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

[WestPhillyPunisher]

There’s definitely an ulterior motive. There’s no way Hannity suddenly cares about the well-being of others and “trusts the science”.

The Fox bosses see the writing on the wall. Now that there’s literally a vaccine for the virus there’s no one left to blame for the rise in cases except the misinformation campaigns. Also the largest rises in cases are in the states with the majority of Fox News viewers.

And that's probably to be followed by lawsuits from victims of Faux News misinformation.

[Tami]

In all fairness, aren't all rockets somewhat phallic-shaped?

Not really

[Mister Mets]

There’s definitely an ulterior motive. There’s no way Hannity suddenly cares about the well-being of others and “trusts the science”.

The Fox bosses see the writing on the wall. Now that there’s literally a vaccine for the virus there’s no one left to blame for the rise in cases except the misinformation campaigns. Also the largest rises in cases are in the states with the majority of Fox News viewers.

He could also want to differentiate himself from Carlson.

Though there may be a larger right-wing panic about the delta variant. Scalise just got vaccinated too.

[Tami]

He could also want to differentiate himself from Carlson.

Though there may be a larger right-wing panic about the delta variant. Scaliness just got vaccinated too.

If more and more Fox News Personalities begin switching gears and advocating vaccinations, then the chances would be very good that the higher ups are pushing them to do so.

[worstblogever]

If more and more Fox News Personalities begin switching gears and advocating vaccinations, then the chances would be very good that the higher ups are pushing them to do so.

There's a pretty clear indicator that those brainless twits have their talking points written from up on high in the network, given interviews with previous employees who have left and discussed how they invent a narrative and buzzwords and are asked to work it in to each show's broadcast. There's a whole documentary about it... and this was in 2004, before they truly went off the rails from '06 through '09 when the left started to rise, and then how they drove their viewers crazier and crazier from about 2012 on.

That documentary didn't even begin to touch on Roger Ailes' treatment of women at the top of Fox News.

[Castle]

So looks like Larry Elder is running for California governor. go figure. I sure hope he does not get very far. I have always found African American men like him very dangerous, because he has made a living been nothing more but a mouthpiece for white supremacy.

[worstblogever]

So looks like Larry Elder is running for California governor. go figure. I sure hope he does not get very far. I have always found African American men like him very dangerous, because he has made a living been nothing more but a mouthpiece for white supremacy.

This would be the same Larry Elder who isn't just libertarian-wing Republican, he's argued that there was a double standard that rappers get to use the N-word but golfer Fuzzy Zoeller lost $2 million in endorsements after using a slur to describe Tiger Woods.

*adds him to the CSGOPOTD queue*

[worstblogever]

Back in 2014, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published our profile of the former shamed Speaker of the House and 2012 Presidential Candidate, Newt Gingrich, a race-baiting, egomaniacal hypocrite who was the poster-child of the Republican Red Wave back in 1994 that took over Congress, and immediately went about setting standards for partisanship that we’ve come to see from the GOP today. Under his watch there were two separate government shutdowns, and after a series of witch hunts against President Clinton, Newt finally thought Clinton’s dishonesty about cheating on his wife was enough to wield a hammer to try and impeach him. This from a supposed “Family Values Republican “ who himself has been married 3 times, and handed his second wife divorce paperwork while she was in a hospital bed with cancer, and his mistress (now third wife) waited in the hall. Newt’s 2012 campaign had several bizarre moments, like when he said he was “bit by a penguin”, or how he promised that America would colonize the moon by the end of his second term in office, and in spite of that, for a time he actually managed to pull ahead of Mitt Romney in the polls. In the end, Newt not only came up short in votes, but in cash, as of April 2015, his long-deceased presidential campaign from three years earlier still was $4-5 million in debt (no word on where that number is these days).

In 2015, in 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Greg Heartsill, a member of the Iowa House of Representatives who has represented District 28 in Iowa now since 2012. We noted that Heartsill was also making some noise as a member of Ted Cruz’s leadership team in his bid to win the 2016 Presidential election, and how in his first term in office, he had filed legislation to allow a doctor performing an abortion to be sued for malpractice if their patient simply felt regret over the entire decade following the procedure. Heartsill also demanded school conferences for LGBTQ Youth regarding bullying be cancelled, because he claimed “obscene” materials would be passed out to students, and speakers might use profanity. However, when quizzed by the media as to what the LGBTQ acronym even stood for, Heartsill was unable to do so. This embarrassing gaffe still did not deter him, and Heartsill sent a letter out to all school superintendents in Iowa to gather the attendance numbers for all faculty, staff, and students in attendance, as well as a list of the costs so he could work towards defunding the event in the future. We covered Heartsill’s issue positions, including his support for Fetal Personhood, so there’s also that. As much as he was terrified of the thought of school children being exposed to lectures about being more accepting of fellow youths who were LGBTQ, what Heartsill isn’t afraid of is letting those same children start packing heat. That’s right, Greg Heartsill voted for Iowa’s HF 2281, a bill to authorize kids under 14 to be allowed to possess a handgun. We’re sure no kids will be hit by a stray bullet, but hopefully they’ll be able to dodge all those dreaded kind words about gay kids, though. That’s what you’ve really got to watch out for. Heartsill spent his last term in office on his Evangelical crusade attacking a woman’s right to choose, voting to strip funding from Iowa Planned Parenthood clinics, and trying to place a ban on abortion at 20 weeks. We do, however, have some great news… Heartsill announced he wouldn’t run for office again in March of 2018, and Iowa is far better off without this homophobe in its legislature.

On this date in 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Janice Arnold-Jones, former four-term member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, a failed candidate for Governor of New Mexico in 2010 who only got 3% of the vote in that race, and failed in her first attempt to get elected to Congress in 2012 against Democratic Congresswoman Michelle Lujan-Grisham. Arnold-Jones went mostly quiet for six years, but emerged as Republican candidate who ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in New Mexico’s 1st Congressoinal District in 2018, in the hopes that she could flip the district after Lujan-Grisham would run for Governor of New Mexico. Her opponent, coming out of the Democratic primary, was Deb Haaland, who was seeking to become the first Native American woman to serve in Congress. Honestly, there isn’t a lot of extremism in Arnold-Jones’ record as a legislator, save for the times she voted against bills aimed at curbing domestic violence, not just in terms of creating a commission to decrease it, but a bill that would block domestic abusers from becoming members of New Mexico law enforcement. We will note, however, she also voted against just domestic partnerships, let alone her opinion on same sex marriage. The worst rhetoric you would see coming from her direction would be standard GOP lies about the Affordable Care Act “killing jobs”, Of course, the election did not go well because Janice Arnold-Jones decided the best way to chip into the lead that Deb Haaland had in the early polls would be to go on Fox News “correct the record” about Haaland’s heritage, and insinuate that she wasn’t actually a Native American and instead, “belonged on a pueblo”. And for those not aware, New Mexico has one of the highest Native American populations in the country, so having a blonde, blue-eyed lady like Arnold-Jones go on Fox News to whine to another blonde, blue-eyed lady about if people “belong on a reservation or a pueblo” didn’t exactly sit well. She only ended up mustering 36% of the vote.

On this date in 2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled William Figlesthaler, a urologist who ran for U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 19th Congressional District that year. Figlesthaler had the best funded campaign of the nine Republicans in the race, but that’s mostly by pooling his own money (and his Russian-born wife’s money…interesting) into his campaign in the six-figure range. Still, he has turned some heads by going with the unique strategy of advertising his campaign above urinals… meaning he definitely won’t be getting a large chunk of the votes of women. Now, while we’re not sure if a guy who checks prostates would necessarily be a good addition to the Republican caucus unless he was running on the concept of removing members of his party from Donald Trump’s ass, we have some definite concerns with Figlesthaler. And it’s not just that he looks like he’s whatever preceded Donald Trump’s doctor in a Pokemon evolution. You see, on June 14th, 2020, Figlesthaler referred to the Democratic Party as a “criminal enterprise that is destroying our country from within”, which are bold words from a man whose party just spent the past four years looking the other way at the long, long trail of evidence of criminal behavior from its president. But maybe if Dr. Fig (his nickname for himself, we didn’t give it to him) actually gave a fig about criminal behavior, he wouldn’t have been caught lying about one of his campaign employees having a criminal record when being asked about it by the press. Or, y’know, that he had a business partner back in 2012 at his urology office who was busted for child pornography. We should also point out that Figlesthaler married his Russian born wife, but supports anti-immigration efforts like Trump’s stupid border wall on the U.S./Mexico border and echoes his comments about “criminals and rapists” coming across it. Figlesthaler, in spite of injecting his own cash into the race, finished fourth out of a possible nine candidates in the race, and as he seems to be done running for political office, we’ll set aside his profile at this time to cover another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1006-50, since this was established in July 2014.

[worstblogever]

Gary Heyer

Welcome to what is the 1006th original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Gary Heyer, whose background prior to 2020 was being a GOP delegate at the 2012 RNC who supported Ron Paul (which is a real window into how kooky this is gonna get), was, for a time, a 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District, before he realized he didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning that against Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips if he even escaped the GOP Primary, so instead he ran for the Minnesota House of Representatives in District 50B of that body.

Our reason for profiling Heyer is that he is yet the latest in our long line of Qanon conspiracy theorists who took a run at running for office in 2020 as Republicans. While Heyer originally tried registering to run for Congress as an independent, and referred to himself as an “Independent Qanon Candidate” on his Twitter profile, he truly was preaching the Q gospel, and we mean that literally, as he posted images of himself outside his local church trying to help people join “the Great Awakening”, which really does make it sound like a cult. Heyer added to the stupidity by telling the press that Covid-19 would be solved by herd immunity. Because of course he didn’t just have one stupid take on things.

Gary Heyer lost his race to get elected to the Minnesota state legislature, getting just 37% of the vote. We are crossing our fingers that that will be his only attempt at reaching elected office.

[Malvolio]

He could also want to differentiate himself from Carlson.

Though there may be a larger right-wing panic about the delta variant. Scaliness just got vaccinated too.

That's funny. Auto-correct changed Scalise to Scaliness.

[Castle]

This would be the same Larry Elder who isn't just libertarian-wing Republican, he's argued that there was a double standard that rappers get to use the N-word but golfer Fuzzy Zoeller lost $2 million in endorsements after using a slur to describe Tiger Woods.

*adds him to the CSGOPOTD queue*

I don't seem him as a libertarian, he is a FULL on Trump MAGA Supporter and a white supremacist apologist.

Ironic he would misinterpret rappers who use the N word. Last I remember, rappers use the n word, because they took a word that was very offensive and degrading and they tried to use it to enpower themselves. I am guessing that Fuzzy Zoeller used it more a slur for tiger woods. so the comparison is just silly and tone deaf.

Also to show what a awful human being Larry Elder is, he once equated the N word to calling a person a fat. he o said there was a time when a woman called him the n word, but when next he saw the woman, she was calling another person fat....so to him, she was not racist but just an angry lady in general.

this is the nonsense this guy spills and he does it court a very white racist right wing audience, who votes he is going to chase. he is no different from Candace Owens or whatever her name is.

I hope he never gets near any political sit.

[worstblogever]

Didn't want to let this story slide by, and stop me if you've heard this one before but... a longtime Trump associate was indicted, this time Tom Barrack. The billionaire via an energy investment background was Chair of his Inaugural Committee, and one of his advisers... who was operating as a foreign agent illegally. Barrack was doing the bidding of the United Arab Emirates to affect U.S. policy with the Saudis and Qatar, and at one point the UAE handed over a speech Trump gave regarding energy policy through Barrack during his 2016 campaign. They also wanted to set up a Trump Tower meeting to discuss things they could do in 2016 to help get Trump elected... similar to what the Russians did.

Barrack could lead to some scrutiny for Don Jr. and Jared Kushner, who he also tied into a lot of his dealings.

[worstblogever]

I don't seem him as a libertarian, he is a FULL on Trump MAGA Supporter and a white supremacist apologist.

Ironic he would misinterpret rappers who use the N word. Last I remember, rappers use the n word, because they took took a word that was very offensive and degrading and they tried to use it to enpower themselves. I am guessing that Fuzzy Zoeller used it more a slur for tiger woods. so the comparison is just silly and tone deaf.

Also to show what a awful human being Larry Elder is, he once equated the N word to calling a person a fat. he o said there was a time when a woman called him the n word, but when next he saw the woman, she was calling another person fat....so to me, she was not racist but just an angry lady in general.

this is the nonsense this guy spills and he does it court a very white racist audience, who votes he is going to chase. he is no different from Candace Owens or whatever her name is.

I hope he never gets near any political sit.

The articles that DON'T talk about Larry Elder as a controversial figure note he's a fan of Ayn Rand and Aldous Huxley, and his libertarian views... more so...

I found multiple articles discussing times when there were active campaigns to get Elder thrown off of the radio... that dated back as far as 1997. Like, he's been loathed enough to cause protests in LA for a quarter century. He's there trying to be on the recall ballot not to win, but to get his talking points out to stir up racial tension at the bidding of Dennis Prager of the white nationalist revisionist history group PragerU. They don't think he's gonna win, they just want to troll African Americans with a guy who's enraged his own people for a quarter century.

I stopped digging, because I have a feeling now that he's on the ballot, someone else will do the legwork for me and give one nice supercut of offensive s*** he's said.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

So, between Elder and Caitlyn Jenner, the governor's race in California figures to be a straight up clown show. Hopefully, those morons won't be taken seriously as candidates and flame out early.

[The Cool Thatguy]

So, between Elder and Caitlyn Jenner, the governor's race in California figures to be a straight up clown show. Hopefully, those morons won't be taken seriously as candidates and flame out early.

I thought Jenner bowed out?