Pros and Cons of Punching a Nazi Just Square in the Dick

[Rico]

Part of the US issue is that you get a ton of Fox News in barracks abroad.

[Büge]

I had naively thought (based on conversations with veterans) that actual front line soldiers, being the first lives spent in the service of money, would be the first to see through this kind of bullshit. I guess a lot of people really do just sign up for an opportunity to kill the other.

The senate has just removed white nationalism from the list of guidelines to screen out prospective military enlistees.

[Mongrel]

Well, it's not like they were enforcing that clause anyway... :/

[Mazian]

State Republican discussed violent attacks and surveillance with right-wingers

That was April. But it looks like he wasn't just discussing them: "State Rep. Matt Shea planned and participated in domestic terrorism against the United States before and during the armed takeover at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, an investigation commissioned by the Washington state House found."

Shea participated in four phone calls with Ammon Bundy in advance of the January 2016 Malheur occupation, the report found. The day after the occupation began, Shea, using the code name Verumbellator, created a detailed military-style plan called Operation Cold Reality that laid out roles and responsibilities for militia members and for an organization that Shea chaired, the Coalition of Western States.

Days later, Shea traveled to Burns, Oregon, the site of the standoff, identified himself as a state representative and met with local and national law enforcement, the report found. He “gathered intelligence” about law enforcement strategies and operations from that meeting and then met with Ammon Bundy and other armed occupiers of the refuge, the report found, despite warnings from law enforcement.

House Republicans have suspended him from their caucus, but haven't moved to remove him from the House, though they have plenty of vacuous statements about how he should resign (which will never voluntarily happen). Granted, this is a holiday week, and there's an interesting wrinkle in that procedure: the House can only remove someone once for a given offense, and since his district is basically an extension of the scarier parts of Idaho, there's every chance they would still vote him back in.

[Romosome]

I mean why bother, it's not like he's a teenage climate activist or something truly despicable.

[Thad]

Somehow I have a sneaking suspicion that if every other detail was the same but the man was a Muslim, they'd be treating him very differently. Call it a hunch.

[McDohl]

Remember the time Ilhan Omar misspoke about Jewish advocacy groups, and the entire right wing started shrieking for her resignation within the hour?

Yeah, no need to imagine when it happened on an order of magnitude less consequential.

[Mazian]

Hey, what's new with Matt there?

Still in office. No actions taken by the legislature. "Shea so far has received the second-most individual campaign donations of any state House Republican, behind only the House Minority Leader".

Eastern Washington, everyone.

[Mongrel]

'You might wonder if this is a bit mean. For a moment, I did too. But then she made her speech and told us what she really thought'

[mharr]

Well now I have a clear mental image of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins pretending to smile.

[KingRoyal]

In an absolutely shocking twist, the FBI now believes that a bomb threat against a Civil War re-enactment group initially blamed on Antifa came from the group itself.

What a totally unexpected turn of events.

[Brantly B.]

The shocking twist is that the FBI was forced to acknowledge it.

[Mongrel]

EDIT: "Computer, enhance section 35G"



"I KNEW IT."

[Friday]

"Hitler wasn't such a bad guy! He was just afraid of the very real threat of the Jews, and that led him down a path, that while understandable, did not necessarily conform to what we as (raises hands, does finger quotes) Society (puts hands down) deem (hands go up again) appropriate. (hands down) But in the end, Hitler was, just like us, a human being deserving of our respect and empathy. Unlike the Jews, who even now seek to destroy the fabric of our strong American families."

[Brantly B.]

Also, at the same time, he was a white supremacist.

[Mongrel]

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[Friday]

I'm not an anti-semite! And I can prove it, because the jews that control everything are framing me!

[Büge]

WHOOPS

[Friday]

my favorite is "I'm a dad too. I don't like breaking up parents from their kids. but i fuckin' do it anyway lol"

"why do people keep calling me the bad guy?" asks man as he forcibly remove child from weeping mother begging him to stop

"I just don't understand the Nazi comparisons" says man as he places sobbing child, age 5, into cage. "I'm just doing my job, which happens to be putting crying children into cages that will later be forced (age 5) to represent themselves in court. It's absurd that I am being called a fascist or a Nazi. I'm a father myself. As we know from historical records, no Nazi was ever married or had kids."

[Brantly B.]

That headline is twice as long as Baby's Shoes but I'm going to say it does the job just as well.