Originally published at: Watch: Good Liars Confront MAGA Candidate Over Obama Death Threats - Boing Boing
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Why do these people never have to actually go to prison for this shit? If I posted creepy violent death threats about a former president, I’d expect to get a warning visit from the federales the first time I did it, and a few years in a federal lockup if I kept doing it.
Is it just that the FBI doesn’t want to lock up fellow Republicans?
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Does anybody take these kinds of things seriously as death threats?
I have PLENTY of friends who expressed disappointment on social media that the would-be assassins in Butler and West Palm failed. It’s uncouth, but not criminal.
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She seems nice.
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With fascists – including cowards like this – you never can be sure once they’re given or take power.
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At least sometimes it gets treated as real threats:
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He must not be a rich politician.
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A threat is real even if you don’t carry out the actions you threaten.
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Well, that depends on who the target is. When the target is the orange sh*thead, then someone like Kathy Griffin gets her social media accounts suspended and gets put on the no-fly list.
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She sounds like the sort of person who should be kept away from children - also adults.
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All the best people.
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For much the same reason you don’t see Batman beating on Bruce Wayne.
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To hard conservatives the Democratic presidential administrations of Bill Clinton and (especially) Barack Obama were progressive or left-wing.
However, at best they were neoliberal — progressive only in regards to following/implementing ideologically liberal or “woke” policy: that involving race, sexuality and gender [and now there also is the politics of gender bending]. Truly progressive policy includes fiscal measures, like those bravely promoted by Senator Bernie Sanders, which therefore are never on the table with the DNC’s establishment candidates.
‘Woke’ policy aside, Bill Clinton was more conservative than he was traditional liberal. For example, as president he decided against federally fully legalizing cannabis consumption after having championed it (or, at the very least, its decriminalization) prior to his election. He instead greatly ramped up the ‘war on drugs’ — including against personal users, which needlessly unjustly destroyed lives — at the very same time he made it easier for bankers to become richer.
He generally lowered the quality of life for those Americans in greatest need – the opposite of him, his neo-liberal-elite wife, friends, et al. And yet he probably slept well at night, nonetheless. …
I also recall a President Obama publicly drinking from a glass of Flint, Michigan water [supposedly, anyway] via mass media, signifying the water system was safe from which to drink. But many say it is STILL not safe to drink.
[“Ten Years Later, Flint Still Doesn’t Have Clean Water”: Ten Years Later, Flint Still Doesn't Have Clean Water | Human Rights Watch]
As a then-admirer of then-president Obama, I muttered “Say it isn’t so”. It greatly reinforced my belief that U.S. presidents, indeed along with Canadian prime ministers, essentially act as instruments of big corporate/money/power interests.
I know that the lead-tainting was not Obama’s doing; however, what he did was a major shock to and disappointment for the lead-poisoned Flint folk, who’d expected far more/better from him. To a lot of people, he had behaved like some TV-promotion actor hired by an (in this case) seriously ethically/morally challenged corporation.
Though I would expect it from a Republican president or then-president Clinton, I found it very disappointing of Obama (maybe because he is Black, as were many or most of the lead-water-ingesting Flint folk), regardless of the big business and/or political pressure he probably had on his head. …
Meanwhile the common yet questionable refrain STILL prevails among ‘free-market’ capitalist nation governments and corporate circles. It claims that best business practices, including what’s best for consumers, are best decided by business decision-makers. But this was proven false numerous times.
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