^^^^^^^^^^I think you are over thinking it.  Acosta is not rebelling.  He is being intentionally disruptive to deny the President the ability to articulate his message and substituting his own message in an aggressive manner.  If Acosta wants to protest and rebel, he can do so on the air, on any street corner, or public square.  This is the Presidents Press Briefing.  It's his show.  Not Acosta's, nor CNN.  So I think your entire premise is BUNK.

Mom is conservative at heart.  Devote Catholic. She voted for Kennedy but has voted Republican since then because she is anti-abortion. She also believes illegal immigration needs to be stopped, taxes should be lowered, and doesn't want men in her ladies room. If you ask her point by point she will tell you these things.  But the only news she reads is that damned liberal rag and it's got her so screwed up and confused.

It's like the healthcare proxy and durable power of attorney.  I have to make decisions for her because she is getting more and more confused, but I make those decisions in HER best interest, the way I think SHE wants.  I view these voting questions the same way, if she insists on asking me how she should vote, I will tell her in accordance with what I know HER values are, not try to convince her to my values. 

It didn't used to be that way.  I used to try to debate with her and turn her to my point of view, but that was when she had a quick mind.  These days I feel it's my duty just to help her feel confident and at peace that she is voting in line with her values.

But how many people do it that way? And how many just talk the old person into voting however THEY want them to?  Because a lot of people do that I have thought that you are right, people should not be allowed to vote when they get all old and confused.

For that matter, I think confused young people shouldn't vote either.  Teenagers are by definition confused.  Oh if I were king, you wouldn't vote until you've had to support yourself with a job for at least five years, and passed a general knowledge test heavy on economics, history, logic and science.

I’m not sure how any of you can be so certain this was not someone on the right.  Both left and right have deranged folks on their side.  And to say that the right isn’t violent is simply not true.  Neo nazis, KKK, abortion clinic bombers, abortion provider killers, thugs who beat up gays, etc. are all examples of people on the right who are and have been violent.  Do they represent a mere fraction of folks on the right? Absolutely!  But it’s the same with the loonies on the left.

Patrol with Humvees with .50 Cals.  Kind of an updated "Rat Patrol".

Trump is actually just being consistent, he ALWAYS pushes wanting to have info before making decisions/statements about 'facts'.

If it comes out the Crown Prince is behind this there will be hell to pay, somehow.

If the Saud family wants to go to economic war this is the wrong President to do that with.

It is just as possible that this was actually an interrogation gone wrong as deliberate murder, but we don't actually know anything yet.

Waiting to pass judgement is the right thing to do, IMO.

'Gimp