HALDEMAN: There’s a genre of film they make. They’re called “edits.” Footage of you - the Checkers speech, the ‘62 concession, the helicopter, set to a kind of, uh, trancelike electronic music. The comments say things like “literally me” and “he just like me fr.”
NIXON: What’s “fr”?
HALDEMAN: “For real,” sir.
NIXON: And the…sweating? In the, the debate? They’ve seen the sweating?
HALDEMAN: They love the sweating. They consider it relatable. The consensus is that the sweating gives you “aura.”
NIXON: Aura, huh.
[EIGHT SECONDS OF SILENCE]
NIXON: Bob, I want to be very clear about something. In 1960 that sweating cost me the presidency of the United States, and now it’s giving me…what, aura? Where the [EXPLETIVE] was the aura in Cook County?
KISSINGER: History has a way of vindicating-
PRESIDENT: Henry, do you have edits?
[TWELVE SECONDS OF SILENCE]
KISSINGER: There are some.
Tonight, I gave Notice of Intent to bring forth a Privileged Resolution to force a vote on releasing the names of Congressmen who used taxpayer funds for sexual misconduct settlements.
The Speaker has two legislative days to consider the timing of the vote. Stay tuned.
What's hilarious is that we have zero reason to pretend we AREN'T Communists or antifa Marxists or any of the other buzz words the far right paints us as.
The vast majority of our followers don't support us for the specific political takes of our organization, but for the inclusive brush that we use to paint gun rights with. (This is also unironically why most of our detractors don't like us)
In fact, we (respectfully) laugh off tons of people in our comments and DM's telling us on an almost daily basis that we would be cooler if we were Communists.
We've been 100% transparent with where we stand on issues since the beginning and have had more than our fair share of disagreements with people all across the political spectrum as a result.
This is entirely the point.
The far-right loves to paint us as some Soros-funded commie sleeper cell grifter group whose grand plan is to secretly trick a bunch of people into buying t-shirts and stickers. They say we don't represent the gun community and have no power, while simultaneously accusing us of having some secret long-term strategy that involves disarming conservatives.
This is apparently our goal even though we've been advocating for equal and universal gun rights since our inception, and actively encouraging people of all beliefs to get into gun ownership — which would probably not be the best idea if the plan was to take half of them away at some point.
Trust me, the longer you try to understand it, the harder it gets.
The truth is, people don't like what they don't understand, and people don't understand what they don't take the time to learn.
Pair all of this with folks parroting a narrative based off of strawman arguments and bad-faith assumptions and you get a continuous loop of ignorance that is responsible for the whole mess that we find ourselves in as a society.
If someone or something seems like a boogie man that fits perfectly into your world view about them, you're most likely missing some critical information.
Seek knowledge. Ask questions. Don't let people who profit off of infighting tell you what to believe.
this is the free speech our founders fought for and everyone should be able to send mario_goatse.png and shrek_penis.png to any elected official without repercussions
My friend @ArmedJ0y made an observation about how people who are unfaithful to their partners have proven they can be swayed easily for a fleeting moment of pleasure that ruins their lives. What does that spell for people who would be our leaders like Graham Platner?
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch just torched the government’s position.🔥
Noting that many Founding Fathers ran on rum and whiskey, Gorsuch also said that they would have scoffed at the idea that the Second Amendment would have disarmed them.
@DarrenPlymouth I absolutely love how much people are trying to stop this fake quote, but so many accounts don't care and just keep restating the claim.
I think he would have appreciated that.
“Hey, don't call me a cynic but I'm starting to think these blood drinking, moloch worshipping pedophiles who run our government might not have our best interests in mind.”
- Norm Macdonald
I don't know nor care about who he was or what he believed. The inability to separate an incident from an issue has to be one of the worst possible consequences of modern online discourse. You can still be pro-ICE and against the government taking the position that they took today, which is "if we shoot you, a US citizen, and you had a gun on you, you probably had it coming. Especially if you had 2 mags."