Tom Tiffany
Welcome to what is the 995th profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling the sitting U.S. House Representative from Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District,
Tom Tiffany, who after losing in races for Wisconsin State Senate in 2004 and 2008 and served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 2010-2012. He then greased himself up with his prior jobs in the petroleum industry to grab a spot in Congress
in a special election in May of 2020 to replace the utter dumbass who we kept track of for years, former Congressman
Sean Duffy. Barely 13 months into the gig, we’re not sure of who’s worse, but in a short amount of time, Tiffany has made it more of a debate then we thought there possibly could be.
We’re not even kidding that it didn’t take long, as only two days after Tiffany had won his special election, he made headlines for using the racist term “Wuhan Virus” to refer to Covid-19 in a letter where he called for the Wisconsin Secretary of Health to resign, furious that she recommended business closures to prevent the spread of the pandemic, attacking her and Governor Tony Evers:
Facing a November rematch with the Democrat he defeated in the special election, Andrea Junker, Tiffany released a “Back the Blue” ad in October of 2020 that
accused Junker of wanting to “defund the police”. Which, of course,
isn’t something that Junker actually wanted to do. Meanwhile, Junker pointed out something we’ll note below, that
Tom Tiffany was one of only 17 Republicans who voted against a resolution to condemn the Qanon conspiracy theory after one Congressman started getting death threats, and Tiffany claimed he voted against it because it was “
political posturing” by Nancy Pelosi.
Which, holding a posture that isn’t sympathetic to conspiracy theorists motivated to threaten to kill a member of Congress might be y’know, just having a backbone at all. Like supporting democracy and not
being an active participant in “The Big Lie” post-election and the build-up to January 6th. If he had any principles,
he wouldn’t show up to a maskless rally only DAYS after an attempted coup in our nation’s capitol to speak at a forum hosted by a right-wing radio host who openly called for “war” over the results of the election.
Y’know, not that such rhetoric isn’t exactly the sort of incitement that caused 1/6 in the first place.
But what Tom Tiffany will take a stand on? Anti-vaccination paranoia, like in March of 2021, when
he made it a point to tell everyone that he was advising his daughters not to get the Covid-19 vaccine, while also lying and claiming that no one their age had died of the virus (Two had.) He did this unmasked, at a town hall, filled with people who were also unmasked.
Way to have a potential super-spreader event a year into the pandemic when we should know better and set a good example for the public, s***bird.
Rather than focus on the pandemic, Tom Tiffany worried about the voters in his district… by
traveling the opposite border, over a thousand miles away, to throw tantrums about the less fascist approach the Biden administration was taking on undocumented migrants, and act like all fifty states were under attack by Mexico. Yes, within the same fortnight.
Just… seriously, look at this lunatic’s voting record, and try and not be shocked at how unbelievably partisan he is:
- October 2nd, 2020: Tom Tiffany is one of 17 Republicans who vote against a resolution to condemn the Qanon conspiracy theory after its followers started to make death threats against Democratic Congressman Tom Malinowski.
- December 10th, 2020: Tiffany 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: Tom Tiffany votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that he wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
- January 13th, 2021: Rep. Tiffany votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because the Republican Party no longer feels like they should be accountable for anything, including failed coups that result in the deaths of both their participants and police officers.
- February 4th, 2021: Tom Tiffany votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
- February 25th, 2021: Tiffany votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
- March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Tiffany votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
- March 3rd, 2021: Tom Tiffany votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- March 10th, 2021: Tiffany doesn’t even bother to show up to vote on the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
- March 17th, 2021: Rep. Tiffany votes against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
- May 19th, 2021: Tom Tiffany votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
- May 20th, 2021: Tiffany is one of 63 Republicans who vote against the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.
- June 16th, 2021: Tom Tiffany is one of 14 Republicans who vote against celebrating Juneteenth as a federal holiday.
We’re not sure how long an uncaring, science-denying, insurrection-supporting s***stain like Tom Tiffany holds Congressional office, but we hope that someone wakes up to his destructive tendencies upon our democracy and people’s literal health before he does too much damage.