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

[CaptainEurope]

Rep. George Santos requested a spot on the House Financial Services Committee, per source. There seems to be some resistance to the idea, though. Wonder why.

[AnakinFlair]

Rep. George Santos requested a spot on the House Financial Services Committee, per source. There seems to be some resistance to the idea, though. Wonder why.

Meanwhile, the New York Republican leaders have called on Santos to resign. I'd say we'll have to see if that spurs McCarthy into action, but we all know he'll just ignore the issue and keep Santos around as long as possible, just to have his vote.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Meanwhile, the New York Republican leaders have called on Santos to resign. I'd say we'll have to see if that spurs McCarthy into action, but we all know he'll just ignore the issue and keep Santos around as long as possible, just to have his vote.

Since McCarthy’s genitals currently reside in MTG’s purse, it’s highly unlikely he does a damn thing and lets Santos slide.

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So it was of little surprise when Gaetz was one of the loudest voices spreading Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” after the 2020 election, and prior to Joe Biden’s inauguration. Correction: Gaetz never stopped telling that lie, even after January 6th.

We’re this far into the Matt Gaetz profile, and you’re probably wondering, “Are they ever going to mention he’s being investigated for child sex trafficking and sex trafficking?” Oh, we haven’t forgotten. The New York Times first broke the news in March of 2021,

that the Dept. of Justice was investigating Gaetz’s illicit activities during the Trump administration, and that Gaetz’s long time friend and associate Joel Greenberg, who had already been convicted of sex trafficking had been cooperating with federal authorities. Perhaps not coincidentally, Gaetz was the only member of Congress to vote against the Combating Human Trafficking Vehicles Act in 2017, and was one of 25 members of the House to vote against the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers act in 2018.

Of course he was dumb enough to implicate himself by using Venmo or say, Apple Pay or Cash App to pay the escorts for sexual favors, and of course he doesn’t have the decency to resign in light of that, and has hung around like the troll he is to spread more conspiracy theories and make vague threats towards Democratic colleagues about what should be done if Republicans and Donald Trump return to power, because there weren’t enough threats on people’s lives in the building on January 6th.

Just a recent timeline.

• May 2nd, 2018: Matt Gaetz is one of 18 Republicans who sign on to a letter asking to nominate Donald Trump for a Nobel Prize for meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
• January 22nd, 2019: Gaetz 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. Gaetz voted against HR 648, because he was gleefully enjoying the longest government shutdown in history.
• January 27th, 2019: Matt Gaetz can’t be arsed to vote against HJR 30, which was meant to express disapproval of Donald Trump not acting against Russian Federation for attack Gaetz our democracy. You see, he’s fine with our nation being sublet to Vladimir Putin.
• February 22nd, 2019: Gaetz posts on Twitter at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a pattern that emerged since she won her primary race where he shamelessly pretends to, or flirts with her, to change the subject away from solid policy points she makes in an inherently creepy way.
• February 26th, 2019: Rep. Gaetz decides to get on Twitter and threaten Michael Cohen a day before he is set to testify before Congress regarding Donald Trump’s corruption including his scheme to commit campaign finance fraud by paying off women he had affairs with before their stories could be published in the tabloids.On Twitter, Gaetz wrote, “Hey @MichaelCohen212 — Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot.”
• February 28th, 2019: Gaetz votes against HR 1112, a bill which would have required universal background checks on all firearm purchases, and close the gun show loophole.
• March 14th, 2019: Rep. Gaetz 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.
• April 4th, 2019: Matt Gaetz is one of 158 Republicans who choose to vote 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 17th, 2019: Gaetz votes against The Equality Act, which would have prevented discrimination towards Americans based on their gender identity or sexual orientation. He justified his vote by saying it would only allow Donald Trump to declare himself “the first female president” and liberals wouldn’t like that. No, really.
• June 4th, 2019: Rep. Gaetz votes against the Dreamers Act, because he’s too xenophobic and partisan to care about immigration reform.
• July 16th, 2019: Matt Gaetz 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: Gaetz 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.
• October 23rd, 2019: Rep. Gaetz leads 41 Republicans who, while staring down the possibility of Donald Trump being impeached, stage a ridiculous publicity stunt in response by crashing a classified impeachment inquiry hearing for a “protest”. After a few hours of them occupying an empty room and ordering and eating pizza, they abandon their delusions and wander out.
• December 3rd, 2019: Matt Gaetz is one of 71 Republicans who vote against House Resolution 546, which stated disapproval of any attempt to readmit the Russian federation back into the G7 and make it the G8.
• December 3rd, 2019: Rep. Gaetz is quoted as saying that the president that really deserves impeaching is Barack Obama, who has been out of office for almost three full years, because of supposed “wiretapping” he did that the intelligence community already had to confirm he never did (when Trump accused him of “wire tapps”).
• December 3rd, 2019: Rep. Gaetz makes a vague threat against Georgia Governor and fellow Republican Matt Kemp because he might not pick the Trump administration’s favored candidate for Senate to replace Sen. Johnny Isakson until a special election can be conducted.
• December 12th, 2019: After spending weeks trying to spread Russian propaganda about Joe and Hunter Biden, Gaetz begins attacking Hunter Biden about rumored substance abuse issues he might have, which led Democratic Congressman Hank Johnson to respond by reminding everyone that Matt Gaetz has been arrested for DUI, so maybe the pot is calling the kettle black.
• December 19th, 2019: Matt Gaetz votes against the impeachment of Donald Trump, in spite of glaring evidence of abuse of power.
• January 13th, 2020: Rep. Gaetz decides to take a shot at a former Republican colleague from the Florida state legislature for daring to meet with the Reverend Al Sharpton, and said colleague, Chris Latvala responds in kind that as a member of the Florida state legislature, Gaetz started an inappropriate game that awarded state legislators “points” for having sex with interns, lobbyists, and other married legislators.
• February 5th, 2020: Matt Gaetz calls for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to be marked with an ethics complaint and for her to be charged with a crime for tearing up a copy of Donald Trump’s State of the Union Speech (it wasn’t a crime, obviously).

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• March 4th, 2020: Matt Gaetz mocks mask guidelines being advised by health experts by turning up to vote on a Coronavirus stimulus bill while wearing a gas mask. Five days later, on March 9th, he announced he was going into self-quarantine after being exposed to the virus by a fellow guest at CPAC.
• May 15th, 2020: Gaetz votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
• June 14th, 2020: Rep. Gaetz decides to start a Twitter feud with actor Ron Perlman, and gets his ass handed to him in a battle of wits, because Gaetz doesn’t have any.
• June 18th, 2020: Only days removed from getting savaged on Twitter, Matt Gaetz decides to respond to discussions of “Black Lives Matter” in the House and the death of George Floyd by going “All Lives Matter”[/URL]. He was called out by Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond for mocking the pain of African Americans, and that’s when Gaetz revealed his ace in the hole… he claimed he had a “non-white son”, a 19 year old Cuban son named “Nestor” who… was living in his Florida home, but there was no paperwork to indicate Gaetz ever adopted him. The next night, Gaetz dragged Nestor onto Tucker Carlson where he whined about “discrimination against whites”. So… just weird. And racist. Which if you included the word “drunk” would summarize Gaetz.
• July 21st, 2020: Gaetz teams up with Jim Jordan to start a public feud with fellow Republican Liz Cheney because in their mind, she does not support Donald Trump enough.
• July 22nd, 2020: Rep. Gaetz is caught in an ethics scandal because he illegally used taxpayer funds to pay a known (fellow) white nationalist to write his speeches for him. When the story is reported by Politico, Gaetz attacks the media outlet for reporting what he calls “a simple clerical error”.
• December 4th, 2020: Rep. Gaetz ignores edicts under effect in New Jersey to not hold large indoor gatherings, and turns up as the “headliner” of a meeting of the New York GOP in Jersey City to hold a “gala fundraiser” with a few hundred people. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy reminds everyone Gaetz is the same wanker who has mocked masks throughout the pandemic, including wearing a gas mask during a Congressional hearing.
• December 10th, 2020: Gaetz signs his name to an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, begging them to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The same election that he won re-election in.
• January 6th, 2021: Matt Gaetz not only cheerleads for fascist the Trump supporters who literally storm the U.S. Capitol Building, he not only votes against certifying the electoral college results showing he has no shame over what his rhetoric has wrought, but he gaslights the American people by taking to the floor of the House to give a speech where he asks everyone to disbelieve the entire day’s events and lies and claims the raid on the Capitol was actually carried out by Antifa.
• January 7th, 2021: Matt Gaetz 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 11th, 2021: Gaetz throws a tantrum on Twitter because Donald Trump’s Twitter account was banned after he continued to spread lies about election fraud that incited the Jan. 6th attacks.
• January 13th, 2021: Rep. Gaetz 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: Matt Gaetz 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.
• February 25th, 2021: Gaetz votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
• March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Gaetz 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: Matt Gaetz votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
• March 10th, 2021: Gaetz 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. Gaetz 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).
• March 17th, 2021: Gaetz is one of twelve 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.
• April 1st, 2021: A CNN report comes out about how some Republican colleagues confirmed that Matt Gaetz would often show nude pictures of women from his phone he had sexual relations with on the Floor of the House with colleagues.
• April 6th, 2021: The New York Times report that in the waning days of the Trump administration, Gaetz was seeking a blanket pardon from Donald Trump, but failed to get one.
• April 8th, 2021: A letter is published from Matt Gaetz’s Congressional office, labeled, “Women of U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz’s office” to come out in defense of the accused Congressman… users on Twitter reading it note, no one actually signed their names to it.
• April 13th, 2021: It is confirmed that federal investigators already issued a warrant and seized Gaetz’s cell phone as part of their investigation into sex trafficking.
• May 14th, 2021: Matt Gaetz can’t be happy after reading the news that his former friend and associate Joel Greenberg has plead guilty and is cooperating with federal investigators.
• May 19th, 2021: Rep. Gaetz votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.

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• May 20th, 2021: Matt Gaetz is one of 63 Republicans who vote against the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.
• May 22nd, 2021: Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend begins cooperating with federal investigators seeking more evidence of his alleged sex trafficking.
• May 28th, 2021: Matt Gaetz, speaking on his “America First” tour with Marjorie Taylor-Greene, calls for citizens to “use their 2nd Amendment rights” against “Silicon Valley companies” for supposedly suppressing conservatives’ messages on social media. He is immediately called out for trying to incite violence against private companies.
• June 15th, 2021: Rep. Gaetz 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.
• June 23rd, 2021: Rep. Gaetz embarrasses himself in front of Gen. Mark Milley, after a line of questioning where he insinuated the armed forces were teaching the troops “Critical Race Theory”, and Milley flipped the questioning on him, saying “I do think it’s important for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read. And it is important that we train and we understand — I want to understand white rage, and I’m white — and I want to understand it. What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and tried to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out.”
• July 17th, 2021: For the third time in weeks, a venue cancelled Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor-Greene’s “America First” rally on them, this time only hours before it was scheduled to start. Gaetz whined about his First Amendment rights being violated on Twitter, and got ratio’ed for it.
• November 5th, 2021: Matt Gaetz votes against HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
• November 18th, 2021: Gaetz, in an interview with Newsmax, talks about wanting to give a Congressional internship to killer Kyle Rittenhouse while he was still on trial for murder, because apparently he wasn’t satisfied with the results he got from the mob on January 6th, he wanted to bring proven killers for the next coup.
• January 6th, 2022: Matt Gaetz spends the anniversary of the failed coup attempt carried out by Trump supporters holding a press conference with Marjorie Taylor-Greene where they portrayed the events of the day as a conspiracy theory set up by the FBI with "boobytraps" and called the media's truthful reports of what happened "Blood Libel". Yes, he used the old anti-Semitic term to defend folks who stormed the Capitol on Trump's behalf in Camp Auschwitz shirts.
• January 13th, 2022: Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend testifies to a grand jury in the sex trafficking case he is implicated in.
• January 14th, 2022: Footage comes out from the anniversary of the Jan. 6th attacks where Matt Gaetz flees from cameras and particularly, Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper, who asks him if he runs if the situation is “a little bit childish or is that what attracts you to this?”, referencing his alleged child sex trafficking.
• March 5th, 2022: Rep. Gaetz repeats Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him, over a year after the Jan. 6th attacks, and is fact-checked about it in a live interview at a local Florida TV station.
• May 18th, 2022: Rep. Gaetz votes against HR 7791, to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 so that waiver authority could be granted to solve supply chain crisises for shortages of baby formula.
• May 18th, 2022: Matt Gaetz is one of 192 Republicans who votes against HR 7790, to create supplemental funding for infant formula (while claiming to be pro- life).
• May 18th, 2022: Rep. Gaetz 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: Gaetz votes against HR 7688, a bill which would help prevent gas companies from gouging customers on prices.
• July 15th, 2022: Matt Gaetz votes against House Amendment 262, which would require the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Secretary of Defense to publish a report on the infiltration of American law enforcement by Neo-Nazis and white supremacists, offer measures to be taken to remove them from their ranks, and prevent further infiltration by others.
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• July 13th, 2022: Gaetz votes against the Honoring Our PACT Act, to provide healthcare to veterans affected by toxic burn pits while serving in the War on Terror that leave them more susceptible to forms of cancer.
• July 19th, 2022: Rep. Gaetz is one of 157 Republicans who vote against the “Respect for Marriage Act”, which would codify same sex marriage into law nationally.
• July 21st, 2022: Gaetz is one of 195 Republicans who vote against the Right to Contraception Act, which codified the right of Americans to have access to birth control.
• July 23rd, 2022: After Matt Gaetz’s remarks body-shaming the appearance of pro-choice supporters and saying they “look like a thumb”, he went on to specifically target teenage advocate Olivia Julianna later on Twitter, leaving people disgusted enough by him to begin donating to Julianna’s cause, to the tune of almost half a million dollars. She responded on Twitter, “Get rekt.”
• July 28th, 2022: In a move that shows he doesn’t care about optics, Matt Gaetz is one of 19 Republicans who vote against a bill aimed at preventing human trafficking.
• September 17th, 2022: Rep. Gaetz, per part of the January 6th investigation testimony of one White House aide, was confirmed to have been seeking a pre-emptive pardon on sex trafficking charges.
• September 26th, 2022: Gaetz admits in an interview that his only priority beyond 2022 is conducting investigations to attack functional members of government, and that he considers any policy or legislation a “far, far diminished priority”. He’s trying to get re-elected to invoke some kind of political revenge, if he can find any.
• September 29th, 2022: Matt Gaetz is one of 49 Republicans who vote against HR 8888, the Food Security for All Veterans Act.
• October 2nd, 2022: Gaetz votes against a bill to free up $15 million in hurricane relief funding from FEMA for his state.
• December 1st, 2022: Rep. Gaetz is one of 90 Republicans who vote against HR 6878, meaning he is perfectly fine with pregnant women in prison being placed in solitary confinement while claiming to be “pro-life”.
• December 6th, 2022: Gaetz, embracing the GOP’s white nationalist, anti-immigrant sentiment votes against HR 7946, which was meant to honor the promise to grant citizenship to immigrants who served in the United States Armed Forces.

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We know that Florida’s 1st District had a +22 Republican lean, and is likely to still be very red going forward… but it should have not be difficult for any Republican challenger to primary Gaetz, given, y’know… the sex trafficking… BUT NO, Florida Republicans in his district saw nothing wrong with a complete scumbag white nationalist creep and sent him back for another term in office.

And they were thanked for that by seeing Gaetz at the heart of the chaos in the Republican caucus, as he and about a score of fellow House Freedom Caucus jagoffs have repeatedly foiled Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s quest to become the next Speaker of the House (bizarrely referring to him as an “alligator”), and rendering the legislative branch of American government completely useless while nearly getting his ass beat by enraged colleagues with a failure to get a House Speaker named on the first ballot for the first time in a century, and the longest wait to have one now since the Civil War.

In other words, he’s still trying to destroy the American government from within, and almost two thirds of Florida’s 1st Congressional District were told that’s exactly what he wanted to do, but sent him anyway. And he’s honoring his promise.

Someone from law enforcement really needs to come collect this wanker.

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Sorry about the delay on finishing that whopper of a Gaetz update. Had some internet issues yesterday.

[worstblogever]

In 2015, 2016, and in 2017, on this date, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled former Oklahoma State Senator Don Barrington, whose biggest claims to fame are introducing a law in 2015 to ban hoodies, presumably as a response to people protesting the death of Trayvon Marin, as well as opposing a bill to potentially legalize marijuana because his church told him to. His voting record also features him trying to stop Common Core standards in education, trying to restrict abortion including supporting state Personhood bills, voting for a law to prevent minors from buying emergency contraceptives, preventing the passing of a minimum wage, allowing for open carry everywhere in the state, voting for “Stand Your Ground” in Oklahoma, trying to restrict collective bargaining rights, voting for harsher Voter ID restrictions, and trying to pass a unnecessary ban on Sharia Law. Barrington was forced out of office by term limits in 2016, and seeing as how he’s now into his seventies, he seems unlikely to re-emerge as a candidate for higher office.

It was on this date in 2018, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Gerald Gay, a former engineer who worked for oil companies who became a three-term member of the Wyoming House of Representatives first arriving during the 2010 Tea Party Wave. Gay was adamant that he hated same sex marriage to an extent where he repeated it like a mantra in his 2014 re-election campaign, including a campaign video where he was dressed up like Yosemite Sam’s homophobic brother or something. We’re honestly surprised he never changed his surname. We also can’t say he’s too level-headed about people on government assistance, as Gay also sponsored legislation to drug-test welfare recipients during his time in office. Well, it seems Gay was also obsessed with people who aren’t white men abusing the system wherever possible, because when he was asked by Better Wyoming what his thoughts were on the pay equality gap between men and women, he went on a bizarre, ill-informed rant about how it was necessary because women call in sick too much, complaining about maternity leave in particular. When asked to clarify his views by the press, Gay made it worse by claiming not only do women call in sick more than men, but that they were faking it just to take their kids to activities. Rather than accept any responsibility for his comments, Gay blamed the media for taking him out of context. The ironic part was that Gay himself had repeatedly taken days off in the legislature for medical reasons of his own, and missed plenty of votes. All that sexism may have been the deciding factor for voters in Wyoming’s District 36, who voted for his opponent, Democrat Debbie Bovee by 212 votes, and doesn’t call in sick too much.

On this date in 2019 “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Patrick Little, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in California in 2018, who was out to unseat Sen. Diane Feinstein. Perhaps he was motivated to challenge her because he’s an openly anti-Semitic white supremacist. He is in no way subtle about that, claiming that even the GOP have been overthrown by “Zionist stooges” and dragging around and spitting an Israeli flag around him on the ground after he was kicked out of the California Republican Party’s state convention. Then again, he feels the Neo-Nazi website, the Daily Stormer, is “too Jewish”. Little also refers to Adolf Hitler as “the second coming of Christ”, and would like for the United States to be “free of Jews”.He had plenty of modest and not at all hateful ideas like having the government to grant federal benefits based on merit and to nationalize internet giants like Google, Facebook and Twitter, and making it illegal for people of Jewish faith to take office in government, outlawing foreign aid to Israel and changing the U.S. Constitution to make the U.S. an explicitly an “ethnically European nation.” He also wants to make it illegal for any foundation to raise money for Holocaust education. He, of course, refers to the Holocaust as “a lie”, and bizarrely violated copyright law by sending out a robocall where he discusses his grievances with Jews set to the theme music from the classic sitcom “Friends”. At the point the GOP took measures to not run a Neo-Nazi for U.S. Senate, Patrick Little was polling second behind Feinstein with 18% of the vote. Without his party’s support, and in spite of being a hate-fueled moron, he still managed to get nearly 90,000 votes. He seems determined to not go away, protesting outside the White House for all Jews to be expelled from the United States, and continued touring the nation to outlandishly accuse Jews of raping children or orchestrating murders while occasionally hanging out with the organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally from Charlottesville.

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On this date in 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, who squints hard enough to try and convince himself he’s good at the job he’s held now since he won office in the 2014 elections. Hutchinson is also a former Congressman, who served three terms representing Arkansas’ 3rd Congressional District back from 1997-2001, giving him enough time to have served as one of the impeachment managers during the Clinton impeachment hearings, and ending when he resigned only months into his third term to take the job as the Administrator of the DEA during the Bush administration. After two years in that roll, the Bush administration allowed him to fail up into the role of leading the Border and Transportation Security Directorate. He resigned in 2005, because he was determined to become Governor of Arkansas in 2006.

Spoiler alert: He lost that year to Mike Beebe, and ended up kicking around GOP circles for four more years. It gave him time to do things like become a toady for the NRA, and come up with a “solution” after the Sandy Hook shooting that was “why don’t we put guns in schools, then?”

But yes, Hutchison won office in 2014, and somehow, with five years of leadership under his belt, his only noteworthy achievement was his desire to execute seven inmates in 11 days. What was the hurry in killing so many inmates on death row? Well, the expiration date on the lethal injection drugs was coming up, and you just can’t let that stuff go to waste, right? This would have been the first executions since 2005, and yet, Hutchison was foiled by the courts, who created stays of execution to prevent him from sending eight men to their graves.

Hutchison truly is a cold-hearted bastard, signing legislation in 2018 to force work requirements on recipients of Medicaid to collect their benefits… even though many of those recipients are disabled, and cannot work. Back in 2015, he released a statement that he would use whatever powers of his office he could to stop the settlement of Syrian refugees in Arkansas.

But of course, Hutchison claims to be “pro-life”. He’s tried passing extreme anti-choice legislation like fetal heartbeat bills, and already jumped the gun and signed a bill that would criminalize abortion in Arkansas “when Roe v. Wade is overturned”.

Hutchison ended up a lame duck who was just warming the seat once held by loon Mike Huckabee warm until Huckabee could properly groom his daughter as the Trump administration’s biggest propagandist to run for it in 2022, when Hutchison faces term limits. His legacy as governor is that he not only has been unable to take his state out of the Bottom Five in most categories like education, or economic growth, or poverty… he can’t even stop his own son, Asa Hutchison III from being a serial drunk driver (who was only required to serve one of 365 days in jail for his third offense, because hey, it’s the governor’s son.) His nephew Jeremy, of course, wasn’t as lucky, and is likely awaiting a prison sentence for bribery and tax fraud.

Asa Hutchinson finished out his term with the bold decision to keep essential services like water parks open and shrug in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, getting innumerable people killed in his inaction. At least he has been kind enough to admit he’s failed his state by having fought back against mask mandates, but only after hundreds of people have died preventable deaths.

Too little, too late. Hutchinson is 70, and just left office, and while we were all but ready to prepare a “GOOD RIDDANCE!” send off for him and to close out his profile… we might still be talking about him through 2024, since he’s floated the idea of a presidential run to offer Republican voters a chance at someone who isn’t Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis. While that might be the least horrible choice out of the three, it’s a low bar to clear. We doubt his candidacy will matter much outside of Arkansas.

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More of Biden classified docs found at different location. Maybe he also mentally declassified them.

[kidfresh512]

More of Biden classified docs found at different location. Maybe he also mentally declassified them.

We will see all this be played up in the GOP hearings with the FBI. Why didn't they go raid Jill Biden's underwear drawers. You did for Trump but Not for Bidens. The fix is in.

Won't matter if the situations are different or Biden's team is actually cooperating etc.

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Its a Hell of a bad look for Biden.

I know the Gop was going to go nuts on it any way. But now there is a second batch it really fuels the "DOJ Raid" was done because he is a political Foe of Biden. It is going to be hard to shake that. There are even some moderate (If there is such a thing) starting to run with this story.

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That's for the students but how about the university? Were they made aware she planned to show something like this?

If I know something will severely offend anyone and it could be anything from religion to pornography (which isn't allowed in public places as far as I know), I think some discretion should be applied.

Again, I don't think she deserved to be fired but I'm filing this under "people really should know better".

EDIT: I just read that the painting is indeed displayed at other schools around the world. However, I still believe that it's probably something she should have discussed with the university authorities before proceeding.

I think it's an invitation for other people to start demanding that certain things are not taught because they don't match with their religious beliefs. Like sex education, evolution, etc.

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Unlike Trump who didn't seem to want to work with those involved who wanted the documents , it seems Biden is all about being open to talk to Justice Department. What a difference a guy makes.