| First Colbert … now Kimmel 00:07 - Sep 18 with 3314 views | Perublue |
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| First Colbert … now Kimmel on 17:34 - Sep 18 with 353 views | lowhouseblue |
| First Colbert … now Kimmel on 17:30 - Sep 18 by redrickstuhaart |
The uni was fined for limiting free speech? They key here being that in one place the state intervenes to ensure free speech. In the other, the state intervenes to the opposite effect.
Not remotely comparable.
Go and have a look at what Kimmel actually did and said. Nothing disrespectful about Kirk at all (though that would plainly be permitted under the constitution in any event). Rather he played a clip of Trumps response to being asked how he was holding up following Kirk's death- to which he excitedly talked about his new ballroom.
Criticism is being criminalised. [Post edited 18 Sep 17:32]
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exactly this - he was critical but his words were careful and could easily be defended. |  |
| And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show |
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| First Colbert … now Kimmel on 17:46 - Sep 18 with 321 views | Swansea_Blue |
| First Colbert … now Kimmel on 09:59 - Sep 18 by Guthrum |
The US system has very limited avenues to do anything about it. If one faction has control of all branches of the government and the Supreme Court, however marginal or contrived, all checks and balances are out of the window. The Founding Father do not seem to have thought of this - as Enlightenment thinkers educated in the Classics, they ought to have known better (just look at the fall of the Roman Republic).
A vote of no confidence in the President does not exist as a mechanism, or has no practical effect, even if it could be got through a partisan Congress. Illness or criminal activity are the only ways of removing the incumbent - and the judges of that are his own supporters in the House.
Street protests have no practical effect and, in any case, the effectively binary political setup ensures that pretty much half the population will support whoever is in power. This doubly so with someone who does not care what those not backing him think (indeed revels in their discomfiture) and takes an imaginary view of the balance of public opinion. |
Presumably that why pressure builds and then they have a collective crisis (the Civil War, unrest during suffrage in 1920s, unrest and gangster trade related to prohibition in 20s/30s, civil rights unrest in the 60s). Each of these ultimately lead to/forced new constitutional amendments. It seems we’re some way off another crisis, but if ever an administration is going to create one it will be this one. |  |
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| First Colbert … now Kimmel on 18:11 - Sep 18 with 273 views | itfcjoe |
| First Colbert … now Kimmel on 17:30 - Sep 18 by redrickstuhaart |
The uni was fined for limiting free speech? They key here being that in one place the state intervenes to ensure free speech. In the other, the state intervenes to the opposite effect.
Not remotely comparable.
Go and have a look at what Kimmel actually did and said. Nothing disrespectful about Kirk at all (though that would plainly be permitted under the constitution in any event). Rather he played a clip of Trumps response to being asked how he was holding up following Kirk's death- to which he excitedly talked about his new ballroom.
Criticism is being criminalised. [Post edited 18 Sep 17:32]
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I’m not talking about the UK Govt vs US Govt; I’m talking about cultural institutions from the left here and how things have been over last few years etc vs how now the right will be and are fighting back with the power of the press behind him |  |
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| First Colbert … now Kimmel on 18:36 - Sep 18 with 230 views | redrickstuhaart |
| First Colbert … now Kimmel on 18:11 - Sep 18 by itfcjoe |
I’m not talking about the UK Govt vs US Govt; I’m talking about cultural institutions from the left here and how things have been over last few years etc vs how now the right will be and are fighting back with the power of the press behind him |
Its not remotely comparable. |  | | |
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