Discussion for article #223011
He works hard so I can be a stay-at-home mom and home-school our daughter.
That’s not gonna end well.
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Sure it will. It’ll produce another dumbass Mississippi redneck. That’s the whole point.
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Geez, this guy’s barely literate, probably with room level IQ too.
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As any extremist will tell you, it’s not breaking the law if you’re one of the good guys. Bad guys are breaking the law merely by existing, while good guys are permitted to do anything, due to their righteousness. That just goes without saying. So if you need to trespass and violate privacy laws in order to make your point, it’s all good because free speech.
Seriously though, as much as there is an aspect of righteous people breaking laws that are bad, they’re still expected to go to jail for it and the laws they break should be the ones they’re trying to overturn. Being self-righteous isn’t a Get Out Of Jail Free Card, no matter how right you imagine you are. If you think you get to decide which laws apply, that’s not justice. It’s the opposite. And if all you’re trying to do is win a campaign…righteousness doesn’t apply at all.
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Members of the Mississippi for Liberty have been arguing that Kelly should be released and that his bail has been set too high.
Actually, I have to agree that $100,000 seems a bit much for this crime, especially when they didn’t even pick him up until 3 weeks after the fact. It’s not likely that the minute he gets out he’ll rabbit off to the nearest nursing home to snap pics of some random great grandma. This dim light bulb is probably still trying to work out what the problem is - chances are good he’ll conclude it has something to do with free speech or second amendment rights or the other guy running. For goodness sakes, let him go home to the family that adores him until time for his trial; it hardly seems necessary to lock him up in the interim. As wily criminal masterminds go, this guy isn’t ever going to make the cut.
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The purpose of bail isn’t to make sure that the alleged perpetrator won’t commit another crime. The purpose of bail is to ensure that he won’t flee the jurisdiction. Given that his wife is not employed, and given that there are a lot of RWNJ’s out there who might be tempted to help Kelly, I’d surmise that the judge figured he was, indeed, a flight risk.
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“My husband is the greatest man I’ve ever met,”
I’m sorry, good people don’t do what he did.
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The thing I find a little harsh about this is if Karl Rove had done this, there would have been under the breath tut tutting instead of a felony charge and $100K bail.
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I’m supposed to feel sorry for this guy, TPM? FUCK TO THE NO POWER. MORE of these dipshits need to face the consequences of their actions, MORE of these sociopaths need to be exposed to reality.
An older couple who are friends of my folks, are very right-wing teabuggers. The husband has actually offended me on several occasions with his inability to keep from ranting about politics at family gatherings (yes, he is one of THOSE people).
So this dipshit got the idea in his head that he and his wife - who are in their early 70s! - could get a cheap Alaskan vacation by agreeing to work at an Alaskan lodge. They would get paid, they could save money on air conditioning their house over the summer (it’s in Arizona), win win win!
Well they are there now, not even one month in and already sick of it. They have to sleep in a crude dorm. There is NOBODY there who has anything in common with them, including language. Most of the lodge workers are Bulgarians and Romanians and they are much younger than this couple. The lodge is isolated, it is three miles from the dorm. The nearest town is far away, so once a month they run a bus into town and you have to get all your supplies - medicine, clothing, whatever - in that one trip. At first I understood the hours were long and they worked six days a week, but then I heard recently that the wife was asked to work 10 days in a row.
Do I feel sorry for these people? NO. FUCKING. WAY. because these are some of the very first people who would tell the poor working class that if they don’t like their working conditions, they can quit, you have to do WHATEVER the boss says, etc etc etc. I am THRILLED that they are being exposed to what it’s like for too many people in this country, to have to work long hours and be completely at the mercy of the boss. Maybe these shitheels will actually learn something. Or, not.
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I don’t feel sorry for him. What he did was unbelievably sleazy and callous. No person with any kind of moral compass would ever have considered doing such a thing. The fact that he’s dumb as a box of rocks doesn’t excuse him.
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Actually, that quote is from the mother-in-law, not the wife.
Yeah, reading comprehension problems here. 
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Now, if tea baggers were only capable of learning anything, this moron would learn a thing.
No sympathy for this fucking asshole. None.
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I was thinking the same thing. He’s just some misguided young man who got caught up in the moment and did something bad that he now deeply regrets, so we should have sympathy for him and only punish him very lightly. But if this was an “other”? Well, that’s a whole different story! He’s a thug and a criminal with a total disregard for our system of law! Lock him up! Throw away the key! He’s not fit to live alongside the rest of us! See also: Dinesh D’Souza.
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There are so many commas in the second and third paragraphs that it is difficult to figure what is being said without multiple readings.
Proving once again that while not all conservatives are stupid, all stupid people are conservative.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Ben Franklin
Well, no, I can’t say that this write-up leads me to any particular sympathy for Kelly. He works full time, makes decent money so his wife can stay home; and he’s nice to his little girl. That’s about it on the positive side. There are strong hints that he was pretty off the wall by the time he started his blog, and his self-serving stupidity and unconscionable lack of humane feelings are appalling, about par for the course for RWNJ’s. Exploiting a helpless, terminally ill dementia patient in order to increase traffic to his blog?? There are no words.
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It seems this fellow is not the fastest jet on the tarmac, and was used by marginally smarter, more powerful people to play out the political dirty tricks that they themselves were too cowardly to do.
Big surprise.
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