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

[Tami]

Well, of course. This mess with Santos gets smarmier with each passing day.

I'm getting the feeling that the truth about Santos is going to be stranger than his fiction.

[Dalak]

I'm getting the feeling that the truth about Santos is going to be stranger than his fiction.

The iceberg of evidence against him grows more apparent every day, it's just a matter of time before the investigators rather than the media find the smoking gun.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” posted profiles of Bo Watson, the President Pro Tempore of the Tennessee State Senate, and bowtie-clad extremist of the highest order. We noted that among the bills Watson supported were failed or often unconstitutional conservative staples like drug-testing welfare recipients, arresting transgendered citizens for using the "wrong" bathroom, allowing creationists to challenge evolution when its taught in school classrooms, blocking the Medicaid Expansion, bringing the electric chair back as a form of the death penalty, and to see to the creation a public list of "abortion statistics" that included the names and addresses of women who had sought out an abortion, presumably so they could be harassed or attacked by hard-right pro-life terrorists. He also is noteworthy for saying he would rather a local Volkswagen factory move to Mexico than have their employees join a union, which is one of the most jaw-droppingly stupid and petty anti-union statements you will ever hear a member of the GOP say. Watson also was calling for the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to be investigated because the Director of UT's Office of Diversity and Inclusiveness website offered up the idea of using the pronoun "ze" to professors with transgendered students to use, as an alternative to "he" or "she", and during the initial roll call in their first class, to find out which pronoun students preferred, and outrage that the school had a “Sex Week” to educate its students about safe sex and the prevention of STDs. By no means, is that the dumbest argument Bo Watson has ever unleashed, as we told the story of the time the Tennessee state legislature was talking about lifting a ban on mothers breastfeeding children in public over the age of one, and he started rambling on about people aged 14 or 35 with weird fetishes still being breast-fed in bars, because he's so terrified of a mother's nipple.

In September of 2018, Watson flipped out when finding out Nike had released a new ad campaign with Colin Kaepernick, and wanted to rescind the contract the University of Tennessee’s athletic department had with Nike in retaliation, because this ***hole just cannot go a year without finding a new battle in the culture wars.

Bo Watson was up for re-election in 2018, and since the 2014 elections, when he actually founded his own SuperPAC to extend his own electoral fortunes, Watson easily won re-election with 65% of the vote. In the past term, we’ve seen Watson:

• Make it a point to sponsor legislation to try and allow adoption agencies to discriminate against gay people and assure they can’t adopt children into loving families.
• Vote for a bill to allow schools and other students to discriminate against transgender students in school bathrooms and locker rooms.
• Sponsor a bill to try to ban abortion if a fetal heartbeat is detected (in other words as early as 6 weeks, when most women don’t realize they’re pregnant).
• Vote for a bill to require aborted remains to be buried or cremated.
• Vote for a bill to prohibit the use of Covid-19 vaccine passports (that weren’t being issued or required).
• Prioritize preventing Critical Race Theory from being taught in schools (even though it isn’t being taught, anyway).

Again, he’ll keep trying to fight the culture wars, even while a pandemic rages. Watson won re-election in 2022 on the benefit of getting to run completely unopposed for his seat. Thus, he and his stupid goddamned bowtie will be around until 2026.

[Tami]

Had problems posting

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u...-law-rcna66044

UK vetos Scotland law allowing for gender self-recognition

[Kirby101]

Arestovych came under a torrent of criticism after he suggested that Ukrainian air defenses shot down Russian Kh-22 cruise missile, causing to fall on an apartment complex on Dnipro, killing 30 civilians.

I see you're just as ill informed and facetious as usual.

The article says the opposite you think it does. But then again misinformation is the first goal of a Russian asset trolling the internet. I hope Putin pays you well for your disgusting defense of his atrocities.

Ukraine’s Air Force subsequently denied the assertion, saying that this particular kind of anti-ship missile remains beyond the reach of Ukrainian anti-air systems.

[The Cool Thatguy]

I'm confused. Is that a national holiday?



Arestovych came under a torrent of criticism after he suggested that Ukrainian air defenses shot down Russian Kh-22 cruise missile, causing to fall on an apartment complex on Dnipro, killing 30 civilians.

I see you're just as ill informed and facetious as usual.

Excuse me, comrade, but explain how that would matter much, as Russia was the one who fired the missile in the first place? Why would they be to blame for shooting down a missile that was fired without cause?

[mogwen]

Had problems posting

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u...-law-rcna66044

UK vetos Scotland law allowing for gender self-recognition

While a gender critical activist quotes Adolf Hitler in speech against trans rights at Posie Parker rally.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/...-trans-speech/

[Spike-X]

While a gender critical activist quotes Adolf Hitler in speech against trans rights at Posie Parker rally.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/...-trans-speech/

Of course she did. Trans people were the first targets of the Nazis.

[Adam Allen]

I think it does a disservice to actor Parker Posey for anyone to use that fake name for that lady. Plus, it obviously gets her attention, as I personally would have no idea who she was if not for wondering what was up with that name.

[kidfresh512]

Matt Schlapp sued by former Herschel Walker aide over sexual assault allegations

Matt Schlapp, a top Republican political operative, and his wife Mercedes Schlapp, a one-time Donald Trump aide, are being sued by a former Herschel Walker campaign staffer over allegations that he sexually assaulted him while on the campaign.

A lawyer for Schlapp on Tuesday said his clients deny the accusations and are considering “counter-lawsuit options.” The suit was filed in Virginia Circuit Court for the city of Alexandria.

The former Walker staffer, who filed the lawsuit anonymously, is seeking $9.4 million in damages from the Schlapps, saying not only did Matt Schlapp commit sexual battery, but he and his wife defamed him afterward.


Reached for comment, Schlapp’s attorney Charlie Spies called the complaint “false,” and said the “Schlapp family is suffering unbearable pain and stress” as a result. Schlapp also tweeted the statement from Spies.

First you have to put up with Hershel Walker. Then you gotta put up with this perv , conservative, trying to touch your shlong.

[InformationGeek]

Oh wow, just when you thought Santos, or what the hell his name is, couldn't get any worse, there's this crap.

holy ****: texts obtained by @JSweetLI show george santos (née anthony devolder) set up a gofundme so the dog of disabled veteran could get a life-threatening tumor removed. santos took the $3,000 raised and disappeared. the dog died.

More info provided.


Hey WBE, is this enough to jump him up to the next available day or are we going to just wait until even more drops somehow.

[Tami]

Oh wow, just when you thought Santos, or what the hell his name is, couldn't get any worse, there's this crap.



More info provided.


Hey WBE, is this enough to jump him up to the next available day or are we going to just wait until even more drops somehow.

I'm not saying where I got this info from, but, I found a record regarding his marriage.

On his marriage license, he uses the name George Anthony Devolder Santos
The date is 2 Aug 2012
Location Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
spouse [Ask via PM if you want a clue]

[AnakinFlair]

Oh wow, just when you thought Santos, or what the hell his name is, couldn't get any worse, there's this crap.



More info provided.


Hey WBE, is this enough to jump him up to the next available day or are we going to just wait until even more drops somehow.

Well, something new drops about him every day. So they might as well wait.

[Tendrin]

The GOP will do nothing about Santos until they're left no choice. They're an organized crime family, after all, so what's one more criminal?

[CaptainEurope]

oh god

A terrible tragedy happened in Brovary near Kyiv!

The entire leadership of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs died: the minister, his first deputy and the state secretary of the ministry.

The helicopter with them fell on the kindergarten. There are injured children.

https://twitter.com/GoncharenkoUa/st...27659123527681