ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ IS NOT PLEASED. ZARDOZ DID NOT RAISE YOU OUT OF BRUTALITY, ONLY TO SEE SOME WIZENED ADVICE COLUMNIST BRUTAL DRAG YOU BACK INTO THE WAYS OF ERROR. THEREFOR, ZARDOZ WILL GIVE HIS CHOSEN ONES THE GIFT OF ADVICE. GO FORTH AND READ!
Q. My elderly father remarried after my mother died two years ago. He married an acquaintance who is 30 years younger at the courthouse with no friends or family in attendance.
He told this woman beforehand that there was a large widow’s pension he’d paid into for decades that he wanted to give to her by marrying her. She claimed to be in an “unhappy” marriage at the time, and promptly got a divorce.
Well, she and her now-ex have “suddenly started getting along just great,” so she decided to continue to live with her ex after her marriage to Dad. Despite agreeing to these terms and because the woman teased him before their marriage, Dad is angry that she still won’t have sex with him.
Also upsetting is that when they are out socially, his new wife still introduces her ex as her “husband” and Dad as their “friend.”
Now we learn, despite assurances during discussions with an attorney prior to the marriage that she would never exercise her rights as a spouse to any other funds or property, she’s asking my dad for a monthly allowance so she can retire, since she has no savings.
Abby, do we have any recourse in this situation? Do you think we are right to call my father’s marriage fraudulent, and would we be considered accomplices by not reporting it to any authorities before his death? — STEPDAUGHTER IN REVOLT
A. WEAKLING! WHY ARE YOU ASKING “DEAR ABBY” WHAT TO DO? WHY ARE YOU NOT LEADING A TROOP OF BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS OVER TO THE DWELLING OF ‘NEW WIFE’ AND ‘EX’. YOUR ONLY DECISION SHOULD BE IF THE TWO ARE TO BE CLEANSED,
ANNULMENT SQUAD…ATTACK!
OR TAKEN AS GRAIN SLAVES.
HAPPY RETIREMENT!
YOUR “DAD” IS NOT BLAMELESS EITHER, DOTARD OR NOT – HE MUST REMEMBER THE PENIS IS EVIL! SO TELL HIM TO SAVE HIS “NOT GETTING ANY” ANGER.
THE WHAT IS EVIL AGAIN?
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Q. I’m in seventh grade. Until recently, I was my usual happy, bubbly self. I saw school as a place to make friends and have more freedom than I did in elementary school. I was always happy and social and made friends easily.
As the months have passed, it seems like, as I look around, everything annoys me. I can’t explain why but I have stopped talking to all of my friends for long periods of time.
All these terrible emotions build up. I am angry, sad, frustrated. Now everything that has built up inside me comes out at the worst times. I cry a lot and I feel no one understands why.
This may seem like a normal middle-school breakdown that goes away over days, but it’s not. People see me crying and think, “Oh no, she’s crying for no reason again” or “Why is she crying? What is wrong?” but the thing is I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
At odd moments when I’m alone with my thoughts, these feelings come back, stronger and stronger each time. I can’t stop them. Why am I like this? — ALMOST-TEEN IN TURMOIL
A. YOUNG BRUTAL, YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY FEELING THE PROPER GUILT AT BEING PART OF THE PLAGUE OF MEN, THE FILTH OF BRUTALS. THAT, OR YOU ARE GOING THROUGH A NORMAL PART OF ADOLESCENCE. THE TABERNACLE CAN REFER YOU TO A QUALIFIED ETERNAL TO SCAN YOU AND ADVISE.
TABERNACLEMED, HOW MAY I HELP YOU?
SHOULD YOU BE UNABLE TO SHAKE THIS OFF – MAYBE SOME FRESH AIR AND HARD WORK WOULD HELP CLEAR YOUR MIND…
WELCOME TO CAMP VORTEX
WE ALSO HAVE AN “ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL” AVAILABLE. THE FACULTY ARE QUITE DEMANDING, HOWEVER.
CHAPTERS 1 THROUGH 5, TONIGHT!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Mighty Zardoz, what advice would you give to the Brutal David Hogg?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN URSINE ONE. “BETTER BULK UP THOSE SKINNY ARMS, YOU LIVE AS LONG AS YOU WORK!”
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
All hail Zardoz!
Mighty Zardoz–what would you recommend for a brutal fixing to take a brutal test and suffering from some anxiety? I know the gun is good and the penis is evil, and the Bene Gesserit axiom against fear isn’t helping, either.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN TEST TAKING ONE. JUST IMAGINE THE PROCTORS FOR THE EXAM BEING DRIVEN BEFORE YOU LIKE CATTLE, ON THEIR WAY TO A LIFETIME OF GRAIN SLAVERY. ALSO, TRY NOT TO LAUGH OUT LOUD.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Many thanks, Mighty Zardoz!
As always, you know just what to tell a gal to put her mind at ease.
RE: Gold-digger
What an idiot. Frankly, if he’s that stupid, he deserves to get fleeced like that. You’d think in all those years (however old he is), he’d have learned something.
If you’re married long enough , you tend to forget things like that……..
/yells at Clouds
I love this tidbit:
Seriously, he isn’t even getting some from the young fake bride? And at least for me, you can keep my parent’s sex life on the list of things I have no desire to ever learn about.
What. A. Cuck.
HAIL ZARDOZ, ZARDOZ HAIL
He married an acquaintance who is 30 years younger
MIGHTY ZARDOZ, what do you advise the Brutals of Sweden who allow this type of filth to infect their fair country?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/939408/Sweden-leaflet-child-marriage-immigrants-National-Board-of-Health-and-Welfare
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN QUESTIONING ONE. THEY MUST BE REMINDED THAT THE PENIS IS EVIL! FOR IT SHOOTS SEEDS THAT CREATE NEW LIFE, TO POISON THE EARTH WITH A PLAGUE OF MEN.
THE NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH AND WELFARE SHOULD BE CLEANSED.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN
Will they be cleansed by your Brutal Exterminators first, or will they first face the swords of Allah?
*shrug* I had an aunt that got married at 15 in the good ol US of A.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN SHRUGGING ONE. ERROR! DID NOBODY EXPLAIN TO HER THE PENIS IS EVIL?! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
She’s dead. Are you happy now, Zardoz?
Wow. The seed really is poison.
I’m happy someone took a swing at this. She was married 5 times. Clearly not the poster child for healthy, happy child marriage.
Or she liked it so much the first time, she decided to try four more times.
Florida just amended their laws (slightly) partly in response to this woman’s campaign: Sherry Johnson was raped, pregnant and married by 11. Now she’s fighting to end child marriage in America
I’m a little unclear. The issue was not the rape, but the marriage?
I think it was more that the rape was already illegal, but the coerced child marriage was not, and was used to cover up the sexual misconduct.
I don’t see how changing marriage laws would fix shitty parents pimping their children out. I think I’m just anti-new laws now.
That seems fair. I like the idea of clear an consistent laws that don’t have weird carveouts that allow 11 year olds to get married, but I don’t know that the anti-child-marriage law is that.
The main point is, grousing at Sweden might be misplaced in this case. Their law is that nobody gets married before 18, and the pamphlet says they’ll treat child brides as unattended minors until they reach the age of majority.
That’s what got the shrug.
“Look at these third world savages with child brides”
It’s legal here, dude. Also a pretty wild map showing the US as one of the only countries that allows it.
That’s what got the shrug.
I know the article was to back up your position, not to contest it.
Jerry Lee Lewis in the UK.
robc with fist open. robc with fist closed.
This is one of those situations where, on the one hand, I don’t believe the state has a role in approving marriages, but on the other hand I think there’s a reasonable argument to be made that the state fulfills a role as the resource of last resort when it comes to the rights of minors, the mentally ill, etc.: segments of the population who we don’t generally consider fully competent adults.
Marriage is among other things a contract between legal adults. There are provisions, and violating those provisions results in legal consequences. Now, contracts made with minor children aren’t considered binding because we don’t expect minors to have the judgement to agree to things knowing that they’ll be responsible for upholding their end. This is why what usually happens is that a contract is made with the parents as a cosigner or something to that effect, so that a responsible adult is available to suffer whatever consequences might arise if the minor doesn’t live up to his/her end of the deal.
Well, that’s dandy if we’re talking about a car loan, but what about spousal “responsibilities”? It’s not like if little Susie decides she no longer wants to make sweet love to some 30-something dude her parents have to step in. My point being that there are aspects of marriage as a contract that a “cosigner” cannot stand surety for.
Your point is a good one, Bill. However, I’m afraid that if we bite that burger too hard, the meat will slide out the other side. Adolescence has already been extended to age 26 in the health insurance realm.
Does a prepubescent child have any business getting married? No. What about a 17 year old? 14? Well, that’s more culturally dependent. 150 years ago, nobody would’ve batted an eye at 17 or 14 year olds getting married.
Any legislation of last resort for protecting minors needs to be impeccably written. Anything that lets the paternalists shimmy the door open on the nanny state by perpetuating childhood is probably a net negative.
https://www.google.com/search?q=minimum+age+to+get+married&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=reIN81WWhe9xaM:
Safari, Florida Man, it’s like I don’t even know you!
I’ve been running a meta con. Redneck that went hipster, that now plays a Redneck on the internet.
“At odd moments when I’m alone with my thoughts, these feelings come back, stronger and stronger each time. I can’t stop them. Why am I like this?”
Welcome to puberty. The fun is just beginning.
I feel the same way as this kid every time you make your regular posts, Q. Maybe this kid is a secret lurker.
As the father of a 16 year old daughter, I can tell her that her dad is suffering far, far more than she is.
Once it’s over, she can outsource her suffering to men.
I was going to ask if the
happened every 28 days.
If not consummated within 24 hour hours all marriages should annulled on principle.
Sounds like he was trying to bypass prostitution laws. “I paid this bitch, now she won’t fuck me!”
OT: Since the Morning Lynx are dead, here are some more details about the waterslide o’ death in Kansas City.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/04/03/he-helped-design-a-record-breaking-waterslide-and-was-just-arrested-after-it-decapitated-a-boy/
I read a long form story over the weekend about it that had a lot more details about all the times people had been hurt, things had gone wrong and management had been warned. They ignored and covered up everything. Given Dean’s definition of 2nd degree murder in KS, I think it’s appropriate. I hope these shitheads get locked up.
How did this continue? All the parks in Cali have hard ass rules about safety and accidents, and people still get hurt once in a while
Well if you are going to rehash the KC waterpark, I’m adding my late breaking links on Action Park!
Sounds like an awesome place. And the ’70s and ’80s seemed much less litigious than today.
Ol’ Traction Park. I never went there but I remember my Jersey cousins going on and on about it.
(shakes fist)
This story runs counter to my “no need for state regulation. Do you think business owners want to kill their customers?”
Not really. No reason a private organization couldn’t inspect and certify rides. If customers demanded it, it would happen.
An interesting question. Did people assume the ride had been inspected because we live in an over regulated society?
I’m sure that’s exactly it. I’ve never even thought about it, although I never go on rides that are dissembled and moved.
You’ve never rode the gravitron at a state fair?!?
My mom would never let us ride the rides at carnivals or state fairs for the exact reason Tundra cites.
Sure, when I was young and stupid!
http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/24/legal-sea-foods-carbon-monoxide-leak
“The government is the only thing stopping me from literally killing my customers” said no one who wasn’t a sociopath, ever.
All amusement park rides in Texas receive an inspection and certificate to operate. Do water slides not count?
+1 Action Park II: Waterslide Murder-a-loo
pretty much the 1 thing any teen who lived in the tri-state area in the 1980s knew: you were not a man unless, by 16 or so, you had gotten drunk in the parking lot and ridden all the most-dangerous rides @ Action Park
i love details like this:
shot of courtroom:
Lawyer: “sir, is it not correct that one of your rides repeatedly electrocuted patrons?”
Defendant: (strokes chin) “Define: “electrocuted”. And how can you be sure they weren’t just experiencing ‘tingles of excitement?”
Lawyer: “You will note that my client is missing her eyebrows”
Defendant: “I can’t be asked to explain people’s fashion-choices”
+1 Irwin Mainway and bag o’ glass
didnt we discuss action park when this came up a few days ago?
I worked for Jeff and his brother at the original schlitterbahn in New braunfels in 80s. Best high school job ever It has all been downhill since.
ZARDOZ might rant about the penis being evil, but he brings the best wedding gifts. Also birthdays, bar mitzvahs, and pretty much any occasion. Or no occasion.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN GIFT COMMENTING ONE. THE GIFT OF THE GUN IS GOOD!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
People see me crying and think, “Oh no, she’s crying for no reason again” or “Why is she crying? What is wrong?” but the thing is I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
Two things:
(1) You’re a chick.
(2) Hormones.
I would say there’s no cure for either, but in this brave new world, you should try being a dude. Of course, that will mean even more hormones, but at least they will be different hormones.
Bummer Dude, But I predicted this was going to happen, Pot, meet Taxes
https://youtu.be/dciB6Z-eMpg
From TOS
Our new Governor of New jersey thinks he’ll pay for “investments” by selling pot.
Worked in high school?
True story:
I paid for a very nice stereo in my high school ride ( a ’74 Chevy Nova) by flipping a pound of really excellent Oaxacan pot to my friends.
Most of these articles are mind blowing. This one is just pathetic. Sad people doing stupid things and regretting them when the consequences arise. Oh, and a girl who doesn’t know what it means to be a teenaged girl.
Abby gets more letters from morons than you’d expect. I’m surprised she doesn’t tell more writers that they are beyond help if they can’t figure out their situation without her intervention. And the letters, “he wants me to be at his beck and call 24 hours a day. Am I being selfish to want some independent time?”
Just tell them “Yes, you are being selfish, and there’s nothing wrong with it.”
Psycho Effer’s answer to almost all requests for advice: “You suck at life. Do better.”
YOUR ONLY DECISION SHOULD BE IF THE TWO ARE TO BE CLEANSED, OR TAKEN AS GRAIN SLAVES.
I’d venture their value as grain slaves would be pretty marginal given their leaching behavior to date.
What parts of the brutal do I use to clean my gun?
What caliber?
We’ll start with 9mm and 5.56.
::furrows brow::
A preference for European calibers, huh?
HE’S A COMMIE! GET HIM!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS GUN CLEANING ONE. YOU HAVE BEEN LIFTED FROM BRUTALITY TO PURIFY THE EARTH OF THE FILTH OF BRUTALS….HOW WOULD USING THEM TO CLEAN THE GIFT OF THE GUN HELP NOW? ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
ZARDOZ, it would give the scourge of the penis something to do besides shooting seed.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS TRASH CAN DWELLING ONE. HMMMM. ZARDOZ THINKS YOU MIGHT BE ON TO SOMETHING HERE. SORT OF A TURN LEMONS INTO LEMONADE THING…USAGE APPROVED. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Old joke
Peeing down the barrel is a viable alternative if SHTF.
O.T. (because Zardoz is always correct, and commentary from me will add no value whatsoever):
Kurt Eichenwald is absolutely bonkers.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/981221585410449408
Is that what happens after too much exposure to tentacle porn?
Well straffin lives in Japan, we can ask him what the symptoms are.
Inability to get aroused outside the presence of an octopus or squid.
Dammit.
Regular visits to used panty vending machines, a sexual attraction to body pillows and mollusks, and an unwavering sense of dread when interacting with real women?
ZARDOZ, while attempting to win your favor, brutal Michael failed to capitalize your name. Is he fated to grain slavery, or will he be cleansed?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN PUNISHMENT QUESTIONING ONE. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED WITH HIS REMARKS. THERE WILL BE NO PUNISHMENT. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
ZARDOZ, do you advocate grain slavery or cleansing for snitches? Stitches seem inadequate for such behavior.
I assume the stitches are in the mouth, so they can’t complain as you make them harvest grain
Nobody likes a fink, FSJ.
Just sayin’
Spare me, ZARDOZ, for I had only mixed up the Shift and Caps Lock keys!
Anybody who doesn’t reprogram the caps lock key into something more useful deserves the harshest of cleansing.
He’s so full of shit.
“I consulted a psychiatrist friend of mine”
“I talked to a (conservative) Rabbi friend of mine”
I’m an alcoholic who regularly attends AA meetings and interacts with pathological liars daily, and to me this certainly sounds like the kind of bullshit I hear routinely from said pathological liars. And I don’t mean extreme bullshitter, like Trump or many businessmen/politicians. I mean pathological liar, in every sense of the word.
I had the same reaction. As a lawyer, I also interact with pathological liars.
First: I don’t believe Ol’ Tentacles there has any conservative friends. And, Kurt, since you’re paying that psychiatrist, they aren’t your friend.
Second: Christ, what an asshole.
“I don’t believe ol’tentacles has any conservative friends”.
I would be genuinely surprised if Kurt has friends at all.
Yup. His lies are not Trump-style bullshit/exaggerations. His lies are more like Hillary Clinton’s lies (i.e. landing in Bosnia under sniper fire, being named after Sir Edmund Hillary).
I’m starting to question whether Ol’ Tentacles really ever did have a seizure from that gif.
Eichenwald is legitimately unhinged. He is the perfect representative of modern “journalism”.
Did a psychiatrist friend of yours tell you this Q?
I DON’T THINK SO!
/phibbbbt
“Anonymous sources”
Kurt Hentaiwald?
What happened to “thou shalt not lay a glove on a shooting survivor?”
Wow.
Kurt Eichenwald is unhinged. That’s going beyond harassment or shitposting and straight into pathological. Like Hihn territory.
NO DOXING!!
BULLY!
I like this reply:
Mister Metokur published a few days too early. Eichenwald really is losing his fucking mind.
Also upsetting is that when they are out socially, his new wife still introduces her ex as her “husband” and Dad as their “friend.”
Three way?
Follow-up question a couple weeks later:
“Dear ZARDOZ, my stepmother can’t talking about how much she loves DP. Why does she love Dr. Pepper so much?”
Reason # 4,357,633 why cricket will not catch on in the US: NZ batsmen Ish Sodhi bats for 3 hours 20 minutes, to guarantee a DRAW in the match with England, celebrated as a hero:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/cricket/news/article.cfm?c_id=29&objectid=12025350
My part of town has a lot of Indian/Pakistani families, and on weekends you can often find crowds of men playing cricket in the local park. I’ve watched some of those games, and I’ll be damned if I can figure out what is going on.
Yep, I think it’s a very difficult sport to get attached to if you don’t grow up with it.
The rules really aren’t awfully complex, especially once you realize it’s more a social event than a sporting one.
“it’s more a social event than a sporting one.”
Well, unless you’re Australia playing in South Africa.
And, pretty much every Ashes series.
Even then. I know the Aussies get kinda obsessive about it, but whenever I visited Lords, most of the fans were sitting around trying to stay cool and concentrating on getting drunk.
As can been seen, on my campus, we actually have a cricket field to the right of our two baseball diamonds.
Impressive.
OT: Breaking news from the beer world. A recently (as in a couple weeks ago) national brewery was just sold in bankruptcy. Sleep well Green Flash, here’s hoping the new owners retain the brewers and the recipes.
Dang that sucks. I particularly liked their red rye ipa that hadn’t been out in a year or two.
All these terrible emotions build up. I am angry, sad, frustrated. Now everything that has built up inside me comes out at the worst times. I cry a lot and I feel no one understands why.
Try Midol.
…or Lithium.
I cry a lot and I feel no one understands why.
It appears that you’re the only one who doesn’t understand why.
OT: Bend over and grab your ankles, government is coming to town!
http://lovelandpolitics.com/mcwhinneycrisis2018.html
Somebody needs to learn about word wrapping.
Vanity Fair is supposed to be a serious publication….and yet they employ Kurt Eichenwald.
TW: Twitchy
It gets even crazier… VF put out a statement saying Kurt Eichenwald isn’t a contributing editor, hasn’t been since 2014, and was recently referred to in a VF article as “Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald”.
If that’s true, then Eichenwald has some legit mental problems he needs to sort out. And it all but confirms the idea that he is in fact a pathological liar in every sense of the word.
Same thing with MSNBC. Somebody pointed out that he hadn’t been employed by them for quite a while, and he responded by claiming that he forgot to remove it from his Twitter profile. MSNBC has now been scrubbed from it, but VF mysteriously remains. I first thought his weird, obsessive quirks were funny, but it seems like he might legitimately be going insane. It’s so weird and sad to see something like this play out on such a popular public forum.
I’m ALMOST starting to feel sorry for him because he may have legit mental issues and I would never wish that on a man or his family.
but like I said… ALMOST… not quite there yet.
Oh, I’m not at the point of feeling sorry for him either. He’s still a cretinous, pathological liar unless proven otherwise. I did delete my tweets mocking him though, because he seems to be receiving quite a substantial piling-on from half the Internet already today.
It’s even worse than that. Someone tagged Proactiv, one of MSNBC’s advertisers, in a reply to one of Eichenwald’s bizarre rants, and asked whether the company supports his dingbat lunacy. Proactiv pulled their ads in response. He doesn’t even work for them. Hilarious.
Dear Zardoz,
Recently, I was driving with my wife when a Nick Cave song came up on the MP3 player and my wife informed me that she “hates Nick Cave.” A few minutes later it came out that she also hates Zappa. Do you have a regular schedule? I need to arrange for her to be there for the next cleansing.
How did this not come up while you were dating!?!
It’s like I don’t even know her any more!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN MUSICALLY SHOCKED ONE. SEND COORDINATES TO THE TABERNACLE – BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS CAN BE DISPATCHED.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Thank you, mighty granitic one!
Man, you’re so full of schist.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN PUNNING ONE. BE WARNED! NONE OF THAT!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
*narrows gaze*
OK. I’ll be gneiss.
*readies cowbutt*
You got a license for that?
This is an open cowbutt jurisdiction.
Surreptitiously deletes notepad file with list of potential puns
An apology will usually get you a clean slate, please don’t take that for granite.
I have no apatite for a catbutt, that’s for sure.
EVEN YOU, JESSE?!
*stomps off in a huff*
… probably thinks we’ve formed a gangue or something …
Worry not, he shale coal off eventually.
Come on Swiss, let them clay. There’s no need to pumice them.
This is basalt with a deadly pun!
Abby gets more letters from morons than you’d expect.
Unlikely.
Does anyone have the link to the Discord, I just got the app?
https://discordapp.com/
I meant the glibs discord.
https://discordapp.com/channels/334850908842229760/334850908842229760
https://discordapp.com/channels/334850908842229760/334850908842229760
It says the invite expired.
Just returned from the range. The Glock 18 was wasteful and silly but it sure was fun. Shot some Springfield handgun in .45, quite nice in the hand. The highlight of the day however, was the Mossberg Shockwave. Holy Mackerel, do I need one of these. Thanks to the fine folk at Pembroke Gun & Range; if any of y’all are in the area, they are worth checking out.
So, what ammo in the shockwave? Shorty-shells?
And yeah, the Glock 18 is as silly as the CZ-75 Machine Pistol. Pure Bader-Meinhof fever-fantasy.
They had no short shells available just bog-standard 2 1/2″ in 00 buckshot (I vastly prefer #4 for home defence) but it was great change of pace from my beloved full size Model 500. Unfortunately, being a resident of NYC, I can’t afford the ruinous cost and intrusive hassle of firearms permits. Sigh…
More Trump puffery?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/03/trump-proposes-guarding-southern-border-military/
That would be the correct response if a column of 1,300 invaders approaches the border.
Yeah, I don’t have a problem with this to be addressed by our military.
I don’t in principle; however, the military is not law enforcement. They don’t arrest people; they kill people and break shit.
Are we defining the illegals as enemy combatants? Will we be killing them on sight? If that’s the way it is, so be it. But Trump et. al. should be clear about it.
Furthermore, I would be utterly unsurprised if the Soros crowd didn’t plan on using these poor schmucks as sacrificial lambs in such a manner. They would be absolutely thrilled to see the military kill a couple thousand dirt poor peasants; they could make hay off that for years.
Speaking of an enemy of the state who should be targeted by the military…
Er….cops/ICE agents should be enough.
Yeah, I’m a fan of not throwing posse comitatus out the window. We have more than enough non military federal agents to deal with this.
*shrug*
I don’t view it as a law enforcement action. I see it more as securing our border from an invading horde.
Doesn’t really violate Posse Comitatus, because outside our borders/not sovereign citizens, but just like what we did in Afghanistan, it’s not really a job our military should do, unless we perceive a cogent threat to the defense of the US.
That last one could be validly argued.
Posse Comitatus was the result of opposition to Reconstruction. Better change your mind you racist.
They could always borrow all the SWAT teams from all the other Alphabet Agencies.
Honestly, if they really wanted an effective way to stop illegals, just send the CIA down there to cut deals with the cartels.
“How much do you make smuggling illegals across the border? OK, we’ll increase it by a factor of 10 if you keep people from going across, by force if necessary. We might even look the other way a bit more while you’re bringing in drugs.”
Not that I advocate such a solution, but it would probably be more effective than any wall.
Yeah… In 3 years the CIA would be in
theanother smuggling business because.Ha ha ha ah aha ha ha ha: https://twitter.com/TheMattCrooks/status/981249400570810368
Eichenwald BTFO
Hate speech
The “incentive structure” in terms of mainstream media coverage is “pretty clearly tilted to the left,” GOP strategist Matt Mackowiak said.
Mackowiak took pains to point out that he recognized the trauma all the students experienced when a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14.
But he argued that it was clearly valid to criticize their policy prescriptions to deal with the broader issue of gun violence.
“I’m very sensitive to their horrific experiences, but they are really trying to make [the gun issue] a bumper sticker–type issue or an organizing campaign for the left, when it’s really far more complicated than that,” he said.
Somebody should call that Eichenwald guy.
Why do they have a new job for him, he seems to be unemployed right now.
He should give Vox a call.
MattY is already filling the brain-damaged idiot quota there.
Ezra Klein cashed out and left?
“but they are really trying to make [the gun issue] a bumper sticker–type issue”
Back. fire.
Just like the march of illegals through Mexico. They are overplaying their hand big time either due to desperation, or a false sense of security.
I have this weird suspicion that it’s neither of those and actually something more nefarious. I think the organizers of this march are hoping for a pile of bodies to proselytize from atop of much in the way the media has been handling the most recent Gaza “protest”.
I first thought his weird, obsessive quirks were funny, but it seems like he might legitimately be going insane.
Another victim of Trump’s America.