Man Charged In Capitol Police Assault Has A Controversial Sandwich Business Back Home | Talking Points Memo

When news broke Monday that two men had been charged federally with assaulting Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who later died after defending the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, one of the names carried a long history in Morgantown, West Virginia.


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Lots of fun in this article! Great read. :grin:

But who would ever have guessed that we’d see a headline that referred to “A Controversial Sandwich Business?” White bread only, perhaps?

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Man Charged In Capitol Police Assault Has A Controversial Sandwich Business Back Home

Shit.

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Alleged embezzlement is a “controversial” business practice in the same way that attempted insurrection is “free speech.”

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He seems nice.

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Business troubles were part of what led to Tanios’ downfall…

Someday, someone will do a doctoral thesis that examines the connection between business failures and support of fringe political movements and conspiracy theories. There’s clearly a strong link there.

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Tanios allegedly wore clothing with a “Sandwich U” logo to the Capitol attack.

It is impossible to overstate the stupidity of the selfie simpletons who attacked the Capitol. If you aggregated the IQs of the whole mob, you might get to “normal.”

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Nice personality

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Listen up, haters, it takes a lot of damned hard work to make a sandwich business controversial! (Ye gods!)

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Did you mean “kink”?

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Like John Wilkes Booth, they thought they’d be celebrated as heroes who saved the nation.

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I’m waiting for a report of a Capitol attacker that says that he or she was known for volunteering at the local food bank, was a Big Brother/Sister, would take aged/disabled neighbors to doctor appointments…

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He’s the Basil Fawlty of sandwich delivery…

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A bully and a common thief. So far perfectly on MAGA brand.

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He seems nice.

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… and waiting for a pony.

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It will be any time now, right after Godot shows up.

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Ironically, so did Brutus and Cassius some 2065 years ago TODAY!

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Yeah, but were the sandwiches any good?

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A sandwich shop whose ads specify, “No Riff-Raff.”

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