All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Steel Inquisitor]

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/s...thread-7%2Fp71

SCOOP: Biden-Harris is not answering calls from Rahm Emanuel

And the narrative that Biden wants Rahm in his administration dies.

[numberthirty]

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/s...thread-7%2Fp71



And the narrative that Biden wants Rahm in his administration dies.

You're going to want to take another look at that.

It isn't anywhere near as solid as you seem to think that it is.

[rogersmcfeely]

The GOP has "death cult" down enough that these morons are on Twitter bragging that they're flouting mask rules and TRYING to catch Covid-19 to "own the libs".

And I'm like:

I have a friend who had a chihuahua that, every time it got mad at its human masters, would poop into its own water bowl. That showed 'em.

[Tendrin]

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/s...thread-7%2Fp71



And the narrative that Biden wants Rahm in his administration dies.

The story of a lot of the extremely online left is that they believe rumors about such and such being 'considered' that come from 'the Hill', then pat themselves on the back when what was never going to happen doesn't happen. Rahm will almost certainly not get a job of any significance with this administration, and his name being floated around is just gossip. Just like with the vice presidency, there's a lot of breathless speculation designed to stoke leftist fears when it was always gonna be Kamala.

[Malvolio]

I have a friend who had a chihuahua that, every time it got mad at its human masters, would poop into its own water bowl. That showed 'em.

Well, yeah, but who ended up cleaning up the poop?

[numberthirty]

Well, yeah, but who ended up cleaning up the poop?

Is it really "Cleaning Up..." when you can just dump the bowl in the toilet, and then rinse it out?

[worstblogever]

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/...247584440.html

Oh WBE-Eeeeeee.....

McGeachin has been in the queue for a great many loon activities, but it seems this hypocrisy means she knows she's full of s*** and most of her social media insanity is posturing. Still getting a profile.

Oh WBE. Check out this jackass.

Profiled Sabatini. Will have this in his update.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

IMO, no matter what sort of stimulus bill Pelosi proposed, whether it was loaded to the gills or ridiculously watered down, McConnell would've slapped it down. It's not in his best interest, or that of the GOP to pass any sort of bill that helps the populace because that would help Democrats, and that just ain't happening as long as Moscow Mitch draws breath. And with Biden soon to take over, the obstruction and roadblocking from McConnell will continue, nothing will get done, the goal being to tell voters when midterms roll around that Biden and Democrats couldn't accomplish anything and to vote for Republicans. I'm probably wrong here, but that's my suspicion.

[Gray Lensman]

IMO, no matter what sort of stimulus bill Pelosi proposed, whether it was loaded to the gills or ridiculously watered down, McConnell would've slapped it down. It's not in his best interest, or that of the GOP to pass any sort of bill that helps the populace because that would help Democrats, and that just ain't happening as long as Moscow Mitch draws breath. And with Biden soon to take over, the obstruction and roadblocking from McConnell will continue, nothing will get done, the goal being to tell voters when midterms roll around that Biden and Democrats couldn't accomplish anything and to vote for Republicans. I'm probably wrong here, but that's my suspicion.

I think the Democrats leverage actually went DOWN after the election, not up. Sure, Biden might be the president-elect, but Republicans still have the Senate (at least right now) and gained in the House. Red state senators don't fear Biden's anger like they do Trump's, largely due to political polarization. Trump's ire can cause them to lose a primary, Biden's ire might help them keep that same base.

[Tendrin]

I think the Democrats leverage actually went DOWN after the election, not up. Sure, Biden might be the president-elect, but Republicans still have the Senate (at least right now) and gained in the House. Red state senators don't fear Biden's anger like they do Trump's, largely due to political polarization. Trump's ire can cause them to lose a primary, Biden's ire might help them keep that same base.

This is unfortunately accurate. Because voters won't actively punish even the worst kinds of malfeasance, the minority (in terms of population) GOP can leverage its strength in the Senate to frusrate pretty much everything. Some people like this, but it's ultimately unsustainable.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Honestly Pelosi should have taken the deal that Trump offered. It would have really been too late to help him by that stage as it was a week or 2 before the election. But she was gambling on the strong showing helping them win the Senate and it didn't happen. Taking a lesser deal to hope that Republicans come back to table to give Americans a stimulus package won't happen as they will balk.

Pelosi deserves to lose her job as the leader of the House. Its that simple. This has others not happy to watch it unfold in her own party. So she pretty much by catoring to McConnell here will more than likely have those in party push her out.

[Gray Lensman]

Honestly Pelosi should have taken the deal that Trump offered. It would have really been too late to help him by that stage as it was a week or 2 before the election. But she was gambling on the strong showing helping them win the Senate and it didn't happen. Taking a lesser deal to hope that Republicans come back to table to give Americans a stimulus package won't happen as they will balk.

Pelosi deserves to lose her job as the leader of the House. Its that simple. This has others not happy to watch it unfold in her own party. So she pretty much by catoring to McConnell here will more than likely have those in party push her out.

I can't disagree with very much here. Only that it appeared before the election that she was going to have a strengthened hand rather than a weaker one once the new Congress was seated.

[worstblogever]

Honestly Pelosi should have taken the deal that Trump offered. It would have really been too late to help him by that stage as it was a week or 2 before the election. But she was gambling on the strong showing helping them win the Senate and it didn't happen. Taking a lesser deal to hope that Republicans come back to table to give Americans a stimulus package won't happen as they will balk.

Pelosi deserves to lose her job as the leader of the House. Its that simple. This has others not happy to watch it unfold in her own party. So she pretty much by catoring to McConnell here will more than likely have those in party push her out.

I disagree that she should have taken ANY deal from Trump. He doesn't believe in deals that benefit anyone but himself, historically.

Pelosi should allow a new Speaker to come to the fore in 2021, though. Someone like Eric Swalwell, Adam Schiff, Val Demings, Karen Bass, or Marcia Fudge would be a great idea.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" ran a profile of Charles Bishop, a former Alabama State Senator who lost his damned mind in the middle of the state senate and straight up went Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out on State Senator Lowell Barron, only regretting later that he didn’t take the fight outside and finish it. Bishop also regularly spoke in front of the white nationalist organization the Council of Conservative Citizens and was proud to oppose Alabama’s resolution to apologize to African Americans for slavery because “atonement equals reparations”. Bishop lost way back in the 2010 GOP Primary and hasn’t resurfaced in politics.


In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” posted profiles of Vice President Mike Pence, who for a while, was considered to be an early establishment candidate for president that the Republican Party thought they would be able to rally behind in the 2016 elections. He was a sitting six-term Congressman from 2001 through 2012, establishing conservative bona fides without any scandals or major gaffes while winning elections comfortably. He actually won a 2010 Straw Poll at the Value Voters Summit where they thought he was their best choice to run against Barack Obama in 2012, but Pence opted instead to run for re-election as Governor of Indiana, and bide his time for what was to be a run in 2016. Then Gov. Pence, the insane true believer in the American culture wars that he is, went and signed Indiana's "religious freedom" law to allow for the legal discrimination of the LGBTQ community, then denied that the point of the bill was allowing discrimination (and making many send him the literal definition of "discrimination" since he seemed unable to understand it) and claiming he was incapable of discrimination because he once participated in an anniversary walk in Selma, Alabama. That only made critics note that during his time in the U.S. House, he actually campaigned on an agenda to "oppose any effort to recognize homosexual's as a 'discreet and insular minority' entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities," or that he called for “an audit to ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus" and instead, "Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior". If you’re unclear as to what that means, it’s that Pence wanted money redirected towards gay conversion therapy, which doesn’t actually work, and is considered a human rights violation. But that’s not all. Pence responded to the Matthew Shepherd Hate Crimes Act by making the ludicrous claim that it would allow intimidation towards or even charges to be filed against pastors who expressed a Biblical worldview critical to homosexuality, and also tried arguing that the 2010 repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” would, in his words, “weaken unit cohesion” of our military, and once voted for a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as only between one man and one woman.

Factor in the time Pence is awful enough to women that he voted against all equal pay legislation including the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, railed against the Disney cartoon Mulan for implying that women might be able to honorably serve in the military, and actually had an Indiana woman arrested for having a miscarriage because his obsession with cracking down on reproductive rights is that over-the-top insane. We're talking that he voted for for the Terry Schiavo Incapacitated Persons Protection Bill extreme, here. We're saying that he was a sponsor of the legislation that tried to defund Planned Parenthood back in 2011, and his "evidence" of wrongdoing was a DIFFERENT doctored fraud of a video produced by friends of Breitbart News hacks like James O'Keefe.

Pence also compared the Supreme Court upholding the Affordable Care Act to 9/11, and in early 2015 decided state taxpayer dollars should be allocated towards “JustIN’, a state-run news service with two employees being paid $100,000 salaries to present a point of view where Mike Pence could do no wrong (cancelled after taxpayers called him out on wasting their money on him lying to them). Pence denied a link between smoking an cancer as late as 2001 (he was accepting money from the big tobacco lobby, of course), and denies climate change is a thing to this day.

[worstblogever]

Mike Pence is so enthralling that after Donald Trump decided that Mike Pence should be his running mate on the 2016 GOP ticket as his vice president, he apparently tried reneging on the offer at the last minute. And then Trump botched the announcement and roll out to get the GOP hyped. And then the campaign logo for the new ticket was openly mocked because THIS is what Trump's idea men came up with:


Pence spent most of the VP debate pretending Donald Trump didn't actually say all of the wildly deranged things he says out loud, and on social media, which was far better than the forgettable speech he gave at the RNC (he was clearly overshadowed by Ted Cruz telling people to "vote their conscience"). Maybe Pence's speech would have been better if he wasn't distracted by the inclusion of AIDS Activists in the proceedings.

And what a great campaigner Pence wasn't. When he couldn't help look like he was mildly aroused by the thought of, as he put it, sending Roe v. Wade to the "ash heap of history". Hell, he even managed to take on some of Donald Trump's worst habits... like falling all over himself to not say disparaging things about white supremacist David Duke, or praising Vladimir Putin. Heck, trying to defend Donald Trump isn't easy, like say when you have to spin how he isn't a fascist for talking about jailing his opponent during a presidential debate, but Pence was kept on his toes by girls as young as eleven years old trying to make excuses for Trump around the time the tape of him talking about "grabbing women by the p***y" hit.


And, in spite of Donald Trump being Trump, and Mike Pence being the coalesced nightmares of the LGBTQ community and women everywhere, they defied all the odds, and all the polling, and inexplicably won office. And then, suddenly, everyone finally got properly scared that with a Republican president, Republican House, and Republican Senate, that things like gay marriage, or reproductive rights would be fair game. Oh, and then they remembered that Mike Pence also has talked about wrecking Social Security, too. Or that he casually can talk about resuming a torture program at Guantanamo Bay Prison.

So maybe that's why we don't feel bad for Mike Pence when people donate to Planned Parenthood in his name (and still are), or the fact hat he’s so afraid of women he won’t have dinner alone with one unless his wife is there (who he calls “Mother”), or when he showed up at a performance of Hamilton, and acts surprised when the audience boos him, or that he gets a lecture from a cast of minorities, gays, and even an HIV Positive lead actor to remind him that he's spent his whole career making legislative and executive decisions to slight anyone who wasn't a straight rich white male.

Mike Pence has continued to be a witless turd throughout the Trump administration, trying to simply not be as corrupt as Trump and hope he inherits the presidency… but even at that, he hasn’t kept his nose clean. Where do we even begin with Pence? Let’s just hit the big points… by the end of the first month of the Trump administration, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was fired, after several FBI investigations into the fact that he had been illegally operating was a foreign agent of other countries came to light. The official story about Flynn’s firing kept changing rapidly, including that Acting Attorney General Sally Yates got fired after hearing Mike Pence go on Fox News and give a story that seemed to indicate he wasn’t aware of Michael Flynn’s activities. Also, he assured the public that no one in the Trump campaign was talking to Russians (huge lie). Well, as of December 1st, 2017, we know Mike Pence was just deliberately lying, as he is prone to doing, and he knew about Michael Flynn talking to Russians under the radar. In fact, per Flynn’s testimony to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Pence and Jared Kushner directed Gen. Flynn to do that specifically.

This would be similar to how back in October of 2016, Mike Pence went over to Fox News for an interview/tongue bath and scoffed at the idea that the Trump campaign had any communication with anyone from Wikileaks. Except, y’know, we now know that for almost the entire campaign, Donald Trump, Jr. was talking to Wikileaks, and was even getting advice on which of their stories the Trump campaign should share more on social media. And Roger Stone was talking to Wikileaks, which he lied to Congress about.