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

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Trump turns on everyone

Trump is feeling the pressure, knowing SDNY is patiently waiting to take him to court after he leaves office, and, short of fleeing the country, there’s nothing he can do to prevent it.

[AnakinFlair]

I don't know why they're still around, but damn I hope the Lincoln Project keeps pushing his buttons

They are committed to defeating Trump and Trump-ism. As long as there are people in Washington who think that Trump was an excellent role model, they will fight against them. I genuinely feel they want to get back to a bipartisanship system where the two side will actually work together to help people, despite their philosophical differences.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

They are committed to defeating Trump and Trump-ism. As long as there are people in Washington who think that Trump was an excellent role model, they will fight against them. I genuinely feel they want to get back to a bipartisanship system where the two side will actually work together to help people, despite their philosophical differences.

I fear that ship left port a long time ago, and it ain’t coming back. The GOP’s been taken over by the crazies and the cretins who want to rule, not govern, they see bipartisanship as sleeping with the enemy and only want to help the wealthy, not the common people. Republicans enjoyed the rampant fascism under Trump and they’re not about to give it up, I’m sure Moscow Mitch and other Republican leaders are already looking for the next Trump who can put them back in power, but without the narcissism and stupidity the Donald brought to the table.

[GOLGO 13]

I fear that ship left port a long time ago, and it ain’t coming back. The GOP’s been taken over by the crazies and the cretins who want to rule, not govern, they see bipartisanship as sleeping with the enemy and only want to help the wealthy, not the common people. Republicans enjoyed the rampant fascism under Trump and they’re not about to give it up, I’m sure Moscow Mitch and other Republican leaders are already looking for the next Trump who can put them back in power, but without the narcissism and stupidity the Donald brought to the table.

Republicans only regret that Trump had them completely by the balls. They lived in mortal terror that the Nazi would point his finger at them causing the rest of the Hitler youth to descend on them like vultures. Only guys like Romney & McCain would occasionally squawk when they forgot their place.

But, yeah TLP is gaslighting him like a bitch.

[DrNewGod]

Trump turns on everyone

Trump is feeling the pressure, knowing SDNY is patiently waiting to take him to court after he leaves office, and, short of fleeing the country, there’s nothing he can do to prevent it.

I have no evidence for this next speculation, but I think a lot of this is powered by Trump never having been in something larger than himself in all his first 70-odd years of infesting humanity (except possibly during the years that his daddy ran the enterprise). He's never had to deal with the fact that people on whom he's relied might a) have other agenda, or b) can't simply be replaced by someone who will give him what he wants, and part of that is due to his enablers never before seeing an expiration date on Trump's influence.

Everything in the grifter companies he "ran" was about him, and the lackeys and sycophants surrounding him had no higher focus than keeping Donnie happy. Now, I'm sure that he's had to include people in the game that have goals and agenda of their own all along, but he has never had people that he couldn't replace that weren't willing to go to any length to stay his wrath. He probably really can't understand why the members of this crew aren't eagerly self-immolating to pursue his wishes. It's probably especially difficult for him to grasp b/c they were willing to go to all manner of extremes back when the end of his term was uncertain...before his legal challenges to the vote began so consistently losing. Suddenly, his posse are all pretending to have found some sense of conscience or civic duty, there's no time for replacement (and in Pence's case, there's no way to do it), and it challenges his view of his own importance. It's bound to be shaking his delusion of absolute mastery of his fate clear to the core.

Now I'm reasonably confident that WestPhilly is correct in thinking that The Don is feeling a cold, clammy shadow cast over him from the general direction of NY, and it's injecting some panic into his cognitive functions. IMO, added to that is a genuine confusion that his minions aren't making everything right for him.

It's got to be a completely alien reality for him. He's probably feeling like gravity started pulling things at a 30-degree angle, and time has begun running at wildly variable rates of speed.

[Tami]

JUST IN: Trump has extended DURHAM's authority to use classified information in his investigation indefinitely, including as part of any grand jury proceedings.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of Rick Brattin, a member of the Missouri House of Representatives who, in 2014, pushed for a bill that would require any woman seeking an abortion to first get the father’s permission, and when discussing rape exceptions for the bill, Brattin told the media that rape victims would be exempt, but only if they could prove that they were LEGITIMATELY RAPED. When the media asked him if he meant to channel Todd Akin, Brattin scoffed, and said that unlike Akin, he was using “legitimate rape” in the proper context. And believe it or not, that’s not the only insane moment from this guy. He’s also tried to nullify federal gun laws, pass laws to have intelligent design and destiny taught in schools as alternatives to evolution, voted for laws to make it legal for police officers to shoot fleeing suspects (a reaction to the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson), sponsored a law to revoke athletic scholarships from in-state colleges if they even voice support for protesters, tried to bring back firing squads as a valid method of execution, and pushed to impeach Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, just because. In October of 2015, Brattin began campaigning to force Planned Parenthood to have to build a "Vietnam Memorial" styled-wall listing all of the fetuses they've aborted (which would be hard to name them, because you don't name fetuses, you name babies when they're born.), adding his non-factual assertion that fetal tissue was "being sold on the black market", because he wasn't quite being deranged enough. In May of 2017, on the floor of the Missouri House of Representatives, during debate on a bill that would remove workplace protections for the LGBTQ community and allow employers to fire people for their sexual orientation, Brattin made the particularly bigoted statement that, “When you look at the tenets of religion, of the Bible, of the Quran, of other religions. There is a distinction between homosexuality and just being a human being.” Brattin was term-limited in 2018, and rather than run for a spot in either in the Missouri State Senate, or a run for Congress, he made a run for Cass County Auditor. We’re expecting him to resurface at some point in the future and make a move for higher office, once all the controversy regarding him blows over.

On this date in 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Steve West, a conservative radio personality from Kansas City who in the 2018 elections, ran for the Missouri House of Representatives in District 15, and in August of 2018, crushed the competition in a four candidate GOP Primary to win with 49.5% of the vote. That left West set to face off against Democrat Dan Carpenter in the general election. Except… that never happened. Steve West’s radio show wasn’t filled with so much “conservative views” as it was borderline hate speech. Some of the things he said on his show included:

• On his January 23rd, 2017 program, West said, “Looking back in history, unfortunately, Hitler was right about what was taking place in Germany. And who was behind it.”
• West’s tendency to appear as an alter ego named “Hollywood Hymee”, an anti-Semitic stereotype.
• West made statements deriding Oak Park High School students for choosing a transgender homecoming queen.
• West called Islam “a problem for America” on his show, and on his campaign website.
• West also told a local newspaper that Islam “is a political movement masquerading as a religion and should not receive the benefits we provide religious institutions”.
• In answer to a question about the district’s greatest needs, he told the Gladstone Dispatch that school choice was top on his list: “Many parents and students don’t want to have to deal with alternative sex ed, and the LGBT clubs and staff at all the public schools today.”
• West’s website also mentions that “Vaccines should be optional”, for some anti-vaccer lunacy, combined with John Birch Society paranoia.
• The day before the 2018 Missouri GOP Primary, West spent time on his program further promoting fanatical conspiracies about “Jewish cabals” that were “harvesting baby parts” through Planned Parenthood, that torture and molest children.

West, of course, tried claiming his quotes were “out of context” and never apologized for any of them. Steve West is enough of a psychotic bigot that his own children warned voters not to vote for their father. It seems pretty obvious, although Steve West might have said his kids were only mad because often fails to pay child support. Steve West his hot, wet garbage, and lost in the 2018 elections.

On this date in 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Steve Baleshiski, who was a candidate for District 30 of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 2018. Baleshiski, a 22 year old college student, was hoping to knock off the sitting Democratic House Speaker of the Connecticut House, Joe Aresimowicz, who was aiming for his eighth term in the legislature. Alas, Baleshiski loves guns enough to void all sympathy, and he responded to David Hogg, who survived the Parkland shooting by getting on his Facebook page and saying Hogg should “burn in Hell”. Now, all this did was draw attention to Steve Baleshiski’s social media accounts, where people began to realize he had some monstrous views, and he openly literally demonized people who disagreed with him and admitted to being “full of hate” and saying that those who criticize him would “impose 1984 meets Brave New World meets the will of Satan on my family”. In other posts, he was also dismissive of climate change, bigoted towards Muslims by saying they “worshipping the Devil”, and advocated for shooting and killing looters during national disasters. Baleshiski ended up dropping out of the race on October 11th, 2018, because people were now aware he was a rage-tainted, ignorant bigot. As such, will we will set his profile and take a look at another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 947-45, since this was established in July 2014.

[worstblogever]

Angela Stanton-King

Welcome to what is the 947th original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Angela Stanton-King, a 2020 candidate for Congress in Georgia’s 5th Congressional District, looking to unseat the late, great Congressman John Lewis, and using her own Dark Helmet-like relationship to one of Lewis’ inspirations in the Civil Rights movement as credibility to challenge him. Yes, Angela Stanton-King is the goddaughter of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s niece. However, she is also an ex-convict who in 2004 went to jail for running a stolen-car ring, which she somehow parlayed into a gig on the reality show the Real Housewives of Atlanta. In early 2020, she was granted a pardon for her crimes by Donald Trump, on the same day he pardoned white collar criminal Michael Milken and Rob Blagojevich. Some nice company she’s got, there.

We’re not even prioritizing profiling her because of that… we’re more focused on Stanton-King being the latest in a long list of Republican candidates for Congress in 2020 who supported the Qanon conspiracy theory. She was confronted with her support for it in an interview with the newspaper The Guardian and stormed out of an interview after admitting she believed it. Among the ridiculous and disgusting threads of the conspiracy she promoted were that the online furniture website Wayfair was aiding in human trafficking with items listed on its website that were actually sex slaves for sale, and her own positing that BlackLivesMatter was covering up “pedophilia and sex trafficking”. She tried lying briefly during the interview that her tweets about the Qanon “storm” coming were really a discussion of the weather in Atlanta that day, but the Guardian fact-checked and found it was hot and sunny, because of course it was.

As long as we’re pointing out how desperate she was to attack non-existent pedophile rings, we’ll point out that just after announcing her candidacy for Georgia’s 5th Congressional District, Stanton-King opted to get on social media and volunteer her opinion about how the LGBTQ community were in support of “pedophilia” and bizarrely chose to use a photo of NBA star Dwayne Wade’s transgender daughter in the insane homophobic attack before going on to claim that people were more forgiving of transgender people than they are of ex-convicts. She promptly then shielded herself from critics who called her out by hiding behind her 19 year old son, who identifies as gay, and an aunt she said was gay as why she couldn’t be homophobic (it doesn’t work that way).

We were grieved when John Lewis passed away, and at first, were terrified that his seat in Congress might fall to this lunatic. Thankfully, Georgia State Senator Nikema Williams stepped up to fill the void Lewis would leave on the Democratic ticket, and wiped the floor with Angela Stanton-King on Election Day. In the end, Stanton-King only got 15% of the vote. We are hoping that her political career is dead on arrival, and that her reality show celebrity status is not far behind it in line at the morgue.

[Mister Mets]

I don't know why they're still around, but damn I hope the Lincoln Project keeps pushing his buttons

Mansions cost money.

[JCAll]

I know they needed to pass SOMETHING. The American people needed something to help them through the holidays, and Mitch needed something passed so the Republicans can tell Georgia voters 'Look what we got for you!' But I wonder if the Democrats settled on this bill because they think either A) their chances on winning both seats in Georgia are so strong, that they can wait until Both Democratic candidates win, and then pass an even larger, more comprehensive bill in January, or B) even if they don't win Georgia, that Biden will be strong enough to MAYBE get Mitch to work with him to get a better bill passed.

Democrats have also been getting shredded for not passing anything, even on this thread I've seen people saying they should have taken whatever garbage deal McConnell agreed to just so it would be SOMETHING. I guess they finally listened.

[babyblob]

Democrats have also been getting shredded for not passing anything, even on this thread I've seen people saying they should have taken whatever garbage deal McConnell agreed to just so it would be SOMETHING. I guess they finally listened.

There was dumb stuff on both sides. Both Nacy and Mitch saying the bill is far from perfect is spot on.

[BeastieRunner]

JUST IN: Trump has extended DURHAM's authority to use classified information in his investigation indefinitely, including as part of any grand jury proceedings.

Isn't that illegal to have a SPC that is working within in the DOJ???

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Angela Stanton-King

Welcome to what is the 947th original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Angela Stanton-King, a 2020 candidate for Congress in Georgia’s 5th Congressional District, looking to unseat the late, great Congressman John Lewis, and using her own Dark Helmet-like relationship to one of Lewis’ inspirations in the Civil Rights movement as credibility to challenge him. Yes, Angela Stanton-King is the goddaughter of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s niece. However, she is also an ex-convict who in 2004 went to jail for running a stolen-car ring, which she somehow parlayed into a gig on the reality show the Real Housewives of Atlanta. In early 2020, she was granted a pardon for her crimes by Donald Trump, on the same day he pardoned white collar criminal Michael Milken and Rob Blagojevich. Some nice company she’s got, there.

We’re not even prioritizing profiling her because of that… we’re more focused on Stanton-King being the latest in a long list of Republican candidates for Congress in 2020 who supported the Qanon conspiracy theory. She was confronted with her support for it in an interview with the newspaper The Guardian and stormed out of an interview after admitting she believed it. Among the ridiculous and disgusting threads of the conspiracy she promoted were that the online furniture website Wayfair was aiding in human trafficking with items listed on its website that were actually sex slaves for sale, and her own positing that BlackLivesMatter was covering up “pedophilia and sex trafficking”. She tried lying briefly during the interview that her tweets about the Qanon “storm” coming were really a discussion of the weather in Atlanta that day, but the Guardian fact-checked and found it was hot and sunny, because of course it was.

As long as we’re pointing out how desperate she was to attack non-existent pedophile rings, we’ll point out that just after announcing her candidacy for Georgia’s 5th Congressional District, Stanton-King opted to get on social media and volunteer her opinion about how the LGBTQ community were in support of “pedophilia” and bizarrely chose to use a photo of NBA star Dwayne Wade’s transgender daughter in the insane homophobic attack before going on to claim that people were more forgiving of transgender people than they are of ex-convicts. She promptly then shielded herself from critics who called her out by hiding behind her 19 year old son, who identifies as gay, and an aunt she said was gay as why she couldn’t be homophobic (it doesn’t work that way).

We were grieved when John Lewis passed away, and at first, were terrified that his seat in Congress might fall to this lunatic. Thankfully, Georgia State Senator Nikema Williams stepped up to fill the void Lewis would leave on the Democratic ticket, and wiped the floor with Angela Stanton-King on Election Day. In the end, Stanton-King only got 15% of the vote. We are hoping that her political career is dead on arrival, and that her reality show celebrity status is not far behind it in line at the morgue.

Another Trump “black friend” I see. Traitors like her need to return to the rocks which they were living under.

[numberthirty]

Democrats have also been getting shredded for not passing anything, even on this thread I've seen people saying they should have taken whatever garbage deal McConnell agreed to just so it would be SOMETHING. I guess they finally listened.

Politely, you are incorrect.

"Whatever Garbage Deal McConnell Agreed To..." is what happened now.

The issue?

It's that Democrats have "Less Than Zero..." leverage now. Democrats were being shredded for not even attempting to use the minimal leverage that the election created to try to get a deal slightly better than "Whatever Garbage Deal McConnell Agreed To..."

[DrNewGod]

Another Trump “black friend” I see. Traitors like her need to return to the rocks which they were living under.

Opportunism knows no race, language, culture nor ethnicity. Humanity can breed jerks from every one of its racial/ethnic/geographic/socio-economic nooks and crannies.