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

[TheManInBlack]

No, they are Nazis.

This is the left wing equivalent of far right idiots calling all Democrats 'communists.' It doesn't do anything other than undermine anything else you have to say.

[Kirby101]

This is the left wing equivalent of far right idiots calling all Democrats 'communists.' It doesn't do anything other than undermine anything else you have to say.

You are right, I should have said fascists.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Just the other day Pence was complaining that dems want to make poor people more comfortable. Leave it to conservatives to think this is a bad thing.

Like I said, warped little minds.

[Jack Dracula]

This is the left wing equivalent of far right idiots calling all Democrats 'communists.' It doesn't do anything other than undermine anything else you have to say.

Communists in America self-identify as Communists.
White supremacists in America self-identify as Republicans.

[Steel Inquisitor]

Communists in America self-identify as Communists.
White supremacists in America self-identify as Republicans.

Communists identify as Socialists or Leftists. They don't broadcast it unless they feel safe, especially online. Those terms allow them to say whatever but not officially be Communists, and they think nobody notices when they act like Communists.

Agreed on the latter.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Communists identify as Socialists or Leftists. They don't broadcast it unless they feel safe, especially online. Those terms allow them to say whatever but not officially be Communists, and they think nobody notices when they act like Communists.

Agreed on the latter.

Only someone that has no idea what communism would say this, but I shouldn't expect much from someone as habitually as toxic and divisive as you. Read a history book, take some classes on economic theory before you say such uninformed tripe.

[Steel Inquisitor]

Only someone that has no idea what communism would say this, but I shouldn't expect much from someone as habitually as toxic and divisive as you. Read a history book, take some classes on economic theory before you say such uninformed tripe.

Moving the goal posts, I didn't say anything about Communism I was speaking about modern Communists. Communism isn't dead, it's just defeated - thankfully. I know what Communism is, and in the real world we get people like Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and Castro. There influence continues, that's why we have problematic individuals like Angela "Jonestown was right" Davis propped up by modern Communists as if what she says is right. This is more than economic theory, this is about how people act online and they shouldn't be rewarded when they're more interested in creating autocracies and getting into bed with monsters who aren't any better than what the American government does. I won't even get into what monstrous policies Communists countries did with LGBT.

[numberthirty]

Moving the goal posts, I didn't say anything about Communism I was speaking about modern Communists. Communism isn't dead, it's just defeated - thankfully. I know what Communism is, and in the real world we get people like Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and Castro. There influence continues, that's why we have problematic individuals like Angela "Jonestown was right" Davis propped up by modern Communists as if what she says is right. This is more than economic theory, this is about how people act online and they shouldn't be rewarded when they're more interested in creating autocracies and getting into bed with monsters who aren't any better than what the American government does. I won't even get into what monstrous policies Communists countries did with LGBT.

I would not be so sure about that.

One the one hand?

You say "I Know...", and rattle off three names.

On the other hand?

Anyone with an even cursory knowledge of Communism could probably tell you that all but one of those names was actually more like "Well... 'Communism...' Will Be Hanging Over The Door, But It's Actually Going To Work A Whole Lot More Like 'Dictatorship...' Once We Get Rolling..."

[numberthirty]

For Instance...

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/17/w...elds-dies.html

DEATH OF POL POT; Pol Pot, Brutal Dictator Who Forced Cambodians to Killing Fields, Dies at 73

[numberthirty]

That bit in blue didn't just wind up in the copy by accident.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Wisconsin’s 5th Congressional District, Jim Sensenbrenner, who has been a member of Congress since 1979. Through the years, he has been involved in some of the more distasteful legislative acts in our country, such as the attempted impeachment of President Clinton, where he read the opening statement, the drafting of the original version of the Patriot Act (which he denies leaving loopholes in to allow for government surveillance of the civilian populace), and his vote against $50 billion in relief aid for Hurricane Katrina. Sensenbrenner has also been prone to tantrums, like when in 2005, he walked out of a meeting about human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay prison after demanding C-SPAN turn off all cameras in an attempt at a media blackout. This guy even fought against funding for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis prevention, and against stiffer penalties for people convicted of dogfighting, he’s so heartless. Sensenbrenner also has a long history of ridiculous quotes on climate change denial, including his insistence that there’s data to prove “global cooling” out there. That should come as little surprise, as Sensenbrenner owns stock in British Petroleum,and during the Congressional hearings after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, he actually refused to recuse himself from the proceedings, instead writing an angry letter to the White House to lay blame on them for the disaster. His disgust for the Obama White House goes a bit farther than that, as he actually tried criticizing Michelle Obama’s efforts to combat childhood obesity, because “she has a big butt” (because he himself is doing so much better in battling obesity). Sensenbrenner actually voted against the renewal of the Violence Against Women act, and not only voted for the 2013 Government Shutdown, but voted against re-opening it when the time came. In 2015, Sensenbrenner was taking testimony in the hearings on Planned Parenthood, and asked witness Priscilla Smith why she prioritized Planned Parenthood over feeding hungry children, then cut her off to pretend to be baffled by her answer about how it helped mothers with cancer screenings so they could feed their healthy children, because they would still be alive to if it's caught early. So, it’s little surprise that when he hosted a town hall back in April of 2017, he didn’t seem too concerned with his constituents’ wealth of complaints. When asked about his vote for SJ Res 34, where internet providers would now be allowed to sell the data information of their users to businesses, and how that would violate all sense of privacy, his response was, “Well you know, nobody has got to use the internet.”
The frequently yet impotently-enraged Sensenbrenner showed up at the Congressional hearings aimed at discrediting the Mueller investigation, and he spent a few minutes harassing Peter Strzok, failing to score any points in his partisan attack on the career FBI agent who investigated the massive corruption within the Trump campaign and its ties to Russia. During the Trump impeachment inquiry, telling Democratic counsel that “you have made Joe McCarthy look like a piker”, and seemingly because he can’t remember he doesn’t wield a gavel anymore, he used his time to accuse Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler of losing control whenever Trump is simply accused of committing crimes, saying, “The committee is not in order and the chairman is not in order. We have to have some decorum in here.” Sensebrenner was in Congress for four decades, and in 2006 he finished second place in a Rolling Stone piece about “America’s Worst Congressmen”, only behind GOP colleague and child molester, Dennis Hastert. In that article, the assessment of the man representing Wisconsin’s 5th District was,”Sensenbrenner is an ever-sweating, fat-fingered beast who wields his gavel in a way that makes you think he might have used one before in some other arena, perhaps to beat prostitutes to death.” [/QUOTE] As he is now retired, will we also retire his profile and take a look at another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 948-45, since this was established in July 2014.


Nikka Piterman

Welcome to what is the 948th original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Nikka Piterman, a candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in the 2020 elections in California’s 13th Congressional District who was looking to knock off Congresswoman Barbara Lee for her seat in the House. Because, y’know, taking a crack at someone who pulls down more than 80% of the vote in her district wasn’t a long shot campaign. Piterman’s policy platform centered around tax cuts, establishing a U.S. Space Force that would create colonies on the Moon and Mars (well, that’s up Trump’s ***), and included plans to attempt to split California into two states, implying on his website that splitting the state would help gain more representation on the federal level. (Yikes on that last thing).

But alas, Nikka Piterman is getting profiled by CSGOPOTD because he is the latest in a long line of Republicans who supported the completely mental Qanon conspiracy theory and ran for Congress in the 2020 elections. Piterman put out posts with the Qanon slogan.

We don’t have much else to add, but to point out that no other candidates ran against Barbara Lee, so Piterman ended up on the final ballot in November. It probably would have been better if he hadn’t, as he only got 9.6% of the vote, but seeing a conspiracy theorist embarrass themselves further is something we will never object to.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

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Black Doctor Dies Of COVID-19 After Highlighting Racist Treatment

The physician said she had to repeatedly ask for medication, scans and routine checks while admitted at a hospital in Carmel, Indiana. That was horrible, flat out horrible.

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COVID-19 Stigma Is Becoming The Norm — And That's Extremely Dangerous

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In non-COVID news:

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More than 24 hours after the explosion, a motive remained elusive.

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Unemployment Benefits For Millions Expire As Trump Rages

About 9.5 million people rely on the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. January 20th can't get here soon enough as Trump needs to be gone!

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Trump’s Presidency Is Over. His Judges Will Be Here For Decades.

Thanks to Mitch McConnell, Trump has put more than 230 people into lifetime federal court seats. Most are white, male, right-wing ideologues.

[PaulBullion]

Not only is failed former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker trying to normalize eating at a restaurant during the worst part of a pandemic, he does so by cropping a picture from 2019, tweeting it from the safety of his home and lying about it being current.

[Steel Inquisitor]

I would not be so sure about that.

One the one hand?

You say "I Know...", and rattle off three names.

On the other hand?

Anyone with an even cursory knowledge of Communism could probably tell you that all but one of those names was actually more like "Well... 'Communism...' Will Be Hanging Over The Door, But It's Actually Going To Work A Whole Lot More Like 'Dictatorship...' Once We Get Rolling..."

Every time it does get going we get dictators like the above, that's where they begin. Far too many are ok with that Communism, relying on the endgame of Communism as a fig leaf. Not very Communist thinks Stalin was wrong. The world's been burnt too many times, eventually it just becomes being delusional. Socialism has its merits, Communism is a dead end and it should stay buried. Right now all Communism does is being an anchor to actual well meaning Socialism.

Damn right calling Pol Pot a dictator wasn't an accident, that's the truth.

[numberthirty]

Every time it does get going we get dictators like the above, that's where they begin. Far too many are ok with that Communism, relying on the endgame of Communism as a fig leaf. Not very Communist thinks Stalin was wrong. The world's been burnt too many times, eventually it just becomes being delusional. Socialism has its merits, Communism is a dead end and it should stay buried. Right now all Communism does is being an anchor to actual well meaning Socialism.

Damn right calling Pol Pot a dictator wasn't an accident, that's the truth.

A truth that would completely rule out the possibility that he was actually a communist.