Paul Ryan joked about 71 year old retiree being beaten to the ground for daring to question Ryan

[UCmeNdc]

Congressman Paul Ryan cracked a joke about him, after Tom Nielsen found himself face down on the floor being handcuffed by police for asking a question. The 71-year-old retired plumber from Kenosha was thrown to the ground, placed in handcuffs, and arrested for trespassing and resisting arrest after objecting to Ryan's plans to gut Social Security and Medicare during his congressman's only public appearance scheduled during the August recess -- a $15 Rotary Club luncheon in West Allis on Tuesday.

[Solly Mack]

1. Ryan doesn't care. He makes jokes because if that man lives or dies is meaningless to Ryan's goals.

In Ryan's view, the man will choose to die and not because of anything Ryan did.

Ryan wants what he wants and people are but flies to swat out of the way.

[Roy Rolling]

44. He's a total a-hole for sure

The flip-side of that? Hardcore conservative anarchists will cheer this strong-arm brutality. They cheer whenever there is video of someone getting roughed up. We must be careful to respond appropriately and not let that cheering narrative happen. Im gonna try to focus on a 71-year old being assaulted---that doesn't happen every day. Paul Ryan is an asshole every single day.

I wouldn't be surprised to see this video being featured by the Ryan camp showing how tough he is, just like Trump. Very presidential-like, if you get my drift.

ON EDIT: a response to Oasis below. 👇👇 ⬇️⬇️. My bad.

[Dustlawyer]

73. When Ryan is done he won't be able to afford his BP meds!

[oasis]

2. Asshole Ayn Rand Ryan. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I hope Ryan fries in Hell.

[FiveGoodMen]

30. I think that's where he's from

[SammyWinstonJack]

59. LOL.

[TNNurse]

48. he is one of those people

who make me hope there is a LITERAL HELL.

[WinkyDink]

54. I'd like to see him burn right now. This very second. On Earth. In public.

[Boomerproud]

4. I not only have utter contempt for Ryan, I also have contempt for people who vote for him.

Disgraceful.

[world wide wally]

5. Probably a vet of Vietnam too

[riversedge]

6. Ryan has been on the public dime for most of his adult life. Shame on him

[rickford66]

7. Don't forget he collected as a surviving child also.

[Mc Mike]

36. + 10,000. Thanks, nt

[Angry Dragon]

8. republicans are such slime

[LakeArenal]

9. When Hillary said "deplorable"

She said it all.

[yallerdawg]

10. The Republican version of:

"This is what democracy looks like."

[CrispyQ]

11. He's a shit. Just like the rest of them.

I've lost respect for anyone I know who still claims to be republican. And they're out there, too. Just amazing.

[narnian60]

39. +100

[lastlib]

45. rather demeaning to shit, isn't it?

(But I can't think of anything lower, either........)

[Historic NY]

12. We're rapidly losing the ability to call them out....

[link:|

[not fooled]

37. Yep

The Founders realized that for democracy to work here, the populace needed to be educated.

Now a large segment of the electorate is ignorant and propagandized to believe false information, by faux and flush.

The oligarchs have taken over. Ryan is a symptom, one of the most obnoxious and blatant.

Democracy can't work under those circumstances.

[DBoon]

46. For democracy to work...

...people also need the assurance they can question their elected representatives without being beaten.

And I would add that you can run for elected office without having your children threatened, and publish your political opinion without receiving death threats

[murielm99]

71. That should be made into a poster,

distributed to protestors and paraded around everywhere Ryan speaks.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

13. Disgusting and heartbreaking - Ryan is cold and without a soul. nt

[surrealAmerican]

14. ... and the rest of the people laugh at Ryan's crappy joke.

It's just so funny that an older person would get worked up about losing his main means of support.

What is wrong with these people?

[AnotherMother4Peace]

17. reminds me of trump mocking the reporter with a disability & people laughed. nt

[BigmanPigman]

60. It reminds me of the police laughing at the speech @IMPOTUS gave the other week

on Long Island. He told them not to protect a person's head after an arrest. Later he said he was joking but he wasn't.

[surrealAmerican]

61. It's not more excusable or better in any way ...

... for having been a joke. In fact, thinking it's funny to intentionally cause harm is worse than just thinking it's somehow acceptable.

[Botany]

15. "they" can do this shit because they know the elections are rigged.

BTW Ryan was all in on the Russian thing too.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/republicans-say-secret-talk-about-putin-paying-trump-was-just-a-joke

One month before Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, G.O.P. lawmakers were whispering about the possibility of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. According to an audio recording obtained by The Washington Post, House Republican leaders were discussing a meeting with the prime minister of Ukraine, who had warned about Russia’s efforts to destabilize Western democracies by funding populist politicians, when the group—which included Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, and Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers—turned the conversation to Russian interference in the United States.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy said, referring to California Republican Dana Rohrabacher, who has repeatedly advocated for closer relations with Russia. “Swear to God,” McCarthy added as others in the room laughed.

“No leaks,” Ryan instructed the group. “This is how we know we’re a real family here.”

A spokesman for Ryan flatly denied the exchange had taken place, but quickly changed his story after the Post said it had a recording of the conversation, arguing that the comments were just a joke. “This entire year-old exchange was clearly an attempt at humor,” Brendan Buck said. “No one believed the majority leader was seriously asserting that Donald Trump or any of our members were being paid by the Russians. What’s more, the Speaker and leadership team have repeatedly spoken out against Russia’s interference in our election, and the House continues to investigate that activity.”

[SusanaMontana41]

22. I'm sure Mr. Mueller has your phone number

Paul Pondscum.


I am seriously about to blow my top.

[Botany]

25. I hope Mueller and company exposes them all .... McConnell, Ryan, Sessions, and ....

BTW I just call Mr. Mueller, Bob.

[lebkr]

63. Yes, please!!

n/t

[lpbk2713]

16. "I only listen to PACs and SIGs and Lobbyists."

"The ones with deep pockets."

"Just who do you think you are? Someone that matters?"

[SusanaMontana41]

18. Just when you think you can't be more outraged.

We all have parents! He'll be old one day if he's lucky.

I have to make a phone call. (Calm down, count to a million.)

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. Psychopath. Like a lot of the pukes.

Stone cold white collar psychopath.

Shitler is merely a malignant narcissist, flaming asshole compared to Ayn.

All of the predators together in congress supporting and reinforcing each other makes their urges even stronger, more outrageous, more destructive.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Ryan is so far gone he forgets that that kind of "joke" is a net loser of votes. . . . . . nt

[Bettie]

35. Not in his district

It's carefully drawn to include only the most hard right people.

And voter suppression is a very strong force in Wisconsin.

It makes me sad that the state I grew up in, lived in most of my life, has turned into the next Kansas experiment.

[barbtries]

78. don't feel alone

I'm in NC and we're chasing Mississippi and Alabama

[Bettie]

81. I live in Iowa now

which is almost as bad as Wisconsin has become.

I'm not even sure how we got to this point. Where did the decent people go?

[barbtries]

86. good question

i think they were swallowed up by fox news.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

21. Ryan is a coward who is afraid to hold town hall mtgs. He holds one for his paying "constituents".

[Scarsdale]

33. He avoids his office in Janesville Wi.

He has a home in the town. His phone answering machine is filled, no more calls allowed. I wish his constituents would open their eyes. The courts in Wis. have ruled against gerrymandering, so Lyin' Ryan might not get re-elected, if people wise up. His good buddy Eric Cantor was just as arrogant, and he lost his re-election.

[bucolic_frolic]

23. Another candidate who belongs in jail

[LeftInTX]

24. Awful!!

Just disgusting.

Maybe he can't afford his blood pressure medicine!!!!!

[Mountain Mule]

26. I loathe Ryan

Business as usual for the Granny Killer.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

27. 686,773 views on youtube & the comments are brutal.

[Bob Loblaw]

28. Mother fucker

nt

[TEB]

29. I would love to be able to beat him and his leech cohorts

Baseball bat therapy punk mothers they wanna brutalize 22 million Americans by taking away health care. Only thing they will understand is when they fear us then democracy will prevail.

[Demit]

31. The sad thing is, this happened 6 years ago. And Paul Ryan is still in office, the little shit.

[Gabi Hayes]

70. No wonder it's not on Google news

[GallopingGhost]

32. He's a good little Nazi. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

34. That miserable fucking bastard!

I hate that man with a passion! How does he live with himself? He is the essence of pure evil.

[think4yourself]

38. Jesus! The man was handcuffed instantly!

For asking a question?! WTF? Those "police" are disgusting as well. What cop would default to that posture the second a senior citizen speaks up?

[red dog 1]

40. Kick for exposure!

Ryan has got to go!

[INdemo]

41. and....its rarely mentioned that Paul Ryan's College Education was funded

by his Social Security benefits after his Father died at age 55

[TxVietVet]

42. I lived and worked in Milwaukee County for over 20 years.

It was a somewhat progressive and a pro-union town.
2 AM radio stations spewed conservanazi hate 24/7 365.
They elected Wanker to county executive. Wanker proved how sorry of a conservanazi he was. The whites still voted for him.
Wanker became governor. He's still proving how big a conservanazi POS he is.
I knew some great people in Milwaukee County and in Wisconsin.
I also witnessed how lots of people in Wisconsin became more and more racist and conservanazi.

THE CONSERVANAZI PROPAGANDA MACHINE WORKED GREAT IN WISCONSIN.

Two of the biggest propagandists were Charley "Opera Singer" Sikes now a big conservanazi commentator on news stations. Another was a huge asshole named Mark Belling.
They still make me GAG when I hear them speak.

[diva77]

67. repugs in synch with installation of computerized voting machines

one look at one of these spreadsheets detailing the machines county by county and it's a no-brainer as to how Wisconsin has devolved into repugism

http://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/voting-equipment/voting-equipment-use

(click on links on that page to download spreadsheets)

[Skidmore]

43. Ryan is a heartless creature, but in the interest of accuracy,

that story is one reported in 2011. It is not recent nor should it be implied that it is.

https://thinkprogress.org/paul-ryan-mocks-senior-citizen-handcuffed-at-his-town-hall-i-hope-hes-taking-his-blood-pressure-761d350c434f/

[George II]

47. Disgusting and deplorable.

[Chasstev365]

49. Use this as a constant campaign commercial against Ryan in 2018!

[LeftInTX]

56. I agree!!!

[TexasBushwhacker]

50. YOU LIE!

The biggest cause national debt is WAR and the bloated Dept of Defense!

[heaven05]

51. their true colors are showing

but 18% of the rethugliKKKan base won't care about this concerned citizen. But that state voted this ryan POS in, they have to deal with the consequence and I doubt they have the temerity or fortitude to rectify the situation in 2018 because they respect nothing by voting out of fear of losing racial supremacy, which 60million plus citizens used as one of it's party platforms to vote for.

[Plucketeer]

68. Rethugs LUV them some "entitlements"!

So EASILY does that word translate to "free stuff". Never mind that we've been paying into those programs all along. Never mind that they've raided these funds thru the years - and now wanna give tax cuts so they don't have to put that money back. GAH! I don't want ANY KIND of fucking "religion", but I do so want there to a genuine HELL for these butt holes to spend eternity in.

[heaven05]

79. ++

[Docreed2003]

52. What a sick, sick fuck

I truly hope this snarky, pseudo-intellectual, evil fuck gets his just due one day!

[WinkyDink]

53. It's the philosophy that counts! People just get in the way of it!

[Doodley]

55. I admit that I also find it funny that a 71 year old would be beaten to the ground

if his name was Donald Trump.

[Hieronymus]

57. Ryan represents what the republicans have become.

[benld74]

58. U tube says it was 5 years ago

BUT

Its age has nothing to do
With what happened
Especially Ryan's half assed comment

[BigmanPigman]

62. Didn't the House GOP have a hard time replacing Boehner

and finally convinced Ryan to do fill the position? Is he really the best they could get? That is scraping under the bottom of the barrel.

[bdamomma]

64. that is horrible

again they want to stifle the truth. Ryan is an a$$hole, saying I hope he took his BP medication, that is not something NOT to joke about.

[stuffmatters]

65. We should ALL barrage the national & local tv news with this clip.

This clip of Ryan shows everybody the abject hideousness of the Republican Party. It is complete journalistic malpractice if news organizations do not air this. It should be emailed to every tv news editor's desk and followed up with phone calls of outrage at
Ryan's silencing & taxpayer funded police's assault of this man, who is doing nothing but speaking for the majority of America.

[Garrett78]

66. Remember when folks applauded, at 2011 debate, the idea of letting a person without health ins. die?

That's who the bulk of Republicans are. These aren't just people who have a different perspective than most Democrats. These are, by and large, bad people. Racist, sexist, heterosexist, xenophobic, jingoist, greedy assholes.

[eppur_se_muova]

69. He may look like Eddie Munster, but he's pure Hitler Youth underneath the surface. nt

[BlueJac]

72. Only fools vote for ASSHOLE RYAN

[Locrian]

74. Ryan scares me more than trump

Trump is a (dangerous) joke....

But Ryan is a "true believer" in the Ayn Rand philosophy, and he's sneakier.

[barbtries]

75. he was roughed up and put in jail for asking a question?

jeez we're in trouble. 1st amendment anyone? WTF

[Locrian]

76. Ryan scares me more than trump

Trump is a (dangerous) joke....

But Ryan is a "true believer" in the Ayn Rand philosophy, and he's sneakier.
Ryan would give the Nazis a run for the money.

[RKP5637]

77. Paul Ryan, another SOCIOPATH in office! n/t

[dlk]

80. Of Course Ryan Made a Joke-It's What People With No Conscience Do

How many textbook examples of sociopaths are leaders in the GOP?

[byronius]

82. The Banal Face Of Evil.

[El Mimbreno]

83. Ryan's a real comedian.

And a trump patsy - you can tell by their matching smirks. Even if this old news, it's still valid. I'm in the same boat as this guy; 67, been paying in since I was 15, and damn right I'm entitled!

[oegthe]

84. This event occurred in 2011.

unless I'm misreading something...

[UCmeNdc]

85. The Ironworker Challenging Paul Ryan Sees Path To Victory - More info on Ryan's district

It was May then. A month later, Bryce announced his 2018 candidacy for Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District ― a seat in the state’s southeastern corner that House Speaker Paul Ryan, 47, first won in 1998.

Let's get Ryan out!


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/randy-bryce-paul-ryan-working-people_us_59863b7ce4b08b75dcc76677?section=us_politics