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mr_snarky's avatar

Clearly a set up. They built a strip -- er -- gentlemen's club right where fiske would find it and the rest is just boys will be boys so obviously not his fault.

Sounds like his opponent is a loon so it's a lose lose situation.

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Marla's avatar

So...

Friske got frisky.

Somebody stop me! The jokes just write themselves.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

8th grade art class and I did a bisqueware bust of Vince Lombardi that came out of the furnace looking just like this guy here. D+. It was the best I could do...

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Cyderist's avatar

Everyone's thinking it: Pls post this pic

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Sorry. No can do. Long ago Charles Bukowski bought it from my dad thinking it was “fan art”.

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Cyderist's avatar

Sounds like he found something he loved. How’s he doing these days?

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Bukowski? Died in 1994. Not making this up -- unlike all the rest.

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jltympanum's avatar

Based on the example tfg has set, this event ought to improve his re-election chances. What a country!

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beb's avatar

missing from this is the allegation that he had fired the gun at the dancer already. Which is why the police took arrested him and long list of charges.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

"Stand Your Ground" laws have been expanded to protect the impotent.

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Jamshied Sharifi's avatar

Goodness, this is skeevy. If this is where the GOP is at, this country is toast.

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Marla's avatar

And this is news to you because...?

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

I, K, R?

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meh's avatar

The GQP has been here for forty years. They are the party of that kid from grade school with oppositional defiant disorder who wouldn’t do as he was told even if he wanted to do it…..only less mature.

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RRJKR's avatar

I usually try not to sit in judgement of others but I will in the case of "Gentlemen's Clubs", until very recently called "strip joints". I find them offensive on too many levels to count They debase and objectify women and IMO guys who frequent them are either weird pervs or of seriously arrested emotional and social development. Certainly not qualified to hold any public office.

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Pisto75666's avatar

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/neil-friske-arrest-michigan-representative-gun-adult-dancer-stripper.html

Also according to the MIRS report, the dancer works for the Lansing location of the Deja Vu gentlemen's club chain, which was founded by a native of a nearby small town who began his business career by inventing the pornographic drive-in theater. Like we used to say in Michigan, Lansing is where it all happens.

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Viole Falusche's avatar

This is yet another 'please bring back cat pix' lede foto.

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Kel Varnsen's avatar

Family values party™️

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Yes, Manson Family values.

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rmontcal's avatar

“As many of us know, Rep. Friske is always exercising his 2nd Amendment right.”

The difference between Dems and Rs is that no Democrat politician or staffer would ever write that or even conceive of writing something that cuckoo-bananas. It is a “Dems are from Venus, Rs are from your anus” difference.

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Nemo's avatar

I think of it as Dems are bonobos and Rs are chimpanzees. Bonobos resolve social conflict by having sex with one another and chimpanzees start wars. The ancient Greeks noticed this by making Mars, their war god male, and Aphrodite, their sex goddess female.

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Internet Personae's avatar

“Did the sexual assault involve the firearm in question? What part of “shall not be infringed” do you understand? Are we clear Miss Stripper Pole Barby?”

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DemoCat's avatar

Republicans can literally spin any humiliation or scandal into a crusade for your rights. This time it’s fighting tirelessly for your right to threaten strippers with a gun on a public street at 3:00 a.m. while drunk.

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Zap's avatar

Look at that photo. He's a pinch zoom tool.

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

What is a 62 year old grandfather doing out at 3 am visiting a strip club and carrying a gun. This man is not someone who I would trust with children.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Molesting poor exotic dancers, who are just trying to make a living.

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Jamshied Sharifi's avatar

Pretty much what you’d think.

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Barney Rubble's avatar

I hear you, but playing devil's advocate for a second: "'Merka! Hell yeah. Wooo!"

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Dennis's avatar

There’s a face that could make a Fleshlight wish for a new career

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