It’s only a crime if the pig oinks “No”.
Trump is attracting an even seedier and more-ignorant mess/mass of potential reactionary voters than the Tea Mob or the Evangelicals… he’s tapping the worst of both lots, creating a strange chimera of voters angry about nothing they can articulate, but angry nonetheless.
The fistfights at polling stations we expected in 2010 when the fledgling Tea Mob started intimidating and stalking minority and poor voters trying to exercise their voting rights around the country, may actually occur this time around.
These folks are bitter and hostile and ready to pop, and trump’s got them all hopped up on self-righteous xenophobia gas, it is a wonder one of his rallies hasn’t already turned into a mob scene.
If there’s a semi-short label you can put on MOST of his supporters it is “angry, xenophobic, misguided, hypocritical zealots.”
Am I wrong?
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This is probably one of the more reasonable times to break the law, It’s basically protesting. Civil disobedience has pretty long history. The thrower knew he would be arrested, and accepted the consequences.
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,which is why you have to learn how to lob them on the sly, in a high arc so no one knows where they came from. Practice makes perfect…
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I will.
Doesn’t this sound like something the current President would say? I seem to remember this in a song:
I’m gonna knock you out!
Obama said knock you out!
There is a difference between assault and battery and civil disobedience. When you commit violence on another person, you’ve crossed that line. If it’s not OK for Trump to incite a crowd to violence then it’s not OK for people who disagree with Trump to handle their disagreement with a physical assault.
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Big difference between misdemeanor assault-by-tomato and felony battery.
Will you do their time for them as well, Herr Trump?
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So, a potential stain from one act is the same as the potential bodily harm or death from an incited crowd?
(Sorry, I know you don´t want me to respond to you, but your equivalence between the two acts doesn´t seem defensible.)
As far as I know, the tomato did not hit Trump. Besides the difference between this and “committing violence on another person” is pretty obvious.
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Incitement to commit assault? Soliciting a criminal act?
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…still can’t believe this guy is a serious candidate for POTUS. How did we ever get here?
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Throwing a tomato sure isn’t non-violent civil disobedience. Nor is it especially civil.
And this is the moron some want to be President of these United States? God help us…
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You are not.
Those who are responsible for Trump (the MSM) will probably never be blamed for the damage he is doing. When Fallon or some other imbecile laughingly “interviews” a man like Trump in the manner he did, he is, in effect, saying, “This man is an acceptable human being”. When Todd or some other imbecile lets Trump get away with lying without any sort of follow-up questioning, he is, in effect, saying, “I am a stenographer. Nothing is too offensive, insensitive or out-of-bounds to state to me.”
Edward R. Murrow, in reporting on the 1940 Blitzkrieg, was not a stenographer cataloging the sizes and the shapes of the planes which were making London-dwellers instantly homeless before his eyes.
HE WAS DESCRIBING–AND ARTICULATING AS SUCH–WRONGDOING.
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I’m surprised he wasn’t handing out monograph baseball bats. Could make some more money.
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[quote=“Measure_for_Measure, post:53, topic:32077, full:true”] Nor is it especially civil.
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Fair enough, but throwing fruit has a very long history, and if you consider that “violence” then we’ll have to disagree.
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Now that would have been a classy touch.
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And who covers tRump when he’s serving his felony sentence for inciting to riot? Or worse, should anyone be killed.
THIS IS so Donald Trump and his MINIONS>>>>>
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