All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!(Part II)

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

A lot of Bernie supporters didn't seem to understand that the rules of the Democratic Party that they didn't like, were not new and had been in place for years. You don't join a club on Monday and demand that they change all of their club rules on Tuesday.

Well but you don’t expect all the people who joined and didn’t like the rule to support you after either. Again it came down to having their cake and eating it to. You can set up the rules however you want, but you don’t get to be upset that people got upset about it.,

[worstblogever]

This one is for WBE. I mean...yikes.

https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/1...014486016?s=21

There's a reason I had profiled him only 5 days ago.

[BeastieRunner]

Team Mueller Update:

Trump is on day 29 of 45 to get Mueller written answers to part of his interview.

I'm interested to see what happens if they pass the already extended deadline.

[ed2962]

Well, voter suppression is the only play Republicans have left as they damn sure can't run on their record which has been flat out deplorable.



My guess is it might. While it's been said Kanye is nuttier than a truckload of Planters (he's married to a Kartrashian after all), he isn't stupid.


As a veteran, the idea of a weasel like Nunes getting a medal dedicated to our servicemen and servicewomen offends and angers me no end.

The irony is, it was KIM that met with Trump and got a woman who was sentenced to life on a drug charge released from prison. What's West doing? Talking about how that red hat makes him feel like Superman...

[PaulBullion]

Well but you don’t expect all the people who joined and didn’t like the rule to support you after either. Again it came down to having their cake and eating it to. You can set up the rules however you want, but you don’t get to be upset that people got upset about it.,

Yes, yes. Why should we expect people to care about things like the environment being destroyed by global warming and minorities being stripped of their rights and children being locked in cages like fucking livestock if they can, you know, make a point about being taken seriously instead.

[PaulBullion]

While the Medal of Honor is indeed reserved for military valor, only 8 civilians actually received the Medal of Honor. One of them was the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.


https://www.wearethemighty.com/artic...medal-of-honor


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...Medal_of_Honor

Medal of freedom, 'subo. Not honor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presid...dal_of_Freedom

[WestPhillyPunisher]

The irony is, it was KIM that met with Trump and got a woman who was sentenced to life on a drug charge released from prison. What's West doing? Talking about how that red hat makes him feel like Superman...

And to this day, I remain genuinely amazed one of THE most vain, self-absorbed and generally useless creatures on the planet like Kim Kartrashian did something THAT altruistic.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” had a profile of Jon Hubbard, a former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives who was elected to office in 2012, and didn’t last too long in office after the Arkansas times started thumbing through a book he wrote called “Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative” where he discussed how the institution of slavery was not “an abomination upon black people” so much as a “blessing in disguise” that gave them the opportunity to have “lives as Americans likely much better than they would have enjoyed living in sub-Saharan Africa”. He also predicted that immigration as an issue in America would lead to “planned wars or extermination” and assured us that while that thought might seem “barbaric and uncivilized”, and some point it would “become as necessary as eating or breathing”. When all these revelations came to light, Jon Hubbard didn’t apologize, of course, he defended them to the hilt, and the Koch Brothers kept funding his campaign and sending out mailers to try to keep him in office. Since being voted out , Hubbard has shifted the blame for his fall from grace on, who else? President Obama. He compares the president to Hitler and he’s started calling the IRS the Gestapo while claiming that Planned Parenthood have been blessed by Obama’s god (lower case G, so it’s clear it’s not the Judeo-Christian one). Yes, Jon Hubbard was very, very racist and is highly unlikely to every hold office again.

In 2015, 2016, and 2017, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of Garry Smith, a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives who worked on the presidential campaign of Scott Walker (as short as that lasted) who actually tried filing a bill to create a “2nd Amendment Education Day” to be celebrated annually on December 15th, which would be the day after the anniversary of the Newtown Massacre, by coincidence (sure it is). Where Smith really got attention, though, was to strip money away from South Carolina universities for having reading programs that included LGBTQ literature. In totals that just so happened to be their entire reading budgets. He went on CNN to defend this decision in March 2014, and gave the response you’d expect from another poor “victim” of the gay agenda, ”Their stance is, ‘Even if you don’t want to read it, we’ll shove it down your throat.’ It’s not academic freedom, it’s academic totalitarianism.” As a legislator, Smith has submitted legislation to attempt to nullify the Affordable Care Act or federal firearms laws, tried to criminalize abortion outright (forgetting that Roe v. Wade is a thing), and submitted amendments to the state constitution to try and define marriage as between one man and one woman. Garry Smith advanced out of the GOP Primary in 2018 with 75% of the vote against two challengers, and does not face a challenger in November from Democrats. We continue to await the point where someone from Team Blue decides to bother running against him for office, and for now, we'll set aside his profile to go ahead and take a look at a different wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 696-30, since this was established in July 2014.)


Catherine Templeton
Welcome to the 696th original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where we'll actually be talking about Catherine Templeton, a candidate for Governor of South Carolina in 2018. And yes, as shown above, she tried winning the Republican primary in that race by airing ads to show her proficiency with firearms, taking aim at a rattlesnake, because that’s a good measuring stick for office these days from the GOP. It might have helped, however, if the animal she chose to use to embody what’s wrong with politics that she was about to slay was not an endangered animal.

That, however, is not the reason why we took notice of Templeton, who formerly served as the Director of Labor and the Director of the Department of Health and Environmental Services at two different points during the administration of former Gov. Nikki Haley. No, it would probably be Templeton’s desire to win the bigot vote by doing things shortly after announcing her candidacy like declaring she was “proud of the Confederacy”, and also that she would not allow a Confederate monument to be removed if elected:

“Not on my watch. I don’t think there is anything else to say about it. You cannot rewrite history. I don’t care whose feelings it hurts.”

A little digging from local historians found out that maybe there was even less of a reason for Templeton to be proud of an rebellion fought for the right to keep slaves… her family fought in it, sure… but they also were literally some of the slave owners running a plantation in South Carolina. She claimed, of course, to be unaware of her family’s own sordid past.

But Templeton was also an equal opportunity bigot, adding to her racist fandom with transphobic bathroom fearmongering.

“If you’re a boy, you go to the boys’ room. If you’re a girl, you go to the little girls’ room. And if you’re a pervert, we put you in jail and throw away the keys.. I’m just not sure there’s anything else to say.”

Well, we have the good news, to share at least, that Templeton’s less than subtle trucking in hate did not help win her the election, and that she finished third in the primary with only 21% of the vote. Time will tell if she ever reaches any elected office, but at least right now the answer is “no”.

[BeastieRunner]

Early voting, overseas, and absentee ballots are starting to come in for most states.

Right now, the Dems lead the GOP 39-3.

17 aren't expecting to change at all (16 D, 1 R).

[worstblogever]

The irony is, it was KIM that met with Trump and got a woman who was sentenced to life on a drug charge released from prison. What's West doing? Talking about how that red hat makes him feel like Superman...

Pictured: Kanye, off his meds:

[Kevinroc]

Pictured: Kanye, off his meds:

Man, why you gotta do Mario dirty like that?

[BeastieRunner]

Man, why you gotta do Mario dirty like that?

Well, Trump already has Toad in his pants.

[numberthirty]

A lot of Bernie supporters didn't seem to understand that the rules of the Democratic Party that they didn't like, were not new and had been in place for years. You don't join a club on Monday and demand that they change all of their club rules on Tuesday.

What if you join a club and after saying you aren't really a member of that club someone says "It's true... You know it's true..."? Are you responsible for getting the club back on good terms after they do that, or is that their responsibility because they created the friction when they said it?

[numberthirty]

Stock market had a major jump and is now in free-fall, with little chance of jumping back up today.

One more day and it will be considered a crash, or as the GOP changed the term, a "recession."

On one of the business networks really early, one guy was saying "People have to accept that this is a bubble. It was a bubble before Trump ever took office."

While I'm not so sure about that, a run can't just go on for three or four Presidential terms.

[BeastieRunner]

On one of the business networks really early, one guy was saying "People have to accept that this is a bubble. It was a bubble before Trump ever took office."

While I'm not so sure about that, a run can't just go on for three or four Presidential terms.

Inflation is bananas again. Bond market soaring. Housing market is taking a turn. Tax cuts promised growth.

I've read this story before ...