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Rebuttal

26: The Assassin

Rebuttal

Rebmasel

True Crime

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 116 minutes

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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Do political assassinations even happen in the U.S. anymore? Apparently yes. Yes, they do. Get ready to change your middle name, sue Puerto Rico for speaking Spanish, move to a hog farm in Tennessee, and learn that write-in ballots never win (except for the rare, *bloody* exception). Reb brings a murder weapon to the voting booth in Tennessee v. Byron (Low Tax) Looper (2000). TRIGGER WARNING for sexual assault/abuse. Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 2:36 - Byron's early life 4:30 - West Point 8:55 - Honorable discharge to politics pipeline 12:38 - Young Democrats of Georgia/Byron has a temper?! 14:00 - Byron and the 1988 GA Democratic primary 20:41 - Byron gets #educated 21:38 - #PuertoRicoGate 32:46 - Byron meets Terri Guess in TN 39:43 - DUMP HIM 43:43 - Byron changes his middle name to (Low Tax).....and it works??? 1:03:03 - Senator Tommy Burks 1:08:17 - Byron's been busy 1:09:00 - The last day of his life 1:14:44 - Looper v. Burks 1:19:21 - The arrest 1:21:30 - The ballot's a mess 1:22:02 - Charlotte Burks 1:25:56 - What's the evidence? 1:43:53 - The aftermath 1:45:50 - CONSPIRACY AROUND LOOPER'S DEATH 1:54:03 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

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0:18.0

Essential for their overall well-being and a happy, healthy they give you plenty of smiles so look after

0:25.8

theirs with dental life pick up dental life in the pet food aisle

0:29.9

Mexico's 2024 election is now the bloodiest in its modern history after a candidate running for local office in Central Pueblo State was murdered the Friday before the vote on Sunday at a political rally.

0:45.0

His murder took the number of assassinated candidates to 37.

0:50.0

In 2023, it was 36.

0:54.0

Political assassinations, however, are not limited to one country.

0:58.0

They are global.

1:00.0

Earlier this year, as an example,

1:02.0

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert FICO was gravely injured

1:06.7

in an apparent assassination attempt that rocked the small country

1:10.5

and the rest of Europe just weeks before an election.

1:13.7

Although political assassinations happen all the time, apparently America and the

1:19.9

American voters do believe that it is in other country thing. We look outside of our

1:28.0

batshit insane election cycles and say, well, we don't really assassinate people anymore. If we did, there are a few that

1:37.6

would have been top of the list in recent years, don't you think? Probably, yeah. We do have assassinations. Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, the attempted assassination of Reagan during his term which he survived, but we very much do believe political assassinations

1:58.0

are a thing of the past. Americans, however, are wrong. We do have modern political assassinations. You just might not hear about them.

2:07.6

To find one in our history, modern history, actually, we can look no further than the great state of Tennessee in

2:17.0

1998. It involved murder, of course, the language of Spanish being attacked wholly, trust me, stay with me, and a man who changed his middle name to parentheses low tax simply because he knew how to work a

2:37.2

ballot. This is the story of Byron low tax looper.le your seat belts and get your ballots ready

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