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

[achilles]

Cardin hired the guy in the first place. Senators and Congressmen need to be a bit more responsible when they hire interns and aides by actually vetting them.

[AnakinFlair]

I know not many of you like the guy (I don't even watch his show anymore), but I think Bill made a few good points in this one:

[Gray Lensman]

That is up for debate...

Let's say that someone could wave a magic wand Tuesday, and Israel was the main force behind attempting a two state solution.

Is there anyone that would actually bet both eyes on that Palestinians/Hamas/PLO/Whatever You Want To Call It would actually play a responsible role in attempting said two state solution?

In Gaza, not likely at the current time. In the West Bank? I'm pretty sure that marching out the settlers at gunpoint would earn a lot of good will. And since they took those homes at gun point, my sympathy for them would be approximately zero.

[numberthirty]

In Gaza, not likely at the current time. In the West Bank? I'm pretty sure that marching out the settlers at gunpoint would earn a lot of good will. And since they took those homes at gun point, my sympathy for them would be approximately zero.

Man...

It ain't gonna be a "Three..." state solution.

If one of that pair will likely never get with the program?

That's just this side of "Impossible..." to get around.

[TheKryptonMan]

They could have beefed up security at the border, they could have placed the military bases that were attacked on high alert, they could have had a rapid response unit nearby, they could have had their air assault units on stand by, they could have used drones to patrol the border. But I think Benjamin wanted this attack to happen so he let it happen.

I am positive that Netanyahu knew about the threat for a long time and let it happen, thinking that it would benefit him.
I've never trusted that man , he's dirty politician and right winger out for war.
Why has he been in power off and on for more than 20-25 years ?
I feel sorry for all the people that just want to live in peace .

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I am positive that Netanyahu knew about the threat for a long time and let it happen, thinking that it would benefit him.
I've never trusted that man , he's dirty politician and right winger out for war.
Why has he been in power off and on for more than 20-25 years ?
I feel sorry for all the people that just want to live in peace .

To answer your question, because people vote for him, time after time. God knows I'm no expert on the Middle East, however, I hate to think Israelis agree with Netanyahu's loathsome policies and his dislike for the two-state solution, but, I can't imagine any other reason he keeps getting elected. If there is another reason, I'd sure love to know what it is.

[Tami]

I am positive that Netanyahu knew about the threat for a long time and let it happen, thinking that it would benefit him.
I've never trusted that man , he's dirty politician and right winger out for war.
Why has he been in power off and on for more than 20-25 years ?
I feel sorry for all the people that just want to live in peace .

Politics - CNN

I doubt it was a classically democratic fair election. He gamed the rules.

[JackDaw]

Politics - CNN

I doubt it was a classically democratic fair election. He gamed the rules.

That’s not actually supported by the article you quote…if you read it, it says his opponents changed the rules.

[Tendrin]

ProPublica, back with another review of Clarence Thomas' corruption.

In early January 2000, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was at a five-star beach resort in Sea Island, Georgia, hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

After almost a decade on the court, Thomas had grown frustrated with his financial situation, according to friends. He had recently started raising his young grandnephew, and Thomas’ wife was soliciting advice on how to handle the new expenses. The month before, the justice had borrowed $267,000 from a friend to buy a high-end RV.

At the resort, Thomas gave a speech at an off-the-record conservative conference. He found himself seated next to a Republican member of Congress on the flight home. The two men talked, and the lawmaker left the conversation worried that Thomas might resign.

Congress should give Supreme Court justices a pay raise, Thomas told him. If lawmakers didn’t act, “one or more justices will leave soon” — maybe in the next year.

https://www.propublica.org/article/c...n-fears-scotus

[Jack Dracula]

ProPublica, back with another review of Clarence Thomas' corruption.


https://www.propublica.org/article/c...n-fears-scotus

Someone should have told Thomas that living beyond your means is a certain way of running up a lot of debt.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day posted profiles of Tamara Scott, a member of the Republican National Committee from Iowa, who hosts a conservative talk show there, and once served as the Campaign Co-Chair for Michelle Bachmann’s disastrous 2012 presidential run. When we last looked in on Ms. Scott, she had been opposed to gay marriage and was floating a false report from the Family Research Council that claimed keeping a ban on it saves the United States $280 billion a year and she’s also argued against same-sex marriage because she believes people could start marrying objects like the Eiffel Tower (they can’t). Scott also believes in the sinister Agenda 21 conspiracy theory, thinks that migrant children fleeing violence in Central America are “highly trained warriors who might rise up against Americans”, and has been convinced for over a year now that refugees fleeing Syrian are doing so to start a “stealth jihad” in the United States. Scott also praised Michelle Bachmann for trying to root the Muslim Brotherhood out of American government, and claimed that that group also was behind the attacks in Benghazi. Scott believes there is a correlation between prayer being taken out of schools, and a rise in rape and murder (in reality the rates of those violent crimes have dropped in the past two decades) and also doesn’t believe a separation of church and state is not guaranteed in the Constitution. She’s so paranoid about other faiths that after a Wiccan prayer, and then a prayer by a Muslim imam were performed in the Iowa Statehouse, Tamara Scott responded by admitting that she “prayed for a storm” to hit during the Wiccan prayer, because that’s very Christian of her. Oh, and during the debate to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol in Charleston, South Carolina, after the shooting at the Emanuel AME Church by a white supremacist, Tamara Scott, on her radio show, claimed the shooting was “not a racial issue” but was actually an attack on Christianity and that the Confederate flag is actually a symbol of fun and affection because of how it was portrayed on “The Dukes of Hazard”. She has not just outed herself as anti-vaccination advocate and started claiming that disease outbreaks in public schools were not a result of children’s parents avoiding vaccinating them, but actually because we were using a “socialistic model in schools” where children are forced to share pencils and used her radio show to give a platform to Eileen Dannenmann, head of the Vaccine Liberation Army which touts a false link between autism. She has stated her Godwin’s-Law-be-damned belief that pro-choice advocates are “even more devious than Hitler.” And, in spite of Donald Trump being possibly the worst example of a Christian that the GOP could ever have pushed forth upon their Evangelical wing, Tamara Scott not only endorsed him a few weeks before the Republican National Convention, but berated callers into her show who had reservations about voting for Trump because of his racist comments and making fun of a disabled reporter by claiming THEY were not a good Christian for not forgiving for his “past mistakes” (that Trump feels he doesn’t have to ask forgiveness for). In February of 2017, Scott made the outlandish claim that removing Christianity from schools has led to an increase in “assault, rape, and murder.” During the nomination process of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, where she showed up to embrace Sen. Chuck Grassley during the farce of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing he held, and she referred to the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford as a case where Democrats might have "overplayed" their hand with the "scattered and scared fragile female".We’re expecting continued insanity from Scott and her cohorts on her radio show going forward, and look forward to the day where the Republican Party sever ties with her for being nuttier than a squirrel’s diet.

On this date in 2019, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Jimmy Matlock, a tire salesman by trade, and now a former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2006 to 2018. We’re not going to delve into every aspect of his voting record from start to finish, but suffice to say that even just looking from 2014 on, Matlock supported some of the most extreme legislation Tennessee Republicans submitted in the legislature, from repeated attempts to make the Bible the official state book, his support of legislation to nullify federal firearms laws, his vote for a bill to allow the electric chair to be used as capital punishment in Tennessee again, his vote for a resolution to express displeasure with the Supreme Court in the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, as well as his vote to see that state funds be used to construct a “monument to the unborn” to protest abortion…and well… it’s pretty clear he always leaned hard right. So far to the right, that he kept sponsoring bills to try to find a way to institute prayer in schools, and how he insisted abstinence-only sex education worked. Jimmy Matlock’s story ends… in 2018, he tried to run for the seat of former Tennessee Congressman John Duncan, Jr., but ended up losing in the primary to the former mayor of Knox County, Tim Burchett, only coming away with 36% of the vote in the primary. That was in spite of having Duncan’s endorsement, as well. Jimmy Matlock has yet to resurface in Tennessee politics.

On this date in both 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Rick Roeber, who is currently a Missouri House of Representatives-Elect for District 34 of that body who just won office in the 2020 elections by 301 votes. While Roeber may have been known for his hobby of running marathons barefoot as a means to proselytize Jesus prior to September of 2020, now he’s going to be known as “the guy who got elected even though more than one of his daughters came forward to accuse him of molesting them”. His daughters, now adults, all reported similar stories of physical abuse, and three of his four daughters reported being sexually abused after he divorced his ex-wife during visitations in the 1990s. The fourth sibling reports having been aware of the abuse. Roeber’s ex-wife gave a sworn deposition to that effect back in 2003, and even though a court found probably cause that “sexual maltreatment” of that child occurred in 2001, Missouri’s Child Abuse and Neglect Review Board overturned the case, for reasons not disclosed to the public. The Republican leaders of the Missouri House of Representatives have decided this warrants an investigation but felt they could not avoid seating him in office. They eventually had to vote to expel Rick Roeber from the state legislature in a unanimous vote after their investigation found all of the evidence documented of his abuse years earlier. Note… Republican voters picked a man who sexually abused his own children, finding him more suitable a candidate than his Democratic opponent. This was known two months prior to the election. That speaks volumes into their character, as much as Roeber’s.

On this date in 2022,“Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’re profiling Yesli Vega, a 2022 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, looking to flip the seat held by Democratic Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger for the GOP. Vega is the daughter of Honduran immigrants who was raised in Houston, making the fact that she held decidedly anti-immigrant views to blindly support Border Patrol and was endorsed by white nationalist Donald Trump makes that potentially inspirational story seem like a betrayal of it. But hey, at least she immediately deleted all traces of his endorsement from her website immediately after winning the Republican primary for the seat. The biggest flag, however, was that Yesli Vega was recorded discussing the possibility that women are less likely or unable to get pregnant if they were raped, Vega spent the rest of the campaign denying she made the remarks there was an audio recording of. Yesli Vega ended up losing to Abigail Spanberger with 48% of the vote. She seems like she’s going to be involved in Virginia politics at some level for the forseeable future, but hopefully her remarks on rape make her a bit more radioactive and keep her out of higher office. We will set aside her profile at this time to profile another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1266-60, since this was established in July 2014.

[worstblogever]

Daniel Cameron
Welcome to what is the 1266th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Daniel Cameron, who cut his teeth serving as a legal counsel for Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell before getting elected as the Attorney General of Kentucky in 2019.

And in that role, Cameron proved to be a partisan tool. Whether it was the number of times he sued his own state’s governor, Andy Beshear for establishing Covid-19 restrictions that were saving lives, or when he sued him for supposedly “not enforcing an anti-abortion law”. Frankly, Cameron seemed rather hung up on both issues, at one point trying to spin that the only businesses that should be closed during the Covid-19 lockdown were the abortion clinics.

Cameron showed the opposite level of effort, distinctly, when he resisted public outcry to pursue charges against any member of law enforcement for the killing of nurse Brianna Taylor while she slept. His handling of the case frequently drew calls for his resignation, and other than charging one officer with recklessly discharging his firearm so shots hit a nearby neighbor’s home, he seemed to be working harder at protecting Taylor’s killers than pursing any kind of justice. In the end, the federal Dept. of Justice intervened and pressed charges.

None of those efforts were meant to help anyone in Kentucky, they were just partisan stunts by Cameron to try and portray himself as a “brave” AG standing up to BeShear for an inevitable challenge in 2023. His extremism was already well on display, and that was before he showed no sympathy when confronted by a rape survivor who became pregnant at 12 after being raped by her stepfather. He kept trying to win support during his campaign by pushing what else? Anti-trans bigotry.

Daniel Cameron ended up losing to Andy BeShear with 47.5% of the vote. He is now wrapping up his last days in office as Attorney General, but with as young as he is (38 as of this posting in 2023), we wouldn’t be surprised if he was thrown into a GOP Primary for another one of Kentucky’s seats in Congress at some point to try and prolong his political career.

[worstblogever]

Meanwhile, the very "normal" GOP remain unapologetic fans of sedition.

[Gryphon]

To answer your question, because people vote for him, time after time. God knows I'm no expert on the Middle East, however, I hate to think Israelis agree with Netanyahu's loathsome policies and his dislike for the two-state solution, but, I can't imagine any other reason he keeps getting elected. If there is another reason, I'd sure love to know what it is.

It's to do with how coalitions work in Israel. Basically Netanyahi has been able to make deals with other parties to prop him up

[Deathstroke]

Meanwhile, the very "normal" GOP remain unapologetic fans of sedition.

Candy ass fake tough guy and Capitol Storming Barbie.