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[Phoenix Dark]

If Trump is elected our objective should be pretty clear: protect Mupepe. He's one of the good ones.

[Boogie]

If Trump is elected our objective should be pretty clear: protect Mupepe. He's one of the good ones.

If Trump is elected, I'm going to have to resurrect the Bore's "Move in to Boogie's spare room" sweepstakes, for realsies.

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But yeah, Mups probably still has a built-in advantage there. 

[close]

[Atramental]

That reminds me... I need to get myself a passport.

[Mandark]

I kind of feel that "self defense" is a less valid reason for allowing gun ownership than someone who wants one for recreational target shooting.  But that's just me.

Like I've said before, I carry a gun 40 hours a week, and do think guns can be "cool" from a hobbyist perspective, but I feel absolutely no need or desire to carry a gun 41 hours a week.

I agree with this. The defense angle always reeks of "I wish I could have a Rambo moment and shoot someone"

Yeah, every argument about gun control involves at least one person saying "Well without guns, what should I do if..." followed by a disturbingly elaborate and often sexualized home-invasion scenario.  Erotic fan fiction is probably a better outlet for those impulses than weaponry, but what do I know.

[Mupepe]

I'd like to build a bunker and stock up and food and toilet paper.  My wife isn't convinced though... yet.

I'm sure those open carry yahoos are paid up on their long-term care premiums, their supplemental catastrophic insurance premiums, fully funded on their retirement for the year, and all the other risk mitigation tools available to individuals.

They've got a cooler full of Bud Light. That's all the insurance they need 

If Trump is elected our objective should be pretty clear: protect Mupepe. He's one of the good ones.

My wife and i will both make good housekeepers. It's in our blood.

[Great Rumbler]

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/06/nc-trump-rally-account-scariest-thing

 

On a brighter note, absent a complete economic meltdown or some incredibly major terrorist attacks, the GOP is going to get absolutely destroyed in November.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

not The Onion.

[brob]

are there any compelling conspiracy theories/fan fics explaining Mitt having two navels? 

[Great Rumbler]

When you see it... 

[I'm a Puppy!]

I could've lived a long happy life without knowing Mitt shaves his chest and arm pits

[sarslip]

fuck yeah Murphy!  CT senators FTW.  so glad we didnt elect linda mcmahon rn 

[Brehvolution]

Wilson is still a fucktard, but I'll dap him for this one.

[Brehvolution]

http://www.mediaite.com/election-2016/report-donald-trump-plans-to-create-media-empire-after-election/

Sources close to Trump tell VF that the real estate mogul “has become irked by his ability to create revenue for other media organizations without being able to take a cut himself. Such a situation ‘brings him to the conclusion that he has the business acumen and the ratings for his own network.’”

Trump reportedly sees his supporters as an exploitable “audience” that he could tap after the election. “Win or lose, we are onto something here. We’ve triggered a base of the population that hasn’t had a voice in a long time,” a source tells them.

 

[Rufus]

Going full Berlusconi.

[Phoenix Dark]

are there any compelling conspiracy theories/fan fics explaining Mitt having two navels? 

Compensation for missing two ribs. 

[Joe Molotov]

www.cnn.com/2016/06/16/politics/john-mccain-obama-directly-responsible-orlando-shooting/index.html

What a salty old fuck.

[Great Rumbler]

Still salty seven and a half years later.

[Trent Dole]

There was a time when I respected Big John.

[chronovore]

http://thedailybanter.com/2016/06/if-bill-oreilly-believes-its-time-for-gun-control/

tl;dr - one of the great bastions of conservative propagandizing has actually said legislation is needed. 

[benjipwns]

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/06/media-dirty-tricks-cbs-nbc-manipulate-polling-data-show-hillary-lead-trump/

[Phoenix Dark]

[Trent Dole]

http://thedailybanter.com/2016/06/if-bill-oreilly-believes-its-time-for-gun-control/

tl;dr - one of the great bastions of conservative propagandizing has actually said legislation is needed. 

Bill's actually been in favor of that for a long time.

[Syph]

There was a time when I respected Big John.

same, but hes got harsh old man syndrome now
just ignore him and let him yell until 5pm when he goes to sleep

[Cerveza mas fina]

Still salty seven and a half years later.

Prob just senile

[Tasty]

http://theantimedia.org/leaked-emails-dnc-rig-media-hillary/

[I'm a Puppy!]

Do said emails state how much Tasty gets for each Hillary post?

[Tasty]

Do said emails state how much Tasty gets for each Hillary post?

She promised me a spot on SCOTUS.

[Kara]

slay queen, YAS

[Yeti]

Do said emails state how much Tasty gets for each Hillary post?

She promised me a spot on SCOTUS.

You misheard, she promised you a spot on her SCROTUM

[Tasty]

Do said emails state how much Tasty gets for each Hillary post?

She promised me a spot on SCOTUS.

You misheard, she promised you a spot on her SCROTUM

Even better

[Great Rumbler]

The same Republicans who have argued that gay couples should not be allowed to marry, that LGBT Americans don't need federal anti-discrimination protections and that trans people should not use the bathroom that matches their identity are now claiming that they -- not Democrats -- are the party on the LGBT community's side.

Their reasoning? That somehow, in the wake of the Orlando shooting at a gay night club that left 49 people dead, there's now a mutually exclusive choice between supporting Muslims and protecting gay people, and Democrats have chosen the former.

The unlovely premise of that rationale is that all Muslims are terrorists, as one Republican congressman has baldly stated.

"Democrats are in a perplexing position. On the one hand, they’re trying to appeal to the gay community, but, on the other hand, they’re trying to also appeal to the Muslim community, which, if it had its way, would kill every homosexual in the United States of America,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said on a radio show Thursday.

Check and mate, liberals.

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/743983545337659392

yikes

[Mandark]

We all saw that coming, right?  "The victims should have had guns" is the de facto NRA argument, and Trump knows what audience he's playing to.

Obviously a nightclub is the last place you want all the customers to be carrying, but this is about fantasies of righteous violence, not common sense.

[Kara]

Saw a bumper sticker today that said something to the effect of "9 mm responds faster than 911" and I wondered what the owner would want to do if someone in their immediate vicinity had a heart attack, a Mozambique drill?

They were driving a Ford Edge, which is to say it's safe to assume that they are the polar opposite of a rugged individual.

[benjipwns]

Saw a bumper sticker today that said something to the effect of "9 mm responds faster than 911" and I wondered what the owner would want to do if someone in their immediate vicinity had a heart attack, a Mozambique drill?

There's nothing medical science could do for him. It's in God's hands now.

[Mupepe]

I'll be honest. I have a sign that resembles a security sign and says "This house is protected by Colt" and has a picture of a Colt 1903. I can't bring myself to put it anywhere besides my man cave because 1) I will be one step closer to that guy who has those stupid gun rights bumper stickers and 2) it seems like a nice way to say "Rob me!!!"

[Rufus]

In a couple of decades, said Colt will be a robotic autoturret disguised as a labradoodle.

[brob]

http://forward.com/opinion/national/342905/unmasking-the-anti-semitic-meme-of-asuka/

mitchell & webb - are we the baddies (get on the floor shinji remix) dot mp3

[bluemax]

Saw a bumper sticker today that said something to the effect of "9 mm responds faster than 911" and I wondered what the owner would want to do if someone in their immediate vicinity had a heart attack, a Mozambique drill?

There's nothing medical science could do for him. It's in God's hands now.

Thoughts and prayers

[chronovore]

http://thedailybanter.com/2016/06/if-bill-oreilly-believes-its-time-for-gun-control/

tl;dr - one of the great bastions of conservative propagandizing has actually said legislation is needed. 

Bill's actually been in favor of that for a long time.

For serious? I had no idea.

[Trent Dole]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/06/16/just-where-does-bill-oreilly-stand-on-gun-control/

Yet it’s not surprising to those of us who were watching with intense interest in July 2012, when O’Reilly advocated certain new governmental responsibilities after the Aurora, Colo., movie theater massacre. “It … makes sense for Congress to pass a new law that requires the sale of all heavy weapons to be reported to the FBI. In this age of terrorism, that law is badly needed.” Aurora gunman James Holmes had assembled all manner of equipment via the Internet, and O’Reilly, in a chat with Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), riffed away:

That kid’s purchase on the Internet wasn’t reported to any federal agency. That’s why he was able to assemble that armor that he had. And you are telling me you — you object to this? This doesn’t intrude on any hunter, anybody with a handgun to protect themselves. … This guy in Colorado got all this stuff and nobody knew about it.

So that’s O’Reilly’s position on gun control, right? He believes in it.

Or maybe … not? After the Newtown massacre in December 2012, he said, in part: “Simply passing laws against gun possession will not stop mass murder. It would be like England banning knives after Jack the Ripper’s killing spree.” And: “There is an evil in the universe and you can’t stop it. You can’t stop it, and we just have to deal with it.”

So I guess he sort of is for it some of the time :^)

[benjipwns]

Gun control comes in, gun control goes out, you can't explain that.

[Trent Dole]

[benjipwns]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/bernie-supporters-practice-getting-arrested-at-the-democrati

In the basement of the Lakeside Center, where the Summit was held, some of those younger Sanders supporters prepared for what they called “direct action” — loud, consistent, and perhaps disruptive protest outside the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Several dozen of them attended a training on how to march, how to follow a chant, how to defy police orders to disperse by sitting and locking arms in what’s called a “human chain,” and how to conduct themselves when the police stepped in and physically removed them.

Trainers wearing fake badges waded among the chanting and human-chained “protesters,” pulling them apart, putting their hands behind their backs, and leading them away.

The simulation was for what training leaders called “a blockade,” but they stressed blocking busy intersections or other disruptions may not be what the final protest plan looks like. “Direct action,” said participants in the training, is non-violent and peaceful.

Thousands of Sanders supporters have already signed a Facebook petition promising to protest the Democratic convention. Many of those gathered at The People’s Summit expected those protests to include police stepping in. Rumors of police efforts to push protests back from the convention site or other efforts by the authorities to quiet the Sanders uprising abounded in the training session.

“They’re going to arrest people, period, end of story. So we just want to prepare ourselves,” said Cassidy Turner of San Diego. “We’re not going to be violent, we don’t really have a reason to get arrested but it’s going to happen. So we want to prepare ourselves.”

The protests will be ineffective if they don’t attract at least some attention from delegates in Philadelphia, Sanders supporters said.

“If we just let it be as convenient as possible, then that’s usually what’s most inconvenient for America,” said Cain Deheve of Chicago. “We don’t want to disrupt the outside world. We want to show them that there’s something serious going on here and we wouldn’t just be risking getting arrested or anything else for no reason.”

“Getting arrested itself is not what really proves anything. But I believe that there is a reason that [Philadelphia authorities] have made it illegal to do protests and stuff like that,” he said. “The establishment does not want us to disrupt the actions that they are doing. They want us to stay calm. It’s not about getting arrested. It’s about questioning authority.”

[Great Rumbler]

The protests will be ineffective...Sanders supporters said.

[Mandark]

 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

More leaks from the DNC hack: https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/new-docs-from-dnc/

[Madrun Badrun]

O no you have been outed. 

[benjipwns]

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/146157026376/how-to-un-hypnotize-a-rabid-anti-trumper

[benjipwns]

the replies to this 
https://twitter.com/JeremyMcLellan/status/742756095362531329

Jeremy McLellan ‏@JeremyMcLellan
"Only paranoid idiots want AR-15s in case the government becomes tyrannical."
"What do you think of Trump?"
"He's literally the next Hitler"

Phishie from Philly ‏@Phishie_Philly  Jun 15
@JeremyMcLellan @PugOnTheRight
Obama says only few Moslems are bad so we shouldnt ban them all so why ban AR15 if only a few owners are bad!

eric golub ‏@TYGRRRREXPRESS  Jun 15
@JeremyMcLellan Thanks for linking guy who murdered my family & nearly murdered my dad with guy my dad is voting for. Keep it classy libs!

Dianne ‏@DianneInIndiana  Jun 15
@JeremyMcLellan If Trump is literally the next Hitler, don't you want guns to protect yourself if he turns the government tyrannical? #Idiot

Casey neer ‏@NeerCasey  Jun 16
@JeremyMcLellan  our founding fathers would disagree. Hitler advocated gun control what does that tell you? Jerkoff

Joey Mitchell ‏@Joey_Mitchell63  Jun 14
@JeremyMcLellan obviously you are in the wrong country, or maybe you like shitting on the constitution, and individual rights. Ban Islam 1st

Brad Orton ‏@BradANGSA  13h13 hours ago
"@JeremyMcLellan @instapundit If you really believe that Trump is Hitler then you better get a gun to defend yourself... you are paranoid

Wake me in September ‏@lvuteMoir  Jun 18
@JeremyMcLellan Literally? Do you even know what that word means? 😂😂😂😂😂

Athenia for Trump! ‏@Oscaretta  Jun 16
@JeremyMcLellan @OurbabyMinx hitler and Castro TOOK guns away from law abiding citizens. You all need to learn to read!

SUMCMBARN ‏@MSUMCMBARN  Jun 15
@JeremyMcLellan @LOR3LE1 Sir Jeremy, Hitler was a socialist. Read some history, educate yourself.

Phishie from Philly ‏@Phishie_Philly  Jun 15
@JeremyMcLellan @PugOnTheRight
Jeremy,
Screw you & ur pathetic attack on 2nd amendment. AR-15's are used for sport hunting & home defense

Phishie from Philly ‏@Phishie_Philly  Jun 15
@JeremyMcLellan @PugOnTheRight
You're a hypocrite just trying to get favs & RT's. Ppl like u have hurt our country in more ways than 1.

[TakingBackSunday]

Moslems

[Mupepe]

argue on twitter, brehs?

[Brehvolution]

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/146157026376/how-to-un-hypnotize-a-rabid-anti-trumper

He was on the Bill Maher show a few weeks ago.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/28/dilbert_creator_scott_adams_to_bill_maher_donald_trump_will_win_election_in_a_landslide.html

[Joe Molotov]

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/146157026376/how-to-un-hypnotize-a-rabid-anti-trumper

if that fails, try this

[Human Snorenado]

UH OH HERE COMES THE PIVOT(tm)

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-corey-lewandowski-part-ways

[Brehvolution]

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/sarahkliff/status/744946670304108545

Damn wasteful libruls

[Phoenix Dark]

@DanaHoule

Appears Lewandowski was fired w no severance, thus no non-disclosure. And he was vetting VP’s. He may be an amazing OTR source.

https://twitter.com/DanaHoule/status/744932378347376641

oh boy

[Great Rumbler]

So, by all accounts the Trump campaign is in complete disarray, several understaffed, and beginning to run out of money. Oh, and several prominent Republicans have been desperately trying to distance themselves from him. And we're still a month away from the convention. I can't imagine that there are too many high-ranking Republicans right now who are looking at this situation and finding themselves satisfied. I don't think there's any way they can stop him getting the nomination in Cleveland, but I would bet good money that they're scouring the rules looking for a way.

Also, this:

After sending out a tweet Monday dancing on ex-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski's grave, top adviser Michael Caputo admitted the tweet was "too exuberant" and resigned his post with Donald Trump's campaign.

When news broke that Corey Lewandowski had been ousted from the campaign following months of discord with other top staffers and Trump's adult children, Caputo tweeted, "Ding dong the witch is dead!", an allusion to the famed "Wizard of Oz" villain.

In a letter addressed to top aide Paul Manafort and Rick Gates and obtained by CNN, Caputo asked that his resignation be effective immediately.

"I regret sending out a tweet today alluding to the firing of Corey Lewandowski. In hindsight, that was too exuberant a reaction to this personnel move," Caputo wrote, according to CNN. "I know this is a distraction from the kind of campaign you want to run, so I'm resigning my position as director of communications for caucus operations at the 2016 Republican Convention."

[Madrun Badrun]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fbi-arrests-high-ranking-york-city-police-officers-39986127