It’s amazing how people can twist and contort their values to defend someone who is clearly in the wrong simply because they agree politically.

That’s what happens when you let hate run your life
Hater Hating

It’s not a mental issue …..it’s a hate issue
He has let hate run is daily life
Again he needs to let his HATE GO……..

All too many people thrive on hate/anger, many public officials know it and take every opportunity - to throw gas on that stoked fire of hate and anger. For a whole lot of people it doesn't seem to even matter, if there is any truth in that gas can.

I believe you are correct.

What does he let them win
The women wears her shirt ……so he harasses her, follows her home and some how you come up with “he is letting them win”
He has harassed hundreds of people over the last 5 yrs and you some how want to come up with “he letting them win”…..I really like to know what you mean by that.

Oh lord give me a break.
There is Free speech and there is Hate speech
He does Hate speech
So if a guy followed you home and kept coming back to your home and your a woman…..you would be perfectly okay with that……I truly don’t think so.
People like you are are the problem……to say this is about his freedom of speech, when it has nothing to do with it at all.

Beyond true
Enjoy your day

He is behaving like the person he hates. Ironic!!

Kick his butt out of the villages permanently

Ed's behavior is the problem in our country.

In college I had a minor in psychology. I remember the profs introduction to his course in ABNORMAL psychology. You will see all of these traits in yourself and wonder. The definition of abnormal is when you loose control of it and it causes harm to yourself and others. That guy Ed parked his golf cart with obscene anti Trump signs on his golf cart, in Spanish Springs for months.

There are people still posting their support of him and too many others lost in hate. Conversations, without name calling, and implied how can you be so stupid at to ...........
are rampant.

My view, we are coming to Thanksgiving. The history is interesting. Our country was torn apart by the Civil War. One major issue still argued about is states rights vs federal government. In a brilliant political act of wisdom, Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday. I assume for many there will be political arguments at the table. Hopefully some will realize we have far more common goals than differences. We are where we are because we have been manipulated. It does not take much to do this. I ask all to ask themselves have they been manipulated to believe we are good and they are evil.
May all, at least some face where we are and how we got here.

i hope for all our sakes that never happens, but i also thought the same thing. when ben carson makes his appearance, they will need lots of security

Political bias is clear. A restraining order is a judge saying, if you do not have the sense to stay away form that person I need to think for you. Something he didn't do. If that is so he had the good sense to honor the restraining order. There is no question that guy Ed has gone beyond normal, whatever normal is.

His behavior is getting worse. He is obsessed with hatred for Trump I'm concerned it may just get worse and he hurts someone.

OBB is ok by me. each of us has our own opinions, & i do my best to respect others' , even if we don't agree. this is what free speech truly is! we CAN do this getting-along thing, without name calling, stalking, or police getting involved. in the old days back @ school we had the debate class. @ the end, opponents shook hands & that was it. class over & time to go hang out with the 'opponent' in the school yard. things have changed so much now, it's kind of sad

Definition " village idiot "
 

Definition of
"village idiot"

vil·lage id·i·ot
/ˈvilij ˈidēət/

a person of very low intelligence resident and well known in a village.

Yes this can apply to many here in The Villages on all sides including those who follow them and encourage them.

Why does what happened to a certain leader awhile ago come to mind?

:MOJE_whot::MOJE_whot::MOJE_whot:

The ONLY....repeat O.N.L.Y reason we are talking about this guy today is is past political views....views that many here disagree with.
I checked Sumter County arrest records and there are 51 other Villagers who have been charged with violating their restraining orders...men and women.
So...is the TOTV going to get a new tab for people who violate restraining orders????

Stalking is not a protected first amendment right.
 

You do realize there are laws against stalking. This wasn't just Free speech protected by his first amendment rights. When you take it to the point Ed did, it's stalking. When someone goes that far, because someone wore a shirt he didn't like, is not normal. I don't care for Ed's message either, but it's his opinion. Why can't he respect that the other people have the same rights he has, and just let it go?

What is the population of TV? 130,000 - 150,000? 50 of those residents can’t even be measured by a percentage.

He followed her to her home! That's stalking and it's scary. He's really full of hate as well, which adds to the unpredictability of his actions.

Huh, so it's OK for for Ed to be displaying his opinion all over his cart, but not ok for her to do the same? Hypocrisy.

McGinty is a Serial Stalker: Ask Me Why!
 

This deranged man didn't just now start to act crazy and aggressive.
Those of us participating in golf cart parades have been insulted, spit on, and harassed for the past 3 years by the unrestrained hatred spewing like venom from his mouth.
The ************* coverage of our parades has always focused on McGinty's colorful opposition to the extent that they bear some responsibility for making him a folk anti-hero and have encouraged his bizarre behavior.
The majority of Villagers knew this man was a crazy, dangerous show-off years ago. Now that McGinty has escalated into actual criminal behavor, the ************** is covering this new chapter in the "Tale of McGinty"as if they do not have egg on their face.

To The **************, AND, to those who supported this guy in the past: I see the EGG! It's right there--Under your Nose. :boom:

EXACTLY!!! Thank you for proving my point.
Now take that 50 number and drop it to....one...Ed M.
one person out of 150,000 Villagers violated a restraining order...and yet here we are 6 pages deep into a forum....about ONE person.
WHY???? Don't tell me this is not because of the politics of this one person.

Welcome to Sumter County, FL

Ed's actions hardly seem to warrant the attention from the media nor from the courts. He does need to calm down and not let the ardent fans of a certain person get to him.

He should respect the law though even though here I still do not see what the fuss is about. Some others rarely if ever think that the law even applies to them.

Seems to me that without facts in evidence - there's a lot of assuming in that post.

Perhaps it's because it has a bigger message... it highlights the hypocrisy we are seeing in our citizen's behaviors based on political beliefs...

What "Ed" was doing was trying to frighten, intimidate, harass the lady. By parking outside her home he's silently letting her know that "He knows where she lives"

It's because he's become a media star... Due to his own actions...

No one knows who the others are...

Bingo!

"Nasty" guy. Maybe his family ought to take control of him and have him committed where he won't be a danger to anyone or himself.

There is certainly enough hate to go around — definitely let out from under the rocks and validated during these past few years. We see it all the time, all around us.

It is tearing up friendships and families and neighborhoods and communities. I have never in my boomer years seen “Us v. Them” like this.

Amerca’s citizens are being used as pawns in the name of greed and power. Dysinformation thrives and the programmed-in buzzwords can be spotted immediately.

The need for attention and the need to be a part of something bigger are rooted deeply in some and they find our country’s current hateful ways to be a path to those things.

I am offended when I see our flag desecrated with a face or a slogan emblazoned across the Stars and Stripes in the name of some kind of warped, pseudo-patriotism. (How can those who do this not know it is desecration of the flag. Our flag should be flying high and proud, not being used to divide and destroy.)

Actually, I am more than offended, I am deeply concerned for our children and grandchildren. We boomers came in with a bang to a country full promise and blessedly full of pride in having defeated a fascist, a monster. And now, here we are. Will the boomers go out with a whimper as Democracy fails, under attack by its own?

The man in question in the paper is certainly over the top. But I cannot help but picture the woman, at the pool, with her crude saying on her shirt, sending her signal to others like her. (* Of course, no one deserves to be stalked. And sure — she can wear whatever she wants to wear to try to get the attention she so desperately must need. This situation is an ugly mess, all around.)

But about those women with their slogans — those women are everywhere. Sometimes they show up in social situations, having been invited by a friend of a friend. I know of one who recently “invaded” a lunch — having been invited by someone to a large group of women, most of whom she had never met.

This brassy creature plopped her purse on the table (ladies do not do that) and then started braying and honking on and on about her hatred for those who do not think like she does. Finally, a woman next to her quietly told her, “We do not act like that.” The brassy, crass, loud woman had assumed. . .

There is a thread running here where the hatred of Baldwin is so intense that the death of an innocent woman seems to be forgotten by those who look like they are reveling in so much joy at Baldwin’s mess that they can forget the death — in what shows between the lines as a, “Hey, whatever it takes to ruin one of ‘em,” attitude.

I have never before had to worry about our country. I am a believer in common sense and decency and thinking things through and responsibility and finding solutions — and plain old good manners. (Remember those?) We are not seeing much of any of those things anymore. Adults are behaving in ways — doing things that I would think they tried to teach their children not to do — or be.

Like Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

Boomer

Sounds like someone hates women. Blaming a woman for a man's bad behavior? Hmm., or was that just a satiric post? :coolsmiley:

Quoting myself here. . .And now quoting MDLNB’s attack on my words —
MDLNB! You must be kidding me. I AM a woman. Geez. If you read carefully, I said no one deserves to be stalked and that she can wear whatever she wants to get whatever type of attention she needs. Am I going to have to give a pop-quiz to check on reading for content?

My little rant on a general type of woman was not satire. It was a slice-of-life, a vignette, on how everyday social life in TV and other places, too, can be with women these days.

I must assume you are carrying the Y chromosome or you would understand exactly what I was talking about. Women come in all types. Imagine that.

Satire? No.

Being a little b*t@#y? Well. . .maybe — as one who is tired of the behavior that is always front and center from some. I think when women are loud and crass and wear slogans that are rather crude, they are embarrassing themselves. . . I am just tired of the type — everywhere. That’s all. They are so angry all the time. I liked it when I used to be able to assume everybody I met was nice — until they weren’t. Now, too many leave no doubt because their obsession rules their brains — and their manners and their ensembles.

Boomer

PS: MDLNB, because I am a nice lady with a bad habit of writing off the top of my head, hitting submit, and then going back and editing within usually not more than a few minutes — I think I need to cut you a little slack. When I did my edit, I realized that I needed to clarify that the woman in this mess did not deserve to be stalked and could wear whatever she wanted to get the attention she needed. But you grabbed my quote before my edit.

So many bazillion times, I wrote words like ‘clarify’ and ‘transition needed’ on essays that you would think I would edit before posting. I usually catch myself immediately, but you were too fast for me.

Please look again at what I said after I clarified. The man in question needs to stop, of course. My little tirade, my opinion was on “in your face” types in general. I can avoid drama and chaos types in my own social life. But, as a country, if all the hate around us does not end or, at least, subside, I think we are doomed.

I still think you took an unfair hit on my words. Not a surprise really, but I still hope you will take another look at my self-quote above. And I acknowledge my first draft needed clarification that you did not get to see. You were quick on the draw. And I sure do need to edit before posting.

The main needs Mental Meds…..truly

Is that on one side or two sides of the "spectrum"?

Says someone who doesn’t know a ball from a strike.

Hardly an attack on your words. To answer YOUR reply, since when does one stipulate TODAY that one must not be the same gender (or gender bender) to "hate" a particular gender? Just responding to the theme of your post.

Kind of interesting that you defend the guy that is disparaging a president/former president in large letters throughout the villages and then blame a woman that is wearing an anti-president themed T shirt to the pool for her being harassed. kind of like blaming a woman that is wearing a short skirt for her rape.

I don't know the woman involved, but I wouldn't want my wife or daughter to be treated like that. Guess not all of us agree on certain specifics.