Trumpocalypse: No hanky/lanky

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  1. Daniel Ocean

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    Because you get things in return for the taxes you pay. Generally theft is when something is taken from you with nothing in return. You do understand that, don’t you?
     
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  2. DuckKin

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    Monguals
     
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    Hussein Soetoro :roll:
     
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    You're wasting your time with him.
     
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  6. Eraser

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    C'mon, there's always more shitstorm
     
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  7. PeterGriffin

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    I would love to know of Pence's family ties to Doonbeg. Anyone living? I thought I heard ancestral home at one point. Glad we could pay for Pence's larks and have the costs funneled into Trump's pockets, seems about the way that our country should run.
     
  8. Prospector

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    No
     
  9. Prospector

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    maybe, first thing I thought of was more akin to:
    Fox News, GOP media now warn of bloodshed if Democrats win in 2020

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    Fox News talking heads and other conservative pundits warn that guys like this will rise up if Democrats succeed in reforming gun laws.
    That's one way to try halt public debate in this country: by threatening mass violence and a bloody people's revolt in the streets. That's what conservative media voices, including those on Fox News, have done in recent days. Specifically, the reckless rhetoric has revolved around proposed new gun laws in the wake of America's latest string of mass shootings. Those are laws that would likely only be enacted if Democrats won the Senate and the White House in 2020.

    If you take “people’s guns away from them, there’s going to be a lot of violence," The View’s Meghan McCain announced. "What you are calling for is civil war,” warned Fox News' Tucker Carlson. “What you are calling for is an incitement to violence." And that was just a sampling of the right-wing media hysteria last week.

    These kinds of alerts about looming political violence if the opposition party wins power and passes laws in a democratic fashion represent the worst type of far-right insurrectionism. It's an ominous and long-held belief among conservatives and conservative media outlets that citizens need to be fully armed in order to one day wage war on the American government, as a kind of second American civil war. In other words, the reason the Second Amendment exists is not for self-defense, or to protect the rights of hunters and gun enthusiasts, but to enable citizens to go to war with the U.S. government, and to fend off a “tyrannical” turn at home.

    "The core philosophy of the Three Percenter movement, whose adherents have engaged in violence, is that citizens would be justified in taking up arms to violently overthrow the government if the government enacted stronger gun regulations," Media Matters recently noted.

    The movement spiked with the election of President Barack Obama. In 2009, a far-right Newsmax columnist determined that a “military coup ” to resolve the 'Obama problem'" was not “unrealistic.” That was about the same time Glenn Beck used his then-new program on Fox News to game out bloody scenarios for the coming civil war against the Obama-led tyranny. Note that the armed rebellion rhetoric was uncorked just weeks after Obama's first Cabinet had been confirmed.

    During the gun debate that unfolded following the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut, Fox's Todd Starnes warned there would “a revolution” if the government tries to “confiscate our guns," while Fox News Pat Caddell claimed the country was in a “pre-revolutionary condition,” and “on the verge of an explosion.”

    Specifically, when a Democrat was in the White House, typically gun-happy Fox News warned that the federal government had too many guns. In 2015, when it was reported that the Environmental Protection Agency law enforcement had a sizeable budget for weapons, conservative pundits freaked out, portraying the government as needlessly armed. "Why in the world, other than those dangerous snail darters, would the EPA need military grade weapons to protect the environment?" demanded Carlson on Fox News. "You arm yourself because you perceive you have enemies who threaten you, whom you don’t trust. When the government arms itself domestically, not to fight foreign wars or ISIS, but here in the U.S., it’s sending the message it doesn’t trust its citizens," he insisted. (Truth: EPA law enforcement, like all branches of law enforcement, has to be prepared for possible physical, and even armed, confrontations.)

    Now, with the prospect of Democrats seizing power and passing new gun laws coming into possible focus, the radical calls for rebellion are back. Expect to see more of these bloody warnings in coming months if, as the 2020 election season unfolds, it becomes clear Trump won't be re-elected next year.

    The latest round of chilling right-wing media chatter of pending violence was prompted by comments made by Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke, who is advocating a mandatory buyback program to rid the country of assault weapons. "Americans who own AR-15s and AK-47s will have to sell them to the government," O'Rourke proposed. Context: Those are the type of weapons that were banned in the United States following the passage of the 1994 Crime Bill under President Bill Clinton. (The guns were reinstated when President George W. Bush allowed the ban to expire.)

    That debate about eliminating assault weapons from our streets then set off a rash of warnings about pending bloodshed. Washington Examiner executive editor Seth Mandel defended statements McCain and Carlson made, tweeting that “it’s not justifying or threatening an insurrection to predict” that a mandatory gun buyback program “is likely to go badly.” Townhall’s Kurt Schlichter asked, “How many deaths” is O'Rourke "willing to accept to achieve disarming the citizenry?" Appearing on Fox News, professional wrestler Tyrus was invited to pontificate about guns: "If my military has it, if my government has it, and we get into a situation with all this division and supposed one-side will take over. I don't want to be in the Venezuela situation, to where I can't form a militia and protect myself." And right-wing radio show host Erick Erickson warned that friends of his who keep AR-15s buried in the ground will likely resort to violence against the government.

    The sinister, desperate threats of bloodshed come as the public opinion pendulum continues to swing away from the NRA and its radical gun defenders. Last Thursday alone saw three enormous retail chains, CVS, Walgreens, and Wegmans, alter their store policies to discourage customers from carrying guns. Those announcements came in the wake of the big news that Walmart, America's largest retail chain, stated it would stop selling ammunition used for handguns and military-style weapons, completely end the sale of handguns, and discourage anyone from carrying weapons in its stores.

    Many major retailers that previously refused to take a stand on the issue of guns in their stores are now stepping up, and this highlights the momentum on the side of gun safety advocates. The tide is turning in this country, so radical holdouts at Fox News turn to threats of violence.

    Eric Boehlert is a veteran progressive writer and media analyst, formerly with Media Matters and Salon. He is the author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush and Bloggers on the Bus. You can follow him on Twitter @EricBoehlert.

    This post was written and reported through our Daily Kos freelance program.
     
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  10. steamengine

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    He’s white, the Irish are pretty white= emphasis on ancestral home and bond with our country
     
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  11. PeterGriffin

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    can confirm, very Irish, very white.
     
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  12. Lyrtch

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  13. Joe_Pesci

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    i dont get this joke
     
  14. timo

    timo g'day, mate
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  15. Eraser

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    I don't have a problem with paying for POTUS/VPOTUS vacations. It's a reality of positions they hold that they are expensive.

    I have a problem with the money going into Donald Trump's pocket like seemingly all other government expenditures in 2019.
     
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  16. joe-

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  17. BrentTray

    BrentTray I’m thinking Dorsia.
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    Has he tried pulling himself by his bootstraps yet?
     
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  18. two

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    Chrissy Teigen vs Trump is quality entertainment

     
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  19. Daniel Ocean

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    I get that. I just wanted to give him the simple correct answer. Taxes help pay for shit we use every fucking day.
     
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  20. Sub-Zero

    Sub-Zero ALL THE TOSTITOS!!!
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    :ded:
     
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  21. steamengine

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    Turns out removing this guy from power over elections in the largest county in the state was a good move by voters.
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    http://re-elect.stanstanart.com/
     
  22. sflnole

    sflnole We shall support what the enemy opposes...
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    Should be noted that John Legend is also a Penn alumnus, except he went there when it was actually hard to get in.
     
  23. steamengine

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  24. Vito Corleone

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    This fantasy involves them going to war with law enforcement and the National Guard.

    I'm all for these dumb fucks bunkering down with their arsenals in their trailers as drones pick them off based off their IP Addresses.
     
  25. Can I Spliff it

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    Lmfao love trust fund babies pretending at being soldiers
     
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    This is my favorite thing about these fuckheads. I'd love to see how every 3%er with their arsenal of AKs and ARs fare against drones and Apaches. I would pay lots of money to spectate this in an open field.
     
  27. Can I Spliff it

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    This bodes real well
     
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  28. Joe_Pesci

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    https://www.somethingawful.com/news/guns-versus-apaches/
     
  29. dome foam

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    Crenshaw carried his district by 7 during the midterms. No way he loses when Trump is on the ticket.
     
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  30. timo

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    please tag any and all of the TMB's "libertarian(tm)" trumptard voting users. TIA.
     
  31. Mix

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    This is too good.

    In January, the Wall Street Journal reported that in 2014 and 2015, Michael Cohen hired Gauger’s side business, RedFinch LLC, to rig online polls in Donald Trump’s favor while he considered a run for the presidency. Gauger’s work consisted of writing a computer script to repeatedly vote for Trump in two online polls; his company would get paid $50,000 in return. Instead, Gauger told the Journal that after a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan, Cohen paid Gauger roughly one-fourth of that amount—between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash—and gave him a boxing glove worn by a mixed martial arts fighter.
     
  32. sflnole

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    Ben Watson: "They're just upholding marriage; they're not anti...."
     
  33. Daniel Ocean

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    I laughed at the end “and target”
     
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  34. Pile Driving Miss Daisy

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    Bwhaha, second comment I see is

    "I think Jesus would recommend a salad now and again."
     
  35. steamengine

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    He won by 20k votes and the new opponent is a troop. Turnout + shifting dynamics of the district make it not impossible.

    His newfound fame probably protects him though.
     
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  36. Joe_Pesci

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    $50k to make a voting bot

    good lord
     
  37. sflnole

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  38. dome foam

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    Fat fucking husband's shirt said "HUSTLE" :cerealkiller:
     
  39. sflnole

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  40. sflnole

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    :laugh: these fucking people...
     
  41. Mix

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    Sure bro, I'm sure its so huge!

    To be honest I would fuck Mrs Falwell.
     
  42. sflnole

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  43. Bruce Wayne

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    Wonder who has the bigger cock between the good Dr and his poolboy
     
  44. sflnole

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    Tweet for everything and yada... yada...



    There should be a twitter account for this
     
  45. bro

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    there is one
     
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  46. Jc6

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    Fucking traitor. :blowup:

    I’m sure all those patriots in the Republican Party just shrugged. :bang:
     
  47. sflnole

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    Who?