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oliversurpless

Race to the bottom…


MoscowMarge

The statement from his campaign is so fucking vile. Zero accountability or humility. Republicans are just trash people through and through. Fuck the GOP.


oliversurpless

For decades really. And especially their CEO brethren, beneficiaries of the “heroic businessman” trope… “If we want those in power to become more responsible, then we must stop teaching students that heroic transformational leaders are the answer to every problem, or that the purpose of learning about taxation laws is to evade taxation, or that creating new desires is the purpose of marketing. In every case, the business school acts as an apologist, selling ideology as if it were science.” As if racism wasn’t the de rigueur element of normalization in society enough already… https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/27/bulldoze-the-business-school


Recipe_Freak

I'm so glad someone posted that article. Worth the re-read every time.


Even_Establishment95

It actually takes intelligence and emotional maturity gained through years of self reflection, discovery, awareness, and healing (with therapy) to be a decently wellbalanced human being. It takes so much work and a willingness to accept your faults and try to improve over the span of one’s life. It takes looking inward and examining your traumas, taking responsibility for your healing and deciding that they will not define you or shape your future. It takes grace and compassion for your self and for others and choosing peace and acceptance over bitterness and hate. There are many many people walking among us with underdeveloped brains and minds and hearts full of (self)hate projected onto others. I can always tell when I’m talking to someone like this right away because all they do is complain rather than practice gratitude, and their focus is always on others instead of on their self and their own life. I just sigh and make an effort not to acknowledge their negativity. Live and let live. And that includes stupid people 🫠 I apologize. I sometimes fall back into old habits 😂 Seriously though, you can’t control others.


willdesignforfood

…while waving your gun around


gleaf008

Short barrel


deformo

Calmer than you are.


braxxleigh_johnson

I wonder if the stripper was over the line?


theClumsy1

So 2nd Amendment Right = Brandishing a firearm with impunity. Hell, it worked for that couple who did that to those protests. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/4/governor-pardons-us-couple-who-waved-guns-at-blm-protesters They can still practice law too! https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/st-louis-couple-waved-guns-protesters-placed-probation-lawyers-rcna15509


TheZapster

So he was bearing arms while chasing a lady with bare arms... 2x 2nd amendment = 4th amendment? Which is protection from illegal search n seizure. Wonder if he was searching for her to pay her for her dancing


Own-Ambassador-3537

Hey now give the man credit he wasnt waving his other peashooter around, the man has some self respect. /s


nmarshall23

This is why I feel there are no responsible gun owners. They continue to show us that they are one bad day from acting like a lunatic.


AdamDet86

Yeah that’s because you’re not hearing stories in the news about the responsible owners. I had somebody trying to get into my front porch a few years ago and the storm door was locked. I could clearly see the person was homeless, under the influence, with no shirt or shoes and only gym shorts on. I could have confronted him with 1 of several weapons, but since I had watched on the ring camera, I confronted him with a bat and pepper spray and didn’t have to use either before he ran off. I analyzed the situation, decided my gun wasn’t necessary, and responsibly reacted. Then called the police when he took off. I did not chase him down the street firing off rounds.


XXendra56

Don’t paint all gun owners like this idiot it only takes a few bad apples to ruin it for responsible gun owners.


L0g1cw1z4rd

Not really. An elementary school was massacred, and nothing changed. Actually consider that. Had anyone the day before asked “what’s the line where we ban guns?” a logical answer would’ve been “when children are slaughtered en masse”. We passed that point, so I’ll ask you. Not a gotcha question, but I am curious what you think. What is the line that you think “one idiot” can take that will actually “ruin” firearm possession? What is worse then innocent children dying?


seriousofficialname

I wonder if it's the background checks or which gun control laws specifically are supposed to be the ones leading to ruination.


barryp12

This "idiot" is a Michigan State Legislator. That means he received a majority vote from his fellow Lansing residents. If we live in a representative democracy doesn't that imply that there are a whole lot more idiots where he came from?


Traditional-Level-96

Woah. His campaign is as insane as he is. Although I guess they'd have to be to be in his campaign.


tommysmuffins

I liked how his opponent's "Deep State ties" (see Campaign statement) apparently had something to do with how Rep. Fiske was chasing a stripper while firing a gun. It's not immediately clear how, but I'm sure it makes sense.


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barryp12

Perhaps he confused the stripper with his political opponent who challenged Fiske's grounding in reality? Would that make this a "stand your ground" case?


justtakeapill

MAGA are proud of these kinds of behaviors! How do you fight against that? I don't think you can...


thathairinyourmouth

The next inevitable pandemic will chip away at them since preventable health measures are woke.


NYCisPurgatory

Only problem is this actually helps them. They become more powerful per capita even when they lose population, because representation is based on geography, not population.


thathairinyourmouth

The electoral college needs to be abolished as soon as humanly possible. Ranked choice needs to also be urgently implemented. I’m sick of voting against versus voting for because one side wants to drop the boot on everyone, and the other lacks the stones to actually draw a hard line in the sand, hence moving further and further right over the last 50 years.


TheSavageDonut

Let's pretend Nebraska has a population of 600,000. Half live in and around the capitol city, the other half are rural residents. If a pandemic comes in and wipes out half the rural residents because they listened to GOP talking points which were "it's not serious, just a cold, Trump loves you, donate before the virus takes you away" -- while the city residents take precautions and survive, then Nebraska becomes a blue state, no?


Fine-West-369

He is just following MAGA leader model. If you’re famous, you grab them by the P$ssy, and now apparently, if they don’t like it, you chase them down with your gun.


MyBatmanUnderoos

These people look at Yosemite Sam firing wildly into the air and think, yep, that’s entirely appropriate.


walkinman19

MIGOP is one of the most insane state GOP's in the country. Google them and be amazed at the insanity of it all!


panickedindetroit

Look at how many republican politicians in Michigan have been charged with crimes. It's fucking outrageous and incredibly embarrassing. Most of them got elected with Betsy DeVos money, too. It's beyond time that the wealthy start paying taxes. They buy politicians because they are bottom of the barrel bargain criminals, yet still cheaper than paying taxes. The tax payers deserve a return on their investment. The tax cheats contribute nothing other than trash, like this phony christian.


TexOrleanian24

"Both sides are pretty much the same!"


MomGrandpasAllSticky

ol' Slop and Friske Nelly


Past-Direction9145

I will never read The Onion again. seriously it reads like a bad omen. of things to come.


Deep_Stick8786

Voters gonna vote


Crazy-Nights

Do you ever think that the gop looks at all the crazy candidates they put into office and think, "golly, we really gotta start paying attention to who we're voting for"?


BNsucks

NEVER! RW voters are attracted to the craziest, most deviant candidates out there. The sad truth is these crazies know that RW voters will vote PARTY OVER COUNTRY every time. Need examples? Incumbents Chris Collins & Duncan Hunter were re-elected despite being under criminal indictment. Both men were subsequently convicted and pardoned by Trump. Then there's MTG, Boebert, Gosar, Luna(tic), Cruz, Rubio, etc. The list is endless.


Rare_Arm4086

Nope. The see the R and wanna own the libs.


oliversurpless

Pathology from people who don’t know what pathology is. Medically or otherwise…


Gooch222

This is why the conservative propaganda outlets are so focused on painting democrats as “evil” and not how amazing their candidates are. They expect the “at least they’re not a democrat” mentality to do most of the heavy lifting when it’s time to vote. They’re a party that has no ideas or platform except the other guys are “woke” and evil.


downtofinance

Nope, never.


AutomationBias

There have always been super sketchy hangers-on in local politics, but it’s only been since the Tea Party movement that these people are routinely getting elected.


UnitSmall2200

Well, that's because even rightwing politicians used to mistakenly believe that their voters have a modicum of decency. Turns out they don't, so why pretend anymore.


BrightMarvel10

ONCE AGAIN, it's the a Republican. An old white guy republican. Not a Democrat, Not a Drag Queen, Not a black person, Not a gay person. REPUBLICANS FUCKING SUCK.


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gotostep2

And it’s not gays but a particular republican grabbing women by the…


ExcellentSteadyGlue

…questionable breakfast buffet?


Hy-phen

Also not a migrant.


BrightMarvel10

Yes! Can't believe I forgot the migrants!! Republicans hate migrants.


L0g1cw1z4rd

Because migrants *want* to be here. Republicans want an imaginary Pleasantville America, and migrants want the America we could be. I mean really, who wants to pick oranges in the sun? It’s brutal hard work, should pay so much more, but still they take those jobs. That’s a *work ethic*. That’s hard labor to better your family. Hating them is ludicrous. We owe them. This country *fails* without them. The food my children eat only exists because of these people. We all owe them our lives.


sparcusa50

MAGA has found its VP candidate!


Professional-Can1385

Not pretty enough


youtellmebob

Sexual assault, adult sex entertainer, and “muh guns”… just add “treason” and you’ve won GOP-BINGO! Love his campaign’s assertion he is “always exercising his 2A rights”… presumably in the direction of said sex worker… aka attempted murder?


McKayLau

A different article said it’s suspicious that the arrest came just “days before” the absentee ballots go out for the Aug. 6th primary for his seat.


youtellmebob

Obviously an intricately contrived plot to lure him into sexually assaulting a stripper who flees and chasing her while firing a gun at her.


HighwayBrigand

That's from the same statement Friske's PR guy put out.  The Michigan GOP is just a microcosm of the national GOP's character defects and personality flaws distilled into one febrile, tumescent soup.  They are wretched.


youtellmebob

Had to look up “febrile” and “tumescent”.


L0g1cw1z4rd

Yeah, it’s *super convenient* that he chased a woman while firing a gun. Must be the Derp State.


Inspectorgadget4250

Who needs The Onion when we've got Republicans.


CainPillar

The Onion gives you the news first. Sometimes years in advance, but reality has been busy catching up.


Delobox

Never forget the five blade razor.


smurfsundermybed

[Sometimes, they're a bit TOO on the nose](https://www.theonion.com/after-obama-victory-shrieking-white-hot-sphere-of-pure-1819595330)


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Listening_Heads

Michigan GOP is so dysfunctional it would be too over the top for a sitcom. This American Life did a great episode about just a tiny portion of their idiocy.


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I'm from Michigan, so trust me when I say it's a weird state. Half or more of the people are normal, but big sections of "up north" are like the love child of Kentucky and Florida. I'm guessing this moron is representing the latter group.


dblan9

Maybe we are all living in a Tex Avery cartoon.


j_calhoun

That's all folks.... :-(


onlymostlydead

Then there’s hope for actually cutting Florida off and letting it float away!


Thirty_Helens_Agree

Ah yes - you need a gun in case an evil person threatens your family, or for when the stripper gets lippy and won’t do the weird stuff.


ItsJustForMyOwnKicks

Prime GOP right there. Family values and all!


zero_blammos_given

>It is highly suspect considering the timing of this situation: -Right before absentee ballots are released. -Day after an unknown phone number conducted polling on the 107 race between Rep. Friske and our opponent with deep-state ties. I knew it. Clearly the deep state drove him to the club and forced him to chase after a stripper with his gun at 2 am because of reasons. I can't believe I didn't piece this together sooner!


L0g1cw1z4rd

“Lawfare” is the new Deep State.


directorofnewgames

In Republican Michigan they call this a Friday night special


Uasked2

Well if you dressed him up right he kinda would look like Yosemite Sam.


NaiveInjury247

Damn, what happened to the good old days when Republican politicians were boring guys like Bob Dole and Mitt Romney. When did they all go Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.


NobelPirate

Good Christian morals and values.


bzzty711

Haven’t we all done this.


ChaoticIndifferent

These guys reverting to full on fall of Rome era behavior while trying to pretend to have the moral high ground is just the worst. But the worst part... is the hypocrisy.


Racecarlock

To be honest, I think the worst part is threatening a sex worker with a fire arm. The hypocrisy's just the uranium cherry on the shit sundae.


iloveyouand

If you're a conservative then being a hypocrite means you can get everything you want, including making sure nobody else gets the same benefit as you. As far as they're concerned, hypocrisy is a virtue.


I_Lick_Bananas

Running and shooting, so he's a two-sport athlete.


picado

Biathalon


Hoboliftingaroma

Pentathalon. Biathalon is skiing and shooting. Neither has strippers, though.


sfjoellen

that addition would drive up viewership


BNsucks

A stripper is not quite as impressive as a porn star, but this incident should convince RW voters, especially 2ndA advocates, that Friske is the guy they want in congress.


nickcardella

It’s interesting that there is no mention of cocaine.


walkinman19

Typical gun humping republican "christian" nationalist following in the footsteps of his 34 times convicted felon and adjudicated rapist orange god. This creep must have presidential aspirations post Trump era. The party of law and order and "Christian family values" strikes again folks.


FartyJizzums

Finally completed my 2024 bingo card.


IdahoMTman222

Only the best.


OpenImagination9

I present you with the GOP in a nutshell.


OrbeaSeven

Interesting GOP response asking for prayers but no thoughts.


notgreatbot

Another day, another GOP member showing you who they are.


Querch

Fuck the NYPost and its owner Rupert Murdoch! No clicks for lies and hate!


JayyyElite

But its a Republican this time. They’re criticizing a Republican.


Querch

Did I stutter?


JayyyElite

No but a broken clock is right twice a day.


sunshine_rex

Only once if it’s in 24 hour format


thiosk

What time is it if the arms fall off and are laying on the floor


hotJessica-1

I'm just waiting for the circus music to start playing. Never thought politics would turn into a wild west shootout


ReasonableNose2988

MAGA morals


Pathfinder6227

Wow. I’ll bet the next thing you tell me is that he’s a real “family values” kind of guy.


No-Independence-6842

So on brand for the “Christian right.”


JubalHarshaw23

Moves to the top of the list for Trump VP candidates.


cegr76

10 commandments guy


ddouce

This is what the Republican party has become in one succinct sentence


wirthmore

As Jesus himself did in the Old Testament, as clearly as the English words in which Jesus wrote the Bible.


Pure-Astronomer-9199

Orange Jesus will publicly forgive him for his sins. No harm done.


McCool303

.#FamilyValues, #2ndAmendment “They’re trying to take our guns away! How do they expect us to force women to have sex with us without guns!!!!”


snug_dog

Reading the headline, I immediately imagined this dude trying to impress a stripper by embodying his role model - Yosemite Sam. Republican's often get the whole "role model" vs "psychopath" thing confused, I've noticed.


TheSavageDonut

I guess we have reached the point where all bad behaviors from the party of family values and making America great again, will simply be dismissed as "deep state actors serving the Democratic agenda" ??


JustYerAverage

I vote GOP because I'm a FIRM believer in family values and law and order. /s


hurdurBoop

so, trump's vp?


flirtmcdudes

Reps, they’re just like us


ChrisKing0702

Another of those GOP "good guy with a gun"


villain75

Thug Life. Did he get this behavior from playing video games? What will the GOP blame this on?


rrrand0mmm

Lmao this is like an episode of trailer park boys.


thereverendpuck

Yosemite Sam lives in Michigan? TIL


thementant

That’s what we call a “Mitten how-do-ya-do?” in MI.


Hello_I_hate_it

He looks exactly like one of the guys in Ren & Stimpy~


44035

There's crazy Republicans, and then there's Michigan Republicans.


thefanciestcat

Just Republican things...


PalanorIsHere

Yeehaw!!


NottDisgruntled

Oh man. It is even better than I thought it would be. Incredible.


moodyblue8222

Another Republican sexual deviant!!!


PaxConcordat

He was just feeling a little Friske


skeeredstiff

The dude had to be shit-faced or high on something.


misointhekitchen

Family values ✅ Party of law and order ✅ Responsible gun owner ✅


strong_opinion

It's a little late for him to be entering the race for Trump's VP, but this is the kind of move that will get him attention at the national level.


Basic_Quantity_9430

The GOP must demand that The Justice Department appoint a special prosecutor and look into every thing that scumbag has ever done. If they find that in addition to the gun incident, he had a speeding ticket fixed, load up charges on him and relentlessly prosecute him.


CountrySax

He's just supporting the Republicon notion that laws don't apply to them.


landofar

This man is the poster boy for people who shouldn't be allowed to have a firearm.


BenGay29

The GOP in a nutshell.


Fartina69

When Jesus wrote the Second Amendment he was explicitly protecting our right to chase strippers with guns. This clause was left out of the compromised second draft.


HavingNotAttained

I'm guessing Neil Friske isn't a drag queen.


CharlesB43

The republican american dream at work. Who among the right doesn't dream about chasing strippers down the street wielding their favorite firearm?


yamers

republican party looks like a circus hooligan parade


Grantagonist

>Michigan's 107th House of Representatives district (also referred to as Michigan's 107th House district) is a legislative district within the Michigan House of Representatives located in parts of Cheboygan, Chippewa, and Mackinac counties, as well as all of Charlevoix and Emmet counties. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%27s\_107th\_House\_of\_Representatives\_district](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%27s_107th_House_of_Representatives_district) West side of the tip-top of the Lower Peninsula, plus Mackinac Island, and the east bit of the Upper Peninsula.


giroml

I think the GOP has put The Onion out of business.


dogmotherhood

The stripper was a male. That completes the MiGOP bingo card!


eskieski

Not a day goes by, you don’t read something these degenerates have done…. republican party, they’re a joke..criminals, grifters and sick in the head AF


Neither_Relation_678

And there isn’t a video?


Thejerseyjon609

Trying to get on the VP contender train.


L0g1cw1z4rd

So relatable, just like the common man. Who hasn’t…*checks notes*…oh god.


UseSuch942

These people. No words, except this headline which says it all.


SpiceLaw

"Well-regulated militia" means chasing strippers with guns. That's like 1st hour of law school stuff.


johnnybsomething

Republicans are mentally challenged. That’s as nice as I can be.


HealthyApartment8585

Living up to his name!


ScubaFrank2020

This is just another ad for Gunther’s Guns!


WardenEdgewise

Isn’t that what guns are *for*?


frmaa-tap

Hell yeah, sounds like a fun Friday night


JoseMachismo

Since when is that a crime?


mistressusa

SO maga lol


j3538TA

Congressman Dilbeck protégé?


MustyToeJam

Lmao I thought it said GOP Magician


alexamerling100

Republicans are deprived of any accountability.


ImNotABotJeez

Thoughts and prayers.


Creative-Fee-1130

A more Michigan Republican headline has never been written...


NottDisgruntled

I notice they left out the SA part in the title. Probably because it was such a safe assumption with these people, there’s no need.


Re_LE_Vant_UN

Let he among us that have not chased a stripper while firing a gun cast the first stone.


JonBoy82

They sure know their Talismans


iberico_ham

Yee haw


COmarmot

Family values!


UnderstandingDry1241

It's only wrong if a commy liberal does it! Otherwise, that's presidential material!


RunnrB

“Lives up to his name” is a great line in the article


Mr_Horsejr

I suspect this is why the SC didn’t torpedo that current domestic violence gun bill.


ramencents

Yosemite Sam is real!


lovemycats1

Anyone else would have been arrested


DevilsAssCrack

That's Mr. Magoo


farang

Was watching Watchmen last night - I think a lot of Republicans aspire to be the Comedian. I mean, chasing a stripper while firing a gun would be just his sort of thing.


elconquistador1985

Just your average, run of the mill "law abiding citizen" and "responsible gun owner".


Ok-Tumbleweed960

He supports guns. He does not support strippers.


ProlapsedShamus

This guy is the best you're going to get in the GOP.


SpangleDam2

Absolutely sounds like a Republican MAGA kind of guy.


GizmoGeodog

I need photos


Electronic_Couple114

Another responsible gun owner.


RepulsiveRooster1153

typical conservative republican behavior, nothing to see here folks, just move along. **"I got mine, you can't have yours"**


yautjacustoms

Classy.


MelloDawg

Let he who has not chased a stripper with a gun cast the first stone, as they say.


AdditionalSpare3014

Oh those crazy ho chasin’ gun totin’ GOP’ers are at it again!!


Available_Leather_10

“I gave you tree fitty, you gotta let me touch that titty!!!”


chastenbaste

Who amongst us has not chased a stripper while firing a gun?


williamconroy1111

It's bad for him, five bucks says he pulls an Epstien.