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Kellyanne Conway to Trump Critics: Be Careful Wh Kellyanne Conway to Trump critics: Be careful wh... https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/13/159... HUNTER (/BLOGS/HUNTER) Blog (/blogs/Hunter) Stream (/user/Hunter/stream) Groups (/user/Hunter/favblogs) Following (/user/Hunter/favusers Kellyanne Conway to Trump critics: Be careful what you say (/stories/2016/11 /13/1598359/-Kellyanne-Conway- to-Trump-critics-Be-careful- what-you-say) 1022 Comments (1020 New) 584 139946 (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F By Hunter (http://www.dailykos.com %2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2016%2F11%2F13%2F1598359%2F- (/user /story/2016/11 Kellyanne-Conway-to-Trump-critics-Be-careful-what-you- /Hunter) /13/1598359/-Kellyanne- say&text=Kellyanne+Conway+to+Trump+critics%3A+Be+careful+what+you+say) Conway-to-Trump-critics- 2016/11/13 Be-careful-what-you- · 11:35 say#comments) attribution: Getty Images All hail der Pumpkinfuhrer—or else? RSS (/user That didn't take long. Not even a week has passed, and the president elect's team is /Hunter/rss.xml) already warning Trump critics to be "careful" about the way they criticize Trump (http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/13/politics/kellyanne-conway-harry-reid-lawsuit /index.html). REBLOGGED BY Daily Kos (/blogs /main) [Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid] on Friday had said that "the election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America" and that "white nationalists, Vladimir Putin and ISIS TAGS are celebrating Donald Trump's victory, while innocent, law-abiding Americans are wracked with fear." [...] #Conservatives (/news /Conservatives) Then, she added: "He should be very careful about characterizing somebody in a legal sense. He thinks -- he thinks he's just being some #DonaldTrump (/news kind of political pundit there, but I would say be very careful about the /DonaldTrump) way you characterize it." #KellyanneConway (/news /KellyanneConway) Donald Trump's minions seem to be confused about this, so let's fill them in on #Recommended something they're going to need to know going forward: The President of the United (/news States has the least legal protection against criticism or libel of anyone in the country. /Recommended) As the ultimate public figure, courts are obliged to grant public citizens wide leeway. 1 of 196 01/29/2017 01:13 PM Kellyanne Conway to Trump critics: Be careful wh... https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/13/159... #Republicans (/news This is why, for example, elected public officials, private citizens, and the Fox News /Republicans) channel have been repeatedly able to peddle 100% false information about Barack Obama for a decade with absolutely no repercussions. #HarryReid (/news /HarryReid) To demonstrate how this works, I could, for example, say something like "President Donald Trump is a small-penised sex-obsessed pervert who stands accused of raping a 13 year old girl and who, given his temperament, has in all likelihood sexually abused at least one of his own children. He is mentally unstable and among Share this the dumbest individuals ever to hold any public office anywhere, is quite probably article colluding with Russia to undermine American interests, and spends his evenings aggressively masturbating to National Geographic footage of burrowing meerkats. His sole aim in acquiring the presidency is to convert the Lincoln Bedroom into a Rape Room, and he will sell an American nuclear weapon to ISIS for fifteen dollars and change if he thinks he'd make two dollars worth of profit on it." (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2FWelcome to the big leagues, President Summer Squash. You're going to have quite the %2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2016%2F11%2F13%2F1598359%2F-adventure from here on in. Kellyanne-Conway-to-Trump-critics-Be-careful-what-you- say&text=Kellyanne+Conway+to+Trump+critics%3A+Be+careful+what+you+say) Reid's office was eager to respond (http://www.reid.senate.gov/press_releases /2016-11-13-reid-spokesman-trumps-threats-should-concern- all-americans#.WCi9hDvQh-o). “It only took five days for President-elect Trump to try to silence his critics with the threat of legal action. This should shock and concern all Americans. [...] Since Trump was elected, acts of hate against Muslims, Jews, women and people of color have spiked dramatically. The KKK is planning a parade to celebrate Trump’s victory because the KKK sees Trump as their champion. Today, a headline in one newspaper reads, ‘Popular neo-Nazi site urges readers to troll liberals into suicide,’ while another reads, ‘Post-election spate of hate crimes worse than 9-11.’ “But instead of rising to the responsibility of his office, Trump is hiding behind his Twitter account and sending his staff on TV to threaten his critics. “If this is going to be a time of healing, Trump must take action immediately to stop the acts of hate and threats of violence that are being committed in his name across the country. Trump owes the nation leadership, not petty attempts to silence his critics.” Donald Trump continues to ignore the acts of hate sweeping the country in his name. We can presume at this point that it is because he wishes those acts to continue. 1022 Comments (1020 New)Share 584 139946 (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F (http://www.dailykos.comthis %2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2016%2F11%2F13%2F1598359%2F- /story/2016/11article Kellyanne-Conway-to-Trump-critics-Be-careful-what-you- /13/1598359/-Kellyanne- say&text=Kellyanne+Conway+to+Trump+critics%3A+Be+careful+what+you+say) Conway-to-Trump-critics- Be-careful-what-you- say#comments) 1022 COMMENTS Comment Settings COMMENTS ARE CLOSED ON THIS STORY. ( f ) Recommend ( r ) Reply ( p ) Parent ( o ) Open/Close ( j ) Next Unread ( k ) Prev Unread More hints... (/user/Crimson Quillfeather) Crimson Quillfeather (/user/Crimson Quillfeather) Nov 13 · 11:40:55 AM (/comments/1598359/64383110#comment_64383110) Today I am delighted again, that i am a member of DK. Because I can rec this diary. :) Recommended 261 times [new] (/user/FishOutofWater) 2 of 196 01/29/2017 01:13 PM Kellyanne Conway to Trump critics: Be careful wh... https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/13/159... FishOutofWater (/user/FishOutofWater) Crimson Quillfeather Nov 13 · 12:10:57 PM (/comments/1598359/64383631#comment_64383631) What would really delight me would be if the electoral college would flunk Trump out of the job of President. If the electoral college was ever good for anything it is to keep this dangerous, incompetent, sociopath from becoming president. Recommended 151 times [new] (/user/VirginiaJeff) VirginiaJeff (/user/VirginiaJeff) FishOutofWater Nov 13 · 12:20:34 PM (/comments/1598359/64383813#comment_64383813) I was thinking something similar: never again can anyone reasonably argue that the Electoral College provides a safety valve for blocking an evil person from becoming president. Recommended 120 times [new] (/user/Captain Frogbert) Captain Frogbert (/user/Captain Frogb... VirginiaJeff Nov 13 · 12:27:26 PM (/comments/1598359/64383937#comment_64383937) The electoral college was never intended to prevent an elected official from becoming president. It was intended to allow the several states to complete an election in a reasonable amount of time in a time when it took a week or more to travel from Boston to New York, and more than a month to travel from Boston to South Carolina overland. This is why it is utterly outmoded in this day and age and should be abolished. And you bet that, had two republicans in 20 years lost the presidency because of the electoral college, it would have been abolished long ago. Recommended 103 times [new] (/user/derleider) derleider (/user/derleider) Captain Frogbert Nov 13 · 12:31:52 PM (/comments/1598359/64384009#comment_64384009) Elections were spread through the year and there were four months between the last elections and the inauguration. It was put on place because states didn't start out with direct election of the president. Some states let their legislators pick the electors into the 1800s. Given that, you need a way to convert those votes into votes for president. Recommended 11 times [new] (/user/wasatch) wasatch (/user/wasatch) derleider Nov 13 · 02:20:55 PM (/comments/1598359 /64385779#comment_64385779) some Rs would like to return to having state legislators determine the electors and through them the presidency. Because they have so many of them now. Recommended 6 times [new] (/user/derleider) derleider (/user/derl... wasatch Nov 14 · 08:26:12 AM (/comments/1598359 /64397464#comment_64397464) 3 of 196 01/29/2017 01:13 PM Kellyanne Conway to Trump critics: Be careful wh... https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/13/159... Some states did this in 1800, but it seems the it backfired — taking the vote away from the people pissed them off. Recommended 2 times [new] (/user/Seattnai) Seattnai (/user/Seatt... derleider Nov 15 · 01:02:12 PM (/comments/1598359 /64423321#comment_64423321) Obviously, we don’t really have the vote right now. We need to do away with the electoral college and have straight up popular voting. Recommended 9 times [new] (/user/Carpentermarty) Carpentermarty (/us... Seattnai Nov 15 · 02:44:59 PM (/comments/1598359 /64425310#comment_64425310) I have always believed that whomever ran and got the most votes should win any election from mayors on Recommended 7 times [new] (/user/NoToGoP) NoToGoP (/user/NoT... Carpentermarty Nov 15 · 08:22:51 PM (/comments/1598359 /64430265#comment_64430265) The literal definition of a “democracy” is that the winner of the majority of votes WINS the election. Period! No wonder the vote in America (the biggest democracy in the world???), is anemic. The electoral college is an outdated method that disenfranchises more than half of the 50 states. Recommended 5 times [new] (/user/PsychoSavannah) PsychoSavannah (/user/PsychoS..
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