Irony is dead. A new campaign ad showing a 2014 picture of Ukrainian Pro-Democracy protestors attacking riot police, who are defending the Russian puppet leader who eventually fled to Moscow before being charged with high treason in exile.

One of the extralegal means Yanukovych employed was a specialized federal internal police force, the Berkut, which answered directly to him and was used to attack his political opponents and tamper with elections. Another of the extralegal means he used was jailing the former Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko after "beating" her in the 2010 election. He actually “locked her up.”

And let's not forget about his buddy Paul Manafort.

Except for the bit where that western backed revolution overthrow the democratically elected president and tried to persecute a minority population who then willfully voted to secede and join Moscow.
Its like a second layer of irony reflecting back here. The whole "extralegal" means of NATO expansion by overthrowing a legitimate government with riotous mobs and instituting your own puppet regime
After which all those Ukrainian oligarchs either fled to Russia or bent the knee and started exfiltrating the Ukrainian wealth towards western masters instead of Russian ones, their choice of two tyrants.

https://www.ksdk.com/mobile/article/news/local/gardner-staffer-ordered-crime-lab-to-reassemble-patricia-mccloskeys-gun/63-be112149-d06c-4f54-a225-6545e74b5c2d?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot

plot thickens: pistol the woman was waving was inoperable, done so on purpose by the couple. The assistant circuit attorney ordered the forensics lab to reassemble the gun and then deemed it “readily capable of lethal force”

hahaha that's one hell of a plot twist
I mean he's still got the rifle, and if anything it opens up another can of worms about waving around a gun that's supposed to be evidence in a case
but it adds to the sheer hilarity of it


it does definitely make it absolute bullshit to pursue charges if 1) it was inoperable and 2) they intentionally disabled it
whats next, "If the accused had assembled these sheetmetal panels into a rudimentary receiver and barrel using basic metalworking skills, they could have manufactured an operable firearm~"

This post was edited by Goomshill on Jul 22 2020 08:49pm

To be honest, having assembled the gun the wrong way is exactly what I expected from Ms McCloskey, given the amateur way she held this gun in the photos. You could immediately tell that she has no fucking clue about guns.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-city-council-president-addresses-protests-targeting-council-members-houses/

Some people have protested outside the homes of council members Alex Pedersen and Debora Juarez recently. Pedersen and Juarez have said they support making cuts to the Police Department’s budget but have not, unlike their colleagues, committed to a goal of defunding the department by 50%.

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Protesters have made noise at night outside Pedersen’s Ravenna home and written messages on his door (such as “Don’t be racist trash”) — in pen and on post-it notes, according to the PAC. They have left literature about defunding the police on Juarez’s Lake City doorstep and marched past, the PAC said.

Juarez didn’t immediately comment Tuesday. Pedersen sees “common ground … to dramatically reimagine policing” and respects protests but objected to “harassment and vandalism” at his home that included profanities written on his door and on windows, he said.

That's not true at all. I can't speak to the law in Missouri but you're not allowed to brandish look-a-likes in my state in a threatening manner. It's no different than planting "fake dynamite" or robbing a bank with a "fake gun."

Neither does he. Look at how he's holding it. I fucking rolled laughing.

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Definition of fascism
1) often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

it was intentional, the gun was used as a prop used to present in a lawsuit per the article

anyways, while i agree the ridiculous manner in which she wielded said gun, main takeaway is the blatant falsification of evidence by the st louis criminal justice system to create the basis for a charge. this is like replacing a bag of flour and planting a bag of cocaine lmao.