Hilarious, but reassuring actually. Real men. Contrast this with the fact that all the bloodsuckers attending Darth Vader's funeral yesterday - folks who ruined this country - snubbed Trump. Total compliment to him.
I'm pretty sure he was using piggy in a totally good old fashioned, parental (dare I say, paternal?) context: you had your turn, now it's this other person's, and here you are pushing back to the front of the line.
Sasha makes the point that there have been so many slurs and insults hurled at Trump, his family, and followers that no amount of hurling insults back at them could possibly equal the Left's own vitriol. For every time Trump tells some reporter what he thinks of them, there are literally a million insults which go unanswered. That's 999,999 times Trump remained silent per 1 time he responded in kind. Pretty good track record if you ask me.
It is just bizarre for him to call a reporter in a middle of a press conference "Piggy". As always, Stone has total amnesia of the insults Trump calls democrats and any one who opposes him ALL THE TIME. Remember Trump’s use of Hitler rhetoric from a Veteran’s Day speech, 2023 saying, “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like VERMIN within the confines of our country.” He's always calling them "radical leftwing lunatics", "sick", "deranged" , the "enemy within", etc. His Madisn Square Gardens even was full of crude and racist comments.
In recent news, lawmakers, many of whom are veterans, posted a video Tuesday telling military and intelligence officers to "refuse illegal orders." Trump made several posts:
“This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???”
"SEDITIIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!" and reposted:
“Hang them George Washington would.”
Rep. Jason Crow ( D-CO), an Army veteran, appeared on Fox news and pointed out some of some statements the erratic Trump has made that would be illegal if ordered:
At the protests at Lafayette Square in the first Trump administration where he said, ‘Can't you just shoot them? Can't you just shoot them in the legs or something?’ to Generals who were with him. Suppose that was an "order."
He's threatened to send the military into Chicago and other cities to, quote, 'go to war with those cities.'
He's mentioned sending troops to polling stations, which is actually a violation of U.S. law. U.S. criminal law prohibits troops from going to polling stations.
“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, National Guard, but military,” Trump told an audience filled with top generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia.
If you think it's bizarre for Trump to do that, you must think it's bizarre for Democrats to do it, because they do it every time they do a press conference.....not to the press, because they are their handmaidens, but to any and all Republicans.
They have their own words for their political opponents like: fascist, Hitler, pedophile, garbage, MAGAts, bitter clingers, deplorables, and as Sasha so ably shows, they adorn their magazines covers with Trump portrayed as a pig or a fat baby. You know the drill, eh?
Remember Trump’s use of Hitler rhetoric from a Veteran’s Day speech, 2023 saying, “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like VERMIN within the confines of our country.” In EVERY speech, he is calling calling them "radical leftwing lunatics", "sick", "deranged" , the "enemy within", etc. His Madison Square Gardens even was full of crude and racist comments.
The Presidential Walk of Fame" features gold-framed portraits of past presidents, except for Biden. His frame instead includes a photo of his autopen signature,
Oh, so he's really anti-fascist. But Trump is right, there are a lot of deranged leftwingers out there. According to science, about 50% of liberal women identify themselves as being mentally ill and recently, the psychotherapist, Dr. Jonathan Alpert said the 75% of his patients exhibit symptoms of TDS, calling it a "profound pathology". You exhibit same symptoms, neighbor.
So, what were his racist comments at the MSG event?
Still doesn't equal Dems trying to kill Trump, does it? And actually killing Charlie Kirk, probably the most influential Republican outside of the Trump, Vance, Rubio and a couple of others.
Disturbed individuals did that, not "democratS" (plural). Do you care that a right winger who attended trump rallies killed the hortmans & shot the Hoffman in MN?
No doubt they voted Democrat, if they voted. I hadn't heard that the person who killed the Hortmans and Hoffman was a Republican. I'll have to do some research. I think he's an evil, hate-filled person who did that, and yes, I do care. It's wrong to kill others over disagreements, greed, lust for power, etc. I have no problem with killing in self defense or in times of war.
Boelter impersonated a police officer to carry out the murders and went to several homes in an SUV made to look like those used by law enforcement. Boelter voted in the March 2024 Minn. Republican presidential primary and friends say he attended Trump rallies. The suspect had been reappointed by Walz to a Minn workforce council, leading people to claim he is a democrat, but people are appointed to this council based on industry representation, not on party affiliation. Friends say Boelter held deeply religious and politically conservative views, and strongly opposed abortion, according to interviews with Boelter’s roommate and videos of his sermons posted online. It appears that he was targeting abortion rights advocates as well as potentially targeting protesters at the No Kings rally.
The right wing NY Post says “ Accused political assassin Boelter allegedly sent a DERANGED confession to FBI Director Kash Patel claiming that Minnesota Gov Tim Walz had urged him to kill Democratic lawmakers as part of a twisted plot. Since you believe it, does that mean you are deranged also?
I have read your comments on a multitude of issues for many years now. Methinks you are the one that could be deranged. You cite these alleged "friends" that claimed Boelter voted R, held conservative views, etc. Who are these unidentified friends? Shouldn't they be willing to put their names out there? We are never going to come to an agreement, and I do not like disparagement from strangers, so I am disengaging from you. I know that will not stop you from opining your warped view on any and every issue that strikes your fancy. So be it. Enjoy your ranting. Not really enhancing the conversation, but of course, you don't really care about that.
No but I have noticed a serious infiltration of people now on Substack who do not contribute to the conversation in the comments in a substantial or meaningful way. They seem to be here to cut down and contradict the pieces and the comments of the commenters.
I have observed this phenomena happening since last fall. Coincidentally these people showed up when a certain person won the presidency last fall.
I call them the ‘sh*t stirrers’ and the majority of the time their comments are not pleasant, or an informative contribution to the conversation.
If one should dig a bit deeper and look at these ‘commenters’ profiles they are relatively recent ‘arrivistes’ to Substack.
I have been on Substack long enough (over four years) to know what the comments are like in general on the majority of the Substacks I subscribe to.
Your comment had that flavor of what I am referring to.
I just looked at your profile, what you read and the comments you have made.
I think I have been here longer than since last fall. Any way, I find Stone to be extremely one sided and I present facts to counter her claims. For example, she is complaining about left wingers saying insulting things about Trump and totally ignores the fact that Trump is constantly insulting democrats and anyone who opposes him. I usually back up my arguments with examples. I am always civil, unlike some of the commenters on this page. I don't think I have ever noticed your name before.
I have not been on Ms. Stone’s Substack that long. Am a relative newcomer here. A friend recommended her, and I like what she has to say so I subscribed. You haven’t “seen me here on Substack” because we travel in entirely different orbits here on Substack. You can look at my profile here on Substack, (as I have looked at yours, thus my observations), and see who I subscribe to and or read. They are quite different from your “interests”.
I do not “identify” with either of the two reigning political parties here in the USA. I never voted for Trump, nor have I voted for any Dems in over 14 years. I vote for the person, and how I think they will represent me and my views. So over the past 15 plus years, I haven’t voted for many of either party and I have been voting for a very long time. I am not a black or white, left or right thinker. I always see shades of gray in every issue and then make my own decisions, and am not influenced by “the hive mind” mentality.
I think of both ‘parties’ as basically “two cheeks of the same ass” or “two wings of the same bird”.
They are both equal opportunistic grifters, corrupt to their cores, out for themselves, and not their constituents. And are the reason the USA is sooo f**ked up now. I’m ready to have both parties implode, and build something new.
That's interesting because when I was in the military, I voted in every election by going to my designated polling place. Which law was supposed to prevent me from doing that?
So, not a law, just DOD rules. Don't see anywhere that it states that it's "actually a violation of U.S. law. U.S. criminal law prohibits troops from going to polling stations."
The guidelines do state that honor guards in uniforms are okay at political events.
Whoever, being an officer of the Army or Navy, or other person in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, orders, brings, keeps, or has under his authority or control any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held, unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both; and be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the United States.
This section shall not prevent any officer or member of the armed forces of the United States from exercising the right of suffrage in any election district to which he may belong, if otherwise qualified according to the laws of the State in which he offers to vote.
That's pure right wing BS. The assassin, Boelter, impersonated a police officer to carry out the murders and went to several homes in an SUV made to look like those used by law enforcement. Boelter voted in the March 2024 Minn. Republican presidential primary and friends say he attended Trump rallies. The suspect had been reappointed by Walz to a Minn workforce council, causing people to claim he is a democrat, but people were appointed to this council based on industry representation, NOT ON PARTY AFFILIATION. Friends say Boelter held deeply religious and politically conservative views, and strongly opposed abortion, according to interviews with Boelter’s roommate and videos of his sermons posted online. It appears that he was targeting abortion rights advocates as well as potentially targeting protesters at the No Kings rally.
He wrote out his confession, neighbor, in which he said he was operating under orders from Gov. Walz. Sure, he's a lunatic, but that's the thing about lunatics, isn't it?
Gee, I wonder why Trump and Patel haven’t jumped on this and spread it all over!
Boelter confessed to the shootings in a handwritten letter to Patel found in his purported getaway car and claimed he had been acting on secret orders from Governor Walz who ordered him to kill the state’s two U.S. senators, Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, because “Tim wants to be senator.” The letter claims that Boelter didn’t want to participate but did so after someone threatened his family and that he later killed people who were part of the alleged plot. U.S. attorney Joseph Thompson, whose office is leading the federal case against Boelter, said it was unclear if the rambling note was the gunman’s attempt to implicate the Hortmans and Hoffmans. He described it as fantasy.
Thompson said he had decided to make public a photo of the letter and other evidence to be as “transparent as possible in this case, in light of the legitimate public interest.”
The right wing NY Post says “ Accused political assassin Boelter allegedly sent a DERANGED confession to FBI Director Kash Patel claiming that Minnesota Gov Tim Walz had urged him to kill Democratic lawmakers as part of a twisted plot. Since you believe it, does that mean you are deranged also?
You are such a sucker for the MSM propaganda BS, that is floated around by the Gubment “three letter intelligence agencies about the “alleged assassin” of Trump. You likely gobble up the same propaganda that these same “agencies” are floating around the alleged “shooter” in the “Charlie Kirk assassination”. If in fact you even knew who Charlie Kirk was to begin with.
I knew who Charlie Kirk was although I never followed him closely. I'm not sure what you are getting at but I assume you think there were conspiracies to attempt to assassinate Trump and kill Kirk. I think they were deranged individuals.
Yes these were false flag events. Trump was never even grazed with any bullet, that was fake blood. And the CK alleged “assassination” is straight out of the Gubment three letter intelligence agencies ‘false flag’ playbook. One they have trotted out for over 25 years, since 9/11.
Neither one of the Gubment propaganda ‘narratives’ add up in either ‘incident’. And I’m not the only one of the so called “tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theory types” that is saying this.
Aren't "communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs" vermin? When did Hitler ever call fascists vermin? Does anyone in the Democratic party know anything about Fascism or about Hitler? It would seem not Seems to be a party of idiots. There! I did name calling! Or maybe just descriptive language
Hitler used "vermin" to refer to people he wanted to destroy and Trump uses "communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs" to refer to all left-wingers.
What I love about MAGA people is that we can take the worst they throw at us and make it work FOR us. We put it on T-shirts - "Bitter Clinger and Proud of it!" and when they call us "garbage" our President campaigns for working people from a garbage truck.
Their childish attempts to hurt us or degrade our triumphs only make us stronger, funnier, happier and more united.
Trump wins the best troll award of the world😂It keeps liberals busy and it’s the best entertainment the world has ever seen! Love seeing them get all crazy 🤪
Too bad President Trump doesn’t take these opportunities to practice stoicism, like what Seneca advises – that the best reaction to anger is silence.
Or, Epictetus, who advised, “Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation; you are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.” Ghandi said something similar, "Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
That’s what the Right did for years. Turned the other cheek. But it hasn’t served any purpose nor garnered any respect.
The Left has no scruples. They expend all their energy in hate and violence. They’re never drained though, they always find a way to go lower. There is a point though, as St Paul says, when you show them the bottom of your feet.
That point is now with the very courageous Trump and his brave family. Not without their flaws. However, they’ve risked everything. They deserve our respect and gratitude.
Nope. Republicans tried, for decades, to turn the other cheek with media abuse, and all they got from it was two slapped cheeks. Trump gives as good-and better--as he gets. It's one of his super powers.
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission"--OK, that's the stupidest Gandhi quote I have ever heard. Was that what he was thinking the moment he was assassinated?
First rally I saw Trump was when he was campaigning in 2016. He started out his speech saying that he will not be politically correct and he doesn’t lie. I believe that to this day. He may exaggerate but he doesn’t lie. He’s proven that with “promises made, promises kept”.
LOL!!! Trump is no stoic. You might remember this expression: "To Thine Own Self be True" (from Shakespeare in Hamlet). Trump is always true to himself. He is who he is, like it or not.
The problem with this Christian line of thinking is the rest don't think like you. So, you turn the other cheek and the next day your country is flooded with Muslims. And they will not turn the other cheek.
No, that's not why I voted for him. He's a disruptor and outsider to their system and why all sides attack him (Dems more than Reps). He's doing what I wanted.
Once, I was made to read a management book (back in the days of Tom Peters) that stated you must replace the leaders that already have tried repeatedly and failed. Retraining is of no use, and they will simply fall back into their old ways, with the same eventual results.
Congress is the embodiment of this problem; it was never intended to create a political class and was intended to be refreshed every 2-4-6 years with other Citizens. It hasn't been for decades, and is now even more exclusive than before.
Only term limits will solve the immediate problem of failed leaders retaining their positions forever.
ABC is not a “news” organization it is no more than a low level muckraker with no legitimacy. They should be banned from the press room, Air Force One, and any other venue where America is doing its business. They should have to stand out in the rain and run down the street like all the other two bit fake news entities in the world.
Trump has a nickname for everyone he encounters with regularity. All his cabinet have nicknames. Some got those nicknames when they were his opponent, like Marco Rubio. Its just good natured teasing, what we all did in high school with each other.
Woke women can dish it out but can't take it. They crumble or melt after a little push back. Any time anybody asked poor little Kamala a follow up question she went into exasperated word salad mode.
It always amuses, or infuriates me, depending on my mood, how the Left can be so abusive with language and yet expect perfect composure and civility from their opponents. They seem to not understand that Trump, most of us, can give it as good as we get. That is my motto. I am very civil with my words until I am attacked. And then I attack even harder if I can find a way. Trump always says he will give it back 10 fold. I believe him. And why shouldn't he?
True they are complete hypocrites for being outraged over their perception that he called a reporter "piggy" when they call him that and far worse, but I'm not sure he even called her that. Many have said he was talking to a reporter named Peggy and told Peggy to be quiet. But Orange Man Bad so let's run with Piggy...
The best part of all this is Trump just rolls onward into the night, etc. See Tyrus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Bx6C1Kfs0
Hilarious, but reassuring actually. Real men. Contrast this with the fact that all the bloodsuckers attending Darth Vader's funeral yesterday - folks who ruined this country - snubbed Trump. Total compliment to him.
Exactly, most of the deep state was there. So glad Trump and Vance etc. were snubbed!
I'm pretty sure he was using piggy in a totally good old fashioned, parental (dare I say, paternal?) context: you had your turn, now it's this other person's, and here you are pushing back to the front of the line.
Why the furor?
He absolutely meant that she had her question now it’s someone else’s turn! She was being a question hog!
Because our youth are pusillanimous.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sasha makes the point that there have been so many slurs and insults hurled at Trump, his family, and followers that no amount of hurling insults back at them could possibly equal the Left's own vitriol. For every time Trump tells some reporter what he thinks of them, there are literally a million insults which go unanswered. That's 999,999 times Trump remained silent per 1 time he responded in kind. Pretty good track record if you ask me.
It is just bizarre for him to call a reporter in a middle of a press conference "Piggy". As always, Stone has total amnesia of the insults Trump calls democrats and any one who opposes him ALL THE TIME. Remember Trump’s use of Hitler rhetoric from a Veteran’s Day speech, 2023 saying, “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like VERMIN within the confines of our country.” He's always calling them "radical leftwing lunatics", "sick", "deranged" , the "enemy within", etc. His Madisn Square Gardens even was full of crude and racist comments.
In recent news, lawmakers, many of whom are veterans, posted a video Tuesday telling military and intelligence officers to "refuse illegal orders." Trump made several posts:
“This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???”
"SEDITIIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!" and reposted:
“Hang them George Washington would.”
Rep. Jason Crow ( D-CO), an Army veteran, appeared on Fox news and pointed out some of some statements the erratic Trump has made that would be illegal if ordered:
At the protests at Lafayette Square in the first Trump administration where he said, ‘Can't you just shoot them? Can't you just shoot them in the legs or something?’ to Generals who were with him. Suppose that was an "order."
He's threatened to send the military into Chicago and other cities to, quote, 'go to war with those cities.'
He's mentioned sending troops to polling stations, which is actually a violation of U.S. law. U.S. criminal law prohibits troops from going to polling stations.
“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, National Guard, but military,” Trump told an audience filled with top generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia.
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/elections/2024/trumps-madison-square-garden-event-features-crude-and-racist-insults/
If you think it's bizarre for Trump to do that, you must think it's bizarre for Democrats to do it, because they do it every time they do a press conference.....not to the press, because they are their handmaidens, but to any and all Republicans.
They call women piggy , horseface, nasty woman, whack job , low IQ, crazy, fat pigs ,dogs like trump?
They have their own words for their political opponents like: fascist, Hitler, pedophile, garbage, MAGAts, bitter clingers, deplorables, and as Sasha so ably shows, they adorn their magazines covers with Trump portrayed as a pig or a fat baby. You know the drill, eh?
Don't forget irredeemable. Hillary Clinton said that I was irredeemable. Thank God, my redeemer Christ doesn't feel that way.
Remember Trump’s use of Hitler rhetoric from a Veteran’s Day speech, 2023 saying, “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like VERMIN within the confines of our country.” In EVERY speech, he is calling calling them "radical leftwing lunatics", "sick", "deranged" , the "enemy within", etc. His Madison Square Gardens even was full of crude and racist comments.
The Presidential Walk of Fame" features gold-framed portraits of past presidents, except for Biden. His frame instead includes a photo of his autopen signature,
Oh, so he's really anti-fascist. But Trump is right, there are a lot of deranged leftwingers out there. According to science, about 50% of liberal women identify themselves as being mentally ill and recently, the psychotherapist, Dr. Jonathan Alpert said the 75% of his patients exhibit symptoms of TDS, calling it a "profound pathology". You exhibit same symptoms, neighbor.
So, what were his racist comments at the MSG event?
Still doesn't equal Dems trying to kill Trump, does it? And actually killing Charlie Kirk, probably the most influential Republican outside of the Trump, Vance, Rubio and a couple of others.
Disturbed individuals did that, not "democratS" (plural). Do you care that a right winger who attended trump rallies killed the hortmans & shot the Hoffman in MN?
You mean that guy that said he committed his crimes to please his former boss, Governor Walz?
No doubt they voted Democrat, if they voted. I hadn't heard that the person who killed the Hortmans and Hoffman was a Republican. I'll have to do some research. I think he's an evil, hate-filled person who did that, and yes, I do care. It's wrong to kill others over disagreements, greed, lust for power, etc. I have no problem with killing in self defense or in times of war.
See reply to Jeff Keener below.
You mean that guy with all the "No Kings" literature in his car?
Boelter impersonated a police officer to carry out the murders and went to several homes in an SUV made to look like those used by law enforcement. Boelter voted in the March 2024 Minn. Republican presidential primary and friends say he attended Trump rallies. The suspect had been reappointed by Walz to a Minn workforce council, leading people to claim he is a democrat, but people are appointed to this council based on industry representation, not on party affiliation. Friends say Boelter held deeply religious and politically conservative views, and strongly opposed abortion, according to interviews with Boelter’s roommate and videos of his sermons posted online. It appears that he was targeting abortion rights advocates as well as potentially targeting protesters at the No Kings rally.
The right wing NY Post says “ Accused political assassin Boelter allegedly sent a DERANGED confession to FBI Director Kash Patel claiming that Minnesota Gov Tim Walz had urged him to kill Democratic lawmakers as part of a twisted plot. Since you believe it, does that mean you are deranged also?
I have read your comments on a multitude of issues for many years now. Methinks you are the one that could be deranged. You cite these alleged "friends" that claimed Boelter voted R, held conservative views, etc. Who are these unidentified friends? Shouldn't they be willing to put their names out there? We are never going to come to an agreement, and I do not like disparagement from strangers, so I am disengaging from you. I know that will not stop you from opining your warped view on any and every issue that strikes your fancy. So be it. Enjoy your ranting. Not really enhancing the conversation, but of course, you don't really care about that.
NW Citizen might you be on the wrong Substack? 🤔🐷😉
Why? Are no dissenting opinions allowed on this substack? You prefer a comments page with everyone gushing over Stone?
No but I have noticed a serious infiltration of people now on Substack who do not contribute to the conversation in the comments in a substantial or meaningful way. They seem to be here to cut down and contradict the pieces and the comments of the commenters.
I have observed this phenomena happening since last fall. Coincidentally these people showed up when a certain person won the presidency last fall.
I call them the ‘sh*t stirrers’ and the majority of the time their comments are not pleasant, or an informative contribution to the conversation.
If one should dig a bit deeper and look at these ‘commenters’ profiles they are relatively recent ‘arrivistes’ to Substack.
I have been on Substack long enough (over four years) to know what the comments are like in general on the majority of the Substacks I subscribe to.
Your comment had that flavor of what I am referring to.
I just looked at your profile, what you read and the comments you have made.
I understand now. You fit the ‘profile’.
I think I have been here longer than since last fall. Any way, I find Stone to be extremely one sided and I present facts to counter her claims. For example, she is complaining about left wingers saying insulting things about Trump and totally ignores the fact that Trump is constantly insulting democrats and anyone who opposes him. I usually back up my arguments with examples. I am always civil, unlike some of the commenters on this page. I don't think I have ever noticed your name before.
I have not been on Ms. Stone’s Substack that long. Am a relative newcomer here. A friend recommended her, and I like what she has to say so I subscribed. You haven’t “seen me here on Substack” because we travel in entirely different orbits here on Substack. You can look at my profile here on Substack, (as I have looked at yours, thus my observations), and see who I subscribe to and or read. They are quite different from your “interests”.
I do not “identify” with either of the two reigning political parties here in the USA. I never voted for Trump, nor have I voted for any Dems in over 14 years. I vote for the person, and how I think they will represent me and my views. So over the past 15 plus years, I haven’t voted for many of either party and I have been voting for a very long time. I am not a black or white, left or right thinker. I always see shades of gray in every issue and then make my own decisions, and am not influenced by “the hive mind” mentality.
I think of both ‘parties’ as basically “two cheeks of the same ass” or “two wings of the same bird”.
They are both equal opportunistic grifters, corrupt to their cores, out for themselves, and not their constituents. And are the reason the USA is sooo f**ked up now. I’m ready to have both parties implode, and build something new.
That's interesting because when I was in the military, I voted in every election by going to my designated polling place. Which law was supposed to prevent me from doing that?
Here are official rules:
https://www.army.mil/article/238579/election_season_dos_and_donts_for_dod_personnel
So, not a law, just DOD rules. Don't see anywhere that it states that it's "actually a violation of U.S. law. U.S. criminal law prohibits troops from going to polling stations."
The guidelines do state that honor guards in uniforms are okay at political events.
June 25, 1948
18 U.S. Code § 592 - Troops at polls
Whoever, being an officer of the Army or Navy, or other person in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, orders, brings, keeps, or has under his authority or control any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held, unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both; and be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the United States.
This section shall not prevent any officer or member of the armed forces of the United States from exercising the right of suffrage in any election district to which he may belong, if otherwise qualified according to the laws of the State in which he offers to vote.
Oh, you dope. It's illegal for an officer to order armed troops to a polling station unless its necessary to repel armed enemies of the U.S.
That is not what you wrote. You wrote: "U.S. criminal law prohibits troops from going to polling stations."
That's pure right wing BS. The assassin, Boelter, impersonated a police officer to carry out the murders and went to several homes in an SUV made to look like those used by law enforcement. Boelter voted in the March 2024 Minn. Republican presidential primary and friends say he attended Trump rallies. The suspect had been reappointed by Walz to a Minn workforce council, causing people to claim he is a democrat, but people were appointed to this council based on industry representation, NOT ON PARTY AFFILIATION. Friends say Boelter held deeply religious and politically conservative views, and strongly opposed abortion, according to interviews with Boelter’s roommate and videos of his sermons posted online. It appears that he was targeting abortion rights advocates as well as potentially targeting protesters at the No Kings rally.
He wrote out his confession, neighbor, in which he said he was operating under orders from Gov. Walz. Sure, he's a lunatic, but that's the thing about lunatics, isn't it?
Gee, I wonder why Trump and Patel haven’t jumped on this and spread it all over!
Boelter confessed to the shootings in a handwritten letter to Patel found in his purported getaway car and claimed he had been acting on secret orders from Governor Walz who ordered him to kill the state’s two U.S. senators, Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, because “Tim wants to be senator.” The letter claims that Boelter didn’t want to participate but did so after someone threatened his family and that he later killed people who were part of the alleged plot. U.S. attorney Joseph Thompson, whose office is leading the federal case against Boelter, said it was unclear if the rambling note was the gunman’s attempt to implicate the Hortmans and Hoffmans. He described it as fantasy.
Thompson said he had decided to make public a photo of the letter and other evidence to be as “transparent as possible in this case, in light of the legitimate public interest.”
The right wing NY Post says “ Accused political assassin Boelter allegedly sent a DERANGED confession to FBI Director Kash Patel claiming that Minnesota Gov Tim Walz had urged him to kill Democratic lawmakers as part of a twisted plot. Since you believe it, does that mean you are deranged also?
Like I said, he's a lunatic.
You are such a sucker for the MSM propaganda BS, that is floated around by the Gubment “three letter intelligence agencies about the “alleged assassin” of Trump. You likely gobble up the same propaganda that these same “agencies” are floating around the alleged “shooter” in the “Charlie Kirk assassination”. If in fact you even knew who Charlie Kirk was to begin with.
I knew who Charlie Kirk was although I never followed him closely. I'm not sure what you are getting at but I assume you think there were conspiracies to attempt to assassinate Trump and kill Kirk. I think they were deranged individuals.
Yes these were false flag events. Trump was never even grazed with any bullet, that was fake blood. And the CK alleged “assassination” is straight out of the Gubment three letter intelligence agencies ‘false flag’ playbook. One they have trotted out for over 25 years, since 9/11.
Neither one of the Gubment propaganda ‘narratives’ add up in either ‘incident’. And I’m not the only one of the so called “tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theory types” that is saying this.
Aren't "communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs" vermin? When did Hitler ever call fascists vermin? Does anyone in the Democratic party know anything about Fascism or about Hitler? It would seem not Seems to be a party of idiots. There! I did name calling! Or maybe just descriptive language
Hitler used "vermin" to refer to people he wanted to destroy and Trump uses "communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs" to refer to all left-wingers.
If the shoe fits...
I think you might be on the wrong Substack?😉🤔🐷
Awwwww. 😢
What I love about MAGA people is that we can take the worst they throw at us and make it work FOR us. We put it on T-shirts - "Bitter Clinger and Proud of it!" and when they call us "garbage" our President campaigns for working people from a garbage truck.
Their childish attempts to hurt us or degrade our triumphs only make us stronger, funnier, happier and more united.
HOO-RAH !!
Sticks and stones mat break our bones, but names mean we've got yiu.
Trump wins the best troll award of the world😂It keeps liberals busy and it’s the best entertainment the world has ever seen! Love seeing them get all crazy 🤪
Great stack👍
Amen!
"it’s fair to call a journalist a “piggy” considering what they’ve done to our country."
Fair?
It's fair to no longer call those in the "mainstream " journalists.
It would be fair if they were no longer employed as journalists.
They are no longer journalists.
And "swine" is much too nice of a term to describe them.
I Believe the "Reporters" name is Peggy.
Her name was Catherine Lucey.
She was trying to hog his time to the detriment of the other reporters.
Forever known as 'Piggy'!
Too bad President Trump doesn’t take these opportunities to practice stoicism, like what Seneca advises – that the best reaction to anger is silence.
Or, Epictetus, who advised, “Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation; you are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.” Ghandi said something similar, "Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
That’s what the Right did for years. Turned the other cheek. But it hasn’t served any purpose nor garnered any respect.
The Left has no scruples. They expend all their energy in hate and violence. They’re never drained though, they always find a way to go lower. There is a point though, as St Paul says, when you show them the bottom of your feet.
That point is now with the very courageous Trump and his brave family. Not without their flaws. However, they’ve risked everything. They deserve our respect and gratitude.
The Left always go lower because they love this stuff. They wallow in violence and vituperation as a, well, a pig wallows in filth.
I wish I had a quarter for every time I've heard these gentle, tolerant people make fun of his weight, his genitals—even the shape of his mouth.
Such yahoos. Yahoos sporting grizzled hair, L.L. Bean, and Nina Totenbags.
Nope. Republicans tried, for decades, to turn the other cheek with media abuse, and all they got from it was two slapped cheeks. Trump gives as good-and better--as he gets. It's one of his super powers.
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission"--OK, that's the stupidest Gandhi quote I have ever heard. Was that what he was thinking the moment he was assassinated?
YES. THIS IS IT.
I’ve been saying this for years.
Democrats cry all the time for decency and someone with good character blah blah.
But they at dirty, call republicans awful names and expect otherwise.
This is yet another reason people voted for Trump. He threw it right back at them.
First rally I saw Trump was when he was campaigning in 2016. He started out his speech saying that he will not be politically correct and he doesn’t lie. I believe that to this day. He may exaggerate but he doesn’t lie. He’s proven that with “promises made, promises kept”.
Exactly!! Trump is our battering ram!
I guess it takes a snake to fight the other snakes in the DC cesspool.
I prefer, "it takes a bully to beat a bully."
Great conclusion.
But then he wouldn't be Trump. He had me from "fake news" (2017). Well, that, and "our leaders are stupid" (2015).
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LOL!!! Trump is no stoic. You might remember this expression: "To Thine Own Self be True" (from Shakespeare in Hamlet). Trump is always true to himself. He is who he is, like it or not.
The problem with this Christian line of thinking is the rest don't think like you. So, you turn the other cheek and the next day your country is flooded with Muslims. And they will not turn the other cheek.
Exactly. You can't reason with lunatics, you can only crush them and move on.
Bullies don’t stop bullying until they get punched in the face.
In 6th grade I was bullied for a bit until one day I punched right I the face. He stopped bullying me and we became friends in high school LOL.
No, that's not why I voted for him. He's a disruptor and outsider to their system and why all sides attack him (Dems more than Reps). He's doing what I wanted.
Once, I was made to read a management book (back in the days of Tom Peters) that stated you must replace the leaders that already have tried repeatedly and failed. Retraining is of no use, and they will simply fall back into their old ways, with the same eventual results.
Congress is the embodiment of this problem; it was never intended to create a political class and was intended to be refreshed every 2-4-6 years with other Citizens. It hasn't been for decades, and is now even more exclusive than before.
Only term limits will solve the immediate problem of failed leaders retaining their positions forever.
Didn't do Mitt Romney or John McCain any good.
that sword cuts both ways... big time.
Surprised your memory lane trip did not include the ultimate dehumanization by so-called comedian Kathy Griffin:
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2017/05/30/kathy-griffin-beheads-donald-trump-shock-bloody-photo/
It was a Bloomberg reporter named Margaret, who goes by Peggy. Trump meant to say Peggy, but of course the left wants it to be Piggy.
ABC is not a “news” organization it is no more than a low level muckraker with no legitimacy. They should be banned from the press room, Air Force One, and any other venue where America is doing its business. They should have to stand out in the rain and run down the street like all the other two bit fake news entities in the world.
Trump has a nickname for everyone he encounters with regularity. All his cabinet have nicknames. Some got those nicknames when they were his opponent, like Marco Rubio. Its just good natured teasing, what we all did in high school with each other.
I’m not sure it’s exactly good natured.🤣
Some are good natured, but definitely not all of them
I stand corrected.
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As Greg Gutfield says, once you call him Hitler, anything else he calls them is nothing
The hypocrisy of the Dems is beyond the pale really. They have the media on their side so they think they can do and say whatever they want.
Truly. Would you rather be called “piggy” or “Hitler, Nazi, Fascist, deplorable. garbage etc.”
I’d take piggy any day.
But the left has to squeal like the piggies they are whenever one of us (Trump) dishes it back.
They are the biggest hypocrites in the world.
They will sling mud daily but once you sling back they will fry and wail.
100%.
And they CAN get away with saying anything because the media lies on their behalf.
What makes them absolutely furious and bonkers is that they can't tame him. That is his super power.
Woke women can dish it out but can't take it. They crumble or melt after a little push back. Any time anybody asked poor little Kamala a follow up question she went into exasperated word salad mode.
Another opinionated propaganda monkey trying to bully a Q & A session.
Maybe some consideration and questions of quality would offer some clarity and insight on the subject.
She clearly doesn't have the skills or the comprehension to be assigned to the POTUS.
It always amuses, or infuriates me, depending on my mood, how the Left can be so abusive with language and yet expect perfect composure and civility from their opponents. They seem to not understand that Trump, most of us, can give it as good as we get. That is my motto. I am very civil with my words until I am attacked. And then I attack even harder if I can find a way. Trump always says he will give it back 10 fold. I believe him. And why shouldn't he?
True they are complete hypocrites for being outraged over their perception that he called a reporter "piggy" when they call him that and far worse, but I'm not sure he even called her that. Many have said he was talking to a reporter named Peggy and told Peggy to be quiet. But Orange Man Bad so let's run with Piggy...