[Edit] Flag Burning - Trump going after the first amendment

[seapilot]

He should get along great with Iran (penalty is death), China (5 years in prison), India (3 years in prison), South Korea (10 years! in prison), Argentina (4 years in prison).

Japan, Australia and UK burn their flags no laws on desecration, except Japan a person was charged with destroying public property after burning their flag.

http://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/06...ver-when-it-comes-to-flag-laws/8577645336000/

 

[Petar]

Shitty move on Trump's part, but who honestly did not see something like this coming?

Oh well, at least liberals now suddenly have a chance to support civil liberties again.

MAGA STILL ON TRACK!

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I understand it far better then you. I understand that your strategy is the one that lost to precious snowflakes that Trump is destroying.

You are defending the idea of flag burning as a federal crime. Nobody who has a basic grasp of liberty would do such an absurd thing. You can set there and justify your anti liberty lunacy until the cows come home and you will not be any less wrong for your many words and adamant insisting.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

This is just like the torture talk. It's not going to go anywhere. He's playing mindgames with the Marxists again, so they will inevitably overreact. He's basically requesting them to burn flags nationwide.

So when Clinton says something it's awful but when Trump says the exact same thing it 49D chess and he's just lying?

This is why we call y'all delusional.

 

[CPUd]

 

[Pizzo]

I love it. The only people who find this wrong are lefty loons. OP did you show any indignation to protests against Trump or violence against his supporters?

If no, then this law is a present for YOU.

Lol?

 

[TheCount]

If the only punishment is losing citizenship, this could actually effectively provide a much easier, cheaper, and hassle-free alternative method of renouncing US citizenship (and thus losing US tax liability)!

Non-citizen residents pay taxes.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Non-citizen residents pay taxes.

ORLY?

No!

You don't say!

Then there is an easy solution: Out!, Out!, Out!!

 

[EBounding]

I don't think Trump is serious here. He's trolling the media (again) and it is kind of funny. He does the same trick to his supporters too; ie the Wall, deporting illegal immigrants, abolishing federal departments, etc. He's not going to do any of those things.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I'm still frankly lost as to exactly how "he's just lying about that stuff" is actually supposed to be any better?

 

[devil21]

Hey, look over there!

Pay no attention to Goldman Sachs making a visit to Trump Tower today to tell Trump that Mnuchin will be his SecTreas, along with a few other cabinet appointments. Argue amongst yourselves about the flag instead.

 

[undergroundrr]

I'm still frankly lost as to exactly how "he's just lying about that stuff" is actually supposed to be any better?

That kind of sums up 2016 right there.

 

[JK/SEA]

I'm still frankly lost as to exactly how "he's just lying about that stuff" is actually supposed to be any better?

wow...you must be the only person i know who has NEVER lied...

amazing.

 

[Dangergirl]

From what I've seen of Trump and yes I've actually listened to what he's said as well, he's a guy who likes to keep leverage. He'll call a press conference because he wants to talk about obama's birth certificate and then parade a slew of MoH recipients that endorse him for 30 minutes on MSM for free. He's said over and over that it's stupid to tell ISIS we're going to bomb them 4 months before we bomb them. If you can't see he's a guy that knows how to play angles then you're reading too far into yourselves. Whether he's doing it for his own amusement, revenge, or a power play, you aren't going to out-guess him.

 

[Sentinelrv]

I think people are taking him too literal. I simply took it as Trump trolling the media and protesters, not as something serious. The protesters will now come out and start flag burning in protest to him, making them look anti-American and crazy. It gets them to protest the idea, then the revelation comes that Hillary supported what they're protesting against, making them experience cognitive dissonance. They fell right into Trump's trap. I find it hilarious.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

I'm still frankly lost as to exactly how "he's just lying about that stuff" is actually supposed to be any better?

Better than losing freedom!

By a far sight!

 

[helmuth_hubener]

 

[Zippyjuan]

I'm still frankly lost as to exactly how "he's just lying about that stuff" is actually supposed to be any better?

People didn't vote for Trump because he tells the truth. They wanted somebody they hoped would be "different". They are in for a big disappointment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-than-all-the-other-2016-candidates-combined/

A fact checker looked into 158 things Donald Trump said. 78 percent were false.

PolitiFact, the nonpartisan fact-checking outlet based in Florida, is out today with its mid-year report on the 2016 election. It's an attempt to take a step back from the day-to-day grind of the campaign and see which candidates are telling the truth and which aren't.

Donald Trump isn't.

Of the 158 Trump claims that PolitiFact has checked out, 95 have been rated either "False" or "Pants on Fire." That's 60 percent of all Trump claims. As PolitiFact notes, if you include the Trump statements rated "mostly false" in that group, 78 percent of all of Trump's fact-checked claims have been scored "mostly false" or worse.

That's not even the most amazing fact in the PolitiFact report. That honor goes to this: "Trump has more statements rated Pants on Fire, 30, than the 21 other candidates for president we’ve fact-checked this cycle combined." Ben Carson comes in second in "Pants on Fire" ratings -- with four!

 

[UWDude]

There will not be a law banning flag burning. Trump is trolling.

 

[William Tell]

I love it. The only people who find this wrong are lefty loons. OP did you show any indignation to protests against Trump or violence against his supporters?

If no, then this law is a present for YOU.

I could care less about flag burning. The reality is that the country is split and we are on a collision course for bad times. We don't even know who will win. But I like Trump's side and I like their chances under his leadership.



This is not why he made the threat. He is asymmetrically attacking the people who oppose him. Full frontal assaults got us to here.

This is exactly how the George W Bush supporters all sounded. You are supporting tyranny for no other reason than spite. You are on Trump's side so you will support whatever he tells you to while screaming at the top of your lungs that you can think for yourself.