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mucifer

(23,542 posts)
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 12:07 AM Nov 2019

Capitol Alert Cows don't have fingers and can't insult Devin Nunes on Twitter, court filing says

In a new filing to quash the subpoena, Parkhomenko’s attorney argues that the Twitter accounts’ language “does not constitute defamation” and that courts are tasked with protecting anonymous communications in the interest of freedom of speech.

“No reasonable person would believe that Devin Nunes’ cow actually has a Twitter account, or that the hyperbole, satire and cow-related jokes it posts are serious facts,” reads the filing in Virginia’s Henrico County Circuit Court. “It is self-evident that cows are domesticated livestock animals and do not have the intelligence, language, or opposable digits needed to operate a Twitter account. Defendant ‘Devin Nunes’ Mom’ likewise posts satirical patronizing, nagging, mothering comments which ostensibly treat Mr. Nunes as a misbehaving child.”


https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article237802609.html
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Capitol Alert Cows don't have fingers and can't insult Devin Nunes on Twitter, court filing says (Original Post) mucifer Nov 2019 OP
Feb 2006 ... Do I post too much? HeavyHemi Nov 2019 #1
I just cut and pasted the article title and a few paragraphs mucifer Nov 2019 #2
Well, you'll never be accused of wasting internet ink. Iterate Nov 2019 #6
This lawsuit should have dismissed already Gothmog Nov 2019 #3
Nunes is such a snowflake Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2019 #4
Mooh-ving right along... pecosbob Nov 2019 #5

HeavyHemi

(17 posts)
1. Feb 2006 ... Do I post too much?
Wed Nov 27, 2019, 12:10 AM
Nov 2019

“It is self-evident that Trumpies are domesticated livestock animals and do not have the intelligence, language, or opposable digits needed to operate a Twitter account."

Minor correction.

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