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Sawbonz

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  1. Obviously I’m not a lawyer but given my understanding of the self defense statute, to me it all comes down to whether there was provocation by rittenhouse of the first dude. If I were on the jury and the prosecution produced an eyewitness who testified or had video that showed rittenhouse menacing the first guy before the guy attacked him (or that showed the guy posed no threat to rittenhouse prior to him shooting) I would vote guilty of the highest charge

     

    absent that I wouldn’t be able to say beyond reasonable doubt he wasn’t within his right to defend himself and would vote to acquit. I would not be happy with that choice but I just don’t believe a reasonable response to someone open carrying is to attack them

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  2. 36 minutes ago, Satoshi said:

    Ted Cruz is the definition of intelligent and educated, he’s just a lizard politician with unpopular views here. 

    Ted Cruz is a dumb fuck who has a knack for kissing the right asses. And while he attended good schools, he didn’t learn shit except how to grift

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  3. 4 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    I was speaking to the voters. But I’m certain there are intelligent, well educated R’s in elected spots. Their ideas being a bit wacky doesn’t mean they are dumb. Of course there’s always a few like old tits McGee down in Co, etc.  Even the dipshit with the toes and space lasers is a UGA grad iirc. 

     

    4 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    Im just going to withhold, like last election. Not going to vote for the other pile of shit just because I don’t like my usual pile of shit.  

    The problem with that is by sitting out you are helping to elect people who want to thwart the constitution so that minority rule can exist in perpetuity. That may (probably will) work in your favor in the short term.  I know you don’t think it will happen, but eventually those maniacs will come after the middle. The purity tests are already eroding the fairly right wing of the party. Just look at what Huffines has done to Abbott. We need to put the nuts down once and for all and then we can get down to the business of sorting reasonable disagreements.

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  4. 9 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    I forgot, educated intelligent pubs do not exist, only D’s.  

    Name one

    I say this as someone who has voted Republican as often as Democrat in the past. Republicans are a dying species. The ones that are left are fucking lunatics. The decent ones are retiring from office. There is no one coming up through the ranks to replace those decent ones

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  5. 3 hours ago, David Dennison said:

    Maybe have the foresight to mitigate the inevitable temper tantrum and thwart his ability to torpedo your plans for replacing him.

    Just a thought.

    That’s kind of hard when he’s on the road in Florida killing himself recruiting and checking in periodically by pay phone 

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  6. 1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

    "Civil war."  - Brisket, '21. 

    Didn’t this already happen in Austin? Some dude with a long gun confronted a driver who tried to drive through protesters and the driver blasted him? Not sure what the status of it is, but it seems like whoever shoots first may be within their rights in that situation. What a world

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  7. 3 hours ago, Codaxx said:

    unfortunately he is our standard. I see people saying Ash was a miracle worker for finishing 7th in the Big 12 last year. People believe that was a good defense. Last 3 years Texas is 8th, 7th, and 8th in defense. Texas has finished 7th or lower in total defense in the Big 12 5 of the last 7 years. 

    Where are we right now?

  8. 13 hours ago, Tex-19 said:

    I still truly don’t understand how PKs track record hasnt translated at all here. I also don’t understand how before tonight, our defense was excellent in 1st halves and so bad in 2nd. 

    What I do know is that PK has to be fired along with several others from that side of the ball.

    His players cannot do what he’s asking them to do, or he is too stupid/stubborn to ask them to do things they can. 

  9. 4 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Covid was doing a decent job but the smart people had to come up with an imperfect but highly effective prophylaxis (and therapeutics) PDQ, so now the gains are marginal. 

    I doubt there are many people out there who say you know Joe Rogan is a roided up THC addled moron, and I really shouldn’t listen to any of his takes, but now that I know Aaron Rodgers goes  to him for medical advice, I think I’ll give him a try

  10. Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

    Packers got fined 300k for not following protocol.  Not sure if that’s for not testing him daily or some other infraction but it seems like everyone in the organization was happy to pretend he was vaccinated. 

    I read he was in the testing protocol. The fine was for being unmasked in settings that requires unvaccinated to be masked and other non testing related violations but who knows

  11. 10 hours ago, TXSG8R said:

    I think the first guy saw a kid with a gun and thought he could bully him off of it. 

    I read that guy was bipolar bad enough to have been periodically institutionalized. Mass chaos, a severely bipolar guy, and a dumbass with a gun is a terrible combination 

  12. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:


    Correct. How do I know if you’re Kyle, Boy Scout hero just here to help, pure as the driven snow and worthy of sainthood….or El Paso Wal-mart shooter, here to rack up a body count? I don’t. Not till the split second when you raise the barrel and start killing.

    It’s a fair question.

    I don’t think you’re going to convince 12 on a jury. But you can try

  13. 15 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Yeah.   With the proliferation of long guns, and the number of shootings involving them, there  is no reason for doubt that someone with such a weapon is a threat and needs to be taken out.  I’m a good guy with a gun.  Fight me.  

    You should start open carrying then

  14. 2 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    More reasonable than someone toting a skateboard. 

    Are you suggesting that the video evidence of the dude swinging the skateboard at the guys head was faked? Rittenhouse is clearly a dumbass who should have stayed home. He’s probably a scumbag as well. He also was clearly physically attacked by the second guy he shot and had a gun pulled on him by the third guy. I don’t know if the first guy assaulted him or not, but if the video and third party testimony show he did, even scumbags who have no reason to be in a given public location have a legal right to self defense. If the first guy didn’t attack him, or if he menaced the guy with his weapon, leading to the attack, then rittenhouse is culpable for all that follows. If there is evidence of the latter I have not seen or heard it

  15. 17 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

    unless the actor reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself.

    Are you suggesting that one could reasonably believe a random person simply walking down the street carrying a long gun is an imminent threat to do great bodily arm or kill them, and therefore they are legally justified in attacking that person?

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