Radical 90s Wizard posted:

I've never seen Ben Shapiro before but holy poo poo he is the gooniest tryhard sounding motherfucker ever, he has a voice like nails on a chalkboard


e] take a drink every time he says "frankly" in that interview

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

I've never seen Ben Shapiro before but holy poo poo he is the gooniest tryhard sounding motherfucker ever, he has a voice like nails on a chalkboard


e] take a drink every time he says "frankly" in that interview

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

I've never seen Ben Shapiro before but holy poo poo he is the gooniest tryhard sounding motherfucker ever, he has a voice like nails on a chalkboard

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/elianayjohnson/status/1126999793186820096

https://twitter.com/cmarinucci/status/1127029998928326656

Pete's pretty good.

quote:

The leader of a right-wing militia known as the Stevens County Assembly will soon travel from West Virginia to Washington State — in law enforcement custody, accused of posing as a member of a Mexican drug cartel and extorting his fellow militiamen, according to a colorful set of court documents obtained by TPM.

The Bluefield, West Virginia Daily Telegraph reported Thursday that James Russell Bolton Jr. waived his right to an extradition hearing earlier in the day, after being arrested Monday at his parents’ home in Princeton, West Virginia.

quote:

As the Spokesman-Review first reported last week, authorities allege Bolton extorted fellow Stevens County Assembly members using written threats. According to court documents, beginning in late February several militia members found identical letters near their homes threatening physical harm and demanding sums ranging from $10,000 to $250,000.

“The author of the letters claimed to be an organization from outside of the United States and insinuated that it was likely from [a] Mexican cartel,” Detective Travis Frizzell observed later.

The threatening letters were signed by “Alessio Don De Grande” — Bolton’s alleged pseudonym of choice.

quote:

Nine days later, Bolton claimed he’d been receiving threatening emails, but said his computer had been hacked and was unusable. He told investigators he was taking the computer to Spokane to be repaired and wasn’t heard from again by police.

quote:

Soon after, on March 31, Bolton allegedly tried to kill a fellow militia member at his home by shoving him down a flight of stairs onto a concrete floor, which resulted in a large cut on his head that bled “profusely,” and then attempting to wrap a plastic bag around his face.

After ceasing his attempt to kill the man, fellow Stevens County Assembly member Mark Etchieson, Bolton allegedly claimed his wife Kim had been kidnapped, and that her kidnappers were demanding $100,000.

Etchieson told police that he agreed in the moment to help Bolton with the money, promising $100,000, “the majority of his life savings,” which he scrounged together in part by selling his stock portfolio.

After Etchieson heard from Bolton that the kidnappers had released Bolton’s wife — yet, per Bolton, were still demanding money — Etchieson “began to question the validity of Bolton’s story.”

quote:

Still, if there’s one thing Bolton apparently trained his devoted militia underlings to do, it’s fight back.

Case in point: Tony Donnelly, who on Feb. 26 found a threatening letter on his girlfriend Gayle Collins’ gate, failed to follow his extorter’s advice to put the demanded money in the mailbox. Instead, Donnelly “set up a hidden camera and put a letter with purple powder in his mailbox in an attempt to catch the suspect.” The substance, Donnelly later told authorities, was “stain theft detection powder.”

Donnelly also provided authorities a grainy video and a picture of a white SUV driving away from the scene, one that authorities later determined looked “very similar” to Bolton’s.

Ceiling fan posted:

Yeah, it's surreal. Neil was giving him every chance to turn things around. A real interview would have made Shapiro throw his hissy fit in less than 30 seconds.

I can't imagine the contempt Neil must feel toward someone so dense and brittle at the same time.

Ceiling fan posted:

Hey, as long as we're figuring out what movie we're living in, I'll throw this in the pile.

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1126943256451977216






So, who wants to head out to Washington state to hunt for the buried ransom money?

quote:

President Trump has effectively taken charge of the nation’s premier Fourth of July celebration in Washington, moving the gargantuan fireworks display from its usual spot on the Mall to be closer to the Potomac River and making tentative plans to address the nation from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, according to top administration officials.

Merton Blask posted:

Be spooky, do crimes?

Ceiling fan posted:

Hey, as long as we're figuring out what movie we're living in, I'll throw this in the pile.

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1126943256451977216

Merton Blask posted:

Be spooky, do crimes?

Nick Soapdish posted:

pantslesswithwolves posted:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...m=.649289618810


Hahahahaha 4th of July in DC is going to suck so hard this year; so glad I’m going to be out of town for the suckfest.

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

rainbow ghost is legit cool

Syrian Lannister posted:

Yeah it is

Proud Christian Mom posted:

Giving the bride and groom a set of knives

SplitSoul posted:

Maybe they can use it to cut the wedding cake as well.

Hot Karl Marx posted:

lol

https://twitter.com/justicedems/status/1127212935556812800?s=19

Hot Karl Marx posted:

lol

https://twitter.com/justicedems/status/1127212935556812800?s=19

SquirrelyPSU posted:

I am very anti-Biden in this race, but this was taken hilariously out of context and very obviously cut before the "but".

Hot Karl Marx posted:

lol

https://twitter.com/justicedems/status/1127212935556812800?s=19

Eugene V. Dubstep posted:

Yeah, he's obviously explaining why big money in elections is bad in his trademark folksy see-no-evil way.

Of course he then turns around and takes bundles of money from special interests, so

SquirrelyPSU posted:

No, he's not at all. He's explaining that part of fundraising is taking money from a bunch of people that you then have to take meetings with and the video ends before the "that doesn't mean you have to listen to them."

SquirrelyPSU posted:

No, he's not at all. He's explaining that part of fundraising is taking money from a bunch of people that you then have to take meetings with and the video ends before the "that doesn't mean you have to listen to them."