Imagine standing up in the middle of a town hall ready to attack a state representative...because they called for Kristi Norm to resign... Surely there are better fights worth having.
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Not for the cultists. Their divine leader will fix things for them . . . any second now . . ..
It wasn't the call for resignation.
Dude's been cookimg for awhile.
This came following her call on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.
For people who didn't watch the video, she says, "Kristi Noem must resign or face impeachment," and the guy jumps up and rushes the stage.
It sounded sort of like he was saying that Rep. Ilhan Omar should resign or something. But what a weird trigger. You got to wonder what kind of a loser would jump up to defend Noem.
Or maybe he wasn't defending Noem, and was just waiting for Rep. Ilhan Omar to say something that he could shout back at her. The most childish and mindless of retorts.
I can't see how this guy could possibly be anything but a total loser. He turns violent presumably in response to propaganda.
Or maybe he wasn’t defending Noem, and was just waiting for Rep. Ilhan Omar to say something that he could shout back at her.
Possibly this, if be sprayed something on her then he came prepared to do just that and was waiting for the moment to jump.
And what, she didn't immediately unload a clip into his back? That's the state sanctioned method for dealing with protestors now, right?
Except in this case, the protester actually got violent, unlike the people murdered by ICE.
Because she’s braver than ICE Nazis.
NazICE®
The fash-maker
NOICE.
Really hope whatever the fuck he sprayed her with was nothing dangerous
That woman telling her to go get checked immediately was right. It's unlikely, but people have been killed like this before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam
At approximately 9:00 a.m., two women approached Kim with separate components of the VX nerve agent on their hands, combining it into the lethal weapon when touching his face. He died about 15 to 20 minutes later while being transported to the hospital.
This part is wild.
She told her mother that she found a better job as an actor in prank videos for the Chinese market.[87] After Hương and Aisyah were arrested, they claimed they thought they were participating in a prank.[88] According to both suspects, they were told to play harmless tricks on people in the vicinity for a prank TV show, one target being Kim Jong-nam.[89] They said they were promised US$100, but after losing contact with their handlers, they never received the money.
Yeah... but on the other hand I can see this becoming a common tactic to prevent people from speaking: spray them with water so they have to leave the event to get checked out, while the perpetrator faces relatively light charges because it wasn’t actually dangerous.
Let's not jump to conclusions. That doesn't appear to be what happened here.
I’m not talking about this event in particular, I’m talking about the assumptions you have to make when responding to events like this. Because your response will influence what others do in the future.
So annoying that the video will not play over VPN.
Go figure, though: the fucking ads play just fine, though.
Is it me, or did that guy look drunk as a skunk?
She was ready to throw down, lol. He might have picked the wrong one.
Honestly that dude is lucky security got to him first, she was gonna whoop his stupid ass.
She had a pen in that hand, she was gonna shank his face which seems like a pretty appropriate response.
You can hear it in the video "I don't know what it is but it smells terrible", I bet it was fart spray or some bullshit she got sprayed with. Love that she still made the statement and said her piece.
That was him on a good day
Shiiiiiiiiiiit somebody come get unc
Unc? Could you clarify for the kids in the back?
He means uncle, as in someone come get your crazy ass racist uncle and take his ass home
Unc:
A creepy, misbehaving, often drunk, uncle vibe having ne'er do well.
or
A close relative that is feeling themselves a little too much at the family gathering.
It really depends on context. The asshole that got balled up like used tissue after assaulting Congresswoman Omar was stumbling and smiling, then sprayed her with some fart spray or other childish prank. Another commenter called the assailant drunk. I just went with it.
Since when does unc have a negative connotation?
Since GenA slang made it a thing.
I'm getting too old for all of this lol
Nah bruh. The way it’s used is just you old and out of touch with culture now you old. It has nothing to do with creepy drunk uncles jfc.
I've been hearing The Professional Left and others using it in phrases like "Crazy Uncle Liberty", which has the same connotation - even fairly normal families always seem to have the same unmarried/divorced uncle that loves to spew all the latest Faux News Bullshit Mountain talking points and generally making those around them miserable.
Crazy Uncle Liberty also is a phrase used for dipshits screeching on hate radio/"patriot radio", or running a newsletter, or trying to recruit you into the John Birch Society, the person acting as the usual guy at the end of the bar on comment sections, and so on...
Bruh what the absolute fuck. Unc is just like anyone older than like 25 now. Idk wtf crazy uncle liberty is, and if that’s a thing alright cool. But unc has nothing to do with whatever all that is.
More escalation
Disgusting