Rudy G calls for "trial by combat"

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

Not sure wtf he was talking about.

He briefly spoke at the coup rally.

[Thekaspervote]

1. You first you wonderfully hardened combat solider!

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Hey, Rootie-Toot

Stick your head up Cheeto Benito’s ass and fight for air.

[tanyev]

3. LOL, you volunteering, Rudy?

[blm]

4. Arrest him for sedition.

[Cha]

5. uh huh.. Go home rudy you're drunk

[Frustratedlady]

6. I think we've reached a point where we need a double padded room for Rudy and his bestest friend...

The Donald. Both are showing serious signs of mental deterioration.

[dchill]

7. Sit down and eat your soup, Rudy.

[LuckyCharms]

19. LOL

[NoRoadUntravelled]

8. His speeches are becoming more brief with loss of ability to make sense and diminished

vocabulary, much like his crime boss.

[JHB]

9. Who does he imagine he'd be fighting? A plush unicorn doll?

It's about the only fight he could win, and that's assuming the horn isn't too stiff.

[mr_lebowski]

10. Pon Farr is coming late in life for Rudy ... (nt)

[dameatball]

11. Seemed like it was a planned remark. Vaguely said, so it might be explained as metaphor later, but

definitely a buzzword to rile the crowd. Intentionally placed and somewhat out of context IMO. It was like he wanted to find a place in his rambling to just throw that one in there.

[servermsh]

12. Which Amendment spells out the Trial by Combat rules?

[Zoonart]

13. Jeebus... these man babies...

need to stop living in their Braveheart, Matrix, Purge movie mash up fantasy land.

[lindysalsagal]

17. You mean, "Dumb and Dumber?"

[struggle4progress]

14. These Republican theories of jurisprudence would set us back over five centuries

[Caliman73]

20. I don't know about 5 centuries, but definitely 2 or 3.

Conservatives are monarchists (without the idea of hereditary monarchy). They have never abandoned the ideas of Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, and other conservative philosophers who began in the 17th and 18th centuries when monarchs were being challenged and toppled by popular movements. They believe that people are inherently unequal and that they (Rich, White, mainly Protestant, men) are chosen by divine right, to rule over us lesser people.

My wife has been watching a lot of shows related to the monarchies in England, France, and Spain during the Tudor reign, the period of the War of the Roses, etc... She asked why they were always killing each other and reigning only 1 to 7 years. The answer, if you believe that you are destined by god to rule, then you will do anything, including killing your own family, to fulfill that ordainment. Power mixed with religious fervor is a recipe for disaster.

This is the same ideology. There is the same religious fervor (though Trump is not religious others in the movement are and he exploits it). Conservatives, in my opinion, are typically destined for this kind of extremism because their ideas are not driven by reason, testing, and self examination. They are driven by emotion and religiosity.

[struggle4progress]

21. The last known trial-by-combat in England was over five hundred years ago,

although the practice continued rarely elsewhere in the United Kingdom afterwards.

I know of no instances in the US: dueling survived for a while in some parts of this country, but that is not really the same as trial-by-combat, which (among other aspect) had originally been under English common law a method for resolving property disputes, before the English judges gradually replaced it by the jury method

Whatever sporadic contraindications might be found in the UK, the plain text of our Seventh Amendment ("In suits at common law .. the right of trial by jury shall be preserved" ) shows that trial-by-combat has for some time no longer been considered part of the common law

[Caliman73]

22. I see. You were talking specifically about trial by combat.

Somehow, I doubt Rudy understand the history of the practice. He likely said it because he wants to sound tough. His brain is addled.

[lindysalsagal]

15. So far msnbc hasn't given the rally mic (sound) coverage.

Good.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

16. I volunteer myself as your challenger, Rudy!

Be prepared to look like Beetle Bailey, old man.

[Nitram]

18. Rudy means, "I want you to take your guns and forcibly overturn the election result."

"Don't worry, I'll be right behind you. Far behind you. Watching from a safe distance."