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

[shooshoomanjoe]

After high school, I went to college with the intent of becoming a high school teacher. I made it as far as going to an inner-city school and working as a teacher's assistant. That right there was enough to tell me that wasn't the job I wanted to pursue, because those brats misbehaved so damn much, all I wanted to do was slap the taste out of their mouths. If I had stuck with it and become a teacher, and suddenly they wanted to give me a gun? That is a scary thought to contemplate.





I follow people on Instagram who moved to Texas and like saying how nice the state is, and it's stuff like this that makes me want to scream at them "You want to raise your young daughter in this hell?!".

To hell with Texas. Mexico can take it back.

Texas was its own country after it left Mexico and there is Texit movement. I say let them go

[Tami]

Texas was its own country after it left Mexico and there is Texit movement. I say let them go

Found this from 2012: Lone Star State Of Mind: Could Texas Go It Alone?

[GindyPosts]

There is something inherently disturbing yet all too predictable that, back in the days when major government announcements and investigations were covered vigorously by all news outlets, that Fox News viewers have deemed it "propaganda" that everyone else was airing the January 6th hearings while Tucker, Hannity, and company were bringing up yet another fearmongering spectacular about the annual caravan of terror.

[GindyPosts]

Same here. Seeing pictures of prepubescent moppets tarted up like streetwalkers and wearing Vegas showgirl outfits to be paraded before audiences (JonBenet Ramsey immediately comes to mind) is exploitive as hell and revolting.

This is the same culture that gave us "Toddlers and Tiaras" and its spinoff "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo". And society got dumber for it.

[CaptainEurope]

The motivation still is not clear. Apparently, the driver was Armenian and had anti-Turkish leaflets in the car. Reports of a manifesto or confession were fabricated out of thin air by the Springer media group.

Apparently the guy is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, as indicated by medication found in his apartment. Police are NOT treating this as terrorism.

[Malvolio]

This is the same culture that gave us "Toddlers and Tiaras" and its spinoff "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo". And society got dumber for it.

Does TLC still stand for The Learning Channel? Maybe it should be The Leering Channel.

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On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of the current U.S. House Representative from Washington’s 8th Congressional District, Dave Reichert, a former police officer who fell all over himself to take credit for catching the Green River Serial Killer (in spite of botching the case for years until the murderer’s body count was approaching triple digits), and for using over-aggressive tactics on protesters at the 1999 World Trade Organization conference that led to the situation escalating into “The Battle for Seattle” (where he abandoned his post when cameras showed up to chase after looters). Reichert ran sexist campaign ads against Darcy Burner in both 2006 and 2008, has been caught on tape joking about Hillary Clinton falling to her death out of a plane, and told fellow Republicans they should “be worried about Barack Obama stealing money out of your wallets”. His voting record is widely conservative, including votes against Dodd-Frank, against regulating offshore oil rigs after the Deepwater Horizon incident, voting against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and consistently voting against the Affordable Care Act (lying about its success whenever he gets the chance). Oh, and Reichert, always quick to defend police violence and extend unconditional support for law enforcement, as an ex-cop himself, celebrated National Police Week in March 2016 by taking to the floor of the House to give a speech called “Blue Lives Matter”, a deliberate slap in the face at the “Black Lives Matter” movement, because of course he did. Dave Reichert decided to retire from office in 2018, rather than face down the Blue Wave

On this date in 2019, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Nick Miccarelli, a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who served District 162 in that body from 2009-2018. It wasn’t Miccarelli’s voting record that stood out to us so much, with your basic Republican support for anti-choice regulations, voter suppression efforts with unnecessary Voter ID laws, and opposition to firearm regulations. Now, where Nick Miccarelli really drew our attention was the series of allegations brought against him during his career as a legislator. A fellow Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Tarah Toohill, got an order of protection against Miccarelli, citing two separate incidents where he threatened her life. In one, in 2012, he pulled a gun on her. In another, in 2014, he threatened to crash a car both were in where he was speeding at 100 MPH. A legislative aide also reported being sexually assaulted by Miccarelli. and while retaliating against the woman who reported him having raped her, Miccarelli allegedly decided to attempt to silence her in the most classy of methods… revenge porn, naming his accuser and providing nude photos of her to media outlets. He refused to resign even though politicians from both sides of the aisle called on him to do so, because he’s enough of a motherf***er that he still wanted to finish out the last few months of his term and qualify for his benefits as a legislator. That proved difficult, though, considering Toohill had a restraining order against him, he was yanked from all his committee assignments, and he was about as much of a pariah as someone could be. Nick Miccarelli’s career is over, and we’re going to be ready to hand anyone the largest hammer we can find should he attempt to pop up in a game of MeToo Whack-A-Mole in a couple years.

On this in 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled the appointed U.S. Senator from Georgia Kelly Loeffler, who we predicted was unlikely to be that for more than the six months to come thereafter. She became Senator Loeffler back in January of 2020, with her previous experience in politics being “nothing” and her husband being the head of the NYSE while she was the owner of the WNBA team the Atlanta Dream. This appointment was not without controversy in Republican circles, as Donald Trump wanted his sycophantic lackey Doug Collins to be named the next Senator from Georgia,but the vote-stealin’ wonder, Gov. Brian Kemp picked Loeffler based on thinking from stalwarts within the Republican Party, who thought having a good female Senator would help them win back votes from women in the Georgia suburbs in 2020 to hang onto this Senate seat, and not see it flipped blue. Loeffler started trying to garner some favor with the Trump administration by coming out in favor of his stupid f***ing vanity project, the border wall, and it seemed like maybe she could coast into a permanent seat on the Senate. There was just one problem with Kemp and the mainstream GOP’s thinking… Kelly Loeffler doesn’t really seem to have any ethical compass, whatsoever, and within six weeks after being sworn in, she went to a Senate Intelligence hearing on Covid-19, learned that the country was f***ed, and then she and her husband just coincidentally started to immediately make million-dollar stock portfolio adjustments that seem almost certainly to be motivated by the upcoming pandemic. In other words, she violated the STOCK Act, and was insider trading, because pulling money out of tourism and putting it into tele-working is an AMAZING coincidence. She and other Republicans who got caught using a public health crisis as a money-making venture are now facing calls to resign, which she ignored. Kelly Loeffler had a unique strategy to try and hold onto her seat, to just be as racist as possible. Whether it was feuding with the players on her own WNBA team over social justice issues, or to blame the spread of Covid-19 on China, she continued to show herself to be a worse human being the longer she was in the spotlight as the election approached. She ended up losing in the runoff election against the Reverend Rafael Warnock, getting only 49% of the vote, and spent the days that followed attacking the integrity of Georgia’s election results, going along with Donald Trump’s Big Lie, and helping lay the seeds for the violent coup attempt carried out by Trump supporters on January 6th. She finally flipped after seeing the rioters storm the Capitol, and word is, the whole experience has made her realize maybe she doesn’t want to be in politics, after all. We will set aside her profile at this time to cover another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1106-55, since this was established in July 2014.

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Greg Steube

Welcome to what is the 1106th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Greg Steube, the sitting U.S. House Representative from Florida’s 17th Congressional District, who first arrived on the political scene back in the Florida state legislature in the 2010 elections, before winning office to replace former Congressman Tom Rooney in the 2018 elections.

And, the Miami New Times made a pretty good case in 2017 as to why the hell that it might be a bad idea to allow Greg Steube to a legislator at any level, making a list of ten bills he’d submitted just as a state legislator that were outright unconstitutional, are completely moronic:

That list:

• A bill to ensure that concealed-carry permit-holders can bring guns into airports, which Steube defended mere hours after the mass shooting at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
• A bill that would automatically ratchet up punishments for crimes committed by undocumented immigrants — a rule that would almost certainly be unconstitutional.
• A bill to make reentering Florida after you've been deported a third-degree felony, even though that law would violate the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause, because state laws can't contradict federal ones (especially after 2012's Arizona v. State Supreme Court ruling).
• A bill that would make it illegal to get an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
• A bill adding more mandatory-minimum sentences for drug trafficking (even though both parties agreed a year ago that mandatory minimums are bad policy).
• A bill that would punish owners of gun-free areas like schools or shops if anyone gets hurt inside them.
• A bill that would make it easier for people to claim "Stand Your Ground" if they shoot someone.
• The frighteningly named "Rule of Law Adherence Act," which would make immigrant-protecting "sanctuary cities" illegal.
• A crackpot bill that would let any taxpayer in Florida object to writings in public-school textbooks (i.e., God is real, Darwinism is not real, any literature with gay people or sex is bad, etc.).
• And a bill that would cut the legs out of Florida's public-records law and make it extremely difficult to sue the state for taxpayer-owned records.

But of course, the GOP hot-shotted this mouth-breather all the way into the U.S. House, where he’s continued to be terrible at his job.

How about the time in 2020, before the development of Covid-19 vaccines, that Steube touted the useless treatment of hydroxychloroquine, and he referred to the Food and Drug Administration as “The Deep State”? Because fomenting mistrust in that government agency while pushing snake oil on the medical people is the exact sort of thing the country needed right then..

Speaking of his blind loyalty to Donald Trump, Greg Steube also responded to several social media platforms, particularly Twitter, banning him by submitting a bill that it would make it illegal for social media companies to enforce their own terms of use on uses who violate them, especially if those “victims” of censorship should have awful conservative views. Then again, Steube went out the very next day and tried defending Donald Trump during his second impeachment hearings by citing the case of a KKK leader as to what counted as “incitement”.

Great job, Greg. Great job.

But only a few days after that debacle, Steube submitted the sort of transphobic legislation normally only seen at the state level, hoping to ban transgender athletes from girls’ sports, and that in the wording, it would submit all teenage girls to genital inspections before participating in sports. Because that doesn’t sound like a more intrusive, pedophilic, abusive environment for everyone involved, does it?

But Steube doesn’t seem to realize how bad he actually is… that might be why the ethics watchdog group CREW had to file a complaint against him when he abused proxy voting rules to send people to vote for him during the Covid-19 pandemic… because he was off f***ing around at the Conservative Political Action Conference, rather than actually working for the American people.

And of course, this dips*** would interrupt a very important hearing about the salient threat our nation faces from white supremacists and domestic terrorists to whine about why the Department of Homeland Security isn’t investigating Black Lives Matter or Antifa (HINT for the brain dead Congressman… they’re not domestic terror organizations).

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And then, there’s just a disaster of a voting record these past four years:

• January 27th, 2019: Greg Steube voted against HJR 30, which was meant to express disapproval of Donald Trump not acting against Russian Federation for attacking our democracy. You see, he’s fine with our nation being sublet to Vladimir Putin.
• January 22nd, 2019: Steube votes against HR 676, which would prevent Donald Trump from doing the unthinkable and walking away from our allies in NATO to appease the Russians.
• January 23rd, 2019: Rep. Steube voted against HR 648, because he was gleefully enjoying the longest government shutdown in history.
• February 28th, 2019: Greg Steube votes against HR 1112, a bill which would have required universal background checks on all firearm purchases, and close the gun show loophole.
• March 7th, 2019: Steube votes against HR 183, a resolution to condemn anti-Semitism as a hateful extension of intolerance.
• March 14th, 2019: Rep. Steube votes against HJR 46, which sane members of Congress voted for to reject Donald Trump’s “national emergency” regarding the U.S. border and his attempts to reallocate funds for a border wall without Congressional approval.
• June 4th, 2019: Steube votes against the Dreamers Act, because he’s too xenophobic and partisan to care about immigration reform.
• July 16th, 2019: Greg Steube votes against a resolution to condemn Donald Trump for his racist statements that four people of color in Congress should “go back where they came from”.
• October 17th, 2019: Rep. Steube is one of 60 Republicans who vote against HJ Res 77, which opposed Donald Trump’s disastrous decision to abandon Syrian Kurdish forces in Northeast Syria to the mercies of a Turkish invasion.
• December 18th, 2019: Rep. Steube ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
• May 15th, 2020: Steube votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
• January 6th, 2021: Greg Steube votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that he wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
• January 13th, 2021: Rep. Steube votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because the Republican Party no longer feels like they should be accountable for anything, including failed coups that result in the deaths of both their participants and police officers.
• February 4th, 2021: Greg Steube votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
• February 25th, 2021: Steube votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
• March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Steube votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
• March 3rd, 2021: Greg Steube votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
• March 10th, 2021: Steube votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
• March 17th, 2021: Rep. Steube votes against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
• May 19th, 2021: Greg Steube votes against HR 3233 the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
• May 20th, 2021: Steube is one of 63 Republicans who vote against the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.
• June 15th, 2021: Rep. Steube is one of twenty-one Republicans who pick a side to have rooted for in the failed coup attempt on 1/6/21 and votes against awarding Congressional gold medals to members of the Capitol Police who bravely defended members of Congress during the attack.
• November 5th, 2021: Greg Steube votes against HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
• March 31st, 2022: Steube votes against HR 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which would limit the cost that drug companies could list insulin at to $35 and make sure no diabetic was priced out of surviving their condition. Greg Steube would rather they be gouged by pharmaceutical giants and/or die.
• May 18th, 2022: Greg Steube is one of 192 Republicans who vote against HR 7790, to create supplemental funding for infant formula (while claiming to be pro- life).
• May 18th, 2022: Rep. Steube votes against HR 350, the Domestic Violence Prevention Act.
• May 19th, 2022: Steube votes against HR 7688, a bill which would help prevent gas companies from gouging customers on prices.

We have to mention that the last news that broke on Greg Steube about a week ago was during a virtual hearing on gun safety, where, after a swath of mass shootings around the country, including 21 deaths at Uvalde Elementary School in Texas… Greg Steube started waving around his collection of handguns during that meeting, likely looking to gleefully menace and troll people who were watching, hoping, and praying that Congress might do something, anything to stop gun deaths… and showing us the specific kind of f***wits the Republican Party is sending to Washington, D.C., to feed off the pain of victims.

Greg Steube easily won in 2018 and 2020, getting about 64% of the vote in each election. His 2022 opponent looks like it will be Dan Lambert, a lifelong Republican and pastor who’s running against Steube because he cannot rationalize Steube defending Donald Trump after January 6th, 2021. It's disappointing that there wasn’t an actual Democrat who filed to run, or why Lambert just didn’t try to beat him in a primary… but with any luck, Lambert at least will rough up Steube enough to damage him going forward after 2022.

[Gray Lensman]

Does TLC still stand for The Learning Channel? Maybe it should be The Leering Channel.

Now that isn't quite fair. Watching will let you learn just how little hope there is for humanity, so they can claim to be teaching something.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Does TLC still stand for The Learning Channel? Maybe it should be The Leering Channel.

That channel hasn't been 'The Learning Channel' for the longest time. These days it televises moronic dreck that attracts the lowest common denominator.

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On this date in 2015, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Tom Ganley, a former used car salesman and candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Ohio’s 13th Congressional District back in 2010. The GOP named him one of their “Young Guns” despite of the fact that he had a history of his car dealerships being sued for age, race, and gender discrimination and an African American employee who won a lawsuit against him in a racial discrimination case. His poll numbers were holding up fairly well though, until five weeks before the election, when a woman reported that she was sexually assaulted by Ganley at one of his car dealerships while she was dropping her van off for repairs, while giving her $100 and telling her to buy lingerie and high-heeled shoes and to come back so he could “dominate her, parade her on a leash”, and have sex with her in front of his “play friends”. Four weeks after that, and within a week of the election, a second woman came forward to report a similar incident of Ganley acting like Jabba the Hutt. Before all was said and done, Ganley was the first (but not last) of the Republican “Young Guns” to be indicted for a crime, and that was 7 counts that included kidnapping, abduction, solicitation, and menacing by stalking. And that… is definitely a way to end a political career.

In 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” presented its original profile of Georgia State Senator Fran Millar, who has served in the state legislature since 1999, making the jump from the Georgia House to Georgia Senate back in the 2010 elections. In his time in office, he has voted for the death penalty to be applied even in non-unanimous jury rulings, voted for welfare drug testing, voted for a requirement that the Georgia State Capitol needed to have a monument of the Ten Commandments, voted to try and make picketing a corporation illegal, voted for bills to require English to be the official language of the state, and voted for a law to allow for Christians to legally discriminate against gay people. Pretty much, he’s supported any and all the unconstitutional ideas that conservatives have pitched for the past fifteen years or so. But Millar arrived on FRED’s radar a few months prior to the 2014 elections, when he decided to volunteer some interesting opinions about African Americans using their legal right to participate in early voting on Facebook when he wrote, ”Now we are to have Sunday voting at South DeKalb Mall just prior to the election. Per Jim Galloway of the AJC, this location is dominated by African American shoppers and it is near several large African American mega churches such as New Birth Missionary Baptist. Galloway also points out the Democratic Party thinks this is a wonderful idea — what a surprise. I’m sure Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter are delighted with this blatantly partisan move in DeKalb. Is it possible church buses will be used to transport people directly to the mall since the poll will open when the mall opens? If this happens, so much for the accepted principle of separation of church and state. Interim CEO May says this election decision is an administrative matter and he can unilaterally make this decision. I don’t think this is necessarily true and we are investigating if there is any way to stop this action.” When called out on trying to disenfranchise African American voters by shutting down early voting that they (and anyone else in the state) use for convenience and insinuating they were somehow violating the Constitution to do so, Fran Millar found a way to say something even worse, writing, “I would prefer more educated voters than a greater increase in the number of voters. If you don’t believe this is an efort [sic] to maximize Democratic votes pure and simple, then you are not a realist. This is a partisan stunt and I hope it can be stopped. Furthermore I don’t control where people are allowed to vote but am glad Brookhaven has been added for the last week.” So, he would prefer EDUCATED voters, and the African American ones simply can’t be educated, so they should be disqualified. Well, nothing racist about that, right? Well, let’s just say that Fran Millar doesn’t think much of the intelligence of any voter, as he was recorded on video commanding a constituent trying to ask him simple questions to sit, as if they were a dog. On April 15th, 2017, Millar gave the game away again with this quote about the special election to replace the Congressional seat vacated by Tom Price, and how Jon Ossoff was leading in the polls, admitting that the voting lines in the state were drawn to cheat Democrats out of wins. With the 2018 Blue Wave coming for him, and reports that Millar engaged in money laundering with Congressman Buddy Carter… and that was finally enough to ensure he was defeated by Democrat Sally Farrell, earning only 45% of the vote.

On this date in 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”profiled Kansas State Senator Susan Wagle, who served District 30 of that body from 2001 to 2020, when she made herself a candidate for the U.S. Senate, seeking the seat being vacated by the retiring Senator Pat Roberts. Even prior to that, she served in the Kansas House of Representatives for a decade, arriving back in 1991. In 2006, she was the Chairman of ALEC, the conservative policy think-tank that seems intent to do harm to our nation’s working class to the benefit of the wealthy. Wagle has been in the Kansas state legislator for three decades, and in a leadership role for most of the last third of that. She was one of the main reasons the Kansas GOP under Sam Brownback ran the state into the ground, including her efforts to block the Medicaid Expansion, which she now is outrageously still holding as her hostage in order to try to force anti-choice votes with the lower chamber, including a bill that would change the Kansas state constitution to claim that women don’t have a right to an abortion. And that would probably have something do with her impotent rage at the Kansas Supreme Court for overturning the bill she sponsored, the “Dismemberment Abortion Act” before it could be implemented in April of 2019. Really, her entire voting record reads like a rap sheet of conservative misanthropy. In 2018, she actually threw her support behind white nationalist Senate candidate Kris Kobach to be the next Governor of Kansas in the GOP Primary, and went so far as to have an aid post her endorsement from a computer at the capitol, a violation of ethics rules. In her current efforts to get elected to the U.S. Senate, it’s beginning to be easy to understand how Wagle could align herself as Kobach, as she has also mirrored his love of racist conspiracy theories, including that the Chinese government engineered Covid-19 and then released it on its own citizens. Wagle never managed to poll better than single digits at any point in that U.S. Senate primary, and finally dropped out of the race on May 28th, 2020 after most of her anti-abortion supporters abandoned her and rallied behind Roger Marshall, instead. She retired to go run bingo halls with her husband.

On this date in 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Brandon Cook, who was a two-time loser in his efforts to run for U.S. House of Representatives in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District in both 2018 and 2020. Cook failed to make it to the primary in either election, being disqualified from it both times. Our reason for profiling him, however, is because he is yet the latest GOP candidate for office from 2020 who was running while endorsing the Qanon conspiracy theory. So much so, in Cook’s case, he took it seriously enough by responding to Twitter’s announcement that they would ban accounts promoting Qanon, writing, ”Well this should tell you everything you need to know. QAnon is as real as it gets people. There would absolutely no reason to censor or limit is it wasn't.” Brandon Cook was also virulently anti-immigrant, posting about how two illegal immigrants can have a child on American soil, and that baby is considered an American citizen by declaring, “Two wrongs don’t make a right”. Which he should probably go read the 14th Amendment, instead of Q posts. Anyway, Brandon Cook whined about how his Twitter feed lost 5,000 followers once Qanon followers were getting banned, but still spend the summer of 2020 whining about Covid-19 mask mandates and threatening Black Lives Matter protesters out in the streets following the death of George Floyd that “armed Patriots” would “end the riots”. Brandon Cook seems to have stopped posting on Twitter at all after August of 2020, and his Facebook now makes little to mention of politics, perhaps because he realized it would be detrimental to his auto auction business. We will set aside his profile at this time to cover another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1107-55, since this was established in July 2014.

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Pete Snyder

Welcome to what is the 1107th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Pete Snyder, a 2021 GOP candidate for Governor of Virginia, whose campaign in 2021 really didn’t want to mention his support for the white supremacist concept that the Confederacy wasn’t that bad, and that we should keep having monuments to a failed rebellion against the federal government because Southern states liked having African slaves doing all the work while they reaped all the profits.

Yes, even after Charlottesville, Snyder insisted it would be “Stalinist” to remove Confederate monuments from that city, even after, y’know, domestic terrorists and white nationalists terrorized a town and a woman was murdered in a car attack by them because they absolutely need their participation trophies from the Civil War waved in the face of people of color.

So we don’t make Snyder’s entire profile about his support for a bunch of long dead traitorous, racist f***wits, we’ll also mention that while campaigning in 2021, he kept spreading misinformation about Covid-19, including his terrible opinion that it would be “perfectly safe” to send children back to school unvaccinated.

We’ll also mention that Snyder lost a 2013 GOP Primary for Lt. Governor of Virginia to the very bats*** crazy E.W. Jackson, and in 2021, lost the primary to Glenn Youngkin. Maybe because he has lost in every election he’s entered in like clockwork, every four years. Maybe he’ll take a hint and just go back to working as a pollster and realize he’s hot garbage.

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It was on this date in 2015 that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” had a profile of former Montana House of Representatives member Jerry O’Neil, a man who prior to entering politics, was being investigated for practicing law without a license, but soldiered on by outspending the entire $2000 budget of the Montana Supreme Court’s Commission on the Unauthorized Practice of Law. Eventually, though, O’Neil would (What else?) begin a political career is a Montana state legislator, where he stood out by trying to draft bills that would allow for people sentenced to prison to commute their sentences by instead agreeing to corporal punishment, such as large quantities of canings or spankings (really) and his demand that his legislative salary should be paid in gold, like the Constitution intended (there’s no mention of state legislators being paid in gold). O’Neil ended up being beaten in the 2014 elections by Democrat Zac Perry, and has apparently decided to call it a career, at least for now.

On this date in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”posted profiles of the current U.S. House Representative for Wisconsin’s 7th District, Sean Duffy, a former contestant on MTV’s reality show “The Real World” where he would spend one episode gyrating in his underwear for his housemates. Duffy was yet another beneficiary of the Tea Party Wave, storming into office to replace twenty-one term Congressman Dave Obey back in 2010, and if you ask Sean Duffy, it’s a real struggle to survive on the measly $174,000 salary he gets as a member of Congress, to which some might advise him that he should have stopped having kids sometime before his ninth. Hypocritically, while refusing a pay cut on his own six figure salary, Duffy advises other public workers should accept pay cuts. Of course, with 8 children, it comes as little surprise that Sean Duffy is also a die-hard pro-life supporter. In January of 2016, however, he caused an uproar on the floor of the U.S. House after he decided to express that anti-abortion fervor during a discussion about the BlackLivesMatter Movement by presenting inaccurate statistics to chastise the Congressional Black Caucus for not supporting black lives because they allow higher abortion rates racially than whites. That’s not only statistically incorrect but totally racist. Congresswoman Gwen Moore perhaps responded best that, “It’s painfully obvious that Representative Duffy’s concern for life ends as soon as the umbilical cord is cut.” But Duffy doesn’t always act like he knows it all, like the time he was asked at a town hall about his position on transvaginal ultrasounds, and he dodged the question by saying, “Well, I haven’t had one.” Of course, either quote could have been a worse statement… like the time Sean Duffy’s wife, and fellow “Real World” alumni Rachel Campos-Duffy compared abortion to slavery and the Holocaust, as Republicans are frequently in the habit of doing. During the 2016 election, Duffy embraced authoritarian fascism in full, encouraging Donald Trump use his Twitter account to “push back against the media” regarding negative stories about his transition team (which considering they were all talking to Russians, it’s a good thing it didn’t work). Within two weeks, Duffy was on CNN, where in an interview with CNN he was being asked why Donald Trump took WEEKS to condemn Neo-Nazis who began a spree of hate crime assaults, vandalism, and threats against minorities to “celebrate” Trump’s election, Duffy tried changing the topic by claiming that the Neo-Nazis were similar to the Black Lives Matter movement. Only a few weeks after that in December of 2016, Duffy was being interviewed by Tucker Carlson, when he claimed that the city of Madison, Wisconsin, one of the few liberal bastions in the state what with the University of Wisconsin there, was “communist”. After he was widely criticized for this stupid, stupid remark, Duffy played the victim by getting on Twitter to post, ”The PC crowd is humorless. For those offended by my ‘communist’ comment, I'll send a therapy dog to your ‘safe place’ of choice in Madison.”[ Duffy was on the Trump transition team (no word on if they trusted him to talk to Russians) but the real shock from Sean Duffy came in February of 2017, when he began arguing that the media was deliberately not reporting Islamic terror attacks (ones that they actually HAD reported on), Duffy started trying to claim that white terrorism didn’t exist, and even if it does, it wasn’t the same thing as Islamic terrorism because it has a “bright side”. He did this while embarrassing himself while arguing in defense of Donald Trump’s attempted Muslim ban in a CNN interview with Alisyn Camerota: We can’t even begin with how ignorant that whole conversation is regarding the differences between White Nationalist terrorism and Muslim terrorism, but we’ll add that the man who shot Gabby Giffords was also not a Marxist, as Duffy lied about. Duffy got his ass handed to him again in a discussion about Donald Trump’s proposed border wall on CNN in February of 2019, where he claimed that somehow people crossing the U.S./Mexico border were responsible for people in Wisconsin “dying from meth” and heroin overdoses. Duffy resigned from office in August of 2019, citing a need to “spend more time with his family”, which for once might be true because he has almost as many kids as he has fingers at this point, and not just the excuse Republicans covering up a scandal they’re in on the side say. He is now, predictably, serving as a lobbyist on K Street.

On this date in 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Darlene Swaffar, a 2020 candidate for office in Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, and yes, the latest in our long line of “Qanon conspiracy theorists who tried to get elected to Congress”. Swaffar was repeatedly tagging posts with the QAnon slogan, and was pushing a way-out-there idea about Donald Trump’s Twitter posts and the life of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin being related to “Q” as “the 17th letter of the alphabet.” On her personal Facebook page, it was a barrage of Qanon memes and she made a video of herself taking an oath supporting QAnon. In April 2019, she wrote on a Facebook page called “QAnon Great Awakening” that the page’s posts about QAnon inspired her to run for office and that she had supposedly “met with the Republican party in South Florida and have received their endorsement”. Darlene Swaffar ended up finishing fourth out of four GOP Primary candidates in 2020, getting a mere 8% of the vote. Don’t look now, but this Q-kook is filing to run again in 2022, where she’ll be likely to lose against her GOP cohorts or should she pull the upset, Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch in the general election, thinking that attacking him for his vote to impeach Donald Trump for inciting a violent coup attempt on Congress is somehow going to rally people behind her. Yeah, don’t see that happening. Especially because Darlene Swaffar is palling around with pardoned fellow conspiracy theorist Michael Flynn, and currently promoting conspiracy theories about Covid-19 being created in a lab in Wuhan, China, and deliberately being released on the populace, as well as that “Critical Race Theory was created by Racist Marxists”. She…is highly unlikely to ever reach office, thus we will set aside her profile at this time to cover another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1108-55, since this was established in July 2014.

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Anthony Bouchard

Welcome to what is the 1108th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Wyoming State Senator Anthony Bouchard, who is a 2022 GOP Primary challenger for Wyoming’s “At-Large” Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, looking to be the man who would punish Congresswoman Liz Cheney for daring to stand up to former President Donald Trump for doing all that coup-plotting he’s so into. Bouchard unsuccessfully ran for Wyoming State Senate in 2012, and the Wyoming House of Representatives in 2014, before getting a shot at the Wyoming State Senate again at 2016 when the incumbent retired, and he eked out a win in the GOP Primary by all of 5 votes.

In his time in office, Bouchard has been on the wrong side of a lot of crucial legislation, including his failed attempt to get a bill he sponsored passed to make it legal for government officials to carry guns in government buildings like the state capitol (not that this would encourage intimidating workplace behavior or assassination attempts), and assuring that Wyoming continued to carry out the death penalty by voting against a failed repeal attempt of it in 2019.

Not long after announcing his primary challenge to Liz Cheney In May 2021, Bouchard made a public announcement on Facebook live where he claimed he was pre-empting a planned media exposé… and revealed that when he was a teenager, he impregnated a girl who he said was "a little younger than me" in Florida "more than 40 years ago." He later clarified with the Casper Star-Tribute that he was 18 years old and the girl was 14 when she became pregnant. Bouchard said they married when he was 19 and the girl was 15, and the girl eventually gave birth to their son. He said the couple divorced after three years of marriage; she died by suicide in 1990 at age 20.

So… let’s recap. By his own admission, without the spin… he confessed to statutory rape, convined her family to allow the girl to marry her rapist, and after the marriage ended in failure (because obviously), his victim killed herself. Bouchard failed to mention that he raised his son after that fact and the values he imparted on his son allowed him to become a sex offender who’s looking at serious jail time in California.

This is the man Donald Trump and his mad king-wing of the Republican Party decided was the ace up their sleeve to show Liz Cheney the door.

But with Liz Cheney getting traction by speaking the truth of Donald Trump’s botched coup attempt and the criminal conspiracy around its planning… Bouchard needed to get some traction with local voters, so he got on social media to publicly advocate for the execution of contagious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci. Y’know, because that’s normal discourse.

We never thought we would root for Liz Cheney in any scenario, but given current events, and everything we know about Anthony Bouchard, it’s not a challenge.