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

[Iron Maiden]

Uuuuuuuuuuuuugh.

I don't know which is worse, these two clowns getting The Medal of Freedom award or when Limbaugh got it last summer.

[Iron Maiden]

Looking at FB, I am convinced there are no longer any limits to the stupidity, ignorance and complete willingness to ignore all facts and evidence for Trump supporters.

Anyone believe for one moment they would turn against Trump telling a governor to find votes in his favor with no evidence of fraud? Of course not. The governor is a hack and there was obviously mass voter fraud minus any evidence because the alternative is that Biden wins.

As always, the scary part is not that we have a delusional president who is willing to burn the nation down as a Republic in order to win but that half of Republicans are willing to go along with it to get what they want. And I don't buy that, deep down, some of them don't know very well what the reality is. They just don't care. Yes, some are stupid and ignorant beyond words, the very definition of never being able to win an argument with a stupid or ignorant person because they think they are the smart ones even with no evidence of their viewpoint. But I suspect most have to see they have no evidence and are willfully ignorant.

One of the few in the GOP that I've seen lately that is strongly opposing this travesty is Congressman Adam Kinzinger from Illinois. He's either very courageous or my guess is it's may be that he is considering jumping ship. His district is probably going to go blue next election

[numberthirty]

One of the few in the GOP that I've seen lately that is strongly opposing this travesty is Congressman Adam Kinzinger from Illinois. He's either very courageous or my guess is it's may be that he is considering jumping ship. His district is probably going to go blue next election

Might just be that he is an "Illinois..." Republican. They are not all completely kooked.

[shooshoomanjoe]

I was trying to resurrect a really old thread, but I could not get it up.

Looking at FB, I am convinced there are no longer any limits to the stupidity, ignorance and complete willingness to ignore all facts and evidence for Trump supporters.

Anyone believe for one moment they would turn against Trump telling a governor to find votes in his favor with no evidence of fraud? Of course not. The governor is a hack and there was obviously mass voter fraud minus any evidence because the alternative is that Biden wins.

As always, the scary part is not that we have a delusional president who is willing to burn the nation down as a Republic in order to win but that half of Republicans are willing to go along with it to get what they want. And I don't buy that, deep down, some of them don't know very well what the reality is. They just don't care. Yes, some are stupid and ignorant beyond words, the very definition of never being able to win an argument with a stupid or ignorant person because they think they are the smart ones even with no evidence of their viewpoint. But I suspect most have to see they have no evidence and are willfully ignorant.

It's been going on for four years (hell the far right have been doing this since the Clinton administration). Right at the beginning the trump administration even coined the term "alternative facts" to get their argument across.

[Tendrin]

A dsiplay of sanity from Chip Roy of all people.

Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas objected to seating 67 elected House members from battleground states today, in response to his colleagues that plan to object to certifying the presidential election results.

Roy, who does not support objecting to the presidential results, said in a statement that "it would confound basic human reason if the presidential results were to face objection while the congressional results of the same process escaped without public scrutiny."

https://www.***************.com/chip...members-2021-1

[PaulBullion]

One of the few in the GOP that I've seen lately that is strongly opposing this travesty is Congressman Adam Kinzinger from Illinois. He's either very courageous or my guess is it's may be that he is considering jumping ship. His district is probably going to go blue next election

He is very handsome and might be considering a presidential run in 24.

[PaulBullion]

A dsiplay of sanity from Chip Roy of all people.



https://www.***************.com/chip...members-2021-1

Link is censored.

Are you getting your news from the Viagra website again?

[Tendrin]

Link is censored.

Are you getting your news from the Viagra website again?

See Alice.com strikes again

[WestPhillyPunisher]

While I get this being the gut reaction?

Biden has bigger fish to fry.

Agreed. Revoking medals given to Trump bootlickers figures to be low on Biden's list of priorities.

[worstblogever]

Agreed. Revoking medals given to Trump bootlickers figures to be low on Biden's list of priorities.

I'd rather see people have their offices lost in a fair election than their shiny trinkets taken away.

[worstblogever]

In 2015, in 2016, and in 2017, “Crazy Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of John Fleming, the former U.S. House Representative for Louisiana’s 1st District who we noted has not faced a Democratic Challenger in the general election since winning office by a mere 342 votes in 2008, in a district that prior to Fleming taking office, Democrats had held since Reconstruction. Fleming famously criticized President Obama’s tax plan in 2011, saying that it was unfair because he, a man worth over $6 million dollars, would annually “only have $400,000 left over” to work with under it. Fleming has also used “evidence” to support his pro-life arguments from article he found on The Onion, unaware that they were parody, to justify shutting down Planned Parenthood. He made the hyperbolic argument that “Obamacare was the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever passed by Congress”, that you can kind of scrutinize by knowing your history well enough to realize the Fugitive Slave Act was a thing. John Fleming was a huge proponent of the 2013 Government Shutdown, literally saying “This isn’t over…” as part of the “NAY” votes to reopen the government. He also has defended footage of oil companies using the advanced technology of trash bags and duct tape to seal leaky pipes transporting oil, so he’s not exactly a friend of the environment, either. Rep. Fleming is also a frequent guest of the leader of the anti-gay hate group the Family Research Council’s leader, Tony Perkins, appearing on his “Washington Watch” show, to stir fears that President Obama is secretly a Muslim, or that he supposedly doesn’t care about violence towards Christians in other countries around the globe. in the 2016 elections. Fleming failed in an effort to get elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016, finishing fifth in the primary race with only 10.6% of the vote.

On this date in 2018, “Crazy Stupid Republican of the Day” published our profile of Taylor Rose, a candidate for District 3 of the Montana House of Representatives in the 2016 elections. His primary qualification for running for office as a legislator was that he was a writer for WorldNetDaily, the one-stop shop for all paranoid right-wing conspiracy theories online that features regular columns by Ann Coulter and Andy Schlafly (the deranged son of CSGOPOTD Phyllis Schlafly). Suffice to say, it’s not just being a wingnut that makes Taylor Rose a terrifying proposition in our government. He also has drawn the interest of the Southern Poverty Law Center for his various trips to Europe to meet with right wing extremists, his ties to the American Sovereign Citizen Movement. He denies that he is a White Nationalist, claiming his values are just “supportive of Western Civilization”, and claiming that if he had espoused the views he had while at Liberty University, he would have been expelled (because Falwell’s Liberty is known for being a bastion of tolerance). M ake no mistake, the group he founded, “Youth for Western Civilization” is precisely a White Nationalist group with its more racist language replaced with buzzwords to sound only slightly less sinister.The SPLC also did a quick check of Rose’s Facebook page, and noted that Rose ”expressed revulsion at the prospect of a white couple giving birth to two black babies via artificial insemination. He also bitterly complained when it was announced that Harriet Tubman, the black woman who helped lead the Underground Railroad during the Civil War, would replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. He compared the action to the removal of Confederate monuments around the nation in the wake of the mass shooting at a black church in Charleston, S.C., by a white-supremacist Confederacy admirer.” It should come as little surprise then, that Rose has ranted against immigrants, as well as Muslims as well, has written articles in the newspaper of the Neo-Confederate organization, the Council for Conservative Citizens, and praises Nigel Farage and UKIP, the far-right, white nationalist party he runs in the United Kingdom. Luckily, the people of Montana’s District 3 did not elect Taylor Rose, and his disturbing background with ties to various White Nationalist groups and militias assured he lost to Democrat Zac Perry… by all of 271 votes.

On this date in 2019, “Crazy Stupid Republican of the Day” published our profile of John Ritzheimer, who took his paranoid militia act back home and ran for Congress to represent Arizona’s 8th Congressional District in 2018, hoping that maybe he could get lucky and win the special election to replace CSGOPOTD alumni Trent Franks. Ritzheimer was one of the militia lunatics who occupied the Malheur Wildlife Refuge with Ammon Bundy back in January and February of 2016. Prior to that, Ritzheimer was making extra cash as a professional hatemonger in Arizona, printing and selling T-shirts bearing a profanity-laced denunciation of Islam. In May of 2016, he organized a “protest” that drew about 250 mostly armed anti-Muslim demonstrators to a Phoenix mosque, where Ritzheimer, carrying a 9mm Glock 26, and with others wielding automatic weapons, called it a patriotic sign of resistance against what he deemed the tyranny of Islam in the United States. He also has hosted “Draw Muhammed” contests and posted videos online where he shoots up copies of the Koran with a gun, just to remind everyone he’s a certain combination of unstable and bigoted. Also, Ritzheimer is so insane that even the militia group known as the OathKeepers have disowned him after he called for the arrest of Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow. Now, for those who remember the occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, you may remember that the militia bros who holed up there came woefully unprepared for a cold winter, didn’t bring, y’know, FOOD, and almost immediately started begging fellow “patriots” online to send them money and supplies. The internet responded by sending… something less helpful. And thus, your memory of the Malheur Occupation might include or even consist solely of Jon Ritzheimer opening a care package mailed to him and his lunatic pals that was filled with dildos, and going berserk with rage. Clearly, Congressional material, right there. So why didn’t Jon Ritzheimer end up shocking the political world? Well, he was forced to drop out of the race because he was scheduled to go to prison on January 12th, 2018. What with getting arrested for occupying federal property. However, Ritzheimer assured the lunatic fringe that, ”This won’t be the last the people of Arizona see of me.” We’re going to advise people to support his political endeavors while he’s in or out of prison by mailing him more dildos.

[worstblogever]

On this date one year ago, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” first profiled Gail Griffin, a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from District 14 who has bounced around the Arizona state legislature in either chamber on and off since 1997 (she has two terms of eligibility left in the lower chamber, and is already term-limited from ever serving again in the Arizona State Senate.) And, it takes a special kind of stupid to stand out among Arizona Republicans to get a CSGOPOTD profile, but Griffin, whose brain may be under undue pressure from the helmet of hair she’s sporting, managed to get our notice in early January of 2019 when she filed a bill to try and pay for Donald Trump’s stupid f***ing idea for a wall on the U.S./Mexico border by establishing a new tax on… INTERNET PORN.

Now, this is dumb for a lot of reasons. First off, she’s xenophobic and dumb enough to support the border wall at all. But second, she wants to pay for it be taxing porn? Even if this wasn’t patently unconstitutional… does she not realize how impossible it is to regulate internet porn in the first place? It’s not like finding nudes online is a difficult task these days, even with a Safesearch on, people can get an eyeful.

Griffin also has caused controversy by trying to redraw county lines to get tax breaks for people living on the borders who were unhappy with how much they were being charged.

Anyway, Gail Griffin is also trying to get legislation passed to forbid cities and municipalities from placing regulations upon apartment landlords to protect the public from unfair housing practices, and has sponsored legislation to make it easier for landlords to evict guests of tenants. During Griffin’s career, she also has sponsored legislation to allow the sale of firearms without a background check, tried to challenge the protected status of the endangered species of Mexican wolves, and she has also co-sponsored legislation to name an official state gun, to try to force physicians to attempt to revive a “viable fetus” after an abortion (regulations being what they are, no fetus that is being aborted by a doctor is “viable”), and a racist and patently unconstitutional bill to try to make English the official language of the state. She has also voted for bills as insane as trying to establish that gold and silver to be accepted as legal tender, and continues to resurrect anti-immigrant bills originally submitted by recalled Arizona state legislator Russell Pearce. (Yes, that would be the white nationalist Russell Pearce who had a Neo-Nazi protegee.)

In 2020, Griffin focused on the threat of Covid-19…. HAHAHA just kidding, she was focused on trying to ban transgender youths from participating in public school sports, and in trying to create a new holiday where there would be a day of remembrance for “victims of communism”.

We are sad to report Gail Griffin won re-election in 2020, and thus remains in office for at least another two years of dumbassery.

[JackDaw]

See a British judge has ruled that Julian Assange cannot be extradited to US because he might commit suicide in in US jail...that strikes me as a strange argument, because that must be true every time some one is considered for extradition. (Guess something about his mental state must make judge think he’s a likely suicide risk.)

I suppose some high principle must be at stake...but must admit I’d like him out of UK, just on basis that he’s an enormous burden on UK taxpayers, the tax money spent on him could have funded a primary school, and I can’t see any benefit he confers on UK.

[Hypestyle]

We are sad to report Gail Griffin won re-election in 2020, and thus remains in office for at least another two years of dumbassery.

idiotic person. unfortunately, there are millions more like her, ideologically.

there have to be legal consequences against these senators who plan to contest the certification of the Electoral college votes; and there also needs to be legal consequences to the latest stunt by 45 in his taped phone call. There has to be some kind of prosecutoin and sanction.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

See a British judge has ruled that Julian Assange cannot be extradited to US because he might commit suicide in in US jail...that strikes me as a strange argument, because that must be true every time some one is considered for extradition. (Guess something about his mental state must make judge think he’s a likely suicide risk.)

I suppose some high principle must be at stake...but must admit I’d like him out of UK, just on basis that he’s an enormous burden on UK taxpayers, the tax money spent on him could have funded a primary school, and I can’t see any benefit he confers on UK.

I’m surprised the Brits give a damn one way or another about Assange and would want him gone. That makes the conspiracy geek in me suspect he has something that could embarrass the hell out of your country if it’s released. What that something could be, I have no idea.