If the intent really was to freak people out, they should have been drawing things like snakes, or open manhole covers.
Or, just portraits of Mr. Trump’s giant orange head, with his mouth curled into a permanent sneer and with those eyes that follow you wherever you go shudder.
Why don’t the poor nations just print their own money?
I wonder how many people know why food stamps were started .
No need to go that far. Apparently, just writing “Trump 2016” causes Emory students to declare “We are in pain!” and to cause Emory to review security footage to try to track down the “perpetrators” of such a horrific chalk related candidate support, which can not stand on college campuses.
I heard the term “crybully” recently, and it seems like a particularly apt one here.
Those expenses go into Govts’ balance sheet. Govts dont have the luxury of being able to raise debt to GDP ratio as the richer nations, of zero interest rates and the world working for them as cheap labour …
Probably not. Just printing free money for the needy should do. And some Govt powers may have to be given up I think. But those wouldn’t be such that Govts will particularly oppose I guess.
So what? Printing money just shows up as revenue. Makes the spreadsheet look better, actually. If anyone cared. Which they don’t. Certainly not lenders, as they are constantly begging the US to take their money.
Then just print more money.
Poorer nations don’t have this luxury because of reasons mentioned in the post that you quoted.
:dubious: Add infinity to the list of things truthSeeker2 really doesn’t understand.
CMC fnord!
And they’re not only in pain but they no longer feel safe either.
At least they’re being offered emergency counseling.
:rolleyes:
Hopefully at some point in this counseling it will be revealed to them that students on American college campuses actually have the constitutional right to support Republican candidates, even Donald Trump.
That is not in question. The Constitution cannot and does not prevent dangerous demagogues from running for president. Fortunately the Constitution also guarantees sane and reasonably informed voters the right to express their views on said dangerous demagogue.
Apparently it is, at least at this particular university, where students find that someone, somewhere on campus is actually a supporter of Donald Trump, and they’re not only gobsmacked to discover this, but they feel threatened, intimidated and “in pain” because of it…so much so that they’ve now got the school’s administration scurrying about attempting to learn the identity of this scurrilous Trump supporter who’s gotten its delicate flowers all atwitter.
Clearly they feel this person’s support of Trump is not only wrong but intolerable and should be forbidden. This does not sound to me like a group of people who understand the principles outlined by the Constitution.
The Washington Examiner? Seriously, Starkers, that’s your cite?
Is the Emory school newspaper a sufficient cite?
Sounds a lot like “If you’re not with us, you’re against us” to me.
This is clearly an attempt to force the university to denounce Trump and prohibit his supporters’ rights to free speech by attempting to place responsibility for enforcing the protesters beliefs upon the university’s administration under the guise that if it doesn’t, the administration is supporting Trump itself.
Well, there were so many that turned up when I searched that I saw no point in vetting the cite.
I did, however, pass on the first one, which included an image of a pacifier. 
So, some Emory students are self-righteous assholes. OK. Any indication that it is the opinion of the vast majority? Well, then, they are clearly wrong about that. Something else, or is liberal hypocrisy all you guys got? Again.
From the article (bolding mine):
“The University will review footage “up by the hospital [from] security cameras” to identify those who made the chalkings, Wagner told the protesters. He also added that if they’re students, they will go through the conduct violation process, while if they are from outside of the University, trespassing charges will be pressed.”
This doesn’t trouble you? Again, I fucking hate Donald Trump, and yet this troubles me.
I’m not troubled, exactly, because that requires more commitment than I’m prepared to offer. But it is the kind of colossal stupidity that I tend to pray is satire, only to release a sigh of disappointment when I realize it isn’t.
And nothing that offers Starving Artist more finger-paint for his “Decline of Western Civilization” mural is ever good.
I don’t want to sound like I’m totally defending the students in this case because from what little I’ve read about this they probably are typically overreacting, but OTOH this may not be as simple or silly as it may seem. It seems that some entity produced really massive amounts of chalk graffiti under cover of darkness, including every single vertical stair riser leading up to what is apparently a common area frequented by blacks and Latinos. You should probably wait to find out what the conduct violations actually are before getting too troubled by them.
From what I can see many of the protesters are minorities of the kind that Trump has been targeting or easily mistaken for such. You know what troubles me more? It’s the fact that one of the insidious consequences of the rise of Trump is that racists and Islamophobes now have the perfect dog whistle. They can go around Muslim and Latino groups loudly proclaiming their support of Trump, and if accused of racism or intimidation they can act all aggrieved and claim that they’re simply supporting a political candidate, nothing more. This fact alone gives any Trump endorsement an ugly innuendo that no other candidate has, and if and when it’s directed at minorities it’s not unreasonable to see it in that light.