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Author Topic: Murrican Politics Megathread 2016: There Will Be Hell Toupée  (Read 1569848 times)

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Re: Ted Cruz's Adult Coloring Book and Chill 2016 Megathread
« Reply #10395 on: January 27, 2016, 06:22:33 am »

and slowly and subtly change publicly published statistics as to crime while keeping secret ones that seriously never show anyone, and make it appear in all cases whenever possible that when a crime is committed, the perpetrator is always caught.

So in the name of public safety, sacrifice the public's right to know what the government is doing?
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Re: Ted Cruz's Adult Coloring Book and Chill 2016 Megathread
« Reply #10396 on: January 27, 2016, 07:35:23 am »

and slowly and subtly change publicly published statistics as to crime while keeping secret ones that seriously never show anyone, and make it appear in all cases whenever possible that when a crime is committed, the perpetrator is always caught.

So in the name of public safety, sacrifice the public's right to know what the government is doing?

Fact of the matter is, if you have a system that has strong rights for the accused and arrested (as the US would have, if it actually took the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments seriously), you're going to have a sizable number of people who commit crimes and don't end up convicted or even charged. I don't see a way around this, really. A continuous undercurrent of petty and sometimes not-so-petty crime is the price you pay for not having to put up with totalitarianism.
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Re: Ted Cruz's Adult Coloring Book and Chill 2016 Megathread
« Reply #10397 on: January 27, 2016, 09:07:55 am »

Oh hey, the bundies've been arrested, and only one person's died so far. Few others got arrested, too, apparently. No clue how many are left, or what they're doing.

Spoiler: FBI release, I think? (click to show/hide)

I would have preferred it had been completely bloodless so the inevitable "ebil gubmint tyranny!!!!" nutjobs would have even less ground to stand on, but lavoy finicum (the man killed) had a deathwish and is on record saying he'd rather die than be arrested so it's not surprising.

The amusing part about all this is if convicted, they are now felons and can't legally own guns anymore. I wonder if they considered that at all before they went off on this half-assed adventure?
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Re: Ted Cruz's Adult Coloring Book and Chill 2016 Megathread
« Reply #10398 on: January 27, 2016, 09:30:40 am »

Bbc news said the dead man was killed in a shootout at the patrol stop where they were arrested.
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Re: Ted Cruz's Adult Coloring Book and Chill 2016 Megathread
« Reply #10399 on: January 27, 2016, 09:33:19 am »

Oh hey, the bundies've been arrested, and only one person's died so far. Few others got arrested, too, apparently. No clue how many are left, or what they're doing.

Spoiler: FBI release, I think? (click to show/hide)

I would have preferred it had been completely bloodless so the inevitable "ebil gubmint tyranny!!!!" nutjobs would have even less ground to stand on, but lavoy finicum (the man killed) had a deathwish and is on record saying he'd rather die than be arrested so it's not surprising.

The amusing part about all this is if convicted, they are now felons and can't legally own guns anymore. I wonder if they considered that at all before they went off on this half-assed adventure?

Eh, with gun laws as they are, they can find some way around it and get guns through another channel.
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Re: Ted Cruz's Adult Coloring Book and Chill 2016 Megathread
« Reply #10400 on: January 27, 2016, 09:42:15 am »

Oh hey, the bundies've been arrested, and only one person's died so far. Few others got arrested, too, apparently. No clue how many are left, or what they're doing.

Spoiler: FBI release, I think? (click to show/hide)

I would have preferred it had been completely bloodless so the inevitable "ebil gubmint tyranny!!!!" nutjobs would have even less ground to stand on, but lavoy finicum (the man killed) had a deathwish and is on record saying he'd rather die than be arrested so it's not surprising.

The amusing part about all this is if convicted, they are now felons and can't legally own guns anymore. I wonder if they considered that at all before they went off on this half-assed adventure?

Eh, with gun laws as they are, they can find some way around it and get guns through another channel.

Of course they can, but not legally.

I highly doubt it will stop them from actually owning guns, but it will make it less convenient and if they are ever caught doing something stupid with a gun again, things are going to be a whole lot worse for them.
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Re: Ted Cruz's Adult Coloring Book and Chill 2016 Megathread
« Reply #10401 on: January 27, 2016, 09:45:36 am »

These are people who don't think the law applies to them in the first place, I'm pretty sure they're not concerned with obeying Federal firearms laws.

EDIT: Livestream of the militants, by the militants, for the militants. Comedy. Fucking. Gold. So far, it's been mostly them working out the order in which their people will go poop. And yes, they use the word "poop".
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Re: Ted Cruz's Adult Coloring Book and Chill 2016 Megathread
« Reply #10402 on: January 27, 2016, 10:28:34 am »

These are people who don't think the law applies to them in the first place, I'm pretty sure they're not concerned with obeying Federal firearms laws.

EDIT: Livestream of the militants, by the militants, for the militants. Comedy. Fucking. Gold. So far, it's been mostly them working out the order in which their people will go poop. And yes, they use the word "poop".
Nothing much going on right now.

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« Reply #10403 on: January 27, 2016, 10:36:19 am »

I think it's supposed to be cover. No one will spot them, cleverly camouflaged against a bright yellow piece of machinery.

It's actually kinda poignant, seeing the realization slowly creeping in that none of the other militias are coming to save them. Already heard them grumbling about how "Idaho should have already been here". The lady there was talking to a reporter about what they want done with their remains, including their dogs (which are locked in a garage at the refuge, apparently). So yeah....they're looking for a Waco 2.0, it would appear.

Apparently, the revolution WILL be televised, it'll just be boring as fuck.


EDIT: I missed it, but apparently earlier the scrawny looking dude with the porn stache was talking about how commercial milk has an additive put in it by the jews that run the government that turns kids trans/gay.
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« Reply #10404 on: January 27, 2016, 10:44:50 am »

It's actually kinda poignant, seeing the realization slowly creeping in that none of the other militias are coming to save them. Already heard them grumbling about how "Idaho should have already been here".
So they've been chatting with a bunch of alt-right twitter trolls with animu avatars, and now they're earnestly waiting for the cavalry to arrive?

...'tis poignant indeed. :<

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Re: Ted Cruz's Adult Coloring Book and Chill 2016 Megathread
« Reply #10405 on: January 27, 2016, 10:54:54 am »

Looks like the stream is down now.
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Re: Ted Cruz's Adult Coloring Book and Chill 2016 Megathread
« Reply #10406 on: January 27, 2016, 11:01:51 am »

Perhaps they realised broadcasting what they were doing, as well as numbers and equipment, was tactically quite unsound. Evidently they miss the GLORIOUS LEADERSHIP of Mr. Bundy.

Do you think they're upset that Bundy didn't go out in a blaze of glory, guns firing and all that nonsense? I mean that was pretty much the point, wasn't it?
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Re: Ted Cruz's Adult Coloring Book and Chill 2016 Megathread
« Reply #10407 on: January 27, 2016, 11:12:02 am »

Well so much for a peaceful resolution to this. I am curious what the circumstances of the shooting were. They're claiming he had his hands up when the cops blew him away. So I'm withholding my real reaction (which you can probably guess) until the police make a statement about how the shooting occurred.
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« Reply #10408 on: January 27, 2016, 11:13:10 am »

I think it's more that technical skills are not their forte. I understand their reasoning for the livestream -- they expect the Feds to shoot first and be brutal when they show up and want proof of that. For that, I commend them and hope they continue streaming so that we avoid any of this "FINICUM WAS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD WITH HIS HANDS UP" bullshit I'm already seeing. (FWIW, I hope the Feds and state police involved in that had bodycams and dashcams on).

But yeah, it's tactically unsound. Doesn't seem to be a lot of leadership involved. I think they thought they were going to be emulating the minutemen at Lexington and Concord, or (more aptly) the rebels that occupied Ft. Sumter -- the match that strikes fire to the tinder. But apparently, the rest of the militias have decided to swipe left on being the tinder.

I'm betting that there was a lot of encouragement by the Armchair Brigade, a lot of "Hell yeah man, you guys do this, we'll be right there with you!" and then it's turned out to be all asshat, no cattle.


Stream appears to be back up. The saga of Fort Caterpillar continues.
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Re: Ted Cruz's Adult Coloring Book and Chill 2016 Megathread
« Reply #10409 on: January 27, 2016, 11:14:41 am »

I'm torn, frankly. It's hardly past cops to straight up murder a surrendering person, they do it all the time. On the other hand, we know that this guy more or less declared he was going to fight to the death, which is not a justification for killing him if he was surrendering but could mean he didn't actually try to surrender at all.
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