That appears to be what the response to Trump and his people is. Inciting violence is always a chump charge. There is a bit more than voicing their opinions and disapproval.
On Feb. 1 of this year, Trump says that his security team told him someone in the audience was preparing to throw tomatoes. “If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them,” he said. “Just knock the hell out of them. I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees.”
I think I’d pay the damn legal fees too. While I can’t stand whatever he’s decided his message is today, I also think the heckler’s veto has gotten out of hand in some cases. The number of conservative speakers that have their speeches cancelled out of fear of violence, not by them but by people protesting them is significant.
If Trump wins the GOP contest I’m screwed. The only thing I can hope for is that Congress will do it’s job, so I’m double screwed.
If cities would live within their budgets they wouldn’t have to create fines for everything on the planet. All that crap with Ferguson the biggest thing I noticed was the police force there was the informal tax collection office. The government the people voted into place there were fleecing them on fees and fines.
At the least there should be options to work off the debt. Though there would have to be a limit there as well before whole neighborhoods end up in indentured servitude to the police.
edit: hah, posted before I read the city in the article.
From the Article…
Lawsuits have been led by not only civil rights groups such as the ACLU but also conservative ones.
Your liberal bias is showing dude. there are such things as conservative civil rights groups, maybe you’ve heard of the oldest civil rights organization in the US? The NRA? I also think it’s interesting that the author thinks of the ACLU as a not conservative or libertarian organization, despite the fact that while a lot, if not most, of their high visibility cases are traditional liberal causes, they do take other cases as well regardless of political slant.
I’m amazed/amused that Donald Trump is currently leading for his primary. I’m amazed/amused that Clinton is leading hers, what with all the hullabaloo during the Obama/Clinton campaigns.
So my thought is this. We had our first mulatto (I think that’s how you spell it) president (you wouldn’t believe how many people have admitted to me they voted just on principle of color). Are we shooting for first female now?
What about someone who actually cares about the future of this country? Is that important anymore?
I have been pretty much ignoring the Presidential race because over here in this part of the US, a lot of things are already decided before my state even gets a chance to be involved. But I’m getting the impression that if it comes down to a choice between Clinton and Trump, I may choose Clinton and I’m no fan of hers.
So as a bit of perspective, I just spent some time reading through A Complete List of Donald Trump’s Business Disasters. Everyone has plans and ideas that don’t work, but a lot of these sound like he was expecting his ego to guarantee their success. That bit about teaming up with The Sharper Image to sell his steaks is a lot like when Borders Books couldn’t get their own website going so they turned to Amazon, their competitor, to help them.
As a political science student (I was young and none of the courses had prereqs), a soldier (allegedly part time), and a conservative (with libertarian leanings, and not Republican), all I can do this year is drink and yell at the television.
Too funny, the party of the candidates is not mentioned is the article at all. It’s amazing how violent Democrats are.
Case in point, Trump supporters are racist extremist big dummy heads. How many rallies of competitors have they disrupted, how many times have they rioted after or before a rally, and how many of them charge the stage?
The mainstream media is in the tank. And it’s never so obvious as it is with stories like this.
Ian Duncan Smith, also known as Ids, Destroyer of Lives, resigned from his post as head of the Department for Work and Pensions after he tried - and failed - to shut down a FOI inquest into the failings of the migration to the consolidated Universal Credit system which has so far cost about ten times more than the amount it was supposed to save for the past two years. This is a week after the DWP decided that people who live on disability welfare were too rich, and struck £30-per-week from the welfare payments. This doesn’t sound like much until you realise that the ‘basic rate’ for these benefits is a whopping £120/wk and this is supposed to include money to pay utilities, transport, et al.
So he’s gone, which is good. He was a truly evil and cruel person.
What isn’t good is that he’s been replaced by someone who is truly worse.
Stephen Crabb is Welshish, in that he is Welsh but he hates Wales. He campaigned to have the A55 highway demolished to make the Severn Bridge the only major route into the principality - the Severn Bridge being a toll bridge belonging to a company of which he is a shareholder. He also openly believes that homosexuality is a mental condition that can be cured with sexual therapy (the stuff that the USA played around with until the 1960s when everyone realised that it was bollocks).
Oh, and his qualifications for taking on the job of boss of Social Services and Security? He has children.
In what way was this a “town hall”? None of the “candidates” was even near each other, they did not have any way to respond to what each other was saying… It was just 5 interviews, back to back.
Why is it okay for Bush to sit and listen to the reading of a children’s book, just an hour or so from the Pentagon bombing, but there’s something sinister about Obama not rushing back to Washington DC because there’s attacks in Belgium?
To hear this idiot talk, Obama deliberately scheduled the visit to Cuba so he could ignore the attacks that hadn’t even happened yet.
Yes, politics in the U.S. is broken. At this rate, it’s eligible to be stored at Yucca Mountain.
Like going to Cuba in the first place. Like getting your picture taken in front of a mural of Che, like talking to a Castro like they are a human being and pretending everything is OK in Cuba. It’s not like Cuba is the USSR and we have to pretend everything is OK.
