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

[PwrdOn]

Because this insane lady is anything like normal Americans or the Democratic Party? Come on man!

Well, as a popular meme going around the internet these days,

YES.

[worstblogever]

Hey, because Trump's border wall is so effective, why not make a portable one?

No, Greg. You didn't regain control of anything.

Ah yes. A border wall priced at an SUV's cost (roughly $18K) per 6 feet built. With enough space for a child to crawl under, or a bumper with which to help someone climb over.

To say nothing if a particularly clever person were to boost one of the parked pieces of wall and drive it off.

[Kirby101]

Well, as a popular meme going around the internet these days,

YES.

If you think that, you understand America less than you understand China it seems.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published a profile about Steve Lonegan, the former mayor of Bogota, New Jersey who twice lost in the GOP Primary while running to be the governor of the Garden State, and failed candidate for U.S. Senate in the 2013 special election to replace the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg. Lonegan gets offended by Spanish language advertising on billboards, and claimed he had handicap for running for office in New Jersey… he’s WHITE. He also touted himself as trustworthy on healthcare issues because he’s “callous and uncaring” and was opposed to the Affordable Care Act, saying, “I’d hate to see you get cancer, but that’s your problem, not mine.” He’s serious about his lack of concern for his fellow man… even going as far as to admit he wouldn’t request federal disaster aid for New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy. Lonegan also referred to Social Security as “a Ponzi Scheme”, claimed Mitt Romney was right about his comments about the 47 percent, and claimed that his opponent, Corey Booker, who was serving as mayor of Newark at the time, had done a bad enough job as mayor that the Passaic River was overflowing from corpses from shootings in the city. This levelheaded individual has not run for office since, however, he still made some headlines as a leader of New Jersey Republicans’ attempt to boot Donald Trump and avoid giving the GOP nomination. Like all political battles Lonegan seems to fight these days, he lost. We have no further updates on him at this time.

On this date in both 2015, and 2016, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" featured a profiles of the former U.S. Senator from Illinois, Mark Kirk, who as a member of the House, voted for the Terry Schiavo Incapacitated Persons Bill, voted to fight in the “War on Christmas” by passing legislation to recognize the importance of Christianity, and voted against equal pay measures like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Kirk was widely criticized during his campaign for U.S. Senate, after being caught on more than one occasion exaggerating or misrepresenting his military service record to score more points with voters, including touting winning an award he never received, and that he was the only member of Congress to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom when he was never deployed outside the United States. After returning from a long recuperation for a stroke, Kirk’s number of gaffes has skyrocketed, including his calls for the migrant children fleeing gang violence in Central America being held in the United States to be forced to undergo criminal background checks, sending out fund-raising letters warning that he needed help because First Lady Michelle Obama could be running against him in 2016 (she didn’t), and participating in the sabotage of nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran as one of the "47 traitors". In March of 2015, Sen. Kirk was discussing Congressional Democrats’ unwillingness to vote for an anti-human trafficking bill because it had harsh anti-abortion language in it (women would be forced to provide the burden of proof that they were raped while victims of human trafficking to receive any aid towards the cost of an abortion), in quite a hyperbolic way, comparing it to some members of Congress being unwilling to abolish slavery in the 1850s. He also was asked about fellow Senator Lindsay Graham’s presidential run, and gave his thoughts about how Graham, a rare bachelor running for president, was “a bro with no ho”. Mark Kirk had several thoughts on the Iran Nuclear Treaty, including that President Obama wanted “to get nukes to Iran” (quite the opposite, actually), while invoking Godwin’s Law by comparing the president to Neville Chamberlain, and Iran to Hitler’s Germany and that the Obama administration paid a $400 million “ransom” to Iran (which was actually the U.S.giving Iran access to bank assets they had in U.S. banks in 1979 that had been frozen for decades, and were returned without interest, thanks to shrewd negotiating), and in his hysterics, Sen. Kirk called President Obama the “drug dealer in chief”. Kirk ended up losing his Senate seat, Rep. Tammy Duckworth, who he stupidly accused of “not standing up for our veterans” even though her voting record actually shows that she stands up for our veterans more than most in Congress, if not one of the best supporters of veterans in the House and that she herself is a veteran who if she doesn’t “stand” for veterans it’s because she literally because she lost two legs during her service in the Iraq War (the one Mark Kirk voted for as a member of the House) in a helicopter crash. So… yeah, he lost, and has already faded from relevance.

It was on this date in 2017 that "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" profiled Brian McDowell, a candidate for New Jersey State Assembly in 2016 who wanted to represent that state’s 1st District. His qualifications for office? He was a former contestant on Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice”. Less than a month after McDowell filed paperwork to run for office, video of him emerged shamelessly hitting on a woman, telling her, “Let me tell you right now. You should f*** me. It would really be good. Listen, you never know.” Republican Party officials in New Jersey were immediately looking to push back and get McDowell off the ballot before he embarrassed them any further (and this was without knowing that Donald Trump’s “Access Hollywood” tape would be dropping in a few months). McDowell wasn’t about to just surrender, but he never exactly gave an apology, instead making a statement that could best be classified as “making things worse”, saying, “There are human errors and even Jesus dropped the cross three times. I’m not running to be the pope. I’m running to make New Jersey more affordable.” Without any support from the New Jersey GOP, Brian McDowell finished third in the GOP Primary for the seat in the state assembly, getting only 1750 votes for 16% of the vote and returned to working in real estate with Island Realty Group.

It was on this date in 2018, as well as 2019, that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Leah Vukmir, who served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 2002 through 2010, taking over for Gov. Scott Walker’s seat in the Wisconsin House of Representatives when he ran in the special election for Milwaukee County Executive, and then using the momentum of the Tea Party Wave in 2010 to jump over to the Wisconsin State Senate where she remained until 2018. Over that time, Vukmir finagled her way onto the goddamn Board of Directors of ALEC itself. And you can see the mindset of a die-hard from ALEC in her voting record, from trying in 2006 to pass a constitutional amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman, consistently voting against bills aimed at providing access to emergency contraception to victims of rape and sexual assault, co-sponsoring SB 167, a bill aimed at reducing the legal age of those who can carry firearms to 10, as well as voting for all manner of voter suppression tactics that GOP legislators get behind. Over the course of her very partisan career in the Wisconsin State Assembly, Vukmir has actually been booed by the collective gallery at times, most famously back in 2009 when she tried accusing two colleagues who were proponents of medical marijuana of “using dying cancer patients to further a secret agenda of legalization”. More recently, however, Vukmir’s name has come up during the investigation into corruption by Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans in the Wisconsin State Assembly because she has tried reframing the investigation of potential bribery as something in which she is the victim. That’s right, Vukmir has handled the investigation into her own potential corruption by demanding the investigators be jailed. We’ll add that just this past Christmas, Vukmir posted an op-ed in the Wisconsin Capitol Times where she expressed her desire to win the non-existent “War on Christmas”, but also added that she “sincerely doubts those celebrating Hanukkah would take offense to being wished Merry Christmas.” in it, which is… kind of presumptuous to speak for a whole religious minority that you’re not a part of, y’know? Well, this brings us to Leah Vukmir’s campaign to challenge Sen. Tammy Baldwin for her seat in the U.S. Senate in 2018, and boy howdy, has she been f***-bonkers koo-koo in campaign ads from the jump. She opened up by airing a heartwarming ad portraying herself as supporting families… sitting in a poorly lit room with a gun sitting on the table, talking directly to the viewer as if she might shoot them if they didn’t vote for her. Why it was on the table… who knows? But okay, okay. Botching your first ad isn’t a sign you’re not ready for the big stage, she assuredly did better in take two, right? HA! No. Vukmir aired an ad where she portrayed herself on “Team America” (apologies to the film), and claimed that Sen. Tammy Baldwin was on “Team Terrorist”, showing an image of Baldwin superimposed to be standing next to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Vukmir lost to Tammy Baldwin in 2018. She was last seen trying to influence conservative policy at the National Taxpayers Union… And we hope that she continues not running for any office and slowly fades from relevance.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” first profiled Lauren Witzke, a 2020 candidate for U.S. Senate from Delaware and former Trump campaign staffer who did her work for him in Iowa, and more importantly, she was yet another Qanon conspiracy theorist that the Republican Party have on the ballot trying to get to Washington, D.C. Of course, her belief in a conspiracy that Democrats kidnap children to be sacrificed in Satanic rituals where they are harvested for fear hormones that grant eternal youth to the cabal of leftists is somehow not the only crazy s*** she’s tied up in. Because, a little peek down Lauren Witzke’s social media feed shows she’s also furthered conspiracy theories rooted in anti-Semitism, has shared stories about how the Earth is flat (pretty easy to clown Flat Earthers since that’s been debunked since before the birth of Christ by astronomers), and wouldn’t you know it, she also is a 9/11 Truther. As Witzke celebrated her victory in the GOP Primary, she took the time out on Twitter to thank Nick Fuentes, one of the organizers of the “Unite the Right” hate rally in Charlottesville where Neo-Nazis terrorized the town and one drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters to kill Heather Heyer. She was known to frequently interact with white nationalists on social media, and sometimes in person, like when she met with Nick Wheeler. Her campaign manager, Michael Sisco, is also a self-described monarchist who would like to supplant American democracy with a monarchy, and run all the Jewish people out of the country, so… while it’s obvious that with all those white nationalist pals, you would guess that she would be an anti-immigrant xenophobe, right? Well, it’s a little bit weirder than that. Lauren Witzke has groused about Mexican cartels putting drugs across the border in the United States, which isn’t off brand… but she has an odd personal twist she brings to the discussion. Witzke has, by her own admission, volunteered that she used to work with the cartels and while being a heroin and amphetamine user herself, ran drugs across the border for them(!). Democratic Senator Chris Coons easily won re-election against her, but as far as we’re concerned, Lauren Witzke passed Christine O’Donnell for the craziest Republican to run for Congress in Delaware, and it wasn’t even close. As she seems unlikely to ever reach office, we will set aside her profile at this time, however, to cover another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1026-50, since this was established in July 2014.


Kimberly Klacik

Welcome to what is the 1026th original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Kimberly Klacik, who is already a two-time loser in attempts to get elected to Congress as the U.S. House Representative in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District, failing to win office in both the April 2020 special election to replace Elijah Cummings, and then the November election seven months later. Klacik came to prominence by disparaging the city of Baltimore, the same city she wished to represent, saying it was “overrun with trash and dilapidation” to the glee of Donald Trump during his years-long racism-fueled rivalry with the late Congressman Cummings. Her campaign released a video entitled "Black Lives Don't Matter To Democrats" in August of 2020, and that finally earned her a spot speaking at the 2020 Republican National Convention that gave her two minutes to further the GOP’s paranoid fervor about “defunding the police”. Her campaign then began throwing a tantrum because the newly sworn-in Congressman Kweisi Mfume would not agree to debate her, and he simply responded that she wasn’t a serious candidate because she failed to even correctly spell the city of Baltimore in a campaign video (he referenced a shot where it was listed as “Balitimore”).

When Election Day rolled around, Kimberly Klacik only got 28% of the vote. At first, she conceded, but then started to claim there were “irregularities” and “election fraud” in her 44 point loss. She had lost the in-person election day vote, the early in-person vote, and absentee votes all by a large margin. She only helped further Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” with her irrational claims.

We will only add, however, that Kimberly Klacik is currently involved in a particularly bitter feud with conservative commentator/facetious troll Candace Owens, suing Owens in a $20 million defamation lawsuit after Owens released an Instragram video where she claimed Klacik had committed campaign fraud, money laundering, illegally used drugs and was a “madame” of a strip club that she also performed at.

We will sum up our reaction to that with the following gif:

[Kirby101]

Dupe post.

[Kirby101]

Conspiracy theorists lack critical thinking skills: New study

[The Cool Thatguy]

Conspiracy theorists lack critical thinking skills: New study

Next they'll say that water is wet, or that we shouldn't eat paint chips!

[babyblob]

Conspiracy theorists lack critical thinking skills: New study

Breaking News. Sky is Blue!

[The Cool Thatguy]

Because courts of law are the only way we know about the truth? pull the other leg.

What exactly is your evidence besides 'Just asking questions'?.

Do you have any idea how complicated voter fraud would have to be, to tip a national presidential election? I'm guessing no.

[Xheight]

So are you telling us you don’t understand there’s a complete difference between a criminal trial with a jury and a judge’s ruling regarding an election?
Those judges may not have wanted to rule on these cases because they understand the absolute danger to our Democratic election process that could be done if they rule in favor on the basis of flimsy and in some cases fabricated evidence. You want to make the decisions the issue here where it’s actually the lack of credibility of the evidence.

What I reminding people of is that Judges that ruled on elections were afraid of repeating Bush vs. Gore and punted not because of evidence but because they didn't want to open the can of worms that might lead to questioning our election process.

“In a unanimous decision, the justices declared that Rep. Mike Kelly (R., Butler) had waited too long to bring his lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2019 law that created no-excuse mail voting in the state for the first time, and they declared the remedy he sought too extreme.”

- Politico
As to where the burden of proof lies that is not a legal position simply the assertion of those that have the upper hand. The credibility of such amounts to saying we haven't had massive fraud before so why should we think there was one now. Except we have had questionable elections before and Bush vs Gore is just the most recent one.
How can you call evidence flimsy when none has been allowed to be presented?

[Xheight]

What exactly is your evidence besides 'Just asking questions'?.

Do you have any idea how complicated voter fraud would have to be, to tip a national presidential election? I'm guessing no.

yes, very complicated but then again for someone with consultants from google and other big data firms that are in evidence on the DNC Biden campaign it is not as far fetched.

Any more complicated than the Time article posted?

[Kirby101]

That ruling don't say what you think it say.

[Kirby101]

yes, very complicated but then again for someone with consultants from google and other big data firms that are in evidence on the DNC Biden campaign it is not as far fetched.

Any more complicated than the Time article posted?

You mean that NY Times Post dribble? Come on man!

[babyblob]

What exactly is your evidence besides 'Just asking questions'?.

Do you have any idea how complicated voter fraud would have to be, to tip a national presidential election? I'm guessing no.

It must be very easy to pull it off with thousands of people in different states with no emails, paper trail, voice recordings, or any one coming forward and saying "Hey Hey Look what I was a part of! I helped keep Trump from getting elected. Im a hero!"

I havnt seen any paper trail with the Dems going "Okay here are the fake votes and here is where we will claim they are cast." Must be some real mission impossible crap going on. "This evidence of massive voter fraud will self destruct in 5 seconds."

And what is funny is how the GOP cherry pick where the fraud was at.

In District A Biden won so voter fraud, but in that same district a GOP won their seat for Senate? Oh no the GOP results are fine. it is Biden that is the fraud.

It is going to get to the point there is going to be fraud claims in elections for Dog Catcher in 2024.