Trump Threatens To Arrest And Jail Protesters Who Topple Statues | Talking Points Memo

The tyrant of Tinyman Square issues fatwa.

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Hey Hey Ho Ho the GOP has got to go.

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Which is pure nonsense, since he doesn’t have to authorize any kind of arrest and punishment. That just happens when you‘re caught breaking any federal law (unless you’re rich and white).

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I am part of the Davy Crockett faction. He won the Battle of New Orleans but Andy Jackson was a terrible president. What he did to native Americans was absolutely horrible.

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I’d rather see trump in jail.

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Trump composite approval/disapproval/net from 538:
April 1: 45.8 / 49.7 / -3.9
June 22: 41.1 / 55.3 / -14.2

The Law of ETTD is creeping into Trump’s own political future.

Trump’s panicking in the only way he knows how–bullying, lying, insulting, doubling down.

How’s that working out, Donnie?

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Full points!

That the POTUS would post and comment on this this video with no knowledge or context is simply appalling! This should be a huge story unfortunately buried in the flood of his adolescent tweeting.

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He’s in a jail of his own making right now.
Fairly sure-- he’s aware of his re-election odds.
No one wants to be where he sits right now.

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Between Trump and Rudy I don’t know WHICH one looks like the weaker whiner…they don’t look STRONG with their bluster and threats…they look like scared oligarchs worrying about the rabble rising up.

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Jackson is particularly trump’s hero because he told the other branches of government to eff themselves. (And when you’re too racist for the 1830s…)

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… and genocidal maniacs.

(Andrew Jackson, Trump’s personal hero.)

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Trump just painted a bullseye on the Jackson statue. Unless they post a 24/7 guard around the thing, this baby is headed is headed for the smelter. A couple C4 charges or 5 minutes with a sawzall (see fence, Mexico - bollards), around the horses bronze ankles and gravity will do the rest.

You are correct, I messed up big time, I may be getting too old to multitask anymore!

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Did I hear that Scaredy Cat Bunker Baby sent the Press Pool home yesterday because he wanted to go down into the bunker, but he didn’t want anyone to see/record him with his bankie?

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I heard that as well, and you know that no one in the WH would ever leak anything, so he’s safe.

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Yes, in your vaunted “route to success,” people must not have “immediacy of gratification.” Instead, having already waited 170 years, they must wait even longer for your approval.

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protesters tried to tear down a statue of former President Andrew Jackson near the White House

Sounds good! Next come the Washington and Jefferson memorials! Oh, shit, they can’t be toppled with a rope. At this pace, there’s going to be lots of new empty real-estate in Washington.

When I read about this last night, the article said Andrew Johnson, leading me to think one, why would he have a statue in Lafayette Park, two, why would it be protected by the Veterans whatever act, and three, who wants to go on record defending that vile man?

But it turns out that it’s Andrew Jackson, also a vile man but definitely a decorated veteran. His statue should come down, but not because he committed treason, which he didn’t, or was a slaveholder, which a majority of antebellum presidents were. Rather, because he was a terrible man, vile racist and would-be dictator who defied SCOTUS to ethnically cleanse the deep south of its native peoples.

More broadly, though, we seriously need to rethink this dead white racist male worship thing we have.

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