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

[babyblob]

Well, just about anyone can fake a cowboy drawl with a little practice, hell, I could do it, and I'm as Northeast Corridor as it gets. That Rodimer clown isn't fooling anyone....save of course for gullible Texas Qpublican voters.

All you have to do to win over the Texas QOP is talk in a country twang while eating a steak, chasing it down with a shot of whiskey and shooting a rifle at a mentally challenged gay man of color. And just tweet out I love my momma and Jesus, and Mexicans are bad twice a day! Hell they will make you king!

[numberthirty]

All of the sudden, Cruz sees the issue in the conditions in holding facilities on The United States southern border...

Tell it walking, dude.

[babyblob]

All of the sudden, Cruz sees the issue in the conditions in holding facilities on The United States southern border...

Tell it walking, dude.

He was a freaken mute the last four years. Trump had things handled and such. Not it is a crisis something should be done, there should be an investigation etc...

[BeastieRunner]

All of the sudden, Cruz sees the issue in the conditions in holding facilities on The United States southern border...

Tell it walking, dude.

He was a freaken mute the last four years. Trump had things handled and such. Not it is a crisis something should be done, there should be an investigation etc...

Where has been these last 4 years?

Oh, wait ...

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Where has been these last 4 years?

Oh, wait ...

Yeah, Good ol' Fled wasn't much concerned about immigrants, or his constituents for that matter, so he had time to skip town for a little vaycay.

[Tendrin]

With all the absolute lunacy going on over on the GOP side of the fence, here's on that's actually funny.

A New Jersey native’s run for Texas’ 6th Congressional District has proven so unconvincing that even Trump loyalist Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) couldn’t get behind the cowboy hat-wearing candidate’s charade.

Dan Rodimer’s first campaign ad as a Republican candidate in Texas released last week features the former pro-wrestler speaking in an indistinct Southern accent while likening Democratic politics and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to a bull. Rodimer boasts that he and his family wanted to settle in the “constitutional-friendly state” of Texas.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/r...ional-campaign

Oh, Tami already got it!

[Tendrin]

$#@$ the Republicans.

Arkansas passed a bill prohibiting doctors from providing gender-affirming medical care to trans youth.

The Senate passed the bill Monday in a 28-7 vote. The House passed the bill earlier this month.

The legislation now goes to Gov. Asa Hutchinson's desk to be signed.

Arkansas became the first state to pass a bill prohibiting doctors from providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender youth following a vote in the state Senate on Monday.

HB 1570, the "Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act," prohibits trans youth from accessing health care and insurance coverage for gender-affirming care. The bill passed 28-7 in the state Senate. The state House passed the bill earlier this month.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/arkansas-...221445950.html

They're not saving anyone from anything except proper medical care, as usual.

[Malvolio]

GOP candidate from New Jersey accused of pandering after he transforms into cowboy for Texas run


Mama don't let your baby grow up to be a Jersey Cowboy

If Molly Ivins were still alive, she would have a field day tearing this ass-clown apart.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as 2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen, who twice was appointed or won office after another Arizona Republican shuffled off their mortal coil in an equestrian accident. Sylvia Allen is a theocratic dunce who has called for laws to be passed to make church mandatory, has stated the Earth is only 6,000 years old during a debate about mining rights, wants to drug test welfare recipients, and has warned gay marriage will threaten not just national, but global security. She's also a big fan of conspiracy theories, trying to block the adaptation of the United Nations' 1992 Agenda 21 treaty because she thought it was a "Communist manifesto for the 21st Century", voted for HB 2173, another one of those bizarre bills from Republicans who want to allow gold and silver to be accepted as legal tender, .and actually hosting a town hall to allow wingnuts in her district to discuss Chemtrails. Allen also tried advocating for the law to be changed to prevent investigations into prison sexual harassment, not coincidentally after her son, a corrections employee, was being investigated for trying to bribe female inmates with packs of cigarettes in exchange for oral sex. So that’s a nice show of priorities from ol’ Sylvia. In the meantime, Allen is still in charge of the state’s Education Committee, which is still troubling, because she wonders out loud why she even bothers putting any money towards public education, at all while for those scoring at home, Arizona ranks 48th in public school spending, and if you ask Allen, that’s still two places too high. When Sylvia Allen was re-elected in 2016, she narrowly edged out Democrat Nikki Bagley with 52% of the vote. That narrow margin did not bode well for her in 2018, when Democratic tail winds helping and her efforts to create a ballot initiative to try to prevent the minimum wage in Arizona from ever being increased EVER AGAIN. She’s also was responding to constituents’ e-mail complaints about her under-funding the state education budget by responding with spelling errors like, “Give me a BRAKE”, thus making their point about why more education is needed in the state. And yet… in 2018 Sylvia Allen was re-elected with 51% of the vote. She was finally bounced from office in 2020 when, regrettably, she was bounced from office by perennial candidate Wendy Rogers, who carpet-bagged her way up from Phoenix to swipe Sylvia Allen’s seat in the Arizona State Senate. As she is now out of office, we will set aside her profile at this time to take a look at a different wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 975-45, since this was established in July 2014.


Justine Wadsack

Welcome to what is the 975th profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Justine Wadsack, a 2020 candidate for District 10 of the Arizona State Senate (she was contemplating a run for Congress, but opted to just try to start her political career closer to home first) and apparently a cast member of Resident Evil 8. Wadsack is a rare member of the Log Cabin Republicans that actually was running for any office, as the group usually just tries to consider itself that the party isn’t as hostile towards LGBTQ rights as they are (We can’t find any statements about how she identifies her sexuality or her stances on LGBTQ rights). We can’t find much more about her other than her work as a realtor, because she seemed to have a general distrust of talking to the media.

Well, the media took a peek at her Twitter feed, and were treated to a lot of dedication to right-wing news outlets getting re-shared, discussions of election fraud (which is still a myth), promotion of the conspiracy theory that big tech is “censoring” conservatives, demonization of Democrats and liberals, and oh yeah, a lot of interaction with Qanon-supporting accounts and posting the Qanon hashtag herself all over the place. She finally responded to a media request for comment to the Phoenix New Times, and tried playing it cool at first:

"I don’t want to be a QAnon supporter, I’ve never been a QAnon supporter. But everything about politics intrigues me, all sides. Just because someone may be interested or intrigued by something doesn’t mean that we are conspiracy theorists."

Asked what intrigued her about QAnon, Wadsack said, "Nothing. Just because I put one thing out there doesn’t mean that it is intriguing to me on a general level. I’m intrigued by every single political arm."

Note, that isn’t exactly a repudiation of Qanon, when you go, “I don’t support it, BUT IT IS INTRIGUING.” You can’t describe it in positive terms, pretend you like “all sides” of politics, and hope nobody thinks twice, y’know?

The more press outlets started to include her in discussions about Republicans running for office in 2020 who were using an insane conspiracy theory to ride its coattails into office and it started to define her as a politician… well, it seemed to have hit a nerve. She made a last statement about it to the Arizona Capitol Times that made baseless accusations about their journalistic integrity:

“You are all working for the Democrats and your mission right now before the election is to try and pin every Republican in our nation on QAnon bullsh–.”

District 10 of the Arizona State Senate has far more registered Democrats than Republicans, and that is likely why Justine Wadsack ended up losing her race by over 20,000 votes. Once she lost, she had more free time and could go back to posting incoherently on Twitter, including spreading a new lie about how the Covid-19 vaccine causes Bells Palsy post about Arizona seceding from the union, make anti-Semitic posts about George Soros controlling the media, and spending the buildup to 1/6/21 hailing all the Republicans about to challenge the electoral college results because of “widespread voter fraud”. That includes trying to spin already deranged statements by Sidney Powell into “PROOF” she actually won her own State Senate race by 15,000 votes. She then tried to act like the Republican Party and Donald Trump didn’t incite a coup attempt before moving on to spend her days flailing about while decrying “cancel culture”, warning that President Biden will be “coming for your guns”.

We at least hope she gets help and her mental state does not affect the sales of Resident Evil 8.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as 2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen, who twice was appointed or won office after another Arizona Republican shuffled off their mortal coil in an equestrian accident. Sylvia Allen is a theocratic dunce who has called for laws to be passed to make church mandatory, has stated the Earth is only 6,000 years old during a debate about mining rights, wants to drug test welfare recipients, and has warned gay marriage will threaten not just national, but global security. She's also a big fan of conspiracy theories, trying to block the adaptation of the United Nations' 1992 Agenda 21 treaty because she thought it was a "Communist manifesto for the 21st Century", voted for HB 2173, another one of those bizarre bills from Republicans who want to allow gold and silver to be accepted as legal tender, .and actually hosting a town hall to allow wingnuts in her district to discuss Chemtrails. Allen also tried advocating for the law to be changed to prevent investigations into prison sexual harassment, not coincidentally after her son, a corrections employee, was being investigated for trying to bribe female inmates with packs of cigarettes in exchange for oral sex. So that’s a nice show of priorities from ol’ Sylvia. In the meantime, Allen is still in charge of the state’s Education Committee, which is still troubling, because she wonders out loud why she even bothers putting any money towards public education, at all while for those scoring at home, Arizona ranks 48th in public school spending, and if you ask Allen, that’s still two places too high. When Sylvia Allen was re-elected in 2016, she narrowly edged out Democrat Nikki Bagley with 52% of the vote. That narrow margin did not bode well for her in 2018, when Democratic tail winds helping and her efforts to create a ballot initiative to try to prevent the minimum wage in Arizona from ever being increased EVER AGAIN. She’s also was responding to constituents’ e-mail complaints about her under-funding the state education budget by responding with spelling errors like, “Give me a BRAKE”, thus making their point about why more education is needed in the state. And yet… in 2018 Sylvia Allen was re-elected with 51% of the vote. She was finally bounced from office in 2020 when, regrettably, she was bounced from office by perennial candidate Wendy Rogers, who carpet-bagged her way up from Phoenix to swipe Sylvia Allen’s seat in the Arizona State Senate. As she is now out of office, we will set aside her profile at this time to take a look at a different wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 975-45, since this was established in July 2014.


Justine Wadsack

Welcome to what is the 975th profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Justine Wadsack, a 2020 candidate for District 10 of the Arizona State Senate (she was contemplating a run for Congress, but opted to just try to start her political career closer to home first) and apparently a cast member of Resident Evil 8. Wadsack is a rare member of the Log Cabin Republicans that actually was running for any office, as the group usually just tries to consider itself that the party isn’t as hostile towards LGBTQ rights as they are (We can’t find any statements about how she identifies her sexuality or her stances on LGBTQ rights). We can’t find much more about her other than her work as a realtor, because she seemed to have a general distrust of talking to the media.

Sweet baby Jesus! I'd hate to run into THAT in a dark alley, or in broad daylight for that matter!

[worstblogever]

Sweet baby Jesus! I'd hate to run into THAT in a dark alley, or in broad daylight for that matter!

I'm not wrong that there's a resemblance?

[Tendrin]

I'm not wrong that there's a resemblance?

The internet wants Lady Dmitrescu to step on them. I can't say the same for Justine Sadsack.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

The internet wants Lady Dmitrescu to step on them. I can't say the same for Justine Sadsack.

"Sadsack". Yeah, that's certainly fitting.

[The Cool Thatguy]

"Sadsack". Yeah, that's certainly fitting.

Do people understand that it's possible to change one's name? Because yeah, ouch...

[Immortal Weapon]

AT&T lobbying against nationwide fiber roll out

AT&T out here trying to convince people that 10mbps is good enough. I hate how hard these ISPs try to not give people usable internet service.