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

[worstblogever]

In 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as in 2019, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" profiled the U.S. House Representative from Ohio’s 4th District, Jim Jordan, a brain dead lunk who is now serving in his sixth term in office. Prior to that, he spent twelve years as a member of the Ohio state legislature. Jordan's background prior to entering politics was as a national champion as an NCAA wrestler who eventually became the men's wrestling coach at Ohio State University (which OSU has a fanatical following, frankly, in the state, more on this later). Jordan's career in the Ohio state legislature was spent trying to strip welfare and the social safety net out from those in need of government assistance, and after winning the primary for his Congressional seat in 2006 to replace the retiring Mike Oxley, has been all but guaranteed re-election every year in Ohio's 4th, a district that has voted Republican in all but 16 years since the Civil War ended. Jordan was one of the original founders of the House Freedom Caucus in 2015 that orchestrated the downfall of former House Speaker John Boehner, stemming from an disagreement that the two had over the debt ceiling limit way, way back in 2011. If you're wondering, yes, Rep. Jordan was thus one of the main hindrances into getting an agreement on the debt ceiling passed, refusing to work with his own party to do so, and the inability of the GOP to produce one with control of the House is why Standard and Poore's lowered the United States credit rating for the first time in our nation's history.

We’re going to put this in perspective… John Boehner, of all people, refers to Jim Jordan as a terrorist.

And when it comes to committees... well, Jim Jordan first came onto our radar on the day the then-GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee badgered Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards after the release of the Center for Medical Progress' fabricated "sting" video, interrupting her 19 times in a 5 minute span.

He turned up to utterly embarrass himself while trying to harangue Hillary Clinton during the Benghazi hearings, eventually being called to the carpet for his egregiously incorrect take on the investigation by the collective Beltway media, and after FBI Director James Comey decided there was no precedent or charges that could be pressed against Hillary Clinton for her e-mail server, Jordan turned on him and accused Comey of helping "cover up the cover-up" which sounds as paranoid and ludicrous as you're thinking.

But perhaps that's not as paranoid and ludicrous as the interview Jim Jordan gave to Tony Perkins, the leader of the anti-gay hate group, the Family Research Council on April 30th, 2013, where he started insisting there was merit to the government conspiracy that the Obama administration was trying to "buy up all the ammunition" as part of a plan to negate the 2nd Amendment and limit the freedom of gun owners. Yeah, that really happened. But it's little surprise that Jordan would say something like that around Tony Perkins, after all, in April of 2012 Jordan was telling Perkins the importance of registering Evangelical voters to get them to vote against President Obama was akin to the Union Army winning the war to stop slavery, or Americans in World War II going to Europe to beat the Nazis. Ah... Godwin's Law. Never gets old.

And that's not all... after the faux "IRS Scandal" that the GOP worked itself into a frenzy was investigated, and no wrongdoing was found, he continued to demand investigations at taxpayer expense, saying:

"We need this special counsel to help us get to the truth because the so-called investigation by the Justice Department has been a joke. The current investigation has no credibility because it is being headed by a maxed-out donor who is financially invested in the president's success."

I guess what we're getting at is Jim Jordan is an extremist fiscal conservative, provided the money being spent isn't being wasted on partisan witch hunts that only exist to throw red meat to lunatic conservatives.

Jordan aligns himself legislatively with the House Freedom Caucus on their most extreme positions, and has gone from whining about presidents using executive orders, to defending Donald Trump for using them. That might be because Rep. Jordan likes that it screws over people who would dare to sign up for medical insurance through the Affordable Care Act, which Jordan STILL insists isn’t constitutional (in spite of the Supreme Court twice ruling that it was).

At least Jim Jordan hasn’t been bailing on town halls in his district. Naw, that would be wrong, and deny him the satisfaction of telling his constituents to go f*** themselves for expecting the government to provide them with any sort of security on healthcare, or doing anything to stop industrial giants from polluting the environment. But, y’know, doing it while cowering behind a police officer while he blew off everyone who asked a question, because apparently his wrestling skills aren’t what they used to be.

A lot of interesting coincidences also popped up with Jim Jordan in 2018. The first off is that one of his former aides, Wesley Goodman, was an Ohio state legislator up until the time he was caught having sex with another man in his office, and then dozens of individuals came forward, some underage, to report being sexually harassed by Goodman. And then a report came out that Goodman had sexually assaulted an underage boy while working for Jordan in Washington at a Family Research Council retreat, and the whole thing got hushed up.

But what’s that you say? That’s just a former staffer of Jim Jordan’s. It’s not like that he would ever be caught up in such a scandal and cover up a sexual assault. To that, we say… OH RLY?

Over the summer of 2018, reports surfaced that while Jim Jordan was working as an assistant coach in the wrestling program at Ohio State University, a team physician, Richard Strauss, was sexually assaulting dozens of students over several years. And when asked about it, Jordan denied having any knowledge of any such sexual abuse taking place. You’ll never guess what happened next… multiple wrestlers came forward who said that they were aware of the abuse, brought it to the attention of Jim Jordan, and he just laughed it off as normal everyday locker room shenanigans. Further, as more wrestlers came forward, some reported being contacted by former Ohio State coaches on behalf of Jim Jordan asking them to make public statements to defend him from the controversy. And of course being involved in a coverup of sexual assault means that Jim Jordan received special attention and praise from Donald Trump. Because of course.

Now, in some eras of American history, a scandal like the one Jim Jordan is involved in one be enough to force his resignation, and the president wouldn’t be coming to talk about how great he is. However, we’re in the darkest timeline, and thus a man suspected of being involved in not one, but TWO DIFFERENT coverups of sexual assault could be re-elected with 65% of the vote.

[worstblogever]

And so it is that Jim Jordan has become one of the most predominant gas-lighters in the modern Republican Party. Here are but some of his worst moments in the past year and a half or so:

• January 22nd, 2019: Jordan can’t be arsed to vote against HR 676, which would prevent Donald Trump from doing the unthinkable and walking away from our allies in NATO to appease the Russians.
• January 23rd, 2019: Rep. Jordan voted against HR 648, because he was gleefully enjoying the longest government shutdown in history.
• February 27th, 2019: Rep. Jordan spends the entire Michael Cohen hearing trying to make a “gotcha” moment happen that never comes, and if anything, just makes Cohen visibly perplexed for how stupid he is.
• February 28th, 2019: Jim Jordan votes against HR 1112, a bill which would have required universal background checks on all firearm purchases, and close the gun show loophole.
• March 14th, 2019: Rep. Jordan votes against HJR 46, which sane members of Congress voted for to reject Donald Trump’s “national emergency” regarding the U.S. border and his attempts to reallocate funds for a border wall without Congressional approval.
• March 27th, 2019: Jim Jordan sends a letter to Donald Trump’s accountants, Mazars, and instructs them to ignore any subpoenas they might receive, including Congressional subpoenas.
• April 4th, 2019: Jim Jordan is one of 158 Republicans who choose to vote against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
• May 17th, 2019: Jordan votes against The Equality Act.
• June 4th, 2019: Rep. Jordan votes against the Dreamers Act.
• June 11th, 2019: Jim Jordan harasses former White House Counsel John Dean during his testimony about how impeachment should be handled, and for whatever reason, tries to insinuate that Dean is attacking Donald Trump because of how he has handled foreign policy with Israel (???).
• July 16th, 2019: Jim Jordan can’t be bothered to vote against a resolution to condemn Donald Trump for his racist statements that four people of color in Congress should “go back where they came from”.
• September 29th, 2019: Jordan goes on CNN to try and confuse the public regarding the Ukraine Whistleblower Scandal, and Jake Tapper humiliates him, catching him in several lies and contradictions, and refusing to allow Jordan to try and deflect by spreading conspiracy theories about Joe Biden.
• October 14th, 2019: After 10 hours of damning testimony from State Department employee Dr. Fiona Hill during the impeachment inquiry, Rep. Jordan makes the ludicrous claim to the press that impeachment testimony doesn’t count unless it’s presented in front of all 435 members of Congress, and not just a committee. He also tried claiming that Congressman Matt Gaetz was unfairly kicked out of the meeting, but Gaetz wasn’t on any relevant committee to the discussion. (Jordan is, as per usual, full of s***.)
• October 17th, 2019: Jordan is one of 60 Republicans who vote against HJ Res 77, which opposed Donald Trump’s disastrous decision to abandon Syrian Kurdish forces in Northeast Syria to the mercies of a Turkish invasion.
• October 23rd, 2019: Jordan is one of 41 Republicans who, while staring down the possibility of Donald Trump being impeached, stage a ridiculous publicity stunt in response by crashing a classified impeachment inquiry hearing for a “protest”.
• November 14th, 2019: Jim Jordan, in the midst of the Trump impeachment hearings, tries to spin that Trump is somehow the hero of the story, and that he was actually holding up aid to Ukraine and trying to solicit an illegal investigation as a “test”, to see if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was corrupt or not.
• December 3rd, 2019: Rep. Jordan votes against a resolution to disallow Russia from re-entering the G7 and makes it the G8 until it leaves Ukraine.
• December 18th, 2019: Jordan ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the impeachment of Donald Trump.
• February 13th, 2020: Rep. Jordan is mentioned in a court hearing back in Columbus, Ohio, where a witness recalls Jim Jordan, then an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University, pressuring a wrestler to dispute his own brother’s reports of sexual abuse by a team trainer. This is yet another mention of Jordan covering up sexual abuse in that scandal, and yet… he still remains a member of Congress.
• April 23rd, 2020: Jim Jordan refuses to wear a mask in a House Oversight Committee hearing, and claims that an oversight committee for the Coronavirus response is “a Democratic plot to attack Trump”.
• May 15th, 2020: Jordan votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
• July 28th, 2020: Jim Jordan opens a hearing with Attorney General Bill Barr by, without permission, airing a video of out-of-context news footage (without the consent of the reporters giving those reports either), claiming that those protesting police violence are violent mobs.
• July 29th, 2020: Rep. Jordan is scolded by his Democratic colleagues for refusing to obey House rules and wear a mask during a meeting of the Technology Committee.
• July 31st, 2020: Jim Jordan is combative during a hearing on Covid-19, and while harassing Dr. Anthony Fauci, tries to target his questioning specifically to find out if he can shut down protests of police brutality and police murder around the country by using the pandemic as an excuse to deny protesters their right of assembly.
• August 20th, 2020: Rep. Jordan, the lemming that he is, follows Donald Trump off a cliff to back Trump’s calls to boycott the Goodyear Tire Company, who have a factory in Akron, Ohio, because the company called on its employees to not wear political clothing to work, such as any MAGA gear.
• October 20th, 2020: Rep. Jordan claims that social media platforms removing bogus stories about Hunter Biden’s supposed laptop having incriminating material on it is “censorship” when it’s their discretion to allow whatever content they want on their platforms. Especially when it’s supposed Russian propaganda aimed at meddling in American elections.
• October 21st, 2020: Jim Jordan impotently calls for the House to do an investigation into Hunter Biden’s e-mails, based on a story which most intelligence experts say exists as a Russian disinformation campaign to interfere in the 2020 elections. But Jordan insists that we “need to find out what Joe Biden knew about this”, because he’s doing the Kremlin’s work for them along with bumbling pedophile Rudy Giuliani.

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[worstblogever]

How someone can be implicated in the coverup of sexual abuse, and have so many ignorant, partisan statements in front of cameras while continuing to be elected… we have no idea. We know Ohio’s 4th District has a heavy Republican lean, but no one can primary this guy? Hell, it’s not just that he keeps being re-elected… how is there nobody within Republican leadership who ever slapped him down into obscurity? Jim Jordan is an embarrassment, and yet he was one of the ranking members of the House Oversight Committee, and now he’s the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.

We’re begging the residents of Ohio’s 4th here to wise up to this charlatan, and instead, vote for the Democratic candidate opposing him, Shannon Freshour. And not just because she’s, y’know… the sane one. She’s a paralegal who’s got a Master’s Degree from John Hopkins University in American government. As in, she understands how it’s supposed to work, rather than having the political savvy of a drunken ape like Jim Jordan. At least we think the ape could get a jacket on if it tried.

[babyblob]

I wonder what Trump thinks of this? Wait we all know what he thinks of this.

Proud Boys threatening voters in Florida and Alaska.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...mails-florida/

[Bruce Wayne]

Something something about good people and how the left must be doing it too.

[The Chou Lives]

That’s banana republic **** right there.

[Gray Lensman]

Qannon is crazy. They are just an extension of the Trump cult.

People, in reality kids are often harmed by people who know them. That’s just the truth.

They are sprouting garbarge that if Trump loses the dems will gets their kids as cattle. For all Dems are pedos, yet this?!

Hell the crazy right winged bizarre Christians ( who consider Trump Christian in spite of not holding Christian values other than a video of him at church giving pocket change and the photo of bible.)

But yeah some of those nutters are

- Blaming Catholics as the true deep state run ing things and Trump is trying to fight them ( reminds me of nazis hating Jews, scary.)

- That if Trump loses, God will smite America ( Err if you want to get really Biblical , Trump did a thing in Washington and Washington monument got struck by lightning, plus Pence with the fly and flies being agents of Satan of into that crap.)

Some are even making their own Waco style cults worshipping this orange clown writing up their own commandements like obeying the country and not following the words of doubters ( meaning science and sanity.)

People.

The enemies are loonies. Had these people Ben the same, born Muslim in another country, they would be Isis. That’s the comparison.

Also some Trumpers are stating if Trump will a they plan to go to another country like in Latin/South America

Ironic given their hero made a wall to suppress those people and so seek Alyson with them? And Trump stating if he loses America ends up that way anyway?

This is nutty stuff.

Qanon is merely The Protocols of the Elders of Zion crossed with The Return of Chef episode of South Park - that's the one with the "Super Adventure Club" if the episode title didn't ring any bells.

[The Chou Lives]

Qanon is merely The Protocols of the Elders of Zion crossed with The Return of Chef episode of South Park - that's the one with the "Super Adventure Club" if the episode title didn't ring any bells.

I know the one yeah. Miss a South Park

[The Cool Thatguy]

Qanon is merely The Protocols of the Elders of Zion crossed with The Return of Chef episode of South Park - that's the one with the "Super Adventure Club" if the episode title didn't ring any bells.

God damn reboots.

[ChangingStation]

On the bright side, Obama just made his speech.

[Mister Mets]

Gee, I wonder if the Qanon GOP supporters who supposedly hate pedophiles so much have a problem with Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, masturbating in front of a woman he's been told is 15 years old.

What's that? They aren't reacting to this?

Wow. Couldn't have predicted that hypocrisy after they've said nothing about ICE allegedly abusing hundreds of detained migrant children. Guess they're just busy hunting for the supposed basement dungeon under Comet Ping Pong Pizza.

There does not appear to be any evidence that he suspected she was a minor, and she is in her twenties.

This does not mean he acted appropriately.

[babyblob]

My aunt is a hard core Tumper. I accepted that. But now she has moved into Qanon.

A sex offender moved in to a house three doors down. she found out today and started yelling about how it was like living next door to Hunter Biden. I said what are you talking about? She started going on about how Hunter's laptop is full of child porn. it is being covered up by the FBI and liberal media so Joe can get elected. When Trump wins he will make sure Hunter goes to prison for life and all the Dems who have been covered for him will be punished.

I asked about the Proud Boy Emails. She said every one has a right to voice an opinion on who wins the election and that Trump does not have to call them out because Biden never calls out Antifa. The voice chat she was on with her Trumper friends were saying the same things about Hunter and the emails. I had read about Qanon but I had never experienced first hand. I sat in on the voice chat for awhile. I was like how they Hell is this a thing. I asked my aunt I said you hold two college degrees. How the Hell are you this dumb?

[babyblob]

On the bright side, Obama just made his speech.

I watched it. How great was that speech? I loved how he kept calling Trump a crazy uncle.

[ChangingStation]

My aunt is a hard core Tumper. I accepted that. But now she has moved into Qanon.

A sex offender moved in to a house three doors down. she found out today and started yelling about how it was like living next door to Hunter Biden. I said what are you talking about? She started going on about how Hunter's laptop is full of child porn. it is being covered up by the FBI and liberal media so Joe can get elected. When Trump wins he will make sure Hunter goes to prison for life and all the Dems who have been covered for him will be punished.

I asked about the Proud Boy Emails. She said every one has a right to voice an opinion on who wins the election and that Trump does not have to call them out because Biden never calls out Antifa. The voice chat she was on with her Trumper friends were saying the same things.

You need to cut her off. At this point she's in a cult, you've got to isolate her from these friends of hers and get her to talk to a therapist.

Edit: Easier said than done I know. I probably have no room to go talk since I don't have context, sorry.

[ChangingStation]

Also, check out some of the news. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-election-2020

Trump has not only undermined Fauci, but also faith in Election ballots according to some polls.