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Originally Posted by Matt-ADX
Thank you, surprised this fell that far., staff from the restaurant followed her and yelled at her at another place of business. Then Maxine Waters called for people to
"If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere,”
This is what we do now to people who have opposing political views? we follow them around in public and yell at them while they live their lives? We call on others to do this?
Before you come here saying while Trump pushed us to this, the same stuff happened to Bush, remember when he was a nazi? Same things happened to Romney. This is a classic tactic. Chuck Schumer was the only person who had real decency in his calling out Maxine for this type of comment. Good for him
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I do remember this kind of stuff happening to Bush and others including Obama. There is no shortage of pictures and videos of Obama's image being burned in effigy. There was a woman who stood out in front of my local post office every day of Obama's presidency (or , at least, she was there every day I happened to drive by) holding two signs. One was of Obama as Hitler and the other explained how Obama was going to march us all off to concentration camps. So, yes, this shit happens to everyone who is in office.
Maxine Waters is a crazy person. I don't agree with her on most things. While I personally wouldn't call for people to do this kind of thing, I have no problem with those who do. To me, there is a difference between a person's political beliefs and a person who has the power to force those beliefs on others. I have beliefs that I know plenty of people don't agree with, but I have no power to actually put them into law (aside from voting). Someone in Trump's cabinet does have that power. If a person sees someone who has that kind of power out in public and decides they want to tell them that they don't like their position/policy, I don't have a problem with it.
And, yes, Trump brings a lot of this on himself. It's why it is more intense for him than it was for others. When you behave like an asshole towards some people, you can't be surprised when some people behave like assholes back.