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

[Mister Mets]

Again, why are you only concerned with that when it's people opposing the party you support suggesting it, and not when it's the party you support doing it?

I am concerned with it.

I'm responding to the arguments made by people on this forum. There isn't a Republican poster defending the low road.

In addition, this is something that has hurt the Republican party politically. They are getting punished by the voters for election denialism, ethics issues and the like.

Some recent elections have gone pretty well for Democrats. It is very rare for a party to get kicked out of the White House after just one term and that happened to Trump (Since 1900, the only other time it happened was the Democrats losing to Reagan in '80.) They beat expectations in the midterms and kept the Senate. And in the last few months they've won some special elections. It would be quite foolish to give up the advantage of being associated with the high road.

[Mister Mets]

I never watched that show.



I know what he's asking. I'm not an idiot. I said what I said.

As for "illegal means", once the fascists make everything they don't like illegal, including protesting or criticising their policies and actions in any way, once they shut down any and all means of democratic speech, action, or change, people are going to have to do what they have to do. Remember, the Holocaust was legal. Because the Nazis made the laws. Just like they're doing now.

An interpretation of "any means necessary" is that it would allow assassination, threats of violence, false allegations of sex crimes, hacking, fraud, blackmail and anything else that's currently illegal.

Incidentally, Babylon 5 is pretty solid.

[AnakinFlair]

Just saw #DeSaster is trending on Twitter

[Deathstroke]

By the way, it's now come out that the woman who got Amanda Gorman's poem banned for elementary school students has ties to a number of white supremacist groups. What a shock...not.

You should see the twitter feed @MIAagainstFash, they did a series of tweets exposing the woman for the charlatan and horror show that she is.

[OpaqueGiraffe17]

i appreciate the feedback from everyone, gonna try to be better

[aja_christopher]

An interpretation of "any means necessary" is that it would allow assassination, threats of violence, false allegations of sex crimes, hacking, fraud, blackmail and anything else that's currently illegal.

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Consider and reprimand the cause -- Republican obstructionism -- rather than criticizing the effect.

Moreover, there are already right-wing white supremacists out there doing exactly what you seem concerned about others doing in response to Republican actions.

[scourge]

Take that "we can't possibly punish Republicans for crimes because they might retaliate!" bull and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.

Especially because what they're doing isn't anywhere close to any of the things GOP morons imagine people on the left do.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

So a friend who believes big into Robert F. Kennedy and its astounding how bad someone can be as a candidate knowing what we know now of covid and its response. This is from this show.




- Basically claims how wrong it was to close Churches and businesses for a month. Because f-ck spreading covid more. F-ck that noise. We lost our rights to go to church and get more people sick !


- Wants America to project peace and literally is saying we are at War. But lets be honest ....were not at war. We like the European countries are doing is supplying aid to Ukraine and not engaging war.

Claims there was 300,000 Ukraine forces dead. The host asks about this and he tells her he read it and will get her that information.

From December this figure Kennedy speaks of was 100,000 either killed and injured combined for Ukraine.


- Believes the US is wrong to want to force regime change in Russia with this action.


- DAY 1 ... PARDON JULIAN ASSANGE . lol


- But yeah ....its scary this guy is running and 19% of Democrats according to a poll is interested in him.

[Tendrin]

It's really not hard to call out the problem, but most Republicans won't and many of those that do will pretend it's somehow the fault of 'the left'.

They feel bullied, really.

Christian nationalism has gained traction in the Republican party in recent years.
A Wyoming Republican wrote an op-ed arguing the movement has hijacked her state.
She said the growing embrace of the concept has led to "bad church and bad law."
A Republican in Wyoming says the Christian nationalism movement has "hijacked" both the GOP and her religious community "by blurring the lines between church and government and in the process rebranding our state's identity."

Susan Stubson, a lawyer and a member of Wyoming's Republican Party, described the transformation in an opinion piece published in The New York Times this week. Stubson is married to Tim Stubson, also a Republican, who served in Wyoming's House of Representatives from 2008 to 2017 and ran in the primary against Liz Cheney for a seat in the US House.

Stubson said she first witnessed Christian nationalism in 2016 while campaigning for her husband at a monster-truck rally. A man they greeted who was wearing a cross necklace and a "God bless America" shirt said he would vote for him if he kept a certain group of people out of office, using a racial slur. The man proceeded to make racist and xenophobic statements.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...3df451b06&ei=7

[WestPhillyPunisher]

It's really not hard to call out the problem, but most Republicans won't and many of those that do will pretend it's somehow the fault of 'the left'.

They feel bullied, really.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...3df451b06&ei=7

The best way to stop this Christian nationalism **** dead in it's tracks would be to start taxing churches. If holy rollers wanna dabble in politics, then they should pay for the privilege.

[Mister Mets]

Take that "we can't possibly punish Republicans for crimes because they might retaliate!" bull and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.

Especially because what they're doing isn't anywhere close to any of the things GOP morons imagine people on the left do.

What is this in response to?

[worstblogever]

What is this in response to?

The modern Republican Party. The one you refuse to look at with honest eyes.

Whether that's from an inability to take it in without looking away in horror, or a deliberate need to lie to yourself or others about what it's become...

That's what it's in response to.

[worstblogever]

It was on this date in 2015, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”posted a profile of Matt Richardson, who was a candidate for the Washington State Senate back in 2010 trying to unseat Pam Roach. The main problem with his candidacy was that at the age of 16 he was charged with molesting two family relatives, aged 8 and 5 at the time. Richardson’s far lesser flaw that’s still pretty wild, was that his campaign website compared abortion to slavery, even using the phrase “Modern Emancipation” in his calls to prevent it. He’s not exactly suited for office, just given those two facts.

It was on this date in 2016, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”posted a profile of Molly White, whose background prior to being elected to office was as a radical anti-abortion advocate. She still proudly traveled with displays of plastic fetuses in her SUV ready to go, and blames the fact that she herself got two abortions and blames it on rampant substance abuse at that stage of her life. There’s also her fervent passion for the 2nd Amendment that saw her pander to fellow gun enthusiasts by posing with guns almost as big as she is. White proceeded to then make headlines for all the worst reasons but weeks into being sworn into office. On January 29th, 2015, a group of Muslim constituents had planned to visit Austin for Texas Muslim Capitol Day, where they would seek out lawmakers to discuss policy, as part of an event hosted by the Council of American Islamic Relations. Molly White, however, had heard somewhere that CAIR was considered to be the 82nd top terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates, and that was good enough reason for her to make sure that no Muslim coming to the event had nefarious intent. So, she went on Facebook, where she made a post instructing her staff to confirm that these Muslims they were good, loyal Americans, by taking them to her office where an Israeil flag would be present on her desk, and where they would “ask representatives from the Muslim community to renounce Islamic terrorist groups and publicly announce allegiance to America and our laws. We will see how long they stay in my office.” First off, that’s bigoted as all get out. Second… why did she have an Israeli flag in her office? And why did she think that Muslims would turn away for it like a vampire seeing a cross? Not even two months went by, and Molly White was at it again, shaking her fist at the sky, and showing she probably flunked social studies, because she was under the impression that she could undermine a Supreme Court ruling, drafting Texas’ HB 2555, which was meant to overturn rulings to overturn bans on same sex marriage. She also filed HB 2553 around the same time, a bill meant to allow Texas businesses the right to refuse goods or services to anyone based on their own religious grounds. (Because that wasn’t something that Southern states didn’t argue to try and keep discriminating against African Americans after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, either.) Her love of denying LGBTQ rights really does mean something to her, as she was photographed with several Texas Republicans celebrating the state amending the Texas constitution to ban same sex marriage with delicious cake. On December 9th, 2015, she decided to give her opinion about President Barack Obama (uh oh). She apparently thinks he’s in league with the Muslim Brotherhood and should be arrested and tried for treason against the United States. Mercifully, Molly White was defeated by Hugh Shine by 104 votes in the 2016 GOP Primary for her Texas House seat.

It was on this date in 2017, as well as 2018, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”posted a profile of Bob Gannon, a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly who should not be confused with the pig-faced nemesis of Link in The Legend of Zelda series, but we could understand how people could get him mixed up with an evil warlord with a pig face. In his short one term and change in office, Gannon has already made an ass of himself on numerous occasions. It was in December of 2015 when Gannon reacted to a shooting in a Wisconsin mall by advising more citizens to practice concealed carry and “help clean society of these scumbags” in vigilante killings. On January 6th, 2016, Gannon put out a press release with false statistics blaming a higher murder rate on “the black population”, who he seemed to claim were also deliberately choosing crime over employment. Well, that story gets worse. When Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca began to criticize Gannon for his comments on the floor of the Wisconsin State Assembly, he didn’t exactly take it too well, with his rebuttal coming in the form of a middle finger flashed at Barca. And you know it’s bad when even fellow Republicans find your behavior distasteful. Bob Gannon tends to get called out for his rhetoric, or dishonesty, or d***ishness within the Wisconsin State Assembly, and likes to throw around the phrases “leftists” and “liberals” in response to Democrats, using the terms as epithets. The victimization complex in him is strong, nearly as strong as his desire to shoot black people in the street before they have a chance to commit a crime, apparently. Looking to Bob Gannon’s brief legislative record, and he’s already managed to support legislation as heinous as SB 533, which was designed to disenfranchise voters by prohibiting municipalities from carrying out the issue of identification cards (you can’t vote without the Voter ID the GOP require in Wisconsin, and guess what? They’re closing everywhere you can get one!) But he also co-sponsored AB 950, which would have blocked local police departments from preventing immigration status inquiries, had it passed. Add in his sponsorship of AB 192, to drug test welfare recipients (which never ceases to be overturned as unconstitutional, or a failed conservative policy prior to judges tossing it out as a violation of the Fourth Amendment), and his vote for a ban on abortion at 20 weeks. In October of 2017, Bob Gannon was found dead in his pickup truck, apparently of natural causes, at the age of 58.

On this date in 2019, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled former Alaska State Senator Pete Kelly, who originally served for six years in the Alaska state legislature from 1994-2000 before taking twelve years off and returning to office in 2012. In that first tenure, Kelly’s most noteworthy legislative victory was to pass legislation to allow for wolves to be hunted by helicopter. Because nothing is more charming than trying to side-step federal wildlife protections for douchebag hunters with their own personal choppers looking to trophy hunt. During Pete Kelly’s second term in office, though, he started to turn more heads, and not just because he advanced to be the President of the Alaska State Senate. Back in 2014, Alaska’s state legislators were debating an increase in cases of fetal alcohol syndrome being documented in newborns around the state, when Kelly threw his two cents in during the discussion on providing better access to birth control around the state, and instead submitted legislation that would use state funding to place pregnancy tests in vending machines in bars around the state. His colleagues were baffled. Anyway, Kelly had other embarrassing things that weren’t his own mouth to also help make him face a tougher road to re-election… like the fact that his 30-year-old son was arrested for sexually assaulting a 13-year old, as well as exposing his genitals and masturbating in public to another child under 16. That earned the younger Kelly. because of course he did) a six year prison sentence. Meanwhile, Pete Kelly and the ministry he founded, Humble Raven Ministries, would rather protect families from the dread threat of same sex couples getting married… If that wasn’t enough to sink his campaign, during his debate against his opponent, Democrat Scott Kawasaki, Kelly also denied the science proving the threat of Climate Change, which in Alaska, where they literally are watching the glaciers melt, was enough to topple Pete Kelly fom office, as he lost by 179 votes. We hope that he does not get a third chance at reaching office.

On this date in 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Cody Henson, a former member of the North Carolina House of Representatives who served District 113 from 2017 until his resignation in July of 2019. Henson’s voting record had him co-sponsor of Voter ID bills to attempt to suppress the vote, or that he co-sponsored a bill to allow guns to church services, or how he voted for a bill to force local sheriffs to cooperate with ICE agents during immigration sweeps… but Henson’s career was undone by accusations from his wife of domestic abuse, which she followed up by getting a protective order against him. Henson was charged with cyberstalking, and plead guilty to avoid jail time, settling for a sentence of 18 months probation for all the mental abuse and harassment he directed towards his wife. At first, he plead guilty, and wanted to finish out at least the rest of his term without resigning, but under pressure to leave office, caved in and announced his resignation in July of 2019. He won’t be missed, and we hope that his wife and children thrive without him lurking about.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Aaron von Erlinger, a former member of the Idaho House of Representatives who was first appointed to his seat in the legislature by Gov. Brad Little to replace the late Idaho state Thyra Stevenson, who passed away suddenly of a heart attack in May of last year, and he was on the job in June 2020. We’re betting that Little probably regrets the pick, considering that less than ten months into his career, Von Erlinger was accused of raping a 19 year-old intern who works in the state capitol. He resigned in disgrace a month later after the House Ethics Committee found him to have engaged in “conduct unbecoming” of a legislator, and unanimously it voted to recommend his suspension. So even without the crime he’s been accused of being investigated or litigated in court, he goofed up bad enough that he had to get the boot. Even if the relationship was consensual (we believe the accuser that it wasn’t), it doesn’t exactly track with EEO guidelines within any workplace to date a subordinate, such as say, an intern who’s half your age… so even if his story about the encounter being consensual is true (we don’t believe him), he’s still violated a pretty clear workplace guideline that would warrant action being taken. Aaron von Erlinger was found guilty of rape, and will be sentenced on July 28th. We hope they throw the book, and any other blunt objects they can at him.

On this date in 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Patricia Giddings, a member of the Idaho House of Representatives from District 7A, and first found her way into that office back in the 2016 elections. Our reason for profiling Giddings was quite simple… she responded to the news that fellow Republican Aaron von Ehlinger was accused of raping a 19 year old intern within the state legislature, by doxing his accuser online, sharing a link with the Jane Doe’s name and photo with thousands of her followers on social media, calling the allegations nothing more than a “[I[liberal smear job.[/I]” Ehlinger was, of course, found guilty in a court of law, but for her partisan defense, Giddings maligned a victim of rape. The Idaho state legislature, which currently is decidedly Republican, voted 49-19 to censure Giddings for her actions. At the hearing where she was censured, she did not apologize, and doubled down that she would not have done anything differently. Yes, that’s all terrible. So is her voting record these past five and a half years, including her attacks on any measure taken by Gov. Brad Little to stop the spread of Covid-19, whether it be vaccine mandates, or even as simple as mask mandates. She also racked up quite a record of transphobia, whether it was banning gender hormone treatments for persons under 18, or prohibiting gender changes on birth certificates. Rounding things out, she was opposed to voting by mail (during a pandemic no less), supported a ban on abortion when a fetal heartbeat can be detected (i.e. at six weeks, before many women realize they’re even pregnant), and placed a vote to ban the teaching of “Critical Race Theory” in schools, even though no one was actually teaching such a thing. Patricia Giddings attempted to run for Lieutenant Governor of Idaho in the 2022 elections, attempting to replace the quite insane Janice McGeachin, who instead ran for Governor against Brad Little. Good news on both fronts, both Giddings and McGeachin were defeated in the Republican Primary for those seats. In Giddings’ case, other Republicans dropped out of the primary so that her main opponent, Scott Bedke, could more easily defeat her, and keep her as far away from ever having any say in the Governor’s mansion than anyone like her should be trusted to.We will set aside her profile for now to showcase another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1208-60, since this was established in July 2014.


Garrett Soldano
Welcome to what is the 1208th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Garrett Soldano, a former football player, chiropractor, motivational speaker, and fire-walker(!) who thought that resume made him a perfect fit to supplant Gretchen Whitmer, and he ran for Governor of Michigan in 2022… but first, he would need to garner public support, which Soldano tried to consolidate by inflaming local domestic terrorists and conservative malcontents to rail against her for Covid-19 restrictions that save people’s lives. At one point, Soldano was advocating against vaccinations and encouraging children “get Covid-19 naturally”, but maybe people should have taken his advice about coronavirus with a grain of salt, considering he was hawking his own $75 a month juice club as a means of making one’s body an “environment of greatness” that would “dominate the virus”.

Snake oil. Full stop.

As Soldano continued spreading Covid-19 misinformation, including lying about the effectiveness of PCR testing that got him banned from TikTok, he had less and less concern for facts, making brazen false accusations against Gov. Whitmer and Dr. Anthony Fauci would also end up getting him banned from Facebook. The list of grievances started to include white nationalist, anti-immigrant complaints about “Why is the Southern Border open?” or say, to question the results of the 2020 election.

If we weren’t already at a disqualifying level of irresponsibly bad rhetoric, Soldano decided to prove his “pro-life” bona fides by talking about rape victims that might seek an abortion, saying:

“God put them in this moment and that baby inside them might be the next president.”

Which seems unlikely, given elections are held every four years, and pre-schoolers don’t meet the 35 year old age limit to run for president… but also, more importantly what kind of deranged God does Soldano believe in that wants women to be raped? Also, since we’re in the hypothetical future president thing… what if the rape victim has their future altered because they can’t seek out an abortion and THEY might be the future would-be president?

Anyway, it’s another “pro-life” Republican who wanted people to be irresponsible as possible and use their right to die of a preventable disease.

Garrett Soldano managed to finish third out of eight Republicans vying for the party’s nomination to be Governor of Michigan, getting only 17.5% of the vote in a loss to the also-embarrassing Tudor Dixon, who went on to lose to Gov. Whitmer by double digits.

[Spike-X]

An interpretation of "any means necessary" is that it would allow assassination, threats of violence, false allegations of sex crimes, hacking, fraud, blackmail and anything else that's currently illegal.

Would it? Huh.

Incidentally, Babylon 5 is pretty solid.

So I hear.

I am concerned with it.

Uh huh.