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

[numberthirty]

And that 'reason' is bull and you know it so I'm not sure why you're suggesting that it's more that than what they're stating it is, since it all goes back to BLM 'rioters'.

Since the guy suggesting it thinks that it is viable and I think that it is kinda thin at best...

I would tend to disagree with what you are suggesting that I have suggested?

Unless you mean the "Harris Is..." bit in that post I quoted?

If that's it?

I'm not about to pretend that I have any real insight into the mind of the guy suggesting it.

That he could be just grasping at whatever straw he can find?

I can actually buy that. Doesn't mean that it's a certainty, but I can buy it.

[mogwen]

Jaws drop as Lara Trump gets anointed as the future of the GOP by Lindsey Graham


Can't we just put Lindsey Graham on mute? Trump sends a mob to kill him, along with everyone else in Congress, and he's touting Lara Trump as if nothing even happened.

Holy hole in the doughnut, Batman! If Lara Trump is the future of the GOP, it's a very bleak future indeed.

[Iron Maiden]

Jaws drop as Lara Trump gets anointed as the future of the GOP by Lindsey Graham


Can't we just put Lindsey Graham on mute? Trump sends a mob to kill him, along with everyone else in Congress, and he's touting Lara Trump as if nothing even happened.

Lord help us if the GOP truly morphs into the Trump Dynasty party.

[numberthirty]

Lord help us if the GOP truly morphs into the Trump Dynasty party.

Those last couple of things just seem like he was going for whatever might get to some kind of a future without being so kooked that it just blows a cannonball-sized hole in the bottom of the boat.

[worstblogever]

Jaws drop as Lara Trump gets anointed as the future of the GOP by Lindsey Graham


Can't we just put Lindsey Graham on mute? Trump sends a mob to kill him, along with everyone else in Congress, and he's touting Lara Trump as if nothing even happened.

The GQP is going the "Marine Le Pen" route with their future. That's just great.

[worstblogever]

So now Lindsey Graham has claimed that Republicans once they get control of The House and Senate plan to Impeach Kamala Harris.


https://nypost.com/2021/02/14/sen-gr...HGq3JdRv1hyjiQ


Its time that Democrats assemble quick and nip his proposed revenge scheme as he plans in the ass.

Remember how the GOP spent the prelude to 2016 spending four years on Benghazi to try and sabotage Hillary's campaign?

Same play from the playbook, just on Kamala. They're terrified of women, and women in power even more. They play defense by posting up scarecrows whenever they think a Democratic woman who could be the first female president is waiting in the wings.

Meanwhile, they'd push forth a Sarah Palin, Marjorie Taylor Greene, or a Lara Trump without a second thought to that they're completely bats***.

[Amadeus Arkham]

[Tendrin]

As to the last bit, I'd agree he's amoral (hard to be moral and reach a position of power in politics) but he's clearly not indifferent and is very faithful to the idea of conservative government (meaning less of it and less powerful, again outside of military spending).

Oh, I'm not arguing he's indifferent to his vision of 'government'.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2015, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” posted a profile of Stephen Wise, a former member of the Florida House of Representatives and Florida State Senate who was a dedicated Creationist, who insisted on repeatedly bringing forth legislation to try to see that his religious beliefs about the origin of life were taught alongside the theory of evolution. Wise was also dedicated to the “War on Christmas”, trying to use his position on the Florida K-12 Education Committee to make sure that “Winter Break” be returned to being called “Christmas Break”. He also was big on drug testing welfare recipients (always a failed policy), and wanted rape victims to have to provide proper documentation to prove they had actually been sexually assaulted to get an abortion. After a career that spanned decades, Wise came up against term limits and mercifully vanished from public service.

On this date in 2016, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” posted a profile of William Flynn, a North Carolina talk radio host who challenged incumbent Congressman Howard Coble in the GOP Primary for his seat in Congress representing North Carolina’s 6th District, portraying himself as a “firebrand” in a debate, and quickly lived up to that reputation when he made the tasteful decision to compare the national debt to, of all things, slavery. He also was briefly a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2014 before dropping out of the race and not just because he was tied to a Neo-Confederate group called the Institute on the Constitution, whose website endorsed Flynn and touted his time teaching courses on the Constitution. Flynn’s luck continued to get worse, as the radio station he was working for, AM 980 the Eagle, announced it was no longer broadcasting talk radio, booting Flynn just after Christmas in 2015. Unless he aims much lower, it seems highly unlikely that he will be elected to any office.

On this date in 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published its first profile of Michigan State Senator Patrick Colbeck, who has served as a member of the Michigan State Senate since riding the Tea Party Wave into office back in 2010, with a big assist from the DeVos family And they apparently got what they paid for in Colbeck, as he has been caught on tape admitting that the DeVos family bankrolled the Michigan GOP's move to pass "right to work" legislation back in 2013. Or, alternatively, you can believe Colbeck's opinion that passing the Right to Work law in Michigan was actually the work of "divine providence", because nothing screams a miracle quite as much as when a rich dude greases Republican palms to curb workers' rights. Colbeck is not known for pulling punches in rhetoric, either. He spent a fair number of days back in 2013 comparing Barack Obama to King George III of England, and his favorite political quote, which he drops far too often, is Thomas Jefferson's remarks about the Shays Rebellion, that “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” It's also that sort of fetishization of the Founding Fathers you might see from someone like self-proclaimed conservative historian David Barton, who not coincidentally, is another of Colbeck's big allies. And Colbeck is so fanatically dedicated to the historic fabrication that the Founding Fathers intended on making the United States a Christian nation that he actually submitted legislation in January of 2013 that would have prevented the censorship of any history teacher who decided to push this false narrative. What made Patrick Colbeck particularly noteworthy to us here at CSGOPOTD, however, was how he joined the ranks of a few anti-gay members of the GOP back in December of 2015 to introduce resolutions in the Michigan state legislature to urge all state officials to just ignore the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling made by the Supreme Court that legalized same sex marriage. Colbeck was a speaker at a “religious liberty” rally outside the state capitol, where he made the comparison between the position of Christians in America having to live in a country with gays getting married to that of people persecuted by ISIS. (Seriously, there's video of him saying this.) Because if there's one thing that ISIS pushes on the public, it's LGBTQ rights, am I right? Taking a cursory glance at the rest of Colbeck's voting record reveals the sort of extremely conservative positions you might expect, including support for charter schools like the DeVos family would want, stricter Voter ID laws to suppress the vote, support for TRAP laws to close all the abortion clinics in the state, support for drug-testing welfare recipients, and votes to block the minimum wage. Now, normally a fanatical twit like Patrick Colbeck would be content to just float around a state legislature and be content to play political games when they know they're set up pretty well to win a conservative district (although he only did garner 53% of the vote in 2014). Colbeck made plans to run for Governor of Michigan in 2018, but did not advance out of the primary as his fellow legislators grew tired enough of his hyper-partisan antics that they started removing from committee leadership positions that he held. Colbeck was also term-limited in the Michigan State Senate in 2018, so he’s now out of office.

[worstblogever]

Michael Waltz

On this date one year ago, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” first profiled the sitting U.S. House Representative from Florida’s 6th Congressional District, Michael Waltz, who is now serving in his second term in office after being re-elected in the 2020 elections to replace former Congressman, consistent racist, and current Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Now Rep. Waltz, who is the first Green Beret ever elected to Congress, cut his teeth in politics working as a senior adviser for Dick Cheney regarding South Asia during the Bush administration, and also advised Dubya on counterterrorism. We’re relieved to see him, however, throwing cold water on other conservatives who want war at times, and he was a vocal critic of Donald Trump’s decision to let Turkish forces attack our Kurdish allies in Syria as well as when he was pushing back against talk of war with Iran over the past few weeks…

But on the other hand, his opposition against Donald Trump’s deranged and terrifying foreign policy might just be empty words, because during the House Impeachment Inquiry, Michael Waltz marched like a stupid little lemming into Congressman Matt Gaetz’s “protest” against the impeachment process, supports Trump’s stupid goddamned idea for a border wall along the U.S./Mexico border, and is still willing to run back onto his old stomping grounds at Fox News to advocate for Trump’s Space Force boondoggle. Hell, we can’t give him credit for trying to be one of the people who wanted Trump to put the brakes on going to war with Iran, because Waltz is the same dumbass who as a candidate went onto Fox News to cheerlead for Trump to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement in the first place.

Nothing like bringing one of the people who helped oversee the Iraq War want to do another one, y’know? And we shouldn’t be surprised that this is what his voting record looks like:

• January 23rd, 2019: Rep. Waltz voted against HR 648, because he was gleefully enjoying the longest government shutdown in history.
• February 28th, 2019: Waltz votes against HR 1112, a bill which would have required universal background checks on all firearm purchases, and close the gun show loophole.
• March 14th, 2019: Rep. Waltz votes against HJR 46, which sane members of Congress voted for to reject Donald Trump’s “national emergency” regarding the U.S. border and his attempts to reallocate funds for a border wall without Congressional approval.
• May 17th, 2019: Waltz votes against The Equality Act, which would have prevented discrimination towards Americans based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
• June 4th, 2019: Rep. Waltz votes against the Dreamers Act, because he’s too xenophobic and partisan to care about immigration reform.
• July 16th, 2019: Michael Waltz votes against a resolution to condemn Donald Trump for his racist statements that four people of color in Congress should “go back where they came from”.
• December 18th, 2019: Rep. Waltz ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the firstimpeachment of Donald Trump.
• May 15th, 2020: Waltz votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
• December 10th, 2020: Waltz signs his name to an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, begging them to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The same election that he won re-election in.
• January 6th, 2021: After a group of Trump-supporting, fascist domestic terrorists spend a day terrorizing the Capitol Building, upset over the results that Trump lost the election, Michael Waltz votes against certifying the electoral college results.
• January 13th, 2021: Waltz votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because accountability is anathema to the GOP.

Michael Waltz’s vote on December 10th to show he no longer cared about American democracy and wanted the 2020 election overturned was enough to spur the Orlando Sentinel to post an apology for having endorsed him prior to the November elections. Hopefully in 2022, his streak of elections can be overturned, at least.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Why not Biden? Is it because Harris is a successful woman of color and they can't accept that?

DING DING DING! You are correct! The notion of a black woman being one step away from the big chair in the Oval Office is driving Qpublicans batshit insane.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Legislators Call For 9/11-Style Commission To Investigate Jan. 6 Attack On U.S. Capitol

Multiple lawmakers publicly supported some kind of investigation into the deadly Capitol riot, a day after the Senate voted to acquit Trump in his impeachment trial. Speaking of which....

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Impeachment Isn’t The Final Word On Capitol Riot For Trump

As a private citizen, former President Donald Trump does not have protection from legal liability that his presidency once gave him. Then there's this....

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57 GOP State And Local Officials Were At The Capitol Insurrection

And a month after the riot, few of the Republican political figures have been held to account. They should. No way should Qpublicans be allowed to get away with the part they played in the incident.

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Trump Attorney Likens Impeachment Trial To Capitol Riot Before Storming Off Camera

Michael van der Veen also did a crude impersonation of CBS News anchor Lana Zak while accusing her of downplaying his claim that trial evidence against Trump was “doctored.” This clown REALLY needs to go away. FAR away.

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A Broken Party Acquitted Donald Trump In His Second Impeachment

The ex-president’s boast he could get away with murder proved true.

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Louisiana Republican Party Censures Sen. Bill Cassidy For Voting To Convict Trump

Cassidy was one of seven GOP senators to join Democrats in voting to convict the former president of incitement.

[kidfresh512]

Remember how the GOP spent the prelude to 2016 spending four years on Benghazi to try and sabotage Hillary's campaign?

Same play from the playbook, just on Kamala. They're terrified of women, and women in power even more. They play defense by posting up scarecrows whenever they think a Democratic woman who could be the first female president is waiting in the wings.

Meanwhile, they'd push forth a Sarah Palin, Marjorie Taylor Greene, or a Lara Trump without a second thought to that they're completely bats***.

Completely agree. While it is also racism and misogynies its about targeting the 2024 and beyond Democratic hopefuls and smearing them. We know how they operate it will be the same way same lies and slander over and over and over demonizing them until people believe it and the conspiracies are taken as fact.

[Jeremi]

https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/stat...24795711111170

Also last week Trump/GOP aide Ruben Verastigui was charged w/child pornography, Trump’s campaign aide George Nader was charged w/child pornography, & chairs of Trump’s campaign in Kentucky & Oklahoma charged w/child sex trafficking & child pornography

All these fine people.

[Mister Mets]

While the reason was kinda thin at best?

It was right there in the article.

Yeah, there is the what about argument that Harris supporting an organization that bailed out protesters, shows an encouragement of law-breaking.