Newsmax host Carl Higbie went on a tirade on Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury the day before.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to cover up extramarital affairs. Trump was concerned the affairs would come to light and harm his presidential aspirations. The Republican freakout has been swift if not predictable. Despite their outrage and indignation, some conservatives insist that being a convicted felon will help Trump’s chances of returning to the White House in November’s election.
During Friday’s edition of Frontline on Newsmax, Higbie demanded congressional Republicans drop everything and go after those involved in Trump’s prosecution.
Someone should ask Lax Headroom how he defines well-regulated militia and how he sees it applied.
Alas, we know.
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Get in there and subpoena everyone. This judge, his daughter, everyone affiliated with anything ever, ever! I don’t care if we stop building bridges and highways and stop funding our government. You fight fire with fire. Otherwise, these Marxists are going to keep doing this.
You’re advocating against the rule of law and making threatening remarks towards millions of Americans. Like a terrorist. That’s what a terrorist does. Promote violence without technically saying you promote violence why don’t you.
You have never met America.
Have you? You wish harm on your country and her people. For god sakes your lord and savior man didn’t even win the popular vote when he was actually elected. What the hell are you smoking?
“And when he does, I’m gonna sit back, I’m gonna drink a beer, I’m gonna smoke a cigar the size of Cuba and laugh because they earned this one,” he stated.
Check where you’re buying your cigs mate.
Minority groups are among the fastest growing groups of overall gun owners, for reasons outlined here.
Republicans only rank so high for gun ownership because of the dozens of people that have an armories worth. Left -wing and marginalized people will have one or two guns that are effective, not a stockpile of tacticool attachments and WW2 rifles.
How dont dis WW2 rifles, any firearm is deadly. Sure they may not be as effective in certain fields but a 1911 and a M1 Garand are just as deadly now as they were in the 1940s.
Exactly. Some are so obsessed with owning guns that they buy more guns than they will ever shoot. And forget the possibility of ever lending them out to their friends, they’re the party of “got mine, fuck you”. Though, lately they’ve been more the party of “Got mine, but it’s not enough, give me yours. Also fuck you.”
Yeah, the R’s are the ammosexuals. They’re so afraid that libruls will take their guns away that they stockpile them. I know a couple Dems who collect guns as a hobby, but I think most of us who own have just one or two for the purpose of self/home defense.
The only president that has ever said “take their guns away” was Trump https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/10/14/fact-check-trump-made-comment-taking-guns-without-due-process/6070319001/
I hate that idiotic narrative they keep pushing.
You’ve got 90% of the guns? Correction…you have 90% of the civilian guns. The military, who work for the legal government have far more than you do, as well as drones, bombs and tanks. So fuck off with your “We have 90% of the guns” bullshit.
Never underestimate a military’s capacity to support fascism.
Signed, the entirely of Latin America, whose military dictatorships the US funded.
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Everyone who cheers for war has never seen it.
Well, with my limited amount of grey matter, I was able to read a few accounts of WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam and I don’t ever want to experience war or sit here while other people have to. The idea is abhorrent. I mean if you have at least as much grey matter as this fucking idiot…
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Newsmax: Don’t go into the cities! They’re warzones and you’ll get shot…
Also Newsmax: We have all the guns too!
These people are so detached from reality.
they don’t care about reality at all.
they care about fantasy.
Gun ownership by party:
48% of Republicans personally own a gun.
66% of Republicans live in a gun owning household.20% and 31% on the Democratic side.
32% and 42% for Independents.
https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_affiliations_of_registered_voters
“number of registered voters by partisan affiliations in states that allow voters to register by party and report those totals publicly”
So only about 30 states + the US Virgin Islands, so these numbers will be low.
“45 million registered voters in these areas identified themselves as Democrats.”
45 * .2 = 9,000,000 Democratic gun owners, and 13,950,000 Democrats living in gun owning households.
“35.7 million registered voters identified themselves as Republicans”
35.7 * .48 = 17,136,000 Republican gun owners and 23,562,000 Republicans living in gun owning households.
“32.5 million registered voters identified themselves as independents”
32.5 * .32 = 10,400,000 Independent gun owners and 13,650,000 Independents living in gun owning households.
At most it’s 3v1 if all independents go Republican.
2v1 if independents stay out.
1v1 if they join Democrats.
If they don’t like it, they can just leave. That’s what they’ve been saying for decades, right?
That only applies to POC, non-xtians, liberals, people smarter than the average winger, uppity women, gayz that are not in the closet, etc…
Does he even know who the hell we are? I’m a new Yorker and I’ve seen through Trump’s facade for decades. Why are people so devoted to this conman?
Because they love the taste of diaper residue.
because he says they shit they wish they could.
Shows that there are enough people so desparate to be lead, that they’ll follow anyone, as long as they are confident and unapologetic. And then there are the grifters that’ll do anything for clout and money. Trump supporters have shown themselves to be naive and easily manipilated, so those grifters flock to pander to them.
Those people are devoted to the letter R. Trump is living proof that you can actively try to be the most vile person alive and still get republican support.
Bet this guy’s idea of foreplay is a backhand.
This felon doesn’t have any capacity for contrition. He genuinely believes he is above the law. It’s unfathomable to him that he is being held to account.
There is no doubt in my mind that were he not a former president, a judge would lock him up. Contrition is an important component of the legal system. Felon’s need to understand that their behavior is unacceptable.
I wonder if a judge could make him bend the knee. “Acknowledge your wrong doing and you don’t need to go to jail.”
He can’t. He’s sick , narcissism. He should have professional help trying to fix this. But at his age…
people with narcissistic personality disorder very, very rarely go to therapy. its their spouses, kids and employees that come to therapy. not their friends, though, because they do not exist.
Yeah, because you would have to be able to recognize the problem, which a narcissist per definition is unable to.
well, they’re perfect, its the world thats unfair
Prison is ostensibly for either prevention of crime or rehabilitation of criminals (ignoring the American for profit prison system for a moment). This one has proven himself willing to perform crime despite the threat of prison, and has proven himself unwilling to rehabilitate. As you said, proven no capacity for contrition.
Therefore, the stated reason for prison would have next to no effect on this prisoner. He will not rehabilitate and has proven himself undeterred by threat of punishment. Ergo, sounds like an excellent target for the death penalty, in fact that sounds like the exact sort of person the death penalty was originally instated for. People too dangerous to be left alive that refuse to change their ways.
Just saying, all the pieces fit.
We don’t sentence people based on our feelings about them because it’s impossible to do so in an objective, fair way across all courts. This man has enjoyed an absurd level of luxury/freedoms throughout his life, relative to just about everyone else. Let him rot in prison for the rest of his life. I hope he lives to 100 in there.
None of that involved my feelings about him, only facts about how he has acted under his own power. If we were basing this on my feelings about him we’d have been rid of him in 2015. It is a fact that he will perform crimes constantly and it is a fact that he has not shown a shred of remorse or reconciliation even once, ever.
I agree with you that he’s a serial criminal. I don’t agree that he should be given the death penalty, unless he’s found guilty of a crime that would warrant that punishment.
Is this stochastic terrorism?
Edit: Christopher Ruddy is a POS.
Yes.
I don’t know you everyone is so upset. Fomenting violence on a public stage is completely normal, I mean c’mon. /s
I’d like to remind that News Max host that the city that convicted Donald Trump murders 400 people each year with guns.
Blue cities ain’t trying to pass gun regulations because they’re afraid of the idea of guns. They’re trying to pass gun laws because they have a fuck ton of guns.
Those aren’t fireworks we hear every night.
Conservatives underestimate how much firepower the left has - they just don’t advertise it like it’s their personality. Even strongholds like Texas actually have less guns per household than the national average.
I think the chodes that own like 20+ pew pews are all far right. But you can’t use 20 at a time, so I guess that won’t help much. I’d put hard money on odds of much more citizens who’ve actually shot someone before as being non-republicans.
The truth is that Republicans shoot Republicans. Just ask Dick Cheney.
What I find funny is that they act like a bunch of hicks with guns is going to charge a tank or have a prayers chance against a predator drone. The party of serving your country and small government always seems to forget the military is part of the government.
There is a difference between owning guns and being an ammosexual. Let them continue not understanding that. Fine by me.
being an ammosexual.
Putting bullets in your butt does not make you a gun.
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But what if I cock and fire a load?
What people in cities? The people that carried out the trial on Felonius Lump?
Also, just where the fuck does Higbie live? Most Americans live in metro areas; is he one of the 17% that don’t?
