• swampfox [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    at this point it's just the old tactic of "any publicity is good publicity."

    next week he'll punch out a child in a target or something - rinse/repeat - he's elected president in 2050.

  • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    It's a shame he's a conservative bigot and not a communist because between the crossdressing and the loaded gun, he'd fit right in with my friends.

  • lascaux [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    one of the dumbest people in congress which is really an astonishing achievement when you think about it. that said i wonder how much of this news cycle stuff is him just being dumb and how much is him being hung out to dry over the whole cocaine orgy thing. im sure the insider trading and lingerie pics would never have come out if he just kept his mouth shut, but this does seem like an organic fuck up on his part. definitely a classic cawthorn move

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      one of the dumbest people in congress which is really an astonishing achievement when you think about it.

      He's performatively dumb, which gets him tons of attention and raises his brand recognition, which is actually really smart when all you care about is Triggering The Libs.

      Is he actually any dumber than a randomly selected Congressman? I don't know. Maybe. But his high profile idiocy will turn him into a fundraising juggernaut and jump him to the front of the line among Congressional leaders.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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        2 years ago

        That bich doesn't drive to Charlotte to save a buck, I know for a fact he spends the extra $300 to fly first class on an American CRJ700

        It's also way easier to sneak shit through Asheville Regional than Charlotte so it's where everyone who wants to smuggle things flys out of.

        • invo_rt [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Oh, this isn't the first time. He got caught doing the same thing in Asheville in February 2021. It just wasn't covered as well as this time was.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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            2 years ago

            I'm very aware, let's just say that the one "famous person" I know in life happens to be this fucking rapist shithead.

            For the record, everyone who knew him growing up hates his guts and most want him dead.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      People get all kinds of shit past the TSA all the time. Whenever they do tiger team tests the TSA fails to find the bombs like 90%+ of the time.

      Also, fun fact - I refuse to go through the milimeter wave scanners because fuck Michael Chertoff so I get frisked every single time. In all that time I think they've checked the soles of my feet once.

  • footfaults [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    This airport has tons of signs right as you stand in line to go through security, reminding people to not bring their guns.

    Fucking moron

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Imagine being a US representative, someone with roughly the same material power and media presence as a c-list Hollywood celeb, and yet lacking the presence of mind to not mar your own image.