Inspector Hound posted:

LBJ fed rocks to one of his dogs until it died

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Kari Lake, Rep. Ruben Gallego trade barbs on social media, at Phoenix airport

Kari Lake didn’t wait to officially enter the U.S. Senate race to begin debating U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego. The two clashed on social media while flying back to Arizona, with the conversation spilling into public view at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Lake, who is scheduled to announce her bid for the Republican nomination next week, asked Gallego, D-Ariz., on social media if “you still believe that a border wall is racist? I’m asking on behalf of 7 million Arizonans who are tired of you facilitating an invasion and want their neighborhoods to be safe again.”

Gallego, who already has announced his Senate candidacy, responded with a tart tweet of his own: "Hey @KariLake we’re on the same plane! Just come back from first class to coach and we can chat. Happy to walk you through all my legislative work to deliver key resources to AZ’s border communities.”

Their clash on Thursday continued in a videotaped encounter with Gallego at the airport. The video was posted by the Daily Caller on the website Rumble.

At one point, Gallego said, “I look forward to working together if we can. … I think it’s great that we can have a civil conversation today.”

“Well, we’re going to have conversations,” Lake told Gallego. “Civil absolutely. But you know what’s not civil? People dying on the streets.”

The dialogue fell off from there, with Lake saying Gallego’s Phoenix-based district has the fastest-growing homeless population in the country and Gallego repeatedly telling her it was in “our state.”

A man passing by told Lake she got “railroaded,” presumably referring to her narrow gubernatorial loss last year. Lake has maintained without evidence that the election was marred with fraud and administrative flaws.

Lake responded with her characteristically caustic rhetoric.

“We did, and this guy wants to destroy our country. He really does,” she said pointing at Gallego.

As their conversation veered into border security, Lake insisted, “We have to finish the wall.”

Gallego responded that the problem was more complex than that, which she denied.

When Lake said then-President Donald Trump “was on the verge of finishing the border wall,” Gallego reminded her that Trump had promised Americans that Mexico was going to pay for it, something that didn’t happen.

As they both talked over each other, Lake said, “May I finish? Or do you just like to interrupt?”

Gallego sought to end their discussion by saying, “This is something that you and I can work together on.”

Lake rejected that.

As the tape abruptly ended, she said, “No, I’m not working together with you. I’m going to beat you. I’m going to beat you, and we’re going to save Arizona.”

Filthy Hans posted:

Trump would win because he'd just cheat and Bill's to succ to call him out

Hatebag posted:

he's also responsible for millions of human deaths as well

SirPablo posted:

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/10/05/lake-gallego-trade-barbs-on-social-media-at-phoenix-airport/71080265007/

tup

mcmagic posted:

Sinema is gonna win this race for Kari Lake lol

petit choux posted:

please

Inspector Hound posted:

Potato, tomato

Spoondick posted:

look, it's important for liberals to look tough and do things like mass murder civilians in military actions and implement austerity measures otherwise they might lose the electorate consisting mostly of people who believe liberals drink the blood of sex trafficked children

Hatebag posted:

it wouldn't surprise me if a few us troops have gone on a cruise missile cruise to hell, courtesy of russia. it seems unlikely that the us is pouring billions of dollars into ukraine without sending some "advisors" in as well to operate and maintain equipment and sometimes even the nerds in the back get splattered and then they could just pretend those guys died somewhere else.

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petit choux posted:

please

Spergin Morlock posted:

we're all going to find out exactly how much it's worth when it gets liquidated to pay trumps fines lol

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

lol people are still holding onto hope that Trump will be held responsible in some fashion

magiccarpet posted:

can't get convicted if you abolish the judicial branch

Spergin Morlock posted:

have you just not been paying attention to what happened this week in NY? maralago is owned by one of his NY based LLCs

Mustached Demon posted:

realtors are all psychopaths so checks out

shyduck posted:

Important

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jky5ZXI0axc

Man Musk posted:

Just so people are aware, NZ was only allowed to prosper because its consumer economy was written on the back of the Australian ergo Chinese economy.

One of the biggest beneficiaries to globalization that I'm aware of.

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Spergin Morlock posted:

have you just not been paying attention to what happened this week in NY? maralago is owned by one of his NY based LLCs

ex post facho posted:

I am banning work chat, it is a friday