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    As Prime Minister Boris Johnson Compares Himself to The Hulk, Petition Started To Fire Him Into Space

    Talking to The Mail On Sunday, Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Boris Johnson MP, has compared himself Britain to the Incredible Hulk, in regards to the whole Brexit situation.
    Stating that Britain will break out of its ‘manacles’ like The Incredible Hulk if a Brexit deal cannot be struck by October 31st. That if negotiations break down, he will ignore the House Of Commons vote ordering him to delay the UK’s departure. And he had quite a lot of geek-related detail to go into.

    “Banner might be bound in manacles, but when provoked he would explode out of them… Hulk always escaped, no matter how tightly bound in he seemed to be – and that is the case for this country. We will come out on 31st October and we will get it done.”

    In response, British citizens are invited to sign the Parliamentary petition below, started by cartoonist Sean Mason, that
    We should put Boris Johnson “Hulk” in a rocket and fire him into space.

    Boris Johnson has recently compared himself to The Hulk. Bruce Banner/Hulk is a reckless monster haunted by his destructive actions & BoJo is the worst Hulk personality since Joe Fixit. With Boris recklessly smashing our democracy we should do as the Avengers did and fire him into space. ‘Nuff said.
    Might he look something like this?


    To those involved with or who follow the Cover Contest, note that the cover I posted has Trump in a Hulkish disposition.
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    In 2014, and in 2015, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of Joe Miller, a former U.S. Senate candidate from Alaska who believes that the minimum wage and unemployment benefits are unconstitutional, wanted the 17th Amendment of the Constitution repealed, opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest, paid campaign consultants who were involved in gay conversion therapy clinics, allied himself with militia groups who marched to support his campaign with assault rifles, and had his own security team try and arrest journalists for asking questions he didn’t like. He also was later revealed to have been paranoid enough to wear a bulletproof vest on the campaign trail, and spent the next four years complaining about Democrats in ways to further establish that, including by saying President Obama was in league with the Muslim Brotherhood. Miller has moved on to become a conservative radio talk show host in Alaska who gives a platform to some of the nuttiest kooks in hard-right politics to come on his show. Whether it's anti-immigrant lies from Joe Arpaio and Kris Kobach, anti-Muslim conspiracy theories from Walid Shoebat, or anti-gay propaganda from any number of representatives of the Family Research Council, Miller is there to not only fail to challenge any insane claim made on his show, but to add more fuel to the fires of hatred. Joe Miller did not run for office in 2016, and may finally have given up his dreams for elected office.

    On this date in 2016, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" featured a profiled Carlos Beruff, a candidate for U.S. Senate from Florida summed up as "The Little Trump of Florida". His candidacy was a comedy of errors, frankly. While Beruff is believed to be a U.S. citizen born to immigrant parents in Florida, a voter registration form from his home in Manatee County, Florida surfaced where he entered that he was born in Cuba.So only six weeks or so into his campaign, Beruff's got to discuss how that was all just an honest mistake, and he didn't willfully misreport information on a voter registration form because hey... that's a third-degree felony and punishable by up to a $5,000 fine and five years in prison. The Trump comparisons really came because Beruff was notoriously brash, and furiously anti-immigrant (even though his parents were immigrants) and called for a ban for ANY entry by ANYONE from the Middle East into the United States, at all. The point w here Carlos Beruff crossed a line even Trump hadn't, though, is when he called President Obama an "animal", repeatedly in a speech at a county GOP meeting in April of 2016, and claimed that Obama had "destroyed our country and our military". And wouldn't you know it? Beruff refused to apologize for those remarks, at all. In fact, when Democratic Congressman Patrick Murphy called upon Beruff to apologize for that, and his other bigotry, Beruff practically tripled down, when he didn't just refuse to say he was sorry, but demand Murphy apologize for "aiding Barack Obama in making America weaker". Beruff was a terrible candidate to an extent that the Florida GOP begged Marco Rubio to renege on his promise to not run for re-election, and against Rubio, managed to get all of 18% of the vote in the primary.

    On this date in 2017, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" featured a profiled Todd Wilcox, a former CIA Operative and Green Beret, multi-millionaire, and candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida in 2016. At first, Todd Wilcox seemed like an intriguing candidate in the race to replace Marco Rubio, while he was running for president in 2016, and he was even endorsed by a key adviser to the Donald Trump presidential campaign, General Michael Flynn (which these days isn't as much of a proud endorsement). But there were some pretty big flaws about Wilcox as a candidate, and not just in some of the misdemeanor criminal activity he committed in his youth. You see, Todd Wilcox was more known in the CIA during the Bush administration, and he was rather set in his ways about policies that were being used at the time. Frankly, Todd Wilcox flat out believed that waterboarding works. This is contradictory to the reports released from within the CIA that "enhanced interrogation" techniques garnered no actionable intelligence that were read by people in the U.S. Senate during the Obama administration, and that those findings were released to the public. Wilcox gave his humble opinion that "Social Security is a Ponzi scheme", and talked about getting rid of it. Which, of all the states to play that card… FLORIDA? Spoiler alert… Wilcox did not win office.

    On this date in 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Adam Putnam, the former Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services from 2011-2018, and a former a two-term member of the Florida House of Representatives before he was a five-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida’s 12th Congressional District from 2001 through 2010 after being first sworn in back at the age of 26. Putnam sought to be the Governor of Florida in 2018, to follow Voldemort’s stunt double himself, Gov. Rick Scott in that role. After all, he learned a lot from Scott, like how to violate the state’s transparency laws and having to settle out of court for doing so. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves and first discuss Putnam’s career as a legislator… as a member of the Florida state legislature in 1999, Adam Putnam just happened to sponsor legislation that made himself and his family’s citrus farm somewhere in the range of $25 million over several years. Once he got to Congress… during his decade long tenure, Putnam managed to miss more than double the average amount of votes. And when you look back upon some of the worst bits of policy from the Bush years, and first two years of the Obama administration, he’s right there leaving his mark on some of the most detrimental ideas conservatives could come up with, including his support of the Terry Schiavo Incapacitated Persons Protection Bill, a votes for a resolution towards creating a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, and votes against ENDA, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the DREAM Act, the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", and failed to show up to vote for the Zadroga Bill, to provide healthcare for first responders from 9/11. Putnam would take a step back from a career in Washington, D.C. to return to Florida and take a job working as Florida’s Secretary of Agriculture as a means of escaping an ethics scandal where Putnam was earmarking $100,000 in funds towards an abscission chemical that would again benefit his family’s citrus farm and use his new connections to hide the fact that his family’s business was violating labor laws (for about seven-and-a-half years, anyway). Well, that bit of scandal was something biting Adam Putnam on the arse after he announced his gubernatorial campaign, but then, a far more egregious one broke… One of the focal points of Putnam’s office as Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services is… consumer services includes gun sales. And a responsibility of Putnam’s offices was to perform the mandatory background checks for gun permits. And wouldn’t you know it… for a 13 month period, nary a single background checks on firearm permits was performed, and Putnam and company just handed them out willy-nilly because FLORIDA. Okay, the excuse wasn’t actually “FLORIDA”. The excuse was that the one employee who worked for Putnam in charge of processing the background checks forgot his password to log onto the FBI’s crime database. We would laugh, but the idea that hundreds of guns went into the hands of people who may or may not be criminal psychopaths is just terrifying enough to make it not funny. Also, that story about the guy forgetting his password MIGHT be bulls***, because the actual whistleblower who reported Putnam wasn’t doing his due diligence and performing background checks in the interests of public safety was told back in 2013 that “she worked for the NRA” and was tasked with pushing through 75 gun permits DAILY. She sued, and the state of Florida settled for $10,000, plus another $20,000 for her legal fees. Okay, so trying to blame deliberate negligence on one employee forgetting his password and never bothering to call the FBI and get it reset… that wasn’t plausible. So how did Adam Putnam correct the record? He started admitting he was an “NRA Sellout”, and started campaigning as if that was a GOOD thing. We’re serious. The good news we have at the end of this story is, Adam Putnam lost the primary to Ron DeSantis, because of course the news can get worse. Anyway, we will set aside his profile at this time, and go ahead and take a look at a different wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 785-40, since this was established in July 2014.)
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    Meanwhile

    US and Brazil agree to Amazon development

    The US and Brazil have agreed to promote private-sector development in the Amazon, during a meeting in Washington on Friday.

    They also pledged a $100m (£80m) biodiversity conservation fund for the Amazon led by the private sector.

    Brazil's foreign minister said opening the rainforest to economic development was the only way to protect it.

    Ernesto Araujo also hit back at criticism of Brazil's handling of the forest fires.

    He told reporters in Washington that claims the country is "not able to cope with the challenges" were false.
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    Melissa Howard

    Welcome to the 785th original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where today we’ll be discussing Melissa Howard, a 2018 candidate for the Florida House of Representatives for a seat in District 73 of that body, who actually was getting a little support and promotion from Republican financer Carlos Beruff. Her campaign didn’t even make it to the primary though, and we never got to learn much about her position on this issues… because she had one of the most embarrassing lies in politics of all of 2018, and that’s saying something in the Trump era.

    You see, Melissa Howard and her husband lead a comfortable life running the International Medical Expo and Market Place, and she originally dreamed of being on a spinoff of Real Housewives, or some sort of reality show. But when that didn’t happen, she figured a political career was her next ticket to fame. Noble reason for entering public service, right? Anyway, she was already establishing a confrontational relationship with the local media, when the man she was challenging in the GOP Primary for a seat in the state legislature, Tommy Gregory, accused Howard about lying about having a college degree from he University of Miami of Ohio. Reporters, already having seen Howard pull a “fake news” act when they discussed even the most trivial of things about her, couldn’t find any record of her having a degree either.

    Which prompted Melissa Howard to fly to Ohio to go digging with her mother to pull her diploma out of storage, and post a photo of herself with it online and tell Tommy Gregory to “stop the lies. There was just one problem… the diploma in the photo was easily broken down as a phony.

    A university spokeswoman weighed in:
    • The picture of the diploma does not appear to be an accurate Miami University diploma.
    • The picture of the diploma shows Melissa Marie Fox received a Bachelor of Science in Marketing degree from Miami University on December 20, 1996. We have no such record of a degree.
    • Miami University’s degree for marketing majors then, as it is now, was a Bachelor of Science in Business. Fox’s major field of study while enrolled at Miami University was retailing, and the degree for that program of study was a Bachelor of Science in Family and Consumer Sciences.
    A day after Melissa Howard promised to stay in the race anyway amidst the controversy, she dropped out. Because she unwittingly committed a misdemeanor by faking her diploma like that, and had to serve probation as a result. We’re pretty sure her career in politics is over before it really started, but on the bright side for her, now she’ll have more time to focus on becoming a reality TV star.
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    For those who don't speak Spanish, Pendejo = Jerk or stupid or wanker (if your British)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Call me paranoid....but isnt it REALLY convenient that people commit Arson in the Amazon, which is then ignored until multiple nations kickoff and the end result is now multi national corporations can exploit the amazon ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    But note, our forum Republican would like to stop everything to focus on the real bad guy in this story, the media outlet who was reporting Kavanaugh... but not Kavanaugh.

    For someone who claims to not like Trump so much, seeing a lot of copycatting from his playbook.
    Do you think the Times' announcement about this excerpt was done well?

    If yes, can you explain why?

    If not, this shows a problem with current tribalism where you the important thing isn't the facts but whether one is on the correct side of an issue, where mistakes by opponents must be highlighted and mistakes by one's side should be ignored. Many Republicans do this as well (part of their argument for defending Trump consistently is that they think he's on the right side) but the opinion on whether they're wrong to do so shouldn't be based on whether we agree with them on the bigger question.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jetengine View Post
    Also to divert from the fact he agrees with a guy who thinks Genocide is ok.
    I said what about genocide, now?

    Quote Originally Posted by PaulBullion View Post
    Yeah, I would have preferred Ronan Farrow breaking this for the New Yorker, he would not have messed up the roll out like the NYT did.

    Anyway, Kavanaugh still is a serial sexual assaulter and needs to be impeached.
    This was an excerpt from a book by Times supporters, so it's not something Farrow could have broken.

    An impeachment probably wouldn't go well since the evidence that meets any kind of legal standard is quite limited.

    There's nothing new about Blasey Ford. There are people who claim that they heard about what happened to Ms. Ramirez, but no one is identified as an actual witness (one of the problems with Ramirez's story is that she told people she was contacting that she wasn't even sure it was Kavanaugh.)

    There's a classmate who claims to have seen lewd behavior by Kavanaugh but no one corroborates the story, including the woman who they claimed had been the victim.

    The Times' review of the book makes it clear that there's no damning new evidence.

    Pogrebin and Kelly spend significant time digging into Blasey Ford’s accusations and also those of Deborah Ramirez, a woman who says Kavanaugh put his penis in her face at a Yale college party. They track down any witnesses and friends willing to talk, comb through legal documents, do their best to find the house where Blasey Ford says the assault took place. They point out critical witnesses that the F.B.I., in its very limited investigation, did not have time to interview. In the end they turn up no smoking gun, no secret confession, no friend who comes forth to say Kavanaugh was lying all this time.
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    Kavanaugh is a trash man and Yale continues to be trash for still fostering a culture like that

    I can speak to it as I live in the area, have friends that work there, and have seen Yale consume New Haven like a classist octopus

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    I said what about genocide, now?

    This was an excerpt from a book by Times supporters, so it's not something Farrow could have broken.


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    Thanks for pointing out that a hypothetical could not have happened.

    Except of course, if he had worked on the story and beaten the Times "supporters" to it, he could have broken the story, and he would have done it in a more tasteful way than the horrible "But her E-Mails!" NYT.

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    #FOIA thread screed

    FBI, the WORST agency when it comes to transparency, the agency that routinely violates #FOIA, has ONLY NOW, after NEARLY A YEAR OF LITIGATION, decided to tell me & @BuzzFeedNews
    that it is withholding the report on its "investigation" into Brett Kavanaugh
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    This is the response BuzzFeed got from the FBI about their FOIA request

    If the FBI is saying that they won't provide it due to "Executive Privilege"

    Then a) Executive Privileged is usually only invoked when it involves communication between the President and someone else, so how does this related to the Kavanugh Investigation?
    b)Trump was interfering with a FBI Investigation
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    I should have known that was Douthat. It /felt/ like it.
    I did include the link.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Not saying right or wrong, but opinion columns are opinion columns for a reason. It's up to the reader to judge if the columnist did a good job in basing their opinion on facts or not. One way to do so is to evaluate the columnist and his or her previous body of works.

    As a Research/Reference/Instruction Librarian, I have a lot of experience on how to measure the quality of the content of a written work. Online here, I'll admit to sometimes getting lazy and making mistakes, but occasionally I do put my Professional hat on.

    Bottom line, each reader has to decide for themselves the value or what is written, but they so do so being as informed about the topic in discussion as possible. The most Opinion Columns provide links to outside sources/content that can be used to back up their statements and claims. Those sources can be used to check on the content written about.
    That's a thoughtful response on what could be a difficult question. I do think there's a dangerous precedent if we define writers purely by their worst moments, especially the stuff they did when they were amateurs. That's going to happen more in the modern era where we have ready access to the archives of blogs and college papers. There's an additional question of when we differentiate views that are so abhorrent that no reasonable person could ever have held them, and it's a black mark against someone for doing so.

    In the case of Douthat's column, he did provide outside sources, so we could measure whether his summaries were accurate and whether he was correct in his defense or instead defending the indefensible. The focus on what he wrote in college sidesteps that discussion.

    Quote Originally Posted by PwrdOn View Post
    For one thing, you don't get to claim that the Washington Post is "left wing media" when they have just as many uppity conservative nitwits publishing nonsensical columns as the New York Times does. And if anything, the left seriously underestimated just how racist the country was, by focusing too much on rather esoteric dog whistling and ignoring that damned near half the country were still out and proud white nationalists. Trump voters didn't come from outer space, they were the same people who spent the last few decades bitching about affirmative action, birthright citizenship, Obamacare, or what have you and vehemently denying that their political stances were in any way motivated by racial resentment.
    The specific opinion pieces for the Washington Post would count as left-wing media.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Wow. That entire post is a whole lot of assumptions and lecturing and deflections with a side of demands for 'civility'. You support a political party that is run by an administration that's eagerly trying to send sick brown kids back to their home countries to die.

    I only wish you could get as upset about that as you seemingly could about someone online saying mean things about the Republican Party.
    This board isn't necessarily representative of my views, since I don't see a point in highlighting stuff that you guys already know and have considered.

    I'd be talking about different stuff if the most active posters were conservatives, and stories from Breitbart or Limbaugh weren't get any pushback.

    Quote Originally Posted by shooshoomanjoe View Post
    An opinion piece that the writer is going by his own anecdotes while defending his personal friends for being called racist. No bias here.
    Was he wrong?

    Quote Originally Posted by JCAll View Post
    I think it's the opposite really, the Left has been too lenient with allegations of racism for a long time. We're just now catching on.
    By "we" in this case, I mean guys like me. Too oblivious (read: white) to notice things that minorities have been dealing with forever.

    Also, I cannot stress enough how much racists explaining how they can't be racist should never be accepted as an okay alternative interpretation of what racism means.
    They're trying to delegitimize criticism of them, and we all have to consciously remember that's what's happening and that it can't be allowed to succeed.
    So, in the article which of the claims of racism/ white nationalism would you say was accurate?
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    By the way, the drone attack on Saudi Oil production will mean crude oil prices will go through the roof.

    Fill up your car early tomorrow morning. And sell all your stocks if you haven't already.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    The specific opinion pieces for the Washington Post would count as left-wing media.
    So a paper that goes out of its way to accommodate both sides can still be selectively counted as slanted media because some of its columnists have left wing views? How then does this not apply to columns by Douthat and, in the case of the Post, the truly awful musings of the likes of Marc Thiessen and Hugh Hewitt?

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    Trump blasts calls for impeachment of Brett Kavanaugh after new allegations

    Donald Trump came storming to the defence of Brett Kavanaugh on Sunday, after the publication of new allegations about the supreme court justice’s behaviour while he was a student at Yale led to renewed calls for his impeachment.
    Kamala Harris and Julían Castro were among Democrats leading the charge. Harris said Kavanaugh “lied to the US Senate and most importantly to the American people”.

    Trump tweeted: “The Radical Left Democrats and their Partner, the LameStream Media, are after Brett Kavanaugh again.”

    On Saturday, the New York Times, a leading target for Trump’s ire, published an essay adapted from a new book by two of its reporters, Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly.

    In the extract from The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: an Investigation, Pogrebin and Kelly look into the judge’s time at Yale in the 1980s.

    The piece concerned a claim by another student, Deborah Ramirez, that at a drunken party, Kavanaugh “pulled down his pants and thrust his penis at her, prompting her to swat it away and inadvertently touch it”.
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