It’s okay when Republicans do it.
It would not surprise me ONE bit.
Well, that’s OK but only if they are prepared to deal with the fall out.
When people are denied justice they start making their own justice - vigilante justice and vendetta.
Tell some half crazed loony that his sister or daughter got attacked and then tell him “tough shit”.
Then sit back and watch the bodies start to pile up.
That’s one possible outcome.
Does this crowd strike you as caring in the least about long-term consequences?
I don’t know that the consequences are all that long term. I think we will see serious backlash against any sort of weakening of protections pretty much instantly.
As Steveg1 says, if you don’t give justice, you get vendetta.
No problem. Then you just have to get “tough on crime”, and double down on hassling and arresting minorities.
Siri says the problem is antifas and BLM, but Cortana blames the Jews. So, I’m kinda torn.
Speaking of crime…
This is an instant classic, enjoy.
Florida GOP official refuses to resign after revelation he nearly killed a woman with a claw hammer
Broward County Republicans are struggling to rid themselves of a board member who they recently discovered was once charged with attempted murder. From the Miami Herald:
Four months after 28-year-old Rupert Tarsey was elected secretary, party officials have found out the young philanthropist and supporter of President Donald Trump is really Rupert Ditsworth.
And a decade ago, the then-Beverly Hills teenager was charged with attempted murder in Los Angeles after hitting Harvard-Westlake School classmate Elizabeth Barcay over the head at least 40 times, splitting her skull open.
The Los Angeles Times covered the case in 2007, noting the two classmates barely even knew each other:
In a felony complaint filed in Van Nuys Superior Court, prosecutors charged Rupert Tumin Ditsworth of Beverly Hills with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly beating Elizabeth Barcay, 18, with a claw hammer. […]
Ditsworth, who was not publicly identified until the court filing Wednesday, was taken by his parents to a psychiatric hospital for treatment immediately after the May 14 assault, which left Barcay with a broken leg and a broken nose, police said. Barcay’s mother, Barbara Hayden, said in an earlier interview that her daughter was struck 40 times and that her scalp was split.
Late Wednesday, Hayden said she strongly supported the district attorney’s decision to try her daughter’s alleged attacker as an adult. “It was a completely unprovoked attack,” she said. “He wasn’t a boyfriend, and he was barely an acquaintance. The fact is, he is a danger not only to her but the community.”
Initially charged as a juvenile because he was 17 years old, the case was moved to adult court when he turned 18 years old. Tarsey is refusing to resign from the Broward County GOP board and told the Miami Herald this information was released as retaliation:
“In the end, I pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor,” Tarsey said. “It’s not the charges that matter, it’s what happens in court.”
Tarsey, 6 feet 2 inches tall, claimed self-defense.
“This whole thing is in retaliation for my speaking out against Bob [Sutton],” Tarsey said. “It’s politics.”
Another ‘very fine’ supporter of Donald Trump and the GOP.
For years, he quietly volunteered on Republican campaigns, including Trump’s. Then in May, Tarsey presented himself at the election for the party’s executive board. He won a three-candidate race for secretary with 75 votes.
Tarsey’s real identity was discovered by a member who alerted local GOP Chairman Bob Sutton over the Labor Day weekend.
“We were blindsided,” said Sutton, a schoolteacher. “He’s a member of the Knights of Columbus, for Christ’s sake…
40 whacks?
How the hell can you hit someone 40 times in the head with a hammer and not manage to kill them?
I have no fucking idea.
You had me at, “Rupert Tumin Ditsworth.” I could have spent the better part of a decade trying to come up with the name for a dastardly villain character in a bosom-heaver novel and not done as well as that.
Awful that it’s a true story. Not surprising that such a person is an avid Trump supporter.
*… victim at the time was a female classmate, who he claimed had “pinned” him up against a car, and left him no other choice but to defend himself …
According to Barcay’s statement to police, Tarsey eventually parked the car. He then allegedly pulled a hammer from a backpack and started hitting her over the head with the tool multiple times. He then left the car, opened the passenger’s door and pulled her out while choking her before driving away. Tarsey allegedly hit her more than 40 times, splitting her skull open. The girl also suffered a broken leg and broken nose.
… the average height of a woman is 5 feet 4 inches. Tarsey, or Ditsworth, is 6’2” tall.*
It looks like not all of the blows were to the head – hard to break someone’s leg with a blow to the head, unless he ran over it driving away.
BREC Chairman Bob Sutton, who along and others within the local Republican ranks have called for Tarsey’s resignation, has now suspended Tarsey from his post as secretary.
At least they have done something.
Humble brag?
Trash takes what he/she can.
So? Trump wonders if she can really suck dick that well. Don’t you? :rolleyes:
Friend, have you ever offered her the Real Thing? Daytime TV becomes EVER so much more interesting (based on experience). And time seems expanded, giving her (no joke intended) a longer, happier virtual life.
Slacker. She gave her father 40 more.
Well, apparently the reason Toxic Chris Christie didn’t get a cabinet position was that he didn’t back Trump when it came to the ‘grab them by the pussy’ tape.
Bannon actually said that the tape was a litmus test. If you distanced yourself from Trump grabbing women by the pussy, you were out.
Pretty much sums up this administration.
Why are you surprised, that’t the same competence level as the rest of the GOP.
Obama would’ve finished it with one blow.
And he wouldn’t have needed a hammer.
Get a load of Betsy DeVos’s freaking house.
The comments are simply delicious.