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That's some Tugg Speedman level effort trying to get those tears out. I can't wait for him to go Simple Jack if things seem to be taking a turn against him ...

Among the GQP base, I think if you just repeated his first name over and over again ("Mehmet, Mehmet, Mehmet. Did you know Mehmet is the Turkish form of the Arabic name Muhammed?"), you'd pretty quickly scuttle his campaign.

There was an interesting tidbit in the story about the impact of OKC bombing on NRA membership: It really is amazing that the NRA is still around. Only in 'Murica.

Secret tape reveals NRA leaders referring to supporters as "hillbillies" and "fruitcakes" in the wake of Columbine It's absolutely what you would expect from the leadership of the NRA, but of course it's not going to impact the views of the "hillbillies" and "fruitcakes" that vote however the NRA tells them to vote. That said, I would love more audio / video leaks of GQP leadership saying what they really think about the useful idiots comprising their single-issue voter bases (guns, 'bortion, immigrants!).

Maybe branding wasn't the right term - it's more about messaging, and their inability to get out ahead of the GOP when they see them distorting positions (especially when it's a position of just a subset of their base). Granted, the GQP throws so much shit at the wall, it's difficult to figure out what is actually going to stick, and being too reactionary could make them look like Abbott chasing down every Huffines tweet. Still, it's not that hard to sense when the GQP propaganda machine is getting spun up. Unfortunately, the Dems just can't compete when it comes to messaging discipline.

I did not expect a reasonable decision coming out of the Fifth Circuit, but fuck me runnin' ... Cops Arrested Her for Exercising Her First Amendment Rights. They Got Qualified Immunity—but the Appeals Court Wasn't Having It. - Reason.com It doesn't feel like the courts are going to be able to find a way to apply this doctrine sensibly and consistently, but it's nice when even the blind pigs of the Fifth Circuit can find an acorn ...

Can't overstate it - the Democrats fucking suck at branding. "Defund the police," CRT, etc. - every time they coin a new phrase they end up shooting themselves in the dick.

Aaaaaand she looks exactly like you would expect (assuming they made her take off her MAGA hat for booking) ...

Fuck it - who am I kidding? The Democrats aren't going to find anyone better, so let's go!!! Third times a charm.

Man, fuck that judge. I had heard about the "victim" thing, but I hadn't heard about everything else. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/29/are-men-kyle-rittenhouse-killed-victims-not-according-judge/ So to recap: People who get gunned down in the streets - can't be referred to as victims People who might have been involved in misconduct - can be referred to as "arsonists," "looters", "rioters" Video of shooter bro'ing it up with trigger happy cops - definitely probative evidence of what a great kid he was and that he had been welcomed by the authorities to "keep the peace" Video of shooter saying that he'd love to gun down shoplifters 15 days before actually gunning down protesters - irrelevant and inadmissible Evidence of shooter flying to Miami to meet with leader of white supremacist group and hanging out with members of group (months before driving to Wisconsin to gun down minority protesters) - irrelevant and inadmissible.

I think Macanudo was responding to the assertion that "it hasn't looked ugly enough yet." His point is that it's pretty fucking ugly throughout the US right now (although maybe not in the NHL just yet).

Of course this shitbird is going back to Orange County ...

Judge Howell and I both feelin' like ...

I watched one of the clips on KVUE on this, and it looks like this Turner guy lived at 101 Tina's Trail in Martindale, which is on a cul-de-sac. Martindale neighborhood I highly doubt the guy actually parked in Turner's driveway - he probably just was parked in the cul-de-sac. This whole fucking thing stinks. Poor guy probably decided to pull off the road to rest his eyes (it was like 3am in the morning), and decided not to do it on the main highway because, having an off-white skin tone, he knew the Caldwell County sheriff would have fucked with him. The lesson here is just don't stop in bumble-fuck Texas if you're not completely white.

So you're telling me that Vermont (which has had only 56 deaths / 100,000 residents over the pandemic) has been wasting their time with vaccinations and mitigation efforts by pointing to Florida (which has had 274 deaths / 100,000 residents - and probably more given they don't like to actually count COVID deaths) - is that it? Yeah, I get that Florida appears to be doing much better right now (especially relative to their recent history) because so many of them were hell-bent on catching it all together over the last few months and overrunning their hospitals in the process, but I think I'd rather be in a state where, at their worst, the resulting hospitalizations allowed them to treat patients that might need normal emergent care instead of focusing on the idiots intent on exercising their "freedums."

Newsnetdaily.com, huh? I'm with DDD Dad here ...

Now I could totally get behind a "blue jacket guy" Gofundme. That punch kinda reminded me of the slowmo fight scene in Good Will Hunting.

Trump absolutely would have covered his ass in this way. Gosar, MTG, Boebert, etc.? I'm not so sure that some of these idiots might not have made explicit promises. My dream is that someone might have recorded them running their mouths, in which event things could get interesting for them pretty quickly. Would the saner (but seemingly spineless) arm of the GOP take this opportunity to rid themselves of some of the loons? Probably not, but it's not as clear cut if there's clear evidence of sedition going on.

This is abso-fucking-lutely going to happen - only question is whether Huffines gets a tweet out goading him to do it before Abbott pulls the trigger.

Is it time to start picking out some Exxon stations in D.C.? If I were MTG, Boebert, Gosar, Mo Brooks or Madison Cawthorn, I'd probably be sweating a bit right about now.

Proof positive that, in the Trumpian GQP, the cruelty is, in fact, the point.

Dammit, this isn't the happy ending I come to this thread for!

The 24th rule of Trumpter is that if a Trumptard goes limp or taps out after getting bitch-slapped on Trumpter, the Trumpter fight is over ...