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hpslugga

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  1. That wasn’t a guy, that was a wooden figure that the Mormons had breathed into him the breath of life via a golem spell.
  2. Since when has anyone ever accused Utah of having sensible laws?
  3. They're the same thing. Trump is responsible in the same way a respondent is deemed responsible in a lawsuit via jury verdict, which is how I look at things like this. It's not an all or nothing proposition. It's not black and white. Most of the time, what happens in a lawsuit where a plaintiff is claiming some sort of injury is that the jury has to consider who bears the most blame for it. It's not like the respondent gets off scot-free if the jury indicates some sort of contribution by the plaintiff. So, in this case, was Ashli Babbitt responsible for her actions? Absolutely. But those actions would never have been taken had Trump simply followed in the grand tradition of "take the loss, pussy" that the aforementioned 10 presidents took before him. He absolutely is responsible for her death, and you are dead wrong to assert the opposite. Babbitt would never have gone there, nor would those thousands of morons had Trump simply said on the Saturday where Biden was declared the winner "I just called Joe Biden to congratulate him on his victory."
  4. They who say "Trump isn't responsible for her death"
  5. I cannot believe that a single person could struggle with this. Ten men before Trump lost re-election bids, and not once was there a full on riot/insurrection attempt by partisans of the losing side during the lame duck period. Why? Probably had something to do with the fact that neither John Adams, nor his son, nor Van Buren, Cleveland, Harrison, Taft, Hoover, Ford, Carter, nor Bush called the results "fake news." They didn't allege that the votes were rigged in favor of the opponent, they didn't refuse to concede defeat, and they didn't invite thousands of protesters to the front of the White House for purposes of marching on the capitol during the reading of the fucking electoral results. That formula of not doing any of those things seemed to work in terms of peaceful transition, but when you're dealing with someone that has a massive inferiority complex and an incurable case of narcissistic personality disorder, awful things can happen...especially if your electoral base happens to constitute hyper-religious nuts, paranoid conspiracy theorists, white supremacists, and the dumbest among the electorate.
  6. And it’s not just that they’re traitors, their cause for said treason is completely illusory. When the South seceded, we could at least understand why they did it. It was completely monstrous, morally reprehensible, yada yada yada, but at least it was something real. Slavery was a real thing and they had justifiable fears that it, as a legally covered institution, was coming to an end if they remained in the US. This shit? It was never real. None of it. This shit was about a stolen election that was never stolen, a conspiracy between parties that never conspired with each other, a crime family that committed no crime…and somehow Hugo fucking Chavez was dragged into this. It was all a matter of make believe and pretend. And they had been told it…for two fucking months they had been told it. But they ignored the actual evidence and rotted their feeble brains with Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, Trump’s embarrassing, language mangling pressers, et al and convinced themselves to believe that the election was rigged. Lawsuit after lawsuit was tossed on grounds of ridiculousness, and they still believed it. Why? Because to people like Ashli Babbitt, hanging onto the belief is more important than accepting the reality. There’s nothing admirable about that, which means there’s nothing admirable about her even being there. As to her getting killed? Yeah I know that’s not what the virgin ears here want to hear, but play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
  7. No doubt. Alito is a fucking nut. He's Kavanaugh on a 24/7 hangover without taking his crazy pills.
  8. Straw man is just another phrase he saw someone else use.
  9. He ignores it in the same way he ignores the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
  10. There are those who value belief over acceptance.
  11. In the same way a paper cut and a malignant tumor are bad.
  12. It's a different topic, but the problem is nonetheless unavoidably attached to the answer to his question.
  13. They’re just adhering to the post-modernist tradition and value of “everything is an opinion, nothing is moral or immoral, all opinions are equally valid, feelings and emotions, blah blah blah.”
  14. By and large it depends on where you were educated and when, and the same is true of other historic moments of the country. So take the Texas Revolution. Again, I got the same bullshit story most of you were fed. That Dave Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Travis, et al were a bunch of noble heroes trying to free these peaceful white settlers from the tyrannical grip of the evil Santa Ana. But if you grew up in San Antonio and the Valley, you get a much different story as I was recently told by my godfather's two children (about my age).
  15. Not only that, but like Ken Burns keeps reminding us whenever he's asked about it, just read the fucking articles of secession in every single state in that horrid band of reptiles. When you do it, count how many times you see "slavery" or "negroes" or anything related to that, then compare it to how many times you see "states' rights." The latter barely comes up, and in some cases, not at all.
  16. You’d be correct to assume that. It does spill and what spills is absolutely toxic
  17. The future of the right need be dealt with in only one way:
  18. I was taught that it was a mixed bag of states’ rights and slavery at HP in the same period. The stuff about Lee and Grant someone else mentioned previously sounded about the same as what I heard.
  19. That would be the ultimate state of misery. Where the fuck would they actually go and what sort of employment opportunities exist? Couple that with the denial of federal government services and you're going to have a re-enactment of the fucking Dark Ages. And Bongino doubtlessly knows this, but he's just a shock jock that appeals to idiots' most basic instincts and feelings. My 6-year old daughter exhibits a superior intellect to this whenever she begs me to play Barbies with her.
  20. The only stupid ones they employ are the ones on camera. The motherfuckers off camera know exactly what they’re doing.
  21. The judge agreed with their argument, so make of that whatever you choose. But yes, the bigger takeaway is that Fox/NewsCorp/Murdoch explicitly instructed their attorneys to make that argument.
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