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

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Even Marjorie Taylor Greene Thinks Mike Lindell’s Trump Reinstatement Theory Is B.S.

The Georgia congresswoman told people not to get their hopes up that Trump would be back in the White House next month “because that’s not true.” The Qpublican whackjob who famously whined about "Jewish Space Lasers" thought Lindell was bonkers. Consider THAT!

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‘Stupid On So Many Levels’: Trump’s Social Media Lawsuits Raked Over The Coals

“I’ve skimmed former guy’s complaint against Facebook and it’s every bit as stupid as you’d think it is,” tweeted attorney George Conway. Well, TFG specializes in stupid. Meanwhile....

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Trump’s ‘Big Tech’ Lawsuits Could Make Him Testify Under Oath About Jan. 6

Experts said Trump’s suits against Facebook, Twitter and Google will likely be dismissed, but if they’re not, he would be forced to explain his actions that day. Cynics say Trump's gambit is nothing more than a fundraising ploy. But, if he's serious about his lawsuits, then he's screwed.

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Senator’s Photos From Capitol On Jan. 6 Show Violent Insurrection Wreckage

The pictures show yet again that the deadly riot at the Capitol was no “normal tourist visit,” as one Republican lawmaker previously put it.

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Olympic Torch Relay Scrapped Over Coronavirus Concerns

A recent poll found that roughly half of the people in Japan do not think the games should proceed as planned. Too late for that. With billions on the line for NBC, they're hellbent on making sure the Games take place, no matter what.

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Tucker Carlson Goes Full ‘1984’ With ‘Cameras In The Classroom’ Proposal

The Fox News personality suggested police-style body cameras to check on what every teacher is telling their students. But, hey! Let's get big government OUT of the lives of the people.

[Gray Lensman]

Even Marjorie Taylor Greene Thinks Mike Lindell’s Trump Reinstatement Theory Is B.S.

The Georgia congresswoman told people not to get their hopes up that Trump would be back in the White House next month “because that’s not true.” The Qpublican whackjob who famously whined about "Jewish Space Lasers" thought Lindell was bonkers. Consider THAT!

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‘Stupid On So Many Levels’: Trump’s Social Media Lawsuits Raked Over The Coals

“I’ve skimmed former guy’s complaint against Facebook and it’s every bit as stupid as you’d think it is,” tweeted attorney George Conway. Well, TFG specializes in stupid. Meanwhile....

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Trump’s ‘Big Tech’ Lawsuits Could Make Him Testify Under Oath About Jan. 6

Experts said Trump’s suits against Facebook, Twitter and Google will likely be dismissed, but if they’re not, he would be forced to explain his actions that day. Cynics say Trump's gambit is nothing more than a fundraising ploy. But, if he's serious about his lawsuits, then he's screwed.

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Senator’s Photos From Capitol On Jan. 6 Show Violent Insurrection Wreckage

The pictures show yet again that the deadly riot at the Capitol was no “normal tourist visit,” as one Republican lawmaker previously put it.

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Olympic Torch Relay Scrapped Over Coronavirus Concerns

A recent poll found that roughly half of the people in Japan do not think the games should proceed as planned. Too late for that. With billions on the line for NBC, they're hellbent on making sure the Games take place, no matter what.

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Tucker Carlson Goes Full ‘1984’ With ‘Cameras In The Classroom’ Proposal

The Fox News personality suggested police-style body cameras to check on what every teacher is telling their students. But, hey! Let's get big government OUT of the lives of the people.

Trump is lucky that the US isn't like Britain - there a lawsuit can't be unilaterally dropped, even by the plaintiff. Once filed, the defendant can keep the plaintiff in court against their wishes, or at least until the case is decided. McDonalds learned that the hard way.

[The Cool Thatguy]

So FOX News and Senator Tom Cotton want to "cancel" Captain America: https://www.cbr.com/fox-controversy-captain-america/

I won't be reading this miniseries (I'm an X-men guy), but kudos to the writer for having Cap question the American Dream myth. As my brother, who's attempting to transfer to the first international Costco store (in Iceland), put it to me yesterday: the American Dream these days is to leave America. I find I can't disagree with that assessment.

I remember that Brubaker got in trouble for implying some Tea Party stand in was racist, and had to backtrack.

Guess he was a little too ahead of his time...

[worstblogever]

In both 2015, as well as 2016, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of Justin Harris, a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives who we covered not so much for his radically socially conservative record or that he was a theocrat who wanted Bible studies to be an actual elective course in Arkansas schools, but for the fact that he was involved in a scandal where he adopted two girls, then decided they were afflicted by demons, tried performing exorcisms on them, and then "rehomed" them with a former employee who he had fired who then started molesting the girls (all the while, collecting subsidies on his adopted children, who he no longer had in his home). Revoltingly, nobody registered on the ballot against Harris, and this story broke almost literally at the deadline to file for the 2014 elections... so he won another term in office unopposed. Because "rehoming" adopted children was legal at the time in Arkansas, he was not found to have committed a crime, but ignored calls to resign from office during the scandal. In fact, the self-righteous tool got on social media to quote scripture about being unfairly accused, and the Lord would "laugh at the wicked", showing us all that he felt HE was the real victim. Republicans and conservatives in Arkansas seem way too comfortable with his sordid history, as somehow, don't ask me how, he was given the “Power Of Courage” award by “The Family Council Action Committee” forhow he “demonstrated courage by standing strong in faith when situations were tough at the State Capitol and they did so with grace" and was "consistently a model of Christian values in his home, community, and church.” Unless the FCAC was giving this award out ironically, I think they need their heads checked. Let's just be glad that Harris will no longer be a fixture in government, at least.

On this date in 2017, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published its profile of Wendy Long, a two-time loser in attempts to be elected to the U.S. Senate in New York. In 2012, she allowed Sen. Kristen Gillibrand to win her Senate seat by the largest margin in New York history. In 2016… well, given how Sen. Chuck Schumer was one of the more popular senators in his home state, there weren’t a lot of GOP candidates looking to line up to take a crack at him… he was thought to be more formidable than even Gillibrand four years earlier. But, some New York pundits started trying to chip away at Schumer’s support with the Jewish community after the Obama administration and Democrats managed to approve a treaty to curb Iran’s nuclear program that they felt was too lenient. That opened the window that maybe someone could give Schumer a run or his money… and unfortunately for Republicans, the only candidate that came through that window was Wendy Long. After all, Wendy Long has been a friend to lunatic conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza for a quarter century now, going all the way back to when both were in college together and while working on the school newspaper “accidentally” published an excerpt from Hitler’s Mein Kampf about how “warding off the Jews was doing the Lord’s work”, on Yom Kippur of all days. D’Souza actually managed to try and act like he was the victim after the two were forced to apologize for the actions of an “unnamed staffer”. Anyhow, D’Souza was convicted of election fraud, believed to have been in his attempts to get his old pal Wendy elected by making illegal straw donations to her campaign. Well, Long was already established as wanting to govern as a Catholic, outlawing abortion, gay marriage, and wanting to even push back against birth control. She eventually couldn’t pretend to be sane any longer herself, and got on Twitter to post about how a neighborhood had become crime infested after a “mosque displaced a church”, earning her the criticism of her own party. She was only warming up. Wendy Long started speaking in front of the Oath Keepers, the infamous anti-government militia group that will support anyone who lets them still have easy access to guns, and not be treated like the paranoid domestic terrorists that they are. Again, Wendy was keeping some interesting company. Finally, she hyperbolically referred to Chuck Schumer as an “enemy of the Constitution”, at an event that declared him one of the Oath Keepers’ “dirty dozen Marxist traitors in America”. Wendy Long only got 27% of the vote against Schumer. Considering she had yet to pay off over a quarter of a million dollars in debt from her FIRST attempt to be elected to office, she probably should have probably sat out her second one or spent the money on a good therapist.

On this date in 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published a profile about Gary Emineth, who was a 2018 candidate for U.S. Senate in North Dakota, and please do note the past tense we used in that introduction. Eminith is by no means a political outsider, though, having served several years as a member of the Republican National Committee and as the Chairman of the North Dakota GOP. He last ran for a seat in the North Dakota state legislature back in 1984, and 34 years later, he decided to take a crack at U.S. Senate. The main problem with Emineth’s candidacy was that he apparently forgot all the horrible things he had posted on Facebook over the past several years that were collected by CNN’s K-File, and got reminded of them, one after another, in a live interview back home. Perhaps the most inflammatory post was Emineth submitting a poll question to his followers as to whether or not there should be a government ban on mosques. (For those who paid attention in basic civics courses, such a ban would be a violation of the First Amendment on the grounds of violating someone’s freedom of religion.) Anyway, a stammering Emineth could only defend that by saying he “only retweeted it”. But that wasn’t the only thing that was found on his Facebook page. There was also a post where Eminith complained about “a bunch of Arabs” during a protest by Palestinians against Israelis (hint: not Arabs) and another where he referred to President Obama as a “POS”, and he gave several explanations for what the abbreviation was supposed to mean, before settling on it being a typo and he meant to type “POTUS”. There was then a third post that compared people on welfare to wild animals that shouldn’t be fed, which Emineth didn’t deny that meaning of, and that he actually was making a valid point. Needless to say, it wasn’t long thereafter that Emineth realized he wasn’t going to help his party win a seat in the Senate, and Emineth’s candidacy literally only lasted about a week and a half.Instead, Emineth submitted himself as a candidate for the North Dakota State Senate, choosing instead to challenge Democratic State Senator Erin Oban in District 35 of the State Senate, and still lost in that race by about 9% of the vote.

On this date in 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Jasmine Saavedra, who ran for Congress to try and be the U.S. House Representative for California’s 44th Congressional District. Saavedra, a dedicated Trump supporter who is already out of her gourd enough to be one of the few “Latinos for Trump” (she’s an immigrant from Nicaragua… and… apparently doesn’t seem to realize she’s not Trump’s kind of person…) said her top priority in Congress was to see to getting the border wall built. If there’s not already enough hypocrisy to make you sit down, Saavedra seemed to think embracing the very worst kinds of bigotry that Republicans can muster would be a great way to fundraise, and decided to stalk a transgender woman around town, then post a live video to Facebook where she did her best to gather a mob of customers from around a Denny’s restaurant when that woman used the restroom to storm in to harass her. Facebook banned Saavedra from their platform for violation of terms. Suffice to say, this did not prove to be a winning strategy in a blue-leaning district in a year where Republicans got shellacked in California, and Saavedra was under criminal investigation for her actions. Jazmina Saavedra somehow was the top Republican candidate for this seat, finishing with a whopping 10% of the vote in the primary, and failing to qualify for the general election. Her political career, as it was, seems to revolve around getting kicked out of bars and restaurants and play the victim, even in red states.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Joey Saladino AKA Joey Salads, a 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives for New York’s 11th Congressional District, hoping to knock off sitting Democratic Congressman Max Rose and flip his seat back red. Now, Joey Saladino aka Joey Salads should not be confused with the Joseph Saladino, a Republican who served on the New York State Assembly from District 9 from 2013-2017. Because one is a political legacy whose father was a New York State Supreme Court Justice and resigned after it was revealed he pocketed $16,000 of Hurricane Sandy relief money he wasn’t entitled to, and the guy we’re profiling today, Joey Salads, is a racist troll who, when he isn’t just s***posting as many racial slurs onto Twitter as he can, makes “prank” videos today that are just him harassing people in bigoted scenarios like going to a black neighborhood with an “ALL LIVES MATTER” sign, and then playing the victim if anyone confronts him about it. Perhaps the most jarring of those videos would be the one where Saladino turned up at a Trump rally wearing a Nazi armband as a “prank”, and oddly most other attendees seemed fine with it. And the Republican Party was fine with having a candidate for Congress named Joey Saladino who posted a video of himself peeing into his own mouth onto the internet. No, that’s not hyperbole. Joey Saladino dropped out of the Congressional race in December of 2019, but is a gross enough racist that even Twitter suspended him permanently in May of 2020. Here’s hoping his whole “business model” of likes and views goes in the toilet, where his urine streams hopefully will also start to go. As he is almost certain to never reach office, we will set aside his profile to take a look at another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1001-50, since this was established in July 2014.


Daniel Wood

Welcome to what is the 1001st original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Daniel Wood, who as a 2020 Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona’s 3rd Congressional District, hoping to unseat Democratic Congressman Raul Grijalva in a blue-leaning district. Daniel Wood is, however, the latest in a long line of promoters of the Qanon conspiracy theory who ran for office on the GOP ticket in 2020, repeatedly using Qanon hashtags, sharing Q-related videos, and interacting on Twitter with Qanon accounts. When asked about it by AZ GOP Chair Kelli Ward (who yes, we’ve profiled before for being a nutter herself), Wood explained his affection for other followers of Q, he was impressed by the “evidence” they present, and later on Facebook said Qanon supporters “believe in bringing power back to the people.”

Daniel Wood lost to Raul Grijalva, getting only 35% of the vote in the general election in November. Wood apparently is a glutton for punishment though, as he’s added his names to lawsuits by Trump supporters claiming “election fraud” without evidence in the 2020 election, and also not only has continued to stand by his support of Qanon, but defend those who follow the conspiracy theory while running for Congress again in 2022. Expect him to lose yet again.

[Mister Mets]

She has more to lose than Junior. She has TO money which only accounts for 20% of her net assets with her husband. Wereas Junior has nearly 85% of his assets tied up in TO and Trump Enterprises. So I think she would flip on her dad before Junior because she wants to hang onto all that other money.

WHICH IS WHY ... I think Jared is more likely to go first. He's got a family that pressured him to leave Trump's net, and has been MIA for months.

What would you think are the percentage odds that any of them flip on Donald Trump Sr?

I just learned that the President of Haiti was assassinated.

That story is nuts.

One weird detail is that the assassins were posing as DEA agents.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07...e-assassinated

There are disputes about who is in charge of Haiti.

While Mr. Joseph — the nation’s sixth prime minister in the last four years — declared that he was now in charge, his hold on power is tenuous given that a new prime minister was scheduled to be sworn in this week.

Ariel Henry, who was slated to take over the role, said that Mr. Joseph was “no longer prime minister” and contended that the office belonged to him. The country currently has no functioning Parliament, and it is uncertain when or even whether elections slated for the fall will take place.

There are some people in custody, but Haiti hasn't presented evidence of their involvement. It's still not clear what the motives of the assassins were.

I remember that Brubaker got in trouble for implying some Tea Party stand in was racist, and had to backtrack.

Guess he was a little too ahead of his time...

Brubaker and Quesada said that was a lettering error.

https://www.cbr.com/quesada-responds...y-gains-steam/

Do you think they were lying?

[The Cool Thatguy]

Brubaker and Quesada said that was a lettering error.

https://www.cbr.com/quesada-responds...y-gains-steam/

Do you think they were lying?

I think they were trying to cover their ass, yeah.

[Mister Mets]

He knowingly instigated the attack. That's enough.

Due to America's robust first amendment protections, it's difficult to prosecute someone for incitement.

Do you really think these compensation schemes were isolated to only Weisselberg? We already know that Ivanka was paid as an employee and consultant and Don Jr and Eric living in company paid for buildings. We know Trump paid no taxes for ten years yet lived a lush lifestyle. I know you aren't that naive. But then again, you refuse to admit that all the election laws being passed are not for voter suppression, but want us to think these noble Republicans care about fraud and security. So why not think Trump is innocent.

It's a bad tactic to bring up a caricature of my views on a different topic. This would allow people acting in bad faith to do the same to everybody, whenever there's any kind of dispute.

I haven't said Trump's innocent. There is a wide gulf between a view that Trump is innocent, and that any prosecutor with enough guts is sure to prove his guilt. I do think the latter view is harmful, because we've seen what happens when people have unrealistic expectations about the political and legal process.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eric-ad...mary-election/

So Eric Adams, a former NYPD officer and an opponent of "Defund the Police" officially wins the democratic NYC mayoral election primary? Eric Adams was, as a child, beaten up by white cops. He knew a lot about the racism in the NYPD and despite that, he joined the NYPD.

Eric Adams is an interesting political figure.

I wrote before about the concerns over corruption and morals.

https://community.cbr.com/showthread...ms#post5596149

It is interesting that he was able to win with a centrist message pushing back against the "defund the police" types.

To be fair, when he was in the police, he did agitate against misconduct.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/n...ice-mayor.html

[worstblogever]

It's not just New York, Rudy Giuliani has been suspended from practicing law in DC now, as well.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Man its like Fox News has went more bonkers the last week with some wild things. Plus Trump's lawsuit as well. Just a wild...wacky week to be a Republican.

- The proposed Fox News Weather channel.

- The ranting against Captain America

- Trump's insane comical lawsuit.

- And now...Tucker Carlson deciding that we need a "1984" type world now.


Its just a wild wacky week.

[Tami]

Man its like Fox News has went more bonkers the last week with some wild things. Plus Trump's lawsuit as well. Just a wild...wacky week to be a Republican.

- The proposed Fox News Weather channel.

- The ranting against Captain America

- Trump's insane comical lawsuit.

- And now...Tucker Carlson deciding that we need a "1984" type world now.


Its just a wild wacky week.

And apparently Fox is still going on about Critical Race Theory.

[Mister Mets]

And apparently Fox is still going on about Critical Race Theory.

The education of the next generation is one of the most important topics.

[The Cool Thatguy]

The education of the next generation is one of the most important topics.

If Fox cared about education, they wouldn't be Fox, thanks

[Tami]

The education of the next generation is one of the most important topics.

Whenever anyone 'cares about the education of the next generation' be wary that what they may be talking about it caring about the 'indoctrination of the next generation'.

If you are a teacher, an educator, or anyone in related fields of study then it's fine to care about improving education for all students.

If you are a politician with no background in education, a TV personality who has little or no knowledge of the subject, or anyone else acting without knowing what they are talking about, then you need to be concerned.

Never trust a politician in a classroom unless they are teaching a College level class in political science.

[Jack Dracula]

The GOP is looking for a wedge issue to politicize local school boards. Part of their strategy to generate activism and create change at the grassroots level while Democrats are occupied with governing.