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

[worstblogever]

Washington State Senator Doug Erickson, a staunch conservative who once led the Trump campaign in his state, who has spent the past year and a half opposing all Covid-19 mitigation efforts by Gov. Jay Inslee... has died of Covid-19.

The latest in a line of Covid-19 deaths that seem self-inflicted.

[babyblob]

Washington State Senator Doug Erickson, a staunch conservative who once led the Trump campaign in his state, who has spent the past year and a half opposing all Covid-19 mitigation efforts by Gov. Jay Inslee... has died of Covid-19.

The latest in a line of Covid-19 deaths that seem self-inflicted.

Another contestant on Stupid people win stupid prizes! Sponsored by Karma is a Bitch!

Now his family knows the pain on hundreds of thousands of other families.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Washington State Senator Doug Erickson, a staunch conservative who once led the Trump campaign in his state, who has spent the past year and a half opposing all Covid-19 mitigation efforts by Gov. Jay Inslee... has died of Covid-19.

The latest in a line of Covid-19 deaths that seem self-inflicted.

Don’t “seem” self-inflicted, ARE self-inflicted. And yet, Qpublicans will continue being terminally stupid and putting their lives at risk in the name of Trump who wouldn’t so much as piss on the lot of them if they were on fire.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Don’t “seem” self-inflicted, ARE self-inflicted. And yet, Qpublicans will continue being terminally stupid and putting their lives at risk in the name of Trump who wouldn’t so much as piss on the lot of them if they were on fire.

Their deaths own the libs, and in the end (and for many, it is the very end), isn't that enough?

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Their deaths own the libs, and in the end (and for many, it is the very end), isn't that enough?

I suppose so. However, I think I’ll be able to live with the shame of being owned.

[worstblogever]

The Donald Trump/Bill O'Reilly Revisionist History Tour continues to show the former guy's influence might be fading in gig #2... his first appearance on the tour in Florida only had about 60% capacity, with the upper deck blocked off. More of the same in Houston last night, with not just the upper deck blocked off, but the lower deck still had gaps in seats, even with people crammed in (at a time when social distancing would be a better idea.) The crowd was also muted by the fact that Trump, ever the ***hole, was two hours late.

To a paying crowd. (About $100 a pop, on the average.)

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day posted profiles of Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, who has expressed a desire to pass anti-immigrant laws in his state similar to Arizona’s controversial SB1070, tried to prevent a single Syrian refugee from being resettled into his state, and has signed a myriad of insane bills that have hit his desk from Republicans in the Tennessee state legislature, including ones to legalize firearms being carried in state and local parks (because we need headlines about playgrounds being turned into battlegrounds), prevent sex education teachers from discussing “gateway sexual activities” like touching of the thigh or buttocks, ordering welfare recipients to be drug tested (which proved again to be a failed policy where they only found 1 person out of 812 until a judge overturned the law), and legalizing the use of the electric chair for executions in his state again. Gov. Haslam also spent some time arguing with a federal judge that same-sex marriage should be allowed in his state, filing an appeal because the decision was “frustrating the will of the people of Tennessee”. It has been a mostly quiet year for Gov. Haslam, as he has gone into full lame duck mode now that he’s term-limited as governor… and the federal fraud scandal surrounding his family’s trucking company made him think twice about running for U.S. Senate to replace the retiring Sen. Bob Corker in 2018. So this very well will be our last entry about Bill Haslam, who we hope will spend his future trying to hide from federal investigators, and watching his brother’s NFL team, the Cleveland Browns, continue to be the laughing stock of football.

On this date in 2018, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Everett Corley, a four time loser in trying to gain political office, failing to win the GOP nomination for Kentucky’s 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016, losing in the primary for District 43 of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 2012 and 2014, and losing in the general election for that same seat in the 2018 elections after coming up far short with only 21% of the vote. We have must also note in our article that Everett Corley was born Corley Everett, but changed his name a couple years ago for unexplained “family reasons”. Those reasons may or may have not had something to do with the fact that Corley Everett was endorsed by the white supremacist American Freedom Party along side Neo-Nazi candidate Robert Ransdell back in 2014. Among the things known about Corley or Everett or… this guy… he had a Facebook page that frequently defended the Confederacy (including calling a Louisville professor a “damn dirty black bastard” for supporting the removal of Confederate monuments), supported Donald Trump’s stupid idea for a border wall on the U.S./Mexico border, or shared the sort white nationalist rhetoric (i.e. lies) about white farmers in Rhodesia being run off by black ones. The “campaign themes” that were on Corley’s 2016 campaign websiteincluded his desire wants to interpret the 2nd Amendment as having zero restrictions (which is still insane), what’s probably far more heinous to see Corley referring to immigration as “cultural suicide” and that allowing birthright citizenship affects the “cultural integrity” of the United States. Corley also called for eliminating the Department of Education and creating “personal accounts” for Social Security, which sounds like he doesn’t understand how it even works. But changing his name and pretending like his views weren’t explicitly racist was a harder strategy for Everett Corley to continue while just hoping that no one noticed. Because man, did his past catch up to him in a big way. In 2014, around the time the American Freedom Party was endorsing him, Corley Everett (who is still the same guy) appeared on the Youtube show “The EthnoState” back in 2014 with avowed white nationalist William Johnson, and aired several racial grievances during the hour long broadcast, including (but not limited to):

• His belief that white voters in western Louisville's Portland neighborhood are "completely surrounded" because of a Democratic plot where "It's a bunch of white liberals and minorities who've conspired together to cut the white working class out of power."
• His quote about the white nationalist group endorsing him that, “One thing that struck me about the American Freedom Party, if you’re a minority you can belong to all these groups that champion your ethno background but you certainly have very little to do as a European or a Caucasian America."
• His anecdotal story about black on white bullying in schools (that likely wasn’t happening because conveniently had no names or details to corroborate it).
• An extended rant about Sen. Mitch McConnell’s marriage to Secretary Elaine Chao:
  

  "I certainly feel that we should maintain our people and our culture as much as anyone else, and that's a post, and I’m not saying this in a bad way, but that’s a post, shall we say marriage that has not borne any children or anything. That’s simply a marriage of companionship, you understand what I’m saying? I don’t think he’s trying to make a statement about children on that marriage, I just simply think that that’s someone he relates to on an interpersonal relationship. But be that as it may, that primarily is not what I’m, his marriage is not my problem, you know what I’m saying?"

Once the 2014 interview resurfaced, Everett Corley had the balls to try to claim he didn’t understand what kind of show the “EthnoState” was, or what Johnson’s aims were (which, it’s pretty easy to call bulls***, considering the interview’s content), saying, "If I made any mistake it wasn't doing my homework. I engaged in some hyperbole, but that was all due to my anger over redistricting. If he said he was a racist, a neo-Nazi or a member of the Klan, I would have hung up." If there was only one part of the interview that really damned Everett Corley in the eyes of the Kentucky GOP, and that was that he and Johnson discussed the marriage between Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao. Up until that point, mind you, they had nothing to say about all the white nationalist things he was up to. Speaking ill of McConnell or his wife is as close to political suicide as a Republican can make in Kentucky, in any event, so even though he’s only 51, we’re thinking that he might give up on trying to win political office and just spend his weekends out at cross burnings to pass the time instead.

[worstblogever]

On this date in both 2019, as well as 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled Oklahoma State Senator Joseph Silk, who was first elected to the Oklahoma State Senate back in 2014, specifically to represent District 5 in that body. Silkwas of particular concern to us because of his aspirations for higher office, seeking to be the next U.S. House Representative for Oklahoma’s 2nd Congressoinal District, challenging CSGOPOTD Markwayne Mullin. Joseph Silk first came to our attention a few years ago in January of 2017 when he submitted legislation to make it possible for Oklahoma to secede from the union. No, really, this numbnuts was ready to go full Antebellum South Carolina and have Oklahoma secede from the union, because it’s not like we know how that would go after having had a Civil War at one point, you know? Maybe folks shouldn’t be so surprised, considering he campaigned for office on nullifying federal law. When he submitted legislation in the Oklahoma state legislature that specifically would classify any attempt at terminating a pregnancy as criminal murder, and he was very clear that he didn’t care if the procedure was being performed to save a mother’s life. The doctor performing the procedure would be charged with murder, and there was no indication in the writing of the bill if the mother or other medical staff would also be charged as an accessory or not. And in case you were wondering… this would, under Oklahoma law, mean the doctor performing the procedure would be charged with a capitol offense, and face the death penalty. Facing criticism, a jaded Silk responded: “We either protect life as a state, or we don’. A 4-week-old fetus in the womb is no different than a 1-year-old child.” So zygotes and toddlers. Same difference. Let’s execute any doctor who disagrees with that in the interest of saving a woman’s life. As you might expect from a Fundamentalist lunatic who argues that not only is there no separation of church and state, but that the two are inherently intertwined, and was the co-sponsor of Oklahoma’s attempts to legalize putting monuments of the Ten Commandments on state property, Silk has also submitted bills to make it legal to discriminate against LGBTQ citizens (called the Right of Conscience Act), for adoption agencies to refuse to allow LGBTQ couples from adopting children (Heaven forbid they end up finding a child a loving home!), and supported legislation to discriminate against transgender citizens using public bathrooms. And wouldn’t you know it? He has ties to the anti-gay hate group, the Family Research Council. But Silk’s weirdness isn’t limited to just God-fearing ideas. Back in 2016, he submitted a bill to study the effects of “EMP Pulse Attacks” upon the electrical grid, even though such a weapon is not believed to exist. We’re going to wrap up by pointing out that Joseph Silk is running for Congress because he feels the GOP leadership in the Oklahoma state legislature is “too liberal”, which blows our minds considering some of the profiles we’ve run on Oklahoma state legislators over the past five years. But yes, that’s his reason. At this point, even his attendance record is pathetic, as he’s missed almost a third, literally almost a third of the votes in the Oklahoma State Senate this session. And… he wants to go to Congress, based on his performance record, by running to the right of Markwayne Mullin. Mercifully, he lost, only getting 12% of the vote, and as such, we will set aside his profile to cover another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1056-50, since this was established in July 2014.


Nellie Heiskell

Welcome to what is the 1056th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discusisng Nellie “Truly” Heiskell, a 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Texas’ 18th Congressional District, hoping to unseat fourteen-term Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Her campaign strategy involved appearing with positively bats*** former Florida Congressman and at-the-time inexplicably the Chairman of the Texas GOP Allen West, and like many Texas Republicans, made it a point to bastardize Christian scripture to justify conservative policies, including defunding Planned Parenthood and building a border wall along the U.S./Mexico border, which is exactly the sort of xenophobic message Jesus talked about in the New Testament, no doubt. OH WAIT, THAT’S THE OPPOSITE MESSAGE.

Nellie Heiskell also is yet the latest in our seemingly never-ending line of Republicans who ran for Congress in 2020 who were promoting the Qanon conspiracy, linking to videos from Qanon accounts on her Twitter page.

It didn’t seem to help her, as Nellie Heiskell got all of 638 votes in her attempt to get elected to Congress, which translated to finishing sixth out of a possible six candidates in the GOP Primary, with 6.5% of the vote.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

The Donald Trump/Bill O'Reilly Revisionist History Tour continues to show the former guy's influence might be fading in gig #2... his first appearance on the tour in Florida only had about 60% capacity, with the upper deck blocked off. More of the same in Houston last night, with not just the upper deck blocked off, but the lower deck still had gaps in seats, even with people crammed in (at a time when social distancing would be a better idea.) The crowd was also muted by the fact that Trump, ever the ***hole, was two hours late.

To a paying crowd. (About $100 a pop, on the average.)

C'mon, WBE! Be kind! You know Trump's lemmings don't have that kind of scratch to shell out. But, like you said in a previous post, if Trump announced a free hate rally, he'd fill out a venue in no time flat.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Amazon Driver Told To 'Just Keep Delivering' As Tornado Sirens Blared Around Her

The delivery giant is under fire after its Edwardsville, Illinois, warehouse collapsed, killing six, when a twister struck. Not exactly good press for the online retail giant.

[Tami]

Amazon Driver Told To 'Just Keep Delivering' As Tornado Sirens Blared Around Her

The delivery giant is under fire after its Edwardsville, Illinois, warehouse collapsed, killing six, when a twister struck. Not exactly good press for the online retail giant.

They can build rockets to get themselves and other rich people into space, but they can't build a building that is sturdy enough to withstand a Tornado strike.

[babyblob]

They can build rockets to get themselves and other rich people into space, but they can't build a building that is sturdy enough to withstand a Tornado strike.

They were hit with an ef3 tornado. that is 136 to 165 MpH. not a lot of warehouses will stand up to that.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

They were hit with an ef3 tornado. that is 136 to 165 MpH. not a lot of warehouses will stand up to that.

Not a lot of ANYTHING would’ve withstood winds that powerful.

[babyblob]

Not a lot of ANYTHING would’ve withstood winds that powerful.

Exactly. So we cant get mad at Amazon because a building fell down in a tornado. Thats a bit foolish to me.

Not a lot of companies have special tornado shelters and such. Every company I worked for it was just a bathroom or inner most room. And none of those buildings would have stood up to a powerful tornado.

[Kirby101]

Exactly. So we cant get mad at Amazon because a building fell down in a tornado. Thats a bit foolish to me.

Not a lot of companies have special tornado shelters and such. Every company I worked for it was just a bathroom or inner most room. And none of those buildings would have stood up to a powerful tornado.

No, but we should be livid at Amazon for making people work when they should have been seeking safety. There should be criminal prosecutions.