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

[PaulBullion]

And we ALL know this jackass wont take this as a sign from God that his preaching is poison.

They never do...

Anti-Masker Charlie Kirk is scheduled for an appearance at the church.

[GindyPosts]

Biden's town hall once again proved Biden doesn't like progressive ideas.

Yet, the GOP is still gonna label him as "socialist".

[AnakinFlair]

None of which, of course, means he deserved to be strangled to death by police, but hey, anything to excuse what is so that they don't have to confront it.

Someone should post the video of Rittenhouse sucker punching a 15 year old girl.

[AnakinFlair]

Idaho: Self proclaimed "No Masker" pastor lands in the ICU for Covid-19

Sending thoughts.

And prayers.

[Malvolio]

16 Straight Hours Inside The Alternate Reality Of Pro-Trump TV Channel OAN

This is what it’s like watching an entire day of Trump World’s answer to state television. Faux News on steroids.

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Trump’s New Campaign Strategy: Declare The Election Illegitimate

More and more, the president claims the only way Democrats can win is by cheating – even as he seeks to delegitimize mail voting. More fear and loathing and lies, yo!

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FBI Director Confirms Russia Is Currently Meddling In The 2020 Election

Christopher Wray’s testimony to Congress echoes the intelligence community’s warnings that Russia is trying to “denigrate” Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Hardly a revelation.

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In coronavirus news:

Biden Blasts Trump’s ‘Criminal’ Response To Coronavirus

The 2020 Democratic nominee went after the president again and again during a CNN town hall over his “totally irresponsible” handling of COVID-19.

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William Barr Wildly Compares Coronavirus Safety Measures To Slavery

In an absurd claim made on Wednesday, the attorney general compared coronavirus stay-at-home orders to centuries of anti-Black murder and sexual assault.

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Parents Knowingly Send Student Who Was Infected With COVID-19 To School

Close to 30 teens in Attleboro, Massachusetts, will have to quarantine after the student attended classes despite getting a positive test result.

I've never seen a bigger bunch of sore loser cry-babies than Trump and his supporters. And they haven't even technically lost yet!

[zinderel]

I've never seen a bigger bunch of sore loser cry-babies than Trump and his supporters. And they haven't even technically lost yet!

They know what's waiting for them when Trump is removed from power.

[The Cool Thatguy]

I've never seen a bigger bunch of sore loser cry-babies than Trump and his supporters. And they haven't even technically lost yet!

Yeah, but they are losers, so...

[KOSLOX]

In N.C. the fix is already in.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...-white-voters/

[PaulBullion]

And prayers.

Nope.

Left those out on purpose.

[Tami]

Sources tell @FoxNews @realDonaldTrump will be announcing an $11.6 billion aid package for Puerto Rico for energy and education systems later this morning. This is to address lingering problems from Hurricane Maria 3 years ago.

Uh huh, just in time for the election. Is the money real or just a Trump fantasy? 3 years late to a terratory Trump wanted to trade for Greenland.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Sources tell @FoxNews @realDonaldTrump will be announcing an $11.6 billion aid package for Puerto Rico for energy and education systems later this morning. This is to address lingering problems from Hurricane Maria 3 years ago.

Uh huh, just in time for the election. Is the money real or just a Trump fantasy? 3 years late to a terratory Trump wanted to trade for Greenland.

Probably him pandering to Hispanics in Florida

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Sources tell @FoxNews @realDonaldTrump will be announcing an $11.6 billion aid package for Puerto Rico for energy and education systems later this morning. This is to address lingering problems from Hurricane Maria 3 years ago.

Uh huh, just in time for the election. Is the money real or just a Trump fantasy? 3 years late to a terratory Trump wanted to trade for Greenland.

Nothing more than a shameless suckup to Latinos down in Florida who are angry with him and casting their lot with Biden. Stevie Wonder could see what a farce this is. Meanwhile, dollars to donuts PR never sees so much as a dime.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from California’s 48th Congressional District, Dana Rohrabacher, a man who seemingly has yet to read a conspiracy theory he doesn’t like. Amongst his favorites are the theories that the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 was carried out by Muslims, and not domestic terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, that RFK actually had multiple assassins and not just Sirhan Sirhan trying to kill him (Rohrbacher is believed to have visited Sirhan in prison disguised in drag to ask him about it), that Google was using their search engine to hide “the truth” presented in Dinesh D’Souza’s documentaries, and that President Obama left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other men to die in Benghazi purposefully during the attacks to help guarantee he’d win the 2012 elections (because that’s the sort of thing that wins votes?). On top of that, Rohrabacher is a renowned figure who stands against the theory of man-made climate change, instead blaming the phenomenon on “dinosaur flatulence”, and welcomed the impending 2013 Government Shutdown by going on CNN while believed to be gleefully drunk from celebrating the failure of his party to compromise and, y’know, govern. Can you think of anything that’s a worse look for a political party anywhere in the world than looking on the bright side of an ISIS terror attack? Because on June 10th, 2017, Rohrabacher, on video, is shown talking about how it was “a good thing” that the Islamic State carried out a terror attack on the Iranian parliament in Tehran, and that maybe the United States should consider working WITH them. He didn’t exactly back off of these remarks, either, releasing a statement where he claimed ISIS was “no better” than the Iranian regime. Days later, Rohrabacher, somehow a member of the House Science Space and Technology Committee, was listening to testimony from NASA scientist Kevin Farley regarding Mars, and he took the time to ask if there was a possibility of ancient civilizations having existed on Mars. Rohrabacher also managed to get some attention when video of him emerged from February 2018, being interviewed by Voice of America China, in what was supposed to be a message to the audience about our government acknowledging Chinese New Year. And, lo and behold, Dana Rohrabacher is enough of an insane, racist idjit that he started talking about how he believes the racist trope about Chinese people eat dogs. His love of those conspiracy theories, idiocy on science, and that he speaks glowingly of Vladimir Putin going back to when they hung out in a pub in Russia and were arm-wrestling back in the 1990s, and it came up in the news a few times lately as it was noted that Donald Trump also seemed to have a weird crush on the Russian dictator, and that the 2016 Trump campaign worked in tandem with Russia to interfere in our elections. In fact, as Congress began to learn that Russia was meddling in the first place, audio leaked of a private meeting where among others, House Speaker Paul Ryan and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy were present, and the latter actually volunteered his belief to the group that “There’s two people I think Putin pays, Rohrabacher and Trump. Swear to God.” The room then burst into laughter, before Paul Ryan asks everyone to keep the topic being discussed on the mum and to keep the chat within the family (which people listened to him for less than a year). Many people would shrug this off as just a bunch of “joking” among Republicans, but really, Dana Rohrabacher spent most of the summer of 2017 demonstrating how much of a loose cannon that’s going to be a liability for the GOP. How much so? Strap yourselves in, s*** is about to get real enough that you'll ask yourself how this can be real life. Immediately after the joint press conference between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Dana Rohrabacher was one of the first people to come running to Donald Trump’s defense, and contradict the American intelligence community to claim that the Russians never hacked the 2016 election. Just to be consistent, a few days after that interview, Rohrabacher was ferociously criticizing the indictment of Maria Butina, the Russian spy caught trying to help her country, on behalf of Russian oligarchs, infiltrate the NRA and the Republican Party (and who did so rather easily). Perhaps that has something to do with the fact that Rohrabacher actually met with Butina in 2015. Rohrabacher has also been left scrambling to cover his links to Russia in the 2016 election, including having to pay back donations his charity had received from a guy you may have heard of for being a Russian pawn named Paul Manafort. Not even a month would go by before Rohrabacher was at it again, taking to the floor of the House to defend Donald Trump Jr. for having a meeting at Trump Tower with Russian spies who were promising him information damaging to Hillary Clinton as part of Vladimir Putin’s plan to see Donald Trump elected president, claiming that “it’s not illegal to receive information from someone.” Making Rohrabacher look even more insane than he is, speaking to an empty chamber, is the fact he was then followed at this idiotic GOP Open Mic Night by both Louis Gohmert and Steve King, who also voiced defenses of Trump, Jr., before having the topic wander into a discussion of blocking payment for medical treatments for transgender members of our military.Rohrabacher still wasn’t done. For whatever reason, he took it upon himself to fly to London in August 2017, and meet with Julian Assange, from Wikileaks. Because Rohrabacher is claiming that Assange has new revelations about the Russians’ DNC hack, and that he wanted to set up a “rendezvous” between the international criminal and Donald Trump. Meanwhile, the FBI are investigating election hacking right damned now from the 2018 election, where Hans Keirstead the third-place finisher to Rohrabacher and his main challenger, Harley Rouda, lost out on the top-two primary by only 125 votes. And Keirstead was the victim of cyberattacks, supposedly orchestrated by who else… Russia. In September of 2017, Rohrabacher began calling for the House Intelligence Committee to host hearings on “the Clinton/Russia connection”. Dana Rohrabacher was, against all reason, insisting that the real story that everyone is missing is that Russia was working through the Clinton Foundation to help Hillary win the election by hacking her own party, and releasing as much damaging information as they could online about her. Dana Rohrabacher also gave a bats*** interview to the San Francisco Chronicle where, as he made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, proceeded to explain how the events that unfolded in Charlottesville, Virginia and the terror attack carried out by a white supremacist there were actually a false flag operation set up by liberals and Democrats who are loyal to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Rohrabacher also provided some unintentional entertainment in July 2018, as he was featured as one of a group of Republicans who were duped by comedian Sascha Baren Cohen to be recorded advocating for a promotional campaign to sell firearms to toddlers. Now, one of the things we’ve been keeping track of in our updates on members of Congress is how their town halls have gone in 2017. Interesting thing about Dana Rohrabacher… he’s decided to not host one. Well, maybe that would just look cowardly, but when you see reports that Rohrabacher accused constituents showing up at his office in his district asking him to host one of “political thuggery, pure and simple”, and labeling them “enemies of democracy”: His relationship with his constituents has devolved to the point where, quite literally, Rep. Rohrabacher has called the police on activists for daring to call his office and ask him questions. There was also the moment in May of 2018 where Rohrabacher argued in favor of housing discrimination against the LGBTQ community, losing endorsements from the National Association of Realtors, who weren’t down with that homophobic bulls***. Harley Rouda mercifully put an end to Dana Rohrabacher’s madness as a part of the 2018 Blue Wave. After decades of supporting the legalization of marijuana, Rohrabacher has moved on to become a board member of BudTrader, referred to as “the Craiglist of weed”. We hope the primary side-effect of cannabis making you a tad lethargic will also make sure he isn’t motivated to ever mount a political comeback. As such, we will set aside his profile at this time, and take a look at another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 915-45, since this was established in July 2014.

[worstblogever]

Marjorie Taylor Greene
Welcome to what is the 915th original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is sadly likely to become the next U.S. House Representative from Georgia’s 14th Congressional District since her Democratic opponent in her traditionally conservative-leaning district, Kevin Van Ausdal, suddenly dropped out of the race on September 11th, 2020. There was already discussion prior to that if Greene, a self-funded construction company owner, could be seated as a member of Congress even when she wins, as her rhetoric is… frankly, the hyperbolic fever dreams of a conspiracy theorist.

Greene is die-hard fan of Donald Trump and has built her political brand over the last few years on bigoted anti-immigrant, Islamophobic, and anti-transgender policy support. She does not have a “chill” setting, having already created a White House petition to impeach Nancy Pelosi (you don’t impeach members of the House) for “treason”, which is, of course, a capitol offense (and one Pelosi certainly hasn’t committed).

We find it more distressing that Greene has posed in photos with Chester Doles, a white supremacist who served a prison sentence for assaulting a black man nearly to death because he saw him in the company of a white woman and who was at one point the leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Greene has dismissed any outrage over the photos as “silly” and “fake news”, but it seems to be quite indicative of a very racist woman.

Greene has, without much prompting, posted videos online where she has conflated the Black Lives Matter unit to the Ku Klux Klan members and Neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, and has voiced her thoughts that African Americans “are held slaves to the Democratic Party”, said she would feel “proud” to see a Confederate monument if she were black because it symbolizes progress made since the Civil War, and believes that “The most mistreated group of people in the United States today are white males”, while black women have it far easier because of affirmative action.

In one of her video rants, Greene says that unemployment — which affects people of color at disproportionately higher rates — is simply the product of “bad choices” and being “lazy”, adding her opinion that African Americans are being held back in society by gangs, drugs, a lack of education, Planned Parenthood and abortions but “not white people.”

“I know a ton of white people that are as lazy and sorry and probably worse than black people. And that has everything to do with their bad choices and their personal responsibility. That is not a skin-color issue.”

Greene described Islamic nations under Sharia law as places where men have sex with "little boys, little girls, multiple women" and "marry their sisters" and "their cousins." After the 2018 midterms saws the most diverse class of House freshmen, she deemed it “an Islamic invasion of our government” and that “anyone that is a Muslim that believes in Sharia law does not belong in our government.” She had a video at the time where she referred to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar as "that woman out of Minnesota who has got to wear a head covering," adding that members of Congress should not be able to take the oath of office on a Koran and "You have to be sworn in on the Bible." Without any irony, she also says “Muslims aren’t held back in any way because the Constitution guarantees equality”, while making the previous argument.

It’s one thing to be a QAnon conspiracy theorist, which Marjorie Taylor Greene is, but it’s another to be able to tie her palling around with a Klan leader as something you’d expect from a woman who in 2018 shared her quite anti-Semitic belief that the secret sex cult that is harvesting hormones to keep themselves young from children they murder was in fact, being run by George Soros and the Rothschilds. Oh, and she also pushes the false conservative narrative that George Soros worked WITH the Nazis, which is flat out disgusting.

She’s also got some gun-related conspiracy theories, furthering one that the Las Vegas shooting massacre was a “false flag” plot to abolish the Second Amendment while also calling one of the student activists from Parkland High School who survived the attack “little Hitler”. But perhaps her love of guns is expressed in more than just conspiracy theories, as only a few weeks ago, she posted a campaign fundraising photo of herself online where she was brandishing an assault rifle with the superimposed images of Congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez while dubbing herself “The Squad’s Worst Nightmare”. The ad was offensive enough that even Facebook deleted it as a threat. Which, of course, Greene whined about as if she was the victim for not being allowed to wish gunning down her potential (and likely) future colleagues on the internet, and played dumb about what was clearly incitement to violence.

At this moment, it is very likely that Marjorie Taylor Greene will be roaming the halls of Congress come January. Considering she seems to honestly believe that the folks that will be across the aisle from her are the monsters described in the Qanon conspiracy theory, and if she can’t threaten them, that she’s the victim… Well, we have a feeling we’re going to certainly be busy every year when we update her profile.

Let’s just hope that someone in the Republican Party realizes they should cut bait, rather than follow her absolutely mental lead.

[Tami]