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    Trump is FAT & a well documented liar. These are 2 universal truths that I know.


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    Word is David Koch died. Can't say I'm upset or hurt though.
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    On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of Maine Governor Paul LePage, who in our original write-up, we noted was a was elected in 2010 after he made the campaign promise to “make Obama’s life a living hell”, but instead seems to have only enacted that promise upon the people of Maine. When he’s not threatening to blow up local newspapers or call in airstrikes against them, he’s meeting with a society of 9/11 Truthers and joked about hanging Democratic members of the state legislature. This is a man so heartless that he’s advocated for child labor laws to be changed so children as young as twelve can be put into the workforce, and so insane he once warned that microwaving plastics could result in hormonal changes in children increasing their estrogen levels and making them grow little beards (really). LePage has also told the heads of the local NAACP they could “kiss his butt”, referred to the IRS as “the new Gestapo”, and accused the Majority Leader of the Maine State Senate of “giving it to the people without providing Vaseline”.

    And, in bour second profile on Paul LePage again proved interesting, as he provided us with new things to talk about like trying to illegally quarantine a nurse who returned from Africa after helping stop the Ebola Virus outbreak there, and then turned around to blame illegal immigrants for spreading HIV, Hepatitis C, and tuberculosis without any foundation in reality, at all. LePage then made a promise to “veto everything that crosses his desk” and wasn’t joking, vetoing 100 bills consecutively, if they did not have veto-proof majorities without any consideration for their content. At the end of that streak, LePage hosted the media at a press conference with a squeaky toy of a pig, and standing in front of a Christmas tree, promising to veto hundreds of things in the state budget passed by the Maine state legislature. The legislature, in turn, passed the budget with a veto-proof majority, so he couldn’t do a thing about it, except continue embarrassing himself. Which, his bold "veto everything" stance became even more hilarious when LePage forgot how vetoing bills works, and left for vacation without properly vetoing 65 that were hitting his desk that he had said he would block the Democratic legislature from passing. The catch was, he only had a certain number of days to veto them, and after the deadline passed, all 65 laws went into effect. Governor LePage also visited a local school, saying he’d like to shoot a newspaper’s editorial cartoonist. He told the joke… to the cartoonist’s father. Oh, and there was all the talk of Paul LePage getting impeached, after he threatened to cut funding to a school in the state because they had offered a high-paying job to a political rival of LePage’s, House Speaker Mark Eves. When a reporter, Paul Merrill asked LePage about it, he was actually stupid enough to brag about it. Even many Maine Republicans were participating in impeachment talk, after that. LePage even took the time to write a petty letter back to a constituent who asked him to resign in July, and told her “all of Southern Maine is corrupt”(yes, half the state) and “not going to happen”. Three weeks later, he just offered to leave office if enough people wrote to ask him to, and claimed that only four people had asked him to.

    Paul LePage continued to be one of the craziest, if not THE craziest governor in the United States and in our third update, we had to bring up moments like how he tried to illegally block the relocation of Syrian refugees into his state by the federal government, laying on plenty of Islamophobic fear-mongering, even invoking 9/11 as his reasons against it, and warning that immigrants from there could bring “hepatitis C, tuberculosis, AIDS, HIV” and “the ‘ziki fly” (which isn’t actually a real insect). LePage also got really racist while trying to play up fears of drug dealers, warning of “guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” who wouldn’t just come to sell heroin, but “half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave." (After a few days, he admitted that he was referring to African Americans, but that it wasn’t harmful because Maine is “95 per cent white”.) LePage’s rhetoric about drug dealers at least stopped being racist, but no less insane, as he called for public executions for drug dealers. By guillotine! Well, that and he advised the citizens of Maine to help combat the drug trade by becoming gun-toting vigilantes and to “Load up and get rid of the drug dealers.” Paul LePage also endorsed Donald Trump for president, and started questioning whether or not Sen. Ted Cruz was eligible to be president (making him a Birther, two-fold). LePage even botched an attempt to humanize himself, effectively “cutting in line” at an adoption center ahead of the general public to adopt a dog a day rather than leave it for its intended adopter, a sexual assault victim who had been waiting for the day the dog could be adopted to take in as an emotional support dog. The shelter admitted it broke its own rules for LePage (and considering his history of holding petty grudges when he doesn't get his way, it's sort of easy to understand why). LePage also refused to support keeping the drug naloxone readily available in hospitals and emergency services to treat overdoses, by citing an example of a high school student who had overdosed on three separate occasions with naloxone only to keep on using drugs to prove it doesn't help do anything but allow addicts to continue using drugs, undeterred. Over the course of the next few weeks, after the school said he made up the story of the student, and yet he continued to insist it had happened. State officials soon also came forward to contradict LePage, and prove he made it up, and LePage never could name the mystery student addicted to heroin who came back from the dead three times.

    After the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Gold Star parent Khzir Khan was outspoken in criticizing Donald Trump for his bigotry, and Trump embarrassed himself by slandering the Khan family, with some of his surrogates even attacking their deceased son, Humayyan. Almost a month later… Paul LePage decided to be one of the elected Republicans to get on the bandwagon, calling Khzir Khan a “con-artist”. A day after attacking a Gold Star parent, Gov. LePage leaves a voice mail for a Democratic lawmaker, calling him a “c***sucker” in an unhinged voice mail to respond to claims that he is a racist. And then, at the end of the phone call, LePage gives him permission to make the insane rant public.

    By October 2016, Gov. LePage was calling on Donald Trump to use “authoritarian power”, because it’s a good idea to say that to a proto-fascist. He responded to Civil Rights Hero and Congressman John Lewis’ criticisms of Donald Trump by telling him to thank “Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Ulysses S. Grant” for furthering racial equality. (Lewis, through a spokesman, politely asked LePage to check his history.)

    In August 2017, LePage becomes the latest Republican to run to the defense of Confederate monuments, in spite of his state being the farthest in the continental U.S. from the Mason-Dixon line, comparing their removal to… what else? Removing a 9/11 Victims Memorial. And in June 2018, LePage says he “probably” would not certify the primary results in Maine’s 2018 elections, because he didn’t feel the new primary rules that were voted upon on a ballot measure by his own citizens were “constitutional”. The courts, of course, had already ruled that they were.

    Paul LePage survived as governor only because the process of impeachment in Maine is designed to be nigh-impossible to pull off outside of flagrant criminal activity. Term limits ended his embarrassing tenure after 2018, so we’ll go ahead and hope he never runs for office again and 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 775-40, since this was established in July 2014.)
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    Dow drops more than 400 points after Trump orders US companies to look for ‘alternative to China’


    Stocks fell to their lows of the day on Friday after President Donald Trump ordered in a series tweets that U.S. companies find alternatives to their operations in China. Apple led the way lower.

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 420 points lower, or 1.6%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite slid 1.7% and 2%, respectively.

    Trump tweeted on Friday: “Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing..your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.”
    So now Trump thinsk he can order companies to do whatever he wants them to do. Remember, this is the guy who bankrupted dozens of businesses.
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    Max Linn

    Welcome to the 775th original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where today we’ll be discussing Max Linn, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine in 2018, who we only need to talk about briefly in this profile, since it’s a short story. Linn was proud to be a “Trump Strong” Republican, even in the face of the Blue Wave coming. Of course, considering he was registered as a Democrat when he was thinking about running for Governor of Florida back in 2006, and when he ran for Congress in 2010, maybe he’s just an opportunist. It’s still pretty sad to see someone who a decade ago was on the (D) side of the ballot saying that he not only wanted to build Trump’s stupid border wall, but that he would use his “own two hands” to do so.

    But no, we’re doing a quick profile on Max Linn because he got caught faking signatures to get his name on the ballot to run for U.S. Senate in Maine, and then kept trying to campaign anyway after the fact, even though the courts had booted him off the ballot.


    Like we said… it looks like the tale of Max Linn is a brief one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Dow drops more than 400 points after Trump orders US companies to look for ‘alternative to China’

    So now Trump thinsk he can order companies to do whatever he wants them to do. Remember, this is the guy who bankrupted dozens of businesses.
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    Question: Does anyone here think that the antifa groups are justified in everything that they're doing right now to combat fascism? I've seen the argument made that even their most violent actions are justified because the US Army and allied powers had to use violence to mow down all the fascist lunatics during World War II, reasoning that if they were justified, then the antifa groups are justified in everything they're doing too. Agree or disagree?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Electricmastro View Post
    Question: Does anyone here think that Antifa is justified in everything that they're doing right now to combat fascism? I've seen the argument made that even their most violent actions are justified because the US Army and allied powers had to use violence to mow down all the fascist lunatics during World War II, reasoning that if they were justified, then Antifa is justified in everything they're doing too. Agree or disagree?
    There is no "Antifa" but there is antifa, the anti-fascists.

    I think if you want to have this discussion, it would be best to use the correct terminology.

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    First trump and now the DOJ? But the far right tell me trump isn't antisemetic because he recognizes Jerusalem as the capital.
    Sheldon Adelson paid good money to Trumps campaign in exchange for that Jerusalem move.


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    Proud Boys Leader Admits Their Rallies Are For Fighting And Wasting Money

    The group brawls with antifa under the guise of free speech. But video exposes its true intentions: violence and wasting public resources. A clear and obvious perversion of the First Amendment. But, please, tell me again how Antifa are the bad guys.
    The Proud Boys also function as a recruiting arm for more hardcore White Nationalist and Neofascist groups with interesecting ideologies and goals.

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    Word is David Koch died. Can't say I'm upset or hurt though.
    F**k him. Good riddance. I'm not ashamed to say it.
    That familiy has done much to make our government the mess it is today and by extension made the lives of some of our most vulnerable people more miserable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Electricmastro View Post
    Question: Does anyone here think that Antifa is justified in everything that they're doing right now to combat fascism? I've seen the argument made that even their most violent actions are justified because the US Army and allied powers had to use violence to mow down all the fascist lunatics during World War II, reasoning that if they were justified, then Antifa is justified in everything they're doing too. Agree or disagree?
    'Most Violent Actions' . . .

    I do not support violence outside of self-defense or similar situations, but I'd like to know what you consider their most violent actions. As far as I know they haven't killed anyone and have had a significant number of lies spread about their actions (Cement Milkshakes!!1!), so I'd like to see what we're discussing here compared to actual murders, bombs sent, and rabid bigotry by the Fa side of this debate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Dow drops more than 400 points after Trump orders US companies to look for ‘alternative to China’




    So now Trump thinsk he can order companies to do whatever he wants them to do. Remember, this is the guy who bankrupted dozens of businesses.
    -600 now.

    If "Trade wars are good, and easy to win", I hope Trump never tries anything that is hard.

    Also, with all the officials who have left this administration why is it that no one has told Trump it is time to dump his incompetent economic staff? But then I guess that means replace them with who? Trump has run off all of the halfway decent staff from Cohn, to Mattis, to Kelly and replaced them with people who's only qualification is their undying loyalty to Trump.

    Thank God for the system of checks and balances the Founding Fathers had the foresight to implement in case of just such a tangerine tinpot tyrant taking over the oval office. Let's just hope the C&Bs start flying at him before he gets anymore crazy ideas.
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    Wonkette has a nice little biography up about the new White House Press Secretary, Stephanie Grisham, who has no plans to have a White House Press Conference even though there hasn't been one in 5 and a half months.

    Grisham has:
    • Was fired from the PR Department of an insurance company for allegedly filing fraudulent travel expenses. (A grifter in the White House? THE HELL YOU SAY.)
    • Been fired for plagiarism (and seems to be a lot of the reason why Melania Trump keeps cribbing Michelle Obama's notes)
    • Has two DUI arrests in Arizona. (BeBest at its fullest)
    • Previously worked for AZ House Republicans and their efforts to bar a reporter from doing his job because he was too critical of David Gowan, a corrupt GOP Speaker of the AZ House (Attacks the media? Let's give her a job where she's going to interact with the media!)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Dow drops more than 400 points after Trump orders US companies to look for ‘alternative to China’




    So now Trump thinsk he can order companies to do whatever he wants them to do. Remember, this is the guy who bankrupted dozens of businesses.
    Including casinos which literally have a license to print money, but, he fucked them up too. That degree Trump got from Wharton (which his daddy most likely bought) is really coming in handy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Electricmastro View Post
    Question: Does anyone here think that the antifa groups are justified in everything that they're doing right now to combat fascism? I've seen the argument made that even their most violent actions are justified because the US Army and allied powers had to use violence to mow down all the fascist lunatics during World War II, reasoning that if they were justified, then the antifa groups are justified in everything they're doing too. Agree or disagree?
    Which antifa are we talking about? The Europeans who side with Unions and participate in "anti-fascist" demonstrations? Or the US antifa that goes to Ben Shaprio lectures and has scuffles with Proud Boys and break Starbucks windows? The worst either has done so far has been fist fights and vandalism. I'm not saying any of it is justified per se, but...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Electricmastro View Post
    Question: Does anyone here think that the antifa groups are justified in everything that they're doing right now to combat fascism? I've seen the argument made that even their most violent actions are justified because the US Army and allied powers had to use violence to mow down all the fascist lunatics during World War II, reasoning that if they were justified, then the antifa groups are justified in everything they're doing too. Agree or disagree?
    Probably not, but compared to the far right antifa is an annoyance rather than a danger. One gets into some brawls and breaks some stuff every now and then, the other uses free speech as a shield to deliberately empty the coffers of liberal cities (by their own admission), also gets into fights and breaks stuff, and has an actual body count.

    Conflating the two is just whataboutism at best.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dalak View Post
    'Most Violent Actions' . . .

    I do not support violence outside of self-defense or similar situations, but I'd like to know what you consider their most violent actions. As far as I know they haven't killed anyone and have had a significant number of lies spread about their actions (Cement Milkshakes!!1!), so I'd like to see what we're discussing here compared to actual murders, bombs sent, and rabid bigotry by the Fa side of this debate.
    Supposedly, the Dayton mass shooter from earlier this month had, assuming the sources I've seen are correct, either links to antifa groups or at the very least was an enthusiast of antifa groups. The sources could always be wrong though, of course, so it would be nice to know which sources tend to be the most reliable so as to gain as good of an understanding as possible.

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