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

[Ragged Maw]

Guessing you mean this one:



She looks like a Disney villain during their musical number. Assuming she's singing a gleeful ditty about making a fur coat out of puppies.

Also, her eyes have no whites. This might be the most diverse thing at the RNC.

I dont prefer playing into political tribalism by painting any faction as overtly monstrous or "evil", but the memetic potential of this photo is tempting. So I'll indulge a little:



It just popped into my head, okay!

[numberthirty]

And the thing is, these idiots have ZERO idea just how idiotic they look to the world at large. Meanwhile, with delegates having gathered in Charlotte and, from clips I’ve seen, none of them wearing masks, how long before they get hit by the virus?

Well, it is Guilfoyle.

If even half of that version of her exit from FNC is anything like the actual truth of what happened, it points to what is probably a pretty jaw dropping lack of anything like the ability to take a step back and see how far out you are getting.

It makes Ivanka/Jared look reasonably level headed. Even if they are still out of touch.

[worstblogever]

And the thing is, these idiots have ZERO idea just how idiotic they look to the world at large. Meanwhile, with delegates having gathered in Charlotte and, from clips I’ve seen, none of them wearing masks, how long before they get hit by the virus?

Over 33,000 new cases yesterday, and 339 more deaths.

Death toll is going to be 180,000 by the end of the week, and these ***holes are declaring "victory" over it and acting like Trump's response was outstanding.

F*** these gaslighting cultists.

[InformationGeek]

Over 33,000 new cases yesterday, and 339 more deaths.

Death toll is going to be 180,000 by the end of the week, and these ***holes are declaring "victory" over it and acting like Trump's response was outstanding.

F*** these gaslighting cultists.

Haley is on CBS This Morning and saying people shouldn't be mad at Trump but China for unleashing the virus on us because he couldn't have predicted the virus happening.

Uuuuuuuuuugh

[JCAll]

Guessing you mean this one:



She looks like a Disney villain during their musical number. Assuming she's singing a gleeful ditty about making a fur coat out of puppies.

Also, her eyes have no whites. This might be the most diverse thing at the RNC.

She looks like she's channeling Jeremy Irons in Dungeons and Dragons.
LET THEIR BLOOD RAIN FROM THE SKY!!!

[worstblogever]

She looks like she's channeling Jeremy Irons in Dungeons and Dragons.
LET THEIR BLOOD RAIN FROM THE SKY!!!

For comparison:

[worstblogever]

In 2014, 2015, as well as 2016, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of Kyle Tasker, a particularly young and brash member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives whose chief hobby seemed to be challenging the concept of political correctness on social media (or so we thought). In our first look at Tasker, we talked about how Tasker made national headlines when in the middle of a committee meeting in the state legislature, he dropped his personal firearm, sending it clattering to the floor. He later blamed his carelessness on having donated blood. Tasker, by this point infamous, spent time on Facebook making jokes about victims of domestic abuse (“Battered women? I like mine plain”), and asking the New Hampshire Black Caucus if he could join because he is “fond of rap music”. Just for a few examples, that is. We noted how Tasker's heart seemed to not be in the whole politician business, citing how he missed about one third of all votes in the legislature, and that may have had something to do with the side career he had going. And that career was apparently as a drug dealer. In March of 2016, Tasker was arrested by police after trying to lure a 14 year old girl to his house for sex, and when they searched his house while he was in jail, they found not just a weapons cache, but a large stash of drugs. New Hampshire Republicans had a budding sexual predator and narcotics dealer on the House Committee on Children and Family Law. Splendid. Tasker is now serving a 3-10 year sentence for his crimes, and when he gets out, he’ll be on a sex offender list.

[worstblogever]

It was in both 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” had its first profile of the U.S. House Representative from New York’s 22nd Congressional District, Claudia Tenney, currently serving in he freshman term in Congress after serving three terms in the New York State Assembly from 2011 through 2017. It’s somewhat of a miracle that Tenney’s career has lasted as long as it has, or that she has elevated herself to Congress, considering back in October of 2013, she went to a press conference where members of the Oneida Native Americans and while a representative of the tribe, Ray Halbritter was speaking about negotiations with the NFL to change the name of their Washington franchise, when Tenney stood up on a chair screaming that “he wasn’t actually an Indian” before threatening to sue Halbritter on behalf of a member of the Oneida Nation who said Halbritter was “stealing his land”. She was eventually escorted out after a bizarre spectacle. To this day, she has no apologies, and still smears Halbritter, calling him “Spray-Tan Ray”, indicating she thinks his pigmentation is enhanced (which is f***ing AMAZINGLY RACIST).

And yet, her career has continued. Which probably has a lot to do with the fact that the Fox News Family often gave her a platform on their networks when possible, including this delightful appearance on Fox Business when she argues against the minimum wage. Her voting record as a state legislator shows not just her willingness to vote against the minimum wage, but she has voted against Equal Pay for women, early voting, and conveniently is absent every time a vote comes up to ban gay conversion therapy.

Tenney failed to unseat tenured Congressman Richard Hanna for his seat in 2014, but when he announced his retirement in 2016 she gave it another shot. She won with only 45% of the vote, in spite of polls having her listed by far as the most disliked candidate, because the vote was split between Democrat Kim Myers and Martin Babinec, who thought he would be helping by going “third party” and creating the Upstate Workers Party. Well, thanks a f***ing lot, Martin, because you only helped a racist get elected to Congress. Tenney, as you might expect from someone who would show up to a press conference and get on a chair to claim someone was faking their race is highly contentious on the campaign trail, as she also claimed Kim Myers, who worked for her family’s Dick’s Sporting Goods before starting her own business was “more of a housewife”.

Her one term in Congress saw her to vote for bills to allow veterans deemed mentally incompetent to continue to own firearms, and not have them taken away without a judge's written order, to allow internet providers to sell the data information of their customers' internet usage to businesses, to repeal Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform, the GOP Tax Plan/Scam, and to vote for the House GOP's healthcare plan, that would kick roughly 24 million people off their health insurance plans, allow up to 28,000 more people to die a year, give $50,000 in tax breaks to millionaires, and would eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions which would include such medical conditions as pregnancy (current or past), postpartum depression, or prior sexual assault.

Tenney quickly drew massive amounts of criticism from her constituents (only 45% of whom voted for her), could tried avoiding confrontations with them by hosting “telephone town halls” where her aides can screen calls, and actually tried defending her vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act by saying the law was “denying people the right to have an existence, to work and to have a chance.”

By February of 2018, when she had three gaffes over the span of three weeks. Her first was on February 6th, when she claimed that it was “Un-American” that Democrats didn’t rise and give a standing ovation to Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address, and proof that “they don’t love our country”. Then, on February 16th 2018 for whatever reason, Tenney defended the White House for not firing Rob Porter, a staffer who could not pass his background clearance checks because he had abused two separate wives he’d been married to. Tenney claimed that Porter’s repeated spousal abuse did not qualify as “crimes of character”.

But perhaps Tenney’s dumbest re-write came on February 21st, 2018 where she commented on the Parkland shooting and various other mass shootings by outright lying and claiming they were being carried out by Democrats:

"It's interesting that so many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats. But the media doesn't talk about that either."

(For the record, Nicholas Cruz, the shooter at Parkland was NOT a Democrat, and in fact, had photographs of himself on social media accounts in a “MAGA” hat.)

Tenney’s 2018 challenger was Democratic New York State Assembly member Anthony Brindisi, and damn, did she take a bigoted approach to running against him. Tenney campaigned by attacking Brindisi’s father. For a few years in the late 1970s and 1980s, the elder Brindisi worked as a defense attorney and defended members of New York crime families in court. Now, it should be noted that John Adams once defended the men who perpetuated the Boston Massacre, and that doesn’t state to his character as a Founding Father. We should also note that Brindisi’s father stopped working criminal defense cases in 1983. We also should note that there’s a whole “sins of the father” thing that should be taken into account… but it’s amazing to see Tenney’s first response to be to smear the Italian-American candidate for having suspicious mob ties.


Tenney was swept out of office by the 2018 Blue Wave, losing by about 4500 votes. Even with higher Democratic voter turnout expected in a presidential year than a mid-term year in 2020… Tenney decided to try and avenge her loss, and is the GOP candidate to challenge Congressman Anthony Brindisi to try and flip the seat back to the Republicans. She’s going to have a hard time doing that, what with a 4-to-1 campaign war chest disadvantage to her counterpart, and no help financially coming from the national GOP, who have given up on doing anything but holding onto the Senate and White House.

We’re hoping she remains a “one and done” member of Congress.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Haley is on CBS This Morning and saying people shouldn't be mad at Trump but China for unleashing the virus on us because he couldn't have predicted the virus happening.

Uuuuuuuuuugh

I guess Republicans ignored this nugget of wisdom from Barack Obama in 2014:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...ot-ctn-vpx.cnn

[GOLGO 13]

He was likely blackmailed to endorse Trump in 2016, pictured here:



He consolidated Evangelicals behind a hatemongering twit who is the antithesis of the Gospel he's supposed to love.

You can eye roll all you want, but no one can see it when you bury your head in places this deep.

Fallwell's has now completely resigned, before the school lets ALL his sins out. Now the Christian CUCK gets to spend even more time watchin his wife get her back blown out by the landscapers.

How deliciously trashy these Christians are.

[KOSLOX]

*Nevermind

[AnakinFlair]

Agreed. Compared to slamming drugs during sex in adult diapers with a dead alpaca, it's a mild fetish.

Oh god. Can we go back to Jousha Holt dry humping Trump?

[The Cool Thatguy]

Oh god. Can we go back to Jousha Holt dry humping Trump?

Figuratively, or...?

[KOSLOX]

She looks like she's channeling Jeremy Irons in Dungeons and Dragons.
LET THEIR BLOOD RAIN FROM THE SKY!!!

I want to see Rita Republa start trending.

[Gray Lensman]

For comparison:

I remember that movie - Jeremy Irons was one of only a few watchable things in it. The other two are Riff Raff from Rocky Horror in a small part, and when the "only here for comic relief and nothing else" character is mercifully killed off - the mercy is for the audience. It took me years to accept Marlon Wayans in anything where I wasn't supposed to groan at him after that film.

Fun Fact - it wasn't originally supposed to use so much CGI, but Jeremy Irons chewed too much scenery for them to rebuild. Ba Dum Tish!

And in more serious news.....

AOC's grilling of Cohen is directly responsible for the NYS fraud case against Trump.

Social Security Chief Actuary says if Trump's payroll tax cut becomes permanent the fund will be empty by 2023.

A little more insight into who the McCloskeys are from the rabbi who lives next door to them. They are who we thought they were.

And finally, back to something a little bit lighter. Mother Jones set Kimberly Guilfoyle's speech to North Korean propaganda music.