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Home Front: Politix
Baby Trump Balloon-Slasher Says He's Never Seen Liberals ‘Mad About Chopping Up A Baby'
2019-11-13
h/t Instapundit
Hoyt Deau Hutchinson, the man who allegedly stabbed the Baby Trump balloon Saturday in Tuscaloosa, reportedly defended his actions during a Monday morning call to a radio show.

The incident occurred as protesters gathered outside the Alabama/LSU football game because President Donald Trump was in attendance ‐ and according to reporting from AL.com, Hutchinson told host Rick Burgess of the "Rick & Bubba Show" that the protest was what got under his skin.

Hutchinson described the scene, saying, "I got so fired up when I rolled by the balloon and I rolled down the window and I said something to them and I figured they saw me. I figured only way I was going to get close enough to that balloon was to blend in. (I) went and bought me an Alabama shirt and walked up like I was walking to the game and like I was going to take a picture with (the Trump balloon). I was so fired up. I was shaking I was so mad."

After he slashed a hole in the balloon, Hutchinson was arrested and charged with felony first degree criminal mischief ‐ he claimed to have yelled out "Trump 2020" while police were taking him away. (RELATED: Police Arrest Man For Allegedly Slashing ’Baby Trump’ Balloon At Alabama-LSU Football Game)

Hutchinson explained to Burgess that he was just tired of people not taking a stand, prompting the host to ask, "This was your turning of the temple tables?"

"Yes. It comes a point when you gotta take a stand," Hutchinson replied. "We don’t have two parties anymore. We have good vs. evil. When you got one party that says it’s OK to kill babies and by the way, this is the first time I’m ever seen a liberal get mad about chopping up a baby."

Hutchinson was reportedly released on $2,500 bond.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#23  :-)
Another vote for swapping the He out for H
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-13 21:57  

#22  #19 - I like the cut of your jib and would like to subscribe to your newsletter!
Posted by: Frank G   2019-11-13 20:26  

#21  Wouldn't a bow and arrow bring the same results but leave the possibility of an egress? How about flying a drone into it? How about a drone loaded with feces from LA? How come I'm the only one with twisted ideas?
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2019-11-13 19:59  

#20  Should've filled the balloon with hydrogen and reenacted the Hindenburg flight.

If someone were into political pranks, swapping the helium tank for hydrogen would be amusing and probably result in some great youtube video. Acetylene would be even funnier.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-11-13 18:14  

#19  Should've filled the balloon with hydrogen and reenacted the Hindenburg flight.
Posted by: Raj   2019-11-13 17:46  

#18  Slain Trump Balloon Rises Again Three Days Later.
Its either the second coming or a failed abortion...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2019-11-13 12:43  

#17  If a guy in my country were to hold a flag upside down, he'd have to be escorted to jail by a hundred cops. People should be respectfully afraid of the majority will, their symbols and their elected Executive, and by representation the majority.

The sanctity of 'old timey' things is where the Left first hacks away, as with parenting, prayer, icons and symbols. Then it mashes them into powder, bans them, installs its own ersatz symbols. Their game has continued for decades in the media, hollywood, through advertising. It applies psychology and great strategy, as only a satanic hive mind can create.

A Trump baby, blond with a weird skin tone - it's a direct association of race, magnified. Trump's everyman persona, non-experience as a conniving Washington hack, is pictured as infantile. A floating balloon means it's a lightweight challenge, a boogeyman we will easily destroy, the President is something only a puerile conservative mind can give weight to.

I congratulate your citizen. There is one certified set of brass balls in Tuscaloosa, at a time when people are afraid to defend christians on subways from wild homos.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-13 12:32  

#16  SCOTUS also ruled nude dancing and panhandling are free speech. As an observer, I like the former sometimes, the latter much less often.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-11-13 12:14  

#15  ^ Really ? Your SC said that ? Madness !

Really, what you'll need soon is for the Right to play unfair, hit hard and swagger in the face of the Left. It's not the conservative way, but it's what turns tables now. When a dyke activist shouts in your face, some guy beats a drum around to obstruct speech, hit them. Punch them in their triggered face and break their ribs. Trigger them with a MAGA hat, then beat them down.

It is up to people to retain control of their country, take their country back. The courts and senates are only as good as the disconnected, obtuse men and women in them.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-13 12:06  

#14  Burning THE flag is free speech, you burning one I own is not.
Posted by: Glenmore   2019-11-13 11:58  

#13  Flying the balloon is free speech but slashing it is not

SCOTUS says burning the flag is free speech, so if it's political it may well be fair game. Look at all the videos of angry leftists ripping political signs out of peoples' hands,especially on college campuses. Seems only one point of view is protected.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-11-13 11:56  

#12  Had he yelled allahu akbar, they wouldn't have arrested him.
Posted by: warthogswife   2019-11-13 11:35  

#11  Headline response: "True dat!"
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2019-11-13 10:58  

#10  Buy the crybabies a new balloon, and get this man to run for office.
Posted by: Iblis   2019-11-13 10:57  

#9  Yea, well, Glenmore - morality is based on reciprocity. Do these people respect your property rights?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-11-13 10:26  

#8  It was a felony from the monetary damages to the balloon.

I am of the camp that he should have let the liberal cry-babies have their balloon. It is free speech.
But until we start seeing fascists being charged with crimes for assaulting MAGA hat wearers I'm gonna point and laugh at the cry babies.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-11-13 09:15  

#7  It wasn't his property, he had no right to damage it, and he should pay the price. Flying the balloon is free speech but slashing it is not.
Posted by: Glenmore   2019-11-13 08:55  

#6  Breaking news:

Slain Trump Balloon Rises Again Three Days Later.

TUSCALOOSA, AL. The famous big baby Trump balloon was stabbed to death in Tuscaloosa over the weekend.

Followers mourned its death. But when some women came to pay their respects to the downed balloon three days later, they were shocked to find the balloon was rising again.

"It's a miracle!" cried awed onlookers as the balloon slowly began to reinflate itself and ascend into the heavens. "Just as it was prophesied!"

"Go, therefore, and make America great again," the balloon said. "And behold, I will be with you always. Or at least for another seven or eight terms."

The balloon rose and rose until it disappeared from sight, hidden by the clouds.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-11-13 08:37  

#5  Poking a hole in a balloon is a felony? That's a bit harsh.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2019-11-13 08:28  

#4  One is "protected speech." The other is a nazi armband. Need I explicitly state which is which?

/sarc
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-11-13 08:01  

#3  ...Bleeding Kansas. Just saying.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-11-13 07:41  

#2  Lefties who have taken a MAGA hat from a Trump supporter and destroyed it have also been charged also. Just sayin.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454   2019-11-13 04:53  

#1  Salute. The sort of guy you need more of. I'll bet the cops high-fived him in the car.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-13 04:32  

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