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

[worstblogever]

How long before Dolt45 sours on this guy and orders his nomination pulled?

If he can't be bribed into ignoring his principles...

[worstblogever]

Missouri Congressman Jason T. Smith (GOP) had quite a tasteful moment this week, when California Congressman Tony Cardenas (D) was giving a speech from the floor of the House, and Rep. Smith shouted, "GO BACK TO PUERTO RICO!" at him.

Rep. Cardenas is Mexican. Rep. Smith is a f***ing moronic bigot.

[InformationGeek]

Missouri Congressman Jason T. Smith (GOP) had quite a tasteful moment this week, when California Congressman Tony Cardenas (D) was giving a speech from the floor of the House, and Rep. Smith shouted, "GO BACK TO PUERTO RICO!" at him.

Rep. Cardenas is Mexican. Rep. Smith is a f***ing moronic bigot.

Ah yes. I posted about this one. What an *******.


Also, Colbert is selling mugs where the profits go to a charity that is feeding government workers during this time. Pretty nifty mugs and a decent price. Might be worth getting.

[worstblogever]

Ah yes. I posted about this one. What an *******.


Also, Colbert is selling mugs where the profits go to a charity that is feeding government workers during this time. Pretty nifty mugs and a decent price. Might be worth getting.

Democrats and liberals are supporting people whose livelihoods are impacted by conservative tantrums, because they still have empathy. Chef Jose Andres has opened his restaurant up for free meals for furloughed employees. Virtually all of the people showing kindness during the Trump shutdown are people he's derided and attacked over the past four years. The GOP has taken more of a stand for Oleg Derpiska than it has 800,000 government employees over the past week.

And he can't figure out how he's losing the battle. There's a Marist poll out that has 57% of the country saying they will not vote for Donald Trump in 2020 because of the shutdown. Kinda hard to win the electoral college when you're gonna lose the popular vote 57-43.

[Tami]

[InformationGeek]

It's too early for this level of racism... or anytime really.

Border rancher: “We’ve found prayer rugs out here. It’s unreal.” Washington Examiner People coming across the Southern Border from many countries, some of which would be a big surprise.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2015, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" ran a profile of Ed Martin, a not-so-lovable loser in Missouri elections who has lost every election he’s run for any office since 2005. In fact, his political high water mark was still when he was appointed to be former Gov. Matt Blunt’s chief of staff, but was forced to resign for sending out anti-abortion e-mails from his government e-mail account, and when caught, violated Missouri’s Sunshine Laws by trying to delete any evidence of his wrongdoing and was forced to resign. During his 2010 campaign against Congressman Russ Carnahan, he spread as many lies as possible as he could about the Affordable Care Act, like that it funded abortions, and started launching attacks at both Carnahan’s wife, for working with Planned Parenthood, and Carnahan’s late father, while cheering on a crowd that burned a photo of Carnahan while chanting “death to the dictator”. He also said the 80% of the country who supported the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” were “out of touch”, that “climate change science is garbage”, and on a local radio show, claimed that President Obama and Russ Carnahan wanted to “take away your chance to find the Lord,” in the ultimate example of a victimized Christian. While Martin didn’t win a trip to Washington, D.C., he did win the election to become the new leader of the Missouri Republican Party, in spite of all that for a stint, and currently is being surgically excised from Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum via lawsuit. When you’re too nutty for them, that says a lot.



On this date in 2016, 2017, as well as in 2018, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published its profiles of Kansas State Senator Steve Fitzgerald, who back in 2012, was a guest at a forum where he was introduced by a Ernest Evans, a political science professor at Kansas City Community College, who opened up the question and answer session with a joke, of sorts, sarcastically asking the famous loaded question of, “When did you stop beating your wife?” to get a laugh from the audience. Y’know, it’s the classic “the media is out to get you” reference. Well, what Evans probably wasn’t expecting was Steve Fitzgerald took the bait, and joked back, “Who said I stopped?” and then was surprised when nobody thought making light of abusing your spouse was hilarious. Fitzgerald also once told a group of Catholics that “one cannot support the Democratic platform and be a true follower of Christ” because Democrats support gay marriage. When you consider Jesus never said anything about gays, and was pretty specific about feeding the hungry and aiding the poor, the GOP platform seems a lot more out of synch with his teachings. Just to nitpick. Fitzgerald also has a staunchly conservative legislative record, including showing his Pro-Life credentials by sponsoring the “Kansas Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act”, his vote to drug test welfare recipients, his attempts to nullify federal firearms laws, his cooperation with insane Kansas Governor Sam Brownback on his tax breaks for the rich at the expense of the poor, and his sponsorship of a bill to legalize concealed carry without a permit in Kansas.

In March of 2017, Fitzgerald added to his extremist anti-abortion statements by, upon learning that someone made a donation to Planned Parenthood in his name, compared Planned Parenthood to a Nazi concentration camp. No, we’re not exaggerating:

Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, a Leavenworth Republican, wrote to Planned Parenthood last week, saying, “Shame on anyone that would attempt to blacken my name in this manner. This as bad, or worse, as having one’s name associated with Dachau.”

It gets better, when asked if he sent the letter by the media, Fitzgerald admitted he did, called the letter he received “harassment” and “political theatre”, but thought that people should be confused over who should be offended:

“I think the Nazis ought to be incensed by the comparison.”

Charming, right? He went on to then compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan, while he was at it.

In July of 2018, Steve Fitzgerald decided to go full-on white nationalist in his talking points, when during a meeting of the Leavenworth County GOP, he spoke about how “Christendom is under attack”, and that “outside of Western civilization, there is barbarism”.

Fitzgerald was very nearly booted from office in the Kansas State Senate in 2016, barely winning reelection over Democrat Bill Hutton by around 500 votes. That secured his seat until 2020. So for whatever reason, he thought that meant he’d be a great U.S. Congressman, and in 2018, ran for the U.S. House seat for Kansas 2nd Congressional District, to replace the retiring Congresswoman, Lynn Jenkins. After finishing fourth in the primary, Fitzgerald announced he is retiring from politics, and we can’t be happier for the people of Kansas that he’s going to be gone.

[PaulBullion]

"Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress about plans to build Trump Tower in Moscow during 2016 campaign"

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...trump-tower-in
https://www.axios.com/trump-told-coh...cc30be972.html

Well, you see, Trump isn't really a director, more an executive producer and host. So this is clearly fake news. Won't lead to his impeachment and imprisonment at all.

[PaulBullion]

Because it worked so well in preventing a blue wave, Trump is now trying to prevent his impeachment and incarceration by ... tweeting about another "caravan."

[Tami]

Doug Jones Risks His Alabama Senate Seat Over the Shutdown and the Wall

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — After Doug Jones scored an upset win in the Alabama Senate race in 2017, elated Democrats nationwide dreamed of winning in other deeply red corners of the country. Mr. Jones seemed to offer a model, rejecting labels like progressive or conservative and calling himself a “Doug Jones Democrat.”

Now, as the longest government shutdown in history rolls into a fourth week, Mr. Jones finds himself holding the same position as Nancy Pelosi, the liberal House speaker: Reopen the government, then negotiate on border security.

Mr. Jones is the only red-state Senate Democrat up for re-election in 2020. By taking on President Trump and the border wall, which are both popular in Alabama, and refusing to give ground on the shutdown, the senator may be the last “Doug Jones Democrat” to win here anytime soon.

Alabama has one of the largest groups of federal workers in the country, and the economic pain of those who are out of work because of the shutdown is rippling through local businesses across the state.

“I voted for Jones, I did,” said Ann Lynch, an 86-year-old retired schoolteacher, as she did her grocery shopping wrapped in a fur coat on a brisk afternoon in Huntsville, where more than half of the local economy is tied to federal spending. “But he doesn’t support the wall. I don’t like that, of course. I think we need it. Trump knows we need it.”

Mr. Jones’s opposition also underscores the challenge Mr. Trump faces in fulfilling one of his key campaign promises, and the fierce partisanship that has come to define the stalled shutdown negotiations. If the president can’t convince a Democrat from Alabama — the most vulnerable senator up for re-election in 2020 — to back his wall, who can he sway?

“I’m just not going to throw money at anybody who is with a gun to my head,” Mr. Jones said in an interview, referring to Mr. Trump’s $5.7 billion request for the wall. “Let’s get the government open.”

In Huntsville, the impact of empty offices at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on the Army’s Redstone Arsenal base has rippled through the contractors, restaurants and hotels that power Rocket City. With 5,000 workers furloughed across the state, the pain is being felt by people like Angie Gates, whose small family restaurant lost out on $600 worth of lunch business recently because a prison training program was shut down during the wall standoff.

For those who are critical of Doug Jones, this is what he has to deal with.

[PaulBullion]

Because it worked so well in preventing a blue wave, Trump is now trying to prevent his impeachment and incarceration by ... tweeting about another "caravan."

A Muslim Latino caravan with prayer rugs!

Breathlessly waiting to find out if they are GAY prayer rugs now!

[Tami]

A Muslim Latino caravan with prayer rugs!

Breathlessly waiting to find out if they are GAY prayer rugs now!

if the rugs are rainbow colored.....

Some people will believe anything


edit: Someone on Twitter suggested that, if something was found, it was probably sleeping mats. After these migrants were traveling on foot for a very long time. They need something to sleep on.

[kidfresh512]

if the rugs are rainbow colored.....

Some people will believe anything


edit: Someone on Twitter suggested that, if something was found, it was probably sleeping mats. After these migrants were traveling on foot for a very long time. They need something to sleep on.

I don't see how they dont get personally embarrassed at the depths they are willing to sink too to fearmonger.

Scary tales of random rugs will turn the tide on public support? Really?

GOP Rep. Jason Smith apologizes for telling Democrats to 'go back to Puerto Rico'

Rep. Tony Cárdenas said Thursday night he has accepted an apology from Rep. Jason Smith, who acknowledged he yelled, “Go back to Puerto Rico!” at Democrats during a tense situation on the House floor earlier in the day but denied his remark was racially motivated.

A Smith aide said the Missouri Republican intended the comment as a shot at House Democrats over their 30-member jaunt to Puerto Rico last weekend — an event that got heavy coverage in the conservative media — rather than an attack on a specific lawmaker. But in a week that saw the House overwhelmingly condemn Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King for racist remarks, tensions remain high. And House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on the floor that Democrats believed it was a slur aimed at Cárdenas.

[Kirby101]

Doug Jones Risks His Alabama Senate Seat Over the Shutdown and the Wall





For those who are critical of Doug Jones, this is what he has to deal with.

It's Alabama, and Jones should know he was always just a one term Senator. He only won because Moore was a child molester. And it was close. Jones should do what's right and not worry about re-election.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Doug Jones Risks His Alabama Senate Seat Over the Shutdown and the Wall





For those who are critical of Doug Jones, this is what he has to deal with.

Yeah, ignorant, brainless bumpkins who are many times more likely to be shot to death by gun toting, homegrown, lily WHITE psychopaths with an ax to grind against the world than illegal immigrants struggling just to survive.