Rep. Devin Nunes is suing Twitter

[cytg111]

Nope! On a more serious note there is something pretty insidious about this. There's been a trend among Trump and his supporters to launch obviously meritless lawsuits against people who criticize them in order to stifle dissent. They stand almost no chance of winning but the people they are suing will be on the hook for potentially ruinous legal fees. Trump has bragged about doing this in the past.

So let's think about that - politicians are leveraging right wing donor money to attempt to bankrupt citizens for criticizing them. Not great.

Just put up some crowdfunding for the poor souls ...

 

[VRAMdemon]

Someone should have clued him in on the Streisand Effect.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I can not recommend reading the details and looking at the specific tweets in this case enough. They are hilarious. I have no idea what Nunes thought he was doing by creating an official court document about all the tweets that hurt his feelings but holy shit is he stupid.

As others have said - no more conservatives whining about liberal snowflakes needing their safe spaces. A sitting ultra right wing congressman is officially suing people for $250 million for making fun of him on the internet.

Even Jesus checked in threatening excommunication if Devin doesn't get his act together.

 

[nakedfrog]

If i remember correctly someone tried this a while ago....

Damn that's harsh!

 

[PJFrylar]

I'm going to give Devin the complete and proper response to this action:

wut?

 

[ElFenix]

devincow went from about 3k followers to 81k+ as of this morning. guess devin hadn't heard of the streisand effect.

 

[Viper1j]

His lawyer actually submitted this to the court!

 

[woolfe9998]

Damn that's harsh!

It's also protected by the 1A, per the SCOTUS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell

And it's also hilarious.

 

[ElFenix]

the unintentional comedy is off the charts

https://twitter.com/x/status/1107791395274805254

 

[kage69]

His lawyer actually submitted this to the court!

View attachment 4411

Now there's a job for Kinkos that would make for a great Congressional Hearing exhibit, haha.

Please C-SPAN. Do it for science.

 

[KMFJD]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1107823329002565632

Astounding

 

[kage69]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1107823329002565632

Astounding

Party of Hypocrisy. It's what they do.

 

[VRAMdemon]

Or.. this...Here's the hilarious part (from the article I read on TPM):

In the complaint filed on Monday, Nunes alleges that Twitter has a history of “knowingly hosting and monetizing content that is clearly abusive, hateful and defamatory – providing both a voice and financial incentive to the defamers – thereby facilitating defamation on its platform,” the lawsuit reads. Nunes attorney told Fox News that the suit is designed to “hold Twitter fully accountable for it’s abusive behavior and misconduct.

Lol...that behavior sounds like a certain President we all know!

 

[thilanliyan]

Bahahaha there's more in that twitter feed:
*Devin Nunes' Cowbell
*Devin Nunes' Cow's Lawyer
*Devin Nunes' Gerbil
*Devin Nunes' Cock
*Devin Nunes' Sister's Parakeet
*Devin Nunes' Cow's Grandma
*Devin Nunes' Side Cow

 

[Viper1j]

I'm currently following the mom, dad cow, and proctologist.

 

[theeedude]

Anyone notice how all these right wing anti-media lawsuits are $250M? Seems like they are using the Thiel-Gawker strategy to shut down independent speech.

 

[ElFenix]

Anyone notice how all these right wing anti-media lawsuits are $250M? Seems like they are using the Thiel-Gawker strategy to shut down independent speech.

well you can't be upstaged by a bunch of high schoolers, but then again you can't show them up too badly, either.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

This just occurred to me - has something just happened in American politics that Trump is above doing? Or did I miss that?

HA!.. no.

 

[Moonbeam]

Devin Nunes is having trouble facing who he is.

 

[Jhhnn]

Great article- I love the headline-

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a26867530/devin-nunes-twitter-lawsuit/

 

[sdifox]

I hope Twitter lawyer troll him endlessly during trial.

 

[esquared]

Time for Devin to learn about the Streisand Effect...



lol!

ETA: There are now 'Devin Nunes' Dad' and 'Devin Nunes' Penis' accounts.

Found this one on the account.
Fits, doesn't it.

 

[outriding]

Obviously the dunes cow account is a parody. But if nunes wants to sue the parody account, twitter’s lawyer should have nunes show the court how exactly would a cow post a tweet and hand nunes a tablet and some gloves that look like cow hooves

 

[Jhhnn]

It was just Nunes setting up today's Trump rant about how social media is sooo unfair to conservatives. They just love working together.

 

[DrDoug]

It was just Nunes setting up today's Trump rant about how social media is sooo unfair to conservatives. They just love working together.

From what I've heard Nunes hasn't actually filed the suit yet, it was an intent to file or some such (IANAL). So right now this suit has only been filed in the court of public opinion.

So far the finding from that court shows that Nunes' filing is hilarious.