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

[CTTT]

Did your mom ever recover from it mentally?

I ask because my mother had 3 between my sister and I (we're seven years apart) and she's still not over it in her 70s.

The legislation is just sick, sick, sick.

What's the reason for the fine?

[PaulBullion]

Now even Rasmussen Reports is giving Biden a better approval rating than, I think, they ever gave Trump. I hope somebody told Trump.

[Tendrin]

https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/st...713318912?s=20

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2...ce-connection/

It's like domestic violence should be a 'red flag' that prohibits gun ownership or something.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/st...713318912?s=20

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2...ce-connection/

It's like domestic violence should be a 'red flag' that prohibits gun ownership or something.

Not if the NRA and their bloodstained lapdogs in the GQP have anything to say about it. Unfortunately.

[worstblogever]

This is the queue that never ends, it goes on and on, my friend. You started profiling loons not knowing what it'd become and continue it forever just because...

Meanwhile I just got linked to an article about Alex Stovall, a former veteran who's campaigning in his uniform, claiming to be a chaplain (which seems might be an exaggeration, but is also something that can get you a court martial), and friend of Candace Owens' Blexit (Blacks who are supposedly doing the WalkAway from the Democratic Party but aren't) group who is going to have a 2022 run against Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego in AZ-7 (just a +23 blueberry district in the middle of Arizona).

It's not that he has a prayer of winning there, it's just a GOP troll campaign. Which, honestly, is all their campaigns now.

WHich, oh yeah...

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of the current U.S. House Representative for Michigan’s’ 3rd District, Justin Amash, who believe it or not, both Democrats and Republicans agree, is one of the most unflinching ***holes in Washington, D.C. Amash is a disciple of the Ron Paul Libertarian school of Republican thought, and occasionally votes against GOP supported measures because in his mind, they are not conservative ENOUGH. He was actually branded a "Whacko Bird" along with Sen. Ted Cruz by Sen. John McCain, and has continued his rivalry with the former standard bearer of the GOP. He has had pundits on Sunday morning shows laugh in his face for saying things like the GOP would be doing the Obama administration a favor by delaying implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and has outright lied about even the basics of what that legislation does (he said pre-existing conditions were covered prior to its passage). He's into the libertarian ideal of smaller government so much that he is against all forms of hate crime legislation, advocated that the entire Department of Education should be dismantled, voted against disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy, voted against the creation of a national suicide prevention hotline, and even voted against the 2014 version of the Farm Bill, considered to be one of the biggest legislative "no brainers" Congress ever votes on. But his "hands off" approach to government sure doesn't apply to abortion, because Amash has stated he believes that abortion should be outlawed 3, yes THREE days after conception (when most women don't even know they're pregnant, and longer than some states' waiting periods for abortion). Justin Amash remains an unpredictable, petulant bastard, but he does remain bluntly honest about that fact. Case in point, he's not pulling punches about the possibility of Donald Trump being impeached when asked about it by the media. The social media director for the Trump White House, Dan Scavino, responded by calling Amash "a great liability". By July of 2019, Amash had announced he was leaving the Republican Party, and in May of 2020, announced he would be seeking the Libertarian Party’s nomination for president. He then backed out of that plan within a fortnight and was last seen questioning the expertise of scientists during the Covid-19 pandemic in the name of "freedom".

On this date one year ago “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Mike Detmer, a 2020 candidate for Michigan’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, one of five Republicans in the GOP Primary for that seat who were vying for the right to take on Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin. While we have concerns that Detmer a former mortgage banker, has hung out with Michigan’s “guns rights activists” where they’ve openly talked about creating a “Second Amendment sanctuary”, as if guns in the United States were an endangered species… We’re more concerned about how Mike Detmer has been hanging out with the Proud Boys, and is so comfortable with this group of white nationalists and domestic terrorists that he took a selfie with them. When called out for goofing around with a hate group, Detmer went on to compliment the organization, and pretend as if they weren’t a group of neo-fascists committing violence across the country, writing that the group "is about protecting our freedoms." Detmer than listed the tenets of the Proud Boys, which include defending the First and Second amendments… but missed the parts where they promote Western chauvinism, closing U.S. borders to immigrants, anti-racial guil" and "venerating the housewife." (To say nothing of their future hobby, attempting a violent coup attempt to be carried out on the Capitol in January 2021 to stop the certification of the electoral vote count.) Detmer then gave an interview where he claimed that the Proud Boys have been wrongly labeled as a racist hate group. He posted their tenets "to provide facts, so people could put this group into context" while claiming he hadn’t “seen anything to suggest that they're a white-supremacist hate group”. Detmer lost the GOP Primary by only 6,000 votes. He seems to have given up his aspirations on getting elected to political office (and his Proud Boys association looks even worse in 2021 than it did in 2020, so 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 988-50, since this was established in July 2014.

[worstblogever]

Peter Lucido

Welcome to what is the 988th profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Peter Lucido, a former divorce attorney by trade, and member of the Michigan State Senate from 2019-2020 , representing District 8 in that body, and prior to that, who served in District 36 of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2015-2018. And if you’re wondering what could inspire Lucido to scream in rage like in the above photo, that was him turning up as a face in the crowd at a Trump rally days before the 2016 election in Sterling Heights, MI.

His first political campaign in the 2014 was, at the time, one of the most expensive races for a seat in the Michigan state legislature in history, and that was just to advance out of the GOP Primary for the seat. After both Lucido, and his opponent Stan Grot spent weeks claiming the endorsements of conservative groups they did not actually get, he won by a slim margin of 103 votes, and was guaranteed further victories in a highly conservative district.

Glancing at Lucido’s voting record, and there’s some troubling bills he’s supported through his time in office:

• June 10th, 2015: Peter Lucido votes for HB 4188, which would allow adoption agencies to deny services for “religious reasons”, like say, to make sure a same sex couple couldn’t provide a stable and caring home for a child, because they’re more homophobic than they are compassionate.
• February 22nd, 2018: Lucido co-sponsors and votes for a patently unconstitutional bill (based on the Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona ruling), HB 4053, to designate English as the official state language in Michigan.
• June 6th, 2018: Peter Lucido votes fpr SB 897, to create work requirements for anyone on Medicaid in Michigan.
• April 30th, 2020: Only six weeks into the Covid-19 pandemic, Lucido votes for SB 857, a bill aimed at limited Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “stay-at-home” orders in any emergency to only 28 days, and allowing the virus to spread among the public (and boy, did it in Michigan, not from Whitmer’s doing).

But our reason for profiling Lucido is not related to what terrible legislation he’s supported, it’s more of that he has been accused by three different women, including a fellow Republican State Senator, of sexual harassment while serving in office (Thus why his Trump support makes a hell of a lot of sense). The first instance of it being reported was pretty easy for the media to have found out about, considering he sexually harassed a reporter. Allison Donahue, a reporter for the Michigan Advance, had Lucido yell at her and tell her that a visiting group of boys to the state legislature from a local high school could “have a lot of fun” with her if she were to “hang around” with them. She took offense to the remark, justifiably, and after originally acknowledging he said it but meant no offense and apologizing, once calls for him to resign came forward, Lucido started claiming he was “misquoted”.

And then, Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow came forward to report Lucido had slid his hand down her back towards her upper rear. Then a third woman came forward. That got Lucido removed from all leadership positions in the Michigan State Senate, and probably wrecked his chances of a planned gubernatorial run he was rumored to make in 2022.

Peter Lucido resigned from the Michigan State Senate in January of 2021, not because of the sexual harassment accusations, but because he was elected the Macomb County Prosecutor by, again throwing a ridiculous sum of money into the election, and by criticizing his opponent for not agreeing to a debate with him… where Lucido had already hand-picked the “moderator”. We don’t expect him to press charges against himself, and still think in the Post #MeToo world, he needs to go altogether.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Meanwhile I just got linked to an article about Alex Stovall, a former veteran who's campaigning in his uniform, claiming to be a chaplain (which seems might be an exaggeration, but is also something that can get you a court martial), and friend of Candace Owens' Blexit (Blacks who are supposedly doing the WalkAway from the Democratic Party but aren't) group who is going to have a 2022 run against Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego in AZ-7 (just a +23 blueberry district in the middle of Arizona).

It's not that he has a prayer of winning there, it's just a GOP troll campaign. Which, honestly, is all their campaigns now.

WHich, oh yeah...

As a veteran, I have no patience whatsoever for scumbags like Stovall who shamelessly prostitute the uniform like he had done. A neighbor who hates black people that support Trump and the GQP even more than I do would, to paraphrase the late, great Richard Pryor, wear out three pairs of kneecaps kicking Stovall in the ass.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Meanwhile I just got linked to an article about Alex Stovall, a former veteran who's campaigning in his uniform, claiming to be a chaplain (which seems might be an exaggeration, but is also something that can get you a court martial), and friend of Candace Owens' Blexit (Blacks who are supposedly doing the WalkAway from the Democratic Party but aren't) group who is going to have a 2022 run against Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego in AZ-7 (just a +23 blueberry district in the middle of Arizona).

It's not that he has a prayer of winning there, it's just a GOP troll campaign. Which, honestly, is all their campaigns now.

WHich, oh yeah...

How is it you still have a liver?

[Tendrin]

Meanwhile I just got linked to an article about Alex Stovall, a former veteran who's campaigning in his uniform, claiming to be a chaplain (which seems might be an exaggeration, but is also something that can get you a court martial), and friend of Candace Owens' Blexit (Blacks who are supposedly doing the WalkAway from the Democratic Party but aren't) group who is going to have a 2022 run against Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego in AZ-7 (just a +23 blueberry district in the middle of Arizona).

It's not that he has a prayer of winning there, it's just a GOP troll campaign. Which, honestly, is all their campaigns now.

WHich, oh yeah...

...the queue that never ends...


Good lord.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Woman Protests COVID-19 Vaccine By Speeding Car Through Vaccination Site

Witnesses said Virginia Brown yelled “no vaccine” while almost hitting seven people with her SUV. This is what Donald Trump, Faux News and the Qpublican Party has wrought. To be honest, I'm surprised that hasn't happened more often.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

Colbert rakes John Cena over the coals...

[Tami]

Mitch McConnell has reached out to certain Republican Senators and asked them to vote against the commission as “a personal favor” according to this.

McConnell worried that visits by mother of fallen Capitol Police Officer Sicknick may sway Republican Senators to vote for #Jan6Commission

McConnell asks colleagues for "personal favor" to kill commission

Republican source calls McConnell's acts, "despicable."

via @jamiegangel

[BeastieRunner]

Colbert rakes John Cena over the coals...

Cena's a nice dude ... I wish more of the ire was shot at the politicians that make this our sad reality.

I did enjoy the Free Tibet jab as I was (still am) a big Free Tibet person back in the day.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Mitch McConnell has reached out to certain Republican Senators and asked them to vote against the commission as “a personal favor” according to this.

"Personal favor". Call me stupid, but that says Moscow Mitch knows, if not fears something would come out in the wash if the commission goes forward that would nail his wrinkled ass to the wall. It's not even about the party anymore, it's about HIM.