Discussion: Pence: There'd Be More Media Coverage If NC Dem Office Was Firebombed

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Wailing and flailing.

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In addition to running all branches of the government for the last six years (according to Trump), she has a hell of a pitching arm.

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While visiting a local North Carolina GOP campaign office that was burned down over the weekend, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) accused the media of devoting insufficient attention to the incident because of party bias.

What a maroon.

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An equally bizarre message left, but to be accurate, not firebombed with was terrorism. But yeah, bizarre, “Death to Capitalists” at the Dem office? Weird. It’s fair to say the GOP one was worse.

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On the Rue St Michel not far from the river in Paris was a cheese shop with the facade you describe. In the shop along the wall were some balls of cheese tied with string around them and the string was on a hook such that the cheese was suspended like a picture on a wall. All of these balls of cheese had mats of a fuzzy blue fungus covering their surfaces. I saw this probably 30 years ago on a visit to the city. This past summer Mrs darr and I were in Paris and I looked for that shop… it’s now a small camera/phone/computer store. Some memories are indelibly stamped on one’s brain
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On Google Earth look for 11 blvd St Michel…look for the Orange Store. That’s the place.

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It probably varies from state to state, but generally, eunuchs are required to squat by the dead tree out back.

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We’ll never find out, though, will we? We don’t torch our own offices.

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“Give the governor a harrumph!”
“Harrumph!”
“You watch your ass.”

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Image of a possible suspect…

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Snort.

First the Press doesn’t cover the Republicans then it doesn’t cover them ENOUGH.

Look, Mikey. To hear you whine, not a single conservative signs a reporter’s paycheck, which I can tell you from experience is horseshit.

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Pence is awfully pissy

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Indeed. I think that’s the one Darr, It would have been around 1998 that I saw…err… smelled it.

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Anyone know where I can find the GoFundMe account that Republicans started to help restore the Democratic headquarters that was vandalized the same night?

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Check with Judge Crater and Jimmy Hoffa.

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Yes there were.

North Carolina Republican Party spokeswoman Emily Weeks told NBC News that the office is totally unusable and that materials inside, possibly including completed absentee ballots, may have been destroyed.

Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/16/local-gop-headquarters-in-north-carolina-firebombed.html

Hopefully there is more than just an investigation into who started the fire as it’s illegal for a campaign/party office to be holding completed ballots.

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Does that make dTrump Col. America (sans skullcap)?

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Yeah that just threw me - what the hell are they doing with marked absentee ballots?

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That’s what I thought. Proceed, Governor!

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Pence: There’d Be More Media Coverage If We Hadn’t Committed Arson

FIFY Guv!

jw1

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Exactly. I wasn’t quite willing to ascribe the damage to a false flag thing until Pence said this:

“I’m here to call attention to an act of political terrorism on the Orange County republican headquarters in north Carolina,” Pence told a crowd of reporters outside the ruined office on Tuesday.

That’s when I lost any doubt that I had before. He’s there basically asking, “Why didn’t this knock Trump’s latest verbal diarrhea out of the news cycle? It was supposed to work. I’m right here to point it out, so work, dammit, work!”

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