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

[The Cool Thatguy]

They appealed to these people for their votes. Now they have taken over their party. Zero sympathy.

But who could have foreseen a monster they created turning on them? That's never happened before, in real life or fiction!

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I'm more curious why trump named his son Barron. John Barron was one of the alias trump used in the 80s and 90s.

I’ve always been under the impression Trump named his son after the financial magazine. If that were the case, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.

The role of violent threats in Trump’s GOP reign, according to Republicans

Qpublicans created this monster when they climbed in bed with Trump. Now the beast has turned on them, and they’re scared to death because they can’t control it. Thoughts and prayers, yo!

[Tami]

I’ve always been under the impression Trump named his son after the financial magazine. If that were the case, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.



Qpublicans created this monster when they climbed in bed with Trump. Now the beast has turned on them, and they’re scared to death because they can’t control it. Thoughts and prayers, yo!

This poses an interesting question. We know how Don Jr got his name, obviously. Ivanka was named after her mother. Tiffany probably got her name because of the famous company that represent luxury and expensive jewelry. If Barron was named after wither the Business magazine or after his father's alter ego, then where did Eric get his name from?

[JB]

CNN staffer indicted on charges of enticing minors into 'unlawful sexual activity'
https://gazette.com/news/cnn-staffer...3a7a98695.html

John Griffin, a CNN producer who has since been suspended, was indicted by a grand jury in Vermont of "using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity." The Department of Justice said Griffin used the texting app Kik and Google Hangouts to coerce women into letting him teach their underage daughters how to be "sexually subservient" to men, claiming "women are women, regardless of age."

[WestPhillyPunisher]

This poses an interesting question. We know how Don Jr got his name, obviously. Ivanka was named after her mother. Tiffany probably got her name because of the famous company that represent luxury and expensive jewelry. If Barron was named after wither the Business magazine or after his father's alter ego, then where did Eric get his name from?

Good question. Given his vanity, you’d think Trump would’ve been like George Foreman and named all his sons Donald.

[Jack Dracula]

The role of violent threats in Trump’s GOP reign, according to Republicans

No, I'm calling BS. I don't believe their excuses. What party did they think they belonged to? We're supposed to believe they were unfamiliar with the morality of the base they pandered to in order to get elected?

[Tami]

If states can shield their laws from review by federal courts, then CA will use that authority to help protect lives.

We will work to create the ability for private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or parts in CA.

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Let's see how the SCOTUS handles this.

[Iron Maiden]

And even if Trump were to go on trial and wound up sentenced, he’ll file endless appeals to stave off prison until he’s too old to make it worth anyone’s while. I’ve said the one thing Trump fears more than the loss of his wealth is the loss of his freedom, so he’ll do anything to avoid incarceration, something he doesn’t have the mental makeup to handle, not even if he’s sent to a country club lockup. He’d Epstein himself rather than do time.

A fine would probably hurt Trump a lot more if it were hefty enough. He had to shell out $25 or $30 million for the Trump University fraud a while back but I don't think that's going to happen here. And anyway he just got rid of the Washington DC hotel lease for about $300 million or so.

[Tendrin]

Oh WBE-Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....

NEWBERRY, S.C. —
A South Carolina state representative has been indicted on two charges, one accusing him of providing alcohol to an underage female.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced Friday that State Rep. Richard “Rick” Ansel Martin, R-Newberry, has been indicted by a Newberry County Grand Jury on charges of misconduct in office and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

https://www.wyff4.com/article/newber...rged/38484837#

[worstblogever]

On this date, in 2014, in 2015, and in 2016, "Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day" published profiles of Jim Hagedorn, who has twice failed to get elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Minnesota's 1st District. His credentials are being a former CEO for Miracle Gro and... well, the classic GOP nepotism of being the son of a former Congressman himself. The problem with Hagedorn was he had a habit of writing to the "Bluestern Prairie", where he offered a variety of politically incorrect thoughts about gays, minorities, and Democrats. Things like calling Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell "undeserving bimbos in tennis shoes", calling former Congressman Herb Kohl a "switch-hitter" and "packer", echoing John Wayne's sentiment that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian", and discussing an election between Mike Taylor and Max Baucus by using imagery about fisting and lubication. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Hagedorn was too controversial to get elected to the House in 2014 against Democrat Tim Walz, and in 2016, Hagedorn actually wanted a rematch, hoping people would just forget about all his controversial remarks if he kept his nose clean for two more years. Hagedorn was wrong, and still lost, this time at least in a much closer affair by only about 2500 votes. This had a lot to do with Hagedorn accusing Walz of “letting terrorists in”, because he supports refugees being settled in the United States who might just be Muslim. That takes some balls, given that Walz has served in National Guard for 25 years. But hey, we’re talking about Jim Hagedorn here, who took time to deride Black Lives Matter in the debate between the two for virtually no reason other than race-baiting. Hagedorn is currently in Congress, serving Minnesota's 1st Congressional District.

It was on this date in 2017 that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Dan Johnson, a church bishop who in 2016, won election to the Kentucky House of Representatives by 156 votes. This was in spite of the fact that Johnson is an extreme enough bigot that the head of the Kentucky GOP even condemned him. Over several Facebook posts, Johnson had the delightful habit of comparing the Obama family to apes. There also was the part where Johnson called for a ban of the religion of Islam in the United States (Heard of the First Amendment, Dan?), or the numerous times that he posted images of the Confederate flag. Johnson cites the fact that a sign hangs outside his church that says, “Jesus and this church are not politically correct,” while insisting he’s not racist because as he puts it, “I love America. I love people. I believe red, yellow, black and white, all are precious in God's sight. I'm not a racist. I'd like to know first off, what images that are being considered offensive. It wasn't meant to be racist. I can tell you that. My history's good there. I can see how people would be offended in that. I wasn't trying to offend anybody, but, I think Facebook's entertaining.” Considering Johnson also mixed a lot of pro-gun messaging into the Gospels of Jesus, maybe he wasn’t up to snuff on his scripture. However, Dan Johnson was accused of molesting a girl who attended his church in 2012, when she was only 16 years old. He of course, claimed that the accusation was “politically motivated”. But where there was smoke, there was a lot more fire coming, because before a local media expose broke detailing how rowdy and inappropriate the behavior around Johnson’s parish actually was, he committed suicide rather than face justice in court. His widow then tried running for his seat in the special election to replace him and lost.

On this date in 2018, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profile, where we’ll be talking about Nick Sauer, a former member of the Illinois House of Representatives who served one term in office after winning election in 2016 through the benefit of getting to run for the state legislature unopposed. When you read Sauer’s biography, the entire thing reeks of entitlement and his being earmarked by senior Republicans for advancement. Whether it was working in Bush 43’s Department of Commerce, to him being elevated time and again in races for the Illinois Board of Education, then to the state legislature, and then his placement on both the State Toll Highway Authority, and a key position on a Illinois House of Representatives Committee aimed at curtailing sexual harassment at the state capitol. That last one comes with a big ol’ spoonful of hypocrisy because only weeks after his placement on a committee in the state legislature to combat sexual harassment, when Nick Sauer himself was accused of posting nude photos of his ex-girlfriend online, and catfish other men that she was looking for sex, so that those men would send her harassing messages asking for sexual favors. Or, as prosecutors in Illinois refer to it, Nick Sauer committed “a felony charge of revenge porn”. Once the news broke, a college roommate of Sauer’s came forward, and claimed he was a “predator of the highest order” who had victimized “dozens” of other people, detailing an incident that took place between himself and Sauer where the young Republican attacked him, unprovoked, with an electric razor, taking a chunk of his hair from his scalp and prompting a scuffle. Once Sauer started to realize he was about to get his *** kicked, he said, “it doesn’t look that bad”. Sauer waited a few days, then deleted the majority of his social media accounts, leaving only his Instagram up but on “private” and resigned in disgrace. We’ll set aside his profile at this time to go ahead and take a look at a different kooky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 806-40, since this was established in July 2014.

On this date in 2019, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Mark Harris, a pastor who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in 2014, and in 2016, missed out on his shot to upset Congressman Robert Pittenger by all of 900 votes. Part of the reason that folks might not have been elevating Mark Harris to victory could have been that he would blurt out some pretty ludicrous Evangelical fever-dreams, like the time that he promised there wouldn’t be “peace in Israel until Jews and Muslims convert to Christianity”, In 2018, however, Harris was not messing around, recruiting some of the dirtiest players in North Carolina on his campaign staff to make sure he was going to beat Pittenger and any Democratic challenger that emerged in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, hiring a chap by the name of McRae Dowless who was known to do things that were decidedly not legal to help whatever campaign he worked on. As such, when Harris then beat Pittenger by about 900 votes, Pittenger and his campaign staff notified the authorities about exactly the sorts of shenanigans McRae Dowless was up to, specifically, that he and his staff would collect absentee ballots from people in the district, and fill those ballots out to “help” the voters, going down the line and voting for anyone who was paying Dowless. The evidence of chicanery is pretty obvious, considering that somehow Harris won 437 of a possible 456 votes in Bladen County, where Dowless worked his magic. During the general election, investigators became aware of Dowless’ scheme for Harris’ benefit, and even though Mark Harris “won” North Carolina’s 9th by 905 votes over Democrat Cal Cunningham, his victory was never certified by the North Carolina election board and he was never sworn in to serve in Congress. The press began to report on the scandal, and Harris tried dismissing the accusations as “slander” made up by the “liberal media”, who were just reporting on things that even North Carolina Republicans were acknowledging. He also pleaded with judges to just declare him the winner, despite all the blantant voter fraud committed. As investigations intensified, Harris fled from the press at every stop, including one prolific moment where he was believed to have pulled a fire alarm to cover his escape. At the trial in February of 2019, Harris own son confirmed his father was aware of McCrae Dowless’ scheme, and that he warned his father against committing election fraud. That probably had a lot to do with why Mark Harris did not join the field in the special “do-over” election for North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. At least he has a career as a pastor to fall back on, but people might wonder about his honesty. As hiring a criminal to commit election fraud on his behalf seems to have ended his political aspirations.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Christine Scott, a 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, looking to knock off Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch. Without irony, she responded to Ballotpedia’s candidate survey with the question “Who do you look up to?” by answering, “I look up to Trump. He plows forward no matter the criticism. He is not afraid to take a stand and to do what is right and best for the United States. He takes very unfavorable positions which most people would not have the backbone to take. He cares about Americans first. Our country had been losing itself and politicians were simply saying that was the way it would be...until Trump. His choices are sound and fearless. I would like to follow after his example because we need true Americans who are willing to fight for the health of our country and our people. I like that he tweets. He needed a way to get his message to the people and he found one. If the media was not so corrupt, he would not have been forced to find an alternative. His approach was innovative and is effective. I respect that he found a solution. It is not a popularity contest. It is a job of running the country for the American people. He consistently remembers why he is in office. I respect that he addressed corruption issues regarding Biden's son and the abuse of Biden for using his office for personal gain instead of for the betterment of our citizens. You must investigate, even if the person who is corrupt is running for President, not because he is running. The two scenarios are different.” Now, liking what Donald Trump does on Twitter might seem a bit over the top, echoing Trump’s attacks on journalists is a concern, but note that at the end of that rambling mess of a statement, she transitions into delving into the Hunter Biden conspiracy theory seamlessly with the sort of pathological fanaticism that’s a hallmark of Trump Republicans. It’s not the only conspiracy theory she was a fan of, either, as Christine Scott was yet another Republican running for Congress in 2020 who was a Qanon supporter. It was pretty evident given she put the Qanon slogan out in the open on her campaign webpage. Christine Scott was disqualified from the ballot prior to the Republican Primaryfor apparently failing to complete the proper paperwork or pay for fees necessary to register as a candidate and responded to that exactly as a sane person would, filing a lawsuit against everyone within the Florida state government. Those lawsuits were as fruitful as her hero Trump’s legal challenges to the election. As she seems highly unlikely to ever reach office, we will set aside her profile to cover another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1052-50, since this was established in July 2014.


Christine Quinn

Welcome to what is the 1052nd original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discusisng Christine Quinn a candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 14th Congressional District in 2016, 2018, and 2020, who was looking to knock off Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Castor. Quinn is yet the latest in our long, long line of Republicans who ran for office in 2020 who campaigned and fundraised while touting the Qanon conspiracy theory.

She currently is suing two men who she paid travel expenses for to fly to Washington, D.C. and take part in the attack on the Capitol, who, big surprise, had no intention of ever paying her back. But hey, wouldn’t a great member of Congress be someone who’s duped into funding domestic terrorists? Truly, quality Republicans running for office all over the country these days. Not for nothing, Quinn was also in attendance on January 6th, and claims that the people who attacked Congress were actually “Antifa”.

Keep in mind, she also supports Donald Trump’s f***ing useless idea for a border wall on the U.S./Mexico border because she thinks illegal immigrants are coming into the country, somehow appearing in San Francisco, and causing outbreaks of tuberculosis there, against all factual evidence of any kind. She also thinks Donald Trump has “military experience” because he went to military school. She’s… well… an easily duped dope. Among her other baffling, non-reality based “beliefs” include her doubts the U.S. never found WMDs in Iraq after invading, and she responds to the “Black Lives Matter” movement with “ALL LIVES MATTER”.

Christine Quinn has twice advanced out of the GOP Primary for Florida’s 14th District, but has never even crossed the 40% threshold in any of her attempts to reach office. She has updated her website to indicate that in 2022, she’s planning a run in Florida’s 13th District instead, hoping to carpetbag her way into swiping Democrat Charlie Crist’s seat as he runs for Governor again next year. We hope that effort is botched, to say the least.

[worstblogever]

Oh WBE-Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....



https://www.wyff4.com/article/newber...rged/38484837#

[kidfresh512]

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Let's see how the SCOTUS handles this.

I like the tactic. Showing the other side of the circumvention of federal review. And it would have to be a California to try this.

[achilles]

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Let's see how the SCOTUS handles this.

We already know. They'll mess about for a bit, kick the Texas thing back to the lower courts so no one doubts when they issue a final verdict, which will scrap the Texas law. I must say, Newsom is acting like a spoiled, petulant child. You don't "protest" one bad law by passing another that will be bad for the same reasons. Honestly, it's just another way for him to waste Californian's money writing, passing, and then defending a law like that when they know it will be struck down. He loves to do stuff like that.

[Tendrin]

We already know. They'll mess about for a bit, kick the Texas thing back to the lower courts so no one doubts when they issue a final verdict, which will scrap the Texas law. I must say, Newsom is acting like a spoiled, petulant child. You don't "protest" one bad law by passing another that will be bad for the same reasons. Honestly, it's just another way for him to waste Californian's money writing, passing, and then defending a law like that when they know it will be struck down. He loves to do stuff like that.

Weird you don't talk about the Texas law, or other anti-abortion laws, like that.