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

[Malvolio]

Well, at the time, Trump WASN'T officially the president since he had lost the election, so I don't think that excuse would fly with judges.

Trump was still the official President at the time, as it was two weeks before Biden's inauguration. So Trump was a lame duck. Lame ducks shouldn't be taken seriously.

[GozertheGozarian]

Yes. This case was brought by one employee.

[JackDaw]

Trump was still the official President at the time, as it was two weeks before Biden's inauguration. So Trump was a lame duck. Lame ducks shouldn't be taken seriously.

Following that to its logical conclusion wouldn’t it be better to do away with all the pomp and ceremony and just get the new President in office within a couple of days of election result?


In UK, supposedly more enamoured of red tape than US, new Prime Minister is typically in number 10 within a few days.

And the thing that strikes me as utterly bizarre is allowing the outgoing President to issue pardons...it’s an affront to true justice.

[Kirby101]

Following that to its logical conclusion wouldn’t it be better to do away with all the pomp and ceremony and just get the new President in office within a couple of days of election result?


In UK, supposedly more enamoured of red tape than US, new Prime Minister is typically in number 10 within a few days.

And the thing that strikes me as utterly bizarre is allowing the outgoing President to issue pardons...it’s an affront to true justice.

There is much in our Constitution that doesn't make sense, but changing things is next to impossible. The Founders never conceived that someone like Trump would be allowed to be President.

[Mister Mets]

Aren't many of them going with the defense that the President of the United States, the leader of the nation, was telling them to do it? It could work for them.

Perhaps.

It would depend heavily on what they're willing to say about Trump. If they say they still think the election was stolen, they won't be able to argue that they were misled by a President.

On a relative point, some of the rioters are having trouble with bail because of what they say on social media. Their argument to the court is that they were swept up in the heat of the moment, and therefore don't represent a threat to the community. That doesn't quite work if someone's on social media threatening violence against lawmakers.

Well, at the time, Trump WASN'T officially the president since he had lost the election, so I don't think that excuse would fly with judges.

Someone who loses the election still holds the office. There won't be a legal distinction between the orders of a President who won reelection, and one who lost (assuming we're referring to the period before the inauguration.)

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Trump was still the official President at the time, as it was two weeks before Biden's inauguration. So Trump was a lame duck. Lame ducks shouldn't be taken seriously.

Someone who loses the election still holds the office. There won't be a legal distinction between the orders of a President who won reelection, and one who lost (assuming we're referring to the period before the inauguration.)

I stand corrected. But yeah, those knuckleheads had ZERO business taking Trump seriously.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Trump Hints At Mar-A-Lago That Biased Arizona Recount Could Be Road To White House

“I wouldn’t be surprised if they found thousands and thousands and thousands of votes” for him, he tells cheering guests. Lord have mercy, he just won't stop, will he? Meanwhile....

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Chris Christie Gives One-Term, Twice-Impeached Trump An ‘A’ For His Presidency

The New Jersey Republican said there were “some things that clouded his accomplishments” at the end of Trump’s time in office. "Some things"? Yeah, namely the racism, relentless grifting, glaring incompetence and his horrific response to the virus which needlessly killed hindreds of thousands of people. Go home, Chris, your village is missing it's idiot.

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Florida GOP Kills Measure To Protect Vaccinated Workers From Retaliation

It’s a topsy-turvy world in Florida, where vaccinated people can be banned while unvaccinated people can’t be. if I lived in Florida, I'd seriously consider getting the fuck out.

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Mitch McConnell Goes Cancel Culture On Slavery History In Fiery Letter To Education Secretary

Calling it “divisive, radical propaganda,” McConnell slammed the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project on slavery’s critical role in American history. If Moscow Mitch and the GQP had their way---and they're doing their damndest to try---history books would be whitewashed regarding the mindnumbing horrors of slavery.

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Former GOP State Lawmaker At Capitol On Jan. 6 Is Photographed Auditing Arizona Votes

Ex-state Rep. Anthony Kern, who has touted the “Stop the Steal” lie, is also on the ballots he was seen reviewing. To quote the immortal Bugs Bunny....wotta maroon!

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‘Radicalized’ GOP And ‘Twisted People’ On Fox News Called Out In Damning New Ad

“Reject these poisonous voices,” urges the new spot from progressive PAC. Yeah, that ad said it all, and then some.

[worstblogever]

Trump Hints At Mar-A-Lago That Biased Arizona Recount Could Be Road To White House

“I wouldn’t be surprised if they found thousands and thousands and thousands of votes” for him, he tells cheering guests. Lord have mercy, he just won't stop, will he? Meanwhile....
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I've seen some video of Trump having a moan on a nightly basis about the election... there are people in the room trying to eat dinner and ignore him while he rants to himself... and he apparently does this on a nightly basis to people at the Mar-a-Lago restaurant.

Like... this f***ing clown is dinner theatre now. You get a s***ty steak and see Donald Trump in "Death of a Salesman".

It. Is. Pathetic.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of John Bennett, a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives first elected in 2010 who spent three terms in office sponsoring some horrendous legislation from his first day in office, when he submitted both a 20 week abortion ban as well as a Birther bill. Bennett submitted nullification bills to try and negate the Affordable Care Act, Federal Firearm Laws, as well as the United Nations Agenda 21 Environmental Treaty (probably because like a lot of paranoid conservatives, he thinks it's a plot to take over the planet). Now, what truly makes John Bennett a despicable individual is his anti-Islamic rhetoric, fearmongering by falsely spreading the lie that the Quran calls for all non-Muslims to be killed and insisting any Christian or Jew that refuses to convert will be decapitated on the spot. He has called Muslims "a cancer that needs to be cut" out of America, and that Islam is "not even a religion", but a method to execute a plan of global domination. In February of 2015, Oklahoma's chapter of the Council of American Islamic Affairs hosted the first Muslim Capitol Day in Oklahoma, where the small community of practitioners of Islam in the state opened themselves up to the rest of the state, in a gesture of kindness, acceptance, and understanding, only to see John Bennett turn it into a holy war and show up to with protesters carrying signs that said things like "Allah is a pedophile", or "Mohammed is in Hell" to pass out Bibles and harass attendees with surveys asking them if they would "denounce the terrorist organization Hamas". Adam Soltani, the head of Oklahoma's chapter of CAIR was as chill as someone could be about being demonized to his face by a bigot, saying he had no problem with the bibles being passed out, and that they have repeatedly condemned terrorists of any faith. A few months to November 2015, and Bennett began fearmongering, again, and citing that there were already Syrian refugees in Jenks, Oklahoma, and that there should be an immediate halt to more being accepted into Oklahoma, before giving way to a more homophobic display of anger, where he grew irrationally angry about the rumors that someone would place a non-secular, rainbow-colored "Festivus Pole" at the Oklahoma capitol around the holidays, viewing it as a "hostile attack on his Christian beliefs". During the build-up to the 2016 election, posted a story on his Facebook page about Hillary Clinton and Benghazi with only the comment, “2 words…firing squad”. The Oklahoman newspaper followed up for an explanation, and in a text message Bennett said the post was meant to be sarcastic, but then added that Clinton “has committed nothing less than treason by leaving fellow Americans to die in Benghazi. If anyone else had done that they would be charged with treason and thrown under the jail at a minimum, and a firing squad likely.” In August of 2017, after Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia terrorized the town for most of a weekend, leading to the attempted mass murder of counter-protesters in a vehicle attack that did take the life of Heather Heyer… well, there were some terrible reactions from quite a few members of the GOP, and guess what? John Bennett was among their number. He posted a message indicating that he sympathized with the folks who claimed to be there to “support Confederate monuments”, and while he was at it, called for the removal of mosques from the United States because of 9/11. In November of 2017, Bennett went on record to compare state agencies in Oklahoma to “terrorists”, because they expected the state budget to have funding so they continue operating. After a teacher’s strike in Oklahoma motivated by them having the worst education funding in the nation resulted in their demands were met for a pay raise. Well, one of the worst reactions by Oklahoma Republicans to that strike might have been the one from John Bennett, who during debate on the education bill, argued that money wasn’t really what the teachers needed. What they needed was the right to return to corporal punishment and spank kids, because apparently they’re just sadists at heart, and should be compensated through physically assaulting children instead of being given money. Bennett only narrowly won re-election in 2016, and with a Blue Wave on the horizon in 2018, opted to not run for re-election.

On this date in 2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”profiled Adam Laxalt, the former Attorney General of Nevada from 2015-2019 who was originally elected by about 5,000 votes in 2014, even though his own law firm described him as a “train wreck” and “borderline incompetent” in a performance review only two years earlier. Laxalt had strict anti-gay views, opposed same sex marriage enough to want to ignore the Supreme Court’s Obergefell vs. Hodges ruling, and even argued in 2010 against the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, writing, “Cultural elites notwithstanding, homosexuality and its integration into society are anything but certain right now… It is one thing for the military to ask its members to accept homosexuals, but another for the military to ask its members to accept and live with homosexuality, the homosexual lifestyle.” Laxalt was also quoted as calling the Affordable Care Act “the most flawed piece of major legislation America has ever endured”. Which, y’know, it might not be perfect but it’s a hell of a lot better than say, the Fugitive Slave Act. After a turbulent four years in office where he seemed to be proving his old law firm right, including when he sued the Obama administration for daring to try to keep migrant families being detained by ICE together, was opening a witch hunt into Planned Parenthood… and just, y’know, didn’t bother doing background checks on firearm sales as is required of his office (and it’s not like 50 people were killed in a shooting in downtown Las Vegas by a madman or anything…) Laxalt rolled the dice and took a shot at trying to get elected Governor of Nevada in 2018, by which we mean, Sheldon Adelson was hoping to shove enough money into his arse and try to roll him into the governor’s mansion to do his bidding like a good puppet. The problem was, even during the worst period of income inequality in the United States in over a century, Laxalt was arguing against minimum wage increases, he also had his arrest record released from when he drunkenly assaulted a police officer in Virginia back in 1997. Whether it’s pointing out he's pretending to be a rural hero when he lived most of his life in New York, his hypocrisy on coming from a family proud of their immigrant history who is opposed to immigrants, or that his own law firm thought Laxalt was disaster, they took out an op-ed to discourage Nevadans from electing him governor. They got their wish, as Adam Laxalt only managed 45% of the vote and is currently out of office. As he remains out of power, we will set aside his profile at this time to take a look at a different wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 983-50, since this was established in July 2014.


Rhonda Furin

Welcome to what is the 983rd profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Rhonda Furin, a 2020 candidate for California’s 45th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, and who is currently claiming she’s making a run for Governor of California, hoping to be named the replacement to Gavin Newsom by attacking him for doing anything about Covid-19 (Thus guaranteeing that Newsom’s job is probably safe, because YIKES, RHONDA FURIN IS NUTTY).

We’re not going to directly link to Furin’s Twitter account, because it’s just a soup of retweeting the most paranoid right-wing nut-jobs on the internet with little context, including indiscernible anti-vaccination lunacy, and a non-stop alert about sex-trafficking that oddly neglects to mention anything happening with say, Matt Gaetz.

That being the case, it should come as little surprise that Rhonda Furin was a huge supporter of the Qanon conspiracy theory throughout her campaign for Congress, being yet the latest Republican to make a Congressional run while raving about Q. Furin was drinking the Q-oolAid enough to even believe the sub-conspiracy theory within it that JFK Jr. faked his own death and was going to re-emerge to scandalize Democrats and join the GOP ticket as the VP candidate for Trump’s 2020 ticket, wearing the T-shirt to prove it.

Rhonda Furin finished seventh out of a possible seven candidates running for California’s 45th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020, utterly failing in her dream to unseat the amazing Democratic Congresswoman Katie Porter. We predict she’ll continue to be out of her mind and fail to be elected.

[Tami]

Arizona Republicans are terrified of H.R.1

H.R. 1 is bad news for Arizona voters - Opinion by Paris Dennard, a Phoenix native and national spokesperson, Republican National Committee.

H.R. 1 is nothing less than a shameless Democrat attempt to hijack our election process, full of provisions that would fundamentally weaken our system. It calls for consolidating control of elections at the federal level, stripping states of the right to administer their own elections. It goes without saying that Arizonans understand Arizona better than federal bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. That simple fact doesn’t matter to Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and their far-left cohorts.

Compare this comment to the actions Republicans are taking to take control of the elections away from voters.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I've seen some video of Trump having a moan on a nightly basis about the election... there are people in the room trying to eat dinner and ignore him while he rants to himself... and he apparently does this on a nightly basis to people at the Mar-a-Lago restaurant.

Like... this f***ing clown is dinner theatre now. You get a s***ty steak and see Donald Trump in "Death of a Salesman".

It. Is. Pathetic.

Sad, pathetic, embarrassing, Trump's current behavior checks all the wrong boxes. As I've said numerous times, Trump's bloated ego won't allow him to EVER accept that he lost the election, hell, I have no doubt he'll go to his grave believing he had been robbed. And that makes his banishment from social media all the more welcome, otherwise he'd be ranting 24/7 about the election which, in turn, would stoke the fires of lunatics like those who stormed the Capitol on 1/6.

Arizona Republicans are terrified of H.R.1

H.R. 1 is bad news for Arizona voters - Opinion by Paris Dennard, a Phoenix native and national spokesperson, Republican National Committee.



Compare this comment to the actions Republicans are taking to take control of the elections away from voters.

Hell, Qpublicans in EVERY state, not just Arizona are shitting bricks about H.R.1.

[Panfoot]

Florida GOP Kills Measure To Protect Vaccinated Workers From Retaliation

It’s a topsy-turvy world in Florida, where vaccinated people can be banned while unvaccinated people can’t be. if I lived in Florida, I'd seriously consider getting the fuck out.

I swear every weekend I don't expect to see my state getting dumber but...then it happens without fail. Honestly the scariest thing about Florida to me right now is that I still think DeSantis and Rubio will coast on by in the midterms. After all, were the same state that sent Cobra Commander...er, sorry, Rick Scott to the senate after his godawful tenure as governor.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I swear every weekend I don't expect to see my state getting dumber but...then it happens without fail. Honestly the scariest thing about Florida to me right now is that I still think DeSantis and Rubio will coast on by in the midterms. After all, were the same state that sent Cobra Commander...er, sorry, Rick Scott to the senate after his godawful tenure as governor.

Stop me if I'm mistaken, but I understand that DeathSantis, Stunted Ricky and the Rest of the GQP clowns in your state have strong support among the Cuban-American population, a minority Qpublicans wouldn't so much as piss on if they were on fire. How is that possible?

[Kirby101]

Biden won by 74 Electoral votes. Arizona has 11. Can Trump do math?

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Biden won by 74 Electoral votes. Arizona has 11. Can Trump do math?

Trump? Do math? Please tell me that wasn't a serious question.