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

[Malvolio]

Kristi Noem

Welcome to what is the 1060th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing the sitting Governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, who was first elected to that office in 2018 who came on the scene in the South Dakota state legislature in the 2006 elections, and after two terms, riding the crest of the Tea Party Wave to Washington D.C. to spend four terms in Congress serving as the U.S. House Representative for South Dakota’s At-Large Congressional District. In case you’ve forgotten how much of an extremist she was as a legislature, we have some receipts:

• On January 5th, 2011, Rep. Noem votes the first attempt by Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act. She voted for every attempt to do so that the GOP attempted from that point forward.
• On February 18th, 2011, Kristi Noem votes to defund Planned Parenthood.
• March 17th, 2011: Rep. Noem votes to cut funding to National Public Radio.
• September 15th, 2012: Rep. Noem votes for the "No More Solyndras Act".
• September 21st, 2012: Noem co-sponsors and votes for the "Stop the War on Coal Act".
• January 15th, 2013: Kristi Noem votes against Disaster Relief Funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy.
• February 28th, 2013: Noem votes against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
• June 19th, 2013: Kristi Noem votes against restoring $20.5 billion towards the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
• September 30th, 2013: Rep. Noem votes for the 2013 Government Shutdown. When the vote came up seventeen days later to re-open the government, Noem voted to keep it closed.
• Feb 26th, 2014: Kristi Noem goes "all in" on the faux-scandal surrounding the IRS researching SuperPACs by voting for the "Stop the Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act".
• July 10th, 2014: Noem votes for House Amendment 1040, to prevent the implementation of the dreaded United Nations Agenda 21 Treaty, that in spite of just being recommended climate change guidelines, have many conspiracy theorists within the extreme right convinced it’s a plot for global domination.
• January 22nd, 2015: Kristi Noem votes for HR 7, an anti-abortion bill that makes even some Republicans pause before voting for it because of its language that tries to define the conditions for what “rape” is, in it.
• February 3rd, 2015: Rep. Noem votes for the 60th Republican attempt at repealing the Affordable Care Act. This in spite of the fact that by this point, the law is not just working, but better than experts predicted.
• September 11th, 2015: Noem votes against the United States' nuclear treaty with Iran.
• September 18th, 2015: Rep. Noem co-sponsors and votes for a bill with most House Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood, based on highly edited “sting” videos submitted by a Pro-Life advocacy group that have been repeatedly debunked by investigators.
• November 19th, 2015: Noem votes for the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act, reacting to the terror attacks in Paris by jihadists from France and Belgium by trying to create greater restrictions to keep out Syrian refugees, of whom exactly zero were involved in those attacks.
• February 2nd, 2016: Kristi Noem votes for HR 3762, the 61st attempt by Congressional Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (which is still working better than was predicted).
• February 16th, 2017: Noem votes for HJR 69, to make it legal for hunters on wildlife reserves to kill several species of hibernating bears or wolves while they’re sleeping. Because… well, the logic really isn’t there as to why, it’s just awful.
• March 16th, 2017: Kristi Noem votes for HR 1181, which would allow veterans deemed mentally incompetent to continue to own firearms, and not have them taken away without a judge's written order. We feel safer already.
• May 4th, 2017: Noem votes for the GOP's healthcare plan, that would allow 24,000 more people to die a year, give $50,000 in tax breaks to millionaires, would eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions, and would treat pregnancy, post-partum depression, and sexual assault as "pre-existing conditions". Oh, and a provision in the bill would make sure that Noem would be allowed to keep his healthcare plan as it exists under the ACA, which would be repealed for the rest of the country. She and her Republican compatriots threw themselves a beer bash to celebrate taking away healthcare from millions and then gloated about it with Donald Trump at a White House press conference, as well.
• June 8th, 2017: Kristi Noem votes for HR 10, the GOP’s attempt to repeal Dodd-Frank financial reform, because what the country really needs is to allow the big banks to make the same mistakes that imploded the economy only a decade earlier.
• October 3rd, 2017: Noem votes for HR 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, that would try to create an unconstitutional ban abortion at 20 weeks (even though medical science tells us fetuses do not have the capability to feel pain until 29 weeks).
• February 18th, 2018: Rep. Noem and his fellow Republicans decide that poor big businesses are suffering too much at the hands of the Americans with Disabilities Act too much, and vote for HR 620, which would strip most of the civil rights protections guaranteed by it.

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When I first saw the photo and before I scrolled down to her name, I thought she was one of Bravo's Real Housewives running for office.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Self-proclaimed ‘Vaccine Police’ tells Walmart pharmacists they ‘could be executed’ for administering shots








Open carry is legal and mostly unregulated in over 40 states. Christopher Key says his goal is to “put the fear of God in pharmacists” and told Walmart pharmacists they “could be executed” for administering COVID shots

It wouldn’t surprise me if this lunatic was vaccinated on the down low. Meanwhile, what business is it of his, or anyone to stop pharmacies from legally dispensing the vaccine?

[Xheight]

It wouldn’t surprise me if this lunatic was vaccinated on the down low. Meanwhile, what business is it of his, or anyone to stop pharmacies from legally dispensing the vaccine?

More 2nd Amendment hate, you know the Black Panthers used Open Carry as the freedom to march on Sacramento with arms.

[Xheight]

The improvement in the economy and the improvement for Covid deaths is largely the result of factors beyond Biden's control: the creation of the vaccine before he was President, and the mildness of the Omicron variant, which is very contagious but seems to avoid the lungs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/h...sultPosition=6

If there really wasn't a difference, people claiming the election was stolen wouldn't change goalposts, and wouldn't use the motte and bailey fallacy.

That is only your view that they are changing the measure and it is your label, election security is not just about verifying voters but protecting the whole system from fraud.

Democrat/Biden poll numbers are just more live by the sword die by it which the rode to the extremes in blaming Trump over Covid so it is a wash - It is the other factors which Liberal Media outlets gloss over that are leading people to realize we are in the dumpster with and the Little Rascals are trying to put the fire out.

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[Xheight]

This game of tit-for-tat is so typical of today's conservatives and Republicans. We called GW Bush dumb, so they called Obama dumb. We called the Trump administration a dumpster fire so they call Biden a dumpster fire. Do they have no originality at all? I mean, there are certainly legitimate criticisms of Biden that I've seen some on the left make. But all we get from the right is our own criticisms of Trump with Biden's name inserted wherever Trump's was. How childish.

The original haters - got it.

[shooshoomanjoe]

More 2nd Amendment hate, you know the Black Panthers used Open Carry as the freedom to march on Sacramento with arms.

The 2nd Amendment doesn't say anything about terrorist threats.

[worstblogever]

The improvement in the economy and the improvement for Covid deaths is largely the result of factors beyond Biden's control: the creation of the vaccine before he was President, and the mildness of the Omicron variant, which is very contagious but seems to avoid the lungs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/h...sultPosition=6.

Only in Republican logic can you give a mild virus mutation that's been out for a month partial credit for an economy that's been improving over a whole year.

While ignoring that the Biden administration was the one who's been getting shots in arms.

Hope you have those furniture sliders on the bottom of the goalposts you constantly move so you don't throw out your back.

[Mister Mets]

Only in Republican logic can you give a mild virus mutation that's been out for a month partial credit for an economy that's been improving over a whole year.

While ignoring that the Biden administration was the one who's been getting shots in arms.

Hope you have those furniture sliders on the bottom of the goalposts you constantly move so you don't throw out your back.

This is either a careless or a bad-faith reading of my comment.

You mentioned the difference between death rates now and death rates a year ago, when you wrote "Also, daily Covid-19 deaths are about a third of what they were this time last year, and they've got about three-fifths of the country fully vaccinated"

I was responding to that point, when I wrote "The improvement in the economy and the improvement for Covid deaths is largely the result of factors beyond Biden's control" and on this point, the mildness of the Omicron variant is relevant.

Should I blame this rush to judgment on you supporting Democrats?

[Mister Mets]

That is only your view that they are changing the measure and it is your label, election security is not just about verifying voters but protecting the whole system from fraud.

Democrat/Biden poll numbers are just more live by the sword die by it which the rode to the extremes in blaming Trump over Covid so it is a wash - It is the other factors which Liberal Media outlets gloss over that are leading people to realize we are in the dumpster with and the Little Rascals are trying to put the fire out.

LittleRascals-DrivingFiretruck.jpg

Suggesting that people who think the last presidential election is stolen are talking about the liberal media misleading voters seems to fit the metaphor of retreating to the motte. It's not what the controversy is about.

[worstblogever]

This is either a careless or a bad-faith reading of my comment.

With specific care for the public good, I've noticed there is no reason to have faith in what version of reality dedicated Republicans present while they have ignored their descent into becoming a fascist, white nationalist party that have actively aided the spread of a pandemic for political reasons.

This being said, your argument is broken down simply as, "I refuse to acknowledge things that actually have improved in the past year, or acknowledge that they happened due to an improvement in leadership."

[Malvolio]

It wouldn’t surprise me if this lunatic was vaccinated on the down low. Meanwhile, what business is it of his, or anyone to stop pharmacies from legally dispensing the vaccine?

If he truly believes what he's saying, then he sees himself as the hero, saving lives. Of course, that's total bullshit. I'm just trying to figure out if we should send him to prison or an insane asylum.

[Malvolio]

More 2nd Amendment hate, you know the Black Panthers used Open Carry as the freedom to march on Sacramento with arms.

He wasn't even talking about the 2nd Amendment. Of course, if we really wanted to enforce the 2nd Amendment, we would have a lot more gun regulations, you know, to go by that "well regulated" clause.

[Malvolio]

The original haters - got it.

I don't care if you hate Biden. Just be original or clever about it. Stop throwing the same jokes we made about Trump back, but with Biden's name inserted. I mean, what's next? Jokes about Biden's spray tan or long red tie?

[worstblogever]

I don't care if you hate Biden. Just be original or clever about it. Stop throwing the same jokes we made about Trump back, but with Biden's name inserted. I mean, what's next? Jokes about Biden's spray tan or long red tie?

I mean, they could make jokes about the aviator shades...

But honestly, that might be one of the few things Biden does that's kinda cool. That and he's a car guy who actually drives them when he can, who also loves dogs.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

I do love the jokes about Biden being senile etc. Of course the fact Trumpsters make this one after a man looked into an eclipse and bragged he saw an elephant on a dementia test like he passed the bar exam makes it funny. I mean your bar on discussing senile is kinda....low here while you defended the last guy.