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

[babyblob]

Rep Dan Crenshaw harassed by Proud Boys Alt Right supporters. Yelling "Eye Patch McCain" A term used by Tucker more then once.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-...ight-activists

[Tendrin]

Proud Boys deemed terrorist organization when?

[babyblob]

Proud Boys deemed terrorist organization when?

When their skin tone changes and they join BLM.

[Tendrin]

The Maine GOP is now too extreme for Paul LePage.

Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican who has made fiscal policy the centerpiece of his campaign to return to office this year, distanced himself Friday from controversial state Republican Party platform planks on social issues.

Answering questions from WMTW following a party “unity” rally in Lewiston, LePage rejected the idea of repealing state law recognizing same-sex marriage, which Maine voters approved in a 2012 referendum.

LePage said, "Marriage equality – I'm not interested in talking about that. If that's in the platform, I'm not going there."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...983a6c3aafd228

[Tendrin]

Uh... WBE? I know you've got this guy already, I'm sure, but presented for your WBQueue anyway...

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...hen-he-was-18/

Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard (R), who’s challenging Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for her House seat, acknowledged in an interview with Casper Star-Tribune that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18.

Bouchard first revealed the relationship in a Facebook Live video on Thursday, though he did not say exactly how old he or the girl was when the pregnancy happened. In that video, he said he wanted to come out with the story himself after learning that people had been looking into the matter.

“It’s amazing that they look at things so negatively. So bottom line is it’s a story when I was young, two teenagers, girl gets pregnant,” Bouchard said. “You’ve heard those stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it’s like the Romeo and Juliet story.”

Weird how it's always the GOP doing this shit, huh?

[worstblogever]

Uh... WBE? I know you've got this guy already, I'm sure, but presented for your WBQueue anyway...

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...hen-he-was-18/



Weird how it's always the GOP doing this shit, huh?

I think that profile went out like 2 weeks ago, but I can save that for an update.

Assuming my liver holds out until next June.

[CaptainEurope]

If the US media does not treat the clear and dangerous radicalization of the GOP as a bigger story than Hillary's E-Mails, they won't just have failed America, they will have failed the world.

[Tendrin]

If the US media does not treat the clear and dangerous radicalization of the GOP as a bigger story than Hillary's E-Mails, they won't just have failed America, they will have failed the world.

No way, there's stories about 'woke' stuff to fearmonger over and trans kids needs to be attacked relentlessly. Who cares about the fascists? /s

[WestPhillyPunisher]

At this point, the only difference between the GQP and the Taliban comes down to skin color:

https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/sta...17021041070086

[WestPhillyPunisher]

‘Two potential threats’: Black parents fear more school cops in response to mass shootings

Senators working toward a landmark gun deal in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting have emphasized the need to boost funds for campus security. But the prospect of more police officers in schools is making some Black parents feel less safe.

"Uvalde shows that having law enforcement didn't make a difference," said Chinwe Kpaduwa, a Maryland mother of two boys. "There were 19 of them there. And they stood out for an hour while the kids were gunned down."

Kpaduwa said she traveled to Washington, D.C., for last weekend's March for Our Lives rally against gun violence after three episodes involving weapons at her children's schools. Though neither of her children was in immediate danger, she said, the incidents rattled her, particularly given the shooting in Texas and an earlier one in Buffalo, New York, which targeted Black people.

[babyblob]

If the US media does not treat the clear and dangerous radicalization of the GOP as a bigger story than Hillary's E-Mails, they won't just have failed America, they will have failed the world.

The way the GOP control the narrative on any story that want fat chance of the media going all in on how bad they are

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Uvalde police never tried to open doors to classrooms where shooter was inside, Express-News reports

According to a new report by the San Antonio Express-News, a surveillance video shows police never tried to open the doors at Robb Elementary leading to the classrooms where the shooter went inside.

The report cites law enforcement close to the investigation as their source.

That source reportedly told the Express-News that police may have assumed the doors were locked and the shooter could not have locked the doors from the inside. Pete Arredondo, the district police chief in charge of law enforcement's response at Robb, has said previously that he went through a ring of keys provided by a janitor in order to try and gain entry.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Saw this on Twitter and yeah, it's pretty spot on. The monster the GQP created is on the loose and out of their control.

[worstblogever]

It was on this date in 2015 that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled a two-time loser in attempts to get into the U.S. Senate, World Wrestling Entertainment CEO and now former Cabinet Secretary of the Small Business Association, Linda McMahon, whose background as a recurring character within the WWE Universe (including storyline angles where she was cheated on, in a catatonic state, and “turning heel” by kicking announcers with medical ailments in the groin). Some of the shady business practices her company has made within the industry of professional wrestling over the past few decades include not just a widespread misuse of steroids distributed by company doctors in the 1980s, not just hiring wrestlers who had allegedly murdered their girlfriends, not just pressuring wrestlers to perform with concussions and likely exacerbating their progressive brain tissue’s destruction via CTE, not just permeated a culture of sexual harassment of female employees, but even allegedly covering up a sexual assault of a female wrestler on an overseas tour of Kuwait in 2007. Linda was a hopeless cause in multiple elections as she burned through millions of dollars of her own family’s fortune to try and win a Senate seat. After losses in both 2012 and 2014, both Linda and her outspoken husband, Vince McMahon seemed content to give up politics, but when WWE Hall of Fame member Donald Trump managed to win the White House, they called their old pal, and Linda was set up to run the Small Business Association, because he’s that insane and terrible at picking people for federal appointments. In any event, Linda McMahon was openly describing how chaotic and terrible it is working in the Trump administration and announced she would resign in May of 2019 from that position to run a Trump political PAC.


In 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” presented its original profile of the current U.S. House Representative from North Carolina’s 7thCongressional District, David Rouzer, whose resemblance to Saturday Night Live cast member Jon Lovitz still haunts us to this day.

Rouzer had already established himself as a staunch conservative while he served in the North Carolina State Senate, aligning himself as a climate change denier who tried blocking studies of sea level change, showing he was downright archaic when it came to education, what with his support of corporal punishment without parental exemption in schools, and his homophobic streak was proven by both his opposition to anti-bullying measures that would protect LGBTQ students and his support for a state constitutional ban on same sex marriage. He hasn't mellowed out much since heading to Washington, D.C., like how he was willing to state his desire to have another government shutdown over the fact that the GOP was unable to defund Planned Parenthood, due to his viewing of the fraudulent video produced by the Center for Medical Progress (whose leaders were since been indicted for their deception). This was only two years after the last time Republicans shut the government down, and got nothing but costing millions upon million dollars for our country, and threatening government workers with being furloughed, Rouzer was ready to repeat that over a shoddy hoax.

Rouzer was trying to earn big points points as a freshman lawmaker for introducing his own written legislation, but then again, when you consider his bill was to drug test welfare recipients nationally, it becomes a lot less impressive. After all, when states have passed such laws and adopted them, they have lost a fortune on the cost of drug testing, and found statistically less drug use by those on government assistance, without any "savings" of throwing people off welfare. Even worse, the states have lost money on court cases when the same Republicans supporting these bills see their legislation challenged by ACLU lawsuits, and they get overturned as being violations of the 4th Amendment. But that's David Rouzer for you... take a failed, s*** idea at the state level and try to do it across the country.

In June of 2015: Rep. Rouzer released a statement after the Supreme Court rules in the Obergefell v. Hodges case in favor of marriage equality, saying it would be against the will of our Founding Fathers, and that it created a "slippery slope of shifting sand". Perhaps this would be a good time to point out to Rouzer that George Washington was cool with awarding a house to Continental Army General Baron von Steuben after the war, mmhm? When a guy with wooden teeth is more tolerant of gays than you are… you have problems.

North Carolina’s 7th Congressional District has a +9 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, which was enough to help him get 60% of the vote in the 2020 elections.

[worstblogever]

Rouzer returned to Washington, D.C., and his long legislative pattern of being a partisan wanker:

• January 23rd, 2019: Rep. Rouzer voted against HR 648, because he was gleefully enjoying the longest government shutdown in history.
• June 4th, 2019: Rouzer votes against the Dreamers Act, because he’s too xenophobic and partisan to care about immigration reform.
  dismissed, but isn’t just content to be happy for Flynn… he makes the claim that Flynn was “set up” by the FBI.
• May 15th, 2020: Rouzer votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
• January 6th, 2021: David Rouzer 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. Rouzer 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: David Rouzer 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: Rouzer votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
• March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Rouzer 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: David Rouzer votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
• March 10th, 2021: Rouzer 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. Rouzer 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: David Rouzer votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
• May 20th, 2021: Rouzer is one of 63 Republicans who vote against the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.
• November 5th, 2021: David Rouzer votes against HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
• March 31st, 2022: Rouzer 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. David Rouzer would rather they be gouged by pharmaceutical giants and/or die.
• May 18th, 2022: David Rouzer 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. Rouzer votes against HR 350, the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, because these days, a plank of the Republican Party is ostensibly domestic terror.
• May 19th, 2022: Rouzer votes against HR 7688, a bill which would help prevent gas companies from gouging customers on prices.

David Rouzer has always been a vocal defender of Donald Trump, regardless of the blatant corruption of the administration, and whined about “the abuses of the FBI” and claiming “the truth has been trampled” as Republicans’ efforts to end the impeachment inquiry into the Ukraine scandal closed in around Trump in Congressional hearings. And, in the days after the attack on the Capitol, Rouzer was willing to admit the election wasn’t “stolen” but continued on to claim, without any proof, that there was widespread “fraud” that needed investigating, defending his decision to contest the results in the hours after the attack.

We’re hoping that his district opts to go with a less seditious choice for a Congressman in 2022, but Republican voters in his district, of course, sent him sailing through the GOP Primary without a second thought after all the sedition. His opponent in November will be six-term Democratic Noth Carolina state legislator Charles Graham, and we’re hoping he doesn’t pull any punches regarding Rouzer’s support of a coup by the Trump administration on the legislative branch of our government.