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

[skyvolt2000]

If those "great cops" help cover up or turn a blind eye to the bad cops, which we've seen time and time again that they do, they are also bad cops.

Some of those great cops DO try to do the right thing.

You know what happens to those cops? They end up losing jobs or mysteriously transferred. In other word retaliation. Except it's hard to prove it when it appears to be a natural occurrence.

The good cop did what they were suppose to do report it. However what happens after that varies.

This is tends to happen. The wrong doer (more than the person reporting the issue) transfers or leaves. Where investigations do not continue in the new location.

It's how a lot of toxic school employees escape. Resign and leave before anything else flares up.

[shooshoomanjoe]

Fox propaganda news tends to defend cops that murder black Americans. I'm not seeing this with the cops that murdered Tyre Nichols, I wonder why.

[worstblogever]

Fox propaganda news tends to defend cops that murder black Americans. I'm not seeing this with the cops that murdered Tyre Nichols, I wonder why.

You can't be a white nationalist propaganda channel if you're defending anyone who isn't white.

[Tami]

Fox propaganda news tends to defend cops that murder black Americans. I'm not seeing this with the cops that murdered Tyre Nichols, I wonder why.

They are caught in a Logic Trap (even though the premise behind it is illogical).

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Some of those great cops DO try to do the right thing.

You know what happens to those cops? They end up losing jobs or mysteriously transferred. In other word retaliation. Except it's hard to prove it when it appears to be a natural occurrence.

The good cop did what they were suppose to do report it. However what happens after that varies.

This is tends to happen. The wrong doer (more than the person reporting the issue) transfers or leaves. Where investigations do not continue in the new location.

It's how a lot of toxic school employees escape. Resign and leave before anything else flares up.

That's also how pedophile priests get off scot free.

Yo, WBE! Tendrin asked me to pass this tidbit along to you for possible dissemination:

Rep @CoryMillsFL is passing out grenades to fellow House members

[Spike-X]

I don't care what anyone says, the bad cops are few...

If that is the case, then why does the entire police organization as a whole, and especially the police union, bend over backwards to protect them? Why do the vast, overwhelming majority allow the "few bad ones" to repeatedly ruin their image and reputation?

The "few bad cops" aren't in charge of the recruiting that seems to select specifically for bullies and thugs. The "few bad cops" aren't in charge of training recruits to see any and all black people, including children, as dangerous, life-threatening individuals. The "few bad cops" aren't in charge of the increasing militarization of police departments, and the "few bad cops" didn't decide to declare war on their communities a couple of summers back because their communities asked them to please stop murdering people in the street.

[Spike-X]

There is a racial element. And this is a story about young Black men and their inability to treat each other in a humane way. Everybody involved in this on the street level was either 24 to 32 years old. Everybody. It was a group of young Black men, five-on-one. Looked like gang violence to me.

It looked like what young Black men do when they’re supervised by a single Black woman. And that’s what they got going on in the Memphis Police Department. They’ve elected some, or put some Black woman in charge of the police force, and we are getting the same kind of chaos and disunity and violence that we see in a lot of these cities run by single mothers.

If we want to discuss the breakdown of family that leads to disrespect for authority that causes you to resist the police and run from the police and not comply with the police, because you resist authority at all times, because there was no male authority in your home, let’s have that discussion.

tl;dr - they didn't do this because they're cops, they did it because they're black. You know what Those People are like.

[Spike-X]

And here I was thinking churches were all about inclusion, about warmly accepting one and all. Silly me.

Florida church vows to kick out members who refuse to sign 'anti-gay pledge'

What on earth made you think that?

[worstblogever]

That's also how pedophile priests get off scot free.

Yo, WBE! Tendrin asked me to pass this tidbit along to you for possible dissemination:

Rep @CoryMillsFL is passing out grenades to fellow House members

He was already in the queue for mocking Paul Pelosi nearly being beaten to death with a hammer, but yeah...we have another douche-canoe trying to hard to win top "Florida Man" in Congress it seems.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

What on earth made you think that?

Naïveté I guess. Call it a moment of weakness.

[Tendrin]

ConSerVaTiVE VoiCEs Are BeiNG SIllenCEd

Anti-fascist activist Chad Loder's Twitter account was suspended in November 2022.

A leaked internal Twitter message suggests Elon Musk directly ordered the suspension.

Bloomberg reported the internal message as saying: "Suspension: direct request from Elon Musk."

A leaked internal Twitter message appears to show that Elon Musk directly ordered staff to suspend a left-wing activist's account on the social-media platform.

Bloomberg said it viewed a screenshot of the message in question, involving the account of Chad Loder, which read: "Suspension: direct request from Elon Musk."

It is known that this suspension was directly advocated for by stochastic terrorist and right wing provocateur Andy Ngo, who also baselessly implied Loder was a pedophile. I'm sure all our free speech warriors will definitely be mad about Elon Musk doing on twitter something way worse than anything in the so-called 'twitter files'. Any word when Bari Weiss and Matt Taibi will be engaging in some performative outrage?

https://sports.yahoo.com/leaked-inte...124134420.html

[worstblogever]

In 2015, in 2016, and in 2017, “Crazy Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of Sally Kern, who has voted in favor of every anti-choice bill in the Oklahoma legislature, no matter how extreme, voted for a ban on Sharia Law in the Sooner State, a bill to make it more difficult for people to get a divorce for incompatibility, and a bill to allow Creationists to teach “pure science” in class. In spite of being the wife of a pastor, and practitioner of a religion whose Savior was put to death, Kern is not just in favor of the death penalty, but would like it applied to second offense sex offenders (they’re scum and all, but come on, that’s a bit much). Kern had, on three separate occasions, sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to nullify federal law, and even sponsored a bill to prohibit compliance with the United Nations Agenda 21 conspiracy, presumably because she’s convinced it’s a plot for world domination. Even with all that, Sally Kern’s real bread and butter issue is LGBTQ rights, because she’s such a homophobic bigot that she’s said that homosexuals were destroying the United States and are more dangerous than terrorists (and vowed never to apologize for that statement), blamed the economic woes of ’07-’10 on same sex marriage, claimed gays are looking to exploit legalized gay marriage to also legalize polygamy and pedophilia, and longs for “the good old days when gays would get thrown in jail.” Kern has also commented on race and gender in the same speech in uncomfortable ways, saying that there is a larger percentage of African Americans than whites in prison because they “don’t work as hard in school” and that women don’t deserve equal pay to men because “they don’t work as hard”. In 2015 alone, she supported three radically anti-gay “religious freedom” bills, one to make it legal for businesses to discriminate against gay people, one that would prohibit judges and clerks in Oklahoma from issuing marriage certificates to same sex couples, despite federal court decisions that already struck down Oklahoma’s gay marriage ban, and a third to allow for the “freedom” for individuals to seek out gay conversion therapy. We are relieved, however, to report that Sally Kern faced term limits in 2016, and is no longer a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. To the end, she was a homophobic loon, as even in her farewell speech, she took time to insist that “the homosexual agenda is worse than terrorism”. She then called for homosexuality to be outlawed, and described herself, literally, as a “victim of anti-Christian persecution”.

On this date in both 2018, as well as 2019, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled the former U.S. House Representative from Illinois’ 14th Congressional District, Randy Hultgren, who first arrived in Washington D.C. in, yes, the Tea Party Wave in 2010 after he spent twelve years floating around the Illinois state legislature with a meager 51% of the vote. After redistricting his district was redrawn to +5 Republican lean, aiding him to hang onto what was once a swing seat for far longer than he deserved to. And that’s a shame, because the last thing the country needs is a man who consistently denies facts and science being given a leg up on being re-elected without effort. Hultgren wanted intelligent design taught in schools, a violation of the separation of church and state and also touted a bill he wrote that would allocate over half a billion dollars to grants to promote “abstinence only” education in schools. He also claimed the Obama administration was enacting “dangerous and experimental” sex education programs for “younger and younger children” (because that isn’t a lie made to sound more sinister), and that there were “incredible success records” for abstinence education. And… that’s completely false, as studies show precisely the opposite, and that abstinence only education is a failure. Rounding things out, Randy Hultgren is a climate change denier, as he expressed in this interview back in late 2009, where against all evidence, he tried claiming that the Earth was entering a “cooling period”: As a legislator, Hultgren frequently voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, twice voted to Defund Planned Parenthood, against the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, against disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Harvey, and for the 2013 Government Shutdown. In 2017, he voted for the GOP’s massive Tax Scam, and for the repeal of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Financial Reform. Mercifully, in the 2018 elections, Randy Hultgren was swept out of office by the Blue Wave, with Lauren Underwood overcoming the +5 Republican lean to defeat Hultgren 52.5% to 47.5%.

On this date in both 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Patricia McElraft, a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from District 13, and former Delta Burke stunt-double. McElraft has held office now in North Carolina since 2007, meaning she’s been at the heart of some of the worst moments from Tar Heel State Republicans over the past decade, but just since 2013, she drafted HB 819, a bill to ban all research on the impacts of climate change upon the North Carolina coastline, voted for HB 392, another of those insane GOP bills that seek to drug test welfare recipients, then lose a state a ton of money on the cost of drug testing only to find no significant drug use until lawsuits against the laws succeed to prove the law is a violation of the 4th Amendment rights of those it seeks to test, voted for the Repeal of the Racial Justice Act. voted for SB 353, an extremely restrictive anti-abortion bill that was amended by the North Carolina GOP from a motorcycle safety bill into an anti-choice measure, voted for HB 465, a TRAP law aimed at creating abortion regulations so restrictive that they would effectively force the closure of all abortion clinics in the state for failing to be able to meet them, voted for SB 2, a bill to allow state officials to refuse to perform “certain marriage duties” if they have a “sincerely held” religious objection, and was a co-sponsor of HB 2, North Carolina’s disastrous anti-LGBTQ law that caused boycotts over the law that cost the state well over a trillion dollars of revenue from business boycotts and the tourism industry. She was even a part of the revolting vote by the North Carolina GOP on the 2019 anniversary of 9/11, when the Republicans in the state legislature told Democrats that no votes were scheduled on the anniversary to honor the victims of 9/11… and then they called a vote to pass a veto-proof budget anyway without the opposition in the chamber. We’ll note that our final reason to single out McElraft for a profile is related to that first bill that she drafted, HB 819. Literally passing a law to deny the existence of climate change by ignoring scientists takes some serious chutzpah, but it’s the quotes she used to justify it that are truly bonkers, saying, “In 1974, the alarmists were talking about the ice age coming in. What has happened, has the ice age come in?” Patricia McElraft has decided to not run for re-election in 2022. As such, we will set aside her profile at this time to cover another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1181-55, since this was established in July 2014.

[worstblogever]

Lee Chatfield
Welcome to what is the 1181st original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Lee Chatfield, who was first elected to District 105 of the Michigan House of Representatives in 2014, and held office for three terms, finishing his final one as House Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, the youngest person to hold that office in a century. Once you look at his resume, and see he got his Master’s Degree from Liberty University, you could lay odds that this Evangelical twit was a hypocrite and corrupt piece of garbage from the jump.

Nobody paid enough attention that this guy might think he was above the law back in 2018 when he tried to bring a loaded handgun at Pellston Regional Airport, but by the time he was trying to get Michigan’s electoral votes in 2020 awarded to Donald Trump through back door deals with the Orange Menace himself, which makes us wonder if he'll face some sort of charge from the Dept. of Justice at some point.

But the real doozy that causes us to profile this scumbag is that he used his position as a pastor in his father to pressure a teenage girl into a sexual relationship from the age of 14 (i.e. statutory rape), all the way to the age of 26, continuing to have an affair with the girl after she married his brother when she turned 18 in 2013. And allegedly sexually abusing your sister-in-law is about as dirty a deed as you can get.

Not for nothing, though, he’s also been confirmed to be under FBI investigation as of December 2022 for embezzlement, bribery, and campaign finance violations, because there isn’t a moral bone in this absolute hypocrite’s body. And that’s not including if he ends up getting a further grilling over his role in a false electors scheme.

Honestly, we usually take a look at someone’s voting record when we profile them, but we’ll just add in passing that Chatfield was anti-LGBTQ, enough to allegedly refer to the gay community as “pedophiles”, which cost him a job he had after leading the legislature. But meanwhile, he's the one having sex with minors. Getting forced out for being a homophobe saved him the trouble of instead being fired of it when he would have been accused of sexually assaulting his brother’s wife before she was of legal consenting age.

We’re reasonably certain with all of this, Lee Chatfield won’t be making a political comeback. Just file him under the very large folder of “Donald Trump allies who were arrested for sexual assault”.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Why Kari keeps her grift going:

Kari Lake has a lucrative incentive to push conspiracy theories

Donald Trump found that the more he lied about his election defeat, the more money he raised. It’s a lesson Kari Lake appears to have learned quite well.

[CaptainEurope]

Tory Party chari Nadhim Zahawi has been sacked after PM Sunak spent several days ignoring tax crimes that could not be ignored.