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[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 84 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Imagine living such a privileged life that the closest you've ever come to feeling oppressed was when you had to wear a mask to pick up dino nuggets at Walmart. Preppers have always been clowns, but COVID definitely ruined what little facade there ever actually was about the "movement" being anything other than a masturbatory LARP.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 36 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yeah, me too because these fucking judges keep doling out slaps on the wrist. What the hell do you expect when you're consistently sentencing these insurrectionists to, at most, less than half of what prosecutors are requesting?

It reminds me of an old joke from The Simpsons: "You gotta help us doc, we've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas!"

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 118 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

"I am just a country lawyer, unaware of the ways of Washington, D.C., but I must comment on your statements regarding obedience to subpoenas lawfully issued by committees of Congress," Barnes added, while highlighting what he claimed was Jordan's hypocrisy.

"I notice that you were issued with a subpoena of the committee of Congress, which investigated the January 6 insurrection against the government of the United States of America. You failed to appear before that committee. I therefore find your protestations regarding a normal citizen obeying subpoenaed to be somewhat hollow," Barnes wrote.

lmao got 'em. Seriously, though, how in the hell did Jim Jordan never end up in jail for pulling that crap. I'm getting really sick of the rules never applying to Republicans.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago

“Only the best”

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 136 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

“I won’t pay the bill for this stupid company,” he said. “I won’t pay the bill, and then we’ll have a story that Trump didn’t pay the bill to a contractor.”

If you don’t want a reputation for screwing over contractors then you should pay your damn contractors. But we all know Trump would’ve just made up a reason to stiff them even if everything went smoothly.

But I do find it amusing that he’s this close to figuring out why his mic didn’t work in the first place. Good contractors have options and won’t work for a known dead beat. So all he can get are incompetent fools.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 31 points 1 day ago

I don’t think he knows a damn thing, but his campaign staff definitely do.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 79 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, when people call MAGA a cult it’s not an exaggeration. These people are brainwashed to the core. They were parading around in diapers over a rumor that he might be incontinent! That’s not even remotely close to a normal reaction to unpleasant gossip. Normal would be simply dismissing it out of hand because at the end of the day there isn’t really any proof.

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[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 58 points 1 day ago

This just makes Judge Merchan’s cowardly decision last month to delay Trump’s sentencing for a second time until after the election all the more unconscionable. He never stopped committing the fucking crime.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 85 points 1 day ago

I truly hope the good people of Georgia haven’t forgotten that Donald Trump attempted to steal their votes from them in 2020, and I hope they understand he is going to try to do it again if it’s anything short of a Harris/Walz blowout.

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[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 140 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bottom line, if he can’t handle the stresses of a campaign then he can’t handle the stresses of the Presidency and you can bet your life that they’re already plotting to remove him by way of the 25th amendment inside of a year. So this isn’t about Trump anymore, this is about preventing a Vance ~~Presidency~~ Dictatorship.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 47 points 1 day ago

I guess the Trump campaign doesn’t want to risk any more dementia ward dance parties.

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Rest assured that The New York Times has called everyone into the office until they figure out how this is bad for the Harris campaign.

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Colin Allred's quote:

“You can’t be for the mob on January 6 and for the officers. You can’t. I was on the House floor when we went through the votes. I remember when you objected to the results in Arizona. Y’all at home might remember where you were on January 6, what you were doing. I know where I was, and I know where he was. I remember when they told us to reach under our seats for these gas masks I didn’t know we had because they had deployed tear gas in the rotunda. The officers locked all the doors, we barred the doors… And I texted my wife Aly, who was seven months pregnant with our son Cameron and at home with our son Jordan who wasn’t yet two, “Whatever happens, I love you.” I took off my suit jacket, and I was prepared to defend the House floor from the mob. At the same time, after he’d gone around the country lying about the election, after he’d been the architect of the attempt to overthrow an election, when that mob came, Senator Cruz was hiding in a supply closet."

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