AUSTIN SARAT
JONATHAN OBERT
Posted on 05/31/2020 11:45:28 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Twice in a 24-hour period, the president of the United States took to Twitter to endorse violence. The first time, at 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, he retweeted a video in which a supporter says, “The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.”
Then, early Friday morning, as protests over the police killing of George Floyd erupted in Minneapolis and turned violent, Donald Trump tweeted that “THUGS” were “dishonoring” Mr. Floyd’s memory. He concluded with a chilling warning, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
Trump is by no means the first American president to talk tough or to threaten the use of violence. But other presidents, mindful of the chief executive’s role as the leader of the entire nation, were focused on America’s public power and its legitimate use of force.
The president’s recent tweets were just the latest example of his penchant for threatening, encouraging, or obliquely endorsing violence directed against individual political opponents and/or racial minorities.
His embrace of such violence marks such a stunning departure from the pattern of his predecessors that we might fairly regard him as America’s first vigilante president.
Throughout the 2016 campaign and since his inauguration, Donald Trump regularly has talked—sometimes with a disturbingly playful tone—about the violent things he would like to do, or the violent things he would like his supporters to do. All of it well outside the bounds of legality.
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Know these people - they aren't just NeverTrumpers...they are rooting against the citizens of America. Indeed, the best explanation for why these people push this dreck (HT FReeper Empire_of_Liberty) is that
China told them they were going to harvest their organs last.
I voted for him to keep candles out. he has exceeded my wildest dreams
cankels
All those now known as “Never-Trumpers” were always blatantly obvious in their allegiance to the Uniparty and deep state.
These were the approved opposition working in concert with the dems/left to keep Americans on their knees.
Always preaching submission. Don’t confront the left, that’s rude. Don’t fight back in any meaningful manner, that’s sinking to their level.
These have always been betrayers. Mouths paid to utter the words scripted for them by the very same people they were pretending to stand against.
AUSTIN SARAT AND JONATHAN OBERT
so it took two morons to scribble this drivel, one to hold the crayon and the other to move the paper around.
“All of it well outside the bounds of legality.”
Show me the statute our President has violated.
OPrdinary citizens have the right to defend their lives, and their property against, rioters arsonists and looters, using their 2nd amendment rights to do so.
That’s the law in every state.
And if the President encouraged citizens to do so, he is certainly violating no law.
And a variety of citizens have done just that, all across our country.
Kudos to President Trump and to those who citizens who had enough vinegar to act when the police failed, or refused to do so.
Because, ya know, Amherst is where ALL the cool conservatives go for good writing.
AUSTIN SARAT
JONATHAN OBERT
Donald Trump tweeted that “THUGS”...
Anyone not condemning the riots, the rioters, the looting, the looters, and/or Antifa, is advocating, condoning, and inciting violence, and that goes double for the two nitwit authors of that screed.
These pseudo-intellectuals once more show their ignorance: In 1794 George Washington led a militia of 13,000 troops to put down The Whiskey Rebellion. If anyone was the "First Vigilante President", it was him.
Oh right. Uh huh. And he
Colluded with Russia
Cheated with stormy Daniels
Should be taken out with the 25th amendment
Asked Ukraine to investigate Biden
Blah blah blah
They always were the Democrat’s mouthpieces. They are blood brothers.
What the NeverTrumpers cannot bring themselves to comprehend is that Donald Trump TOWERS over them—intellectually and morally.
AUSTIN SARAT and JONATHAN OBERT are afraid they will be next, good.
They always were the Democrat’s mouthpieces. They are blood brothers“
No. They are Bush-McCain-Romney Republicans. They hate Trump because he denounced Bush MCCain and Romney and especially their foreign police of regime change wars, along with their open borders immigration policy.
As worthy as the last two articles from Pelosi's House.
The Bush-McCain-Romney Republicans along with the Rockefeller Republicans and Democrats are blood brothers are blood brothers. That is why they are called the uni-party. They play in the same league, just wear different uniforms to fool the public. Like professional wrestling.
Yes, this is why I didn’t vote for McCain in2008, Romney in 2016 or Bush (for re-election in 2004). I voted for Bush in 2000 but stopped supporting him when invaded Iraq. Didn’t vote for a GOP presidential candidate again until Trump
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