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[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well technically her blood is 200 proof. So she has to stay drunk or you know, die. :\

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

The worst sequel to Speed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That’s historically on par. Always appoint the least qualified sycophant for the job.

This is like an Adam Sandler movie only somehow dumber and less funny

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Musk makes Sandler look like Carlin by comparison

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Least qualified? She’s a former prosecutor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fair enough, and Rob Schneider is an actor.

That said, I suppose for the purpose of having a proven greedy sycophant in that position, she may be most qualified from the bucket he has available.

I guess I am thinking on more objective terms, like, an AG that would follow the established rules and conventions. Adhering to the constitution and rule of law. If her recent behavior on Fox is any indication, I won’t set my expectations very high.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yes, Rob Schneider is an actor. He is perfectly qualified to be hired in an acting role, just like how this prosecutor is perfectly qualified to be hired in a prosecutor role.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. I get your point. My perspective was one of seeing another partisan hack, who herself was a defendant of the successful Smartmatic lawsuit because of her stolen election lies, being chosen to assume this role. I concede that defamation doesn’t exactly disqualify her.

I got it in my head that a prosecutor, especially one at that position, should probably be held to a higher standard, but in retrospect I guess that technically doesn’t really matter.

You win

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago

"All rise, the dishonorable Judge Winebox presiding."

[–] radiohead37 51 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago

First time?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Country with a second amendment refuses to use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The 2nd amendment is for tyranny. What we have is stupidity, which the voters have chosen, and celebrated. It's disgusting, but no one is going to break down the white house doors and open fire because another ignorant racist pawn was placed into a strategic position. No one in Switzerland, Australia or France would attempt to murder their PM for selecting a moron as chief justice either.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

no one is going to break down the white house doors and open fire because another ignorant racist pawn was placed into a strategic position

What about if citizens are detained and deported to foreign prisons without due process, all while blatantly ignoring the orders of judges?

Where is the line where people will act?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

This exactly is my point.

Yes, we can't identify which grain of sand makes it a beach, and yet it eventually becomes a beach.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

There's so many reasons that it's hard to focus on all of them. Hell, I've been paying attention and there is so much shady shit being done that I would have to keep a list.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The line for most people is their front door. When it affects them personally, they will act. The USA did not enter world war II to save the Jews. Most people are selfish cowards, including all of the armchair quarterbacks claiming that they would march into the Pentagon and start blowing holes in corrupt Congress people if only they had the right to own guns.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

Another DUI hire

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

He's such a cryyyyyyyy baby.. da da dadada da

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Buckle up Buckaroos...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

She apparently used to be a judge, but we all know what made him pick them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

She needs the money since her 401k is gone

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why don't they just make Fox News part of the governement. We can watch all their faces melt from the evil they create.

Talk ever see the movie Devils Advocate. You know how peoples face take on a kind of hideous look like their personalities are reflected in their face. I'm fucking Charlize Theron over here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Does this belong on Not The Onion?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Being an onion writer must be an absolute nightmare right now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

No. No more politics there.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein 9 points 2 weeks ago

Oh come on.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He's going for the alcoholic appointment record.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's kind of weird how he keeps hiring drunks when he's a teetotaler himself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe he just misses Nixon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I dunno man have you ever watched Mad Men? I feel like, before like 1975, people just got wasted all day every day during work hours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hm. Good point.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Hahahahahahaha... Ohhhhh god.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Jesus, why will these cunts not just die?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Because apparently God is real and he's actually just a gigantic piece of shit. These people live forever and get rewarded for being absolute scum.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

“Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro” just doesn’t have the same outrage grabbing ring to it, does it?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, we should also add reckless speeder, visible alcoholic, election-denying liar, and Trump supporter too.

Oh, and FYI- those are negative qualities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That’s fine if they’re true - I have no idea who this woman is or what she’s done. All I know is that she is a prosecutor so is qualified for the job of prosecutor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How many drinks does she need to take the case?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I think twenty-four is how many are in a case?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Got enough Botox?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Soft on crime.