Missouri State Senator Calls For Assassination of POTUS Trump on Facebook

Did Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal's comment go too far?


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Those are very subjective terms that could be interpreted in any number of ways. Who knows if some mentally unstable liberal like James Hodgkinson might have read her comment and plans to take it seriously. That is the problem with making declarations like these. You never know who is listening. I wonder what you would be saying if a white Republican senator had said this about Obama?

Looks like free speech to me.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/brandenburg_test

Selected Applications of the Brandengurg Test
The Supreme Court in Hess v. Indiana (1973) applied the Brandenburg test to a case in which Hess, an Indiana University protester said, “We’ll take the fucking street again” (or “later.”) The Supreme Court ruled that Hess’s profanity was protected under the Brandenburg test, as the speech “amounted to nothing more than advocacy of illegal action at some indefinite future time.” The Court concluded that “since there was no evidence, or rational inference from the import of the language, that his words were intended to produce, and likely to produce, imminent disorder, those words could not be punished by the State on the ground that they had a ‘tendency to lead to violence.’”

In NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co.(1982), Charles Evers threatened violence against those who refused to boycott white businesses. The Supreme Court applied Brandenburg and found that the speech was protected: “Strong and effective extemporaneous rhetoric cannot be nicely channeled in purely dulcet phrases. An advocate must be free to stimulate his audience with spontaneous and emotional appeals for unity and action in a common cause. When such appeals do not incite lawless action, they must be regarded as protected speech.”


As for your hypothetical, I'd be saying the exact same thing. It's not criminal, but it's exceptionally poor taste and resignation would be appropriate.
 
This is not an intelligent person.
 
To be fair W Bush, his clique and the evangelical right really put on a shit show.

I loathed them back then as much as I loathe the current hysterical left.

For sure. They were and are worthy of plenty of criticism, but there is an overarching bias that pervades the Canadian mainstream outside of that as well. It's hard to describe the bias, outside of being more left wing socialist, mixed with globalist.
 
At least she's being honest. Let the voters decide if she stays in office or not.
 
"it was a joke"

"it was just locker room talk"


Two years ago this would be a thing, now the new standard is if it will result in one being convicted of a crime.
 
Will leftists condemn this?

lol, i do, but i still havent seen the actual comment.

if she truly did call for assassination, or "hope" for one, i think she should be removed from office, if such a thing were possible. the last F'ing thing we need right now, is politicians taking their rhetoric to that level.
 
Nah, bro, you don't understand we already took down the Confederate statues racial harmony began yesterday
 
You chose to link to another site because you assumed that TGP was not a reliable source. Attack the messenger. Too bad that TGP linked directly to other mainstream sources just as you did (even mentioned that ABC News covered it). Your opinion of TGP isn't relevant because you are a shameless promoter of fallacious arguments. You are also in complete denial about it. Keep lying to yourself though.
You're factually incorrect about what a fallacy is. It's not a fallacy to give an alternative source to a notorious shitrag. It would be a fallacy to say the shitrag's story was wrong because it's a shitrag. I didn't even say that the story was wrong, much less that it was wrong due to it being a shitrag. You just don't know what a fallacy is, and are lashing out mad because I think your shitrag is a shitrag. Tough shit, tie your shoes. And learn words.
 
Looks like free speech to me.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/brandenburg_test




As for your hypothetical, I'd be saying the exact same thing. It's not criminal, but it's exceptionally poor taste and resignation would be appropriate.
This MIGHT count as fighting words and when it's a world leader things tend to get taken 100% seriously all the time.

I don't think "fighting words" is covered.
 
This MIGHT count as fighting words and when it's a world leader things tend to get taken 100% seriously all the time.

I don't think "fighting words" is covered.

You'd need to quote something from the law to back this up.
 
Trump completely destroyed the fabric of US politics.
america won't ever recover from this.
it's going to be a shitshow president after another.

I would suggest becoming president with the help of the color of your skin had a little to do with it.
 
Funny because in reality it's the exact opposite. Did you see how those white nationals were beating that black man with clubs and pipes?

The left has been dehumanized to the point where it is considered a moral obligation in the minds of many Right Wingers to physically harm and even kill them.
False equivolency. That's not the dehumanizing of someone based on their politics. Those racist bastards would have done the same to Clarence Thomas on the basis of him being black.
 
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lol, i do, but i still havent seen the actual comment.

if she truly did call for assassination, or "hope" for one, i think she should be removed from office, if such a thing were possible. the last F'ing thing we need right now, is politicians taking their rhetoric to that level.
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Well. Guess not. Imgur never works for me anymore.
 
She should step down , no place for that crap in a civil society
 
This is the left.

This is normal.

Thank God for President Trump
 
You're factually incorrect about what a fallacy is. It's not a fallacy to give an alternative source to a notorious shitrag. It would be a fallacy to say the shitrag's story was wrong because it's a shitrag. I didn't even say that the story was wrong, much less that it was wrong due to it being a shitrag. You just don't know what a fallacy is, and are lashing out mad because I think your shitrag is a shitrag. Tough shit, tie your shoes. And learn words.

So how do you define a shitrag then? Any website that doesn't conform to the delusional liberal fantasy land that you live in? You have such a very sophisticated means of discernment don't you?

Like I said before, The Gateway Pundit itself linked to mainstream sources so what difference does it make? It's obvious that you feel that TGP has inherent credibility issues. If that is not the case then what is it? You can't handle any information that doesn't pander exclusively to your petty left-leaning biases? If the information in the TGP article was correct (which you have admitted) then providing an alternative source was nothing more than redundant and anal retentive on your part. Are you the type pf person who rolls his snot in to tiny little balls for fun?

Let's see if you have the guts to answer these questions.

Is The Huffington Post a shitrag?
Is Media Matters a shitrag?
Is Think Progress a shitrag?

Now go ahead and dodge those questions as I expect that you'll do. Is shitrag your favorite word or something? Did you learn it while picking your nose in the third grade?
 
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