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General Category => Midterm Elections 2022 => Topic started by: mystery-ak on August 11, 2022, 06:22:39 pm
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Beto O’Rourke Calls Audience Member “Motherf*cker” for Laughing At His AR-15 Hyperbole
AWR Hawkins 11 Aug 2022
Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke (D) called a campaign rally attendee a “motherf*cker” Wednesday after he laughed at O’Rourke’s hyperbolic description of the AR-15 rifle.
The Daily Beast reports that O’Rourke was speaking in Mineral Wells, Texas, when he began referencing the AR-15 rifle that was used in the May 24 Uvalde mass shooting.
O’Rourke said that those killed in Uvalde were “shot to death with a weapon originally designed for use in combat, legally purchased by an 18-year-old who did not try to obtain one when he was 16 or 17 but followed the law that’s on the books, ladies and gentleman.”
He continued by saying those laws say that “you can buy not one, you can buy two or more if you want to, AR-15s, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and take that weapon that was originally designed for use on the battlefields in Vietnam to penetrate an enemy soldier’s helmet at 500 feet and knock him down dead…”
It was at this point, as O’Rourke spoke, that an audience member laughed out loud at O’Rourke’s hyperbole regarding the AR-15.
O’Rourke responded by saying, “It may be funny to you, motherf*cker, but it’s not funny to me.”
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1557698398274420736
A couple of points.
Number one, the Uvalde attacker allegedly did try to buy a gun before he was 18 years old.
On July 18 Breitbart News pointed out that the Uvalde report issued by the special Texas House panel indicated the attacker allegedly tried to get people to acquire guns for him when he was 17, but was unable to find anyone willing to do so.
Number two, the AR-15 was not designed for Vietnam combat. The gun used in Vietnam was the M-16, which is a rifle with a select-fire switch allowing soldiers to shoot the rifle in full-auto.
An AR-15 is a semiautomatic rifle, firing one round per trigger pull, while rifles used in the military have a select-fire switch allowing them to be fired in full-auto mode or in three-round bursts of full-auto.
HotAir notes:
The rifle we know now as the AR-15 was not designed for combat — not in Vietnam, nor anywhere else. The precursor AR-10 was designed initially as a potential new military rifle in the early 1950s, but ArmaLite lost out on the contract to Springfield. They got another chance in 1957 when the Pentagon wanted to reconsider the M14. They lost again, and Armalite sold the AR-10 and a new AR-15 designs to Colt in 1959. Colt redesigned it for general military use in 1960, well before the US began any sort of combat operations in Vietnam, but that ended rather shortly thereafter. By the time the US had any significant military commitment in Vietnam, the Pentagon had chosen the M16 and Colt shifted the AR-15 entirely to semi-automatic domestic sales, including significant use by law enforcement agencies.
On September 12, 2019, Breitbart News reported on O’Rourke explaining his gun control plans during a Democrat debate where he said, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15.”
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2022/08/11/beto-orourke-calls-audience-member-motherf-cker-laughing-ar-15-hyperbole/
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:facepalm2:
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I'd like to see the crowd size at the event... and just what a Beto "the nacho" supporter looks like.
Ah saw the video. Pasty white fat women in comfortable shoes and a few cucks.
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I find him appalling. Using the 'f' bomb is not presidential and certainly he would set an absolutely disgusting example to our youth.
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I'd like to see the crowd size at the event... and just what a Beto "the nacho" supporter looks like.
Ah saw the video. Pasty white fat women in comfortable shoes and a few cucks.
When Beto was in our city a few weeks back his rally was held at a miniature golf course. They must have had 50 people there, which is about every democrat in my town...lol.
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Maybe he meant to say AR-16, but just conflated the AR-15 and the M-16. Weapons of war, baby!
Or maybe he meant the AK-47. Or the GLS 450.
Naah, not the last one - that's the model of Mercedes-Benz this limousine liberal probably drives.
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A highschool dropout stoner working part-time at Taco Bell does not have thousands of dollars to drop on highend firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition. How he brought them is important. Where he got the money is equally/more important.
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I was amazed and disgusted when I heard this. I'm not so naive to think politicians may say such in private conversations.
But to say that while giving a speech? How ignorant and juvenile. And sets such a great example.
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Who knew the AR-15 was used in Vietnam? The Irish-Mexican is a wealth of new information on the history of guns.
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I find him appalling. Using the 'f' bomb is not presidential and certainly he would set an absolutely disgusting example to our youth.
I accept the fact that not everyone places the same limitations on vocabulary as you and I. But the startling thing here is he uttered that term directly to a voter to characterize that voter. This isn't some side comment or third party reference. This is a direct attack on a voter standing before him. It was quite Bidenesque.
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It was quite Bidenesque.
Maybe he meant to say mutherf***ing dogface pony soldier.
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OK, here's my take, the heckler was a Beto plant so that Beto could appear righteously indignant and even the swearing was intentional in an effort to appeal to his base of knuckleheads. I don't believe there is an honest or authentic molecule in the Egy szar!
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Maybe he meant to say mutherf***ing dogface pony soldier.
888high58888 Ok. That one made me chuckle! :beer:
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Beto O’Rourke Calls Audience Member “Motherf*cker” ......isn't that 'cultural appropriation?
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Beto O’Rourke Calls Audience Member “Motherf*cker” ......isn't that 'cultural appropriation?
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Not exactly surprising considering it's from the same mind that cooked up this:
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Visions From The Last Crusade
by Psychedelic Warlord
>>> A CULT Publication......1988 <<<
-cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
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The catacombs of my head produce the most wonderful dreams and visions.
I feel that I am one with my intellect and my soul. It was during these
dreams and visions that I concocted a notion. It started as something
small at first, but after every dream it grew stronger, until the urge
had become too great. No longer could this strong desire in my mind be
suppressed. Recognizing this fact, my one and only goal in life became
the termination of everything that was free and loving. Only I could
realize the true value of loving and expression. Only in my dreams.
This feeling pervaded everything in my life, yet the first few months
after realizing my goal, I had done nothing. Then one day, as I was
driving home from work, I noticed two children crossing the street. They
were happy, happy to be free from their troubles. I knew, however, that
this happiness and sense of freedom were much too overwhelming for them.
This happiness was mine by right. I had earned it in my dreams. As I
neared the young ones, I put all my weight on my right foot, keeping
the accelerator pedal on the floor until I heard the crashing of the
two children on the hood, and then the sharp cry of pain from one of
the two. I was so fascinated for a moment, that when after I had stopped
my vehicle, I just sat in a daze, sweet visions filling my head. My
dream was abruptly ended when I heard a loud banging on the front
window. It was an old man, who was using his cane to awaken me. He might
have been a witness to my act of love. I was not sure, nor did I care.
It was simply ecstasy. As I drove home, I envisioned myself committing
more of these "acts of love", and after a while, I had no trouble carrying
them out.
The more people I killed, the longer my dreams were. I soon quit my job,
and stayed at my house in an almost comatose state. My dreams grew longer
and more vivid. They kept me alive and proved to be the only thing
to live for. I had killed nearly 38 people by the time of my twenty-third
birthday, and each one was more fulfilling than the last.
I was never really surprised at how I evaded the police. My dreams
had taken over my life, and they guided me through the right path, and
I never had need for fear of police. Or anything, for that matter.
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All Rights, Of Course, Are Shit In Their Worth
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OK, here's my take, the heckler was a Beto plant so that Beto could appear righteously indignant and even the swearing was intentional in an effort to appeal to his base of knuckleheads. I don't believe there is an honest or authentic molecule in the Egy szar!
I'm with you on this.
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From everything that I am witnessing these days, those "better angels of our nature" have left the building.
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Who knew the AR-15 was used in Vietnam? The Irish-Mexican is a wealth of new information on the history of guns.
Se you learn something new everyday. BTW he said this right after he was talking about the Germans attacking Pearl harbor.
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Se you learn something new everyday. BTW he said this right after he was talking about the Germans attacking Pearl harbor.
II thought the CAR-15 was, but not the AR-15 as we civilians know it today.
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So gun free zone signs don't work? go figure..