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

[CaptainEurope]

The link is even more insane.

The main claim made in the card is that there is suppressed evidence that Biden won through election racketeering. That seems an awfully big thing to keep quiet.

When they talk about pulling the curtain back, the expectation is that the black caucus and other key groups will flip because of evidence that Martin Luther King Jr was murdered in a satanic sacrifice, as was Mary Jo Kopechne.



I'm hoping this person gets the psychiatric help he needs.

How did JFK Jr. survive being satanically sacrificed, though?

[worstblogever]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a photo of a scared out of his mind Brooks cowering behind a plainclothes Capitol officer on 1/6? If so, then he's the dead LAST man to call for people to sacrifice their lives in a revolution.

You're probably thinking of Georgia Congressman Andrew Clyde, who looked like this on 1/6 while the door was being barricaded, but claims the domestic terrorists present were just "tourists".

[worstblogever]

While some people would be happy to continue to engage in the ridiculous 'critical race theory' moral panic -- when what they really mean is teaching anything about racism and its history at all -- by 'just asking questions' about an anti-racist children's book -- they will of course be conspicuously silent on matters like this one:

https://www.salon.com/2021/07/09/ste...otted-at-cpac/

There is currently an article trending over at Dailykos entitled, "Show Me On the Doll Where Critical Race Theory Touched You".

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Caitlyn Jenner being called “Bruce” and chased out of CPAC Dallas. Afterwards, one CPAC attendee refers to Caitlyn as “tr*nny” multiple times.


Why am I not surprised.

What the hell did Jenner expect? Qpublicans are on record as despising transgendered people, and being a right winger didn't keep her from being savaged by those knuckledraggers.

You're probably thinking of Georgia Congressman Andrew Clyde, who looked like this on 1/6 while the door was being barricaded, but claims the domestic terrorists present were just "tourists".

Ahh! I knew it was one of those hypocritical clowns. Clyde probably knew those "tourists" were going to string him up had they gotten their hands on him. Thanks, WBE!

[Spike-X]

Do you think only racists would be bothered by that page?

Do you think people who aren't racist, or trying their best not to be, would?

And the page you posted there is still light years away from Andrew Sullivan's hysterical nonsense about, 'indoctrinating children into the evil of whiteness' or whatthefuckever he thinks is going on here.

[Spike-X]

The specific point I was responding to was whether someone could be taken seriously if they object to the book.

Please don't be disingenuous. I wasn't saying Sullivan shouldn't be taken seriously because he objects to the book. It was the ridiculously over-the-top and patently false manner in which he did so that caused him to lose whatever credibility he might still have remaining with somebody, somewhere.

[CSTowle]

Seems like a pedo ring that's being busted up contained a GQP staffer/strategist: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...ld-porn-498937

But it's only the libs who are a danger to our children, they'll continue to bleet.

Clearly he's an undercover Democrat, maybe antifa or BLM. Probably a satanist as well.

[Spike-X]

I think that what’s happened today has evolved so far beyond those basic and interesting ideas that after a while, you have to start calling it something else, after a while what once was Latin has become French. The idea is that a movement now takes a page, maybe two pages from CRT, and instead has become a kind of punitive mob-like mentality that acquires disproportionate influence because most people are deeply afraid of being called a racist on social media.

I find it telling when people are more worried about being called racist than they are about being racist.

[worstblogever]

Seventh anniversary post for CSGOPOTD!

On this date in 2014, as well as 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published a profile on Carl Paladino, the former candidate for Governor of New York, who campaigned by mailing garbage-scented fliers out to voters, took to the podium with a baseball bat to try to look like a capable leader, like say Al Capone in the Untouchables, who got caught e-mailing beastiality jokes to colleagues while previously working in state government, who said the Affordable Care Act would be worse than 9-11, and who threatened members of the media with being “taken out”. Ah, how we miss the days when that sort of behavior would actually stop someone from being elected. He settled on running for New York Board of Education, but got booted from that after he sent everyone e-mails claiming that Muslims were responsible for riots in Paris (that they weren’t) and lamenting that there were “too few white people in France”. Carl Paladino was that he very briefly announced himself as a candidate for Congress for U.S. House of Representatives in 2018, specifically for New York’s 27th Congressional District… which he did not live in. This was during the brief time when Republican Congressman Chris Collins had announced he would be suspending his campaign after his indictment for securities fraud. Alas, Collins reversed course, and Paladino shrunk away, back to whatever rock he crawled out from and continues to send e-mails to colleagues of an Islamophobic nature, including one right after the mass shooting at Christchurch in New Zealand. Suffice to say, we’re really doubting he’ll ever be elected again.

On this date in 2015, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" posted a profile of former perennial Presidential candidate Jack Fellure, a man who has run for president in eight consecutive elections, and when asked for his party platform in 2012 when he ran as the Prohibition Party candidate (who still want to outlaw liquor), he submitted the King James Bible, because he believes America is a Christian nation. Fellure not only wants to outlaw booze, but blames all of society's evils upon “atheists, Marxists, liberals, queers, liars, draft dodgers, flag burners, dope addicts, sex perverts and anti-Christians”. While running for president in 1996, where he received one write-in vote in Ohio, he raged at the man who defeated him in 1992, saying President George H.W. Bush was “responsible for inestimable damage toward the destruction of this sovereign democratic constitutional republic [who] continued to water the seeds of international, Satanic Marxism to the exclusion of our national sovereignty" before assessing that President Bill Clinton, “merely shifted into overdrive the socialistic, Marxist New World Order agenda.” Fellure has been on the GOP ballot every year except 2012 in every presidential election since 1988, and after losing yet again in 2016 and 2020 with zero total delegates... now at the age of 88, he has not a chance in hell of ever being any more than a joke candidate before he shuffles off the mortal coil.

In both 2016, 2017, as well as in 2018, that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented profiles of former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, who much to our surprise, in spite of having no government experience, managed to get himself elected in the 2016 elections, based almost solely on the impact of his campaign ads where he had a narrator claim Obama wouldn’t “steal another Missouri election” (nice paranoid lunacy there, Eric) as he fired off a .50 caliber machine gun. Greitens’ entire justification for office was that he had a former career as a Navy SEAL where he may or may not have been on the mission to kill Osama bin Laden (per other SEALs who have responded to his claims, Greitens was not even involved in direct combat operations on any missions they can recall). Greitens also raised campaign cash by selling "ISIS Hunting permits" to constituents in Missouri, without a care for the possibility that could be the sort of rhetoric that obviously could easily lead to the harassment or an attack on someone who’s Muslim but totally isn't ISIS, and in fact gleefully commenting on the choice by saying, "Liberals will go crazy when they see these, but remember, this isn’t an official government issued hunting tag.” Once Greitens has inexplicably become governor, he’s making the exact same kinds of mistakes that drove Kansas, but one state over, into a ditch six years ago under the hairbrained leadership of Gov. Sam Brownback. Just for starters, there was the new state budget that cut $251 million dollars out of it, with such humble needs to trim the fat like taking away the medical care of over 8,000 elderly and disabled people, prescription drug co-pays from 60,000 people, and taking $15 million away from school transportation (have fun walking to school, kids). Like Donald Trump’s tendency to make all his staff members sign non-disclosure agreements, Greitens did the same with his own transition team in Missouri, a direct rejection on the issue of transparency that he ran on, and more extreme than his predecessors, by far. But really, when people are going to remember Eric Greitens, who you may have noted we mentioned was already a FORMER governor, is that he sexually assaulted, and blackmailed a mistress to remain silent about his affair with her. Saying the details were lurid would be an understatement, as Greitens duct taped the woman to gym equipment in his basement, blindfolded her, stripped her nude, and then took a photo of her without her consent, saying he would release it to the public if she ever spoke about their relationship. He would then assault her throughout the affair, sometimes shoving her to the floor or hitting her during intercourse. The affair happened in 2015, just as he was running for office, and he was charged in February of 2018 with a crime. For those Republicans who might hand wave away one of their own being a sexual predator, as is the current tradition, Greitens was also being investigated and charged for fraud by his personal charity in April of 2018 for giving the charity’s donor list to his campaign… so that was a whole other criminal investigation occurring simultaneously to the sexual assault investigation. Greitens finally resigned on June 1st, 2018 after a legion of Missouri Republicans were calling for the move to sve their own skins in the 2018 elections because they didn’t want to impeach him, and yet didn’t want to defend him. The fact that they couldn’t do the former should tell you everything you need to know about GOP courage. At this point, it looks like Greitens was lucky enough to avoid jail time for all the crimes he’s accused of, but let’s hope that he doesn’t try pretending he’s the victim in all this and making a political comeback in a few years. We certainly hope not.

[worstblogever]

On this date one year ago, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day first profiled Richard Burr of North Carolina, who was first elected to the U.S. House back in the 1994 “Red Wave” election and has served in the Senate now since 2005. He has already announced back in 2016 that he would not be running for re-election in 2022, when his term is up, and that’s probably for the best because holy s***, is he in it deep right now. For those who missed it, Senator Burr is currently under FBI investigation for insider trading, having his cellphone seized as evidence based on several phone calls he is believed to have made after a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Covid-19. Allegedly (we’ll say allegedly), after hearing about the threat of coronavirus, Burr did the honorable thing and rearranged his stock portfolio to pull between $600,000 and $1.5 million in investments away from shares in hotels, restaurants, and shipping companies. We will, however note that the only reason we may have seen Senator Burr as the target of an investigation, at all, was because he may have drawn the ire of Donald Trump for allowing a Senate subpoena for Donald Trump, Jr., regard his meeting with Russian nationals in Trump Tower in 2016. Trump, up until he was suspended from Twitter, liked to retweet other conservatives who attack Burr on Twitter.

Which, nothing but absolute loyalty to Trump is acceptable to him, it seems, because Burr will still dig in enough to back him up that during the Ukraine scandal, he said he wouldn’t vote to convict him of impeachment even IF a quid pro quo was proven (and it was). Hell, during the 2016 election, he was even willing to make “jokes” about how Hillary Clinton should have a bullseye on her when she was on magazine covers, because why not gear some lunatic up to commit a stochastic terror attack and see if you can get someone assassinated, right?

But back to the insider trading… we kind of believe the allegations, considering back during the 2008 bank foreclosure crisis, Sen. Burr admitted to responding to looming threat of banks going under by telling his wife to run to the ATM every day and pull out as much money as she could before the bank went under:

”Tonight, I want you to go to the ATM machine, and I want you to draw out everything it will let you take. And I want you to tomorrow, and I want you to go Sunday. I was convinced on Friday night that if you put a plastic card in an ATM machine the last thing you were going to get was cash."

Seems like this whole thing after the meetings about Covid-19 would be consistent with Burr’s past, y’know?

We’re going to point out how much of an extremist that Richard Burr is, as well, in terms of his policy stances, including his desire to privatize Social Security, his belief in life beginning at conception, (i.e. Personhood) and his lifetime 100% rating from the NRA on gun rights (more on some of the specific votes where he did their bidding for large sums of campaign donations below). On the Supreme Court, he isn’t much more mellow, having not just voted for Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, but making it clear that he’d vote for the latter even if the allegations of Christine Blasey Ford were proven in the Senate. Which, only a few years earlier, during 2016 while Mitch McConnell, Burr, and other Republicans were blocking the nomination of Merrick Garland, Richard Burr was promising to block the nomination of Supreme Court Justices for ALL FOUR YEARS of a prospective Clinton presidency.

We had hypothesized whether Richard Burr might resign or be flat out indicted before his term is up in 2022, and that’s why we’re not surprised to report he announced he would not be running for re-election in the mid-terms. With nothing to lose regarding electoral consequences, we’ll note that on his way out the door, Sen. Burr has gone ahead to do things like vote to convict Donald Trump for his role in the 1/6 riot. At least we can’t disagree with that. But we’re still going to give him our finest “GOOD RIDDANCE” salutes, because of, y’know, all the other stuff.

[Tendrin]

Please don't be disingenuous. I wasn't saying Sullivan shouldn't be taken seriously because he objects to the book. It was the ridiculously over-the-top and patently false manner in which he did so that caused him to lose whatever credibility he might still have remaining with somebody, somewhere.

Nobody should take Andrew 'Where did I leave my calipers' Sullivan seriously anyway., His embrace of race science and TERFism alone ought to be enough to make anyone with an ounce of moral integrity back away.

[worstblogever]

Nobody should take Andrew 'Where did I leave my calipers' Sullivan seriously anyway., His embrace of race science and TERFism alone ought to be enough to make anyone with an ounce of moral integrity back away.

It's getting harder to show any respect for any conservative anymore. Like, they've embraced the worst things to the extent that we're talking about them being more ridiculous than Stephen Colbert's parody of conservatism from a decade ago.

They're just bigoted clowns with insane ideas that get people killed not just for profit, but seemingly for cruelty's sake alone in many instances.

I'm wondering why this shouldn't become the American narrative of them. Like, the way Michelle Bachmann went from an idea for a presidential candidate to a laughing stock of the nation in 2012, but for all of 'em.

And we shouldn't be mocking them out of hate, but to laugh them out of the room like they deserve. Boo 'em and laugh at 'em, but most importantly, vote them into irrelevance.

[Kirby101]

This is the game the Republicans play, one that our resident conservative seems eager to join in. While we face the very real and great threats of Climate Change, a crumbling infrastructure and gross income inequity (among other problems), they want to make the issue CRT and transgender bathrooms.
Stopping action on real issues by manufacturing fake issues.

[CaptainEurope]

4 arrested at Denver, Colorado, Hotel, police feared a ‘Las Vegas style shooting' during All-Star Game in Denver
Sources tell Denver7 16 long guns, body armor and 1,000+ rounds of ammo found inside hotel room.

Very good on the maid who spotted the weapons and prevented a massacre. Turns out you don't need a good guy with a gun, you need a good gal with a vacuum cleaner and common sense.

[Kirby101]

4 arrested at Denver, Colorado, Hotel, police feared a ‘Las Vegas style shooting' during All-Star Game in Denver
Sources tell Denver7 16 long guns, body armor and 1,000+ rounds of ammo found inside hotel room.

Very good on the maid who spotted the weapons and prevented a massacre. Turns out you don't need a good guy with a gun, you need a good gal with a vacuum cleaner and common sense.

Speaking of Denver, wasn't that were a "good guy with a gun" who stopped an active shooter was then gunned down by police?