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

[numberthirty]

So, no consequences for insurrection if you are in Congress. That will stop them from doing it again. For sure.

And whether he gets indicted or not??? Getting away with that crap isn't justice.

Yes...

If they do not actually have a case, they do not have a case.

(Which is the entire reason that they should take however long it takes to put a solid case together...)

Would not be the first time justice would not really have been served.

[Kirby101]

Would not be the first time justice would not really have been served.

This becomes more apparent every day.

[Xheight]

Beto O'Rourke raises $2 million in first 24 hours of launching gubernatorial campaign
Will be one long expensive race

HuffPost Politics
March 18, 2019 ·
Beto O’Rourke received more money within the first 24 hours of his 2020 campaign than any other Democratic presidential candidate so far.

money doesn't always equal success

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Paul Gosar has just been Censored and taken off of his Committees. His brother, speaking on MSNBC, would like him to be expelled and, if warranted, indicted for criminal actions.

However, 207 members of the House were perfectly fine with Gosar’s video threatening harm to AOC. Shows you where their heads are at.

[Xheight]

However, 207 members of the House were perfectly fine with Gosar’s video threatening harm to AOC. Shows you where their heads are at.

video threatening harm to AOC? Perhaps making light of harm to her but threating? Hyperbole.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

video threatening harm to AOC? Perhaps making light of harm to her but threating? Hyperbole.

Given what happened months ago where people stormed into Capitol with ideas to kill members of Congress and possibly the Vice President ; maybe its not the best move to post an anime cartoon of your wet dream to murder someone. Because they are a young woman who disagrees with your politics.


Again maybe its just common f'n sense here.

[numberthirty]

video threatening harm to AOC? Perhaps making light of harm to her but threating? Hyperbole.

Since they easily get paid enough to actually behave liked adults while they are on the taxpayer's dime?

Even the "Hot Garbage..." excuse that you are attempting to float does not cut it.

"Hyperbole..." is a non-issue.

[BeastieRunner]

Given what happened months ago where people stormed into Capitol with ideas to kill members of Congress and possibly the Vice President ; maybe its not the best move to post an anime cartoon of your wet dream to murder someone. Because they are a young woman who disagrees with your politics.


Again maybe its just common f'n sense here.

Since they easily get paid enough to actually behave liked adults while they are on the taxpayer's dime?

Even the "Hot Garbage..." excuse that you are attempting to float does not cut it.

"Hyperbole..." is a non-issue.

There was a day and age when if you even joked about harming an elected official, you got in loads of legal issues.

I guess those days are long past now.

[Mister Mets]

There was a day and age when if you even joked about harming an elected official, you got in loads of legal issues.

I guess those days are long past now.

Do you think it was a good thing when people who were making jokes got into loads of legal issues?

[WestPhillyPunisher]

video threatening harm to AOC? Perhaps making light of harm to her but threating? Hyperbole.

Did you call Kathy Griffin’s asinine stunt with the bloody Trump mask “hyperbole”, or did you go ballistic like Qpublicans did back in 2017?

[Kirby101]

AOC was targeted for death on Jan. 6th during an insurrection Gosar helped instigate. She still get death threats. There are people who think she is part of a grand conspiracy who think she should be killed. And a member of Congress they listen to puts out a video of him killing her. But it's all a light hearted joke?
Give me a fucking break! How can people excuse this?

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” ran a profile of Victoria Jackson, who since her days as a performer on Saturday Night Live has gone madder than a hatter wearing a top hat full of s***house rats. She ran for office in Tennessee to be a county commissioner, for whatever reason, but since 2008 Jackson has, without comedic intent, used her celebrity (or former celebrity) to tell people about how Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ, a communist who enslaved African-Americans again, just like Hitler, and had allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate our government. Obviously, she took the news that he won a second term poorly, and said that “America died”. She also railed against an episode of Glee for featuring two gay characters kissing, defended Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” remarks, compared the Sandy Hook Massacre to abortion, and complains about the lack of a White History Month. She has not been on the ballot for several years now, and people still honestly aren’t sure if her uber-conservative persona is a parody of actual conservatives, or she’s serious and really that insane.


In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and in 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” posted profiles of Jake Anderegg, a Utah State Senator who sponsored HB 391, the Utah GOP’s effort to prohibit the Medicaid Expansion in their state, and keep much needed federal dollars out of the hands of their citizens back in March of 2013. Early into Anderegg’s first term, he was the subject of controversy when he and the President of the Utah State Senate Wayne Niederhouser started joking around on Twitter about how the men’s room at the capitol was always occupied, and Anderegg joked that he was strongly considering a gender identity change so that he could use the women’s restroom, instead. CzawthlorUnder oath, he finally admitted to going 60 to 65 MPH, but not after fighting, kicking, and screaming about “entrapment” and “revenue generation” by the local police, which really doesn't amount to much when you're flaunting traffic laws by double the posted speed limit. But in late June 2015, when he drafted a bill that would will “end government agencies’ involvement in issuing marriage licenses.” In other words, if gays could get married, then NO ONE could. The historic implications of this are the real kicker, as many critics noted it was similar to the disgusting reaction many Southern politicians who were in favor of segregation had after finding out they would need to integrate schools, and instead decided to close them so neither white, nor black children could attend. And when you place yourself in the company of bigots of that caliber, well, congratulations, you win a CSGOPOTD profile. We have little to update on Anderegg, save for the fact that he was throwing cold water on Mormons who were suggesting a protest vote, and rallying around Evan McMullin in the 2016 elections, and telling them to stand with Donald Trump. Anderegg, who so staunchly wants to defend the sanctity of marriage from gay people, rallied them around an admitted serial sexual predator who has committed adultery multiple times on his three wives, and boasted about it. And, we're filled with sadness and loathing to point out that Anderegg managed to casually run for re-election in the Utah State Senate in 2016, and was handed victory because no one bothered to run against him, whatsoever, in the primary of the general election.

Now, Utah voters in 2018 got the chance to vote themselves on the expansion of Medicaid, as a ballot initiative leaves it up to the good people of Utah to vote on this year. And, it passed. Time will tell if Jake Anderegg promised that the Republican state legislature would simply repeal the law in the state legislature if it passed or not, when the new session starts. Make no mistake, Anderegg is obsessed with conservative dogma, and will defy the will of the people if he’s empowered to do so (in other words, he’s a real s***ty politician).

Anderegg throws a tantrum whenever anything is done by the government to help people, including the fit he threw after Utah voters voted to expand Medicaid statewide, but he argued that voters in HIS district didn’t, so why bother? Oh, and a slightly smaller complaint as he was in the minority of State Senators who voted against a bill to create affordable housing in the state.

Jake Anderegg was allowed to run for re-election unopposed in 2020. He of course, like a f***ing moron looking to get people killed, advocating to undo measures taken by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert to stop the spread of Covid-19. Y’know, when the rate of infection and daily deaths are at their highest peak since the crisis started. Mind you, two months later, the anti-mask idiocy came home to roost for him when the Utah capitol got invaded by scientifically ignorant anti-mask "activists" that forced the Utah State Senate to shut down a committee meeting due to violations of protocol that put him and his co-workers at risk.

At least three more years of this malicious ideologue. Just… goddamn it.
 

[Tendrin]

Did you call Kathy Griffin’s asinine stunt with the bloody Trump mask “hyperbole”, or did you go ballistic like Qpublicans did back in 2017?

Lots of conservatives whined about that, yeah, which is funny in light of the decades of conservative 'jokes' about murdering liberals, hitting them with their cars, running over protestors, and more all of which has now arrived in the very halls of power itself bluntly rather than tacitly acknowledged.

Making light of violence is one of the tools that are used to enable real violence. It's about creating an aura of permission. It's how get from 'liberal hunting' licenses to a right wing attempted coup.

[Gray Lensman]

Paul Gosar has just been Censored and taken off of his Committees. His brother, speaking on MSNBC, would like him to be expelled and, if warranted, indicted for criminal actions.

Although when you look closer at Attack on Titan it is remarkably on point, but not for the reasons Gosar thinks.

The Titans were created by the political class the protagonists fight for - the entire situation the show starts in is basically an "own goal" from the rulers of the place.

People should really know the story behind the memes they put out there. Gosar already looked like a psychopath, once you know the story he was cribbing from he looks like a stupid psychopath.

[kidfresh512]

Although when you look closer at Attack on Titan it is remarkably on point, but not for the reasons Gosar thinks.

The Titans were created by the political class the protagonists fight for - the entire situation the show starts in is basically an "own goal" from the rulers of the place.

People should really know the story behind the memes they put out there. Gosar already looked like a psychopath, once you know the story he was cribbing from he looks like a stupid psychopath.

I know the right hate her and like to make her the boogie man of all lefty evils. But, in what world do people defending this live in? What jobs do people currently have where you could do anything similar without HR coming down on you or getting fired?

Could you post up a picture in your breakroom of you fake stabbing a coworker and then turning on your boss because you hate them?

It is very simple ethical proposition that most companies will have. And why would we expect any less of elected officials in Congress.

Especially given the fact that we have already seen how the GOP base will act on January 6. Gosar and others can't claim "joke" or oh he deleted it what's the big deal. When you KNOW there are a scary number of your base that legit tried to hunt down your coworkers and killed officers trying to get to them.

If AOC is so bad at her job, her policies so wrong, why do the opposition resort to the most base childish attacks? Debate her bad policies with yours. Tweet that! They never do it because they don't have any.