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    On this date in 2015, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” posted a profile of Niger Innis, a former Congressional candidate for Nevada's 3rd District who is a frequent quest on FOX News and the national spokesman of the one-time civil rights group CORE, that Niger's dad Roy Innis turned into a black nationalist group that bizarrely would support the re-election of Richard Nixon, and has aligned itself with Republican conservatives and big business for the past 40 years to speak on their behalf and explain why they're totally not racist, against all evidence to the contrary (selling out big for paychecks). Say for example, during the 2012 presidential campaign, Niger Innis claimed that CNN and MSNBC were racist for reporting Herman Cain's long track record of sexual harassment and portraying him as a "oversexed Mandingo". On behalf of energy comapnies at speaking engagments, Innis has claimed the "War on the Poor" is actually being led by environmentalists, and not industry, and has simultaneously attacked food stamps being issued to the needy because it's akin to "the scraps from Massa's table". Innis also defended the racist remarks of Cliven Bundy in 2014, and has declared all gun control measures racist in their motivation. After the deaths of several young African American men in recent years by police officers in highly publicized incidents often caught on video, downplayed a system rife with police brutality and instead said the real problem was "black on black crime". After only receiving 33% of the vote in the 2014 GOP Primary for the U.S. House seat he was running for, he immediately began crying foul due to election fraud, and demanded a complete audit of the election. We're going to go ahead and guess Niger Innis won't be winning office any time soon, even if he runs again.

    On this date in 2016, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” posted a profile of Mike Pape, a candidate for the U.S. House seat for Kentucky's 1st Congressional District being vacated by the retiring Rep. Ed Whitfield in 2016. Pape's first campaign ad which showed three supposed Mexican illegal immigrants bumbling across the border, but stopping to talk, in English, about how they needed to do whatever they could to stop Mike Pape from winning office, because he'd help build a wall between Mexico and the United States, and make life too tough for them. Pape didn't limit his xenophobia to Mexicans, though, as he not only embraced Trump's ideas for the border wall, but called for a halt to accepting Syrian refugees. Scratch that, he called to a halt completely from immigrants from "countries who sponsor terror", which we're pretty sure would only apply to Muslim countries and forget about Ireland's past. Pape's issue stances also include support for mandatory minimum sentencing for crimes and the death penalty while being staunchly "pro-life", his opposition to same-sex marriage, repealing the Affordable Care Act, and other conservative staples. The only thing that could ever be considered in any way moderate about him is that he acknowledges climate change is man-made, but he still didn't want any regulation to prevent it from getting worse). Pape ended up losing spectacularly in the primary for Kentucky's 1st District on May 17th, pulling down but 23% of the vote. He has not re-emerged since.

    On this date in 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” posted a profile of Robert Bentley, who was forced to resign from office in disgrace when Bentley fired the top cop in Alabama, who dropped a dime to the media about Bentley cheating on his wife of 50 years on his way out the door, saying he was near Bentley once when he dropped his phone, and it had a sexually explicit text on it directed towards a Governor’s aide on it. Audio quickly surfaced of Gov. Bentley making sexual comments on the phone towards his mistress... and that recording was made by Mrs. Bentley, who confronted the governor about the affair in front of their adult children before filing for divorce. It's only a surprise that it took SO LONG for news of the affair to come out, after all, Bentley would answer the door to his hotel rooms while traveling in his boxers, expecting the aide to be on the other side, only to give random unfortunate souls and eyeful. It would not simply remain a family matter, because in an added twist, Bentley used government resources to carry out the affair and cover it up, which is grounds for impeachment, which opportunistic Republicans in Alabama were more than willing to do. The Alabama state Attorney General, Luther Strange, was in charge of the investigation into any wrongdoing during that time, but in a brazen bit of corruption, Bentley appointed him to be the next Senator from Alabama once Sen. Jeff Sessions was narrowly appointed to be the next U.S. Attorney General. Anyway, on April 9th, 2017, Bentley resigned in disgrace after taking a plea deal to accept punishment of only misdemeanors and refunding money to the state to avoid jail time. Bentley's actual time as governor was filled with several embarrassing moments, such as the time he gave a speech on MLK Day in 2011, always a great opportunity for Alabama Governors to distance themselves from the shameful past it had during the era of George Wallace. Well, for whatever reason, Bentley used the speech to downplay racial division, but chose to try to start religious divisions by saying, "So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my sister, and I want to be your brother." On immigration? Well, in September of 2011, Bentley signed HB 56 one of the more draconian anti-immigration bills in the country into law, sparking a Justice Department review... and only after a Mercedes-Benz executive got arrested under that piece of legislation did Bentley and Alabama Republicans scramble back to the drawing board to amend it to prevent it from infringing upon immigrants who weren't... y'know... not white. Bentley was staunchly anti-abortion signing harsh anti-choice legislation that aimed at closing the majority of, if not all of the abortion clinics in Alabama. Gov. Bentley was also part of the GOP's efforts to disenfranchise voters with stricter Voter ID requirements, and even moved to close DMV offices where new IDs could be acquired... predominantly in parts of Alabama where the population leans... y'know, the not-white parts of the state. Bentley’s legacy is tainted, and his career is over.
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    On this date in both 2018, and 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Georgia State Senator Michael E. Williams, who was elected to his first term in office back in 2014. After being the first Republican politician in Georgia to endorse uber-racist presidential candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 elections, in the 2018 elections, Williams has opted to not run for a second term in the Georgia State Senate, instead opting to aim much higher early in his career, thinking he had a crack at becoming the Governor of Georgia in 2018. Williams drew headlines four times Michael Williams during his campaign for governor. The first time he distinguished himself as being a concern was in June of 2017, when he appeared at an anti-Sharia Law rally being held in the name of paranoid Islamophobia by the anti-Muslim hate group, ACT for America, where he was more than willing to pose with the Georgia Security Force 3% Militia, who just so happen to be a hate group with dual interests, intersecting as not just rabid anti-Islamic nuts who infamously protested a mosque being built in Newton County, and also were not long prior holding a in defense of Confederate monuments. They’re a nice intersection of hate, and Williams was more than happy to pose with them for a photo where they were flashing white supremacist signs. It was only after the Southern Poverty Law Center and the media took note of their friendly little meeting that Williams’ spokesman gave the meager defense that he thought the militant racists were just “pro-gun supporters”. So Williams went to an Anti-Islam rally and hung out with Neo-Confederates… but it’s not like he’s staunchly defending Confederate monuments himself or anyth- oh, whoops, he has, on live television, such as in August of 2017 when he was outraged at the thought of monuments being defaced, blaming it on Antifa, and falling all over himself in outrage that anyone would want to blast the face off of Stone Mountain Georgia. As you might expect, a guy who was comfortable chilling out with a militia group packing assault rifles might be, Williams also has quite the hard-on for guns, himself. Enough so that only a few weeks after the mass shooting in Las Vegas, that was carried out by way of using bump stocks to make the guns used fully automatic, that Michael Williams announced that he would be raffling off bump stocks at one of his campaign rallies. And then Williams went on CNN to defend his criticisms of Delta Airlines, after it decided to end a discount partnership with the NRA following the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. Williams began outright lying around this time to say that Delta was still clearly acting on partisan lines because it offered discounts to employees of Planned Parenthood. On air, anchor Brianna Keilar called him out for making an untrue statement, and he doubled down, defending his lie because he and other GOP State Senators in Georgia “looked it up on Google” and then spent a couple days arguing with Keilar on Twitter, claiming that he’d defended his statement. He then began touting his idea to solve our immigration crisis with a “deportation bus” that would catch, per the painted on sign on its windows, “murderers, rapists, kidnappers, child molestors, and other criminals”. Yes, because this bigot also can’t spell. And doesn’t understand that buses are quite large, slow, and would be easy for any suspected illegal immigrants to evade, but “YEEHAW, he’s gonna catch ‘em all like they’re the Pokey-mon.” The end result of the ad was… Williams got banned from Youtube for violating their terms of service because he was sharing super racist views. Michael Williams ended up finishing fourth on the GOP Primary in his quest to become the next Governor of Georgia. But it was what happened AFTER the election that we found far more satisfying… it seems that Williams fell victim to a break-in at his own campaign offices, and then filed a fraudulent insurance claim that estimated the value of the computers stolen at almost thirty times their actual worth. For the moment, he’s pleading not guilty… but we feel like even being indicted is probably enough to put a halt to his political career going forward. As such, we will set aside his profile at this time and take a look at another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 875-45, since this was established in July 2014.)


    Ted Crockett

    Welcome to what is the 875th original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Ted Crockett, the former Shelby County Commissioner who was a 2018 candidate for the Alabama House of Representatives from District 45. Why was he unsuccessful?

    Because Ted Crockett is the former spokesman for Roy Moore. Yes, THAT Roy Moore. And during Roy Moore’s ill-fated attempt to get elected to the Senate, Crockett defended the worst of Moore’s racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and yes, all the accusations of him spending his 30s sexually pursuing underage girls. In the process, Crockett taught us all a lot about him, as well, including his belief that homosexuality should be a crime.

    So, only a year later, Ted Crockett was running for the Alabama House of Representatives, and continued being a theocratic loon, including insisting that Muslims should not be allowed to run for public office, because they refuse to swear on a Bible… which CNN's Jake Tapper had to point out to him that the law does not necessitate the book in question being a Bible, and it is chosen by the political figure. Upon learning this fact, Crockett was just completely befuddled.

    Alarmingly, Crockett only missed being elected in the GOP Primary by about 700 votes, even after showing himself to be some sort of younger clone of Roy Moore, that we can only presume reproduced off of him by budding, like a common yeast.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulBullion View Post
    Are we trying to find nice things to say about Margaret Thatcher on this thread now?

    Not today, Satan, not today.

    Really not a big fan of the “Iron Lady”.

    But put it this way, I know who I’d prefer to be in charge of my country’s measures against corona virus between a Thatcher in her prime and the Donald (or our present pm Boris Johnson)

    As you can guess, it’s not the Donald or Boris.
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    Oh, and if you haven't done so yet: Delete Facebook. And tell your friends.


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    Thatcher was a monster....but a competent one. Bojo is a lazy idiot that cant even sack a personal advisor thats broken pretty much every rule as a civil servant. Its the difference between having Lex Luthor or the Joker in charge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulBullion View Post
    Oh, and if you haven't done so yet: Delete Facebook. And tell your friends.


    Its been apparent for years that Zuck is a shill for anyone that could hurt his bottom line.

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    And all because Spongedon Whinepants pitched a fit over his lies being fact checked on Twitter. Meanwhile, the REAL story continues being the more than 100,000 souls lost to coronavirus thanks to Trump's horrific bungling of the crisis.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jetengine View Post
    Thatcher was a monster....but a competent one. Bojo is a lazy idiot that cant even sack a personal advisor thats broken pretty much every rule as a civil servant. Its the difference between having Lex Luthor or the Joker in charge.
    Joker? More like Krusty the Clown.
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    Trump has said on occasion, "I'm the least racist person you'll ever meet." The reason he can say that with a straight face is that to Trump, everything is either the best ever or a total disaster. There is no in between with him. So if even one person is more racist than Trump (and let's be honest, there are a few out there more racist than Trump), that person can be the most racist and therefore by his own "no in between" logic, Trump must be the least racist. It's more twisted than a crazy straw.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jetengine View Post
    Thatcher was a monster....but a competent one. Bojo is a lazy idiot that cant even sack a personal advisor thats broken pretty much every rule as a civil servant. Its the difference between having Lex Luthor or the Joker in charge.
    Lol.

    That is a really neat way to put it. Wish I’d thought of that phrasing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    Trump has said on occasion, "I'm the least racist person you'll ever meet." The reason he can say that with a straight face is that to Trump, everything is either the best ever or a total disaster. There is no in between with him. So if even one person is more racist than Trump (and let's be honest, there are a few out there more racist than Trump), that person can be the most racist and therefore by his own "no in between" logic, Trump must be the least racist. It's more twisted than a crazy straw.
    That makes me wonder why Trump bothers denying the obvious, even if he doesn't believe it's obvious? To quote his favorite catchphrase, what does he have to lose by coming out and publicly admitting he's a racist? People who already hate Trump will be justified in their loathing of him, people who love him will applaud the guy for flying his bigot flag. Meanwhile, Republicans will continue looking the other way while slurping rich sugar daddies like the Kochs and stacking the courts with right wingers. In other words, nothing will change.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    That makes me wonder why Trump bothers denying the obvious, even if he doesn't believe it's obvious? To quote his favorite catchphrase, what does he have to lose by coming out and publicly admitting he's a racist? People who already hate Trump will be justified in their loathing of him, people who love him will applaud the guy for flying his bigot flag. Meanwhile, Republicans will continue looking the other way while slurping rich sugar daddies like the Kochs and stacking the courts with right wingers. In other words, nothing will change.
    This statement is a sad indictment on American politics today. Not because it is untrue but because of how true this is. Scandal after Scandal. Statement after Statement. Tweet after tweet you styill have people saying that Trump is one of the greaatest presidents of all time. And they mean it. Trump can do and say what ever he wants and his supporters are going to over look it and make excuses while the pople who hate him are going to say well we were right all along. What about the people on the fence about Trump? lets be honest if you are on the fence about Trump at this point then you really are either unable or unwilling to understand the truth.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    That makes me wonder why Trump bothers denying the obvious, even if he doesn't believe it's obvious? To quote his favorite catchphrase, what does he have to lose by coming out and publicly admitting he's a racist? People who already hate Trump will be justified in their loathing of him, people who love him will applaud the guy for flying his bigot flag. Meanwhile, Republicans will continue looking the other way while slurping rich sugar daddies like the Kochs and stacking the courts with right wingers. In other words, nothing will change.
    Nothing will change, but I doubt just as no one sees themselves as the villain, few would ever admit to actually being racist

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    Quote Originally Posted by babyblob View Post
    This statement is a sad indictment on American politics today. Not because it is untrue but because of how true this is. Scandal after Scandal. Statement after Statement. Tweet after tweet you styill have people saying that Trump is one of the greaatest presidents of all time. And they mean it. Trump can do and say what ever he wants and his supporters are going to over look it and make excuses while the pople who hate him are going to say well we were right all along. What about the people on the fence about Trump? lets be honest if you are on the fence about Trump at this point then you really are either unable or unwilling to understand the truth.
    After three and a half years, nobody, and I mean N-O-B-O-D-Y should be on the fence about who and what Trump is. The evidence of his wickedness is out there for all to see, in the beginning, his apologists said he'd pivot into the job and become a responsible president, of course, that wound up being bullshit, if anything, he's gotten worse with time, thanks to the cowardly enablers in the GOP and the scores of brain dead lemmings who worship him like a deity. If people choose to deny the truth about Trump, then they need to do some serious self-examining.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    That makes me wonder why Trump bothers denying the obvious, even if he doesn't believe it's obvious? To quote his favorite catchphrase, what does he have to lose by coming out and publicly admitting he's a racist? People who already hate Trump will be justified in their loathing of him, people who love him will applaud the guy for flying his bigot flag. Meanwhile, Republicans will continue looking the other way while slurping rich sugar daddies like the Kochs and stacking the courts with right wingers. In other words, nothing will change.
    How many white people ever admit, acknowledge or in any way accept responsibility for being Racist? How many people of any background, from any country, openly admit that they are racist?

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    Trump will dog whistle, but he won't risk standing at the podium and admitting to it. Either because he doesn't accept it as a fault of his, he thinks he's perfect after all, or because he knows how the public will react.
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