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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    The news is becoming more and more depressing.

    I miss the days when we hear more good news than horrific news.
    When was that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mathew101281 View Post
    When was that?
    After January 20, 2009 and before November 2016
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    Quote Originally Posted by SquirrelMan View Post
    Wait... did you just?

    You did, didn't you?

    Man. No wonder you're still a Republican.
    Er, I'm not even sure what your point is since you're not even trying to articulate it.

    But if you were to rank Presidents by the experience they had before they took the oath of office, Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump would be in the bottom ten. There's a recent trend towards less qualified Presidents.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    Er, I'm not even sure what your point is since you're not even trying to articulate it.

    But if you were to rank Presidents by the experience they had before they took the oath of office, Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump would be in the bottom ten. There's a recent trend towards less qualified Presidents.
    Eisenhower and Jackson were a non politician general. Lincoln was never more than a State Legislature. And how insulting to lump the first three with Trump. Unbelievable. No their pre-presidency experiences have nothing in common with Trump.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    After January 20, 2009 and before November 2016
    You're deluding yourself. Sure Obama was a good President, but there was a lot of bad stuff going on at the time, often because of the obstructionism of the McConnell-led Senate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    You're deluding yourself. Sure Obama was a good President, but there was a lot of bad stuff going on at the time, often because of the obstructionism of the McConnell-led Senate.
    Compared to what is going on now, and what happened during Bush jr.'s time in office, I'd say that time wasn't all that bad.
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    Turkey has a military base, a U.S. Military base. This military base is filled with Nuclear weapons. U.S. Gov officals are trying to fisgure out how to remove those weapons. If they can't, Erdoğan can hold those weapons hostage. or worse.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Turkey has a military base, a U.S. Military base. This military base is filled with Nuclear weapons. U.S. Gov officals are trying to fisgure out how to remove those weapons. If they can't, Erdoğan can hold those weapons hostage. or worse.
    Was Trump aware of that before his ill conceived decision to cut and run?
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Was Trump aware of that before his ill conceived decision to cut and run?
    Either he wasn't or he didn't care. But I'm sure that Putin and Erdoğan knew.
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    As turmoil roils DC a Russian-linked battery company is embedding itself in the US energy sector

    Bankrupt North Carolina battery plant Alevo, funded by Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, sold its assets and re-formed as Innolith, retaining many of Alevo’s leadership team and Russia ties — and it aims to help power the U.S. electrical grid.
    There is something about a Russian oligarch having access to the US Power Grid that makes me nervous.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Either he wasn't or he didn't care. But I'm sure that Putin and Erdoğan knew.
    And they played Trump like the proverbial cheap fiddle.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
    Eisenhower and Jackson were a non politician general. Lincoln was never more than a State Legislature. And how insulting to lump the first three with Trump. Unbelievable. No their pre-presidency experiences have nothing in common with Trump.
    Lincoln did have one term in the US Congress. But he is definitely one of the least qualified Presidents on paper ever, a reminder that qualifications aren't everything.

    My point isn't to say that qualifications define a President, or that Trump is equivalent to his predecessors, just that we're in a period where voters have selected several presidents in a low who lack traditional qualifications. And it's worth considering what's going on that produces less qualified Presidents (Is it a coincidence or a combination of various trends? I suspect part of it is that we're in a period where voters get ticked off at parties after two terms which coincides with parties nominating less qualified individuals.)

    I'd rate Jackson and Eisenhower higher than recent Presidents in terms of qualifications. While Eisenhower did not hold elected office, he was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War 2. He's one of the few Presidents better known for earlier accomplishments (and he was still a pretty good President.)

    Andrew Jackson had partial terms in Congress and had been Terrritorial governor of Florida, so he wasn't just a general.

    Incidentally, on paper, the least qualified Presidents outside of my lifetime would probably be Abraham Lincoln, Chester Arthur (whose claim to fame before being on the Vice presidential ticket was a patronage post in New York), Franklin Pierce, Zachary Taylor (less impressive military record than most generals turned Presidents), Warren G Harding and Benjamin Harrison (the latter two being one-term Senators and failed gubernatorial candidates.) Some of them were good; some of them were terrible; one was the best ever.

    I wrote about this a while back, and it's just a topic I'm interested in, rather than any claim about the relative merits of Trump or Obama.
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    There are no merits to Donald Trump. He even knows this, it's why he makes fake awards for himself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    Lincoln did have one term in the US Congress. But he is definitely one of the least qualified Presidents on paper ever, a reminder that qualifications aren't everything.

    My point isn't to say that qualifications define a President, or that Trump is equivalent to his predecessors, just that we're in a period where voters have selected several presidents in a low who lack traditional qualifications. And it's worth considering what's going on that produces less qualified Presidents (Is it a coincidence or a combination of various trends? I suspect part of it is that we're in a period where voters get ticked off at parties after two terms which coincides with parties nominating less qualified individuals.)

    I'd rate Jackson and Eisenhower higher than recent Presidents in terms of qualifications. While Eisenhower did not hold elected office, he was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War 2. He's one of the few Presidents better known for earlier accomplishments (and he was still a pretty good President.)

    Andrew Jackson had partial terms in Congress and had been Terrritorial governor of Florida, so he wasn't just a general.

    Incidentally, on paper, the least qualified Presidents outside of my lifetime would probably be Abraham Lincoln, Chester Arthur (whose claim to fame before being on the Vice presidential ticket was a patronage post in New York), Franklin Pierce, Zachary Taylor (less impressive military record than most generals turned Presidents), Warren G Harding and Benjamin Harrison (the latter two being one-term Senators and failed gubernatorial candidates.) Some of them were good; some of them were terrible; one was the best ever.

    I wrote about this a while back, and it's just a topic I'm interested in, rather than any claim about the relative merits of Trump or Obama.
    Okay. Thanks for the clarification.
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    On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of Arizona Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, who every few years gets bold enough to try and run for Congress in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District. His Back in 2012, his aspirations for higher office were cut short during the GOP Primary when the anti-immigrant sheriff was outed as gay by an ex-lover (pictured above) who also happened to be an illegal immigrant who Babeu tried to intimidate into keeping their love affair clandestine by threatening to deport him if he went to the media. And that's not even the ONLY scandal Babeu's got in his history. Remember when anti-immigrant candidate Adam Kwasman was running for Congress in 2014, and turned up to yell at a bus full of children (and it wasn't even the bus filled with migrant children)? Sheriff Paul Babeu's the guy who tipped Kwasman and a mob of xenophobes off to show up to throw rocks and scream at a bunch of kids. And yet, there's more... Babeu was once a headmaster at the DeSisto School, a boarding school, from 1999-2001. While he was there, the school was repeatedly investigated for child abuse cases including forced strip searches and forcing the kids into group showers, and per Babeu's own sister Lucy, Paul once took a 17-year old student home to be his live-in boyfriend and Babeu’s sister even shared a home movie from Christmas of 1999 with the media, where Babeu proudly boasts of the abusive brand of disclipline he used on the troubled youths in his care, including facing them into corners for days or weeks at a time, justifying it because the kids were, in his mind, "bonkers". And so, Paul Babeu lost his bid for Congress, getting only 43% of the vote against Democrat Tom O’Halleran in the 2016 elections. He has not resurfaced in politics since.

    On this date in 2018, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published a profile on McKenzie Levie aka Levi Athon aka Leviathan, a full-on White Nationalist lunatic who puts on a full suit of chain mail, and sometimes brandishes a melee weapon while going toe-to-toe with people protesting the Trump administration, and he announced a run for Congress in 2018 to challenge Rep. Marcy Kaptur for the right to represent Ohio’s 9th Congressional District. Both the Society for Creative Anachronism and Renaissance Faire community have booted Levie from their ranks. Levie is a creative anachronist, failed actor, and sword-fighting instructor who runs a Historic European Martial Arts club on Sundays in Lakewood Park, Ohio. He is also McKenzie Levie (or Mac Levi) — though he claims to “have gone by many other names”, and has told people he is out to “protect the city from people of Islam”, but he often settles for attacking people who he says are “Antifa” and his grudge with them started when protesters supposedly interrupted a wedding he was at in 2016, protesters who he insists are “funded by George Soros”. Reports have been placed by protesters that Levie has run up to them and stolen or destroyed signs at events as threatening as the March for Science, or that he has used homophobic slurs or made "suggestive comments" to a group of minors at May Day. At Pride in Cleveland, Levie was said to have stolen signs and stomped on them. What we’re getting at here is, half the time, Levie acts like a crusader wandering around the modern day ready to battle on the behalf of Christendom, and the other half, he’s just an alt-right lunatic. Make no mistake, he is geared more towards the 21st century, trying to establish a presence on social media and Youtube to support his infamy. Cleveland police keep getting called wherever Levie shows up, whether it is from his own behavior, or people who go with the “Punch a Nazi” philosophy of putting knuckles to his face. Still, Levie likes to parkour away while shouting threats that he’ll be back like a cartoon villain, because of course he does. Anyway, it seems that Ohio’s 9th Congressional District isn’t the right environment for an extremist maniac who looks like he missed the bus to Charlottesville like McKenzie Levi to win office, or for that matter, even find enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, because he didn’t turn up on it by the time the primary rolled around. Odds are decent he’ll be in prison and/or getting mental health evaluations by the time the 2020 elections roll around, and we’re hoping that his political ambitions come to an end. We will retire 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 790-40, since this was established in July 2014.)



    Foster Friess

    Welcome to what is the 790th original profile on the “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” blog, where we’ll be profiling Foster Friess, a long time conservative donor worth in the range of half a billion to a billion dollars who, after years of doing things like propping up candidates like Rick Santorum and investing $3 million dollars so Tucker Carlson could start his own Daily Caller news site to promote white nationalism… for whatever reason, decided to forgo donating money to Republican candidates in 2018, and make a run at Governor of Wyoming himself.

    We should note, though, that Friess throwing his own hat into the ring was problematic, because he had previously made troubling public statements, including an interview with Andrea Mitchell where he stated the only form of contraception he believed in:
    That wasn’t all. He also would posit that there were Jihadist training camps in LATIN AMERICA, non-sequitir.

    Well, if there was any doubt that Friess had some fringe views that should disqualify him from being the Governor of Wyoming, he opened his campaign luncheon with a speech full of Birther conspiracy nonsense where he accused President Obama of “funneling money to his cousins in Zoowanatou (a place that doesn’t exist).

    Foster Friess ended up losing in the GOP Primary for Governor of Wyoming with only 26% of the vote, trailing the eventual winner, Gov. Mark Gordon, by 9,000 votes. He may or may not resurface to take a crack at Wyoming’s seat in the U.S. House, or one of its U.S. Senate seats… but at the very least, he’s going to dump cash towards the biggest lunatics the GOP has on the ballot.
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