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

[babyblob]

Marxism, really? I find it comical how easy it is to manipulate the right with the red scare.

Dude it is so easy to scare a member of the GOP to vote for you. Immigrants, Socialism, Critical Race Theory, and Voter Fraud. And they win GOP Bingo when they can talk about all four in the same speech.

"Why should I vote for you?"

"Immigrants are going to come to this country and move into your spare bedroom! And if you say no Biden will send in the troops!"

"Well you make a heck of a point but im on the Fence."

"CRT! And Black men are dating white women, and black people just want to be treated as equals and the Dems are letting it happen! Oh and dead people are voting for Biden! And AOC will take 99 percent of you paycheck and give it to unwed teenage Mothers who will use the money for drugs!

"Damn im sold! You are the only one who can save Merica!"

[Tami]

Manchin already killed BBB. The Democrats already signaled they are punting it to next year. Which effectively means it’s done.

I am more optimistic than that. Yeah, Manchin is doing his best to undermine it, but there is still plenty of time next year for the rest of the Dems to fegure out a solution.

[MacrossPlus]

I am more optimistic than that. Yeah, Manchin is doing his best to undermine it, but there is still plenty of time next year for the rest of the Dems to fegure out a solution.

We can only hope so

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I am more optimistic than that. Yeah, Manchin is doing his best to undermine it, but there is still plenty of time next year for the rest of the Dems to fegure out a solution.

I can’t help wondering if Manchin worked this hard to try and kill Trump’s tax cut back in 2017. Did he? I just want to know.

[numberthirty]

I am more optimistic than that. Yeah, Manchin is doing his best to undermine it, but there is still plenty of time next year for the rest of the Dems to fegure out a solution.

He wasted plenty of time this year.

While it would be good to see them actually get something accomplished?

I can't see getting my hopes up.

[williamtheday]

I can’t help wondering if Manchin worked this hard to try and kill Trump’s tax cut back in 2017. Did he? I just want to know.

I doubt it.

[numberthirty]

I can’t help wondering if Manchin worked this hard to try and kill Trump’s tax cut back in 2017. Did he? I just want to know.

How would he?

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, "Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day" ran a profile of the former U.S. Congressman from Indiana, Dan Burton, a former head of the House Oversight Committee who used that body to conduct witch hunts against the Clinton administration all through the 1990s, including at one point subpoenaing the entire Christmas Card list of Bill and Hillary. Burton also claimed the Clintons had former aide Vince Foster murdered, conducting a recreation of his death using a cantaloupe and handgun in his yard for assembled reporters, and further enflamed the insanity of conspiracy theorists by releasing false data about what happened at the Branch Davidian compound, in Waco, Texas, during the cult’s standoff with the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. After becoming appreciably more quiet during the Bush administration, in 2009, the uglier side of Rep. Burton returned, as he started signing on to Birther Bills, making false statements about Barack Obama conducting deals to get George Soros rich, and in the middle of a Congressional hearing on autism, trying to use data gathered by disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield to prove a link between autism and vaccines. Burton finally retired in 2012, and is now in his eighties.

In both 2015, in 2016, and in 2017, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” posted profiles of Ada Fisher, a highly anti-gay member of the Republican National Committee and failed political candidate from North Carolina who unsuccessfully ran for office to be a U.S. Senator in 2002 against Elizabeth Dole , then cried foul to complain that she wasn’t allowed to participate in television forums. In 2004 and 2006 she attempted to challenge Congressman Mel Watt in North Carolina’s 12th District, losing handily both times. Fisher supports the nutty idea of adopting a flat tax, and on immigration, runs to the right of even former President Bush, whose guest worker program, she classified as “amnesty”. Fisher has a few typical conservative positions like how she is opposed to gay marriage. Her argument, though, seems limited to the fact that gays should have to wait, because ”Marriage ought to be between one man and one woman at one time, and I'm still waiting.” Fisher’s tantrum after losing to Elizabeth Dole was not a run-off, but somewhat of a pattern of behavior, as she also threw a fit when a candidate other than the one she supported for the Chairman of the Republican National Committee won back in 2009. About six weeks into Michael Steele being elected, Fisher was trying to drum up support to get his resignation, in effect asking for the election to be conducted again until a result she liked occurred. The same thing happened in the 2015 GOP Primary race in Mississippi for Thad Cochran’s U.S. Senate seat, when she wanted Reince Priebus to investigate how Chris McDaniel could have lost to Cochran, volunteering herself to look into “racism” that led to Cochran’s victory. Fisher’s notorious about being so reactionary on both sides of the aisle, and if you need another example, there was the time in 2010 when she e-mailed the media a link to the following Youtube video she saw a poorly edited Youtube video that admitted to being made of “snippets” of President Obama, but Fisher seemed generally conflicted if it was legitimate, or made of out of context sound bites when her message asked, ”This tape should be investigated and verified. I am not an expert ontapes but if this isn't doctored we have a constitutional issue of humongous proportions to deal with.” That wasn’t Fisher’s only time taking shots at President Obama, by any stretch. In 2008, while campaigning for Sen. John McCain during his presidential run, Fisher tried saying that Obama should never be president because he admitted to using marijuana in his book, and that should disqualify him from the office. The media asked her how President Clinton could have held office, after his own discussions about marijuana, and all of the discussions about President Bush’s previous cocaine use, and she actually tried saying that it’s okay for a presidential candidate to have used drugs… so long as they lied about it and never admitted it. The last we heard from her, she was putting out editorials where she seemly like she was trying to convince herself that Donald Trump wouldn't keep ties to his businesses to avoid conflicts of interests (Hint: He didn’t exactly, because his children still have controlling interests in his company, and get regular updates from dad). If you were wondering to what depths of selling out Fisher might stoop to, well, in August 2017, only days after the attacks by Neo-Nazis and White Nationalists in Charlottesville, she was oddly silent about the bigotry and hatred of the Alt-Right. What she was far more concerned with, and wrote an op-ed about was seeing an African American woman but a noose around the neck of a Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina, and bring it down. At this point, the question isn’t if Fisher is drinking the GOP’s Kool-Aid, but whether she has drank so much that she is, at this point, the Kool-Aid Man.

On this date in 2018, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Tony Cornish, a former police chief, and now former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, serving District 23B from 2003 through 2017. Over the course of his last decade in office, his voting record grew more and more extreme, with four separative votes to block minimum wage increases, votes for stricter Voter ID Laws to suppress the vote, plenty of strict anti-choice legislation including bills he co-sponsored, his vote for transphobic bathroom legislation to be applied at schools, and not just a vote against legalizing same sex marriage, but his vote to ban same sex marriage completely, instead. But that isn’t the reason why we’ve chosen to take time out to profile Tony Cornish a little over a year after he left office. No, we’re highlighting him for being a serial sexual harasser while in office, including not just a Democratic colleague, but other staffers from both sides of the aisle. After Democratic Rep. Erin Quade came forward, a lobbyist came forward and said she received a string of texts from Cornish trying to solicit sexual favor s from her. At first, Cornish denied all the accusations, but when the former Minnesota Speaker of the House came forward to say he had warned Cornish about similar behavior back in 2012, over two dozen other accusers came forward to report him for sexual harassment, and the media noticed Cornish’s ex-wife filed a protection order against him back in 1990… Only then did Tony Cornish resign.

On this date in 2019, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Todd Rokita, the former U.S. House Representative from Indiana’s 4th Congressional District from 2011 to 2019. In 2016, he attempted to succeed Mike Pence to be the next Governor of Indiana, but lost in the GOP Primary to Eric Holcomb. But it was back in 2000 that Todd Rokita first cut his teeth in Republican politics by serving as legal counsel for several Florida counties during the lengthy recount into the presidential election that got handed to George W. Bush, and his interest in manipulating elections continued on into his tenure as Indiana Secretary of State in 2005, when he pushed for that state’s Voter ID law to help suppress the vote. On policy, Todd Rokita might not have embarrassed himself on cable news as often as some of his counterparts, but he was representing the second most conservative district in all of Indiana, and thus could support Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, or go to a town hall and declare that admitting a link between human activity and climate change was “arrogant”. His voting record saw him support the scores of failed attempts at repealing the Affordable Care Act, twice supporting failed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, opposition to disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy in 2013, a vote for the 2013 Government Shutdown and then voting to keep the government closed in the final vote to reopen it, and generally voting in lockstep with the most conservative bills without any thought from 2011-2018. In 2018, Rokita attempted to get elected to the U.S. Senate, and got into an ugly, ugly primary against Mike Braun and Luke Messer. It wasn’t just the fact that Rokita was pathetic enough to campaign in a MAGA hat with a cardboard cutout of Donald Trump, or all the mudslinging he dove into… it perhaps was not the best idea to air an ad featuring Rokita shooting an AR-15 only days after the Parkland shooting, spliced in between footage of Colin Kaepernick kneeling to protest police violence during the national anthem at NFL games. But Rokita also had ghosts from his time serving as Indiana’s Secretary of State coming back to haunt him, as it was revealed he was using state resources to aid himself in winning elections, effectively using a record of political donations as his own personal rolodex. Rokita even tried winning over Republican primary voters by denying the American intelligence communities analysis that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, and defended Donald Trump after he was completely dominated by Vladimir Putin at their Helsinki summit. In the end, he only got 30% of the vote, losing by double digits.

[Godzilla2099]

Why? Why would you work for or with Trump? His previous lawyer is disbarred and disgraced, the one before that was arrested and convicted. Hell, his VP was thrown under the bus. Nobody is seeing the pattern?

And why are these further arrests taking so long? Its beyond obvious these traitors are caught. Kind of makes you ask why follow the law if the people making them don't

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Curtis Hill, the former Attorney General of the State of Indiana. His rise was likely tied to his anti-LGBTQ stances including opposition to same sex marriage and his belief that hate crimes should not apply to gay people (Republican favorites). But to be an African American Republican willing to criticize NFL players who kneel during the National Anthem? THIS GUY WAS A RISING STAR IN THE INDIANA GOP! (For the worst reasons.), How was it that Hill was voted out of office at the GOP Primary in July of 2020. In the interests of keeping this profile brief, we’ll just out and out state our reasons for posting it… it’s not because of any partisan tactics that brought Curtis Hill to our attention, it’s that four women, including a woman from his own party from the state capitol came forward to accuse him of sexually assaulting them, in appropriately groping them in encounters at a local bar at the end of a legislative session. Four women assaulted. In one night. All of them report Hill either squeezed their buttocks or was trying to slide one of his fingers or thumb into their dress for skin-to-skin contact. After a long, long process the accusers went through to present their case, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that Curtis Hill did, in fact commit the crimes listed (eyewitness accounts and text message discussions from that night confirm it) and he faced the consequences of… his law license be revoked for 30 days. No jail time. No sex offender’s lists. That’s it. The main consequence seemed to be that Curtis Hill was not granted a chance to be the GOP’s nominee for AG in 2020, and they forced him out at the Indiana GOP’s convention. Curtis Hill spent his last months in office sending threatening letters to the Mayor of Indianapolis that it’s “unconstitutional” to limit public gatherings to only 50 people during the Covid-19 pandemic because it would infringe upon “religious liberty” to let people fill up churches without social distancing so they can die for Jesus of a virus. Curtis Hill is still not out of the wood legally, as he faces lawsuits for his assaults. Now approaching 60, he seems unlikely to recover from that incident and his meteoric rise looks to have been halted, but with today’s Republican Party being reflexively ready to forgive sexual predators, we can’t say that’s necessarily the case. Regardless, we’re going to set aside his profile to cover another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1055-50, since this was established in July 2014.


Vernon Jones

Welcome to what is the 1055th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discusisng Vernon Jones , who from 2017 through 2020, served District 91 of the Georgia House of Representatives as a Democrat. He also served in District 57 of that body from 1993-1994, and had an unsuccessful bid for Senate in 2008, as well as one for the House in 2010 in Georgia’s 4th Congressional District. And you might be wondering… why are we getting a profile of a Democrat on this blog outside of April Fool’s Day? Well, because in April 2020, Jones started campaigning for Donald Trump, said he was resigning from office (but stayed until the end of his term) and made it official in January of 2021… he’s a Republican. He’s also a 2020 GOP Primary challenger to Gov. Brian Kemp.

But make no mistake, Vernon Jones went off the deep end some time ago. Throughout his career, he has had several incidents where he has threatened women, and in one instance in 2004, was accused of rape, but no charges were ever pressed after DeKalb County police tipped off Jones of the accusation prior to the victim filing charges. He has accused of stealing taxpayer money, and while serving as DeKalb County CEO, spent $800,000 on a security detail at taxpayer expense. and was noted as having kept a portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in his office.

Jones’ party loyalties were in question due to his voting twice for George W. Bush, how during his 2008 Senate campaign he made misleading posters that posed him along side Barack Obama that said “YES WE CAN” that led Obama to have to point out he had never even met the guy, let alone was endorsing him, Also through his career, he has run into campaign finance irregularities, his voting record showed he was firmly opposed to LGBTQ rights, and also that he was anti-choice, even voting for fetal heartbeat anti-abortion legislation.

So as we look and see Jones’ record of problematic behavior and support for conservative causes, it seems clearer that he only filed to run as a Democrat to reach office, and hoped no one would notice. Endorsing Donald Trump was pretty much the big reveal, seeing him speaking at the 2020 RNC was the “no turning back” point… but when he went crowd-surfing at a MAGA rally in October of 2020 without a mask on, through a maskless crowd during a pandemic, it was pretty clear this guy was an incredible dumbass. The virus had already killed 220,000 people by that point, and there he went…

It will be interesting to see who Donald Trump campaigns with in the 2022 GOP Gubernatorial Primary, given David Perdue just entered the race. But Vernon Jones did just about everything Trump wanted to try to help his re-election campaign, including speaking at the “Stop the Steal” rally at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, prior to Trump taking the stage to incite the mob himself. That was the speech where Jones decided to announce he was a Republican now, joining up just in time for the Trump crowd of domestic terrorists to go attempt a failed coup on Trump’s behalf. Given Trump’s history of racism, it seemed the partnership of the two to try and garner support from the black community in Georgia was always cynical at best. That’s why we think the entry of David Perdue into the 2022 Senate primary claiming HE is supported by Trump can’t be a coincidence, and Trump’s about to leave Jones high and dry.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer motherf***er, frankly.

[Kirby101]

I can’t help wondering if Manchin worked this hard to try and kill Trump’s tax cut back in 2017. Did he? I just want to know.

There was nothing he could do, they used reconciliation, which only needed 51 votes and can't be filibustered. He was as powerless as the rest of the Democrats as the GOP bankrupted the country.

[Xheight]

Dude it is so easy to scare a member of the GOP to vote for you. Immigrants, Socialism, Critical Race Theory, and Voter Fraud. And they win GOP Bingo when they can talk about all four in the same speech.

"Immigrants are going to come to this country and move into your spare bedroom! And if you say no Biden will send in the troops!"

More like Sorry your job is taken by someone not in a union and will work for cheap, join the army and die for these people that took you job.

"CRT! And Black men are dating white women, and black people just want to be treated as equals and the Dems are letting it happen!

TV commercials are not reality but hey you are free to think things are getting better just because a Humira commercial features a white dad and his biracial daughter getting ice cream.

Oh and the reparations crap isn't going to fly no matter how much guilt you pour on people.

Oh and dead people are voting for Biden!

unnecessary but fun to add to all the mailed in bogus ballots.

And AOC will take 99 percent of you paycheck and give it to unwed teenage Mothers who will use the money for drugs!

loves me that AOC
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[Xheight]

Why? Why would you work for or with Trump? His previous lawyer is disbarred and disgraced, the one before that was arrested and convicted. Hell, his VP was thrown under the bus. Nobody is seeing the pattern?

And why are these further arrests taking so long? Its beyond obvious these traitors are caught. Kind of makes you ask why follow the law if the people making them don't

FEAR CANCELLATION ! be very afraid, see the pattern?

[Mister Mets]

Why? Why would you work for or with Trump? His previous lawyer is disbarred and disgraced, the one before that was arrested and convicted. Hell, his VP was thrown under the bus. Nobody is seeing the pattern?

And why are these further arrests taking so long? Its beyond obvious these traitors are caught. Kind of makes you ask why follow the law if the people making them don't

These things can take a while. To give an example of a different politically loaded trial, Jussie Smollett's hoax was exposed February 2019, and the verdict came in a week ago.

Following that pattern, we can very easily see some guilty verdicts two years from now.

[babyblob]

These things can take a while. To give an example of a different politically loaded trial, Jussie Smollett's hoax was exposed February 2019, and the verdict came in a week ago.

Following that pattern, we can very easily see some guilty verdicts two years from now.

These things very much take awhile and that is on normal cases. It took me 2 months from my crime to my arrest, then 5 months from my arrest to be sentenced. And I am just a local nobody who had a public defender.

Lawyers file motions, question evidence, witness statements, etc... I mean it can take awhile. Then add a high profile case to the mix a lawyer who knows how to work the system a defendant who does not spill his life story and crime to the police ten seconds of an arrest, and even in investigating, interview witnesses, loo at any video, read text message, social media, evidence collected that has to be test and it aint like CSI where a lab test is done in two hours.

We want the legal system to work fast, we see tv shows where a crime happens and a guy is in jail tried and convicted with in a week but that just aint how it goes and it is frustrating.