{"id":20246,"date":"2016-02-29T00:39:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T08:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=20246"},"modified":"2016-02-29T00:39:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T08:39:56","slug":"5-right-wing-lunacies-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/5-right-wing-lunacies-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Right-Wing Lunacies This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week is no different than any other . . . the right wing nut jobs are at it still.  Of course there are more than five instances, but five is all we have time for.  Besides, barf bags are in short supply these days.<\/span><\/p>\n

From <\/span>Alternet<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — Earlier in the week, it was the priceless nugget after his victory in Nevada, “I love the poorly educated,” a saying that should be embroidered in gold thread on a throw pillow in Mar-a-Lago. Really one for the ages. Who says something like that? The Trumpster, that’s who. So, we’ll start with a few Trump gems and move on from there as everyone else on the rightward flank tried to keep up.<\/p>\n

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4. Okay, okay, back to Trump, who has given us new insight into how he will govern.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump was hopping mad at the things Marco Rubio brought up about him in the debate. Like the fact that he builds things using foreign labor, and that most of his wealth stems from the fact that he inherited money from his daddy, and that his Trump University is a predatory scam. Where did Rubio get these talking points? From the dastardly media, which Trump likes when it is doing his bidding and doesn’t like when it writes those mean articles about him.<\/p>\n

At a rally in Texas afterward, Trump opened his mouth and started talking. This is, or course, part of his appeal, that he does not appear ever to prepare the things he says, and sometimes ends up saying things he’s said many, many times before, and sometimes says something completely new, crazy and scary, for instance, that he’d like to punch a protester in the face. When Trump is elected, he told the cheering poorly educated hordes, “One of the things I’m gonna do, and this is only gonna make it tougher for me, and I’ve never said this before, but one of the things I’m gonna do if I win… is I’m gonna open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We’re gonna open up those libel laws."<\/p>\n

Yeah, he’s going to make some minor adjustments to that whole First Amendment thing. Not his favorite amendment. He much prefers the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

He sputtered on. “With me, they’re not protected, because I’m not like other people… We’re gonna open up those libel laws, folks, and we’re gonna have people sue you like you never get sued before.”<\/p>\n

So much suing to do. Because that’s what leaders do. They sue.<\/p>\n