that he is insane or whatever -- we just like his policies.

Here it is: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/polish-radio-station-abandons-ai-presenters-outcry-115234983 Last Tuesday the station broadcast an “interview” conducted by an AI-generated presenter with a voice pretending to be Wisława Szymborska, a Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature who died in 2012.

In the NY Times today it says, just as the polls were wrong in 2016 because people were embarrassed to admit they would be voting for Mr. Trump, on-the-ground Harris folks in PA have been told not to go to any house with a Trump poster out front as to not cause a problem for someone in the house who actually and secretly intends to vote for Ms. Harris.

“It’s so bad they should lose their license, and they should take ’60 Minutes’ off the air,” Trump told right-wing podcaster Dan Bongino last week. National networks like CBS are not licensed, but local stations are. (And the parent company of CBS, Paramount Global, owns some local stations.) The licensing agency is the government’s Federal Communications Commission, which grants eight-year license terms, and hasn’t denied any license renewal in decades. The process “is so time consuming that no license renewal could be denied before the end of a hypothetical second Trump term,” public interest lawyer Andrew Jay Schwartzman told CNN. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/22/media/trump-strip-tv-station-licenses-punish-media/index.html

From the complaint filed in Amarillo TX Federal Court: 55. President Trump is a “consumer” within the meaning of the DTPA, since he is an individual who sought and received CBS’s broadcast services. From the DPTA Texas statutes: Sec. 17.45. DEFINITIONS. As used in this subchapter: (4) "Consumer" means an individual, partnership, corporation, this state, or a subdivision or agency of this state who seeks or acquires by purchase or lease, any goods or services, except that the term does not include a business consumer that has assets of $25 million or more, or that is owned or controlled by a corporation or entity with assets of $25 million or more. https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.17.htm

BTW GG most of the world's Tang supply is manufactured in Nam Phong, Khon Kaen province.

As Judge Haller in My Cousin Vinny might say: Everything except 'Well' will be stricken from the record.

I want to see the sidebar. It is useful. Sometimes there are even other topics there besides yours.

Well I have actually read the court filing and anyone who thinks, as was indicated above -- that the value of this lawsuit win or lose -- is that someone in a swing state might learn more about the 'select editing' of the word salad in the interview in question than they might already know, will be disappointed. And again the word 'salad' in various forms is referenced 11 times in the document. NB the word 'fraud' does not occur in the complaint.

Judge Cannon in Florida has been reversed by the Appeals Court in Atlanta. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo TX has the distinction of being reversed by the US Supreme Court in Washington DC: On April 21, 2023, a majority of the Supreme Court of the United States, without comment, voted to indefinitely implement an emergency stay all the restrictions against mifepristone while the lawsuit continued in the lower courts. The court issued its unanimous decision on June 13, 2024, ruling that the Alliance lacked standing to challenge the FDA's approval or rule making. The decision reversed the Fifth Circuit ruling and lifted the injunction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Kacsmaryk

If they want a shot across the bow, this ain't it.

The case could have been filed in any Texas city that had a CBS affiliate who broadcast the 60 Minutes Harris interview. That they chose Amarillo was strictly because they knew for certain the judge to whom their case would be assigned.

From the Amarillo, TX court filing: 64. Because of CBS’s false, misleading, and deceptive conduct, President Trump has sustained damages in an amount greater than $75,000.00, and reasonably believed to be at least $10,000,000,000, that will be determined upon trial of this action. (However) CBS’s distortion of the 60 Minutes Interview damaged President Trump’s fundraising and support values by several billions of dollars, particularly in Texas.

OK just for others then I said the actual court filing contains 11 instances of the word 'salad'. I don't think the filing of this case will help others who have never heard the word salad in reference to Ms. Harris.

Good.

If that is true then what does this lawsuit have to do with it with it. The actual court filing has 11 instances of the word 'salad'. You think people haven't heard that one before?

Trump doesn't need any help in Texas. True the lawsuit might sway some voters in swing states to vote for Trump. It may help other voters in those same swing states to realize that the Republican candidate is a total jerk.

If they don't already know, this lawsuit between now and Tuesday isn't going to make any difference.

The Trump team has already made a lot of noise about the CBS Harris interview. Nothing will happen on the case before the election. What the voters will actually now know is that Donald Trump has filed another frivolous lawsuit. And CBS is not PBS.

The argument is over the Texas law being invoked in the lawsuit. The lawsuit does not claim Trump was defamed by the network, said Geoffrey R. Stone, a First Amendment scholar and law professor at the University of Chicago, who reviewed the complaint. Instead, the suit attempts a novel use of a Texas statute that is meant to prevent advertisers from misleading the public about a product being sold — the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Consumer Protection Act. Stone called it a "misapplication" of the law. "That statute is about sales — a salesperson can be held liable for stating that a product has certain positive effects when he knows it doesn't," Stone said. "But CBS is not engaged in advertising here." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sues-cbs-news-60-minutes-interview/

The argument is over the Texas law being invoked in the lawsuit.

Whatever the merits of the case under Texas law, this is clearly a case of venue shopping: Matthew Joseph Kacsmaryk is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. He was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump in 2017 and sworn in for the position in 2019. Conservative groups and Attorneys General in Texas tend to file cases in Kacsmaryk's jurisdiction so that he is likely to hear those cases, as he reliably rules against Democratic policies and for Republican policies. In 2023, he presided over a lawsuit regarding the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s approval of abortion medication mifepristone in 2000, and had issued a preliminary ruling suspending the approval of the drug, marking the first time a court tried to invalidate the approval of a drug over the FDA's objection. His injunction was lifted unanimously by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 13, 2024, restoring access to mifepristone under current FDA regulations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Kacsmaryk ******************* The US District Court in Northern Texas currently assigns cases in a way that any case filed in its Amarillo Division is automatically assigned to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/01/media/trump-cbs-lawsuit-harris-60-minutes-interview/index.html

Yes no worries -- if your topics didn't populate the sidebar, I would know you exist.

As long as they don't restrict the number of new topics one can start per day or per week, you'll be OK.