There are no good Republicans.
None. Zip Zilch Zero None Of Them Not A Single Pleasant Person.
They are a revolting corrupt embezzlement ring with literally zero redeeming qualities
Fuck Trump and his spineless boot licking thugs and Fuck Massie and his rose-tinted followers.
Release the Epstein files transparency proposition WITHOUT that gun obsessed bigoted hack’s contribution or prosperity.
As a former gun nut, if those are legit fully automatic weapons that are registered, they are holding around $100K-275k in firearms. The tommy gun alone is around $25k+. That M60 is about $60-150k and M16’s are around $18-25k each. Flashing your insecurity as well as your wealth to your constituents is a…choice.
Not when your constituency is also equally as pro gun… which Kentucky is.
i like how massie says he wants to release, but doesnt really push hard at all. hes just saving his own skin, even though hes technically primaried already. all the other republicans that left congress did it so not to hurt the gop as a whole.
I’m no Massie fanboy but
hes just saving his own skin
By tanking his career and ostracizing himself?? He’s been pretty consistent in the two things that made him a target for Trump (Epstein and the deficit), it’s not like MTG who fled a burning ship.
He’s still very much a Republican and would never get my vote because of the rest of his opinions but he’s been on the right side of history with those two things from early on.
It’s a low bar but he pushed harder than 99% of politicians on either side.
hes going scorched earth like MTG did, snuffed out of congress, of course they would be vindictive.
Santa isn’t delivering shit to a house that’s brim-full of gun happy lunatics. Christmas magic don’t protect him from bullets.
Yep, don’t vote for them, but thank them for at least doing the bare minimum.
Okay, so hopefully this isn’t a sign of me being toooo out of touch, but what exactly is wrong with this photo? The post text uses a lotta charged language, so I can are y’all are upset over something, but aren’t firearms like a normal thing for Americans?
Pretty sure the whole family posing with guns for Christmas is beyond corny, even by American standards.
Any Republican who hasn’t flipped to Democrat, Independent or started voting 100% against their party isn’t to be trusted.
So we can’t trust any of them that I’m aware of.
ARAB
All Republicans Are Blowhards
Id get behind this one if it didnt just come across like shouting at Middle Easterners.
On the other hand, I’d quite happy with adapting the other one to refer to Conservatives instead.
How about All Fascists Are B…no, wait, that’s not gonna work either.
:)
Assigned Republican At Birth?
Assisted Reprobates Acting Badass
There are strategic moments that make sense. Liz Cheney (with no actual policy compromises) saying basically that, “I’m a Republican but Trump is a national security threat so I’m voting Harris” is strategically sound. Those who know Trump is a threat were already voting Democrat. Those on the fence or sitting out may have been persuaded by this bipartisan act (even though we all know we wouldn’t want Cheney running domestic policy).
With respect to Massie, I’m glad he has carved out a sliver of morality on this one issue because Good vs. Bad isn’t boolean; it’s a gradient.
That said, there isn’t a race in the country for these midterms where the Republican is better than the Democrat on the ballot.
(Also, Massie like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger before him, already lost his Primaries so won’t be in Congress anyway next year)
remember boehner, and the one after him all in trumps 1st term. MTG quit like most Republicans did, so she cant do damage to the party. people suspect she is still trying to run Atlanta for some seat even after being rebuffed for the senate run.
That picture is terrifying.
Typical American family portrait. I think they lend those to you at Sears if you forget to bring your own.
Don’t spread misinformation.
No one is getting their family photos at Sears anymore.
We get them at Walmart now, but we have to take them ourselves at a kiosk. Next to the ammo dispenser.
typical white RIGHT wing ammosexul family portrait.
You could probably take them all out with a Glock. I doubt they ever train with them, it’s all show.
Kinda like the people with gun manufacturer stickers on their vehicle. Either cosplay or telling people they’re an easy $100 for anyone with a brick. Serious gun owners don’t advertise it.
The pre-1986 ban M60 he’s holding and the BAR she has are 50-100K each.
If the FAL is full auto, it wouldn’t be that much less expensive.
That’s a Thompson, not a BAR.
A BAR would be about the same size as the M60. BAR shoots 30.06 (7.62x51), same as the M60, usually had a bipod, thing’s pretty big.
If she was holding a BAR in that same position, the barrel end and bipod would be on or past the hand of redshirt son behind her.
A Thompson on the other hand is a sub machine gun, 9x19, much closer in overall size to what we’d now call a carbine or short barelled rifle, its roughly M4 sized.
Hard to tell the exact variant but its likely either the WW2 era M1928A1 or M1A1, they simplified and reinforced some bits of the design compared to the old ‘Chicago Typewriter’ version, for mass wartime production.
Mom’s got her’s pointed right at the son she hates
Just noticed that, at least they’re practicing trigger discipline.
And the mags are out, very likely all unloaded and chamber checked prior to staging this shot.
To me the scary thing is the idea of giving the uh, seemingly least physically strong person the Uzi.
Its not loaded, but theres a good chance this one is a pre-ban full auto, and those things kind of notoriously kick wildly on full auto if its 45acp or 41ae.
About $100k of iron in that pic (assuming the 60/uzi/Thompson are all fully functional and not just replica/semi auto.
I have mine because they have theirs.
You’d think they’d be able to afford ammo, then. :)
Go far enough left and keep your guns. Also, blessing Chairman Fred and Comrade Newton.
Only until the revolution though. Then they get taken away again.
Reagan pushed gun control.
Wow Reagan was a leftist? Just how far right are you bro?
“Reading comprehension it’s above me bro!” 🤓
Relevance? We are talking about “far enough left”, just a reminder.
Don’t paint revolutions the same. Material conditions are analyzed, policy is formed and applied.
And who profits but the gun manufacturers, while net societal safety drops.
I do by having a bunch of really cool guns
I wasn’t going to share the story because I felt it too dark. But a coworker years ago told me the first people he would kill in the “shit hits the fan” scenario is his neighbors because they would be the first to ask for help/target him.
The fact that a single nut job is out there thinking this was enough to adjust my stance on owning fire arms.
I keep thinking that USA is just a Vault Tec experiment in human behaviour under constant pressures.
Vault Tec is just a reflection of very real government behavior.
For real, they do all that experimentation out in the open. No vaults required.
Well you may want to look up how gun control came to be a talking point, and why Fred Hampton was viewed as such a threat, he was murdered in his bed, next to his pregnant, sleeping wife (hint: youth breakfast and exercise program).
Gun manufacturers are a part of society, and a very rich part.
The entire world demands guns, and the USA provides. More than the top six suppliers combined (including China and Russia).
Every state in the union is part of the arms industry. Even Hawaii.
The entire world demands guns, and the USA provides.
Most of the guns used in crimes in Canada and Mexicr were smuggled in from the USA.
A truly moral society wouldn’t be providing the weapons that criminals demand.
and no braincell in between them, they sold it to buy all those guns.
Honestly, that’s much lower than I expected. Knowing very little about firearm costs (haven’t shot anything since college), I would have guessed probably double that.
Guns are a lot cheaper than you’d expect. An ar-15 is like $500 for a simple build. Most handguns are similar. The ones here are only expensive because they’re machine guns
I know these type of people that pose with guns and family. Generally the more guns and ammo they are stockpiling is a good inverse indicator of their IQ.
Are they posing before they are going to do a family school shooting or something? This looks like a photo of white Al Qaida.
I don’t understand why they would do this. Like, posing for a Christmas photo, sure. But add murder weapons to it? What is the message? “We’re going to kill Christmas”, or “baby Jesus you’re going to get lead” or something? “Santa is flying through the air with his raindeers and it’s open hunting season” or “Christmas time is the purge time, we’re going on a murder spree”. The last one is the one I got from this photo the most.
The fact that they find behavior like this normal just shows how deranged and unhinged they actually are
I don’t have to agree with everything he does to agree with him on one thing.
Whether you like guns or not, making them your entire personality is so cringe.
Honestly, I can’t see a single reason why someone would “like” guns.
Depends on where you live, how you grew up, and your hobbies.
I realize it’s a foreign concept to some who grew up in an urban/metropolitan area and are otherwise surrounded by concrete, buildings and lots of people.
I grew up with 3000 acres of woods behind my house. Didn’t own them but had unrestricted access. I like guns but despise people like the one in this image.
Engineering is my main draw. That and knowing my sister would be dead today without hers.
Eh, I grew up doing shooting competitions as a kid. My grandfather was a semi-famous trick shooter back when that was a thing, so it was something I grew up doing.
I hunt too, meat prices are insane right now and a few deer go a long way when frozen or otherwise preserved right, I don’t mind having to butcher and dress it myself. I’m not gonna stop eating meat in this lifetime, them animals are way way too tasty.
I like guns, but this photo is cringe to me too. I’m a Fudd in the gun community. Revolvers, lever-action repeaters, and shotguns are all I mess with, and I’d be more than comfortable banning all high capacity guns.
Honestly, you can say that about most things. If you make your identity any one thing it’s cringe. Go experience the world and open your interests to a diverse set.
Making “exploring the world” your thing is so cringe. All those insta and tinder profiles with the same travel photos. Fuck off.
I feel like if I explored the world the only photos you’d have of it are random ass birds, weird roadkill, and probably the inside of some Soviet bunker or some shit. I went to the grand canyon some years ago and the only video I took was of a goat at the flintstones thing and a squirrel tweaking out on the side of the cliff.
I did explore the world. This included war zones. I didn’t feel like making a selfie with a dead baby on the side of the road, to post it on my tinder profile with the text “I love traveling”. Or with someone’s head split open by a sniper shot, with the text “I guess we’ll eat shoarma tonight #localstreetfood”.
“I love exploring the world” basically means “I love to make selfie photo’s at tourist attractions to show off I make more money than you, while at the same time not giving a shit about the culture, the people, the history, the country I visit because those poor people are ewww”
But other things might not be exclusively used for killing living beings. In the case of the weapons in that image, primarily humans.
Yes, but I don’t think that changes the cringe aspect. It changes the unhinged potentially dangerous aspect though.
Uhh what we would these weapons be used secondarily for?
Compensating.
Still killing living beings, but of the animal variety for food. Or, as a hobby to enjoy at the range. That’s what mine are for.
If the first round doesn’t stop the deer the rest of the clip will I suppose.
Bonus: You don’t have to grind the meat up after you dress it.
You’re assuming a lot about which tool I’ve selected for which job, and you’re wrong.
Sure.
If they hunt replace deer with boar and your technically wrong, I once met a guy who hunted boars with a Browning Automatic Rifle.
It’s a legit problem in some southern states. The feral hog population is destroying crops. I know someone that ranches goats and he says he carries an AR15 with 300BLK with him when he checks on his goats. He also said the hogs have killed enough of his goats that he hasn’t made any profit in them in the past couple years. It’s a very specific use case, but a real one.
30-40 feral hogs
