Newt Gingrich said Trump officials should call the police when disrespected in public.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker and Trump ally, said the way to end the public confrontations is “to call the police.”

“You file charges and you press them,” Gingrich said. “We have no reason to tolerate barbarians trying to impose totalitarian behavior by sheer force, and we have every right to defend ourselves.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/viciousness-trump-aides-endure-public-fury-toward-presidents-policies/2018/07/09/23d3b9a2-8051-11e8-b0ef-fffcabeff946_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d93ffe43e1c9

For what ?

[notdarkyet]

1. Wee still have a right to free speech. We can call him anything we want.

[marble falls]

2. Oh Newt, you're such a panic.....

no, really, you're panicking, compose yourself. Just fantasize about cheating on your next wife.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Leave it to Newt to convert First Amendment Free Speech rights to a 4th Class

disorderly persons misdemeanor.

I'd almost take the risk to subpoena McTurtle or Sanders.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Disorderly conduct is a catch all law

I suspect the D.C. police have more important concerns. And I'm not sure calling somebody a horrible person rises to even that.

[Xipe Totec]

4. How many times a day would we call the police on DJT?

Should we call the cops every time he disrespects us?

[Liberal In Texas]

5. The Respect Police?

Charge them with disrespect. Didn't know we had laws against it. At least not yet.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Why not a citizen's arrest?

[malaise]

7. This is known as an inversion of reality - Don the Con and his goons are the barbarians

It would be funny under normal circumstances.

Gingrich said. “We have no reason to tolerate barbarians trying to impose totalitarian behavior by sheer force, and we have every right to defend ourselves.”

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Neither do we.

[dalton99a]

12. +1

[peekaloo]

21. Goooooaaaaalllllllll!

Ol' Neuter writes books on alternate history. Seems like he writes from experience.

[malaise]

25. LOL

For the World Cup analogy.

[greatauntoftriplets]

38. Newt-er's a bit confused about just who the totalitarians are.

[NCTraveler]

8. It is a good way to go about dealing with it.

It will also keep the Trump official at the establishment longer as they are waiting for police. Then there will be no charges filed as the harasser peacefully leaves.

Trump official calls the police on protester and no arrest was made. <-Always paints a pretty image. lol.

[JDC]

10. The most serious crime in America: Disrespect of authority

Newt's statement is the best example of projection that I can think of: “We have no reason to tolerate barbarians trying to impose totalitarian behavior by sheer force, and we have every right to defend ourselves.”

[MrsCoffee]

11. Under his Eye.

I really have no more responses to this shit anymore. I think I just watched 22 episodes of this play out on Hulu.

[shraby]

13. If they can't stand the heat, they need to get out of the kitchen!

That includes you, newt.

[Arkansas Granny]

14. What snowflakes! Do they seriously think that police should get involved in non-violent,

verbal confrontations? What a waste of police time and taxpayer dollars.

[eShirl]

15. He has no sense of his irony.

[handmade34]

16. Newt Gingrich said......

[eShirl]

17. right?

[sinkingfeeling]

18. Didn't some guy get detained for telling Cheney, "F*ck you"?

[DiverDave]

19. Step into the gutter when

Your betters pass. Better tip your hat, or you go to jail.
Man, screw these royal wannabes.

[Sanity Claws]

20. Disrespect is not a crime

[Scurrilous]

22. If disrespecting your spouse was a incarcerable crime, Newt'd get life.

[spanone]

23. hey newt, it's not illegal to give your opinion in public....yet.

[lpbk2713]

24. Newt is hoping to get lucky. Fascists might show up.

But it's a coin toss. The responders might say they have a right to be heard.

[workinclasszero]

26. Get back in the gutter from whence you crawled Newt

Imagine a guttersnipe like Newt Gingrich scolding the public for using its first amendment rights!

A man that cheated on his dying wife while she was slowly slipping away from cancer in a hospital.

Now there is a family values/moral/religious GOP evil POS!

Only King Dump can top Newt's inbred hate and nihilism!

[Squinch]

27. Everyone else should call the police when they see Newt Gingrich.

[murielm99]

28. I'd be willing to take the risk.

That old has been needs to go home and take a nap.

[Historic NY]

29. DC Metropolitan has better things to do ...

then hurt feelings of those that can stand the heat.

[DetlefK]

30. Alright. Let's call the police on people who protest in front of abortion-clinics.

[Thomas Hurt]

31. Disagreement is treason to the christofascists.

As long as the protesters, leave if ask to by the business owner, don't touch or otherwise assault the cultist being called out, Newt has nothing.

You don't even have to raise your voice, just tell them off and walk off, preferably with an audience.

[democratisphere]

32. Who do we call when drumpf disrespects America and its people

every minute of every day. WHO?!

Newt is a f'ing a**hole!

[mindem]

33. Help me......

I forgot why we are supposed to give a rip about what Newt thinks or says. Newt, who the hell names their kid after a salamander? Although he is rather slimy and creepy.

[jaxind]

34. Just Curious...

Just curious how nutty Newt feels when blacks are asked to leave swimming pools and when a black child is asked to stop selling water and a black family is asked not to barbecue, etc. Were those white people that did these acts, not barbaric, Newt??!

[CrispyQ]

39. This.

Righteous point!

[Lee-Lee]

35. Know the letter of the law in whatever jurisdiction you are in

Know what you can do, and what crosses the line to a criminal offense.

Don’t cross that line, and make sure that you document that you don’t.

That game only works if you open the door for them to let it work.

[Gothmog]

36. Hurting their feelings is evidently a crime

[CrispyQ]

37. Hateful bigots are not a protected class. Neither are snowflakes.

Eat it, you shits. ~insert flip-the-bird smilie here

[Initech]

40. Guess he didn't get the memo about #Civility.

[Freethinker65]

41. Newt knows better.

He is probably upset Rudy is getting more media attention.

[Orsino]

42. False police reports are for the rubes.

The real movers and shakers get their fake-ass victim narrative promoted on TV without ever having to take responsibility.

[Qutzupalotl]

43. He doesn't mean it

for all the reasons in the responses above. He's just saying this to get us to stop. So ... don't.

[Javaman]

44. snowflake. nt