Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Nothing worth doing is easy.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Republicans in disarray!

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Republicans do not pay their debts.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

You are here: Home / Let’s Hope This Doesn’t Become a Meme

Let’s Hope This Doesn’t Become a Meme

by | 6 Comments

This post is in: 

Dave Neiwert is right– this is idiotic:

Unfounded Accusations Against Presidents Should Be A Felony

There needs to be a law passed where any person who disrespects the “Office of the Presidency” by making false accusations and spreading deliberate rumors about the president, should be charged with a felony or at the very least a high misdemeanor.

Dave snarks- “Damn, if this had been the law in 1998, every Freeper on the planet — and about half of Congress — would have been behind bars.” Maybe, but we know which half of Congress would currently be heading for a term in the hoosegow if this law were in place.

Reader Interactions

6Comments

  1. 1.

    IXLNXS

    So it would be a crime to lie about the President. While it would still be legal for him to lie about his challengers, detractors, and anyone else he and his saw fit?

    Not very “fair and balanced”.

  2. 2.

    shark

    I agree, it’s a terrible road to ever start to go down. And we shouldn’t. After all, if we do, there will only be 3 Dems. left that wouldn’t be jailed for their despicable remarks ;)

  4. 4.

    Emperor Misha I

    Besides, I thought we already DID have laws covering libel, slander and defamation.

    Seems to me that if those laws are good enough for the citizens, they oughta be good enough for the President as well.

  5. 5.

    Chris

    Emporer Misha is right. We already have laws that cover libel, slander, and defamation. Passing a law that makes it a crime to disrespect the President is ludicrous. This blog, and a thousand others just like it on both the right and left, would effectively be put out of business. What would the Op-Ed pages print? What would political cartoonists do? An idea like this smacks of totalitarianism and seriously hinders First Amendment rights.

    Consider this quote from Theodore Roosevelt:

  6. 6.

    M. Scott Eiland

    Granting that this is a stupid idea, I suspect that a lot of the folks sniping about it were yelling at the Supreme Court for letting the Paula Jones case go ahead a few years back.

Comments are closed.