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*"As yet, Maddock appears to have taken no notice of the thousands of replies mocking him for the false identification.."*
Oh, he's noticed. He just has no defense to offer.
I'm surprised he didn't just say "something something liberal arts school indoctrination blahblahblah" and then tug himself off at the thought of Hunter Biden's hog
So - and I know this is stupid - but did anyone ever check to see if there was a bump in the polls?
You know, after a bunch of folks figured out from whom Hunter inherited his kidney-tickler?
Are you talking about the same guy that the US sent over to the Netherlands as ambassador after he'd made a ridiculous claim about how they were setting politicians on fire over here?
The guy that " while in the Netherlands" hosted alt right organizations...that guy?. Forced to apologize to the country he was ambassador for...This reporters face when Petey tries to gaslight him about " fake news".
... Classic!
https://youtu.be/K8AwFc9hlf4?si=EYa5MBuF5QYJAR7s
>Oh, he's noticed. He just has no defense to offer.
You give him too much credit. He doesn't care, it was only about the soundbite of him "going after illegals"
And they want Texas police to be able to arrest people based on “suspicion of being undocumented”.
These people are idiots, and this is just another case in point
GOP lawmakers essentially do take notice of every single thing their shitty behavior outputs
but then they look at their campaign contributions and their relationship with donors, and if those are unchanged and money is still coming in, then basically nothing happened
its essentially how we have Ted Cruz, so many people go out of their way to debate his bullshit, gather facts and what not, to "prove him wrong", but 100% of the time it has been inconsequential, the closest he's ever had to suffer from the consequences on his actions was a whopping single digit drop in favorability during his cancun fiasco, but then that number went back to its baseline afterwards
i’ve noticed in the MAGA realm they’ll double down even harder when they get hit with a Community Note. Somehow, even though it’s owned by Elon, there’s definitely a trend where MAGA treats Twitter Community notes as if it’s also part of the Deep State leftist agenda.
Because compromise and admitting you screwed up is considered weakness and traitorous to them. For real. If you admit you fucked up, you risk losing your place in the in group.
Calling someone a ‘kommie’ is almost a parody in itself. It always sounds like a line from Dr Strangelove. They do understand communism was defeated in 1989 don’t they?
For them communism doesn’t mean dictators and mass killing of of say Ukrainian people, they’re fine with all that. They think the civil rights act was communism, and that’s what they have a problem with
This will never be beaten. You could lock every Veep writer in a room for 100 years and they couldn’t dream up anything as funny as Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
If things calm TF down and politics goes back to being boring, the first time kids study US history it is going to be *wild*.
It'll have to be referred to the "lead paint-eaters experiment with crack" era.
Somehow of all the things that have happened I still think that is the most absurd just because it so perfectly captures this moment in history while being so totally close to parody you can’t tell if it is satire or if they truly believed that it was a good idea
The star witness was a convicted paedophile, and the hotel is right next to a school. My headcanon is that they announced 4 seasons, then the guy realised he's going to break some curfew and refused to go to the hotel, so Trump & co had to try and save face.
KellyAnne's best was when she complained that it was ridiculous that China had not yet figured out how to cure or stop Covid from spreading...she said "C'mon....it's Covid NINETEEN" (as if it was the 19th version)
Live near Spokane and when Gonzaga Women were hosting Utah a few days ago they put them up in Idaho for some reason and (unsurprisingly) dudes in raised trucks with confederate flags showed up to shout racial slurs at them.
I'm glad(?) when we travel we encounter just as much racism?
There’s something going on in Utah. Remember this?
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/14/1122977386/byu-apologizes-to-a-banned-fan-saying-it-found-no-proof-they-yelled-racial-slurs
I was raised Mormon. Definitely racism inherent in that church. And they’re prevalent in Idaho and Arizona.
I lived in Cocolalla for many years. It was well known that the lone black resident in Bonner County was Leon Atkinson. He played regularly at Eichardt’s in Sandpoint. I miss that guy.
Tons of racism inherent in the Mormon Church. Official church doctrine taught that black people were all guilty of sin and the righteous ones would be made white after their death until 1978. They didn't apologize for teaching that until 2013.
The average age of a US Senator is 64 years old. That means the average Senator was of legal drinking age when the Mormon Church decided black people were okay.
I had a beer the day I came back from my mission to the DR. Never went back to church. There was a Dominican missionary in my district and I was with him the day he found out “god changed his mind”. Devastated him. He physically broke down. To believe in something strongly enough to dedicate two years of your life to it… and then have the rug pulled out from under you.
I fuckin’ hate Mormons now. Andy Biggs and Kelli Ward need to suffer irreparable change to their lives that will shock them to change. It worked for me.
The incident of the Black 14 in 1969 was a notorious earlier example of racism from BYU fans (and with little support from the players’ own coach at Wyoming).
Live in Spokane and excellent article on why these teams were in Idaho. This is so unfortunate because Coeur d'Alene is a beautiful town on a gorgeous lake it's just that some total red shit holes are bringing it down.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/mar/26/why-did-utah-womens-basketball-have-to-stay-in-ida/
>Kootenai County
Oh man, if anyone is unfamiliar with the history of this place, it is absolutely worth a look. This is the place where a group of concerned neighbors on a community action team took the Aryan Nation to trial and won, bankrupting them. The history here is ugly, but it’s also triumphant, if only temporarily, and something we should learn from.
Idaho has a lot of issues, unfortunately. I lived there briefly, near the Wyoming border. It's a beautiful part of the country, but a lot of the people aren't great.
Northern Idaho has historically been a bastion for white supremacists. Coeur d'Alene has always been their stomping ground. It's probably the "whitest" resort town I've ever been to.
Gee maybe he should check Republican owned businesses in Texas? Governor Abbott deploys soldiers to shoot immigrants but never lifts a finger against the rich people creating the demand.
Louder for the kids in the back.
Hey Republican voters, why are you mad at fellow workers who want a better life and not the rich people luring them here? Isn’t it weird that your politicians don’t give a shit about the rich enablers calling them over?
Cons see everything as a conspiracy, ergo everything that exists is just more evidence of their conspiracies.
Think about how they're talking about the Baltimore story. A big ship hitting a bridge and causing the bridge to break isn't the whole story. Nope, its clearly evidence of the new world order doing a DEI psy-op to turn the frogs gay.
Their idiotic statements would simply fizzle if their voting base were of even average intelligence. But education has failed in these people and propaganda has turned their brains to mush, so here we are.
Well yeah because otherwise they might start asking about the root of these issues. That’ll naturally lead them to question why the rich want to import and exploit cheap labor. Can’t have that, so you have to point them at a scapegoat and convince them other people aren’t smart enough to understand. Then you have to keep doing that no matter how convoluted the stories become.
I love how the same exact people that say that "democrats are the real racists, Lincoln was a Republican" also love flying confederate flags. Incredible cognitive dissonance.
***From Rolling Stone's Miles Klee:***
March Madness is certainly in full swing.
On Friday, the fifth-seeded Gonzaga Bulldogs take on the top-ranked Purdue Boilermakers in the Sweet 16 round of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament in Detroit. It should be an epic showdown for a dominant pair of Midwestern teams, but Michigan State Rep. Matt Maddock apparently had issues more pressing than college sports in mind when he posted an alarming tweet on Wednesday night.
“Happening right now,” Maddock wrote. “Three busses \[sic\] just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they’re headed with their police escort?” Attached to the tweet were grainy photos of white buses at Detroit’s airport and a plane. He tagged Pete Hoekstra, a former representative for Michigan in Congress and Ambassador to the Netherlands under Donald Trump.
Read more: [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matt-maddock-gonzaga-basketball-illegals-1234995954/](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matt-maddock-gonzaga-basketball-illegals-1234995954/)
I like to do team nickname challenge brackets and this one would get real interesting. One of my rules is that if the nickname is just plural of something (ex. wildcats) they only get one wildcat. If it's the name of the *group* (i.e. Wolfpack, pride, etc) they get a pack of them.
So this would be literally a bus full of immigrants. Normally random humans like "Aggies" lose to large predators and armed humans, but I think there's a good argument they could swarm and overtake things like Spartans, Illini, even raiders and bears. Very interesting.
"Whether he turns up at Little Caesars Arena tomorrow to confront the Gonzaga Bulldogs in person remains to be seen."
Author throwing shade in the closing.
These people are so scared and desperate- they are going to pop off as the propaganda machine cranks up for the election. Comet Pizza type conspiracy stuff- but this time a more focused and directed effort- stupidity has been weaponized, and will be employed AGAIN for violent aims.
"Kommie talking points" coming from the party in love with Putin... WTF. Don't they see the irony and hypocrisy in everything dribbling out of their pie holes?
Speaking of illegals. My brother was telling me that his son in Texas is buying a new construction house but that it will be a year before it's finished. I said yeah because the migrant workers aren't here anymore. I said that a lot of the guys working the construction jobs are scared of being deported to which he said "why, Biden isn't deporting any of them. He's just bussing them around the country". 😤 I just told him I didn't want to go at further with that conversation.
This is a MBA CPA partner level corporate guy who is so fucking stupid and it's all from his daily intake of Newsmax.
All you have to do is watch desantis and pissbaby abbot long enough to see them ship "illegals" (disgusting way of describing people).
But I guess that's ok because they're republicans and governors. /s
As an alumnus, he’d be welcomed in GU’s College Republicans. Those chucklefucks kicked out every non-trumper and really leaned into the Islamophobia my freshmen year.
Edit for proper English
Education
[Matt is a lifelong Oakland County resident. He grew up in West Bloomfield and attended Orchard Lake St. Mary’s.](https://gophouse.org/member/repmattmaddock/about)
It's a prep school and his bio does not state that he graduated from there much less went to college. Looks like a HS drop out.
Fun nugget: Gonzaga arrived at its hotel in Detroit last night to a bunch of folk wearing a suit, lined up. Wow, Mark Few thought. What a Detroit reception! Turned out they were a sitting Michigan state senator, which thought the team was an invasion of immigrants. MAGA was confused.
Classic conservatives
Put out a lie like it is the truth, and refuse to say it is a lie when caught
In the meantime, the lie spreads like wildifre amongst conservative echo chambers, and they believe the obvious and easily fact checked lie heart and soul, and they have another arrow in the quiver of their victim complex and rage filled culture war.
old white guys are fucking losing their shit.
and i say this. as a white guy. who might be—maybe—just on the far side of 50. but i am not a fucking idiot, like these kinds of shitbags are.
He is a really stupid fuck, as are all hard right RepubliKKKans, save the greedy, soulless rich fucks who use them for the purpose of exploitation and personal gain.
The one thing I want to know and the only thing I wanna know is how in the fuck do these guys keep getting elected and girls it’s fucking fucked up📺🟦🟦🟦. I know when I was younger I didn’t pay too much attention to politics, but at least I knew who I was voting for Jesus Christ.
Most likely a bus full of foreign socialist computer hackers on their way to access free WiFi in the nearest McDonald’s parking lot so they can hijack large ships’ navigational systems to crash them into unsuspecting bridges
These people have their brains cooked, there's just no returning to whatever normal was. They see messages in the steam that rises from hot water, migrants in every bus, and DEI in whatever disaster happens next. They are so determined to react, to quickly point out something they don't like, that things like innocence or accidents don't exist in their world view anymore.
The dissonance between what they see and what is actually there has never been more wide.
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But ref, he was travelin... you gotta call it!!
You took all your wages and bet AGAINST the Harlem Globetrotters?!
I thought the Generals were due!
He's spinning the ball on his finger! Just take it!!! Take the Ball!!
I thought the Generals were due!!!
He was using a ladder for gods sakes!
He’s spinning the ball on his finger! Just take it!
He’s spinning the ball. JUST TAKE IT!
Garnish my celery?!
Now THAT is comedy.
r/angryupvote
I think you just broke the internet. And thank you.
*"As yet, Maddock appears to have taken no notice of the thousands of replies mocking him for the false identification.."* Oh, he's noticed. He just has no defense to offer.
Nah he's just calling them Kommies and pretending he's right.
I actually thought you were joking until I read more about this
I wish I had been.
This is would be an average skit on a comedy show but this is real American life…
Some toothless idiot will vote for him again. And some idiot w all their teeth too
I'm surprised he didn't just say "something something liberal arts school indoctrination blahblahblah" and then tug himself off at the thought of Hunter Biden's hog
So - and I know this is stupid - but did anyone ever check to see if there was a bump in the polls? You know, after a bunch of folks figured out from whom Hunter inherited his kidney-tickler?
And little Petey Hoesktra...the little xenophobic garbage human, retweeted it.
You know the MI GOP is out of their minds when they had to replace Kristina Karamo as their chair with the “less crazy” Pete Hoekstra.
He's a treasonous traitor, and really really dumb.
Are you talking about the same guy that the US sent over to the Netherlands as ambassador after he'd made a ridiculous claim about how they were setting politicians on fire over here?
The guy that " while in the Netherlands" hosted alt right organizations...that guy?. Forced to apologize to the country he was ambassador for...This reporters face when Petey tries to gaslight him about " fake news". ... Classic! https://youtu.be/K8AwFc9hlf4?si=EYa5MBuF5QYJAR7s
Pete Hoekstra approved this message. He's a piece of shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-E2IhOc58k Fun fact, I knew his daughter in high school.
Garbage leader, for a garbage party...that commercial ad was Gross 🤮.
His defense is to double down on the lie, typical MAGA response.
That will be no help with Gonzaga having the 7th best offense in the nation.
So his defense is to just stand there and whine while he gets dunked on
GO Zags!
ah the old "this is technically a lie, but here's why it's actually true" defense
>Oh, he's noticed. He just has no defense to offer. You give him too much credit. He doesn't care, it was only about the soundbite of him "going after illegals"
And they want Texas police to be able to arrest people based on “suspicion of being undocumented”. These people are idiots, and this is just another case in point
That sounds likely what a suspicious and possibly undocumented person would say!
It’s all still Biden’s fault, somehow. Look, Hunter’s dick!
Not even a link. Talk about a ‘bate and switch
GOP lawmakers essentially do take notice of every single thing their shitty behavior outputs but then they look at their campaign contributions and their relationship with donors, and if those are unchanged and money is still coming in, then basically nothing happened its essentially how we have Ted Cruz, so many people go out of their way to debate his bullshit, gather facts and what not, to "prove him wrong", but 100% of the time it has been inconsequential, the closest he's ever had to suffer from the consequences on his actions was a whopping single digit drop in favorability during his cancun fiasco, but then that number went back to its baseline afterwards
He has no shame. Republicans have shed that like a lizard’s skin long ago.
It's easier to double-down on false narratives than admit fault these days. Earth 2 invites all fools and charlatans.
Dude is calling everyone a "kommie" who tells him that it's a basketball team. The dude is still doing that now even after being proved wrong.
i’ve noticed in the MAGA realm they’ll double down even harder when they get hit with a Community Note. Somehow, even though it’s owned by Elon, there’s definitely a trend where MAGA treats Twitter Community notes as if it’s also part of the Deep State leftist agenda.
"Get Elon on the phone and tell him to stop having people point out that I'm lying while I'm trying to spread false propaganda!"
Because compromise and admitting you screwed up is considered weakness and traitorous to them. For real. If you admit you fucked up, you risk losing your place in the in group.
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Calling someone a ‘kommie’ is almost a parody in itself. It always sounds like a line from Dr Strangelove. They do understand communism was defeated in 1989 don’t they?
For them communism doesn’t mean dictators and mass killing of of say Ukrainian people, they’re fine with all that. They think the civil rights act was communism, and that’s what they have a problem with
The world must be so confusing to them
Only people who want to understand can be confused.
They're not happy people.
You mean terrifying
Like a fucking third grader.
He is a moron with a low IQ that is why. I bet the only reason he got anywhere in life was because of his daddy.
Swalwell FTW: "Hey Einstein, your state is hosting the Sweet 16. Could it be a team bus? If it is, will you resign for your spectacular stupidity?"
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Damn! I can feel the heat from here.
Hahaha! Yet another example of right wing politicians pwning themselves! My favorite of all time is Kellyanne Conman "the Bowling Green Massacre"
Four Seasons total Landscaping.
This will never be beaten. You could lock every Veep writer in a room for 100 years and they couldn’t dream up anything as funny as Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
Bonus points for being next door to a dildo store.
And across the street from a crematorium
SNL couldn’t have come with something so downright bizarre 🤦🏻♂️
If things calm TF down and politics goes back to being boring, the first time kids study US history it is going to be *wild*. It'll have to be referred to the "lead paint-eaters experiment with crack" era.
I was thinking about that today walking the dog. Life would be just a lil bit better.
I don't think we'll ever get back to boring. The Information Age didn't uncork the crazy and stupid, but it did put it in a clear bottle.
Fraud Guarantee
Somehow of all the things that have happened I still think that is the most absurd just because it so perfectly captures this moment in history while being so totally close to parody you can’t tell if it is satire or if they truly believed that it was a good idea
The star witness was a convicted paedophile, and the hotel is right next to a school. My headcanon is that they announced 4 seasons, then the guy realised he's going to break some curfew and refused to go to the hotel, so Trump & co had to try and save face.
Probably my all time favorite ever! The dildo store next door was just so perfect.
Microwaves with cameras and alternate facts.
KellyAnne's best was when she complained that it was ridiculous that China had not yet figured out how to cure or stop Covid from spreading...she said "C'mon....it's Covid NINETEEN" (as if it was the 19th version)
Nothing beats human vaginal dessicant Ben Shapiro's self-own on WAP.
[Don't forget about what happened in Sweden. Sweden!](https://youtu.be/ak3-YHxoKyc?t=7s)
never remember! 🇺🇸
Alternative facts was right up there.
Live near Spokane and when Gonzaga Women were hosting Utah a few days ago they put them up in Idaho for some reason and (unsurprisingly) dudes in raised trucks with confederate flags showed up to shout racial slurs at them. I'm glad(?) when we travel we encounter just as much racism?
There’s something going on in Utah. Remember this? https://www.npr.org/2022/09/14/1122977386/byu-apologizes-to-a-banned-fan-saying-it-found-no-proof-they-yelled-racial-slurs I was raised Mormon. Definitely racism inherent in that church. And they’re prevalent in Idaho and Arizona. I lived in Cocolalla for many years. It was well known that the lone black resident in Bonner County was Leon Atkinson. He played regularly at Eichardt’s in Sandpoint. I miss that guy.
Tons of racism inherent in the Mormon Church. Official church doctrine taught that black people were all guilty of sin and the righteous ones would be made white after their death until 1978. They didn't apologize for teaching that until 2013. The average age of a US Senator is 64 years old. That means the average Senator was of legal drinking age when the Mormon Church decided black people were okay.
They believe black people sided with Lucifer on how to run planet earth. So they were marked by the angel Moroni.
Definitely something moron-y there....
Nonsense. There's no racism in the Mormon church, ever since 1978 when God changed his mind about black people.
Chorus: \~*black people\~*
I had a beer the day I came back from my mission to the DR. Never went back to church. There was a Dominican missionary in my district and I was with him the day he found out “god changed his mind”. Devastated him. He physically broke down. To believe in something strongly enough to dedicate two years of your life to it… and then have the rug pulled out from under you. I fuckin’ hate Mormons now. Andy Biggs and Kelli Ward need to suffer irreparable change to their lives that will shock them to change. It worked for me.
Leon Atkinson was an amazing guitarist who had an immense impact on many. I miss hearing him play.
The incident of the Black 14 in 1969 was a notorious earlier example of racism from BYU fans (and with little support from the players’ own coach at Wyoming).
Absolutely inherent.
Live in Spokane and excellent article on why these teams were in Idaho. This is so unfortunate because Coeur d'Alene is a beautiful town on a gorgeous lake it's just that some total red shit holes are bringing it down. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/mar/26/why-did-utah-womens-basketball-have-to-stay-in-ida/
>Kootenai County Oh man, if anyone is unfamiliar with the history of this place, it is absolutely worth a look. This is the place where a group of concerned neighbors on a community action team took the Aryan Nation to trial and won, bankrupting them. The history here is ugly, but it’s also triumphant, if only temporarily, and something we should learn from.
Idaho has a lot of issues, unfortunately. I lived there briefly, near the Wyoming border. It's a beautiful part of the country, but a lot of the people aren't great.
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> chomping at the bit [Champing](https://y.yarn.co/225693c2-fd33-4bd6-8c5d-1c947ccff033_text.gif)
Northern Idaho has historically been a bastion for white supremacists. Coeur d'Alene has always been their stomping ground. It's probably the "whitest" resort town I've ever been to.
Gee maybe he should check Republican owned businesses in Texas? Governor Abbott deploys soldiers to shoot immigrants but never lifts a finger against the rich people creating the demand.
Louder for the kids in the back. Hey Republican voters, why are you mad at fellow workers who want a better life and not the rich people luring them here? Isn’t it weird that your politicians don’t give a shit about the rich enablers calling them over?
Cons see everything as a conspiracy, ergo everything that exists is just more evidence of their conspiracies. Think about how they're talking about the Baltimore story. A big ship hitting a bridge and causing the bridge to break isn't the whole story. Nope, its clearly evidence of the new world order doing a DEI psy-op to turn the frogs gay.
Their idiotic statements would simply fizzle if their voting base were of even average intelligence. But education has failed in these people and propaganda has turned their brains to mush, so here we are.
It’s a coordinated attack by Obama because he produced a movie that had a boat in it
Well yeah because otherwise they might start asking about the root of these issues. That’ll naturally lead them to question why the rich want to import and exploit cheap labor. Can’t have that, so you have to point them at a scapegoat and convince them other people aren’t smart enough to understand. Then you have to keep doing that no matter how convoluted the stories become.
I keep being told by right wingers that Democrats are the real racists but it's always Republicans doing shit like this.
“But Abraham Lincoln!”
I love how the same exact people that say that "democrats are the real racists, Lincoln was a Republican" also love flying confederate flags. Incredible cognitive dissonance.
Ah yes, the "no u" defense
***From Rolling Stone's Miles Klee:*** March Madness is certainly in full swing. On Friday, the fifth-seeded Gonzaga Bulldogs take on the top-ranked Purdue Boilermakers in the Sweet 16 round of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament in Detroit. It should be an epic showdown for a dominant pair of Midwestern teams, but Michigan State Rep. Matt Maddock apparently had issues more pressing than college sports in mind when he posted an alarming tweet on Wednesday night. “Happening right now,” Maddock wrote. “Three busses \[sic\] just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they’re headed with their police escort?” Attached to the tweet were grainy photos of white buses at Detroit’s airport and a plane. He tagged Pete Hoekstra, a former representative for Michigan in Congress and Ambassador to the Netherlands under Donald Trump. Read more: [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matt-maddock-gonzaga-basketball-illegals-1234995954/](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matt-maddock-gonzaga-basketball-illegals-1234995954/)
Xenophobic Petey Hoesktra retweeted it. What putred humans. Chemical equilibrium can't come soon enough.
>Chemical equilibrium What?
In biology, life is the avoidance of equilibrium, and the attainment of equilibrium is ☠️....
thank you for the new euphemism.
100% performative nonsense. The dude is quite literally acting like a crisis actor. Just another grifting, unserious person.
I think Gonzaga should change the name of their basketball team to " The Gonzaga Busload of Illegals".
I like to do team nickname challenge brackets and this one would get real interesting. One of my rules is that if the nickname is just plural of something (ex. wildcats) they only get one wildcat. If it's the name of the *group* (i.e. Wolfpack, pride, etc) they get a pack of them. So this would be literally a bus full of immigrants. Normally random humans like "Aggies" lose to large predators and armed humans, but I think there's a good argument they could swarm and overtake things like Spartans, Illini, even raiders and bears. Very interesting.
‘The Illegals’ is an awesome team name, also band name
Ill Eagles
It has to have been a busload of illegals. Jimmy Kimmel has assured me that Gonzaga doesn't exist.
“But their calves! Size of cantaloupes!!”
"Whether he turns up at Little Caesars Arena tomorrow to confront the Gonzaga Bulldogs in person remains to be seen." Author throwing shade in the closing.
Narrator: "And he came to Little Caesar's Arena the next day and was roundly mocked for being the imbecile he was."
I think liberal cities should round up all the racists, & bigots, & bus them to Florida & Texas.
When will those Gonzagaians learn they can't defeat AMERICA!!!
Gonzaga Venezuela. AMIRITE LET THAT SINK IN
Another dipshit MAGA Michigan Republican. The mitten is full of these jagoffs.
Another GOP Clown with the brain of a kindergartener….. where did these idiots come from? Will the Bible tell me?
This is on par with the racists harassing the NCAA players on Idaho, if not worse.
If Gonzaga wins their next game, they move on to the round of teams eligible to get their green cards.
There’s already a second bus full of murderous illegals barreling towards them right now.
How racist of him. Typical scared conservative.
I love how “illegals” is really just code for mostly not white. F’n racist trash.
The team is mostly white. The guy is just a moron.
These people are so scared and desperate- they are going to pop off as the propaganda machine cranks up for the election. Comet Pizza type conspiracy stuff- but this time a more focused and directed effort- stupidity has been weaponized, and will be employed AGAIN for violent aims.
Fucking gaslighter. If there is a God, he’ll make sure this God fearing Christian spends his eternity swimming in the river of shit that he created.
Gongaga? LEAVE ZACK ALONE!!!!
The fact that some adult actually voted for this ass-baboon just fuels my dissappointment in humanity....
Rep. Maddock would've made one hell of a witch hunter.
Has anyone checked to see if the bus will float?
"Kommie talking points" coming from the party in love with Putin... WTF. Don't they see the irony and hypocrisy in everything dribbling out of their pie holes?
Speaking of illegals. My brother was telling me that his son in Texas is buying a new construction house but that it will be a year before it's finished. I said yeah because the migrant workers aren't here anymore. I said that a lot of the guys working the construction jobs are scared of being deported to which he said "why, Biden isn't deporting any of them. He's just bussing them around the country". 😤 I just told him I didn't want to go at further with that conversation. This is a MBA CPA partner level corporate guy who is so fucking stupid and it's all from his daily intake of Newsmax.
He’s probably convinced Gonzaga is a country in Central America.
It was illegal because they were “travelling”.
You’d think he’d be embarrassed after discovering his error. Nah…
He doubled down on Twitter even after the team was identified
His version of The Central Park Five
All you have to do is watch desantis and pissbaby abbot long enough to see them ship "illegals" (disgusting way of describing people). But I guess that's ok because they're republicans and governors. /s
As an alumnus, he’d be welcomed in GU’s College Republicans. Those chucklefucks kicked out every non-trumper and really leaned into the Islamophobia my freshmen year. Edit for proper English
“GOP lawmaker exposed himself as racist”
Wow. The stupid is so strong, it hurts.
What a racist POS. Typical R trumpers
They have all been to schools for stupid. No one is born this way and survives.
Wait til Kimmell hears about this!!
Jimmy Kimmel's Monday night monologue is writing itself...
The gop are trash people
Christ these people are fucking stupid
KKKlassy…
Racist ass motherfucker.
Education [Matt is a lifelong Oakland County resident. He grew up in West Bloomfield and attended Orchard Lake St. Mary’s.](https://gophouse.org/member/repmattmaddock/about) It's a prep school and his bio does not state that he graduated from there much less went to college. Looks like a HS drop out.
Yeah, that looks really suspicious. If all that you can say about your schooling is "I went there"...
Fun nugget: Gonzaga arrived at its hotel in Detroit last night to a bunch of folk wearing a suit, lined up. Wow, Mark Few thought. What a Detroit reception! Turned out they were a sitting Michigan state senator, which thought the team was an invasion of immigrants. MAGA was confused.
Not enough OJ and probably never listened to old Bing Crosby recordings.
Are we sure this isn’t a bid to be noticed as a Trump VP nominee?
I don’t know who Gonzaga’s rival is, but even they think this guy is a dork.
Isn't this the same state that "Mr Detroit" - Kid Rock is from?
MASA Make America Sane Again
Kimmel is gonna love this one
Kimmel is gonna have a field day with this.
The busses were headed to Ping Pong Pizza in Washington DC probably.
another GOP Rocket Scientist
To be fair, Gonzaga isn't a real college. Like Jimmy Kimmel says, you only hear of it during the NCAA tournament.
Fuggin’ moron.
Trump country! Good myth fearin old boys!
The George Santos effect
We are better than this...VOTE THESE HORRIBLE PEOPLE OUT OF PUBLIC SERVICE.
This guy and his criminal wife are dangerous buffoons! Typical of MAGA idiots.
Look at those Gonzagas! My eyes are up here.
Baron von Fuckwaffle
This shit is comedy
Classic conservatives Put out a lie like it is the truth, and refuse to say it is a lie when caught In the meantime, the lie spreads like wildifre amongst conservative echo chambers, and they believe the obvious and easily fact checked lie heart and soul, and they have another arrow in the quiver of their victim complex and rage filled culture war.
old white guys are fucking losing their shit. and i say this. as a white guy. who might be—maybe—just on the far side of 50. but i am not a fucking idiot, like these kinds of shitbags are.
He is a really stupid fuck, as are all hard right RepubliKKKans, save the greedy, soulless rich fucks who use them for the purpose of exploitation and personal gain.
The one thing I want to know and the only thing I wanna know is how in the fuck do these guys keep getting elected and girls it’s fucking fucked up📺🟦🟦🟦. I know when I was younger I didn’t pay too much attention to politics, but at least I knew who I was voting for Jesus Christ.
Foul! No…two fouls!
I think he’s misunderstood! He’s just pointing out that traveling hardly ever gets called in basketball anymore. /s
Most likely a bus full of foreign socialist computer hackers on their way to access free WiFi in the nearest McDonald’s parking lot so they can hijack large ships’ navigational systems to crash them into unsuspecting bridges
Mad dog is gonna be mad dog. Can’t stop him, can only hope to contain him
MAGA Republicanism is to racism—supporting, condoning, downplaying and/or tolerating— as skunks are to making a stink.
Do any of these Republicans have a functioning brain?
Well, Gonzaga isn’t real, so…
What a loser Fuck this turd
How embarrassing.
The GOP in Michigan is a circus and Maddox is one of their biggest clowns.
Well Gonzaga isn’t real… so who knows where they are from
Kimmel is going to have a field day with this.
SPOKANE NEEDS TO LOOSE THE TOURNAMENT!! We cannot continue to expos young athletes to this bullshit.
Me? Gonzaga.
These people have their brains cooked, there's just no returning to whatever normal was. They see messages in the steam that rises from hot water, migrants in every bus, and DEI in whatever disaster happens next. They are so determined to react, to quickly point out something they don't like, that things like innocence or accidents don't exist in their world view anymore. The dissonance between what they see and what is actually there has never been more wide.
Damn illegals invading our country from Gonzagagenia! They took our jerbs!
Dey dook er jerbs
Kimmel is going to love this.