traderdave wrote:Well surely you can understand how I could question whether or not somebody suggesting six months of jail time for burning a piece of cloth is serious.

Werthless wrote:

traderdave wrote:Well surely you can understand how I could question whether or not somebody suggesting six months of jail time for burning a piece of cloth is serious.

He's serious. Many people agree with him. People forget, or never learned it in school, why the first amendment is such a critical aspect of a functioning democracy. And I'm afraid that there are fewer and fewer people in this country that can effectively articulate a defense of a principle that has, until recently, been assumed to be an essential characteristic of our country.

td11 wrote:This is the republican base...

Doll Is Mine wrote:#brantt

Werthless wrote:

traderdave wrote:Well surely you can understand how I could question whether or not somebody suggesting six months of jail time for burning a piece of cloth is serious.

He's serious. Many people agree with him. People forget, or never learned it in school, why the first amendment is such a critical aspect of a functioning democracy. And I'm afraid that there are fewer and fewer people in this country that can effectively articulate a defense of a principle that has, until recently, been assumed to be an essential characteristic of our country.

jerseyhoya wrote:Also Brantt has voted Dem for the past decade+ before Trump, and both the House Majority Leader and Senate Majority Leader distanced themselves from Trump's position on flag burning today. Nothing close to a straightforward partisan issue.

Brantt wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Also Brantt has voted Dem for the past decade+ before Trump, and both the House Majority Leader and Senate Majority Leader distanced themselves from Trump's position on flag burning today. Nothing close to a straightforward partisan issue.

Correct..........16 years to be exact.

All this talk about me is flattering. I'm so grateful.

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago
ISIS is taking credit for the terrible stabbing attack at Ohio State University by a Somali refugee who should not have been in our country.

Law enforcement officials told NBC News that Artan was a Somali refugee who left his homeland with his family in 2007, lived in Pakistan and then came to the United States in 2014 as a legal permanent resident.

He lived briefly in a temporary shelter in Dallas before settling in Ohio, according to records maintained by Catholic Charities.

Artan attended Columbus State Community College for two years, graduating cum laude with an associate's degree before moving on to Ohio State to continue his studies. He told a campus publication that on his first day at OSU, he was "kind of scared" to pray in public.

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago
I will be holding a major news conference in New York City with my children on December 15 to discuss the fact that I will be leaving my .

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago
great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! While I am not mandated to ....

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour ago
do this under the law, I feel it is visually important, as President, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses..

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour ago
Hence, legal documents are being crafted which take me completely out of business operations. The Presidency is a far more important task

An advocate of oil and gas development, Fallin signed a bill last year that would prevent Oklahoma cites from enacting bans on drilling.

Fallin is a staunch critic of the Obama administration's climate change regulations for power plants. She signed an executive order last year saying that her state will not comply with the rules.

Fallin has faced criticism from environmental groups for her stance on climate change. In 2013, she questioned whether climate change was to blame for the state's drought. “It's just nature itself and the patterns that flow and so we're going to continue to pray for rain in the state of Oklahoma and hope we that we get some relief,” she told a local radio station.

pacino wrote:the only headline people will see is 'Trump to leave business behind' and not notice it'll probably still be his family running everything, or how long it will take (real estate isn't just turned over in one fell swoop), etc. this will likely be another sham.

in any event, we should probably stop taking his tweets as gospel from on high. look at his actions. his actions are shitty, and far more impactful.

CalvinBall wrote:

pacino wrote:the only headline people will see is 'Trump to leave business behind' and not notice it'll probably still be his family running everything, or how long it will take (real estate isn't just turned over in one fell swoop), etc. this will likely be another sham.

in any event, we should probably stop taking his tweets as gospel from on high. look at his actions. his actions are #$!&@, and far more impactful.

I am not taking it as gospel. I don't think many are at this point. A lot of coverage was spent on how wrong his "I lost the pop. vote bc millions voted illegally" tweet.

He doesn't speak to the press anymore. He hasn't really in months. We have the people he is appointing and his tweets to go on regarding what he is thinking or where we might be headed.

North Dakota officials on Tuesday moved to block supplies from reaching oil pipeline protesters at a camp near the construction site, threatening to use hefty fines to keep demonstrators from receiving food, building materials and even portable bathrooms.

Activists have spent months protesting plans to route the $3.8bn Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, saying the project poses a threat to water resources and sacred Native American sites.

State officials said on Tuesday they would fine anyone bringing prohibited items into the main protest camp following Governor Jack Dalrymple's "emergency evacuation" order on Monday.

Earlier, officials had warned of a physical blockade, but the governor's office backed away from that.