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['W: 998][W:371]Empire' star Jussie Smollett attacked in possible hate crime

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Jack Hays said:
Actually we don't know that. That's why there is an investigation: to find out.
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Oh, come on.

I just can't.
 
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Jack Hays said:
Actually we don't know that. That's why there is an investigation: to find out.
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Oh, I think we do.
 
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Nap said:
There were a ton of issues with his story that made it seem unlikely that it occurred as he stated, this was one of the first that had me puzzled. Someone that is so racist that they would be willing to assault someone based on race isn't likely to be a huge Empire fan. It would be as strange as if you had pulled up next to David Duke at a red light and you could hear him listening to "Changes" by Tupac. It would be pretty funny though if Duke was secretly a huge rap fan.
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How you know if an attack upon a black homosexual was motivated by race or sexual orientation, or both or neither? Could also be just personal jealousy.
 
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Atomic Kid said:
How you know if an attack upon a black homosexual was motivated by race or sexual orientation, or both or neither? Could also be just personal jealousy.
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I wasn't there and even if I was it would be nearly impossible to ascertain the motivations as I am not a mind reader. It doesn't change the likelihood of it happening as the original description. Do you think there is a substantial number of racist and/or homophobic white Trump supporters who are such fans of the show Empire that they would be able to recognize Smollett?
 
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Nap said:
I wasn't there and even if I was it would be nearly impossible to ascertain the motivations as I am not a mind reader. It doesn't change the likelihood of it happening as the original description. Do you think there is a substantial number of racist and/or homophobic white Trump supporters who are such fans of the show Empire that they would be able to recognize Smollett?
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Why of course...That's what they do at the meetings...Pop some corn and cozy up to the TV for the latest episode....lol
 
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Nap said:
I wasn't there and even if I was it would be nearly impossible to ascertain the motivations as I am not a mind reader. It doesn't change the likelihood of it happening as the original description. Do you think there is a substantial number of racist and/or homophobic white Trump supporters who are such fans of the show Empire that they would be able to recognize Smollett?
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I would imagine that anyone who has achieved as significant of a degree of celebrity as Smollett has would have a likelihood of being recognizable to people in a variety of circles. That's often the price that comes with celebrity.
 
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Jack Hays said:
Sorry, but that's why Mr. Mueller has a job. I'll await the evidence, thanks.
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Regardless of whether it becomes "official" or not I think fairly obvious that our national interests and or democratic institutions have already been significantly compromised and damaged by this scandal.
 
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Atomic Kid said:
I would imagine that anyone who has achieved as significant of a degree of celebrity as Smollett has would have a likelihood of being recognizable to people in a variety of circles. That's often the price that comes with celebrity.
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Before this I wouldn't have been able to tell you who he was....
 
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Atomic Kid said:
Regardless of whether it becomes "official" or not I think fairly obvious that our national interests and or democratic institutions have already been significantly compromised and damaged by this scandal.
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Yeah, good job liberals.
 
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So if Jussie fabricated his story and paid his trainer and trainers brother to help fake it there is only one route to take. "Lock him up"!
 
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Atomic Kid said:
Regardless of whether it becomes "official" or not I think fairly obvious that our national interests and or democratic institutions have already been significantly compromised and damaged by this scandal.
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We shall see. We have been damaged by stupid policy. Whether there is more than that remains to be seen.
 
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Jack Hays said:
Sorry, but that's why Mr. Mueller has a job. I'll await the evidence, thanks.
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You will never know what he finds. Congress will never know what he finds.

Do you understand this?
 
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noonereal said:
We all know Trump is compromised by Putin.

That is what I meant. Sorry it flew over your head.
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"We" don't know anything of the sort. Sorry it flew over your head.
 
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j-mac said:
Yeah, good job liberals.
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Well just maybe when half the people of your senior campaign staff get indicted, convicted and imprisoned, or pleads guilty, it might be just be a little bit your fault. Don't you think? Go ahead and name for me just one other Presidential campaign, just one, that has had as many criminal convictions as Trump's.
 
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j-mac said:
Before this I wouldn't have been able to tell you who he was....
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That doesn't mean anything. Just because you don't watch the show, or know of or appreciate his music, doesn't mean that aren't plenty of other people that do.
 
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smallvoice said:
Oh, I think you have shown NO facts. So, in the grand scheme of things, you don't.
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Well then go ahead and explain Helsinki for us.
 
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ludin said:
Unlike you i can separate rhetoric for what it is. No trump has been pretty accurate about crime in chicago.
it is largely out of control. the police cannot get it under control.

No when a celebrity uses his profile to try and paint certain people in the light that he did and it is 100% false then everyone should be upset
and outraged about it.

unless you think demonizing people is ok as long as you agree with who is being demonized.
there is a reason that paintbrush fallacies are fallacies.

not that leftists care about that either. the more they are allowed to marginalize people the better off
they are.
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I don't think demonizing people is right, any people. Trump must be a leftist, since he has demonized and marginalized Muslims, Syrian refugees, blacks, illegals, criminal suspects, and migrant asylum seekers, among others. He deals in fear. Obama said a cop acted stupidly, then invited the cop and the guy he interacted to to talk things over. When Trump does something similar, get back in touch.
 
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vesper said:
Well the Dems have figured out that Jussie Smollett is a liar. Spartacus Booker has backed off on his claim that Jussie experienced a modern day lynching and is now refusing to comment any further until the investigation is completed. :lol:

And it is being reported tonight that Nancy Pelosi has deleted her sympathetic tweet to Jussie Smollet. :lamo
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And, in the mother of all ironies, Al Sharpton is calling for him to be punished if it turns out this is a hoax.
 
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SLC said:
At least Jussie Somllett is the first American to scam Nigerians. :lol:
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:lamo

Very nice!
 
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Atomic Kid said:
That doesn't mean anything. Just because you don't watch the show, or know of or appreciate his music, doesn't mean that aren't plenty of other people that do.
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lol....Well, I thought he was some actor with lots of stature....I don't think anyone who doesn't watch that show would know him from Bob....Hell, even some who do watch the show probably couldn't have told you what his name was until this....
 
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j-mac said:
Go say that to the face of parents that have lost their children to illegal alien violence, or to fentynal overdose....22 million illegals already here, how many is too many for you?
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When it comes to children dying, he only cares about those who die from mass shootings or die while in ICE custody.
 
Smollett received a letter containing a white powder Jan. 22. The letter was mailed to Chicago’s Cinespace Studios, where the show “Empire” is filmed. The letter prompted a HAZMAT response. CPD says the “white substance” was later determined to be aspirin.

Chicago police say the FBI is handling the investigation surrounding the letter, because that’s a federal-level concern.

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/18/jussie-smollet-motive-staged-attack/
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Roh roh.....Jessie be in some trouble now.....
 
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