Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney in Georgia who is prosecuting Donald Trump and 18 other allies over efforts to overturn the 2020 election, is facing a flurry of racist online abuse after the former president attacked his opponents using the word “riggers”, a thinly veiled play on the N-word. [More]
Note what this is filed under. They presume to read (more like invent) intent — and convict on that.
Just like “find the votes.”
That’s why I call these tools the DSM.
Ol’ Ed would get along famously with Marshall Brown.
Thank God he didn’t use the word “niggardly.”
That would have gotten him in a heap of trouble.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/williams/williams020499.htm
In that vein, I think some of the folks associated with this post’s story need to look up the word “rigger”.
The main halyard on my 30 ft Catalina sailboat was showing signs of sun rot. So i got on the web and hired a “rigger” to replace all of my standing “rigging.”
Most of us have seen large cranes working on a construction site. Next time you see one, take a look at the sling that connects the weighted hook on the end of the crane cable to the load being lifted. The guy in charge of handling that sling is called (wait for it) a “rigger.”
If anyone was offended by the repeated use of the word “rigger” in this comment, they need a kind of help that I’m just not qualified to give. Maybe Red Forman can help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBS_Ukbe2Vk
See the Marshall Brown link.