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

[Amadeus Arkham]

NEWS: One of Trump’s personal assistants has tested positive for coronavirus, Nick Luna, as bodyman, works in very close proximity to the president so it’s not surprising.

Can anyone remember a more disastrous turn of events for a President in just 2-3 days?

It feels like the chickens have come to roast for this man.

[numberthirty]

NEWS: One of Trump’s personal assistants has tested positive for coronavirus, Nick Luna, as bodyman, works in very close proximity to the president so it’s not surprising.

Can anyone remember a more disastrous turn of events in just a little over three days in a Presidency?

See?

The staff that would be looking out for getting the guy a fresh suit likely has bigger fish to fry.

[kidfresh512]

Watched some of the South Carolina Senate Debate. Jaimie Harrison walked all over Lindsey.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1...742620162?s=20

[Gray Lensman]

Watched some of the South Carolina Senate Debate. Jaimie Harrison walked all over Lindsey.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1...742620162?s=20

The problem is that GoP support is baked in no matter what. Hilary cleaned Donnie's clock in 3 seperate debates but it didn't matter to his supporters.

[Kirby101]

The problem is that GoP support is baked in no matter what. Hilary cleaned Donnie's clock in 3 seperate debates but it didn't matter to his supporters.

That was 2016. The SC Senate is a 1% race right now.

[The no face guy]

Disgusting. I would never wish death on anyone, but Trump's actions are unconscionable. Only someone with sociopathic personality traits would deliberately expose others to the virus once they knew they were infected.

If Trump survives COVID and his donors become infected, he should be charged with criminal negligence. He is morally unfit to serve in the office, not just the Presidency, but in any form of governing power.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/america...d-19-1.5131819

[AnakinFlair]

A grandson of the tenth President John Tyler (who served from 1841-1845) just passed away.

It's a trip knowing there was a relative of one of our earliest Presidents still living (until now) who may have actually known and talked to his Grandfather about the job. Makes you wonder what stories he heard. RIP.

[worstblogever]

NEWS: One of Trump’s personal assistants has tested positive for coronavirus, Nick Luna, as bodyman, works in very close proximity to the president so it’s not surprising.

Can anyone remember a more disastrous turn of events for a President in just 2-3 days?

It feels like the chickens have come to roast for this man.

This proverbial chicken in particular is at least the size of King Kong. This is the culmination of 8 months of lies, and 200,000K deaths. And his willful deceit about it, the whole way. Even while holding rallies that have infected, and killed actual people.

The irony that it was his own need for a victory lap and a "f*** you" to the Democrats about replacing RBG is arguably making the proverbial chicken a full-on Godzilla.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Saw this on Twitter:

[worstblogever]

Maybe we should have all seen it as an omen when the Trump boat parade sank.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” had a profile of Ben Quayle, the son of former Vice-President Dan Quayle who managed to be elected to a single term in Congress in Arizona's 6th District who in campaign ads but a year into the Obama presidency, declared him the worst president in our history and that he'd go to Washington D.C. and "knock the hell out of the place". Quayle was elected in spite of working as a writer at the website "The Dirty" where he'd make sexist remarks to caption photos of women at Scottsdale nightclubs, and while in office, accomplished little except embarrassing our country as part of a delegation that went to Israel, got wasted in a bar on the taxpayers' dime, and then went skinny-dipping in the Sea of Galilee. Quayle's Congressional career came to a crashing halt after redistricting left him facing off against fellow Republican David Schweikert in one of the ugliest primaries in politics, and he has not resurfaced in a run for office yet, apparently choosing the life of a lobbyist instead.

On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" profiled of the U.S. House Representative from Texas’ 2nd Congressional District, Ted Poe, who when he served as a Texas judge, and made the controversial decision (which was thankfully appealed by prosecutors and overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals) to permit the PBS documentary show Frontline to record a jury deliberating a capital murder case thinking that it wouldn't somehow skew the outcome. Ted Poe is also a Birther conspiracy theorist, who on the floor of the House, once quoted Nathan Bedford Forrest by saying, “Get there firstest with the mostest”, then acting surprised when people were offended that he cited the wisdom of the founder of the KKK. Poe also once tried forcing all VA funerals to be Christian by default, and when the maneuver was shut down, tried accusing the Obama administration of having changed the funerals away from Christians (as if he were a secret Muslim, or something). His voting record includes supporting a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, voting against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and Violence Against Women Act, opposing Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, and voting for the 2013 Government Shutdown then voting not to reopen the government. Perhaps his greatest hypocrisy was to vote against disaster relief funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy, and then to whine and complain when additional disaster relief funding was not send to West, Texas, when a fertilizer factory caught fire and exploded (when some had already been sent, and that's sort of not an act of nature, but malfeasance). Ted Poe also made a statement about Syrian refugees, saying that the Obama Administration “won’t take care of our veterans,” but will “open the doors to people we don’t even know.” adding that President Obama was only allowing Syrian refugees to be brought into the United States because "It’s a political maneuver on the part of the president just to get more people in the U.S. so they’ll support the Democratic Party, I think it’s a long-term goal." He also had some ideas about African American outreach efforts being made by Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying that her plan to win over African American voters was “to keep people more on government dependence because then she assumes she’ll get their vote.” Ah, the myth that all African Americans are dying to live free off of welfare. Classic racist dog whistle, I'm sure that will play wonderfully down in Poe's part of Texas. In January of 2017, Poe announced that the leukemia he was battling through the 2016 campaign was in remission, leaving him able to try and strip the medical insurance of millions of Americans so they couldn't do the same. Ted Poe did fight hard for more resources to be pulled into hurricane relief for his own district, but this is only four years after he voted against disaster relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy. He quit the House Freedom Caucus back in May of 2017, and then announced he was retiring from Congress only five months later in November of 2017.

On this date in 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Beverly Goldstein, a candidate for U.S. House of Representatives for Ohio’s 11th Congressional District in both 2016 and 2018. who is a die-hard MAGA Republican. Let it come as no surprise, then, that her campaign strategy in 2018 was to campaign hard against LGBTQ rights, and get on Twitter to claim the only reason her district supported them was because “If CCC (Cuyahoga County Council) had LITERATE inner-city church-attending Black voters following this issue=entirely opposite outcome.” No better way to alienate youself to African American voters in the district by saying they’re too stupid to read and support your agenda. That’s an incredible cocktail of bigotry Ms. Goldstein. She was unavailable to the press to explain this post, and instead, her husband/campaign manager responded by doubling down and going on a transphobic rant about the non-existent threat of transgender people attacking ladies in public restrooms. A few days later, Beverly Goldstein posted a photo of herself with four African American security guards as “proof” she wasn’t racist… which is somehow even worse than the “I have a black friend” card some Republicans play in these moments. Goldstein had barely advanced out of the Republican primary, but once she got into the general election against Democratic Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, she got utterly obliterated, and only pulled down 18% of the vote. She seems unlikely to ever win office, and as such we will set aside her profile at this time, and take a look at another kooky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 923-45, since this was established in July 2014.


Rich Helms
Welcome to what is the 923rd original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Rich Helms, a 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Texas’ 33rd Congressional District. Helms was, of course, another person we’ve been profiling who buys into the Qanon conspiracy theory, that Democrats are running secret dungeons where children are being sacrificed in Satanic rituals to harvest fear hormones from them which can be used to grant others eternal youth… and Donald Trump is the guy who’s going to expose the cult… ANY… DAY… NOW… He repeatedly posted on social media with Qanon’s slogan, and made references to “the Great Awakening”. So yes, that’s insane.

All we know is, Rich Helms is enough of a racist, paranoid conspiracy theorist that he’s been banned from Twitter. We aren’t sure why, there seems to have been some indication that he started spreading conspiracy theories about the “true parentage” of Malia and Sasha Obama, but honestly, this guy’s such a nut he could be a future Planters mascot. We’re not even sure if that’s the nuttiest thing he might have come up with.

Rich Helms dropped out of the race for Texas’ 33rd District in March of 2020. We’re expecting him to be a perennial failed candidate for office until he inevitably loses it and trespasses at a random address looking for mole children where there’s not even a basement to be found.
 

[PaulBullion]

That was 2016. The SC Senate is a 1% race right now.

Somehow I don't see Southern White conservative men being very inspired to go and vote for a whining "beta male" who's been begging for votes, especially with the rumors about his contacts to male escorts.

[Robotman]

NEWS: One of Trump’s personal assistants has tested positive for coronavirus, Nick Luna, as bodyman, works in very close proximity to the president so it’s not surprising.

Can anyone remember a more disastrous turn of events for a President in just 2-3 days?

It feels like the chickens have come to roast for this man.

I don’t know. I can definitely see Trump and Fox News turning this whole thing into a huge positive. He will have overcome COVID, the virus that he said was no worse than the flu. Trump coming out of this unscathed will reinforce their narrative. Total validation. Plus now he’ll think he has “herd mentality” and will claim that he is stronger than ever.

We all know that he’s going to steal the election. This whole episode could potentially make his cult care even less about social distancing and medical recommendations during his next term.

[JCAll]

Senator Schumer has other alternatives available if he cares about anyone's health.

When you discuss Schumer's alternatives to protect people's health...do you realize that the actual threat to people's health in this situation is several elector GOP congressmen that are knowingly infected with a dangerous virus who could potentially break quarantine and willingly exposing hundreds of their coworkers to that same potentially deadly disease?

[JackDaw]

We all know that he’s going to steal the election. This whole episode could potentially make his cult care even less about social distancing and medical recommendations during his next term.

Do we??

Personally, I’d be very happy to put down an heavy bet on Joe B to win next election IF any reputable bookie would offer me evens...defining winning as Joe actually becoming President.

The Donald staging an armed coup? Stealing it by a massive successful voter fraud?

Honestly I don’t see the Donald having enough nous or support to do either.