The state of the republican party

I think it is unlikely the guy that pulled out a gun and shot someone in broad daylight for no apparent reason was a law abiding citizen until that point. That is not a pattern I typically see. Usually the people that pull out a concealed weapon and murder someone that is just talking to them have committed numerous other crimes.

You don't need specialized gun safety training to know it is illegal to pull out your gun and shoot someone in the face. Are you joking? Muscle memory? You think if he had more range time he would not have shot that guy?

No. You have repeatedly mentioned the guys race (and that he was at Whataburger, for some reason). I assume that because he is the type of person that would pull out a gun for no apparent reason and shoot someone that he acquired the gun illegally, having nothing to do with his race or the restaurant he was near. if it was a half-Asian half-white woman at a Shake Shack, I would still think someone that is standing there talking to someone and suddenly pulls out a gun and shoots them probably has some felonies on their record. That is not the typical behavior of your run of the mill law abiding citizen. Most gun crime is committed with illegally possessed firearms.

I think you misunderstood the point. People that suddenly murder someone on the street were probably criminals BEFORE they did that.

The check an FFL does looks for criminal history. Anyone with a felony on their record will fail that background check. It isn't looking for terrorists, it is looking for criminals (and people with certain reported mental health holds).
National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) — FBI

The gun show loophole is not a real thing, that is a Democrat talking point. This supposed loophole (which applies everywhere, not just at gun shows) says that a private individual can sell a gun to another private individual without doing a background check assuming the seller is not in the business of selling guns and has no reason to believe the buyer is prohibited from buying guns, nor does he have reason to believe the buyer is making a straw purchase. So, if you want to sell your dad's old shotgun to your friend Larry, you don't have to run a background check on him.

I only ever say I am not a Republican when people a) claim that I am, and b) are using that as part of their argument. What you are doing is called a Kafka trap, where you make an accusation and the act of denying the accusation is used as proof that the accusation is true. It has no validity.

I also believe in following science and agree that the 2nd Amendment doesn't say what you think it says.

Of course it is. I should know, as I have voted for Libertarian Party candidates.

I live in Californa. Here, a third party vote is basically a vote for a Democrat.

Don't tell the Communists, the Greens, etc. that. They certainly don't support Republicans.

I don't care what Tulsi Gabbard does.

I engage on topics that interest me.

 

No one is forced to read any post here. I don't have anyone on ignore but frequently scroll past a lot of posts.

 

Ignored posts show up when people respond. Of course it's always the same trolls over and over getting people to bite. If only people didn't bite?

You aren't looking for my compliment but you are one of the best here and I seek your comments.

 

Thanks I appreciate it.

I'm just saying for me I scroll past a lot of stuff and don't read everything. There is plenty of stuff here that I don't find interesting or even worth reading. I'm not going to say that any posters shouldn't post here. As long as Clutch is fine with it they can post what they want, just don't expect me to read or even respond to it.

 

Most of the time when I see a response like this

I openly wonder if the poster seriously expects me

to go back and check the context of the ongoing back and forth

in order to figure out if everything is on the up and up

but at some point you gotta figure

the train has come off the rails and

the Alien mothership is on its way.

 

Unvaccinated Sarah Palin eating at a restaurant in NYC two days after testing positive.

While delaying a court appearance because of said covid

 

Typhoid Mary
vs
Covid Sarah

Compare and contrast.

 

Covid "as ignorant as i want to be" Sarah

 

The Kite Runner...

 

gotta love the waiter's response about the Palin thing . . . "We are not the border police."

NYC sanctuary city status to Palin's rescue

 

Can we talk about the obnoxious level of heat lamps being used here??? You are going to use that much energy for just one table? You don't have a better system for heating a patio?

 

Haha apparently some were trying to argue it was ok since she was sitting 'outdoors' and NYC has all this 'outdoor' dining to circumvent the law.

All the while casually overlooking SHES POSITIVE and also using it to delay court. TRASH

I guess I will pose this to you in that besides newt and maybe some I'm forgetting is Sarah palin the real beginning of the scumbag trash era for the repugs?
She is like the opening act for orange and she started the party ( and derailed ) the party if you will. Ironically blame mccain here even though I think of him a fine man that got bamboozled

 

Well the whole point of outdoor dining during Covid is airflow. That patio looks pretty damn closed in. Those space heaters are some of the least energy efficient appliances known to man. Change your air filters and go inside. Greezus.

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To your other point about Palin:

The beginning of Trumpism started with Nixon, and his Cronies like Roy Cohn, and Roger Stone. FoxNews then came around and brought that to prime time with Bill O’Reilly who worked hand in hand with Newt inside the government.

So really Trumpism has always been there. It’s just prior to Trump it was just a faction of the party where the Mitt Romney/John McCain majority of the party could court their voters and use it to their advantage while staying in their lane as “reasonable” Republicans.

Those days ended with Trump and the nail in the coffin really was when McCain died and Trump was legitimized by Bill Barr. Before Bill Barr nobody was afraid of him in the party. After seizing that level of power in the “right wing deep state” of government, Trump suddenly became the party.

Sorry but that’s just a long winded way of saying no Palin wasn’t a pioneer of Trumpism but it is a valuable lesson in understanding the factions in the party and how they worked with each other (see McCain and Palin) before Trump seized the deep state level of power that truly put him on the map and makes him a true threat to democracy if he’s elected or heaven forbid “installed.”

 

@tinman

I'm curious what your thoughts are on this. You're on this weird rampage against "wokeness". How does this fit in? Are you cool with book banning because some dumbf***'s think they're p*rn?

 

I don't see the ignored posts when they are quoted. I just see a seemingly weird post and then realize they are responding to an ignored poster.