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Romney impersonated police officer

Started by Martinus, June 11, 2012, 12:49:52 AM

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garbon

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Quote from: Martinus on June 11, 2012, 04:57:09 AM
True. But I find it hypocritical for BB (of all people) to say this is "not a big deal", considering the borderline-insane take he usually has on following the law.

I'd like to think I'm pretty consistent on not deciding who I support based on stuff that happened 20+ years ago.  Call me crazy, but I like to support someone based on their policies.
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PDH

Quote from: Barrister on June 11, 2012, 08:50:53 AM
I'd like to think I'm pretty consistent on not deciding who I support based on stuff that happened 20+ years ago.  Call me crazy, but I like to support someone based on their policies.

You say that now, but had he mocked and derided curling 20 years ago you would be screaming for blood.
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CountDeMoney

Quote from: PDH on June 11, 2012, 08:56:54 AM
Quote from: Barrister on June 11, 2012, 08:50:53 AM
I'd like to think I'm pretty consistent on not deciding who I support based on stuff that happened 20+ years ago.  Call me crazy, but I like to support someone based on their policies.

You say that now, but had he mocked and derided curling 20 years ago you would be screaming for blood.

Maybe Romney wasn't into sport back then. "Sport".  Who even talks like that?*







*Aside from Lettow, that is.

11B4V

Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 11, 2012, 09:00:52 AM
Quote from: PDH on June 11, 2012, 08:56:54 AM
Quote from: Barrister on June 11, 2012, 08:50:53 AM
I'd like to think I'm pretty consistent on not deciding who I support based on stuff that happened 20+ years ago.  Call me crazy, but I like to support someone based on their policies.

You say that now, but had he mocked and derided curling 20 years ago you would be screaming for blood.

Maybe Romney wasn't into sport back then. "Sport".  Who even talks like that?*







*Aside from Lettow, that is.

His "sport" was bullying and fucking with people back then, because he/daddy was privileged. I remember "seeing" and "dealing" with punks like him back in grade school through HS.

His popularity back then was linked to daddy and privilege.
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Impersonating a police officer is something most cops do on a daily basis.
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11B4V

Quote from: Scipio on June 11, 2012, 09:53:57 AM
Impersonating a police officer is something most a few cops do on a daily basis.
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"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

grumbler

This thread is almost, but not quite, as amusing as the "dog-gate" thread.

Yeah, it sounds like Mitt was a tool when he was in high school and college, but we knew that from the bullying bit already.  That he and some friends pranked those friends' girlfriends by him dressing as a state trooper and pretending to arrest his friends isn't anything that I would consider when deciding whether or not to vote for him, not least because it was more than 40 years ago.
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Quote from: grumbler on June 11, 2012, 09:58:30 AM
This thread is almost, but not quite, as amusing as the "dog-gate" thread.

Yeah, it sounds like Mitt was a tool when he was in high school and college, but we knew that from the bullying bit already.  That he and some friends pranked those friends' girlfriends by him dressing as a state trooper and pretending to arrest his friends isn't anything that I would consider when deciding whether or not to vote for him, not least because it was more than 40 years ago.
At the time it could have been funny.  I might have found it so in any case.
PDH!

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Scipio on June 11, 2012, 09:53:57 AM
Impersonating a police officer is something most cops do on a daily basis.

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: grumbler on June 11, 2012, 09:58:30 AM
This thread is almost, but not quite, as amusing as the "dog-gate" thread.

Yeah, it sounds like Mitt was a tool when he was in high school and college, but we knew that from the bullying bit already.  That he and some friends pranked those friends' girlfriends by him dressing as a state trooper and pretending to arrest his friends isn't anything that I would consider when deciding whether or not to vote for him, not least because it was more than 40 years ago.

But see, we can't talk about his goofy ass faith, his vulture capitalism, Massachusetts, his income taxes, his unemployed wife or his begging the Federal government to bail out the Olympics budget he managed to blow.  So we have to talk about something else.

grumbler

Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 11, 2012, 10:03:55 AM
But see, we can't talk about his goofy ass faith...

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Ideologue

Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 11, 2012, 06:28:51 AM
Actually, the legal term is personating a police officer, not impersonating.  And, yeah, it's a serious crime.

Maybe in Maryland, but not in S.C. Code 16-17-720.
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Ideologue

Quote from: garbon on June 11, 2012, 08:20:54 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on June 11, 2012, 02:40:28 AM
I'm pretty sure if I'd dressed like a cop when I was a kid in order to pull over some of my pals, and I'd been intercepted by a real cop, I'd have gone to jail.  (Especially if I was also a minor in possession of alcohol, like in the story.)

You also have something that Romney doesn't have.

Human body language?
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derspiess

Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 11, 2012, 06:28:51 AM
Actually, the legal term is personating a police officer, not impersonating.  And, yeah, it's a serious crime.

Do strippers get some sort of exemption?
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