Well, they have the Ryan budget with its magic asterisks, which I think we can assume Trump would sign if Congress passed it.
But other than that and the Supreme Court, you’re right, and this is the GOP’s deep underlying problem: during the Obama years, they’ve become a post-policy party, opposing everything the Dems have to offer, but not really having any alternatives.
Another odd turn in the election.
Hysteria over an artist’s statue of Hillary. People with no appreciation of the 1st Amendment tore it down within 3 hours.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/naked-statue-hillary-clinton-sparks-fight-manhattan-article-1.2834970
Trump’s equally offensive statue has been up all summer. It didn’t generate the same angry response. AFAIK it’s still drawing visitors.
This country’s hypocrisy and unequal treatment is incredible.
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Trump’s equally offensive statue has been up all summer. It didn’t generate the same angry response. AFAIK it’s still drawing visitors.
This country’s hypocrisy and unequal treatment is incredible.[/QUOTE]
what does that have to do with the first amendment?
The original Huffpo article is from July, updated in Aug.
ETA: the update was to note the removal of the statue.
The Trump statue was up up for quite awhile. Ive seen it mentioned many times in the news. I wasn’t sure if it had been removed or not.
Hillary’s statue was damaged and broken within hours. That’s Pathetic.
Intolerance always disturbs me. Freedom of expression is too important. Both statues were satirical expressions of public figures and deserved respect.
Best I can tell, the Trump statue was up for two hours. You said it was up all summer.
Damn the government for stomping on that artist’s freedom of speech!
As always, the devil’s in the details. New York had an epic response to the statue:
They removed the statue after this Trump burn, same day it was put up.
Of course, you’re free to make wild accusations of hypocrisy when you haven’t bothered to even look at the evidence to see whether they’re founded, but you may wish to reconsider this tactic.
Your “afaik” would carry more weight if you had bothered reading to the bottom of your linked article:
Don’t think it was up for more than a day. NYC Parks & Recreation take a dim view of people deciding on their own what statues should be placed on display.
Two hours, all summer. Basically the same thing. The important thing to remember is LIBERAL HYPOCRISY.
Not seeing that.
This Naked Donald Trump Statue Cannot Be Unseen
It seems the emperor “has no balls.”
08/18/2016 01:09 pm ET | Updated Aug 19, 2016
(bolding mine).
I’ve been hearing about it all summer. The statue was inspired by the primary debates and references to penis size. That was last Spring.
I guess articles were using an old picture. They love using it to belittle Trump. I had the impression the statue was up for awhile.
If that’s not the case. I apologize.
So wait- the government took down the Trump statue immediately, but citizens tore down the Hillary statue. So whose First Amendment rights were you bemoaning?
So, you’re retracting your original claim then once shown that facts are opposite of your impression?
My screw up. I often lose track of which month is which number. Particularly June through Sept.
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Yes, I erred. I said to begin with that I wasn’t sure if the Trump statue had been taken down.
I thought it was on private property and had permission to be displayed.
Coverage of the statue and comments about it mislead me into thinking it was on display.
I’d rub it in, but I need to use my fingers to get this right every damn time.
But it’s a really interesting metaphor for the Trump campaign. You were very willing to start yelling out charges of liberal hypocrisy despite the fact that it required exactly 12 seconds of very simple verification to show that your claims had no basis.