This is the moment that Donald Trump threatens an ABC reporter after they asked about free speech. Speaking with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl on Tuesday (16 September), the president appeared to become annoyed after the reporter asked him about Pam Bondi’s crackdown on “hate speech”. “A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech,” Mr Karl said, to which Mr Trump responded: “She’d probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. It’s hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart.” After slamming ABC, the president claimed that he “wants everything to be fair” and placed blame with the “radical left who have done tremendous damage to the country”.
There was period of time during Trump’s last administration where the world just got so crazy I had a collection of screenshots of “not the onion” headlines that just seemed too insane to be real.
I remember one was like “Judge determines woman can’t prove she didn’t want to be set on fire.”
This would fit in nicely.
Huh…I’m trying to think of what legal defense you could give to PROVE you didn’t want to be set on fire.
I can’t think of one. What do you say that proves it? Which means I get how that headline happened, but also…how did THAT headline happen???
my lay person understanding of the law is that in situations like these you don’t need to prove what should be so overwhelmingly self-evident
there’s probably some Latin phrase for it a lawyer would just know but when a thing is so far away from a gray area of reasonableness you’re fine
you shouldn’t need hard evidence, people as a rule don’t like to set themselves on fire
Most of the time when weird questions like that involving consent come up, I assume it probably involved some kind of sex thing.
The only thing I can think of is that there was some sort of event where other people were being willingly set on fire. Like if were some sort of performance that went wrong, I could see there being a reasonable defense that the performer didn’t know she didn’t want to participate.
It could also be a kink thing.