Donnie Palmer, running again as a Republican against incumbent US Rep Ayanna Pressley, says she should be executed by hanging for treason and that he'd be happy to put the noose around her neck himself.
Both Palmer and Pressley are Black, but Palmer fully supports Trump. Pressley's hanging crimes are so obvious he doesn't have to spell them out, of course, but they apparently have something to do with leading Black progressive women, whom he calls morons, around by the nose:
In 2022, Pressley defeated Palmer by an 85-15 margin.
In 2021, Palmer came in 15th out of 17 in the preliminary for one of four at-large seats on the Boston City Council. He did beat out fellow hater Roy Owens, at least.
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Terrorism
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 3:33pm
This is outright terrorism.
I hope the AG is listening to this and takes appropriate action.
nah, he said "should be charged . . . " then hanged
By deselby
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 4:15am
the subjunctive mood brings it out of the true threat area and into the realm of political rhetoric
Watts v. United States, 394 U.S. 705 (1969), in which a speaker at a Vietnam War protest said he'd put LBJ in his rifle sights if he was drafted is the case on point here.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/394/705/
Once again we see "liberals" here ranting about punishing political rhetoric. If you want to reply to me, please do so with a Supreme Court case citation and not just your feelings.
I don't make the law, Supreme Court did.
You didn't invent sophistry
By Sator
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 7:02am
either, but you did choose it.
Stay smug, its the one skill you can count on.
He said
By dan r
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 7:46am
« I will personally tie the noose » which advocates imminently lawless action unprotected by the First Amendment.
He also didn't say
By Sator
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 7:48am
That they should be convicted, only charged and then hanged.
Split personality?
By Lanny Budd
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 9:50am
When you know enough to quote cases but not enough to know that the SC does not make law.
That would be news
By deselby
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 11:14am
to Miranda, Mapp, Griswold, Roe AND Dobbs, and many others including our own late great John Hurley.
Keep joking kiddies
When you're
By dan r
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 12:00pm
Appealing to Wacko Hurley, you know you've lost the serious people.
Keep clowning.
Wacko won his case
By deselby
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 12:20pm
and established a constitutional principle.
9-0 ruling. And what have you done?
Oh I remember now
By Lanny Budd
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 12:45pm
The Supreme Court passed that law which allowed the Germans to bomb Pearl Harbor.
What Constitutional principle
By dan r
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 12:56pm
did Wacko help enshrine that Palmer is enjoying? Sounds like you're just tossing 1A cases at the wall hoping something will stick.
And at any rate, if Donnie Palmer is the type of person you want as your political bedfellow you're welcome to him. Everyone knows what kind of a person he is and if that's who you want to represent you, enjoy what you get. Really.
Wacko's Law
By deselby
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 2:04pm
of state non-interference in the content of civil society expressive events has little or nothing to do with Palmer.
I'm just answering the person who ignorantly said "the Supreme Court does not make law."
the case exactly on point is Watts, which I quoted from above. Do you have problems following a comment thread?
That person's right
By dan r
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 2:21pm
The SCOTUS does not make law, it interprets law. Keep flailing, lobbing gratuitous insults, and spouting off irrelevancies though. You're a representative Bay State Republican from all I've ever been able to tell. Congratulations! :-D
You obviously didn't go to law school
By deselby
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 3:01pm
or even learn in high school civics what a "common law" jurisdiction is. Lots of law is made by judges, including the Supreme Court.
Indeed, the power of the Supreme Court to "interpret" what the Constitution says comes for a Supreme Court case, Marbury v. Madison. It's not in the text of the Constitution.
I grow weary of educating.
More insults
By dan r
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 3:05pm
SCOTUS doesn't make law, full stop, that is not its job, period.
You know, it's a shame that you didn't die of covid.
...
By brianjdamico
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 3:39pm
I can't say I've seen many comments lately by deselby that I've agreed with but don't you think you are taking it just a little over the line in this reply?
No
By dan r
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 3:43pm
As far as I'm concerned, the Trump hankering for a second Civil War has been met. I'm okay with another 500,000 of them dead.
No different than Trump
By robo
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 7:11pm
I hope you’re proud of yourself.
I've got an idea
By dan r
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 8:42pm
Try being civil to a Donnie Palmer or a dselby for that matter and see what it gets you.
You kill bullies. You don't ask them politely to stop bullying you.
Um
By robo
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 10:47pm
Kill bullies? I take it back. You’re way worse than Trump.
@adamg, I appreciate that you normally let things work themselves out, but these posts are way over the line.
Hey I know
By dan r
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 5:13am
Let’s negotiate with these terrorists
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Educating?
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 5:19pm
Maybe start with your transbigoted misogyny and work from there with the education.
You are absolutely wrong here.
I told you
By deselby
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 5:48pm
to reply with a Supreme Court citation to support your opinion.
While the English common law provided a foundation...
By Michael Kerpan
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 7:43pm
,,, for colonial and then state criminal and civil law, very few bits and pieces of that common law have not been replaced by legislation. In the federal system, there was not really much in the way of such English common law to start with. Sometimes people loosely use "common law" as a substitute for case law -- but almost all such case law is based on interpretation of regulations, statutes and constitutional provisions -- not on extension of long-ago common law doctrines (whose sole legal basis was case law precedent).
Good GPT-4 answer
By deselby
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 4:40am
and "case law" IS law.
Practiced law...
By Michael Kerpan
Sat, 06/01/2024 - 10:50am
...for almost 40 years, Did lots of appeals and hundreds of oral arguments in court.
Of course "case law is law". But case law interpreting the Constitution, statutes and regulations is different from actual "common law" -- which existed independent of legislation of any sort. In theory, construing enacted laws (and the like) requires one to honor the wording (and intention) of those laws. Not really sure what you think you are trying to prove....
You obviously didn't either
By lbb
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 9:47am
You obviously didn't either.
We grow weary of your pretense of being educated and having a command of facts. Go chase a car or something.
incredibly smug
By berkleealum
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 12:51pm
“he said she should be charged, then hangedâ€
nice use of the passive voice there. because your bullshit falls apart if you quote the man correctly, am i right?
Oh honey
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 5:17pm
Just fuck off with a high speed eggbeater. You are so full of shit.
Oh, and learn to read, dear. He said he'd tie the noose himself.
Take your racist, transbigoted misogyny elsewhere.
"I will personally tie the noose"
By necturus
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 10:15am
Doesn't sound like due process to me.
I'm no liberal, by the way. I'm a socialist.
Ah, the old Henry II defense
By fungwah
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 12:18pm
Will no one rid Palmer of this turbulent Representative?
JFC
By what what now?
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 3:39pm
'Nuff said.
1-800-CALLFBI
By dan r
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 3:40pm
N/t
Agreed
By FenwayFrank
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 6:42pm
But what does n/t mean?
No text
By BostonDog
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 6:49pm
As in, nothing else to add.
Thanks
By FenwayFrank
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 9:17pm
N/t
The Boondocks
By Will LaTulippe
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 9:59pm
Best one ever was Huey calling the FBI after 9/11 to give the names of people who had given arms to Afghanistan.
"The first one is Reagan. That's R-E-A -- hello?"
Pretty cool how we've reached
By xyz
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 4:37pm
Pretty cool how we've reached a point where Republicans are not even pretending not to be fascists anymore.
Is that a terroristic and true threat?
By Ron Newman
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 4:56pm
I'd love to see a criminal jury decide this.
Actionable threat
By Bostoneer
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 5:10pm
He is making a specific threat about a specific person and specifically saying he will do it not using the "maybe someone should" rhetoric that gets people out of this.
Another sign of pervasive
By Rwgfy
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 6:26pm
Another sign of pervasive lawlessness
What do you expect?
By lbb
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 9:49am
The Brownshirt Party gonna have brownshirt candidates.
Someone should tell David Duke
By makeshift_vicinity
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 7:15pm
that it's the Democratic Party that aligns with the KKK's interests, because he's been very clear that he thinks Donald Trump and the Republican Party align with the KKK's interests.
I hate this gaslighting BS where Republicans try to pretend like every KKK member and Nazi in America don't vote for them in every election. No one who is proud of their swastika tattoo voted for Joe Biden. No one who is proud of the white robe and hood hanging in their closet voted for Joe Biden. If you think some of them did, go find me one.
This guy may be the most delusional Donnie I've heard of yet. He's not well. Throw the book at him and get him a psych evaluation.
"Most Klansmen are Democrats"
By xyz
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 11:27am
"Most Klansmen are Democrats" is something a person could believe was true...if they pretended American history since 1960s never happened, which most Republicans would like to believe.
Klansmen used to be Democrats
By necturus
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 10:18am
So did white Southerners in general. But that was decades ago.
This is Massachusetts! Don't
By Rob
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 7:46pm
This is Massachusetts! Don't we have a blue law or something that would mandate this guy being brined in a barrel of salt cod on the public square for 90 days before being allowed back on the ballot?
This guy
By what what now?
Sun, 05/26/2024 - 7:47pm
spent some time in the squared circle.
Methinks he took a few too many blows to the head.
Agreed.
By Don't Panic
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 2:11am
Agreed. A+ for his recollection of history though. Southern Democrats did found the KKK in response to Republican led "Reconstruction" efforts after the Civil War.
Homeless
By Sator
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 7:48am
Zero of the Democrats of today would find a home in the Democratic Party of 150 years ago.
But its always nice to see deeply serious people engage in deeply serious word play about deeply serious issues!
Some would
By dan r
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 12:08pm
The War Democrats who supported President Lincoln's military strategy probably would include many of today's Democrats. It's a complex issue. If you don't know what a Copperhead is, you aren't going to be able to discuss it without beclowning yourself so it's better for most people to just leave it alone. It's a favorite troll among Trump supporters, but no one takes a Trump supporter seriously on any level unless they themselves are a venomous, racist clown.
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