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21 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Hit head on, car crossed the center line and took out her and her staffers.  Not that 58 is old, but really feel for the young staffers.  That just sucks.  It's like a bolt out of the blue, there's nothing you can do to prevent it or stop it when it happens.  Shit like that keeps me up at night.

That's really the only thing I worry about on the road. My defensive driving game is on point, but there's no defense to the center line cross. You put your life in the hands of everyone coming the opposite direction.

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I really enjoyed the video about strodes. Would love to live with a transport system and streets much more like Amsterdam than the horrible concrete jungles we have here.

That Youtube channel was honestly one of the bigger factors in my decision to move overseas, something I will be doing in 6 weeks.

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1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Some people drive in their own lane and others simply have differing views.

I believe kelly anne would refer to those as "alternative lanes" 

I don't celebrate her death, but I'm sure as fuck not gonna mourn it. Too many decent people die every day to waste time mourning an ignorant cunt that voted against democracy. I can say with 100% certainty that Congress is better off today than it was 48 hours ago. I'm sure she will be replaced with another traitorous MAGA piece of shit, so the improvement will be short lived. 

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Man, whenever people cry about the way a small bbs talks of the political dead, it gets amusing.  Not a single person on this board knew her or her family.  And I would say the majority, including myself, had no idea who she was until she died in a car wreck.   For literally everyone here she is just another sad stat in the 'died in a car wreck' category.  But let's write a treatise on acting classy on a board that prides itself on being surly.

Speaking of class and dead politicians, things like this have a way of reminding me of the  Hunter S. Thompson Nixon Obit.  Which I love and use any excuse to re-read.

 

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MEMO FROM THE NATIONAL AFFAIRS DESK

DATE: MAY 1, 1994
FROM: DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON
SUBJECT: THE DEATH OF RICHARD NIXON: NOTES ON THE PASSING OF AN AMERICAN MONSTER.... HE WAS A LIAR AND A QUITTER, AND HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN BURIED AT SEA.... BUT HE WAS, AFTER ALL, THE PRESIDENT.

"And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird."
---Revelation 18:2
Richard Nixon is gone now, and I am poorer for it. He was the real thing -- a political monster straight out of Grendel and a very dangerous enemy. He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time. He lied to his friends and betrayed the trust of his family. Not even Gerald Ford, the unhappy ex-president who pardoned Nixon and kept him out of prison, was immune to the evil fallout. Ford, who believes strongly in Heaven and Hell, has told more than one of his celebrity golf partners that "I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon."

 

I have had my own bloody relationship with Nixon for many years, but I am not worried about it landing me in hell with him. I have already been there with that bastard, and I am a better person for it. Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.

Nixon laughed when I told him this. "Don't worry," he said, "I, too, am a family man, and we feel the same way about you."

It was Richard Nixon who got me into politics, and now that he's gone, I feel lonely. He was a giant in his way. As long as Nixon was politically alive -- and he was, all the way to the end -- we could always be sure of finding the enemy on the Low Road. There was no need to look anywhere else for the evil bastard. He had the fighting instincts of a badger trapped by hounds. The badger will roll over on its back and emit a smell of death, which confuses the dogs and lures them in for the traditional ripping and tearing action. But it is usually the badger who does the ripping and tearing. It is a beast that fights best on its back: rolling under the throat of the enemy and seizing it by the head with all four claws.

That was Nixon's style -- and if you forgot, he would kill you as a lesson to the others. Badgers don't fight fair, bubba. That's why God made dachshunds.

Nixon was a navy man, and he should have been buried at sea. Many of his friends were seagoing people: Bebe Rebozo, Robert Vesco, William F. Buckley Jr., and some of them wanted a full naval burial.

These come in at least two styles, however, and Nixon's immediate family strongly opposed both of them. In the traditionalist style, the dead president's body would be wrapped and sewn loosely in canvas sailcloth and dumped off the stern of a frigate at least 100 miles off the coast and at least 1,000 miles south of San Diego, so the corpse could never wash up on American soil in any recognizable form.

The family opted for cremation until they were advised of the potentially onerous implications of a strictly private, unwitnessed burning of the body of the man who was, after all, the President of the United States. Awkward questions might be raised, dark allusions to Hitler and Rasputin. People would be filing lawsuits to get their hands on the dental charts. Long court battles would be inevitable -- some with liberal cranks bitching about corpus delicti and habeas corpus and others with giant insurance companies trying not to pay off on his death benefits. Either way, an orgy of greed and duplicity was sure to follow any public hint that Nixon might have somehow faked his own death or been cryogenically transferred to fascist Chinese interests on the Central Asian Mainland.

It would also play into the hands of those millions of self-stigmatized patriots like me who believe these things already.

If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.

These are harsh words for a man only recently canonized by President Clinton and my old friend George McGovern -- but I have written worse things about Nixon, many times, and the record will show that I kicked him repeatedly long before he went down. I beat him like a mad dog with mange every time I got a chance, and I am proud of it. He was scum.

Let there be no mistake in the history books about that. Richard Nixon was an evil man -- evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. Nobody trusted him -- except maybe the Stalinist Chinese, and honest historians will remember him mainly as a rat who kept scrambling to get back on the ship.

It is fitting that Richard Nixon's final gesture to the American people was a clearly illegal series of 21 105-mm howitzer blasts that shattered the peace of a residential neighborhood and permanently disturbed many children. Neighbors also complained about another unsanctioned burial in the yard at the old Nixon place, which was brazenly illegal. "It makes the whole neighborhood like a graveyard," said one. "And it fucks up my children's sense of values."

Many were incensed about the howitzers -- but they knew there was nothing they could do about it -- not with the current president sitting about 50 yards away and laughing at the roar of the cannons. It was Nixon's last war, and he won.

The funeral was a dreary affair, finely staged for TV and shrewdly dominated by ambitious politicians and revisionist historians. The Rev. Billy Graham, still agile and eloquent at the age of 136, was billed as the main speaker, but he was quickly upstaged by two 1996 GOP presidential candidates: Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas and Gov. Pete Wilson of California, who formally hosted the event and saw his poll numbers crippled when he got blown off the stage by Dole, who somehow seized the No. 3 slot on the roster and uttered such a shameless, self-serving eulogy that even he burst into tears at the end of it.

Dole's stock went up like a rocket and cast him as the early GOP front-runner for '96. Wilson, speaking next, sounded like an Engelbert Humperdinck impersonator and probably won't even be re-elected as governor of California in November.

The historians were strongly represented by the No. 2 speaker, Henry Kissinger, Nixon's secretary of state and himself a zealous revisionist with many axes to grind. He set the tone for the day with a maudlin and spectacularly self-serving portrait of Nixon as even more saintly than his mother and as a president of many godlike accomplishments -- most of them put together in secret by Kissinger, who came to California as part of a huge publicity tour for his new book on diplomacy, genius, Stalin, H. P. Lovecraft and other great minds of our time, including himself and Richard Nixon.

Kissinger was only one of the many historians who suddenly came to see Nixon as more than the sum of his many squalid parts. He seemed to be saying that History will not have to absolve Nixon, because he has already done it himself in a massive act of will and crazed arrogance that already ranks him supreme, along with other Nietzschean supermen like Hitler, Jesus, Bismarck and the Emperor Hirohito. These revisionists have catapulted Nixon to the status of an American Caesar, claiming that when the definitive history of the 20th century is written, no other president will come close to Nixon in stature. "He will dwarf FDR and Truman," according to one scholar from Duke University.

It was all gibberish, of course. Nixon was no more a Saint than he was a Great President. He was more like Sammy Glick than Winston Churchill. He was a cheap crook and a merciless war criminal who bombed more people to death in Laos and Cambodia than the U.S. Army lost in all of World War II, and he denied it to the day of his death. When students at Kent State University, in Ohio, protested the bombing, he connived to have them attacked and slain by troops from the National Guard.

Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful.

Nixon's meteoric rise from the unemployment line to the vice presidency in six quick years would never have happened if TV had come along 10 years earlier. He got away with his sleazy "my dog Checkers" speech in 1952 because most voters heard it on the radio or read about it in the headlines of their local, Republican newspapers. When Nixon finally had to face the TV cameras for real in the 1960 presidential campaign debates, he got whipped like a red-headed mule. Even die-hard Republican voters were shocked by his cruel and incompetent persona. Interestingly, most people who heard those debates on the radio thought Nixon had won. But the mushrooming TV audience saw him as a truthless used-car salesman, and they voted accordingly. It was the first time in 14 years that Nixon lost an election.

When he arrived in the White House as VP at the age of 40, he was a smart young man on the rise -- a hubris-crazed monster from the bowels of the American dream with a heart full of hate and an overweening lust to be President. He had won every office he'd run for and stomped like a Nazi on all of his enemies and even some of his friends.

Nixon had no friends except George Will and J. Edgar Hoover (and they both deserted him). It was Hoover's shameless death in 1972 that led directly to Nixon's downfall. He felt helpless and alone with Hoover gone. He no longer had access to either the Director or the Director's ghastly bank of Personal Files on almost everybody in Washington.

Hoover was Nixon's right flank, and when he croaked, Nixon knew how Lee felt when Stonewall Jackson got killed at Chancellorsville. It permanently exposed Lee's flank and led to the disaster at Gettysburg.

For Nixon, the loss of Hoover led inevitably to the disaster of Watergate. It meant hiring a New Director -- who turned out to be an unfortunate toady named L. Patrick Gray, who squealed like a pig in hot oil the first time Nixon leaned on him. Gray panicked and fingered White House Counsel John Dean, who refused to take the rap and rolled over, instead, on Nixon, who was trapped like a rat by Dean's relentless, vengeful testimony and went all to pieces right in front of our eyes on TV.

That is Watergate, in a nut, for people with seriously diminished attention spans. The real story is a lot longer and reads like a textbook on human treachery. They were all scum, but only Nixon walked free and lived to clear his name. Or at least that's what Bill Clinton says -- and he is, after all, the President of the United States.

Nixon liked to remind people of that. He believed it, and that was why he went down. He was not only a crook but a fool. Two years after he quit, he told a TV journalist that "if the president does it, it can't be illegal."

Shit. Not even Spiro Agnew was that dumb. He was a flat-out, knee-crawling thug with the morals of a weasel on speed. But he was Nixon's vice president for five years, and he only resigned when he was caught red-handed taking cash bribes across his desk in the White House.

Unlike Nixon, Agnew didn't argue. He quit his job and fled in the night to Baltimore, where he appeared the next morning in U.S. District Court, which allowed him to stay out of prison for bribery and extortion in exchange for a guilty (no contest) plea on income-tax evasion. After that he became a major celebrity and played golf and tried to get a Coors distributorship. He never spoke to Nixon again and was an unwelcome guest at the funeral. They called him Rude, but he went anyway. It was one of those Biological Imperatives, like salmon swimming up waterfalls to spawn before they die. He knew he was scum, but it didn't bother him.

Agnew was the Joey Buttafuoco of the Nixon administration, and Hoover was its Caligula. They were brutal, brain-damaged degenerates worse than any hit man out of The Godfather, yet they were the men Richard Nixon trusted most. Together they defined his Presidency.

It would be easy to forget and forgive Henry Kissinger of his crimes, just as he forgave Nixon. Yes, we could do that -- but it would be wrong. Kissinger is a slippery little devil, a world-class hustler with a thick German accent and a very keen eye for weak spots at the top of the power structure. Nixon was one of those, and Super K exploited him mercilessly, all the way to the end.

Kissinger made the Gang of Four complete: Agnew, Hoover, Kissinger and Nixon. A group photo of these perverts would say all we need to know about the Age of Nixon.

Nixon's spirit will be with us for the rest of our lives -- whether you're me or Bill Clinton or you or Kurt Cobain or Bishop Tutu or Keith Richards or Amy Fisher or Boris Yeltsin's daughter or your fiancee's 16-year-old beer-drunk brother with his braided goatee and his whole life like a thundercloud out in front of him. This is not a generational thing. You don't even have to know who Richard Nixon was to be a victim of his ugly, Nazi spirit.

He has poisoned our water forever. Nixon will be remembered as a classic case of a smart man shitting in his own nest. But he also shit in our nests, and that was the crime that history will burn on his memory like a brand. By disgracing and degrading the Presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

 

 

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47 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

And back in 2021, I'd have given anything for a shitty POTUS who had the decency to "flee the White House like a diseased cur."  I long for the decency of Richard Nixon.  That's where we are.

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And back in 2021, I'd have given anything for a shitty POTUS who had the decency to "flee the White House like a diseased cur."  I long for the decency of Richard Nixon.  That's where we are.

Fair enough.  But I contend Nixon and the weasels he surrounded himself with  (who wound up in Reagan, Bush, Bush jr. administrations) are the very reason we have arrived at this point.

 

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I assume that there's going to be a special election and / or appointment procedure to fill the remaining months of her term.

However, what happens in November?

She won the primary back in May so I assume her name stays on the ballet. Can a dead person run?

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10 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

I assume that there's going to be a special election and / or appointment procedure to fill the remaining months of her term.

However, what happens in November?

She won the primary back in May so I assume her name stays on the ballet. Can a dead person run?

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Indiana Republican Party spokesperson Luke Thomas told IndyStar in an email, "At this time, the Indiana Republican Party is mourning the loss of friends and colleagues; our sole focus is on those lost and their families.

"Over the course of the coming days, we will work with the Governor's Office and the Indiana Election Division to confirm the proper steps moving forward and will provide an update at a later date."

Given the upcoming November midterm election, with early voting beginning as soon as October, it is possible that the governor will decide to have the special election at the same time as the midterm.

"That means as a voter, you would vote twice for a member of the House of Representatives," Andy Downs told IndyStar. He is the former director of the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics at Purdue University Fort Wayne and a foremost expert on Indiana politics.

Both he and Wolf predict that the special election will be held at the same time as the November midterm.

"More than likely, when you figure out all steps to figuring out a special election, it would be held on the same day (as the November election)," Downs said. "No. 1, the programming of machines so they can be used (comes into play). Second, the timing of when ballots are available comes into play. And a bunch of logistical issues come into play that just make it far easier for both elections to be held the same day."

This is what happened in 2010, when voters in Indiana's 3rd Congressional District, which includes Fort Wayne, were left without a representative when Rep. Mark Souder resigned after admitting to an affair with a female staffer.

Then-Gov. Mitch Daniels called for a special election to be held the same time as the November midterm election, Wolf said, citing the infrastructure and cost of holding an election, as well as ensuring the attentiveness of voters.

If this were to happen, there would be two questions on the ballot for the 2nd Congressional District: who should fill the unexpired term, and who should serve the district for the next term, Downs said.

It would be overwhelmingly likely that the same candidate would win both elections, in that case, Downs said, because voters would vote the same way on the same ballot.

But in the unlikely event two different candidates win the special election and the midterm election, the winner of the special election would serve until the end of Rep. Walorski's unexpired term, which would be Jan 3, 2023, and the winner of the midterm election would serve from the start of the next term, also Jan 3, 2023.

Wolf said the Democrat nominee for the special election is likely to be Paul Steury, who is the nominee for the November midterm election.

 

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4 hours ago, yoladu said:

not that it really matters, but it appears the car Rep. Walorski was in was the offender.

Yep, the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office released an updated statement:

”The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office has obtained updated information into the vehicle crash that occurred on August 3, 2022. The information from the preliminary investigation at the scene, as to the direction of travel of the vehicles, was not correct. The continuing investigation has located eyewitness and video evidence.

Both confirm that the maroon Buick LeSabre driven by Edith Schmucker, 56, Nappanee, Indiana, was southbound on SR 19 south of SR 119 and the silver Toyota RAV 4, driven by Zachery Potts, 27, Mishawaka, Indiana, was northbound on SR 19. The Toyota RAV 4 crossed the centerline for reasons that are unknown at this time and the two vehicles collided. All occupants of both vehicles were confirmed to have been wearing seatbelts and airbags did deploy. The Sheriff’s Office is continuing to interview witnesses and collect evidence from the scene and vehicles. If anyone has information or witnessed this crash, we ask that they contact the Sheriff’s Office. If any new information becomes available as the investigation continues, we will send updated releases.”

I had to look up Edith because I might have known her or her husband. Turns out she was unmarried and grew up in Warsaw, IN so I didn’t know her. But I spent my adolescence in that part of the world, knew some Schmuckers who’d be about that age now, and I know that area and that road intimately. I’ll spare you the nostalgia trip but to a certain extent this hits close to home. (And if you take SR 119 from there it will take you to Goshen, IN where my mom currently lives.)

RIP, Edith.

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46 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

She won the primary back in May so I assume her name stays on the ballet. Can a dead person run?

It might vary by state, but in my experience, yes.  My mom & dad were very close with MO Governor Mel Carnahan and his wife Jean.  Mel was running for US Senate and died in a campaign trail plane crash.  His wife Jean took his place and won the Senate seat.  She served for two years.

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I assume that there's going to be a special election and / or appointment procedure to fill the remaining months of her term.

However, what happens in November?

She won the primary back in May so I assume her name stays on the ballet. Can a dead person run?

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"She was a Republican so it's good she's dead" posts
more like 'she was a traitor and supported a seditious plot against our democracy' but tomato, tomahto i suppose

 
Just wait until the DT crowd finds out how they've lost their friends' respect for continuing to support these shitheads.

Anyway, my worst day on earth is now better than this traitor's best day in Hell.

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290 West.

Death trap. Continues to be. 

 

About a year ago, I was driving on 290 west, west of Harper, almost to I-10. Speed limit is 75, so I was probably going 75 to 80, in a Honda Civic econobox. A grey pick up or SUV going east bound (also probably at 75 to 80)drifted into my lane. I had to swerve into the break down lane with right two wheels in the gravel. I fishtailed puling back onto the pavement, but kept it under control. If I had been in my pickup, I probably wouldn't have been able to keep from losing control.

I had to pull over and stop I was shaking so bad. I was so angry that I almost turned around and chased that fucker down, but eventually I went on my way.

If I had been messing with the radio, or if there had been a culvert or something right there, I wouldn't be here today posting with you assholes.

Two way, high speed highways are death traps.

 

 

Anyway, in this case, I'm going to save all my sympathies for the woman in the other car, not the traitors in the car that can't be bothered to pay fucking attention when driving.

 

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About a year ago, I was driving on 290 west, west of Harper, almost to I-10. Speed limit is 75, so I was probably going 75 to 80, in a Honda Civic econobox. A grey pick up or SUV going east bound (also probably at 75 to 80)drifted into my lane. I had to swerve into the break down lane with right two wheels in the gravel. I fishtailed puling back onto the pavement, but kept it under control. If I had been in my pickup, I probably wouldn't have been able to keep from losing control.

I had to pull over and stop I was shaking so bad. I was so angry that I almost turned around and chased that fucker down, but eventually I went on my way.

If I had been messing with the radio, or if there had been a culvert or something right there, I wouldn't be here today posting with you assholes.

Two way, high speed highways are death traps.

 

 

Anyway, in this case, I'm going to save all my sympathies for the woman in the other car, not the traitors in the car that can't be bothered to pay fucking attention when driving.

 

this indiana state route is two lanes, 55 mph, without paved shoulder.  part of the country where roads are spaced a mile apart and run straight E-W and N-S.  the township system at work (also probably the reason american cars didn't corner good - when the corners are all tight 90° affairs that you have to stop at anyway, tune for cushy ride instead). 

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I honestly had no idea who this miserable bitch was before her passing. A very under the radar member of congress I’m assuming. The only bad thing is that it might help elevate Elise Stefanik’s status even more in the leadership hierarchy?   I really hate Stefanik.

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Surprised at Imma allowing it, but I guess I shouldn't be.

I reported a reply 12 hours ago, so looks like he's ok with the disgusting turn of this thread?  (I think you can count on the fingers of 1 hand the number of times I've reported a post.)

Not so much for CR in the DT (though once again, we see this rule is often only enforced in 1 direction) but rather for the multiple, "She was a Republican so it's good she's dead" posts.

Maybe it didn't reach him or Blacklab.  The other mods that I'm aware of are Hayden and Pancho. 

Effectively telling half your target fan base to "Rest In Piss" if they die in an accident (or any other way) would at least seem to be bad for business.  

 

How others reacted:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/indiana-national-leaders-react-u-211117196.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/indiana-rep-jackie-walorski-killed-car-accident-rcna41410

President Joe Biden

"Jill and I are shocked and saddened by the death of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski of Indiana along with two members of her staff in a car accident today in Indiana. Born in her beloved South Bend as the daughter of a meat-cutter and firefighter, she spent a lifetime serving the community that she grew up in – as a journalist, a nonprofit director, a state legislator, and eventually as a Member of Congress for the past nine and half years.

We may have represented different parties and disagreed on many issues, but she was respected by members of both parties for her work on the House Ways and Means Committee on which she served. She also served as co-chair of the House Hunger Caucus, and my team and I appreciated her partnership as we plan for a historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health this fall that will be marked by her deep care for the needs of rural America.

We send our deepest condolences to her husband, Dean, to the families of her staff members, Zachery Potts and Emma Thomson, who lost their lives in public service, and to the people of Indiana’s Second District who lost a representative who was one of their own."

Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was traveling in Asia, ordered the flags at the Capitol to be flown at half-staff in honor of Walorski and her staffers, her spokesman said.

“A lifelong Hoosier, Congresswoman Walorski lived a life of service: whether caring for impoverished children in Romania, representing her community in the Indiana Statehouse or serving nearly a decade in the House," Pelosi said in a statement. "She passionately brought the voices of her north Indiana constituents to the Congress, and she was admired by colleagues on both sides of the aisle for her personal kindness."

The White House said it will fly flags at half-staff on Wednesday and Thursday in memory of Walorski.

Secretary Pete Buttigieg

I'm shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic death of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski. My thoughts and prayers are with her family and the other victims of this terrible crash.

Rep. Liz Cheney

Heartbroken to hear the terrible news about Jackie Walorski, Zachary Potts and Emma Thompson. There was no more dedicated or effective member of Congress than Jackie. I was proud to be her friend. Phil and I are keeping Jackie, Zachary and Emma’s families in our prayers.

Indiana House Democrats

Our representatives and staff are valued and cherished members of our team and losing even a single person is heartbreaking, let alone three. Our caucus is sending thoughts, prayers, well wishes and hopes for peace to Rep. Walorski, Zachery and Emma's families tonight.

Mike Schmuhl, Chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party

“On behalf of the Indiana Democratic Party, I want to express our sincere condolences to the friends and loved ones of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski, Chairman Zach Potts, and Emma Thomson.

Jackie Walorski was a dedicated public servant, who cared deeply about her constituents and northern Indiana. If you’re a Hoosier, you’re a member of one family, and Indiana tragically lost dedicated family members today.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families, to members of the communities across the Second District, and to the Indiana Republican Party.

Congresswoman Walorski served with devotion and passion in both the Indiana General Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives. She made a lasting impact on Indiana and the United States.”

 

 

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Surprised at Imma allowing it, but I guess I shouldn't be.
I reported a reply 12 hours ago, so looks like he's ok with the disgusting turn of this thread?  (I think you can count on the fingers of 1 hand the number of times I've reported a post.)
Not so much for CR in the DT (though once again, we see this rule is often only enforced in 1 direction) but rather for the multiple, "She was a Republican so it's good she's dead" posts.
Maybe it didn't reach him or Blacklab.  The other mods that I'm aware of are Hayden and Pancho. 
Effectively telling half your target fan base to "Rest In Piss" if they die in an accident (or any other way) would at least seem to be bad for business.  
 
How others reacted:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/indiana-national-leaders-react-u-211117196.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/indiana-rep-jackie-walorski-killed-car-accident-rcna41410
President Joe Biden
"Jill and I are shocked and saddened by the death of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski of Indiana along with two members of her staff in a car accident today in Indiana. Born in her beloved South Bend as the daughter of a meat-cutter and firefighter, she spent a lifetime serving the community that she grew up in – as a journalist, a nonprofit director, a state legislator, and eventually as a Member of Congress for the past nine and half years.
We may have represented different parties and disagreed on many issues, but she was respected by members of both parties for her work on the House Ways and Means Committee on which she served. She also served as co-chair of the House Hunger Caucus, and my team and I appreciated her partnership as we plan for a historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health this fall that will be marked by her deep care for the needs of rural America.
We send our deepest condolences to her husband, Dean, to the families of her staff members, Zachery Potts and Emma Thomson, who lost their lives in public service, and to the people of Indiana’s Second District who lost a representative who was one of their own."
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was traveling in Asia, ordered the flags at the Capitol to be flown at half-staff in honor of Walorski and her staffers, her spokesman said.
“A lifelong Hoosier, Congresswoman Walorski lived a life of service: whether caring for impoverished children in Romania, representing her community in the Indiana Statehouse or serving nearly a decade in the House," Pelosi said in a statement. "She passionately brought the voices of her north Indiana constituents to the Congress, and she was admired by colleagues on both sides of the aisle for her personal kindness."
The White House said it will fly flags at half-staff on Wednesday and Thursday in memory of Walorski.
Secretary Pete Buttigieg
I'm shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic death of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski. My thoughts and prayers are with her family and the other victims of this terrible crash.
Rep. Liz Cheney
Heartbroken to hear the terrible news about Jackie Walorski, Zachary Potts and Emma Thompson. There was no more dedicated or effective member of Congress than Jackie. I was proud to be her friend. Phil and I are keeping Jackie, Zachary and Emma’s families in our prayers.
Indiana House Democrats
Our representatives and staff are valued and cherished members of our team and losing even a single person is heartbreaking, let alone three. Our caucus is sending thoughts, prayers, well wishes and hopes for peace to Rep. Walorski, Zachery and Emma's families tonight.
Mike Schmuhl, Chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party
“On behalf of the Indiana Democratic Party, I want to express our sincere condolences to the friends and loved ones of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski, Chairman Zach Potts, and Emma Thomson.
Jackie Walorski was a dedicated public servant, who cared deeply about her constituents and northern Indiana. If you’re a Hoosier, you’re a member of one family, and Indiana tragically lost dedicated family members today.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families, to members of the communities across the Second District, and to the Indiana Republican Party.
Congresswoman Walorski served with devotion and passion in both the Indiana General Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives. She made a lasting impact on Indiana and the United States.”
 
 
You should be far more angry than any of these libs. This bitch claims to pro-life, then she goes and dies! The betrayal you must feel.

I bet she was lying all along....

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(She's lying forever now).
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16 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Yep, the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office released an updated statement:

”The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office has obtained updated information into the vehicle crash that occurred on August 3, 2022. The information from the preliminary investigation at the scene, as to the direction of travel of the vehicles, was not correct. The continuing investigation has located eyewitness and video evidence.

Both confirm that the maroon Buick LeSabre driven by Edith Schmucker, 56, Nappanee, Indiana, was southbound on SR 19 south of SR 119 and the silver Toyota RAV 4, driven by Zachery Potts, 27, Mishawaka, Indiana, was northbound on SR 19. The Toyota RAV 4 crossed the centerline for reasons that are unknown at this time and the two vehicles collided. All occupants of both vehicles were confirmed to have been wearing seatbelts and airbags did deploy. The Sheriff’s Office is continuing to interview witnesses and collect evidence from the scene and vehicles. If anyone has information or witnessed this crash, we ask that they contact the Sheriff’s Office. If any new information becomes available as the investigation continues, we will send updated releases.”

I had to look up Edith because I might have known her or her husband. Turns out she was unmarried and grew up in Warsaw, IN so I didn’t know her. But I spent my adolescence in that part of the world, knew some Schmuckers who’d be about that age now, and I know that area and that road intimately. I’ll spare you the nostalgia trip but to a certain extent this hits close to home. (And if you take SR 119 from there it will take you to Goshen, IN where my mom currently lives.)

RIP, Edith.

https://heavy.com/news/edith-schmucker

that must have been one hell of a crash to kill all 4 - buckled in, airbags deployed.

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