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Summary

Trump adviser Stephen Miller erupted on Fox News after MSNBC analyst Andrew Weissmann criticized Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants as possibly unconstitutional.

Miller called Weissmann "an absolute moron," "a fool," and "a degenerate," claiming he "shills for people who rape and murder Americans."

When host Martha MacCallum noted both could express opinions, Miller shouted that he'd "defend American lives" while Weissmann "can defend illegal alien rapists, terrorists and predators."

This continues Miller's pattern of televised outbursts, including previous incidents on CNN and reactions to SNL jokes about Trump.

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[-] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 173 points 1 month ago

This little dick incel nazi needs to pay for his crimes against humanity.

[-] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago

Unless it’s plumber vigilantism, I don’t see it happening.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago

That's fine.

[-] celeste@kbin.earth 102 points 1 month ago

hmmm there's something about the word "degenerate" that just gives me a bad feeling here!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art oh, its association with nazis! i remember!

[-] ploot 39 points 1 month ago

They've seized the Kennedy Center for the arts in Washington DC. We can expect ~~Hitler~~ Trump Youth displays and campaigns against degenerate art, starting here and spreading across the country.

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago

THANK YOU. I've been sounding this alarm for years and I've felt like a lone crazy person a lot of the time when doing it.

[-] celeste@kbin.earth 9 points 1 month ago

It makes me nervous that people use the word degenerate casually without knowing the history of the word, so people like this guy using it the nazi way can just sneak in with it

[-] BlurryBits 83 points 1 month ago

Platform a clown - expect a circus

[-] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 98 points 1 month ago

He is not a clown joking around, he is a dangerous sociopath who is a chief architect of our budding anti-immigrant apparatus. Our Heinrich Himmler analogue.

He is threatening a member of the press on live TV. There is nothing funny or boorish about it.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 73 points 1 month ago

When they run out of arguments, they just start to scream.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 36 points 1 month ago

Reminded of that Sartre quote again https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity

Except instead of fall silent I guess it's have a tantrum now?

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

[-] prole 9 points 1 month ago

Either way, they're saying nothing.

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[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago

...people who rape and murder Americans

I can think of a certain POTUS that raped a woman, was charged with sexual assault , and is culpable for the deaths of countless Americans.

Is Stephen arguing for or against migrants? His arguments are the top criteria for the Trump admin, morons, fools, rapists, murderers, rapists, terrorists, and predators. I assume he said "rapists" twice because that's his favorite.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago

It's okay when rich white people do it.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

[-] TheAlbatross 47 points 1 month ago

Kapo isn't strong enough to describe this bastard.

Shouting and screaming like this is his go-to move whenever he gets put in a corner. Someone should just mute his mic and slap him when he starts his Nazi fits.

[-] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 month ago
[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 34 points 1 month ago

Miller called Weissmann “an absolute moron,” “a fool,” and “a degenerate,” claiming he “shills for people who rape and murder Americans.”

Well, that sounds wilfully defamatory. Let's hope his sorry ass gets dragged into court.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

All of that is purely opinion. Defamation has to be statements of fact, not opinion. Turn in your law license.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

"Defamation is a statement that injures a third party's reputation. The tort of defamation includes both libel (written statements) and slander (spoken statements). State common law and statutory law governs defamation actions, and each state varies in their standards for defamation and potential damages ."

I will also be waiting for you to turn in your law license.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I assume you're quoting from this page?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation

If so, you should have kept reading:

"To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; ..."

So, opinions don't count. Nothing he said was a verifiable statement of fact, it was all purely opinion, so it's not defamation.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks for your law degree!

I think you are getting confused as telling the truth is generally not considered defamation. Telling a lie that causes a tort (or an injury, now that you have lost your license) is the definition of defamation.

Please just stop with your opinion nonsense.

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[-] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Pee Wee Himmler is such a little bitch

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I prefer Great Value Goebbels.

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[-] Polderviking@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Miller called Weissmann “an absolute moron,” “a fool,” and “a degenerate,” claiming he “shills for people who rape and murder Americans.”

MAGA appears fundamentally unable to have a civilized discussion on a subject.

[-] PeteZa@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago
[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago
[-] PeteZa@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Nah. It’s a word I got banned from Reddit for. So here it’s just gonna be stars*** lol

You won’t get banned here because it’s not possible for one single sackless hyper capitalist fascist-enabling piece of shit to “own” the whole fediverse. An instance here or there might ban you but you’re not going to get one for punching down on fascists, generally speaking.

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[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Nothing new, Stephen Miller uses fake outrage to dodge questions where the obvious answers are either because he's scared of everything or he's a white supremacist.

[-] ploot 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This guy is always throwing tantrums when people ask questions. He must imagine it means he's in control. He clearly has no life skills, unless being a bitter little Nazi counts as a life skill. Look at him throwing around accusations of being "a degenerate": he even borrows his vocabulary from his hero Goebbels.

[-] zib@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

It's uncanny to me how this little nazi has such a punchable face.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago

this the guy that dyed his bald scalp to look like he had a full head of hair.

[-] deathbysnusnu@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I thought "no way, no-one is that stupid" so I googled it. Turns out, he is.

[-] zenpocalypse@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

This is the guy who joined the last stretch of a women's long distance foot race to prove men are better.

This is the guy who littered on purpose in high school to make the janitors clean it up.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago

Andrew Weissmann is always on point.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Maybe so but it doesn't sound like he punched that Nazi bitch in the face, which he should have done. People should not generally be comfortable insulting someone to their face like that. Fighting Words are a legal defense for assault and battery FYI.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

Fighting Words are a legal defense for assault and battery FYI.

I'm pretty sure Weissmann knows what he can and cannot do under the law.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Fighting Words are a legal defense for assault and battery FYI.

Don't bet on it. The Supreme Court's definition of fighting words is so narrow that none of Miller's squealing and babbling would quality.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

AKA Kapo Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller.

[-] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Peewee Himmler is a good one

[-] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Everytime I see this guy, this is all I can think of.

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