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

[The no face guy]

I'm a liberal but I gladly repeat silly nonsense about anti-racism being anti-white, and have Asian friends to prove it!

Err....You assume my friend in Korea is Asian? He is not, but yes I have Asian friends, and yes they do think whiteness theory is kind of kookie, just like they think the alt right stuff is kookie, if you must ask. It is definitely far from the center.

If you want to debate about the poster being racist or not with Mister Mets by all means please do so, I did find the poster a bit extreme, but I am have asked you politely now to please not quote me, or engage me in dialogue, you know i find it pointless, and in my opinion, I am only helping you in digging your heals in deeper.

https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian...values-1518333


PwrdOn, I think you need to move to cosmopolitan Canadian city. I don't know why you harbour such resentment, other than maybe you've been a victim of repeated racism in a predominantly white neighbourhood? If you come up here I shall buy you a cup of tea and we converse, cheerio.

[PaulBullion]

Oh.... oh no.

WBE, I'm... I'm so sorry.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/all...-gop-chairman/



My reaction was, of course, ARE YOU ]^}%{%} KIDDING ME WITH THIS?!

A nutty black conservative called West?

[Tami]

North Brunswick NJ shooting: Suspected gunman allegedly found dead

Federal Judge’s Husband Shot, Son Killed By Gunman Reportedly Dressed As FedEx Driver

North Brunswick Mayor Mac Womack said Salas had received threats in the past.

“As a judge, she had threats from time to time, but everyone is saying that recently there had not been any,” Womack told ABC News.

He described Mark Anderl as a “100% pleasant person.”

“He loves to talk about his wife, and he loves to brag about his son and how his son would excel in baseball,” Womack said.

[PaulBullion]

It doesn't really matter though, the Trump administration has practically nothing in common with the USSR and the only people who would think that they do are the kind of insane McCarthyist types that think that EVERYTHING reeks of Marxism in some way.

You're talking about a woman who actually grew up in the Soviet Union, though.

[AnakinFlair]

A Navy vet asked federal officers in Portland to remember their oaths. Then they broke his hand.

I saw that video. As Jim Ross would say, that guy was a HOSS. He just stood there, unmoving, while the Gestapo 2.0 teed off of him with batons. And whenthey drove him off by spraying him in the face, as he calmly walked away he flipped them the double bird.

[worstblogever]

I saw that video. As Jim Ross would say, that guy was a HOSS. He just stood there, unmoving, while the Gestapo 2.0 teed off of him with batons. And whenthey drove him off by spraying him in the face, as he calmly walked away he flipped them the double bird.

[Tami]

Missouri governor’s comments on coronavirus, McCloskeys raise eyebrows

A series of controversial remarks by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on a St. Louis radio show are getting widespread attention — and some pushback.

In an interview on Friday with talk-radio host Marc Cox on KFTK (97.1 FM), Parson indicated both certainty and acceptance that the coronavirus will spread among children when they return to school this fall. The virus has killed 1,130 people in the state despite a weekslong stay-at-home order in the spring that helped slow the virus’ spread — and the state set a record on Saturday with 958 new cases.

“These kids have got to get back to school,” Parson told Cox. “They’re at the lowest risk possible. And if they do get COVID-19, which they will — and they will when they go to school — they’re not going to the hospitals. They’re not going to have to sit in doctor’s offices. They’re going to go home and they’re going to get over it.”

[worstblogever]

Back on this date in 2014, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published a profile on Sarah Palin, the former Vice-Presidential Candidate and Governor of Alaska (who quit halfway through her first term amidst various abuse-of-power scandals). We covered as many possible insane quotes, gaffes, or word-salad speeches as we could, from "Seeing Alaska from her house", to not being able to name a newspaper she read, to trying to look presidential by pardoning a turkey in Alaska while others were butchered and drained of blood while she gave a speech unaware... Sarah Palin is one of the most deranged, brain-addled members of the GOP we've ever run a profile on. We're honestly grateful that he hasn't held or run for office for a long enough period of time that we have to update our readers on all the continuing moments where she gets in front of a microphone for the attention and says clueless, bigoted, or nonsensical things.

It was in 2015 that we published our original "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" profile of former perennial Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, the failed former CEO of Hewlett-Packard who lost the company about $700 million in its worth, got thousands of employees laid off, then took her golden parachute settlement after being pushed out by disatisfied stockholders and fellow executives. She then tried parlaying this collossal failure into a political career, where she first became one of the worst campaign proxies in existence for the 2008 McCain campaign before challenging Barbara Boxer for her U.S. Senate seat in 2010 and still getting shellacked after she ran a bizarre "demon sheep" ad. For whatever reason, Fiorina took her vast unpopularity and tried to run for president in 2016, where her main strategy in debates seemed to be to lie her arse off. She demonized workers for "watching porn all day" as an economic problem, claimed the Obama administration "broke every rule" in negotiations with Iran, and that Hillary Clinton had "blood on her hands" because of Benghazi. Since we wrote that profile of Carly last July, she tried gaining attention in the GOP Primary by perpetuating as many of the horror stories about Planned Parenthood started by the Center of Medical Progress as she could, and making graphic descriptions of babies being dismembered to be sold for profit in the "sting" videos (that were a hoax), and her cries about "baby parts" were the sort of rhetoric that inspired Roland Dear to go on a shooting spree against a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs as a stochastic terror trigger. Fiorina eventually had to abandon her own campaign, and then tried joining forces with Ted Cruz, singing creepy songs at Sen. Cruz's children, and then falling off a stage comically after introducing the runner-up for the GOP nomination. Fiorina remains ridiculous, and unlikely to ever hold office in any sane part of the country.

[worstblogever]

In 2016, 2017, 2018, and in 2019, that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented profiles of the eleven-term U.S. House Representative for Ohio’s 1st Congressional District, Steve Chabot, who felt it necessary during Congressional testimony regarding Hillary Clinton’s e-mails from former Attorney Genereal Loretta Lynch to give her a history lesson about that time that Bill Clinton was receiving fellatio from Monica Lewinsky, and they went and tried impeaching the president. What does that have to do with Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, or Hillary Clinton, directly at all, you ask? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. But for whatever reason, Chabot thought it relevant to remind everyone that Bill Clinton got a hummer in the Oval Office one upon a time, just in case Loretta Lynch or the public had never heard before.That isn’t entirely an isolated incident regarding Hillary Clinton getting smeared by Rep. Chabot, though, as after several Benghazi hearings through the past three or four years that have turned up no evidence of any wrongdoing, no rumored “stand down” order, and no evidence that an order to send in the military would have saved the lives of any of the four people who died in the attack on the embassy, he still has told the public that a “smoking gun” proving Clinton’s involvement was criminal was found.

But don’t worry, he doesn’t save his baseless accusations for Hillary Clinton alone. When news first broke over the supposed “IRS Scandal” (which ended up not showing any targeting of conservative groups, specifically by the IRS), Steve Chabot seized on the opportunity to wonder “How high up does this go?” and insinuating that it was on an order that went all the way to the Obama White House.

This isn’t to say that Rep. Chabot is a boy scout, himself exactly. Shortly after he was re-elected back into office in the 2010 Tea Party Wave, he hosted his first town hall in his district (while his fellow Republicans were in the process of gerrymandering to make more favorable to him by the 2012 elections). And during that 2011 Town Hall, Chabot ordered police present to begin confiscating cameras so that no one could photograph or film what was happening for “security reasons” that were never explained… Chabot apparently wanted to control what might get out and onto Youtube, also taking care to only allow pre-screened questions to be asked by those present. This plan to restrict his constituent’s rights backfired because it was caught on camera by the media, whose cameras were NOT confiscated.

Anyway, over his decades in the House, Chabot has one of the more partisan records not just for legislation he’s supported, including being a co-sponsor of the Defense of Marriage Act, voting for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton for lying about having an affair with Monica Lewinsky,voting for a constitutional amendment to allow government buildings to erect monuments of the Ten Commandments, and an amendment to ban same-sex marriage. He has voted for a myriad of strict anti-choice legislation, has twice tried to defund Planned Parenthood, and is so conservative in terms of pro-life that he voted for the Terry Schiavo Incapacitated Persons bill. Chabot’s record on bank legislation is disastrous, as he voted for the Gramm-Leach-Billey Act, which repeals key parts of the Glass-Steagall Financial Regulation Act, and opens the door for big banks to create the 2007 Sub-Prime Mortgage Housing Crisis, and against Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, to resolve that crisis. He voted for the Iraq War Resolution in 2002. Chabot voted for the 2013 Government Shutdown, and then voted to keep the government closed when the time came to reopen it.

Back in 1998 Chabot was more than happy defend the integrity of the investigators who were rabidly digging into every aspect of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s lives in the hopes of getting them impeached… that same guy suddenly would like to point out that the investigators working on the Mueller investigation show some signs of bias because 9 of them at some point in their careers donated money to Democratic candidates, and not a single member of Mueller’s team has ever donated money to Donald Trump’s political campaigns. Never mind that Mueller himself, and most of his investigators are registered as Republicans, or that it’s perfectly legal for them to donate money to whatever political campaign they choose… suddenly, twenty years after he wanted the Lewinsky investigation to be declared non-partisan… NOW Steve Chabot can’t believe FBI investigators would be above reproach when hunting for the truth about Donald Trump’s presidential campaign colluding with Russians to get him elected.

Well, outside of that, his voting record also shows he’s a partisan hack:

• January 23rd, 2019: Rep. Chabot voted against HR 648, because he was gleeully enjoying the longest government shutdown in history.
• February 28th, 2019: Steve Chabot 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. Chabot 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: Steve Chabot 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: Chabot votes against The Equality Act, which would have prevented discrimination towards Americans based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
• June 4th, 2019: Rep. Chabot votes against the Dreamers Act, because he’s too xenophobic and partisan to care about immigration reform.
• July 16th, 2019: Steve Chabot 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”.
• December 18th, 2019: Chabot ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the impeachment of Donald Trump.
• May 15th, 2020: Chabot votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ohio’s 1st Congressional District has a +5 Republican lean, and Chabot barely survived re-election in 2018, only netting 51% of the vote. He is an utter hypocrite for having voted for the impeachment of Bill Clinton, but refusing to even consider doing so for Donald Trump, and his only defense is the lies Donald Trump has told “weren’t under oath”. Please note, he at least acknowledges Trump lies about committing crimes. And he doesn’t care.

His opponent this November is someone we really could use in Congress right now… Kate Schroder, whose career background is “public health professional” and HOT DAMN we’d love t see her go toe to toe with Rep. Chabot in a debate about his votes in regards to the ACA, Covid-19 stimulus, and overall, what should have been done to help stop the spread of the virus when the Trump administration utterly has botched the response to it at every turn.

Chabot’s been floating around Washington since the 1990s, and when it comes to putting an end to his partisan derangement, there’s no time like the present.

[PaulBullion]

Missouri governor’s comments on coronavirus, McCloskeys raise eyebrows

If he has children, they were raised by easily replaceable nannies.

[kidfresh512]

A nutty black conservative called West?

It is pissing me off now when I even see these stories in the news. It's not news anymore. He is clearly mentally unstable and/or seeking attention. This isn't news he shouldn't get a second more coverage on reputable news sites.

[PaulBullion]

Georgia State senator Nikema Williams was picked to replace the late John Lewis on the November ballot.

[Joker]

It is pissing me off now when I even see these stories in the news. It's not news anymore. He is clearly mentally unstable and/or seeking attention. This isn't news he shouldn't get a second more coverage on reputable news sites.

Giving Trump so much attention in the media is a large part of what propelled him to success. We need to ignore these types of people.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Missouri governor’s comments on coronavirus, McCloskeys raise eyebrows

What gets me pissed is how people keep acting like COVID has rules. It hasn't been around long enough for us to firmly predict how it will behave.

And of course, how this ignores that, even if kids getting infected is harmless, they can still give it to their vulnerable parents

[WestPhillyPunisher]

What gets me pissed is how people keep acting like COVID has rules. It hasn't been around long enough for us to firmly predict how it will behave.

And of course, how this ignores that, even if kids getting infected is harmless, they can still give it to their vulnerable parents

Or to their grandparents, or neighbors, or kids with weakened immune systems, or the elderly shop owner around the corner, the list goes on and on....