Cancel culture strikes again

[89th]

I think his tweet says he authorizes the ARREST, and then from there the charges would follow the Act's punishment guidelines.

[Catseye3]

His authorization for the arrest isn't needed; it's already in the law.

[89th]

Then it reemphasizes it.

[LuFins Dad]

@Catseye3 said in Cancel culture strikes again:

His authorization for the arrest isn't needed; it's already in the law.

Correct, but as the executive, the agencies generally follow his guidance regarding enforcement. To this point they have refrained from enforcing the law. Now he is instructing them to actively enforce and prosecute.

[Catseye3]

@ 89th: I'd go along with that if he hadn't said "I have authorized". If he'd reminded us of the act and that he wants it enforced more strongly or something, I'd be fine. But to me it sounds like he's trying to get credit for something he had nothing to do with -- trying to look all proactive and powerful and presidential.

[Catseye3]

@LuFins-Dad How do we know they've refrained from enforcing the law? Why would they? Can it be that they don't know who to arrest because they don't know who the perps are?

[Larry]

Who gives a flying fuck whether he needed to authorize it or not. The issue is there are people destroying our historical monuments, and so far nothing is being done to stop it. If it will help put a stop to this I don't give a rat's ass WHAT the man says.

Jesus.

[89th]

@Catseye3 said in Cancel culture strikes again:

@LuFins-Dad How do we know they've refrained from enforcing the law? Why would they? Can it be that they don't know who to arrest because they don't know who the perps are?

Have you seen any of the hundreds of videos? Heck, just the other night a line of cops stood a block away watching them tear down the Albert Pike statue in DC. Trump's tweet/whatever provides clearer instructions, as @LuFins-Dad said.

[Jolly]

@Catseye3 said in Cancel culture strikes again:

His authorization for the arrest isn't needed; it's already in the law.

It's simple enough. POTUS is prodding elements of the government to follow the law, not ignore it.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah, “authorized” is the wrong word. But good on him all the same.

[Catseye3]

Okay, y'all win.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Cancel culture strikes again:

Yeah, “authorized” is the wrong word. But good on him all the same.

Twitter flagged for being "threatening."

[Catseye3]

Spoken like a true prez of the people!

[89th]

I have a (quite liberal) friend who was freaking out about how bad that tweet was. I'm sorry, what am I missing? Even as someone who often finds alignment with the libertarian side of things...I 100% support the president preventing an "autonomous" zone being established in DC.

[Larry]

It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome. They can't see the obvious because they're nuts.

Of course, some of them were nuts already, so...

[Catseye3]

@89th said in Cancel culture strikes again:

I'm sorry, what am I missing?

It's not the frowny face at the autonomous zone; it's the threat of "serious force".

But I'm letting it go. I was doing so well of late staying out of the good-Trump/bad-Trump brouhaha, until I foolishly re-entered. This has to be the dumbest waste of time evah. I think it must be a guy thing, to endlessly argue over politics toward no practical destination.

No one's mind has ever been changed, or will be. Not the smallest point will be conceded. If anything, the exchanges become ever more furious and nasty -- for some participants, anyway. Brangling endlessly over Left vs Right is like being stuck in hell's hamster wheel. As far as I can see, maintaining the righteousness of one side over the evil of the other might do something for the arguers, but if it's extreme enough it is assinine no matter which side is evangelizing, and does damn-all for humanity.

I can't promise to stay out of it, but I'm gonna try. Cuz this shit is depressing.

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[Jolly]

@Catseye3 said in Cancel culture strikes again:

Spoken like a true prez of the people!

You are familiar with the veteran's shanty town and protests of 1932? And how Hoover cleared them out?

When George C. Patton rolls a tank over your tent, you move. When Douglas MacArthur tell his soldiers to fix bayonets and advance, people move.

Some didn't move or didn't move fast enough. Between the police and the army, they killed three protesters and 1000 of them had to be cared for at the hospital.

[Horace]

@Catseye3 said in Cancel culture strikes again:

@89th said in Cancel culture strikes again:

I'm sorry, what am I missing?

It's not the frowny face at the autonomous zone; it's the threat of "serious force".

But I'm letting it go. I was doing so well of late staying out of the good-Trump/bad-Trump brouhaha, until I foolishly re-entered. This has to be the dumbest waste of time evah. I think it must be a guy thing, to endlessly argue over politics toward no practical destination.

No one's mind has ever been changed, or will be. Not the smallest point will be conceded. If anything, the exchanges become ever more furious and nasty -- for some participants, anyway. Brangling endlessly over Left vs Right is like being stuck in hell's hamster wheel. As far as I can see, maintaining the righteousness of one side over the evil of the other might do something for the arguers, but if it's extreme enough it is assinine no matter which side is evangelizing, and does damn-all for humanity.

I can't promise to stay out of it, but I'm gonna try. Cuz this shit is depressing.

Reading and posting here can be very hard work. That’s why they call it work. It’s not supposed to be fun. If it was, they would call it work but the fun kind! Which they don’t. Can you even imagine anybody going around saying that posting to TNCR is work but the fun kind? lol that would be ridickulous

[89th]

@Catseye3 said in Cancel culture strikes again:

@89th said in Cancel culture strikes again:

I'm sorry, what am I missing?

It's not the frowny face at the autonomous zone; it's the threat of "serious force".

I get it...just not sure what the issue is. Are we really at a place in society where one think's it's OK to create a government-free zone, let alone inside the boundaries of the nation's capital? If, for example, a group of people tried to take over a city block, I would fully HOPE the police/military would clear them out, with serious force.

[Horace]

We have never been at a place where blithering fools have felt more at ease letting everybody in on their cultural insights that are at a level of dumb only attainable by socially enforced group think.