Best not to use violent metaphors, audio or visual, when it comes to the president

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Link to tweet

Now can we move on ?

BTW I saw a photoshopped photo of Obama being hanged on a Deplorable's twitter page . It made me apoplectic.

[get the red out]

1. Violence

I really don't want to be as mentally fucked as the Deplorables are.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I have to censor myself some times when it comes to Chump.

I want him humbled, not hurt.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Like this guy?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Trump invited that douchebag to the White House.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Losers.

[CentralMass]

5. We dont need idiots like him

[BumRushDaShow]

7. But who is "we"?

People are people... or as I'm told. "First Amendment" or some such.

[CentralMass]

9. Ok, i speak for myself.i hate these :but look what he did" type of arguments.

I stopped listening to Nugent in my teens and I'm 57.
Im stunned that this guy is a hero to many on the right. I also think that Griffin is an idiot for whst she just did and i think they both have some serious issues.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. People in the entertainment world

like them and this current President, quickly learn to do over-the-top things (either every once in awhile or as a matter of course) in order to get "attention". They are a dime a dozen and that is the only way to keep themselves "relevant".

It is a nature of their "business" and the sad thing is when that "business" invades the government or government functioning (such as what this current administration's "entertainment-nurtured" WH staff have done).

[CentralMass]

12. Thats fine. I dont like @$$holes, no matter what side of the political aisle that they stand on.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Oh I agree but

we have many who post here on DU that say "hate speech" is "protected speech" and many of us had to battle here for 8 years when incident after incident after incident of this sort of thing or worse occurred against Barack, Michelle, Malia & Sasha, Marian, and even their poor dogs.

"First Amendment".

[CentralMass]

15. Nugent also made tbreats against Hillary that i am amazed didn't get him arrested.

However, two wrongs don't make a right.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Well the point I was trying to make

was that to some, "First Amendment" means that these forms of "speech" are not "wrong". They are just "speech".

[CentralMass]

17. Thank you for making that important point

[exboyfil]

11. That should be the video that stops any equivalency

that high profile liberals think that what Griffin did was appropriate. Trump validated Nugent by sharing a stage with him during the campaign and of course the ultimate validation - the White House visit. Anyone think that any politician will be seen within a 100 feet of Griffin in the future?

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Remember when Nugent did this?

I know a number of progressive talk hosts had counters on for when this was supposed to happen.

[dembotoz]

8. Stops being funny when the secret service gets called

I enjoy being sarcastic and can be considered nasty on Facebook.
But there are lines one crosses at their own peril.
Kathy g just got reminded of those lines.

She makes her living being on the edge. Seems she guessed wrong.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. This was definitely a misstep

I was against the film made depicting an assassination of George W. Bush back in the day too. So, there, contrary to right-wingers or "both sides" pundits, liberals DO criticize our own when they go too far.

[Phentex]

19. Agree. Obama with a noose, etc. We know when something is not right...

She went too far to get attention and it's fair to say this was a bad decision on her part.

[NightWatcher]

20. When responding to trump in the news, don't become the news

This has given the rwnj's ammo to use with their "both sides do it" argument

[Orsino]

21. IOKIYAR is the rule. Practically the law.

We have to remember that our side doesn't get to flaunt our violent implulses with impunity.

If common decency doesn't stop us.