North Carolina Elections Board Claims Power To Kick Cawthorn Off Ballot Over Role In Jan. 6 | Talking Points Memo

It’s a high-end shooting jacket. Shoulder patch to absorb recoil from longrifle or shotgun.

It looks to be of German make to me.

Something that Prussian and Bavarian officers on the General Staff would wear during their leisure hours.

Very Brownshirt stylish.

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WhY is NOrth Carolina RACist againST divorced CRIPPLEs?

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I’ve always been amazed at how many veterans support Chicken Hawks. Granted, this idiot can’t because of his disability.

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Why are you defending that Cuck-servative?

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He may be of some race, but it isn’t the human race

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It’s a BRitish shootiNG jacKET, heNCE the leather PATch on one SHOULDer.

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They shouldn’t kick him off, just roll him off.

Show a little respect despite his total lack of such.

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“I think it was an interesting approach to have a novel approach to have a national Republican committee take a position like that. So, this not a support or oppose, this is just an observation that I thought that was novel and unique.”

This is something I would expect to hear from a beauty pageant contestant as a “personal statement”.
I’ll bet she also wants to help stray animals and kids with learning difficulties, then go on to work for world peace.

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He doesn’t look like a Nazi in that jacket and gloves or anything

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I agree with your assessment.
To an opthalmologist, leprosy of the eye may be ‘interesting’ and ‘novel,’ but that says nothing about whether you’d like to, or like for someone else to, have it.
Chris Hayes is right: it’s flat out evasion.

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A visual Dog Whistle

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“Insurrectile Dysfunction”?

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Maybe more like Dr. Strangelove?

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And he can re-tire

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Ah when conservatives would cry about “stolen valor”
They remind me of this rube at the 2004 Republican convention.

nytimes.com

Delegates Mock Kerry’s Wounds, Angering Veterans

Military Order of The Purple Heart is incensed by convention prank by Morton Blackwell, who distributed bandages marked with Purple Hearts to mock Sen Kerry’s war wounds; group’s national commander Robert N Lichtenberger says his members are…

“The bandages, distributed by Morton Blackwell of Arlington, Va., included a message that read, “It was just a self-inflicted scratch, but you see I got a Purple Heart for it.” Mr. Blackwell said he was only trying to have fun, but the Military Order of The Purple Heart, an organization that says it represents wounded veterans, was not amused.”

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That was the worst of times. All that garbage when “just a scratch” a few inches over is a flag-draped coffin.

Truly deplorable people.

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They have used the power to disqualify candidates from the ballot many times in the past, albeit not for participation in an insurrection. And I don’t expect there will be any direct evidence of actual participation, but it will nevertheless be fun to put Maddie under oath to explain himself (and it’s his burden to prove he’s qualified). If all he did was give his dumb speech at the Ellipse, he will and should be allowed onto the ballot.

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yep

but as cop acquaintance used to say

you can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride

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The North Carolina election board are being originalists as well as textualists since they are citing Section 3 of the 14th amendment.

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That quote from Lummis was one of the stupidest fucking things I’ve ever read in my entire life. And I’ve read articles by David Brooks, Ross Douthat, and Jonah Goldberg, so I should know.

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