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Comment by chooseaname

5 years ago

Its not catchy. Say the words out loud. Everything about those words are ominous.

He knew what he was saying. But, coward that he is, he’s claiming to not know where the words came from now that a reporter asked him.

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philwelch  5 years ago

So you might remember about a year back, a doctor got rather violently removed from a United Airlines flight after boarding because they overbooked the flight. There was a joke about it afterwards, some gallows humor: “Not enough seating? Prepare for a beating.”

I remembered that admittedly tasteless joke because (a) it rhymes and (b) it’s pretty violent and offensive, which makes it somewhat vivid. And honestly, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” hits the same notes.