Putting shit on the flag should also get jail time.
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Trump wants legislators to come up with a law to jail Americans for one year if they burn an American flag.
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Putting shit on the flag should also get jail time.
Bart and Lisa are zoomers confirmed.
I'm....actually okay with that.
Burning an American flag shouldn't be treated any differently than if you burned any other item that's mass produced in China and sold at any Walmart in the land. It's not some sacred thing, it's an oversized napkin, or a very uncomfortable blanket.
That's what I was thinking while reading the thread. I thought this had already been settled in the supreme court, and that burning the flag falls under the first amendment.
This is empty posturing by Donnie, trying to rile up his base.
This will be the new US flag if he gets re-elected.
He can read when it's about him. The Constitution doesn't mention his name once so he doesn't care about it.
200,000 people will probably have died from a preventable pandemic by years end, we're silently bumbling along in an economic recession, Black communites are (rightfully) fucking fed up, and this is the necessary legislation of our time??
I mean it's obviously just "yeaaaAAAHHHHH!!" meat for his rally attendees that (hopefully) won't go anywhere due to already being settled in the SCOTUS, but still
I mean it's obviously just "yeaaaAAAHHHHH!!" meat for his rally attendees that (hopefully) won't go anywhere due to already being settled in the SCOTUS, but still
I think that's the point. He wants images of Dems burning flags so he can rile his base up and force Biden to take a stance
I do think there are some issues with free speech but, like, come on! Why would anyone genuinely care if you burn the flag? It's a piece of cloth Talk about fake outrage.
Back in 1995, my friend and I had to raise the flag every morning (we were in eight grade). One day we started, like, whipping each other with the flag or throwing it at each other or other such tomfoolery. Some military dude saw us as he drove by and tattled on us to our principal. That taught me a valuable lesson: People who get legitimately upset about how the flag is treated are babies.
I do think we should outlaw American Flag clothes, though. That's just tacky.
Back in 1995, my friend and I had to raise the flag every morning (we were in eight grade). One day we started, like, whipping each other with the flag or throwing it at each other or other such tomfoolery. Some military dude saw us as he drove by and tattled on us to our principal. That taught me a valuable lesson: People who get legitimately upset about how the flag is treated are babies.
I do think we should outlaw American Flag clothes, though. That's just tacky.
Keep in mind that for two years people not standing in front of it was considered a huge racial controversy.
No it wasn't. It was an excuse people could use to yell at black people for wanting to be treated like people. It had nothing to do with the flag.
Bush senior, failed one term president, tried the same shit for red meat and the supreme court slapped it down, he then tried to make it a constitutional amendment and it failed to have enough votes to move forward then his idiot son, W. Bush, tried again to make it illegal and passed legislation while the financial collapse was happening. That what the idiots do, distract and wrap themselves in the flag.
So what's the punishment for wiping your ass with it, because he's been doing that nonstop for 4 years.
LOL flag burning laws are the tired old dogs that the GOP drag out, like clockwork, when they're desperate.
Was he speaking about the American flag or the Confederate flag? Because if it his flag it would be the later.
well it shouldn't have, but it did to racists. Though true, it had a lot more to do with racism than the flag. The flag was the excuse for it all though which is the greater point. Flag worship even if it's just an excuse.
Exactly. Trump is just throwing shit out there to excite his base even though he knows it will never happen (like the vast majority of his ideas).
Conservatives are losing their right to free speech!
Oh, but burning a piece of cloth? Fuck them.
Oh, but burning a piece of cloth? Fuck them.
I was about to say... wasn't there a Supreme Court case about this very thing?
Of course Trump is too fucking stupid to know that or, even more likely, simply doesn't give a fuck.
nothing is working for him so all he has left is racism and nationalism. I expect it to ramp up considerably because calls for a wall, yelling about China, and calling Biden sleepy is just not working.
Did everyone run around underneath it and play popcorn afterwards like we did with parachutes in gym class back in the day?NFL in trouble as this is against code:
Politicians throwing around insane jail time reminds me of...
