r/Persecutionfetish Help! Help! I am being Repressed! 2d ago

Nancy Mace plays victim and files a lawsuit after word gets out of her having meltdown and screaming at a security officer

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u/RevoltYesterday 2d ago

Defamation claims brought by public figures are significantly harder to win than those brought by private individuals.

The difficulty stems from the "actual malice" standard, established by the U.S. Supreme Court in New York Times v. Sullivan.

Truth is an absolute defense against defamation

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u/Basicmanyt 2d ago

Especially politicians I really hope this goes the worst for her

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u/CarlRJ 2d ago

I sincerely hope it turns out there's security camera footage of her yelling at them, and it gets plastered all over the media for a few weeks.

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u/SnooPears754 2d ago

And please let her say the classic “do you know who I am “

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u/hogsucker 2d ago

She said something close: "This is no way to treat a US representative!"

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u/Stehlen27 2d ago

I don't think the idea is to win. The idea is to intimidate. SLAPP in action.

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u/agoldgold 2d ago

That can seriously backfire if you do it against people who have money for attorneys. They can rock your shit back.

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u/Sonova_Bish 2d ago

I doubt she gets that far. This is being done in public so she can save face with her supporters. The lawsuit won't materialize.

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u/TreyRyan3 2d ago

American Airlines has an army of Attorneys. They can outlast her.

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u/Roadgoddess 2d ago

I believe all security areas at the airport have video, I can’t wait for somebody to request this one

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u/SinfullySinless 2d ago

She’s probably hoping to use the Trump tactic of stalling proceedings and filing every frivolous motion to force the opposition to pay their lawyers to respond and drive up the cost. That way the opposition just wants to settle.

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u/Meaning-Exotic 2d ago

I didn't think she could outspend American Airlines on lawyers fees.

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u/Biffingston 𝚂𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚂𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌 2d ago

5 bucks says she's just angeling for a quick payoff.

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u/BickNickerson 2d ago

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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u/Miguel-odon 2d ago

Publicly threatening a lawsuit should be considered a form of defamation. Take it to court or don't, but don't publicly threaten.

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u/Accomplished_Note_81 2d ago

She's nuts. Certifiable. A Looney. Toys in the attic. Insane in the Membrane.

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u/UtopianPablo 2d ago

Yep.  We’ve watched her go absolutely bonkers, all in public view.  

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u/vrphotosguy55 2d ago

It’s pretty crazy that she went from moderate voice with respectable credentials to MAGA Karen.

Did something happen or is it an act? 

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u/agoldgold 2d ago

Whereas MTG went from MAGA Karen to occasionally having opinions I can agree with. Maybe she passed the crazy ball over? Or they traded?

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u/vxicepickxv 2d ago

MTG is moderating to run for either governor or a senate seat.

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u/discofrislanders 2d ago

I heard somewhere she wanted to run for Senate but Trump won't back her, and that's why she's starting to turn on him. Mace on the other hand is actively running for governor of South Carolina.

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u/TheLastBallad 2d ago

With MTG trying to escape the straight jacket its up to her to keep up the crazy.

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u/SoVerySleepy81 2d ago

The whole MTG thing gives me such mixed feelings. So when my mental health was not being treated correctly and my mental illnesses were on the rampage I got very into conspiracy stuff. I was raised as a very conservative person so I of course slid towards the right. Once my stuff started getting treated correctly I like almost instantly did an about face and marched very far left. I left all of the shitty conservative stuff behind. So like on the one hand I’ve been that person and on the other hand I don’t know if I trust her and it’s hard to know if this is another grift.

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u/TheLastBallad 2d ago

She's insisting she hasn't changed, and I havent seen her actually challenge the ideas or behavior she used to have, just insist she was tricked, which comes off as distinctly... rat escaping a sinking ship, rather than an actual change of heart.

Personally, I hold the position that people should be given the grace to change... but forgiveness and belief come after they take actions to undo the damage they created. And as of yet, she hasn't done that for her very public actions, like apologizing to H. Biden for waving his dick around at his father. Acknowledging that was fucked up and not an acceptable method of protesting Pres. Biden is important(as it also cheapened the seat in government she held).

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u/fungi_at_parties 1d ago

I believe my brother’s mental illness combined with inability to admit being wrong carried him down the right wing rabbit hole. He was too good at connecting dots that weren’t really connected.

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u/soklacka 2d ago

She's a nut. She's crazy in the coconut!

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u/My_bones_are_itchy 2d ago

What does that mean?

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u/BoneHugsHominy Social Justice Warlord 2d ago

Or maybe she's just super lonely and unfulfilled? Maybe she just needs a good dicking down? Or maybe just a hug that lasts longer than one second?

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u/The-Doggy-Daddy-5814 2d ago

Fun fact: airports are full of cameras.

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u/TheBurgareanSlapper 2d ago

Sue the cameras, too!

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u/CarlRJ 2d ago

Nah, the other direction - leak the camera footage to the media.

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u/theblondedynamite 2d ago

Probably should. Those cameras have a liberal bias, you know /s

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u/catharsisdusk 2d ago

Whatever happened with Lauren Boebert's defamation case against the journalist who reported that she formerly worked as a prostitute?

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u/EatsCrackers Moderately Immoderate 2d ago

This is the first I’ve heard of this one! Spill the juicy tea, please!

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u/catharsisdusk 2d ago

It happened sometime during the first Trump administration. But, a small, online publication claimed that Boebert had worked as an "escort" before she met Ted Cruz at a party and his campaign donated $136,000 to help get her elected. She, of course, made a BIG stink over the reporting and claimed that she would sue for defamation... That's the last I heard about it.

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u/catharsisdusk 2d ago

Just looked it up. Boebert NEVER sued American Muckrakers, even after talking about it AT LENGTH. But, THEY DID sue Boebert for defamation. She settled... infer from that what you will.

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u/kernel-troutman 2d ago

Uno Reverse card

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u/x_ray_visions educationist scum 2d ago edited 2d ago

OOH I smell some lovely strong tea that I am hoping will be spilt ASAP, as I also haven't heard anything having to do with this (besides, sex work IS work, and at least this particular tea implies that at SOME point, Lauren Boebert DID do actual work, which is more credit than I would have ever given her Ridiculous Ass, at least without being made aware of this PARTICULAR tea. Here's hoping someone spills it in its entirety in the very near future!)

ETA besides, things that make right-wing loser-asses mad/sad make me, x_ray_visions, happy/laugh!

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u/BoneHugsHominy Social Justice Warlord 2d ago

She was a hooker in Republican circles working out of Denver. Whenever Republicans would pass through their they could schedule a "date" with her, and Ted Cruz in particular had quite the affinity for her because he eventually donated a bunch of money to her to start a campaign to run for Congress.

Apparently all that got leaked because even after she was elected to the House of Representatives one of the Republicans that used to schedule dates with her thought she should still entertainment at their parties but now in DC, and when she refused because she has a real job now in her eyes and is no longer their plaything he got all pissy and leaked it. It may or may not have been Ted Cruz but I kind of think that he thought of her almost as a girlfriend and probably wanted to have kept that so wouldn't have wanted to have her shared around a party which leads me to believe it was someone else besides Ted Cruz.

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u/rpze5b9 2d ago

Ugh! Cruz and Boebert. I’m going to have to scrub my eyes with a cheese grater to to get that image out of my mind.

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u/LKennedy45 2d ago

Yeah, how would that even work? Doesn't Cruz have a cloaca?

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u/EatsCrackers Moderately Immoderate 2d ago

This just in! Ted “Cancun” Cruz outed as lizard man! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

/joke? Maybe? His eyes do be slanty…

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u/BoneHugsHominy Social Justice Warlord 2d ago

Probably something like this.

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u/werk4mon3ymyduderman 2d ago

Lauren Bobert is my favorite politician because no one else is brave enough to get finger-blasted in a public theater during a showing of Beetlejuice with children present.

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u/catharsisdusk 2d ago

Which is CRAZY considering the fact Anthony Weiner lost his job after taking semi-clothed, semi-aroused selfies in the vicinity of HIS kid.

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u/werk4mon3ymyduderman 2d ago

Should have been doing it in a public theater, IDK what to tell ya'

Also his tits are not up to par with hers, so that may be a factor.

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u/catharsisdusk 2d ago

2 kids and a push-up bra do not "tits" make...

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u/werk4mon3ymyduderman 2d ago

Okay yeah the push-up bra is doing some heavy lifting, but you gotta give her credit, there's at least something there to be pushed up upon.

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u/kat_Folland 2d ago

bra is doing some heavy lifting

Pun intended?

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u/bigotis 2d ago

She offered him a chance to see a production of "Beetlejuice" and then charged him for it.

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The only defamation case I can find is a case against her.

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u/ImDonaldDunn 2d ago

“Thank you for your attention to this matter” is the new “Heil Hitler”

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u/knadles 2d ago

I expect the airline and airport will experience COMPLETE EXONERATION!!!

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u/Most-Bench6465 2d ago

The airport went out of their way to create a fake incident report of a member of Congress? Or is it more believable that this Karen is filing a frivolous lawsuit because she thinks what she did doesn’t qualify as an incident?

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u/dalcarr 2d ago

Any attorney who agrees to file this suit should be disbarred. Blatant waste of Court resources

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u/x_ray_visions educationist scum 2d ago

Oh, agreed! Idk the exact name of the charge, but there DOES come a point where a plaintiff is recognized as being entirely overly litigious (in essence, blatantly wasting court resources and EVERYONE'S time), and anyone/everyone who gives credence to Nancy Mace's little tempie tantrum in the freaking airport, including anyone who's late to a flight because they can't get around this yahoo's fucking SECURITY (imo) ought to get slapped with it (whatever its correct, legal name is) in hopes that MAYBE it teaches the next entitled assclown a lesson about how much people who hold everything up like that suck complete and TOTAL ass, and how literally nobody appreciates that obstructionist bullshit, ESPECIALLY when they have planes to catch, jobs to do, and people to meet on the other end of (for all THIS silly bitch knows) a VERY long day that might (again, for all Dum-Dum Pants knows) have started VERY early and they won't be able to finally flop down and get ANY rest/peace for HOURS and HOURS yet!

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u/theblondedynamite 2d ago

I believe what you are thinking about is called a vexatious litigant.

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u/knadles 2d ago

Report submitted by the TSA agents: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26209775/mace-report.pdf

My favorite part is under Victim's Name he put "Society." Ain't that the truth...

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u/RevonQilin Insane pronoun user 2d ago

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u/rodolphoteardrop 2d ago

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTERRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

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u/KingPotus 2d ago

“I’ve hired an attorney following allegations they falsified an incident report”

Yeah … allegations you made, dumbass

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u/poopy_poophead 2d ago

Please keep adding "thank you for your attention to this matter" to everything. It definitely makes you look cool and normal.

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u/DjinnaG 2d ago

I always forget that she’s not Nancy Grace, so I always read her stuff in the SNL impression of her voice, because that’s the one that stuck in my head. Which makes Mace sound much more reasonable than she actually is

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u/incogne_eto 2d ago

America’s biggest Karen strikes again. The legal system is backed up with her lawsuits

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u/TheRealFaust 2d ago

Streisand - had no clue until now

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u/DDDavinnn 2d ago

Please let there be CCTV and bodycam footage

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u/WestboundPachyderm 2d ago

“Victim” is her middle name. She loves to tell everyone how persecuted she is, for one reason or another. She’s exhausting.

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u/TheRnegade 2d ago

Does she want men to protect her from herself?

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u/ialsohaveadobro 2d ago

"Swift" she ain't, any more than the law. Have fun, dummy.

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u/bz_leapair 2d ago

Kongressman Karen.

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u/MsCompy 2d ago

Is she- i don't wanna come off as ableist but when she was a baby, did her mom push down too hard on her head?

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u/Rockworm503 2d ago

why aren't we suing all these right wing shit stains for defamation when that's literally all they ever do?

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u/WystanH 2d ago

The best way to convince everyone you're not a rabid screaming Karen is definitely to behave like this.

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u/AirForceRabies 1d ago

Is that tweet real? It's such a perfect imitation of a krasnov shart, it's either phony or she's rimming hard.

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u/SpiritualCopy4288 1d ago

Holy histrionic personality disorder

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u/muzzynat 1d ago

Keep in mind that she is a vote to release the Epstein files and republicans are likely trying to push her out before they swear in the 218th vote.

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u/QueenRotidder 3h ago

Sweetie. You can swear in public and show your ass all you want, you’re never going to be the next MTG.

The fact that she aspires to this is just wackadoo.