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The crowd "stopped him" by existing as he drove into them? 🤣 That's about the intellectual equivalent of, "Hey, you assaulted my fist with your face!" Goddamn. You're hitting new lows. Seems there is absolutely nothing you won't say to defend the indefensible.

Go ahead and quote "waving around." Not even a single witness testified that he so much as raised the weapon, let alone brandished.

He was never accused of brandishing, AFAIK.

Indeed, my saying that your statement was false doesn't make it false. The fact that it's false, makes it false. You said, "These "protestors" angrily surrounded and stopped this guy in his car." When what really happened is that he ran a red light to drive into the crowd of protesters. Ergo, your description of the event is false. Now I suppose instead of just acknowledging that you got it wrong, you'll lie about it for 7 pages.🙄 Are you going to go on record saying that open carrying a rifle is an invitation of some sort to be shot? That the shooter shouldn't face consequences? What exactly are you hedging at?

Open carry is legal. It's also (in my view) asking for trouble. But the gun nuts disagree wholeheartedly--until the guy open carrying is protesting something they disagree with. At any rate, open carrying does not give someone the right to shoot you "just in case" you might point your gun at them. That's why Perry was convicted of murder instead of being sheltered under Texas generous "stand your ground" law. There is no reason whatsoever this murderer should be back on the street.

Benefit of the doubt, but your search is incomplete. He had a lot of conversations about killing people. About what one could get away with in a "good shoot." All of those messages were shared in court. Making it pretty clear that this encounter is something Perry at least fantasized about, if not outright planned. Not a single witness testified that Foster pointed a gun at Perry. Perry didn't claim so either. He ran a red light to drive into the crowd, and when somebody complained about it Perry pre-emptively shot the person. Fulfilling his fantasy. Messages in court On the night of the protest, Perry’s revolver was in between his seat and the center console. [not where he normally kept it] Safari searches also entered into evidence revealed Perry looked up protests happening in Austin and Dallas. “Make sure you only use one shot on the protestors so if they try you have enough. I’ll only shoot the ones in the front and push the pedal to the metal,” said a prosecutor, reading off the message.

The guy with an expressed intent to murder protesters, who drove through a red light into a crowd, and who tried to defend his actions by claiming to have been texting while driving was not the reckless one?🙄

A. False, Perry drove through a red light to get into the crowd. B. He was not detained by foster. Foster was beside the car and Perry rolled down his window to take to him. C. Doesn't matter. A jury of his peers found him guilty--and it wasn't hard given the evidence. This pardon is just spiteful culture-war politics. Abbot is releasing a murderer (and groomer) into society to cynically burnish his culture warrior credentials. Again, false. Per witness accounts and Perry's own account “I believe he was going to aim it at me,” said Perry, “I didn’t want to give him a chance to aim at me, you know.”

Even if it weren't predicated upon a fiction, that would be a sorry excuse.

Ewww. We're all getting used to Republicans rejecting justice in favor of culture-war political issues, but this one is extra gross. If he doesn't murder again first he'll be back in jail for statutory rape.

As I indicated, you clearly didn't know what this case is even about. There isn't really a question of whether the SC map was gerrymandered. That wasn't at question. It's legal in SC to Gerry mander on a partisan basis. And there is no federal law against it. But there is a federal law against drawing the map to disadvantage minorities--which is still a sore point in the South especially. Other courts acknowledged that race was a factor in the Republican SC redistricting process. This decidedly partial SCOTUS moved the goal post in an improbable way to issue this majority opinion. Whether you can rationalize that decision or not, isn't really relevant. The fact is that the gerrymandered (anti-democratic) may remains in place.

I don't think you have any idea what this case is about. You simply root for your team. Gerry mandering is an anti-democratic practice. This was a suit to reverse that situation. If you were worried about democracy, you wouldn't be cheering.

Democrats are certainly more credible on both. At some point Republicans became obsessed with legislating morality. And they'll use any anti-democratic tactic to get the votes to make it happen.

Trump has made a cozy home in the Republican party for the alt-right and neo Nazi types, because, for him, no vote is too deplorable to court. But I suspect that sometimes he wishes they wouldn't "help." Because sometimes they say the quiet part out loud.

I heard he's been diagnosed with Stage 1 McConnell syndrome.

Don't be silly. Nobody in the DNC is even remotely considering a swap for RFK. Not even a little bit plausible. Another septuagenarian of questionable faculties is nobody's idea of an upgrade. We have 3 of those right now, and nobody is excited.

You can't join a lynch mob and then claim you're just a tourist because you didn't personally tie the noose. Nobody was confused about what the Jan 6 mob was doing.

This is exactly what he is talking about. You say the price of gas "under Biden" as if gas prices are even remotely "under" the control of the POTUS. Outside of taxes, gas prices are set entirely by market forces. Fluctuations are a product of supply and demand of crude oil. It's a simple recipe. It is a fact that domestic oil production has climbed dramatically during Biden's time in office, and has been at all-time record highs. Again, indisputable fact. So if domestic supply is at record highs, it's clearly not the cause of higher prices. So, by what mechanism do you propose that he manipulated the market to cause higher gas prices? And you claim people "supported fewer businesses," yet we see the opposite in the labor market, which continues to add jobs for the longest and strongest labor boom in a half century. If people are supporting fewer businesses, as you claim, why are businesses hiring? Again, what mechanism do you propose is causing this. Are businesspeople all insane? ^^ None of this even attributes Biden as the cause of these economic realities. But you want to not only invent your own economic reality, but then to also blame Biden for the things you made up. It's nuts.

That's not dishonest in the least. "Women" is a category. I haven't said anything that could be construed--even creatively construed--against women. Just like acknowledging that I don't respect liars, a behavior of which you are habitually guilty, is not an attack on the category of men, just because you happen to be a man. I have repeatedly said that if you want to claim I disrespect homemakers, that's a reasonable claim. But when you say that I disrespect women, that is an outright lie.

False. The people who showed up and left are fine. For those who stormed the Capitol, their motives are abundantly clear. Yes, they did intend to overturn the election. Multiple examples in video and on print of them--prior to even attacking--calling for and referring to a "1776" moment. They erected gallows. They chanted to "hang Mike Pence." They threatened Speaker Pelosi. They chased representatives through the building and once the lawmakers were trapped they tried to break through the last remaining barricade to get to them. They are criminals. They are traitors. You don't get to pretend that these were simple tourists. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They can all rot.

You are a shameless liar. Utterly false. You cannot quote a single demeaning thing I said about women as a category. Yet you keep repeating it. So, I repeat, fark off.

Again, fark off, liar. I have not, nor would I, say anything about women other than they are as capable as men of thriving and achieving in this modern world. And yeah, Butker was "encouraging" them... to forget their shiny new degrees and become housewives.

Even the nuns think Butker is a jackass. "The sisters of Mount St. Scholastica do not believe that Harrison Butker’s comments in his 2024 Benedictine College commencement address represent the Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college that our founders envisioned and in which we have been so invested. Instead of promoting unity in our church, our nation, and the world, his comments seem to have fostered division. One of our concerns was the assertion that being a homemaker is the highest calling for a woman. We sisters have dedicated our lives to God and God’s people, including the many women whom we have taught and influenced during the past 160 years. These women have made a tremendous difference in the world in their roles as wives and mothers and through their God-given gifts in leadership, scholarship, and their careers."

People. If people aren't working--aren't trying--then they are not ambitious. Fact. They may or may not have dreams or ambitions, sometimes naturally, and sometimes because of a lifetime of negative expectation. It's hard to hold onto dreams when you grow up hearing patriarchal a-holes like Butker telling them you that god wants you to be a housewife. And again, it's an outright lie to say that I am demeaning women. I have criticized one behavior that can be chosen by persons of any gender. Liars, like you, are not worthy of respect. I am NOT demeaning men, or women, or trans people, or non-binary, or eunuchs or any other category. I am criticizing the choice to be a liar. Yet you persist with your lies. Clearly my disapproval is not very compelling. 3 out of 5 isn't a total failure, but it doesn't make a whole, healthy person.

My image of humans, not of women specifically. Not everyone will achieve everything, and that's fine. But I don't have much respect for the people who don't at least try to reach their potential. And unless you're talking about backrubs, the word you're looking for is "misogynists." There is an irony that you don't recognize the root words baked into the complaint.