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OhFunny posted:One can hope. It's worth remembering that a narrow Republican majority gives the Freedom Caucus a considerable amount of power thanks to the Hastert Rule and the inevitable RINO hunting that will commence in spring 2018, so this ironically becomes more likely the better Hillary does in downticket races (barring an actual Democratic majority)
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OhFunny posted:One can hope. I don't think the Tortilla Coast Crew has enough members to prevent a few Republicans to jump ship.
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Here we go, round the Zimmerman pole again. Will Neighborhood watch shooting people from your
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ComradeCosmobot posted:It's worth remembering that a narrow Republican majority gives the Freedom Caucus a considerable amount of power thanks to the Hastert Rule and the inevitable RINO hunting that will commence in spring 2018, so this ironically becomes more likely the better Hillary does in downticket races (barring an actual Democratic majority) The Hastert Rule really isn't a rule and both Speaker Boehner ignored it when they needed to get something passed. Ryan will have to also and the Tortilla Coast will eat him alive.
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Crabtree posted:Here we go, round the Zimmerman pole again. Will Neighborhood watch shooting people from your Unfortunately the racist love of murdering black people and the gun-nut love of having any excuse whatsoever to shoot someone and get away with it are a formidable tag-team.
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I guess this is news but Waco is reporting that Clinton has agreed to the three scheduled debates. Expect Drumpf to bitch and moan.
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:I guess this is news but Waco is reporting that Clinton has agreed to the three scheduled debates. Her team anticipated his whining actually, and told the world that he's only bitching because he's afraid
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Yinlock posted:Unfortunately the racist love of murdering black people and the gun-nut love of having any excuse whatsoever to shoot someone and get away with it are a formidable tag-team. The Second Amendment is the only one that really matters in this country. Nothing says "Land of the free, home of the brave" than defending the fantasy of shooting anything that moves the second you get skittish. Especially on people darker than balsa wood.
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In which the Texas GOP, so blinded by their hatred of Hillary that they believe she looks bad in any situation, accidentally endorses her.
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let's examine the chain of events just going by his testimony - Sinister black people are doing evil activities near his house, possibly things like "talking to each-other" and also "existing" - Heroic Patriot armed with his Freedom Stick tells 911 "“We’ve got a bunch of hoodlums out here racing, I am locked and loaded. I’m going outside to secure my neighborhood.” - American Hero shoots unarmed black person completely unprompted - Someone in the house is like "what the gently caress" and calls 911 - Having defended his freedom, the man bravely speaks to 911: "“We have a lot of people outside our house, yelling and shouting profanities,”. For what reason could these dark sorcerers be angry at a man who just walked out of his house and murdered one of their friends without cause? - He heroically fires another shot blindly and misses, because freedom needs glasses. - Having enforced his rights, he bravely reports to the emergency operator who asks for identification. "“Ma’am, I don’t know who they are,” the man said. “There’s frigging black males outside my frigging house with firearms. Please send PD.” seriously even just going by his own words he looks like a complete racist lunatic EDIT: also a complete coward Yinlock fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Aug 9, 2016 |
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Pakled posted:In which the Texas GOP, so blinded by their hatred of Hillary that they believe she looks bad in any situation, accidentally endorses her. it's like A Good Cartoon but for twitter. Hillary is extremely able in a crisis situation, A Good Tweet.
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Yinlock posted:let's examine the chain of events just going by his testimony Lol there's going to be riots when he gets away with it
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So.... is there really a "warning shot required by law" in N.C.?
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I don't know NC law specifically, but I would assume no, they're generally not even legal because you could end up hitting some random bystander on accident.
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Mavric posted:So.... is there really a "warning shot required by law" in N.C.? I dunno, but according to his own words it seems like he murdered a dude THEN fired a "warning shot" when the victim's friends got pissed at him. I mean of course he's going to get away scot-free, but even taking this at like the most surface-level possible and believing his words implicitly he's super guilty.
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DemeaninDemon posted:I don't think the Tortilla Coast Crew has enough members to prevent a few Republicans to jump ship. karthun posted:The Hastert Rule really isn't a rule and both Speaker Boehner ignored it when they needed to get something passed. Ryan will have to also and the Tortilla Coast will eat him alive. I see them throwing a shitfest over Ryan "surrendering" to Clinton's "agenda" and attempting to dislodge him from the Speakership if he begins to pass bills with mostly Democratic votes. Dems really need to sweep 2020. God please don't let the Republicans win in 2020.
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Googling warning shot law brings up a heap of gun nutter sites telling you nonononononono never warning shot ever.
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If every bullet you fire, even straight up, has a nonzero chance of hurting someone or breaking something, wouldn't a warning shot be a bad idea?
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Samurai Sanders posted:If every bullet you fire, even straight up, has a nonzero chance of hurting someone or breaking something, wouldn't a warning shot be a bad idea? What? No. not if it disproportionately reduced the chance of a successive shots actually injuring / killing people. (Not saying this is the case. I have no clue)
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Mavric posted:So.... is there really a "warning shot required by law" in N.C.? No. That's why he's looking at a 1st degree murder charge.
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Samurai Sanders posted:If every bullet you fire, even straight up, has a nonzero chance of hurting someone or breaking something, wouldn't a warning shot be a bad idea? Given that he already murdered one person for being black in his presence, I think that the idea of "warning shot" is a moot point entirely.
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Aug 9, 2016 07:58
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Pakled posted:In which the Texas GOP, so blinded by their hatred of Hillary that they believe she looks bad in any situation, accidentally endorses her. I know I should absolutely recognize this picture but it is not coming to me
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Ciaphas posted:I know I should absolutely recognize this picture but it is not coming to me Death of Bin Laden.
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It's strange because the Republicans have tried to take credit for that before and really hate that picture, it's a sign of how rattled they are that they'd even bring it up. EDIT: i'm the two people in the hall "hey guys we're using this meeting room can you come back lat-oh you're killing a terrorist ok i'll come back later  "
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gently caress! Thanks.
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Zophar posted:It would something else if both seaboards became Dem strongholds.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:It's worth remembering that a narrow Republican majority gives the Freedom Caucus a considerable amount of power thanks to the Hastert Rule and the inevitable RINO hunting that will commence in spring 2018, so this ironically becomes more likely the better Hillary does in downticket races (barring an actual Democratic majority) The latter is not out of the question  E: Did I misread the thread or is a lawsuit going ahead that's pretty much "Hillary, you murdered my son!" "No I really didn't" "Are you calling me a liar? I'll see you in court for defamation of my character!"
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Pakled posted:In which the Texas GOP, so blinded by their hatred of Hillary that they believe she looks bad in any situation, accidentally endorses her. Hilary is so used to killing people that it bores her. Clinton/Kaine 2016.
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I've got to wonder how much trouble the republicans are in at the moment. At this point the only thing worse would be Trump digging up Sherman and replacing Pence with him as a VP candidate.
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Pakled posted:In which the Texas GOP, so blinded by their hatred of Hillary that they believe she looks bad in any situation, accidentally endorses her. I don't... understand. Why is this meant to make her look bad? Are they really so petty that they'll go after Hillary for Frowning Wrong While Ending Bin Laden?
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I wouldn't be surprised if the Twitter account manager mistook the photo for Benghazi. Or maybe Hillary is concealing her Death Note device in her hand if you look carefully enough.
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Tree Bucket posted:I don't... understand. Why is this meant to make her look bad? Are they really so petty that they'll go after Hillary for Frowning Wrong While Ending Bin Laden? It's because she had the audacity to gasp in surprise and concern when the news came over the radio that one of the helicopters had crashed during the landing at the compound with possible troop casualties (which there ultimately weren't, but they didn't know that at the time). You know, like how a human being would react.
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Ciaphas posted:I know I should absolutely recognize this picture but it is not coming to me It's a bunch of Democrats reacting to a Drudge Report headline about Benghazi
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I for one hope every single Republican tweets that picture of Obama and Clinton watching the bin Laden operation until election day. People might forget who got him otherwise. Please proceed.
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It's a picture of Killary whispering tactical info to ISIS on the ground to apprehend Ben Ghazi.
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Sword of Chomsky posted:They feel like the media should have talked about it for as much time as they did Kahn, that Kahn was paid off by Hillary, that Trump didn't say anything bad about him and the media is making it up. It's beyond pointless to argue with them, but family is family. Khizr Khan's speech was about his son, the hero, and how Donald Trump would keep real heroes like him from entering the country just because they don't believe in the right God. It's about how fundamentally unAmerican Trump's anti-Muslim policies are, and how sad it is that Trump thinks this country is for venal self-enriching draft dodgers like himself, but not a Muslim soldier that died protecting his fellow soldiers. That's a good story and easy to grasp. There's no arguing over the facts, it's a disagreement over values. Mama Vilerat's speech doesn't have any larger point. It's about Hilary Clinton being mean to her and killing her son. Either you believe Hillary Clinton did something wrong or you don't, but no minds are being changed at this point and it's just more Benghazi background noise. It's an argument over facts, not values. She's just another in a string of people calling Hilary Clinton an evil liar. There's nothing to talk about there. It's been talked to death. It's sad that your family thinks these are equivalent, like every parent talking about their dead child is interchangeable, and the children themselves, and their stories, don't actually matter.
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Crabtree posted:Here we go, round the Zimmerman pole again. Will Neighborhood watch shooting people from your I'm not seeing any reasonable way he could claim self defense, these two cases have nothing to do with each other, this guy is going down for murder 1.
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Epic High Five posted:Lol there's going to be riots when he gets away with it Unlike with police these kinds of idiots that think "stand your ground" is a license to kill anyone as long as you say you were scared don't get off every time. I think what really helped out Zimmerman was that he was connected to the legal system and the local PD which resulted in them not even charging him originally. Also that juror who compromised the jury with misinformation and what they could do because she and her husband wanted to write a book. If he was a regular dumbass that shot a black kid the chances of him getting off would have been much lower.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:I'm not seeing any reasonable way he could claim self defense, these two cases have nothing to do with each other, this guy is going down for murder 1. One of the shooting victims may have been armed with both a sidewalk and MMA "ground and pound" training
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professor_curly posted:Kentucky. As someone from Kentucky, I think I can safely say this to be true. At one point I would have argued with you on this but then we voted for Bevin and here we are. KY is indeed the dumbest state in the Union. At least we have John Yarmuth is still awesome.
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