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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 08:39 AM Nov 2016

President Elect Trump Tweets on the single most important issue facing us today...flag burning.

Donald J. TrumpVerified account
?@realDonaldTrump
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/803567993036754944


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President Elect Trump Tweets on the single most important issue facing us today...flag burning. (Original Post) Miles Archer Nov 2016 OP
As I pointed out in another thread Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2016 #1
Dumb Ass - Even I know this..... TBA Nov 2016 #2
...by a 5-4 margin. Do you imagine Trump couldn't appoint a Justice to reverse? brooklynite Nov 2016 #3
No one from that court is still on the bench. rug Nov 2016 #4
Kennedy was. He voted wth the majority. bornskeptic Nov 2016 #11
Looks like trump needs to appoint five. rug Nov 2016 #12
He is brilliantly distracting people from larger issues, with flag wrapping issues. TheBlackAdder Nov 2016 #5
He's desperately trying to create a distraction ... kentuck Nov 2016 #6
Any minute now... neeksgeek Nov 2016 #7
This insecure lemming is SO desperate . . . HughBeaumont Nov 2016 #8
Please everyone blue cat Nov 2016 #9
he is disgusting bdamomma Nov 2016 #10
This is the asshole who trashed those who served in the armed forces. still_one Nov 2016 #13
Nothing he does even surprises me. cwydro Nov 2016 #14

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,135 posts)
1. As I pointed out in another thread
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 08:41 AM
Nov 2016

He's probably baiting protesters into burning it. But Trump in effigy instead.

TBA

(825 posts)
2. Dumb Ass - Even I know this.....
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 09:04 AM
Nov 2016

Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated prohibitions on desecrating the American flag enforced in 48 of the 50 states. Justice William Brennan wrote for a five-justice majority in holding that the defendant Gregory Lee Johnson's act of flag burning was protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

kentuck

(111,106 posts)
6. He's desperately trying to create a distraction ...
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 09:14 AM
Nov 2016

but I think people are starting to figure it out.

Straighten out your business deals Donald. If you want to be President. Stop trying to distract people from the serious problem in front of you.

neeksgeek

(1,214 posts)
7. Any minute now...
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 09:16 AM
Nov 2016

He'll tweet that insulting or offending a (white, male) president is a criminal offense.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
8. This insecure lemming is SO desperate . . .
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 09:24 AM
Nov 2016

. . . so PAINFULLY desperate to distract his low-info following from his glaring governmental inadequacies and pending real estate issues.

America really IS the country that ate paste in the first grade.

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