All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[JCAll]

Plus he needs to scope the terrain for the awesome space force. You know the newest branch of the military that we totally need and wont be a waste of money and is not at all the ramblings of a mad man

If we tell him he can build a hotel up there, do you think NASA can get some more funding?

[Nine Crocodile]

If we tell him he can build a hotel up there, do you think NASA can get some more funding?

Why do you think he created it in the first place?

[Tendrin]

The Rachel Maddow Show reports a Missouri state health director kept spreadsheets tracking the periods of Planned Parenthood patients using their private medical records, amid continued efforts to shut down the state’s last abortion provider.

There ain't a big enough yikes.

[Malvolio]

Trump, Lifelong New Yorker, Declares Himself a Resident of Florida

You think this has anything to do with the NY State Attorney General investigating the whole Trump family? Maybe Trump thinks officially being a resident of another state will keep him out of jail?

[Tendrin]

You think this has anything to do with the NY State Attorney General investigating the whole Trump family? Maybe Trump thinks officially being a resident of another state will keep him out of jail?

It's probably got something to do with the attempts to get his taxes. They'll try arguing he's not a resident of NY anymore and thus Florida has to way in or something.

[worstblogever]

A bit dated, but still interesting. Van Jones is not happy with Hillary Clinton -

I have to ask: Who fucking cares?

Seriously. Why are we trying to have someone deflect talk to a random CNN pundit busy criticizing Hillary Clinton when there's an impeachment vote today?

Eyes on the prize, man.

[SquirrelMan]

Seriously. Why are we trying to have someone deflect tot talk about a random CNN pundit busy criticizing Hillary Clinton when there's an impeachment vote today?

Eyes on the prize, man.

Also: Those "Gabbard claims" he criticizes were mostly misreported by the NYT and have since been corrected, and the things she actually did claim have already turned out to be very accurate - that she is a GOP darling. Just today, Ann Coulter made a complete fool of herself defending Gabbard while falsely claiming she is a Senator.

Posting that video NOW is not even trolling. It just makes me sad about the person who posted it here.

[Tendrin]

OH WBE-EEEEeeeeeeeeee…..

A Cobb County lawmaker wants to make it a felony for medical professionals to help a minor with gender transition.

State Rep. Ginny Ehrhart, R-Powder Springs, said the legislation aims to protect children from having irreversible procedures done when they are young. Current law requires a parent to consent to surgery or for a minor to be prescribed medication.

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regi...6CjR6Vrle9KHI/

Edit: And like I give a flying $%#$ what Van 'Today Is The Day Trump Became President' Jones has to say about anything.

[worstblogever]

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OH WBE-EEEEeeeeeeeeee…..



https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regi...6CjR6Vrle9KHI/

Edit: And like I give a flying $%#$ what Van 'Today Is The Day Trump Became President' Jones has to say about anything.

Jesus. Ginny looks like a villain in a John Waters film.

Hold up...

Her husband is already in the CSGOPOTD queue. Earl Ehrhart has been busy crusading how to protect men at colleges who rape. Quite the couple, these two.

[Tami]

News from New Jersey

Jay Webber’s campaign strategy: More lies | Editorial

Though “campaign ethics” is an oxymoron for some, we can agree that there’s a level of mendacity that should not be breached, and it comes as no surprise that the latest example comes from Assemblyman Jay Webber.

The Morris County Republican, seeking an eighth term in Tuesday’s election, is one of those politicians who routinely lies just to stay in practice.

Though “campaign ethics” is an oxymoron for some, we can agree that there’s a level of mendacity that should not be breached, and it comes as no surprise that the latest example comes from Assemblyman Jay Webber.

The Morris County Republican, seeking an eighth term in Tuesday’s election, is one of those politicians who routinely lies just to stay in practice.

He figured it would be clever to doctor a photo of his opponent holding a sign affirming her pledge to cap donations from fossil fuel interests, and change its message to state Christine Clarke and her fellow Democrat, Laura Fortgang, “support increasing the state income tax by $536 million dollars.”

Then he posted that on his social media accounts. This photoshopping doggerel might amuse Webber, who has not responded to media inquiries or demands from his opponents to take down the post and admit the deception. Courage.

[Tendrin]

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Jesus. Ginny looks like a villain in a John Waters film.

Hold up...

Her husband is already in the CSGOPOTD queue. Earl Ehrhart has been busy crusading how to protect men at colleges who rape. Quite the couple, these two.

This is the first husband-wife tandem queue entrance isn't it.

[InformationGeek]

This is the first husband-wife tandem queue entrance isn't it.

No. I believe the Kleefischs of Wisconsin beats them.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” we looked at former Tennessee state legislator Stacey Campfield, who once accused the Black caucus of the state legislature for being more racist for the KKK for not letting him join (because he's not African American) also wanted to pass a law requiring death certificates be printed for aborted fetuses, repeatedly tried to pass laws to make it illegal to even say "gay" let alone be gay, blamed the spread of AIDS on a gay flight attendant having sex with an African monkey (which is, of course, not just scientifically incorrect but insane), and compared Democrats touting the number of people signing up for the Affordable Care Act to "Nazis bragging about train rides for Jews". Yes, Campfield was that charming, and people noticed after a long enough stretch of his dumbassery to vote him out of office.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" profiled the U.S. House Representative from California's 23rd Congressional District, Kevin McCarthy, who has served for it since 2007, and the man who was supposed to be the heir-apparent to become Speaker of the House after the resignation of John Boehner, until he botched his debut taking the spotlight by boasting about how he had done a great job as one of the Republicans who started the Benghazi hearings which had successfully driven down Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers… which gave away the game the GOP were playing for three years with the topic. It also didn’t help that McCarthy is one of the WORST public speakers in all of Congress (highlights here, courtesy of Rachel Maddow), or that he was also rumored to be having an affair with his colleague, Rep. Renee Ellmers.

Even prior to his catastrophic attempt at becoming House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy has a long, long history of dumbassery within his legislative career, including co-sponsoring legislation in 2007 to stop the “War on Christmas” by passing a bill to recognize the importance of Christmas and Christianity, and signing onto a letter from the Family Research Council pledging that he agrees with them that gay candidates should be barred from public office, and he will never support any of them. That should come as little surprise, as McCarthy and his wife have been interviewed together and have talked openly about how they feel how people "don't want them to have their right to be a Christian" in America today. Throw in twice voting to defund Planned Parenthood, voting against equal pay for women consistently, and voting against raising the debt ceiling, and you really start to get a big picture of how a box of rocks would get a higher SAT score than Kevin McCarthy. In the build-up to the 2016 election, McCarthy was trying to appease the lunatics in his party by promising publicly to turn a prospective Hillary Clinton administration into a never-ending line of hearings about faux-scandals, and teasing that they might vote on impeachment.

Kevin McCarthy was in the 2016 elections, coming from the most conservative district in California, and has proceeded to continue to shoot his mouth off and embarrass his party, including his admission that he was indifferent about a White Nationalist like Steve Bannon serving as an advisor to the President of the United States, or when audio of him laughing with Congressional colleagues about how he believes both Donald Trump (at the time of the recording, the GOP’s nominee for president), as well as a fellow California Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, were both being paid by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

He has gone back to Washington to vote against the interests of his constituents, consistently:

• January 23rd, 2019: Rep. McCarthy voted against HR 648, because he was gleefully enjoying the longest government shutdown in history.
• February 28th, 2019: McCarthy votes against HR 1112, a bill which would have required universal background checks on all firearm purchases, and close the gun show loophole.
• March 14th, 2019: Rep. McCarthy votes against HJR 46, which sane members of Congress voted for to reject Donald Trump’s “national emergency” regarding the U.S. border and his attempts to reallocate funds for a border wall without Congressional approval.
• April 4th, 2019: Kevin McCarthy is one of 158 Republicans who choose to vote against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
• May 17th, 2019: McCarthy votes against The Equality Act, which would have prevented discrimination towards Americans based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
• June 4th, 2019: Rep. McCarthy votes against the Dreamers Act, because he’s too xenophobic and partisan to care about immigration reform.
• July 16th, 2019: Kevin McCarthy votes against a resolution to condemn Donald Trump for his racist statements that four people of color in Congress should “go back where they came from”.

Kevin McCarthy is quickly becoming one of the most egregious liars in Congress, like how in May of 2017, he was claiming Trumpcare wouldn’t cause anyone to lose their Medicaid coverage, in spite of the assessment from the CBO and every medical organization that predicted it would do precisely that.

In May of 2018, McCarthy also tried perpetuating the myth that social media platforms were “censoring” the opinions of conservatives, lashing out at Twitter for the fact that he couldn’t read a post from Fox News’ useful idiot Laura Ingraham. This, however, just let House Minority House Leader Nancy Pelosi come along to point out McCarthy was a tech-illiterate boob who didn’t know how to adjust his settings to see the post.

Lord only knows what McCarthy will do if he starts echoing the Trump White House’s attacks on Elizabeth Warren for proving her Native American heritage when McCarthy’s own in-laws are in legal trouble for signing up for government loans for Native Americans while claiming 1/8 Cherokee heritage (that they apparently don’t have). Meanwhile, as the 2018 election approached and anti-semitic and racist conspiracy theories have been spread by several Republican candidates in a Trumpian effort, who else has followed up a mass shooting at a synagogue and a serial bomber’s attacks by continuing to demonize George Soros with the same ads? Kevin McCarthy.

Kevin McCarthy remains an awful public speaker, and cracks under almost zero pressure in interviews. Further proof would be his interview with CNN’s Dana Bash from August of 2018 when he froze up when asked about how frequently the Trump White House were caught in lies and we got quite an encore in September of 2019 as Kevin McCarthy’s defense of Trump’s actions in trying to force Ukraine to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden and withhold military aid from them when he did was that Scott Pelley “added a word” into the transcript that changed the context and proved Trump’s innocence. (Note: Pelley didn’t add a word, he read what the Trump White House released verbatim, and even with an extra word… it did not make the situation any better.)

After spending the better part a year slandering Robert Mueller and the FBI agents who are investigating the same links to Trump and Russia that Kevin McCarthy was caught on audio establishing as a real thing… William Barr came along to try and end the Mueller Investigation, and almost immediately, Trump started doing new crimes openly with Ukraine. He’s stuck in a perpetual loop of being Trump’s b****, because McCarthy isn’t smart enough to realize this cycle of Trump being lawless and him having to defend the indefensible will never end.

We don’t know how long Kevin McCarthy continues to mouth-breathe his way around Washington, D.C., but he is sitting in California’s most conservative district… at least until redistricting could change that for him in 2022.

[worstblogever]

This is the first husband-wife tandem queue entrance isn't it.

No. I believe the Kleefischs of Wisconsin beats them.

Yep. And they'll end up being the third, as I've already profiled Tom Price before, and Betty Price will be coming up later this year.