Jay Ashcroft flopped when faced with the most dreaded predicament amongst grandstanding blowhards: a follow-up question
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s attempt to justify his ludicrous threat to have President Joe Biden removed from the state’s electoral ballot spiraled into chaos over the most basic of questions: “How so?”
During a Monday interview with CNN’s Boris Sanchez, the Republican was asked how he justified his threats to have Biden removed from the state’s ballot in retaliation for recent attempts to remove Trump from state ballots on grounds that his actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election constitute insurrection. The constitutionality of such a removal will soon be reviewed by the Supreme Court.
“What would then be your justification for removing Joe Biden from the ballot in Missouri. Has he engaged in your mind in some kind of insurrection?” Sanchez asked.
“There have been allegations that he’s engaged in insurrection,” Ashcroft replied. He was then met with the most dreaded predicament amongst grandstanding blowhards: a follow-up question.
“How so?” Sanchez asked, prompting Ashcroft to demand that Sanchez stop interrupting him. “You can’t say something like that and not back it up,” Sanchez countered.
“You interrupted me before I could back it up,” a flustered Ashcroft complained. “Are you scared of the truth?”
Isn’t Missouri the show me State? Is this fucktard going to show any evidence of insurrection or just blather on about how other governors have made the claim of insurrection against Biden? My god Republicans are stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid to the fucking core.
That’s why they attack education constantly. Education prevents conservatives.
We’re seeing a lot of conservative action and behaviour on college campuses these days though. Go far enough to the liberal side and you end up standing right next to the conservatives!
GTFO with your both sides nonsense.
It’s not both sides. What we’re seeing is that it’s human nature. It goes well past whatever your political beliefs are…
Go far enough to the right of them.
Or are you talking about the widely discredited Horseshoe Theory?
I’m talking about the banning of certain ideas and speech.
20 years ago when I was in university that was an entirely conservative ideal. Today we don’t see that being the case…
What speech and ideas do you feel are being banned?
They’re not being banned technically, they’re being run off campus which amounts to the same. The congressional hearings covered some of this, it’s not like I’m putting forward a new idea here. There’s testimony of student groups having their spaces taken away.
So they aren’t banned or illegal?
I am curious to see some of your sources instead of your vague statements.
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https://pix11.com/news/israel-war/jewish-students-locked-inside-library-told-security-they-felt-unsafe/
This is one example of a few that have been in the news lately. Do you think that targeted group is going to continue to meet on campus?
They’re being discouraged with extraordinary levels of animosity and as we’re seeing before Congress and in various law suits, the institutions are not really doing anything to stop it. If you can’t see that as tacitly approving the behaviour, then I guess you’re one of those where the context is dependent.
They are being “ran off” because they no longer hold muster and they refuse to provide any new ideas. This is how the marketplace of ideas work. Their ideas failed and are being rejected because they are unserious. Now they are demanding these ideas which have failed to be inserted back into the academic space by force.
If only there were other opinions and ideas we could discuss implementing other than “liberalism” and “conservatism” but academics won’t let other ideas replace those in the marketplace because the failures are refusing the leave the square and are threatening violence if they don’t get their way.
Don’t both sides this. They weren’t banned. They weren’t mobbed. They lost and refused to leave.
Are you serious? The marketplace of ideas is violently chasing people out of their designated meeting places?
That’s censorship by violence. You’re justifying this.
This is literally the problem I’m talking about and you’re acting like it’s the civilized way to engage in disparate ideas. That’s fucked up. They’re going to be inserted back into the academic space legally because it’s unquestionably bigoted to target a protected class, even if you’re claiming it’s because you disagree with their ideas. That’s just fucking wild.
Please stop assigning stupidity to things that are openly and brazenly malicious.
To be fair, he did look genuinely shocked about the job of Secretary of State.
The problem here is the ambiguity of “Republicans”. If you mean politicians, then yes, they’re malicious AF and often pretty competent about it. If you mean their voters, then most of them are just abysmally stupid (and arrogant enough to think they’re smart).
Their business is only in propping up accusations, so he’s just gonna blather.
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Missouri is one of the last and proudest slave states (followed only by Arkansas, Texas, and Florida - go figure?). They routinely slaughtered Kansans for their refusal to brutalize and own other humans. Rush Limbaugh is from there. Ferguson police just shoot black people for sport and openly laugh about it. It’s an infected polyp on the anus of racist America with some of the worst, most hateful people scowling and lurching around in it.
That this chud would be representing the people of Missouri is not a surprise at all.
They do have some lovely scenery though, and there are a few decent people there as well. Just - on the political front, you can pretty well expect when you hear Missouri it won’t be good news.
No. Missouri is the “blow me” state.