Pictures and Videos for R&P

[Defiant]

(it kinda looks like she's trying to cosplay the sixth Doctor).

[Unagi]

Oh if you don’t see Jack’s Joker there, you aren’t looking hard enough.

[LordMortis]

Oh if you don’t see Jack’s Joker there, you aren’t looking hard enough.

Didn't even need the caption to see it.

[Formix]

My favorite was something along the lines of "Filming has begun on the next season of Kids in the Hall". There is a real Bruce McCulloch vibe there.

[Scraper]

(it kinda looks like she's trying to cosplay the sixth Doctor).

Congrats Wyoming you have elected your very own MTG/Boebert. She already went on Fox News lying about Liz Cheney not calling her to concede. Which prompted Cheney to promptly release the audio of her calling and conceding. These people live in their own version of reality where lying is ok as long as it's called "alternative facts" and it advances their interests.

[Defiant]

[stessier]

I applaud the execution of that one.

[Unagi]

Agreed. If memory serves me, that’s almost exactly the shape and placement of his other sharpie-fix.

Brilliant

[Daehawk]

OOOfhh burnnn!

[Daehawk]

Also..BEST.RANDY.RAINBOW.EVER.PERIOD.DOT.DOT.DOT

[Daehawk]

Nice.

[LawBeefaroni]

Nice.

Brandishing is still illegal, as it should.be. I believe he gets disorderly conduct in AZ for that.

[malchior]

It's apparently potentially a more serious aggravated assault charge according to the news account.

[Unagi]

OOOfhh burnnn!

My welcome ?

[Daehawk]

My welcome ?

Was probably a post directed after another post. maybe someone was trying to find that video.

[Max Peck]

My welcome ?

It was a typo. She followed it up with "You’re… obviously…" and a face-palm.

[Unagi]

My welcome ?

Was probably a post directed after another post. maybe someone was trying to find that video.

Mine was a “your welcome” vs “you’re welcome” comment.

[Unagi]

My welcome ?

It was a typo. She followed it up with "You’re… obviously…" and a face-palm.

Yeah. I’m not immune to that mistype myself . I was just being a jerk. (and didn’t open the tweet, just saw the video)

[Jaymann]

Reminds me of a message that was hard coded into a program at work. When you finished a job, it proudly proclaimed: YOUR DONE!

[Daehawk]

Ya Im so sure they didn't mean it that way...

GOP group apologizes for mistakenly posting KKK image

A Republican group in Alabama is apologizing after accidentally using a picture of a GOP elephant that contained Ku Klux Klan imagery.

The Lawrence County Republican Party posted an image on its Facebook page of the GOP elephant in which the white spaces between the animals' legs were drawn to resemble hooded Klansmen.

Sure sure..move along sonny.

[Daehawk]

I dedicate this to the GOP in DC

[Defiant]

[Defiant]

[Kurth]

I watch that DeSantis garbage, and it almost gives me a feeling of optimism. It’s such weak tea.

Sure, it can motivate the base at a Turning Point conference, but to win a national election when your platform is pretty much “Warrior Against the Woke”? It just doesn’t seem like something that’s going to turn out a lot of people that aren’t already tuned in to Turning Point. And those votes are by no means up for grabs anyway.

Also, for what it’s worth, the Democrats should be able to minimize these attacks. I mean, how hard would it really be to avoid the self-owns and “woke traps” that the GOP has been setting out? It’s doable, and it should be done.

[malchior]

It just doesn’t seem like something that’s going to turn out a lot of people that aren’t already tuned in to Turning Point. And those votes are by no means up for grabs anyway.

That's sort of the point though, right? He is playing to the audience in front of him. This has nothing to do with winning a national election. It probably would only slightly represent what his national election strategy would be. The importance here IMO is listening to the rhetoric because it represents what appeals to the hardcore base. They are the GOP's radicalization early adopters. It usually informs us the direction the rest of the party is moving towards. We unfortunately have to assume the majority of the GOP will generally accept it over time. There still doesn't seem to be a bottom. As an example, the 'build a wall' white nationalist voices in the 2008 race that were tut-tutted/ignored were all too relevant in 2016.

[malchior]

I guess they just need more training?

[stimpy]

I guess they just need more training?

The guy was white and lived.
That was training.

[hepcat]

Jesus, that’s absolutely brutal. I’m surprised the guy lived. Have they said what he did that prompted such a vicious attack?

Edit: never mind. Found some background. The guy sounds like a violent nutcase who injured one of the officers after they were called about him threatening people and spitting on them.

But that doesn’t matter. A cop’s job is justice, not vengeance. And that’s exactly what that looks like in that video.

[Smoove_B]

I bet those officers are going to get a stern talking-to!

[Unagi]

Attempted murder. plain as fucking day. No one applies that much energy against another person's head repeatedly - without the goal of destroying that person.

[malchior]

Jesus, that’s absolutely brutal. I’m surprised the guy lived. Have they said what he did that prompted such a vicious attack?

Edit: never mind. Found some background. The guy sounds like a violent nutcase who injured one of the officers after they were called about him threatening people and spitting on them.

It sounded like he might have been mentally ill.

But that doesn’t matter. A cop’s job is justice, not vengeance. And that’s exactly what that looks like in that video.

The telling part is when they realized their very illegal beat down was being recorded. Their reaction is all I needed to see to know they knew they were in trouble. At the very least the one smashing the man's head into the concrete needs to be arrested and run out of law enforcement. He is a vicious thug that has no place in a position of public trust. The other ones are in the wrong but smashing someone's face into concrete? That's attempted murder.

Attempted murder. plain as fucking day.

Exactly. I guess this might be what Trump was talking about when he said the law enforcement in this country was 'third world'.

[Isgrimnur]

Spoiler:

[Kraken]

Also, for what it’s worth, the Democrats should be able to minimize these attacks. I mean, how hard would it really be to avoid the self-owns and “woke traps” that the GOP has been setting out? It’s doable, and it should be done.

Better yet, lean into and define it, like the deplorables did. Woke means awake. That's a good label to embrace.

[malchior]

[Kurth]

Also, for what it’s worth, the Democrats should be able to minimize these attacks. I mean, how hard would it really be to avoid the self-owns and “woke traps” that the GOP has been setting out? It’s doable, and it should be done.

Better yet, lean into and define it, like the deplorables did. Woke means awake. That's a good label to embrace.

Um, no. Love the sentiment, and I don't disagree with it ideologically, but such ivory tower, Massachusetts-bubble stuff is not going to be politically helpful in 2022 or 2024.

Not. One. Bit.

[Carpet_pissr]

Also, for what it’s worth, the Democrats should be able to minimize these attacks. I mean, how hard would it really be to avoid the self-owns and “woke traps” that the GOP has been setting out? It’s doable, and it should be done.

Better yet, lean into and define it, like the deplorables did. Woke means awake. That's a good label to embrace.

Um, no. Love the sentiment, and I don't disagree with it ideologically, but such ivory tower, Massachusetts-bubble stuff is not going to be politically helpful in 2022 or 2024.

Not. One. Bit.

Agree. Hillary also leaned into it a bit with MUCH less ‘controversial’ labels like progressive and liberal.

[Unagi]

Also, for what it’s worth, the Democrats should be able to minimize these attacks. I mean, how hard would it really be to avoid the self-owns and “woke traps” that the GOP has been setting out? It’s doable, and it should be done.

Better yet, lean into and define it, like the deplorables did. Woke means awake. That's a good label to embrace.

While I agree with you in spirit totally, it seems like that ship has sailed as the term now has been used in a number of ways by so many factions and IIRC was first 'disparaged' by Obama himself, so it's just too hard to correct at this point.

[Kraken]

You people just need to get woke.

OK, I'll believe that we lost that word, but it illustrates how Democrats suck at bending the narrative. "Woke" is better than asleep.

[LordMortis]

The GOP are masters at controlling language to control the conversation. My "woke" moment, I think was heavily rooted in seeing how the religious and federalist left spend to much effort in dictating the conversation by dictating the meaning of words and concepts. Maybe the libs should appropriate "Come to Jesus" and replace "woke" with that.

Ironically my education began when the right tried to indoctrinate me with attacks on "political correct"ness. Though I am embarrassed to admit it took 25 years for it truly sink in how bad it really has been.

[Defiant]