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    David Armstrong

    Welcome to what is the 1047th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling David Armstrong, who was first elected to District 75 of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 2020, after getting to run for office in the GOP Primary unopposed, and there are some decidedly disturbing things about that.

    You see, prior to his being elected, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noted that in the wake of the shooting at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Armstrong was vocal in his support of the Confederate flag, because Wisconsin is clearly on the side of the Mason-Dixon line where that would even make sense. But Armstrong went all the way to his hilt in his online rants about the removal of the Confederate flag, posting videos featuring outright racist lies being spread by David Duke. Even when Armstrong wasn’t linking to quotes from one of the most notorious white supremacists and Klansmen in modern history, his own ugly, bigoted opinions were on display when he was adding comments around things he linked to like, “Slavery: Blacks dirtiest secrets exposed… Apologies are due to who from whom?”

    David Armstrong also spent the build-up to the 2020 election liking and forwarding videos propagating the Qanon conspiracy theory, because of course someone who likes alternate history where slavery was the fault of the people being kept as slaves would also believe that insane pile of dreck. And while he deleted all of his comments from 2015 regarding slavery and the Confederate flag, on Qanon, he dug in, saying:

    Yes, he touted that conspiracy theories like Q are good because it’s hard to prove a negative.

    Regrettably, this virulently racist old coot was elected anyway, and he has, perhaps not coincidentally gone on to sponsor legislation to try to prevent schoolteachers from teaching “anti-racism and anti-sexism instructions and training”, and instead, sponsor legislation that focuses on teaching children completely useless and obsolete things, like cursive.

    Hopefully he get bounced in a primary in 2022, but we don’t want to give the Wisconsin GOP credit to think they’d bother showing a dedicated white nationalist the door.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    Probably a lawyer on her team told her that she could be sued for libel or slander if she didn't give at least an "If I offended anyone..." apology.
    I’m not sure members of Congress want to set that precedent. She likely apologized because pretty much everyone was calling her out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    I’m not sure members of Congress want to set that precedent. She likely apologized because pretty much everyone was calling her out.
    It was a nonapology apology. "If I offended" What garbage, she said it to be offensive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
    It was a nonapology apology. "If I offended" What garbage, she said it to be offensive.
    Every time I head someone say, “If I offended anyone”, the assumption is that the offender wasn’t aware they said anything terrible when in truth, they most definitely knew. That’s why those so-called apologies are just plain bullshit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
    It was a nonapology apology. "If I offended" What garbage, she said it to be offensive.
    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Every time I head someone say, “If I offended anyone”, the assumption is that the offender wasn’t aware they said anything terrible when in truth, they most definitely knew. That’s why those so-called apologies are just plain bullshit.
    And sadly there will be soo many who will go "See she is not racist. She said sorry and feels so bad."
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    Quote Originally Posted by babyblob View Post
    And sadly there will be soo many who will go "See she is not racist. She said sorry and feels so bad."
    Man, we've got Boebert doing this... Gosar hanging with white nationalists and posting cartoon edits of him murdering progressive foes, and I'm putting profiling GOP state legislators proudly quoting David Duke and running conspiracy theories about black people being the real bad guys when slavery was legal.

    We can just all say the Republican Party is a white nationalist party. We can. It's accurate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    Man, we've got Boebert doing this... Gosar hanging with white nationalists and posting cartoon edits of him murdering progressive foes, and I'm putting profiling GOP state legislators proudly quoting David Duke and running conspiracy theories about black people being the real bad guys when slavery was legal.

    We can just all say the Republican Party is a white nationalist party. We can. It's accurate.
    And The Alt Right Hero Rittenhouse hanging with Proud Boys. yet some how those in the GOP and those who defend them are like

    "Why does every one thing we are racist? Dont they see we have a couple of those people on Fox News all the time?"
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    Quote Originally Posted by JackDaw View Post
    It’s not impossible. But trolling and foreign interference existed on both sides of the debate…President Obama, for example, made it clear he wanted UK to stay in EU.

    I think that stuff just has an effect at the margins, and the inept and low-key way the “Stay in” campaign was run was much more a factor…the mood of the country was totally mis-read, it felt like 99.9 percent of our senior politicians on stay side felt all that was needed was to avoid massive campaign errors.

    And deep down, have very similar feeling on 2016 American election.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
    It was a nonapology apology. "If I offended" What garbage, she said it to be offensive.
    The old "I'm sorry you're all so easily offended" apology.

    I'm sure she just said something inflammatory to virtue-signal to her racist base and keep her name in the press. It's not like she's going to waste her time writing legislation or doing anything to improve the lives of her constituents.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChadH View Post
    The old "I'm sorry you're all so easily offended" apology.

    I'm sure she just said something inflammatory to virtue-signal to her racist base and keep her name in the press. It's not like she's going to waste her time writing legislation or doing anything to improve the lives of her constituents.
    Boobert’s constituents probably don’t care anyway, just so long as she continues “owning the libs”.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    I’m not sure members of Congress want to set that precedent. She likely apologized because pretty much everyone was calling her out.
    She's been called out for several other statements and didn't apologize. Why now? I'll tell you why. This time she said something that wasn't just an opinion, but something that could actually be proven one way or the other. She said that she was in an elevator with Ilhan Omar. There are cameras and there were witnesses who would say that Ilhan Omar definitely wasn't there, which would go towards Boebert thinking all dark skinned Muslim women look alike.
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    Final thought of the day.

    Trump's polling numbers were low cause (among other things) he didn't give people anything.

    Biden's polling numbers are low because his isn't giving people everything fast enough.

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    On this date in 2014, "Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day" ran a profile of Scott Esk, a candidate running for Oklahoma’s House of Representatives who on his campaign website, stated his support for nullification (y’know, the idea that started the American Civil War) regarding both federal laws on firearms regulation and abortion rights. Esk also refused to support any budget that contained even a penny of taxation “not in the proper role of government” and specified that he had never seen a single Oklahoma state budget he would have voted for. Esk also was determined to revisit divorce law and make it impossible to list “incompatibility” as a valid reason to request a divorce from one’s spouse. But most glaring amongst his policy stances, was his desire to enact biblical law and stone gay people to death. Esk was too extreme, even for Oklahoma, to get elected and should remain that way.

    It was in both 2015, and in 2016, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” posted profiles of Mike Christian, an Oklahoma state legislator who attempted to push forth a bill that created a higher paying job for State Senator Debbe Leftwich if she agreed to not run for re-election, and then Christian would be able to swoop in and nab her seat. But corruption scandals aren’t the only sort of black mark on the personal political history of Mike Christian. You see, in 2014, he and several Oklahoma Republicans were outraged when the Oklahoma Supreme Court granted a stay of execution to a man named Clayton Lockett, because the state intended to use an untested drug cocktail when they were going to execute Lockett by lethal injection, and until the source of those drugs could be determined, they would not proceed. Christian had the level-headed response to file articles of impeachment against the entire Oklahoma Supreme Court, who balked under pressure, and allowed Lockett’s execution to proceed. That execution was botched, and Lockett died slowly and in excruciating pain for roughly 43 minutes, and public outcry over his death grew. Mike Christian, however, seems to only have his surname ironically, as his support for capital punishment was dedicated enough that he told the media that he “doesn’t care if inmates are killed by lethal injection, electrocution, a firing squad, a hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions”. (At least he didn’t mention crucifixion as one of the methods, I suppose.) As you also might expect, Mike Christian’s legislative history in the Oklahoma House of Representatives is a road map that covers a good swath of the conservative extremism that has pervaded the Sooner State the past several years, including voting for a patently unconstitutional resolution to make English Oklahoma’s official language, a nullification bill meant to see Oklahoma exclude itself from federal firearm laws, an attempt to pass an unnecessary ban on Sharia Law in their state, another bill to allow students to express their religious viewpoints in public schools, and he also co-sponsored SB 1848, a law that amended abortion restrictions in the state of Oklahoma to force physicians at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges to be able to perform the procedure. This “Trap Law” was of course, meant to close down the majority of clinics in the state. Mike Christian is a former Oklahoma state trooper, and opted to not run for re-election to the Oklahoma House of Representatives, even though he was still four years away from being term-limited. Instead, he chose to try and run for Oklahoma County Sheriff. With current Sheriff John Whetsel mired in controversy regarding his office having an improper audit, it seemed like maybe Christian would be able to convince voters to boot him. That is, until Christian’s record as a police officer was released that included being disciplined for sneaking alcohol into the police academy, and immoral conduct with a female cadet who would become his future wife. Mike Christian was unable to spin this incident into being a good thing, as if he was Steve Guttenberg’s character from the Police Academy franchise and just a fun-lovin’ cop and lost the election.

    On this date in 2017, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Bud Pierce, a Republican who sought to become Governor of Oregon in the 2016 special election, who pestered Gov. Kate Brown after she had to step in and take over for Gov. John Kitzhaber after he resigned due to ethics concerns. He had an 86% rating from the NRA, and felt that gun control didn’t have an effect on gun violence and going into the final stretch of the campaign, during a debate, the topic of domestic violence came up and Kate Brown mentioned she was a survivor of it. Bud Pierce done f***ed up, down, and sideways while commenting on that… said, “A woman that has a great education and training and a great job is not susceptible to this kind of abuse by men, women or anyone.” Brown visibly was hurt by that remark, and turned away briefly to gather herself as the crowd immediately started booing Pierce, because WTF. A woman’s education or job status has no bearing on her ability to avoid abuse, Bud. He at least did not double down on his comments, and repeatedly apologized, but his candidacy was dead in the water from there. Pierce lost to Kate Brown, managing a still surprisng 43.5% of the vote, even after his comments. He remained in Oregon politics, trying to get a ballot initiative passed to establish term limits for state legislators, because he doesn’t have as good of a chance of unseating one of them in a blue state, so getting time on his side to help him snag a seat in the legislature is his only option.)

    On this date in 2018, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Jeb Hensarling, the former U.S. House Representative from Texas’ 5th Congressional District, who served in that capacity from 2003-2018. Now, obviously at several points during his sixteen years in Congress, Hensarling was a Texas GOP Congressman, so you know his voting record was as extreme as you might find. There are Republicans who have become so radical in their obsession with “smaller government” that they started voting against disaster relief in the past few years. Normally, they do so without comment. Well, after flooding from Hurricane Harvey in September of 2017, Jeb Hensarling went and voted against disaster relief for Hurricane Harvey, made himself an even more known quantity by telling his fellow Texans that they should realize that the flooding was a sign from the Heavens above, telling them, “God is telling you to move.”Go figure, he’s also a climate change denier. Hensarling’s rise to the head of the House Financial Service Committee was perhaps the highlight of his career, where he could be the lapdog for the worst ideas that Wall Street bankers could float across his desk with a paper bag of campaign donations. No, we’re not going to be shy about how tight this guy was with Wall Street… he literally went on ski vacations with Wall Street executives. There’s corrupt, and then there’s just brazenly terrible. He retired to become what else? A K Street lobbyist.
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    On this date in both 2019, as well as 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Tom Patton, who has bounced around the Ohio state legislature on and off since 2003. He spent his six years in the Ohio House of Representatives, and then jumped to the upper chamber in the 2008 election. The then spent eight years in the Ohio State Senate, representing that not at all pretentiously-named town of Strongsville, before making an ill-fated attempt at getting elected to Congress in 2017 in a special election to replace Jim Renacci as Ohio’s U.S. House Representative for Ohio’s 16th Congressional District. That left him out of office, but in 2018, he scrambled back into place into the Ohio House of Representatives to serve District 7.

    Now, there have been two moments in the media that have brought Tom Patton to the attention FRED for a profile. The first was a corruption scandal, when back in 2012, during the trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Joe Dimora, that J. Kevin Kelley, a distant cousin of Patton’s, who testified that Patton bribed him with $10,000 to lock in a contract for a copier firm to do business with the district during his tenure. Kelley had some strong motivations for telling the truth, given that he had to cut a deal with the FBI to turn state’s evidence and not end up in jail himself. While investigations have shown there are many ethically suspicious charges within Patton’s financials, he oddly has never been charged.

    The second time we saw Tom Patton’s name to appear in the news that caused some consternation was in 2016, when after his opponent, Jennifer Herold, announced her challenge to him, he gave a radio interview that maybe showed he has some issues with the ladies in his attitude:


    There might have been a way to challenge her on being politically inexperienced that didn’t sound that misogynistic and like he was practically telling her to get back in the kitchen, but Patton wasn’t about to use it. Though, why would anyone get the idea that Patton was sexist… oh just because he used his official Facebook account as a State Representative to “Like” posts from a 19 year old adult film actress and professional “party companion” in October of 2017.

    Interesting how he found himself looking at that account…

    There’s been a link drawn between sexism and anti-choice support, and go figure, Tom Patton’s voting record fits that pattern, as well as mirroring other conservative idiocy:

    • May 22nd, 2008: Patton votes for HB 477, a bill aimed at making all state business in Ohio required to be conducted in English, which would be, based on precedent set in a 1996 unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court, unconstitutional.
    • June 16th, 2011: Tom Patton votes for SJR 1, an attempt by Ohio Republicans to nullify the Affordable Care Act.
    • December 9th, 2014: Patton votes for HB 234, to legalize silencers on certain firearms.
    • June 24th, 2015: Tom Patton votes for SB 127, an attempt to ban abortion at 20 weeks.
    • January 28th, 2018: Patton votes for HB 428, a bill aimed at allowing students to make religious expressions in public school classrooms that is clearly a violation of the separation of church and state.
    • December 27th, 2018: Tom Patton votes for HB 258, a fetal heartbeat bill that would effectively ban abortion at 6 weeks, a time when most women don’t even realize that they are pregnant yet.


    We regret to report Thomas Patton was re-elected in 2020 with 56% of the vote, and thus far in his term, he’s been coming up with “small government solutions” like co-sponsoring legislation trying to tell state public schools and universities they can’t make vaccine mandates (even though they’ve had them for almost a century for non-Covid-19 vaccines), as well as trying to ban transgender athletes from playing on sports teams that do not match the gender of their birth. This man has somehow been in office now almost two decades.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Final thought of the day.

    Trump's polling numbers were low cause (among other things) he didn't give people anything.

    Biden's polling numbers are low because his isn't giving people everything fast enough.

    Good night
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Final thought of the day.

    Trump's polling numbers were low cause (among other things) he didn't give people anything.

    Biden's polling numbers are low because his isn't giving people everything fast enough.

    Good night
    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Makes you think, doesn't it? People are fickle animals, and when it comes to politics, that fickleness increases exponentially.

    The problem is people's expectations were so high. The Dems controlled the House, Senate and the White House and people were ready for this golden age after Trump. Then The Dems had Some in fighting, Afghanistan happened, the supply issues and inflation. Biden being the guy in the White House bears most of the fault to most people dont see how some of it was not his fault, and how hard it is to get things done when everything goes right let alone when there are problems.
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