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

[The Cool Thatguy]

Apparently, she was a spy, which makes the case quite a bit more difficult for Biden.

Does it?

I mean, she's home in the United States. As I understand it, deporting citizens to other countries to face prosecution is pretty rare, regardless of the exact country.

[Tami]

Pelosi sent out a press release referring to @GOPLeader as "McCarthy Q-CA". Wow.

[JackDaw]

Does it?

I mean, she's home in the United States. As I understand it, deporting citizens to other countries to face prosecution is pretty rare, regardless of the exact country.

There is..of course..a US/UK extradition treaty. But yes..I understand that most countries are reluctant to send their citizens abroad to face justice.

In some ways I’m far more baffled why being a spy should protect her from a civil case in the US courts...I’m extremely sceptical that driving at speed on wrong side of the road had anything to do with her “intelligence” duties.

Is there really anything in US law that prevents people from claiming civil damages against a spy??

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Pelosi sent out a press release referring to @GOPLeader as "McCarthy Q-CA". Wow.

Wow indeed! Say this much about Nancy, when she whips out the claws, people get slashed!

[Amadeus Arkham]

[DrNewGod]

Y'know, I commented on AOC's Twitter-Claws a few pages back. Guess Pelosi is remindin' the youngsters that the Old Guard's still got game too.

[GOLGO 13]

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In some ways I’m far more baffled why being a spy should protect her from a civil case in the US courts...I’m extremely sceptical that driving at speed on wrong side of the road had anything to do with her “intelligence” duties.

Is there really anything in US law that prevents people from claiming civil damages against a spy??

Any country would rightly fear what secrets a spy would reveal to a foreign power when faced with imprisonment. Pretty sure the threat of going to extended stay at Gitmo would make most people sing soprano in a heartbeat.

[BeastieRunner]

Y'know, I commented on AOC's Twitter-Claws a few pages back. Guess Pelosi is remindin' the youngsters that the Old Guard's still got game too.

Except Pelosi's exchange was more like ...



... than just a simple Tweet.

[Amadeus Arkham]

Trump is so frustrated by his Twitter ban that's he's writing out insults and asking aides to tweet them, report says

lol, that’s just...wow. Words fail me here.

[DrNewGod]

Trump is so frustrated by his Twitter ban that's he's writing out insults and asking aides to tweet them, report says

lol, that’s just...wow. Words fail me here.

So he's going to get them banned too. Brilliant.

[GindyPosts]

Also, the GOP no longer are supporting democracy, and are being quite up front that they don't.

Yeah, but in states where the Democrats are weak & shiftless, they're once again going to be taken to the cleaners.

Indianapolis is going to be carved up to prevent what happened in 2019 happen once again. I just pray the new Indiana Democratic Chairman isn't as spineless as John Zody.

[Jack Dracula]

The Anne Sacoolas case goes from bad to worse.

First she left UK (after her a road accident in which a youngster died) because she had “diplomatic immunity”.

Now her lawyers are asking for a civil case in US courts to be dismissed because she worked for US intelligence (which if true would remove any diplomatic immunity).

I am not sure why working for US intelligence should make anyone immune from civil damages...I suspect there would be widespread outrage in US if a US youngster had been killed rather than a UK youngster if that defence was trotted out..

The Trump administrations original decision not to allow extradition was no surprise. But the Bidens administration recent decision to uphold that decision was profoundly disappointing.

If she was spying on the UK for US intelligence it may be SOP for agents to leave the country when suddenly in a compromising position. The idea being to let the diplomats sort out the situation after the agent is safe on US soil.

As far as the civil suit, the spy angle may just be her lawyers playing every card they can to help their client. If her role as an agent doesn’t create negotiation room they likely have a plan B.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2018, and in 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Ron Castorina Jr., a member of the New York Assembly since April of 2016, when he got to run for the office unopposed in a special election. He was not challenged for that seat by a Democrat in the 2016 election, either In May of 2017, he was also victorious in the race to be the new Chairman of the GOP for Staten Island. In his one term and change, he as a legislator that threw the New York State Assembly into a cacophony of disgusted shouts. The first was only two months into his career, when he referred to abortion as “African American genocide” and continued by claiming that millions of African-Americans have been "murdered" since Roe was decided. This prompted outrage from not just the defenders of a woman’s right to choose, but obviously the African American community, who would rather not have Castorina spin them into any argument. This was the first, but not last sign that his political style is just “being a racist troll”. The second, of course, would probably be when Castorina submitted a “Blue Lives Matter” bill to make attacks that target police a form of hate crime. He claimed the bill was necessary because of supposed planned attacks against police by Black Lives Matter protesters (that weren’t actually happening). If you weren’t getting the idea yet of the kind of loon we’re talking about, Castorina also touts conspiracy theories about socialism in the United States, and has a nasty habit of insinuating all sorts of evil things that happened at Benghazi on Twitter. Here’s your good news… Castorina was becoming a little too infamous, and the New York GOP opted to coax him out of running for re-election to the New York State Assembly in 2018. We’re guessing he’ll be floating around local politics in Staten Island, at worst, going forward.

On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, and in 2020, “Crazy Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, who since winning office in 2012 despite outing himself as an Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theorist, has failed the Tar Heel State in more ways than one would think possible. Picking the biggest “screw you” he’s delivered to his constituents is hard to pick… for women, they have to deal with the anger of knowing when he was asked during the last debate for governor in 2012 about what abortion restrictions he would sign, and McCrory said, “None,” and yet, he immediately began serving as a rubber-stamp for the radically conservative, GOP-controlled state legislature, signing one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation the minute it hit his desk, and when women came to the capitol to protest that law, he tried to placate them by sending them a plate of cookies.

Minorities in North Carolina were horrified that he immediately began to execute a campaign of voter disenfranchisement, not just through Voter ID laws, but shaving a week off the number of early voting days, changing election law so young voters about to turn 18 couldn’t pre-register to vote until they WERE 18, and if that wasn’t enough, he signed the repeal of the Racial Justice Act. McCrory’s administration was a horror show of cronyism, as he slashed taxes for his rich pals while high-paying jobs to his key campaign fundraisers, and then gave them raises on top of that… all while slashing the state’s education budget by half a billion dollars, causing droves of teachers to move out of the state elsewhere for higher pay at a rate three times the national average. McCrory also shook his fist at the Obama administration, trying to refuse to resettle any Syrian refugees that the federal government might send.

But what finally sent McCrory’s approval ratings into the 30s was when he signed North Carolina’s HB 2, a “religious freedom” law that allows for the legal discrimination against LGBTQ citizens, and bans transgendered people from using public bathrooms designated by the gender of their birth. That started causing major corporations from relocating their businesses out of the state, musicians to cancel appearances, and events like the NBA All-Star Game to pull out of North Carolina, at a loss of billions of dollars in expended revenue. That’s why that even with all the voter suppression he set up in North Carolina, not at all shocking that Pat McCrory lost in the 2016 elections to Democrat Roy Cooper by around 15,000 votes.

What was shocking was the horrible way both McCrory and the North Carolina GOP reacted to this loss. Gov. McCrory stamped his foot and started crying about voter fraud for almost a full month after Election Day, without any evidence. Meanwhile, the GOP-controlled state legislature tried passing legislation to suddenly limit the powers of the governor of the state, and make Roy Cooper as toothless as possible, and before leaving office, Pat McCrory spitefully signed their undemocratic idea into law. It mercifully was blocked by a judge’s ruling after a legal challenge by Governor Cooper, so McCrory’s last effort to subvert the will of the people of the Tar Heel State was for naught. He still took time to release a video to North Carolinans as he left office where he chastised the citizenry for rejecting him and HB 2, because he wasn’t being enough of a d*** already.

And YET… in spite of being so loathed, Pat McCrory was hinting he would try and run to avenge his 2016 loss in 2020. Alas, as polls and public sentiment in North Carolina made is abundantly clear that in 2020, McCrory still needed to f*** right off, he has decided against a run to reclaim the Governor’s Mansion. Instead, he’s believed to be planning a run for U.S. Senate in 2022, when he’ll try to claim the seat currently held by Sen. Richard Burr, who will retire. We have no further update on McCrory at this time, so we’ll temporarily set aside his profile and take a look at another kooky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 960-45, since this was established in July 2014.


Ignacio Cruz

Welcome to what is the 960th profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be briefly profiling Ignacio Cruz, who was a 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 19th Congressional District and also the latest in candidates for office we’ve profiled who openly supported the Qanon conspiracy theory. Yes, we have yet another loon who thought that Donald Trump was going to expose a secret Satantic pedophile cult of Democrats THAT TOTALLY EXISTS and then execute the perpetrators in military tribunals. Cruz kept sharing Qanon posts and using the Qanon hashtag, but that’s not the only bulls*** he shared on social media during his run for office.

He also shared a “satirical” article that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar offered her condolences to deceased ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi when he was killed by U.S. forces. The question at this point is if he knew it was false and was knowingly smearing her, or stupid enough to have believed the lie. Considering the Qanon angle, it’s probably the latter.

Cruz finished third in the open primary for CA-19 with 11%, missing the mark to qualify for the November general election by about 1300 votes. Had he won, he would have gotten stomped in that race by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren anyway. We are hoping the stain of “Q” on his political profile makes him unviable as a candidate in any election, going forward.

[Jack Dracula]

Sounds like a split base.

Gonna be a wild 18 months.

As I understand it, the constitution provides for a member of Congress to be expelled by a 2/3 vote.
Something for MTG to think about...

[Revolutionary_Jack]

As I understand it, the constitution provides for a member of Congress to be expelled by a 2/3 vote.
Something for MTG to think about...

Let's not give her cool-abbreviations. Those (RBG, AOC) get to be earned.

Marjorie Taylor Greene...three names just like Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, and Amy Coney Barrett.

Alternatively you can just call her Greene.