As Mr O’Rourke continued to chastise the governor, another man on stage called him a “sick son of a b****” who would “come to a deal like this to make a political issue.”
Nothing in this country is ever political nor should it be :grillman:
I went to a Roe V. Wade protest recently and one of my girlfriends liberal feminist friends came. When we got to the rally after the March, PSL and other radical groups were there. Obviously they were talking about socialism, anti imperialism, and how biden sucks (to which she said "Don't they know who the alternative was?!?!?) She literally said "Why are they making this so political". I was absolutely astounded
Politics is when you say something I don't like and make me defend the status quo
lmao did she think she was going to a pink hat demonstration or something?
Lol I think so. In fact, she invited us, so i thought that's what we were going to lol but then when I got there I started seeing PSL signs and was like hell yeah
I tried to give a charitable read on the person in the story and came up with nothing.
Man, if there was any pathos in Beto here I would actually think this was pretty cool, but I don't buy it at all. Give me some shouting, some rage at fucking elementary schoolers being murdered, and I'd totally support him in this but the way he just stood there like a muppet and monologued at seemingly normal volume makes this seem like a low effort PR stunt, nothing more.
I'd kill Marcus Aurelius given the chance, but what does it have to do with beta Orourke
But what about :chickpea:? The greatest orator of all time, and a much better politician than Marcus Aurelius.
Yeah, 0 chance he believes or gives a shit about what he's saying here. Pure cynicism
KIDS BEING GUNNED DOWN IN SCHOOL IS NOT A POLITICAL ISSUE :liberalism:
"Now, if you'll excuse me, my ice cream shipment came in. I have several fridges to fill. Figure this out on our own." - Pelosi
"Well, maybe if we vote more democrats in, things will start changing. For now, those obstructionist republicans, who we also need to have a strong and healthy country, are saying no to everything. Our hands are tied!"
This is Beto o’dork’s favorite issue to signal on. He really gets his freak on, calling for absolute seizure of all guns in Texas and other maximalist irrational demands. Centrist Democrats love the gun control issue because they can emotionally rile up their base and it’s guaranteed to be a dead end, and their wing of capital doesn’t particularly mind if guns get banned so they don’t panic about it
Lol when asked how the guns will be given back to the government, he said he trusts that Americans will abide by the law and hand them over voluntarily
He's actually not entirely wrong on that one. Gun restrictions in America over the past 100 years have largely involved a compliant public handing over their high capacity magazines or whatever once the restriction is put into place. Shootouts involving cops seizing illegal arms are quite rare and usually huge national stories, like Waco or Ruby Ridge or something.
Complete seizure of all guns though would probably be different yeah. Can't imagine that happening.
I gotta say I do think the "Are those plates level 4" jokes are funny, because fuck the BATFE. Hating on the ATF is the only real horseshoe theory.
The Turner Diaries is about the federal government trying to confiscate guns and it leads to a race war and then an ethnostate where women are slaves. It's literally their plan.
I've read the Turner Diaries and a central part of the white nationalists' plan operates on the assumption black soldiers are inherently less effective than white soldiers. Also that white fascist soldiers would be perfectly willing to do suicide bombings.
it's not exactly the most bulletproof plan in the world, which is why white nationalists here are doing their plan with money and privatization instead
When they outlawed bump stocks, multiple police departments reported that no one showed up to turn it in
Has anyone actually handed over their guns, though? No red state has ever tried serious restrictions, and the only places that are really disarmed are Californian cities and the Coptocracy of New York City. Even Chicago still has a lot of guns. Everyone else is strapped to the fucking gills. There are red states that have laws on the books preventing local authorities from cooperating with the feds on anything related to firearms.
Like, in good faith; Do you know of any cases where there has been meaningful, observable compliance with gun control legislation?
I'd say most of America complies with gun control legislation and when they don't, they loophole it. Most of what I know of is in California and New York though, like the Mulford Act. The gun control act of 1968 also completely banned mail-order firearms, which is still in place and there's been no serious legal or public attempt to overturn it. Also FOPA in 1986 involved a whole lot of gun owners voluntarily registering their machine guns, registering some hundreds of thousands of them.
This isn't to say gun control legislation works or America should attempt more "draconian" gun laws. I just think Americans are by and large feckless cowards, especially the NRA libertarian types. Most gun owners here use them as toys and don't beef with the law. They're allowed to have guns because of their compliance, not because feds are afraid of them.
I own a pistol by the way, it's hopefully a deterrent against pigs and fascists
lmao how does this fucking guy think he can win an election in Texas?
The hubris of liberals is astounding.
Honestly, the most heart I've seen out of a mainstream Democrat since Howard Dean. You'd almost think a guy like this would maybe actually do some fucking politics if he ever got into office.
Shame its purely insincere theatrics. I might have enjoyed it if I was still living in the 90s.
Yeah 25 year old me would have been like "OMFG THIS DUDE IS THE NEXT OBAMA"
40 year old me is like "Omfg, this guy is going to be the next Obama." :deeper-sadness:
"He built a halfpipe off the Truman balcony and did a sick 720"
Im very tired... I took me a whole 60 seconds to realize that I was confusing :pete: for O'Rourke.
Beta O’Rourke and Mayo Pete… they should run as the dem ticket lmao
they make these fuckers in a factory, they could swap lives and no one would notice
A buddy cop film...
but its two cops who do nothing but sit in the cop house all day..
Beto O'Rourke, the hard a nails, loose cannon desk Sergeant and Pete Buttigeg who... I dunno... is some nerd who does accounting.
In 2020 I thought those two were the same until I saw people talking about them separately in the same sentence
God what a fucking wet noodle. If you're going to get yourself tossed out, at least do it right
ps: does anyone have that mashup edit of bush kicking off the war on terror? Like it's got all these smash cuts and music in the background idk how to describe it
@crackconnoisser on Twitter makes tons of vids like that but you're gonna have to weed through hundreds of some of the most wild shit you've ever seen to probably find it. He posts some absolute bangers sometimes but other times it's batshit and nonsensical. Good luck lol
Yeah it's definitely him but jeez you weren't kidding about the volume of content
yeah it's a bit much, i actually did look through like his last 100 posts to see if it was posted recently and as far as i could tell, it hasn't been. if you have an account you can @ him asking for it, he'll occasionally link or reupload it
Basedo O'Rourke
Honestly, I'm choosing to give him credit. He's doubling down on being the anti-gun Texas guy
(Didn't watch the video btw)
when they called him out on it, i almost was like "yeah this fucking stupid fuck" but then i was like "but they're doing the same fucking thing." and then i was like :pain:
What a complete pansy, he learned he could swear and hasn't gotten further than that in his tactics manual
More than the rest of the dems do. They just fundraise off this stuff
Yeah Iguess but he’ll also fundraise off this to poll at 3% in 2028
"if i say outloud that it's not political, then it is so. no other analysis needed."
everything is political, fuck these shitheads who reject politics when it enters their stupid hobby/treats
lmao remember when republicans tried to make him look bad by saying he was in a punk band and a hacker group
Hot take, and Beto sucks and all, but his band was better than ATDI or Mars Volta hands down in my book.
speaking of "everything i don't like is political", a friend of mine's boss literally said they other day they wanted to send their elementary aged kid to private catholic school instead of sending them to the local public school, because public school is "too political and godless".
this person has a PhD and a tenured position in academia.
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