All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[numberthirty]

That's your modus operandi, not mine.

I take him at his word -- if he says he's not a Democrat, then he's not a Democrat and there's nothing wrong with Hillary pointing out that truth in an election.

The real issue here is that whatever reason you can find to hate on Hillary you will find it, regardless -- even if she's only repeating what Sanders' himself said.

If she was clearly being booed for doing so, I'm going to just politely disagree with the assessment that there is "Nothing Wrong..." with HRC pointing out what she did.

A politician can make a statement that is largely correct, and still have that statement hurt their chances.

[aja_christopher]

If she was clearly being booed for doing so, I'm going to just politely disagree with the assessment that there is "Nothing Wrong..." with HRC pointing out what she did.

A politician can make a statement that is largely correct, and still have that statement hurt their chances.

I've already pointed out before that I feel like the Democratic party made a mistake in letting him run as a Democrat while claiming he wasn't.

In my opinion, she kissed Sanders' "progressive" base's ass to her detriment in the general -- many still hated her and she probably lost vital moderates and independents in the process.

Again -- you keep trying to pitch a losing presidential candidate and political platform to the general public: that's not an insult, that's just a fact.

A logical person would want to see Sanders actually win national elections and pass some of the "progressive" legislation he proposes before acting as if he's the best candidate on the roster.

[numberthirty]

I've already pointed out before that I feel like the Democratic party made a mistake in letting him run as a Democrat while claiming he wasn't.

In my opinion, she kissed Sanders' "progressive" base's ass to her detriment in the general -- many still hated her and she probably lost vital moderates and independents in the process.

Again -- you keep trying to pitch a losing presidential candidate and political platform to the general public: that's not an insult, that's just a fact.

A logical person would want to see Sanders actually win national elections and pass some of the "progressive" legislation he proposes before acting as if he's the best candidate on the roster.

While I can appreciate that being your opinion, I don't think that I have seen anything that points to that assertion being anything like actual reality.

Heck, the poll that just came out yesterday pointed to a lot of folks thinking that Democrats need to move away from what former President Obabma did. To discount that reality to say "No, I don't really buy that reality hurting a candidate. It had to be what I think it was." doesn't make much sense.

[numberthirty]

I've already pointed out before that I feel like the Democratic party made a mistake in letting him run as a Democrat while claiming he wasn't.

In my opinion, she kissed Sanders' "progressive" base's ass to her detriment in the general -- many still hated her and she probably lost vital moderates and independents in the process.

Again -- you keep trying to pitch a losing presidential candidate and political platform to the general public: that's not an insult, that's just a fact.

A logical person would want to see Sanders actually win national elections and pass some of the "progressive" legislation he proposes before acting as if he's the best candidate on the roster.

One other thing about that...

The general public have no clue that this forum or thread exist.

As for "Losing...", that's Biden as well as Sanders.

[Iron Maiden]

There is zero chance that Trump wrote any of it.

My money's on Kid Hitler AKA Steven Miller

[Tami]

My money's on Kid Hitler AKA Steven Miller

I heard on Twitter that Miller, along with two others helped put the letter together, but it was still all Trump. His thoughts, his gripes, his complaints, all his.

[Iron Maiden]

I'm trying hard to look at anything Trump with Christmas getting closer...but this is just pathetic and evil

Donald Trump Jr got a special pass to hunt a rare.......sheep.

That's right....a sheep in Mongolia. Among lord knows what other deals are cut at those Mar-a-lago gatherings but after the Mongolian ambassador paid a visit to there, Junior got the permit. Thing is he had already killed the ram, one of a rare kind of sheep called an argali. It is on the endangered list and permits are hard to get.

But never mind all that.....where is the "sport" in killing a sheep? Yeah, they do have horns but AKAIK this breed of sheep is not know to be ferocious or anything. He shot the poor animal at night using a laser scope rifle. How brave.

[Iron Maiden]

I heard on Twitter that Miller, along with two others helped put the letter together, but it was still all Trump. His thoughts, his gripes, his complaints, all his.

That I can believe. He probably just ranted semi-coherently like he does at those rallies and they probably wrote it down and then polished it up

[WestPhillyPunisher]

That I can believe. He probably just ranted semi-coherently like he does at those rallies and they probably wrote it down and then polished it up

“Semi-coherently”? That’s giving Trump more credit than he deserves.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of Tamara Scott, a member of the Republican National Committee from Iowa, who hosts a conservative talk show there, and once served as the Campaign Co-Chair for Michelle Bachmann’s disastrous 2012 presidential run. When we last looked in on Ms. Scott, she had been opposed to gay marriage and was floating a false report from the Family Research Council that claimed keeping a ban on it saves the United States $280 billion a year and she’s also argued against same-sex marriage because she believes people could start marrying objects like the Eiffel Tower (they can’t). Scott also believes in the sinister Agenda 21 conspiracy theory, thinks that migrant children fleeing violence in Central America are “highly trained warriors who might rise up against Americans”, and has been convinced for over a year now that refugees fleeing Syrian are doing so to start a “stealth jihad” in the United States. Scott also praised Michelle Bachmann for trying to root the Muslim Brotherhood out of American government, and claimed that that group also was behind the attacks in Benghazi. Scott believes there is a correlation between prayer being taken out of schools, and a rise in rape and murder (in reality the rates of those violent crimes have dropped in the past two decades) and also doesn’t believe a separation of church and state is not guaranteed in the Constitution. She’s so paranoid about other faiths that after a Wiccan prayer, and then a prayer by a Muslim imam were performed in the Iowa Statehouse, Tamara Scott responded by admitting that she “prayed for a storm” to hit during the Wiccan prayer, because that’s very Christian of her. Oh, and during the debate to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol in Charleston, South Carolina, after the shooting at the Emanuel AME Church by a white supremacist, Tamara Scott, on her radio show, claimed the shooting was “not a racial issue” but was actually an attack on Christianity and that the Confederate flag is actually a symbol of fun and affection because of how it was portrayed on “The Dukes of Hazard”. She has not just outed herself as anti-vaccination advocate and started claiming that disease outbreaks in public schools were not a result of children’s parents avoiding vaccinating them, but actually because we were using a “socialistic model in schools” where children are forced to share pencils and used her radio show to give a platform to Eileen Dannenmann, head of the Vaccine Liberation Army which touts a false link between autism. She has stated her Godwin’s-Law-be-damned belief that pro-choice advocates are “even more devious than Hitler.” And, in spite of Donald Trump being possibly the worst example of a Christian that the GOP could ever have pushed forth upon their Evangelical wing, Tamara Scott not only endorsed him a few weeks before the Republican National Convention, but berated callers into her show who had reservations about voting for Trump because of his racist comments and making fun of a disabled reporter by claiming THEY were not a good Christian for not forgiving for his “past mistakes” (that Trump feels he doesn’t have to ask forgiveness for). Tamara Scott, of course, also helped write the 2016 GOP Party Platform, which was the most extreme in the history of the party, particularly in how fervently anti-gay it was. That should not shock anyone, with a fanatic like her helping draft it. In February of 2017, Scott made the outlandish claim that removing Christianity from schools has led to an increase in “assault, rape, and murder.”

Our 2018 update on Tamara Scott featured her appearances during the nomination process of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, where she showed up to embrace Sen. Chuck Grassley during the farce of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing he held, and she referred to the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford as a case where Democrats might have "overplayed" their hand with the "scattered and scared fragile female". (Yes, she remains the worst.) We’re expecting continued insanity from Scott and her cohorts on her radio show going forward, and look forward to the day where the Republican Party sever ties with her for being nuttier than a squirrel’s diet (she’s not far off from the median attitude of the GOP, we fear). We’re going to go ahead and set aside her profile at this time, to go ahead and take a look at a different kooky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 810-40, since this was established in July 2014.)


Jimmy Matlock

Welcome to what is the 810th original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where we’ll be discussing Jimmy Matlock, a tire salesman by trade, and now a former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2006 to 2018. We’re not going to delve into every aspect of his voting record from start to finish, but suffice to say that even just looking from 2014 on, Matlock supported some of the most extreme legislation Tennessee Republicans submitted in the legislature, from repeated attempts to make the Bible the official state book, (separation and church of state is still a thing, Jimmy), his support of legislation to nullify federal firearms laws, his vote for a bill to allow the electric chair to be used as capitol punishment in Tennessee again, his vote for a resolution to express displeasure with the Supreme Court in the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, as well as his vote to see that state funds be used to construct a “monument to the unborn” to protest abortion… and well… it’s pretty clear he always leaned hard right.

So far to the right, that he kept sponsoring bills to try to find a way to reinstitute prayer in schools, and how he insisted abstinence-only sex education worked.

Now, whenever some schmuck from the Tennessee state legislature gets a CSGOPOTD profile, we usually end up stuck reporting on them being elected every two years and fight the urge to drink heavily because they still keep remaining in office until they die, commit multiple grievous instances of sexual harassment, or get convicted of a felony of some sort.

Well, there is another way they can get out of office, and that’s if they dream too big and run for higher office and fail. Which may be how Jimmy Matlock’s story ends… in 2018, he tried to run for the seat of former Tennessee Congressman John Duncan, Jr., but ended up losing in the primary to the former mayor of Knox County, Tim Burchett, only coming away with 36% of the vote in the primary. That was in spite of having Duncan’s endorsement, as well.

We’re going to keep our fingers crossed that he just keeps selling tires and doesn’t try a comeback to the state legislature.


 

[Gray Lensman]

I'm trying hard to look at anything Trump with Christmas getting closer...but this is just pathetic and evil

Donald Trump Jr got a special pass to hunt a rare.......sheep.

That's right....a sheep in Mongolia. Among lord knows what other deals are cut at those Mar-a-lago gatherings but after the Mongolian ambassador paid a visit to there, Junior got the permit. Thing is he had already killed the ram, one of a rare kind of sheep called an argali. It is on the endangered list and permits are hard to get.

But never mind all that.....where is the "sport" in killing a sheep? Yeah, they do have horns but AKAIK this breed of sheep is not know to be ferocious or anything. He shot the poor animal at night using a laser scope rifle. How brave.

I understand hunting when the meat goes into one's freezer, but that doesn't happen when you hunt something like that in a faraway country.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Protesters Nationwide Demand Trump’s Ouster Ahead Of House Impeachment Vote

Hundreds of “Not Above the Law” demonstrations played out in all 50 states on the eve of President Trump’s likely impeachment in the U.S. House. Will Senate Republicans ignore the demands of the people just to appease the 40 percent or so of deplorables who support Trump? Of course they will. Meanwhile....

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Several More Democrats From Trump-Friendly Districts Announce Support For Impeachment

A number of Democrats hailing from districts Trump won in 2016 announced they will vote in favor of impeachment. Spongedon Whinepants won't like that. GOOD!

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Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter Hilariously Mocks Trump’s Ranting Letter To Mom

Christine Pelosi had a great suggestion for what to do about “this angry, nasty, lying screed by President Trump.” Heh! Quite the suggestion indeed! Meanwhile....

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‘Art Of The Deal’ Co-Author Explains What Trump’s Letter To Pelosi Is Really About

Tony Schwartz claimed it was an “utterly desperate cry” and “pure projection” in a blistering Twitter thread. Yeah, Schwartz certainly pulled no punches. GOOD!

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Giuliani Doesn’t Seem To Be On Board With McConnell’s Push For A Low-Key Acquittal

The president’s lawyer keeps admitting some of the key accusations of the House impeachment articles against Trump in his print and television interviews. With "friends" like Rantin' Rudy, McConnell damn sure doesn't need any enemies.

[shooshoomanjoe]

The guy who lost by millions of votes to the person he keeps trying to criticize years after the primaries ended.

If she was that bad, then it speaks volumes about Sanders himself that he lost to her by that many votes.

What baffles me is Bernie supporters blame Hillary, the DNC, the media and 'the establishment' for his loss.

[Tami]

What baffles me is Bernie supporters blame Hillary, the DNC, the media and 'the establishment' for his loss.

One of the biggest problems with Bernie Sanders is that he isn't even a Democrat.

Just thinking how problematic it would be for the Democratic Party to nominate an Independent over it's wide field of actual Democratic candidates. At the very least, the optics wouldn't look so good.

Maybe I'm not articulating it the right way, but there is something of a issue, if Bernie wins the Primary, that the Leader of the Democratic Party isn't even a Democrat.

[numberthirty]

One of the biggest problems with Bernie Sanders is that he isn't even a Democrat.

Just thinking how problematic it would be for the Democratic Party to nominate an Independent over it's wide field of actual Democratic candidates. At the very least, the optics wouldn't look so good.

Maybe I'm not articulating it the right way, but there is something of a issue, if Bernie wins the Primary, that the Leader of the Democratic Party isn't even a Democrat.

If the party didn't have any of it's members in the running?

I guess I could see the problem.

Otherwise?

Where is the problem?

If the party cannot field options strong enough to win the nomination when it's own members are casting the votes, they should be glad that the guy is there as an option.