A county commissioner in Oklahoma has resigned after he was caught on tape joking about killing local newspaper reporters and lynching Black people, the governor announced Wednesday.
I guess the silver lining is that people with these types of sentiments feel empowered to discuss them openly, that way we can identify them and make sure they are not in positions of public trust.
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I suspect taping against the law is going to be a less serious offense than conspiracy to commit murder. The murder for hire is more likely to get a pardon, though.
BuT tHE rEcoRdINgs wErE ALterEd!!1!
What next, woke mob forcing removal of the Timothy McVeigh statue in front of the McCurtain County Courthouse?
This is the United States
Good riddance. I can’t say that I’m not surprised by a knuckle dragging GQP troglodyte actually taking responsibility and resigning though. It’s been years since I’ve seen that happen.
I thought that Comissioner Mark Jennings was trying to commission a Jamal Khashoggi-type torture, slicing, exsanguination, dicing and disposal of a journalist and his family? Was he calling racial attacks on Black people in Oklahoma? Have we as a nation consulted Marjorie Taylor Greene on whether this is a bad thing?
The fear of being called and treated like an asshole is the only power keeping assholes somewhat in check. Along came The Rump, whose popularity flows from reassuring assholes that they need no longer bother with their elaborate rationales why they are the chosen ones and why everyone else is the asshole for failure to stand aside and salute. And here we are: assholes run amok, as far as the eye can see.
Has the sheriff lawyered up yet?
Man, the roster for the next RNC keynote slot is going to be jam packed.
Oh and today is 28 years since the OKC bombing. This piece of shit probably faps to the image of the destroyed Alfred P. Murrah building.
Jennings also reportedly plans to release a formal statement “in the near future regarding the recent events in our county.”
No, this was about a dirty backroom meeting with only a few people spinning out their plans/desires to kill or brutalize whomever they decide is an enemy.
I am sure we all wait with baited breath for Jennings long-form take on ‘events in our country’.
He’s hoping that’ll make this blow over without him having to hire an attorney.
Gotta give props to the Willinghams.
A spokesperson for Gov. Kevin Stitt ®
Gov. Kevin’s what? (sorry, I never really matured after 7th grade).
Yeah. I hope they have a way to publish the next edition of their print-only paper from their out of state (I assume) hideyhole.
One down, thousands more to go across the country.
McCurtain County Commissioner Mark Jennings sent a handwritten resignation letter to his office
So I guess they can’t be accused of plotting a high tech lynching.
Was it against the law? Depends on whether the discussion was an ongoing/continuation of the public meeting, which is what journalist Bruce Willingham says he was taping. It was his contemporaneous stated intent when he left his device running.
Why the fuck should the WIllingham’s leave town? Because the rednecks want to figuratively lynch them? Just a bunch of Trump-kissing rednecks who take their cues from the Insurrectionist-in-Chief.
