Quo Vadis GOP?

[viper37]

Does anyone in this thread have any idea how the healthcare systems in Cuba, North Korea and/ or the Soviet Union works/ worked?

Yes.  Like Quebec did before an infamous Supreme Court ruling.

[Habbaku]

What the fuck.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/03/politics/mark-mccloskey-patricia-mccloskey-pardon/index.html

[Oexmelin]

Entirely unsurprising. These two quickly realized their own brand of litigiousness, celebration of violence against black people and general assholitude is just what the Republicans value these days. They leveraged it into a spot at the Republican convention (remember that?) and will in all probability replace the Roy « Invisible Man » Blunt.

[Grey Fox]

These 2 are very shrewd. They turned a mid-week morning mistake into a permanent revenue stream.

It's the american dream at work.

[Jacob]

These 2 are very shrewd. They turned a mid-week morning mistake into a permanent revenue stream.

It's the american dream at work.

At this point it's pretty clear there's a massive industry devoted to generating revenue from "triggering the libs" and virtue signalling the values of white supremacy. I think it's a bit of a low bar to call plugging into an industry fine-tuned to monetize any shred of notoriety shrewd. More like it'd be foolish to leave money on the table, if you don't have any moral compunctions against the right-wing grift circuit.

[Iormlund]

These 2 are very shrewd. They turned a mid-week morning mistake into a permanent revenue stream.

How is pointing a firearm at a crowd - finger on the trigger - a mistake?

[Grey Fox]

Well, for starter, it shows poor trigger discipline.


(I don't know what you are asking.)

[Iormlund]

Might be a misunderstanding, but I read your comment as if you thought what they did was a small fuck up.

To me it looks premeditated. They bought the weapons (and clearly not for hunting or practicing at the range) then decided to point them at people. It goes way beyond mistake at that point. A bit like a someone who kills a person while driving drunk.

[Eddie Teach]

No, just driving drunk. If the gun misfired and killed someone it'd be like killing someone driving drunk.

[Razgovory]

No, just driving drunk. If the gun misfired and killed someone it'd be like killing someone driving drunk.

You are going to have a hard time arguing that the gun you are pointing at someone, with a finger on the trigger, simply misfired.

[grumbler]

Might be a misunderstanding, but I read your comment as if you thought what they did was a small fuck up.

To me it looks premeditated. They bought the weapons (and clearly not for hunting or practicing at the range) then decided to point them at people. It goes way beyond mistake at that point. A bit like a someone who kills a person while driving drunk.

It was an example of very poor judgement, not a mistake.  If they'd have been black, they'd have been shot dead by the police.  Even as white people, they risked the cops misunderstanding their efforts to "trigger the libs" as an incipient murder, and been taken down in a righteous shoot.

[Eddie Teach]

No, just driving drunk. If the gun misfired and killed someone it'd be like killing someone driving drunk.

You are going to have a hard time arguing that the gun you are pointing at someone, with a finger on the trigger, simply misfired.

You could drop it and a bullet go off. Obviously, shooting someone would be murder.

[grumbler]

No, just driving drunk. If the gun misfired and killed someone it'd be like killing someone driving drunk.

You are going to have a hard time arguing that the gun you are pointing at someone, with a finger on the trigger, simply misfired.

You could drop it and a bullet go off. Obviously, shooting someone would be murder.

If you drop it and it goes off, then it's still murder.  It's just not premeditated murder, as pulling the trigger would be.

[Razgovory]

If you dropped it you would not longer be holding it with your finger on the trigger.

[The Brain]

If you dropped it you would not longer be holding it with your finger on the trigger.

The leper community frowns on your shenanigans.