Post-match: The Post Presidency :: Trump Faces The Music Thread

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  1. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    They got him on this one. Just one free loading arsehole.

    Former US President Donald Trump has been found liable to pay damages to London singer and songwriter Eddy Grant for using his song Electric Avenue without permission.

    It has taken Mr Grant, 76, more than four years to sue the Republican candidate in this year’s presidential election in the US courts, over his 2020 campaign video that used a 40-second clip of the song.

    The video was viewed 13.7 million times before Twitter, now known as X, took it down.

    A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Mr Trump breached Mr Grant's copyright for his 1983 hit, and is now liable for damages as well as paying for the singer's legal fees.
     
  2. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
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    Jun 16, 1999
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    We have one about a half mile away too.
     
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  3. Scissorkick Collins

    Dec 30, 2009
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    Hell yeah, Eddy! I hope he actually gets the money since it seems TFG usually gets off the hook. And hopefully this also opens the floodgates for the other artists whose songs have also been used against their wishes.
     
  4. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Ho-hum another "assassination attempt" on Donnie :whistling:
     
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  5. superdave

    superdave Member+

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    It seems like it was more of a concept of a plan.
     
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  6. Smurfquake

    Smurfquake Moderator
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    Aug 8, 2000
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    Seen on Bluesky, but I think it was copied from Twitter. Democrats need to introduce the "Save Donald Trump's Life Gun Control Act", so that Republicans have to choose between voting for gun control or voting not to protect Trump from the next assassination attempt.
     
  7. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    I'm wondering what they can charge him with that has any chance of sticking? As far as I can see all he actually did was leave a scene where people were shooting at him, which is, after all reasonable behavior. Well, that and be refused service by barbers and tailors for some months...

    If he winds up charged with trespassing and public nuisance it might get Trumpers on board with doing something. In which case the Lords of Karma may have had a use for Trump after all.
     
  8. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
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    Isn’t Florida a Stand Your Ground state? I mean, he is white, after all.
     
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  9. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Dude was just strolling past the golf course with his AR. Rs tell us all the time it's perfectly OK, right?
     
  10. dapip

    dapip Member+

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  11. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

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    Here's what I wrote on the final night of the RNC:


    The warning signs were clear.
     
  12. superdave

    superdave Member+

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  13. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

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    Did you miss the "fiancée" part?
     
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  14. superdave

    superdave Member+

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    did you miss the “family” part?
     
  15. diablodelsol

    diablodelsol Member+

    Jan 10, 2001
    New Jersey
    I’ll confess to missing whatever point you’re trying to make…and completely understanding that Jr is cheating on his fiancé.
     
  16. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

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    He is taking "family" in its most literal and reductionist sense (but ignoring what the Bible says about people who are betrothed).

    People who are betrothed to marry someone else are free to sleep around without it being considered "cheating". Couples who have been together for 40 years but never married are free to sleep around without it being considered "cheating".

    Sometimes it is hard to find daylight between his views and those of JD Vance.

    Remember, this is the same poster who recently used misogynistic slurs when the topic was adultery.
     
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  17. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
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    Yeah but when they started firing at him he ran away so I think we can all agree, he didn't stand his ground.
     
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  18. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

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    It's possible to cheat on someone even if you're not married to him/her.
     
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  19. diablodelsol

    diablodelsol Member+

    Jan 10, 2001
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    Imagine being Kim G though? You sold your soul…and your face…to be in the orbit of this piece of shit family and now you’re about to get tossed out with the trash.
     
  20. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

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    As they sang in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, "when danger reared it's ugly head / stupid ********tard ryan turned and fled. . . "
     
  21. ElNaranja

    ElNaranja Member+

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    She knew what she was signing up for.
     
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  22. M

    M Member+

    Feb 18, 2000
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    I still can’t wrap my head around Newsom marrying her. It’s so bizarre.
     
  23. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

    Mar 9, 2000
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    Could not happen to a better person..... She is trash anyway...
     
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  24. BocaFan

    BocaFan Member+

    Aug 18, 2003
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    So, his father banging someone that's 6 years younger than his girl. Step it up, Junior.
     
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  25. superdave

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    lol
     

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