Backlash against the trump administration

Puh-Leez. There is no bigger thug than Donald Trump.

Make your point. Iā€™m not seeing one.

Thatā€™d be ok to say about the Obama kids, right?

Thoughts and prayers to all Trump employees in this difficult time.

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Yeah you could say that sureā€¦now what is your point?

Nobody would be upset, am I right?

Why would you presume that? I already asked you to get to the point.

Why would you presume that?

From Guntsuā€™s link and the always excellent Washington Monthly,

The irony for conservatives here is that this is freedom of association. Conservatives have long argued for shibboleths like ā€œstatesā€™ rightsā€ and ā€œreligious freedomā€ as a code for giving bigots the power to refuse to serve and share space with racial and religious minorities, to refuse to bake cakes for gay weddings and make plates for black diners. Largely through the courts, America has rejected these arguments because minorities are protected classes who deserve freedom from discriminationā€“and conservatives have whined about these restrictions on their ā€œfreedomā€ of association in this respect for decades.

But deplorables are not a protected class. Jordan Petersonā€™s bleatings notwithstanding, liberal women are under no social or moral compulsion to provide romance and sex to misogynistic men. Honduran cooks are under no obligation to serve food to those who want to rip Central American kids out of their parentsā€™ arms and put them in cages. Cosmpolitan cities have no responsibility to create safe spaces for people who reject their values and want to gerrymander them out of representation in government.

The far edges of the conservatives movement often fantasize about a second civil war with the American left, imaging multi-racial shock troops coming to rural areas to extract taxes and confiscate guns, facing a local insurgency with a rifle behind every duck blind. But that Red Dawn scenario has no bearing to a plausible dystopian reality. The real situation is the reverse: conservatives want the social and economic benefits that come from ecumenical urbanism, but they want to retain the deep bigotries and social privileges that come from provincialism. They want the right to enact zoning and social policies that discriminate against protected class minorities in their own communities, but they want not to suffer the cultural consequences of those views in liberal cities.

Thatā€™s not how freedom works. As America grows increasingly tolerant and multicultural millennial values overtake those of squarer older generations, Trump-style conservatives will find themselves ever more on the outside looking inā€“especially as long as their paragons continue to run the country in ways that severely prejudice and harm women, young people, minorities and city dwellers.

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Trump supporters proudly proclaimed the PC era over. Trump supporters loudly cheer when Trump attacks, belittles, offends and insults anyone he wants. I said ā€œcheerā€ and not ā€œcheeredā€ because as he does it today they applaud him. Trump supporters donā€™t get to complain when anyone plays the game in which theyā€™ve set the rules. Shut up and take it. You asked for this type of behavior.

They might be

i hope this happens to every top trump official.
when your entire professional life is dedicated to lying or trying to hurt others you should be ostracized and shunned.

if they dont like it than they can change their ways

another one that should be ostracized

Politics isnā€™t a protected class. This is fine with me.

I love it!

This is like the greatest thing ever.

Please show where i said i supported it.

I simply do not have a problem with it.

I really, do not care.

You seem quite upset.

They know Obama was a thousand times worse, but he is all they got, besides ever other scumbag democrat that crawls out from under a rock.

NO! We should respect those who have different political beliefs than ours. This is absolutely wrong. I condemn this action by that stupid restaurant owner in the strongest terms I can.

I despise Trump with every fiber of my being. I think heā€™s dangerous, a scumbag of human being and a sociopath, but this crap is what will eventually tear apart this this country. Run for office, help somebody run for office, but DO NOT harass people simply for supporting a duly elected POTUS.

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I was pretty damn sure you would approve of this.
Fits right into your ideology.

(whats up with the "Likeā€¦the greatest thing ever?..sounds like my 17 year old daughter. :slight_smile: