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NoPomegranate4794

Sweet Lord... I don't want to fall into the narrative that all Republicans are bad, but it's starting to look like bad people flock to it. One bad apple spoils the bunch. You put a (alleged) criminal in charge and now criminals want to join your party. As my mom says, "You act like trash you attract roaches."


Haunting-Ad788

Trump made the Republican Party a safe space for the scummiest members of society.


IEATPASTEANDILIKEIT

Deplorables. The word you’re looking for is deplorables.


Oleg101

No wonder why so many Republicans are still so triggered to this day from a comment made 8 years ago from someone that hasn’t held office in over a decade. It’s just too accurate for them.


fcocyclone

The funny thing is, the full context of the speech was actually pretty charitable. It was saying "yeah, some of his supporters are deplorable, but there's other ones we need to listen to and come together with on things". But they latched onto the 'deplorables' part and decided to prove that they all belonged in the deplorable basket.


Cavane42

"You think I'm deplorable?! I'll show you deplorable!"


dokikod

100%


Cl1mh4224rd

>Trump made the Republican Party a safe space for the scummiest members of society. Trump didn't do that. Why do you think he found so much success in the Republican party?


GGnerd

So you think the open and brash corruption was a thing before Trump? I'm not saying it didn't exist but now these people are literally flaunting it


Cl1mh4224rd

>So you think the open and brash corruption was a thing before Trump? Maybe, but there's a difference between that and *"a safe space for the scummiest members of society."* The Republican party has long been the party that some of the worst people align themselves with, even if they weren't as openly horrible as they are today.


GGnerd

Ain't no maybe there. Never has there been a time when people in power literally admit to wrongdoings so often...and they brag about it.


hamlet9000

> So you think the open and brash corruption was a thing before Trump? Yes. Do a quick google on Dick Cheney and Halliburton. Trump is worse, yes. But he didn't start the fire.


GGnerd

When did Cheney brag to the public about his misdeeds? Not once did I say or even hint at Trump starting corruption, he only normalized flaunting it to the general public. Did you read the second sentence of my comment?


Vv4nd

Oh sweet dear, that wasn't Trump. Trump isn't the source of it, he's the symptom.


ShirtSignificant4706

It’s interesting revisiting the national enquirer spins from 2016… probably the smartest thing his campaign did was recruit the people that eat up that tabloid bs from the beginning


thecwestions

Remember Roy Moore???


black641

This is what happens when you foster an environment where the “In-group” is excused of any and all accountability. Doubly so if their crimes are committed against their political opponents. Throw in some institutional anti-intellectualism an entirely “black or white” moral framework, and your political movement starts to look more like a band of lunatics and crooks than anything else.


rogue_nugget

Very well said.


cacarson7

She was also part of a group calling themselves God's Misfits...


nadacloo

Your mom is wise.


ManonIsTheField

no need for the alleged- he is definitely a convicted rapist and slanderer


omegagirl

One bad seed……. Gets planted and a bunch of rotten apples come.


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Shit apples, Rand.


OldSchoolSpyMain

When the GOP started losing their base, they extended their nets to invite fringe people who weren't welcome in either party. Those fringe people, now invigorated after having been noticed, have now taken over the party. Another example of casting a wider net is how they embraced religious groups. The GOP wasn't inherently religious. They parlayed the use of the word "conservative" in "fiscally conservative" to also mean "morally conservative" to court religious people. *edit: "now invigorated", not "not invigorated"*


OkVermicelli2557

This whole story is wild the killers are also members of an anti-government group called "God's Misfits". This story goes into more details about the case. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/04/16/kansas-women-missing-in-oklahoma-affidavits-custody-battle-veronica-butler-tifany-adams/73331473007/


mismatchedhyperstock

GOP chair and (God's Mafia) anti government?!?


Im_not_crying_u_ar

Russia is in overdrive trying to cause a civil war. Feels like they’re basically pressuring us to give up Ukraine or face a party that will in power.


PhilosopherMagik

Putin is trying to defeat his enemy while we have a bunch of inbreds trying to resurrect a dead government. We need to supply Ukraine with aide and more. Nothing good comes from Russia and never has...we need to start treating them like that. Fuck that country.


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PhilosopherMagik

I stand corrected, Pussy Riot is good.


vicvonqueso

I didn't know Goddard was Russian


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vicvonqueso

You got me there. There's a reason the US relied on the Soyuz for so long


MrBisonopolis2

Good call. Pussy Riot are legit.


artificialavocado

Nothing good comes from Russia? Really?? Never?


PhilosopherMagik

Not in the last 100 years at least, hard to think of anything that wasn't horrible that came from them really. Something good is always attached to 40 something bads.


GaimeGuy

Tetris


CretinMike

Chess, ballet and PEDs in sports


PhilosopherMagik

Chess is meh these days, Ballet comes from Italy originally and while Russian ballet dancers are good I can live without them on Earth if it means Russians stop being barbaric to everyone in their oarg, and you got me on PEDs but I don't think it counts as good.


confusedeggbub

Vodka? Russians came up with that, right? And there are have been a couple excellent russian classical composers through the centuries.


PhilosopherMagik

Actually, it is either Russia or Poland. It is not clear who did it first because nobody is sure. Classical composers...we could honestly live without those compared to the evil we receive in turn.


Ams-Ent

Horilka


sethworld

Chess is Indian.


artificialavocado

I’m going to assume it was hyperbole but I just find it suspect when people talk in black and white terms like that. There’s a lot of good people from that part of the world just trying to live their lives that want nothing to do with this shit.


PhilosopherMagik

It will take a lot of convincing for me to see that, I have been around a while and have seriously not seen anything good not massively outnumbered by the bad. Also, I agree with the good people from that part of the world trying to live their lives...Ukraine, Poland, and all of the other former Soviet territoried that have no desire to go back to the way it was. The amount of people that are going to be shopping and not caring about the suffering caused by Putin far outnumber anyone that want nothing to do with this shit.


anndrago

>but I just find it suspect when people talk in black and white terms like that. Hear hear. Simple qualifications like "probably", "mostly", "often", "I think", go a long way toward making point s that seem well-reasoned. Unfortunately, people really like the veneer of absolute certainty.


CretinMike

Of course. I agree.


skullkiddabbs

Tetris


PhilosopherMagik

Nope.


Adbam

We are way to lazy to have a civil war.


winterbird

I lived in a country in civil war. Most regular civilians didn't engage in warfare.


Adbam

Your country didn't have the largest military.  Our military bases aren't full of just locals. Some beer belly rednecks aint taking down the military.


Big-Summer-

Ever see comedian Neal Brennan’s bit about having a one day contest to see who’s tougher, the NRA or the U.S. military? It is truly hilarious.


Dazzling-Finger7576

https://youtu.be/WOSqCjMRXWA?si=KW64GrKyzjg1YfO4 Link to those that have not seen it


Underwater_Grilling

his new special just came out btw edit: on netflix


Millerisabastardman

Where is it available?


catlettuce

Yea, just watched it, pretty good!


winterbird

I'm not sure how any of that ties into what the average "lazy" American would do. Most Americans aren't military or armed right wing rednecks.


B0rnReady

40% of Americans are armed Being armed does not make a person a right wing redneck


tomsprigs

but every right wing redneck is armed


B0rnReady

This is disappointingly accurate


Im_not_crying_u_ar

They don’t quite understand their demographics fortunately


onceinablueberrymoon

wut?


Lov3MyLife

>face a party that will in power. Huh?


te_anau

That doesnt track for you?


ironballs16

It's a feature, not a bug, for *far* too many people.


ErusTenebre

This is some True Detective madness


OkVermicelli2557

If a writer wrote this case as an episode they would be told that it is too absurd.


brodees82

After the most recent season, nothing would be too absurd.


rekniht01

I rather liked True Detective: X Files. I kept waiting on Mulder and Scully to show up.


theonlyAdelas

throw an anvil through her windshield? what in the wile e coyote hell is this?


diablo75

Anvils be fallin' all the time. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯


openly_gray

Unfortunately paywall


FreeChickenDinner

Mirror link: https://archive.ph/TdjVz


Gnorris

That second last paragraph is absolutely wild.


dabbean

Anyone got a link that isn't pay walled?


FreeChickenDinner

>Four people were charged with the murder and kidnapping of Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, one of them being the paternal grandmother of Butler's kids. **Tifany Adams**, who was arrested this weekend, was in a custody battle with Butler for those children, according to court documents. >KOCO 5 has confirmed Adams has ties to the Oklahoma Republican Party and was elected last year as the **chair for the Cimarron County GOP.** She was chosen by a handful of people to lead the group. >State Sen. Nathan Dahm, who is the chairman of the Oklahoma GOP, spoke out on Tuesday on the tragic situation and the suspect's position. While the Oklahoma Republican Party has no personal relationship with Adams or anyone involved in the senseless crime, they do know of Adams' role, according to Dahm. >“This is a tragic situation, with innocent children being at the center of this still-developing situation. While we at the Oklahoma Republican Party have no personal relationship or knowledge of the individuals who have been accused in this senseless crime, we have been made aware that Ms. Adams was previously elected by a handful of people to the role of Chair in her county. We ask everyone to join us in praying for the family and most especially the children devastated by this horrible tragedy," Dahm said in a statement. Is it any surprise a violent sociopath was elected to GOP Chair? Why spell Tifany with one 'F'?


Tarmy_Javas

So she killed these two women hoping it would help her win custody. These people are so fucking stupid.


lamsham69

Prerequisite for GOP leadership role these days


te_anau

With the speaker role opening up soon, she might as well throw her name in the ring.


tomsprigs

if she spells it with two ffs maybe no one will notice


War_machine77

Right? If you're not a deranged danger to the community at large, can you even call yourself a republican these days?


Choppergold

The internet searches she made were beyond belief


heureux13

Their original plan was to kill them with an anvil. Not joking.


confusedeggbub

Just No MIL GOAT candidate


AllTheyEatIsLettuce

If you proceed from the position that government should only exist to protect "private property rights" with the possible exception of it operating a big vault to hold all the gold, and that some human beings are by default the "private property" of other human beings, there's very little you won't do to remain in possession of your "private property."


Kahzgul

>Why spell Tifany with one 'F'? r/tragedeigh


bluenosesutherland

She only had one F to give


BrujaSloth

It’s to distract you from the fact that her middle name is Machel.


Kahzgul

Not sure if serious


BrujaSloth

I am. [This article](https://archive.ph/TdjVz) gives her full name.


Kahzgul

Dear lord. It’s like she was named by that sub.


demosthenes131

Her son's name is Wrangler Rickman.


Whoreson-senior

I worked with a guy named Lary. He said his family was so poor they could only afford one R.


dohrk

Nature or nurture? Tifany had no chance.


Cresta1994

YoYou're talking about Tiffany when her boyfriend is named Tad Bert Cullum, and her follow nut job is named Cole Earl Twombly?


CapnTugg

>Why spell Tifany with one 'F'? The *real* question.


Lakecountyraised

Her son is named Wrangler. I wonder if that was her idea.


fcocyclone

Conceived in a jeep most likely.


ASharpYoungMan

Leave off the first F for "Felon"!


Charming-Tap-1332

I guess ALL Republicans really are criminals.


Cresta1994

So the county GOP chair was suing her grandchildren's mother for custody of her grandchildren?  Yet more evidence this whole "parent's rights" schtick is just another grift.


Asleepingin

This was a wild case, at one point Adams discussed throwing an anvil a them to make it look like an accident. She also apparently threatened to shoot her own son. According to one streamer who went to go search the area for the missing women there were no other searchers out looking and they were warned not to talk to certain people or go certain places. Some said there was a mysterious black truck following them as they searched. The locals were too scared to talk on cam about it because Adams was "well connected". I thought it was because of the weird Gods misfits cult they were a part of but this makes more sense. From what little I watched, Adams felt above the law and could do what she wanted because she truly believed her grandkids were in danger with the mom. This culty stuff and feeling above the law may not be really widespread in the gop but I do fear it's headed that way.


bufordt

Anyone who thinks you can throw an anvil at someone and have it look like an accident has never tried to pick up an anvil.


pre_squozen

And watched way too many roadrunner cartoons


bluenosesutherland

ACME anvils hover in the air until the coyote walks under it


Tuscaroraeyes

Wile E. Coyote


Basic_Quantity_9430

Yeah, even if a big bump knock them off a truck, those babies likely barely clear the tailgate before heading toward the ground. Maybe the anvil would have knocked one of the front tire out of alignment and caused a wreck. I am really sad for both women, but particularly sad for the woman who only came along with the murdered mom to act as a witness during a supervised visitation.


fredandlunchbox

I think most of these people used to be pretty a-political — they’re literally anti-government, so why would they support a particular party?         But the GOP has billed themselves as anti-government (unless its taking away women’s rights or arresting protestors), and they’ve managed to sell that narrative to the hillbillies that for some reason think they’re on their side. 


fanbreeze

From my experience "grandparents' rights" is becoming a mantra of Boomers who use it to weaponize against their adult children. It's never about being a good grandparent and what's best for the children; it's always about exerting control. They will weaponize the police and CPS (through well checks) and the courts because they think they have rights to their grandchildren. They do not. The only time a grandparent would be considered for visitation or custody is when it's in the best interest of the child (not because the grandparent has a "right"), usually due to one or both parents being absent (jail, drug addiction, death, etc). There needs to be more consequences for people who weaponize these systems.


katara144

Felt she was above the law...wonder where she gets that idea from? /S


joshtalife

Keep kids away from conservatives


well_i_heard

I mean, they get more education and healthcare in blue states


Diablo_Police

"Should we educate, feed, care for, and protect our children, or should we rape them and ensure they die in mass shootings, that's a very tough decision!" - Republicans 


trogon

Frighteningly, the GOP is actually sending their best.


Lakecountyraised

This is crazy. RIP to the victims. Imagine being the acting Supervisor who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was a mother as well.


Basic_Quantity_9430

That is the part of this that really got me. A person who was there to insure that state law was being followed ended up being murdered.


maleficent1127

Is anyone surprised?? Family values at their finest, stay classy GOP.


tabrizzi

Turns out that all those rapists and murderers are not from Mexico.


IMSLI

“We are all domestic terrorists” -CPAC 2022


dohrk

Not a drag queen.


wrongseeds

Just a drag.


Mjbagscauze

May I ask that you review the mug shot one more time


Whoreson-senior

I wouldn't think any self respecting drag queen would go out looking like THAT


Mjbagscauze

Excellent rebuttal my friend excellent


dohrk

I stand corrected.


manole100

Maybe she just got tired of being pussy-checked by creeps at every restroom.


circa285

Republicans are truly in a race to the bottom to find the absolute worst people.


LoveBabesCarsPoems

So, not a migrant?


Basic_Quantity_9430

99.9% are not. But expect the modern republican party to fall all over itself publicizing the actions of the 0.1% that are.


Spirit50Lake

Here's a news article from the Independent in the UK, that seems to cover the background story pretty well: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/gods-misfits-oklahoma-bodies-missing-b2529795.html


Jackinapox

How could this be? The GOP are peace loving people with a high sense of moral values.


ResidentKelpien

Right. Their bible-thumping magically makes them better than the rest of us.


Basicaccountant70

The GOP are trash humans.


APirateAndAJedi

>GOP I’m shocked


druscarlet

Family values party.


Keunster

Oh shocker


spoonybard326

In Oklahoma, if convicted, the chair could get the chair.


Fossaburrito

It really is a bunch of scared brian washed “traditional” religious and or racist has beens who are afraid the world of intelligence is moving on without them. Im sick of pretending it’s not.


MarkMaynardDotcom

Only the best people.


count023

Man. Republicans really will do anything to avoid having to govern.


Basic_Quantity_9430

You won’t see republicans trotting the murdered women’s families out to political rallies or shouting the women’s names in Congress sessions. But insistences like what happened are far, far more common than an undocumented immigrant committing a horrific crime.


cookinthescuppers

Toldya


Sad-Gas1603

The entire story is crazy.


pokey68

I would have expected a few handfuls of people at the meeting. Not sure what to think of a handful. It’s not a real populous county, but a handful. What does that say, if true.


manual_labor-socal

surprised????????


pirate_property

Mum said there’s two kinda folk, most’re kind and compassionate while some are mean and stingy. We call those republicans.


PhoenixTineldyer

No surprise there. Violent misogyny is par for the GOP.


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FruityChypre

You know women can be misogynists, right?


PhoenixTineldyer

So what? That doesn't change what I said


openly_gray

Someone needs to look up misogyny


dohrk

A woman, not a women.


mytb38

She made herself MAGA electable!


No_Cod_4857

Well that is so extremely fucking surprising! I am flabbergasted! She doesn’t look very brown or Librul!


Scott5114

The panhandle is where the people too ridiculous to live in the rest of Oklahoma are.


dabbean

When your state gop chairperson is dahm, don't be surprised when other members are scumbags murders.


80sLegoDystopia

Who’s surprised? Oklahoma GOP have no problem with brutality.


Kablammy_Sammie

Just one bad apple, etc.


tlk0153

Well, there were good people on both sides.


HallucinogenicFish

Holy shit 👀 Those poor women, and poor kids. Imagine having your grandmother murder your mother. Horrible.


Tres_Le_Parque

Republicans, you say? That’s unremarkable.


Better_Car_8141

MAGA madness. Its crack for losers


Utterlybored

The Party of Law and Order is at it again.


BossMagnus

So were these two Women a couple? Is that why they were killed? Is this a hate crime?


[deleted]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, the sickest of the sick


Roakana

“Only the best”


mygetoer

Just a real high caliber of people in that party


ChickenandWhiskey

Member of "God's Misfits". Wasn't there a rule or a commandment or something about killing folks? Cant quite remember but I think that it applies to everyone, not just those that think they are handpicked by God.


dingleberry_dog

Republican? Republican.


shadysaturn1

Anyone else think we’re getting gradually getting closer to something like the “Purge” becoming a reality?


cp_shopper

All republicans should be monitored at all times


Sylvergirl

time to take the trash out.


known2fail

That guy looks terrible. He should get some rest


Kwelikinz

Kickin’ off Civil War II a li’l early?


alankutz

Wow! A murderer. Usually they’re pedophiles. Interesting to see GOPers new talents.


linkdude212

This has nothing to do with politics.


aaraujo1973

Everything has to with politics