Throughout the media, it’s a universal truism: Smart people with personalities go into radio; people who get by on looks go into TV.
It’s conventionally-accepted wisdom throughout the world of mass communications.
I have exactly as much factual oomph saying that as former Channel 5 weatherperson and DFL senator Nicole Mitchell (DFL, what else, Woodbury) talking about the civil liberty law:
She’s referring to Schenck vs. United States – in which an anti-draft protester during World War One sued over having his civil rights trampled on by the Woodrow Wilson administration, often regarded as a toxically stupid decision, one which the SCOTUS reversed in defense of a Klansman’s right to free speech.
But you know what’s more toxic than that?
Let’s say, for purposes of argument, that society has the communal wisdom to abrogate rights “for the public good” without doing vastly more harm than good – again, just for purposes of argument.
Who defines “the common good?”
Traditionally, it was families, churches, and traditional social institutions that had stood the test of hundreds, sometimes thousands of years .
The DFL and Big Left have been tearing those institutions down, and replacing them with…
…themselves.
It’s as plain a statement as there is that the DFL wants your civil rights – all of them – to be political swag to be doled out as rewards, if at all.
“Can’t shout ‘Fire’ in a crowded movie theater” is probably the single most cited SCOTUS Decision ever. When you tighten up the qualifer to “Most Cited Decision As If It’s Current Precedent When It’s Actually Been Overturned” or “Most Cited SCOTUS Quote That Wasn’t Actually What The Underlying Case Was About,” Schneck is so far out in front of the competition I don’t think it’ll ever be matched.
The fact that Senator Mitchell does in fact actually have a Law Degree is an indictment against the legal educational system in general and Georgia State University Law School in particular. They really should start putting “Can you shout ‘Fire!’ in a crowded movie theater?” on every bar exam until lawyers get it correct.
^ There was a comment in that Twitter thread that contradicted the status of that decision. As in, it never happened. Fwiw, Yes, You Can Yell ‘Fire’ in a Crowded Theater
Btw, how do you end up as a weather person on TV with a law degree?
“Btw, how do you end up as a weather person on TV with a law degree?”
That sounds like a question for rAT Emery. We could also ask him “How do you end up as a Walmart greeter with an MBA; or a cable installer with a MD; or a barista with a PhD in Chemistry?”
I hated that movie Idiocracy because it was so elitist, but man, it may well have been a documentary.
https://gab.com/Spacebunny/posts/110416502400287088
Yep, brown skinned man driving around in an empty u haul with a nazi flag in the truck. Rams the gate, his friends the feds show up and drape the “evidence” on the ground for the mediots to photograph.
Yup, totes not the feds again. Totes.
I always enjoy discussions of constitutional rights with liberals, because inevitably it brings us back to the same question:
Under what circumstances may the Executive suspend the Constitution for “the common good?”
If the governor of Alabama declared a state of emergency could he close all mosques and synagogues, leaving only churches open? Could he close all businesses owned by Republicans leaving only Democrat businesses open? Could he reinstitute black slavery (not forever, but just for the duration of the emergency)?
What are the limits of executive action purportedly taken for the common good?
And if we can’t agree on where those limits are, isn’t that the whole reason for having a Constitution in the first place?
“Common good is what we say it is!” – every libturd.
Nicole took Constitutional Law for Dummies. Dropped the course after she flunked the midterm.
What’s the law or bill she’s theoretically trying to refer to?
40,000 blondes meet in a football stadium for a “Blondes Are Not Stupid” event. During the first show, a blonde asks another blonde a math question to show everyone that blondes can do maths: “What’s thirty plus twelve?” The blonde thinks for a minute and timidly responds: “forty?” The entire audience of 40,000 blondes screams “Give her another chance! Give her another chance!” The show organizer hesitantly agrees and asks the blonde another question… but this time really, really easy: “What’s two plus two?”. The blonde thinks again and whispers “Four?”. Suddenly all together the 40,000 blondes in the audience scream again: “Give her another chance! Give her another chance!”
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Actually it is permissable to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater, it’s one of the good ways to evacuate a theater that is on fire. You don’t get duct tape over your mouth when you go to the theater to prevent yelling, that’s absurd, people have will and self-control. Using that freedom irresponsibly to yell “Fire!” when there is no fire is a criminal act punishable by law (inducing a panic?), just like other criminally abusive exercises of our personal freedoms. Liberty and responsibility go hand-in-hand.