Rep. Lee Zeldin is running for governor of New York. Yesterday, as he was talking to a small crowd about public safety, a drunk guy apparently got tired of listening to him:
Video footage of the encounter showed Mr. Jakubonis wielding a pointed plastic self-defense tool shaped like the face of a cartoon cat as he lunged at Mr. Zeldin. Mr. Jakubonis can be heard on video repeatedly saying, “You’re done.”
....Mr. Jakubonis, a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, said that he was battling a relapse of alcoholism and was being treated for anxiety. He described his mental state on Thursday night as “checked out,” adding that he had fallen “asleep within” himself.
He suggested the cat-shaped object he held was intended for self-defense. “The ears are plastic, but I guess they’re sharp,” he said in the interview on Friday afternoon. “Then I was tackled.”
A cat-shaped object? Inquiring minds demand to know more:
Hmmm. Can we please see this in more detail?
Cats are always getting bad press. Why couldn't this guy have gotten a dog-shaped keychain thingie instead? The company that makes the "My Kitty" model also has a very nice looking "Brutus Bulldog" design.
Cats must reap what they sow.
So, plastic brass knuckles...
Thuggery but on a budget.
hey things are tough out there these days ...
Thanks, Biden!
Perhaps less likely to set off a metal detector. And maybe look less dense on X-ray?
The "attack" on Mr Zeldin was almost as vicious as the brutal assault on Mayor Giuliani a couple of weeks ago. This wave of liberal violence must be suppressed with utmost ruthlessness.
Shinzo Abe suffered less.
He is probably a whiskey drinker. I will admit I like the "Lincoln County Process" of Jack,George and Nelson. The best thing the black man ever did.
I realized this was going to be full on bullshit when I read a quote from a conservative claiming it was still a deadly attack if it were a butter knife, which was pretty clear to be that the threat was greatly exaggerated and conservatives were worried that people would come away mocking Zeldin.
They're also playing up what a deadly threat it was because the guy, who was clearly mentally disturbed, was charged and then released under the state's no bail law. Republicans are now claiming that Kathy Hochul's "revolving door justice system" turned a maniacal attempted murderer back out on the street.
The guy caught screaming obscenities at Pramila Jayapal the other day, who actually had a weapon on him, was also released after police determined that driving back and forth in front of a congresswoman's office yelling at her while armed was no biggie.
Give me a break. Nobody cares.
In Critical Race Theory America, Willie Horton can be Black.
See what Rachel Dolezal & Lia Thomas* hath wrought, libtardz?
*I got curious about Lia Thomas to see if there was any weight at all to my fear of her as a UPENN Colleqe GQP psyop, & it turns out the "sudden onset womanhood" that the bad faith kkklowns like Dr. Feelqood Jordan Peterson & KKKlay Travis were harping on was a joke. Thomas started to formally transition & adopt woman pronouns by 2019, & did in fact take a redshirt year (as much due Plandemic effects on higher education & NCAA competition in 2019-20 as her confirmation process). & contra the fear she was just doing it to make podia after being shitass as a man swimmer, she was top 10 in the men's field in her conference, & hasn't shown improvement anything like what was witnessed in MLB in 1998 when Mark Mc Gwire & Sammy Sosa were doped to high heaven. Turns out, she's just who she always was. I apologize for letting my own dismal view of Colleqiate GQP shenanigans color my thought on Thomas's trustworthiness as a woman.
The question remains, though, why no straight stories noted that Thomas's confirmation process was years in the making (2019-22). Hell, I never even saw a purported ally like Dave Zirin or the flakes at Defector-dot-com puncture that hot air balloon that KKKlay Travis, ESQ, was riding to social media engagement glory.
**can be white, I should say.
Maybe this will be the start of a regular "weird news" feature on jabberwocking.
“ Cats are always getting bad press.”
If it had been dog-shaped, it would have shot out slobber.
If it were dog-shaped you could pretend you were throwing an invisible stick and the guy would take off after it.
Sheesh! No wonder he was let out of jail without bail.
So much for the "deadly knife attack." Honestly, trumpistas are such delicate snowflakes! No wonder they think they need to carry near-machine guns at all times. Oh noes! A plastic kitty keychain! Take cover! Open fire!!
Wielded correctly, that thing could really hurt someone. It's technically a self-defense weapon. So it's not as though he rushed the dais with a pool noodle, but it's not clear the guy was actually intending to threaten Zeldin with it and, as I wrote above, the campaign is playing this up mainly so they can fake outrage over the fact that he was released w/o bail.
Someone should get those Purple Heart band-aids the idiot Republicans used to mock Kerry with and send them to his campaign.
+1
That was when I first realized that, with Republicans, there is no bottom.
John Kerry was a pinko double agent who is lucky he didn't end up like Pat Tillman.
Getting mocked for his purple heart was deserved, & actually, pretty weak beer, anyway.
I believe it is entirely reasonable and acceptable for delusional drunks to attack republicans. Cat scratching is kind of pathetic, but this dude seem pretty pathetic anyways.
If these wusses had to deal with 1/100th of the terroristic death threats from MAGAt filth that AOC or Ilhan Omar receive on any given day ending in y, they would lose their fucking minds.
Now, I would be scared, too, if some weirdo lunged at me with what appeared to be a sharpened knuckle duster, but Zeldin's running around now acting like he heroically dodged an assassination attempt by a crazy ninja wielding two katanas or something.
Looks suspiciously like Charlie…
It’s an interesting and difficult charging decision. These might be silly looking “Hello Kitty!” Knuckledusters but they could de some serious damage. Getting shanked in the shower with a sharpened toothbrush can leave you just dead as being machine gunned by a MAGA killer.
On the other hand, the weapon didn’t factor into the supposed assault. If he hadn’t been wearing these ridiculous things,I doubt whether he’d be charged with anything, not even a misdemeanor. Probably the cops would have tossed him in the drunk tank and let him sleep it off.
Maga killer???? Bhahaya. Fiction created by dumb idiots. Maga is debt based dollar globalism, because when it goes and the counterparties release, bye capitalism.
Cesar Sayoc, Jr., did nothing wrong.
Republicans should desperately introduce legislation to ban these things as soon as possible before someone gets hurt.
It's a crisis of public safety and liberals want everyone to just look the other way, like they think it's their right to maim, savage and kill whoever they want to.
How many disturbed adolescents are carrying these things around in schools right now just waiting for some trivial thing to set them off???
Wait, lemme catch my breath, I was laughing so hard...
Aaaiiight, now. These "Hello Kitty" (and other) self-defense plastic keychains were illegal in Texas--and maybe other States--until 2019.
Wanna take a wild-ass guess who changed that? And, I might add, a great many other things, like my shiny new switchblade...
You're welcome.
Clearly everybody needs to have a gun to defend themselves from maniacs carrying sharp plastic cats.
My brother rescue-adopted an older cat which had belonged to an old lady who died. Total house cat, stalking and sleeping when she isn't eating. She was sitting on my bed when girlfriend's 80 pound Pit came in to let us all know the circus was in town, trying to join us on the bed. Old kitty rises up and strikes like a Wild Kingdom lynx, claws flying. Poor Pitty stands aback, utterly mystified.
Love a cat, but never let your guard down.
The Weather Channel says that it Feels Like 109 outside right now.
Wouldn't have guessed. I thought maybe 108, 108.5, but 109 seems out there.
In a few months it will feel like 0 degrees. Seasons. It’s a beautiful awesome day in Michigan. Y’all should move here.
In a few months it'll feel like -15, and Michigan is surrounded by water so that's like nature's heat pump.
Well then. Clearly this "global warming" thing is just a hoax by scientists to get the government to furnish their lavish lifestyles.
Not a hoax, but some places are safer than others. Michigan might be one of those places. But, you know… whatcha gonna do?
No place is really an island. Even islands aren’t islands.
Should we point out that this assassin is ex military? They are all unstable. Hoping one of them take out trump! That would be a hoot!
That's a "My Kitty" self-defense weapon? With different marketing it could be sold as a Doberman self-efense weapon. Still, I would just a soon see cats take the bad rap for this silliness, Dobermans get too much bad publicity as it is.
And now he's arrested on Federal charges....
This is why Republicans never survive the comedy club circuit--those hecklers are brutal.
I don't condone violence, and this situation was wrong and certainly scary, but the right wing media hype was just so bizarrely over the top...
Russian chess playing robot reaches over and breaks a child's finger on purpose,
https://newsbeezer.com/czechrepubliceng/a-chess-robot-in-moscow-has-broken-the-finger-of-its-human-opponent/
NR online at the Corner is taking this story as an opportunity to attack New York's bail laws. That is, they are taking it seriously as an opportunity to portray conservatives (the candidate) as victims of an unfair criminal justice system run by Democrats in a blue state. I wonder what their take would have been if Zeldin had pulled out a weapon to defend himself?
The local prosecutor, who is a GQPer (& also a top member of the Zeldin campaign), was the one who charged the assailant (Zeldin's old Army buddy) with a non-bail offense.
I am pretty sure this thing has been a setup from the jump.
The more I think about it, the more I think you’re right. To begin with, how does this drunken yahoo get to a political rally in the first place? Who told him that the speaker was “disrespecting veterans” and how exactly did that come up in casual conversation?
And I think you’re also right about the prosecuting attorney. Nothing about her charging decision makes any sense. This is, at least ostensibly, an assault on a politician at a political rally. It isn’t necessarily an attempted anything since it does seem as though there was an offensive touching which makes this a completed crime.
It absolutely inconceivable that a prosecutor would not file a more serious charge if only to hold this guy until they could be sure what went down. Now, with more information, it looks like a nothingburger but unless she wa in on it from the start, there’s no way the prosecuting attorney could’ve known that and the imperative would surely have been to hold onto the guy.
It's Ashley Todd with a higher budget & actual campaign planning