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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI was just reading on a stock message board and some of
the crazy trumpers posting that trump will win the election, I just don't understand these people are they even from this planet ?
padah513
(2,500 posts)Ever since yahoo closed out the comments section after the stories they run, trumpers are posting nonsense everywhere else. I was reading the comments during the Lions/Texans game in yahoo sports and there they were, posting that same old crap. Don't these people have lives?
cilla4progress
(24,725 posts)in a crowded theater?
Especially the orange menace himself.
I don't believe he is protected from calling for overthrow of an election, given his platform, by the 1st amendment.
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)"In 1969, the Supreme Court's decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio effectively overturned Schenck and any authority the case still carried. There, the Court held that inflammatory speech--and even speech advocating violence by members of the Ku Klux Klan--is protected under the First Amendment, unless the speech "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action" (emphasis mine)."
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-time-to-stop-using-the-fire-in-a-crowded-theater-quote/264449/
Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts)And they're a bit slow at comprehending the news.
CincyDem
(6,348 posts)Zerohedge is one of the worst. I follow them because their technical analysis is solid stuff but their opinion stuff (and the comments)...sheesh, what a cesspool.
blue cat
(2,415 posts)About how he is still going to win.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Beachnutt
(7,311 posts)It baffles me how these people live in a different reality.