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

[Tendrin]

Will the Ohio Legislature undo the damage these bills have caused? Will they allow bills arrived at by bribery and corruption stand? And if they do, will the voters react?

The GOP will shrug unless voters force them not to.

[worstblogever]

But first can you provide examples from the last 12 years that show Democrats haven’t let corporate interests buy laws? And make sure you have a wide range of resources.

I'm hoping you're making a joke about "both sides-ism", and that you're not expecting me to prove a negative...

[Tendrin]

McALLEN, TEXAS (Border Report) — In a stunning admission of how dire the COVID-19 situation is in South Texas, the health authority for one border county on Tuesday announced the formation of an ethics committee that will screen all patients for survival potential and will send home those with low probabilities.

Starr County Health Authority Dr. Jose Vazquez said Starr County Memorial Hospital, the county’s only hospital, on Tuesday implemented an ethics committee and a triage committee to review all coronavirus patients as they come in to determine what type of life-saving equipment and treatment they would likely require and whether they would likely survive. Those deemed too fragile or sick or elderly will be advised to go home to loved ones, he said.

https://www.localsyr.com/border-repo...d-19-patients/

THIS IS FINE, FOLKS!

[WestPhillyPunisher]

https://www.localsyr.com/border-repo...d-19-patients/

THIS IS FINE, FOLKS!

Oh, look, everybody! An honest to gosh DEATH PANEL! Just what Republicans screamed bloody murder about years ago when Obamacare went online.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published our profile of former Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, who quite obviously is famous for the time during a live interview, he decided to give his thoughts on abortion, and "legitimate rape". This might have something to do with the fact that Akin was long a supporter of Personhood legislation, as well. Anyway, we covered Akin's jacked-up ideology at length, and how he accidentally made everyone instantly aware of the GOP's "War on Women" with that sound bite.

In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as in 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, delving into his entire history as a politician going all the way back to his days as a student at Marquette University (where he left school in 1990 to avoid disciplinary action for attempting to have his student body president campaign staff round up as many campus newspapers as they could to destroy them because they endorsed his opponent), to his run for the White House. Walker has a tendency to tell really terrible lies, like union workers surrounding his car and attempting to flip it over, or that his rapidly developing bald spot isn't actually male pattern baldness, but just a scar from a time he bumped his head on a table. In his time as Governor of Wisconsin, he gave huge tax breaks for the top income bracket, while cutting more money to teachers than any governor in the country (and any shortcomings in student performance, he blames on the teachers who are operating without real budgets). Walker demonized union workers, wiped out government oversight offices, and had repeated criminal investigations launched against his staff for illegal use of state resources to further their own partisan agenda. And that doesn't even begin to cover what a boob he looked like while campaigning for president in 2016. Gov. Walker was hell bent on winning Iowa, pandering to locals, and trying to establish himself as the frontrunner for the GOP early on, in the process, neglecting his own state. And that presidential run showed him to be, as some GOP pundits delicately put it, "Kind of a Dumbass". While visiting London, Walker denied the science behind evolution. He found himself in the midst of being considered a Birther for saying in two separate campaign stops that he "wasn't sure if President Obama is a Christian", and that he could not confirm that "Barack Obama loves America". He tried claiming he could stop ISIS because he "stopped 100,000 union protesters back home", changed his stance on immigration no less than four times (claiming this wasn't flip-flopping because he never had cast a vote on the issue), denied that a woman's medical history regarding abortions should remain between her and her doctor, tried pretending that mandatory intravaginal ultrasounds were "a cool thing", refused to answer when asked if he thought being gay was a choice or not, sued the federal government for the right to drug test welfare recipients, and promised to bomb Iran on the first day of his presidency. To name just a few gaffes. As Gov. Walker saw his lead in Iowa polls faltering, he thought he could energize his base the same way Donald Trump was, by attacking immigrants. As such, Walker started wavering on birthright citizenship, eventually saying he supported a repeal of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution and then tried to one-up Trump by saying he wouldn't stop at a border wall along the U.S./Mexico border, that he would build one along the U.S. Canada border, as well. By the end of September 2016, Walker’s campaign had already folded its tents, and he returned to Wisconsin with record low approval ratings, after only 71 days on the campaign trail. Gov. Walker would then work to sign legislation to dissolve the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, a non-partisan panel of judges that guarantees government ethics, and fairness in elections out of spite because the GAB had previously investigated a myriad of wrongdoing by Walker. In March 2016 he nominated Rebecca Bradley to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which proved controversial since she once wrote opinion editorials at Marquette University (where Walker went to school) where she repeatedly called gay people "queers", and said that they deserved no sympathy for dying from AIDS. Bradley wrote that it was “their misdirected compassion for the degenerates who basically commit suicide through their behavior.” Walker's nomination, once confirmed, got Bradley a 10 year term on the Court. And, while Walker may not have been on the ballot when the 2016 elections rolled around, he still got a few surprises in September and October of 2016. Like how The Guardian got a hold of the content of a lot of the John Doe Investigation into Walker’s staff using government e-mail for partisan purposes… in those e-mails, Walker staffers discuss their strategy to survive the recall effort against the governor… His main fundraiser, Kate Doner, laid out their plan as, ”Corporations. Go heavy after them to give. Take Koch’s money. Get on a plane to Vegas and sit down with Sheldon Adelson. Ask for $1m now.” Feeling like the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision was a bad idea yet? Well, guess what? That wasn’t all that The Guardian uncovered in all those e-mails. They also found written proof that while Scott Walker might try justifying all his voter suppression techniques as a way of “curtailing voter fraud”, his own people don’t believe it exists, know they’re claiming it’s “widespread” without proof, and know they’re just using it as an excuse to subvert our democracy so the outcome is they win. Meanwhile, criticism grew against Walker, particularly in more liberal parts of his state, Walker has tried to stifle dissent in the way one would if they didn’t care that the First Amendment was in existence. He was eager to see the Wisconsin state legislature pass AB 299, the supposed “Campus Free Speech Act” that did precisely the opposite, allowing for the possibility of students heckling political speeches on campus at the University of Wisconsin to suspended or even expelled from school. Walker loves to hear his own voice, though. He spoke at the 2016 Republican National Convention after pretending he wasn’t going for months upon months, and threw red meat to the crowd by his assessment that Hillary Clinton “belongs in prison”, but, y’know, without actually having a crime to throw her in for other than being a Democrat and a lady running for president. And that’s amazing, because while he feels Hillary should be behind bars, he’s got no problem with all the treasonous actions done by the Trump campaign by colluding with Russia. He’s attempted to downplay Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections, claiming that their hacking the Democratic National Committee and into voter registration systems in 39 states is no worse than the Scottish Prime Minister giving an endorsement of Hillary Clinton. No s*** HE SAID THAT. Scott Walker is ridiculous enough to have argued that Donald Trump should actually post on Twitter MORE. Think about that… the number of times that Trump has even posted things that could end up being self-incriminating in obstruction of justice or collusion hearings going forward, and Scott Walker thinks it’s just GREAT, keep it comin’, Donnie! Scott Walker's abysmal 2016 presidential run left him vulnerable for a potential third term in 2018. He faced the humiliating political defeat of trying to prevent special elections in Wisconsin that year, after panicking after several upsets in traditionally Republican areas, he got on Twitter to panic in January, posting a “WAKE UP CALL” to his fellow members of the GOP. He then tried to drag his feet on holding special elections to replace elected officials until November, and was successfully sued by Wisconsin Democrats, with the judge ordering the state to carry them out. And lo and behold, Democrats did pull another upset on that ballot, to Walker’s chagrin. Walker’s approval ratings dropped into the 30s in polls (among the reasons not repairing the state's roads), suspending a program to pick up dead deer from the highways, instead leaving them to rot), and his attempt at running for president left him with a meager campaign war chest. What is certain, though, is Scott Walker, for being a man who talks so much about being part of the party of responsibility, accepts none for his own terrible leadership. Instead, he blamed his low approval ratings on "bad headlines" from the media, “unfairly” turning people against him. It also likely didn’tt help that he was just caught hanging around with Russian spy Maria Butina and members of the NRA, and tried using the “don’t know her” excuse when, ta da, there are photos. And ALL of that… is why in 2018, the Blue Wave came to Wisconsin, and still swept over all the voter suppression tactics of the Walker regime to take him out of office, with Democrat Tony Evers sending him packing by a margin of just under 30,000 votes. As Walker is, at least at this time, out of office, we’ll set aside his profile at this time and take a look at another kooky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 893-45, since this was established in July 2014.)

[worstblogever]

Lauren Boebert

Welcome to what is the 893rd original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Lauren Boebert, who just won the GOP Primary for the seat for U.S. House Representatives from Colorado’s Congressional District after upsetting Congressman Scott Tipton a few weeks ago.

Boebert, prior to her first Congressional run gained notoriety as the owner of Shooter’s Grill, which amounts to being a Hooters if the women wear a lot more denim and a gun holstered at their hip. Let’s look past this novel concept to realize that Boebert’s libertarian/conservative point of view (she’s opposed to any form of income tax increase, on any bracket, but supports Donald Trump’s stupid idea for a border wall along the U.S./Mexico border) applies to how she’d like to run her restaurant, as Shooter’s Grill has already had warnings from the health department for allowing its customers to get sick eating there (she attacked the local media for reporting on it, incidentally), and then going “next level” and refusing to obey orders to close her dining area during the Covid-19 pandemic, until she was forced to shut down by local authorities, who suspended her food license.

Of course, she paints a picture in this where she’s the heroine standing up for “freedom” when she seems to just use it to see that as many people are afflicted with disease as possible. If you’re already noticing a pattern of “weird” around Boebert, what with the gun-themed restaurant that makes everyone sick, hang on to your hats…

She is also a Qanon conspiracy theory supporter, going on record that “she hopes its real”, which is an odd way to regard the absolutely deranged belief that there Democrats who oppose Donald Trump running subterranean Satanic cults harvesting fear hormones from children they molest and kill, and their opposition to Trump is because he’s going to expose and arrest them all. That’s a weird thing to “hope” is true. After she won the primary, the media decided to ask Boebert about her support for the Qanon conspiracy theory, expecting that she might back off now that she had to come to the center for the general election in November… but she reaffirmed it saying she believed “parts” of the theory and that “Qanon means a lot of things to a lot of different people”.

That may be the case, but the reality is, it’s all insane bulls***.

[Tami]

Obama didn’t brag half as much about winning a Nobel Peace Prize as Trump is about passing a dementia test.

[Kirby101]

I'm hoping you're making a joke about "both sides-ism", and that you're not expecting me to prove a negative...

He is mocking Mets.

[PaulBullion]

I especially like the story that there was also a group of dads marching with the moms- and one of them brought a leaf blower to blow back the tear gas. Ingenious.

I think the Hongkong protesters came up with that one a few months ago.

[PaulBullion]

This is a really good twitter thread breaking down just how bad the Householder scandal is for the Ohio GOP.

https://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status...91684925345793

Doesn't count, because Democrats at some point is some state or the other had some kind of scandal, too.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Obama didn’t brag half as much about winning a Nobel Peace Prize as Trump is about passing a dementia test.

What I wanna know is: Did Donny Dumbass know that was a dementia test in the first place?

[Tami]

What I wanna know is: Did Donny Dumbass know that was a dementia test in the first place?

I think he thinks it's an IQ test.

[PaulBullion]

I think he thinks it's an IQ test.

Didn't he say he tested positively towards the negative on his IQ test?

Or was that his SARS-Cov-2 test?

[Mister Mets]

Obama didn’t brag half as much about winning a Nobel Peace Prize as Trump is about passing a dementia test.

Didn't he say he tested positively towards the negative on his IQ test?

Or was that his SARS-Cov-2 test?

That was his COVID test.

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...itively-toward

"I tested very positively in another sense so— this morning. Yeah. I tested positively toward negative, right. So. I tested perfectly this morning. Meaning I tested negative."

[shooshoomanjoe]

https://www.localsyr.com/border-repo...d-19-patients/

THIS IS FINE, FOLKS!

Can they even do this? It violates The Emergency Medical and Treatment Labor Act .