All purpose news and politics thread part VII: News & Politics Total Landscaping

[Wildling]

So, after the game yesterday, MAGA idiots are still mad, maybe more than ever, at Taylor Swift, who doesn't just own Time Magazine, the NFL, the Pentagon, and by now could be the Living Tribunal in Marvel. One even had the audacity to suggest Lauren Boebert is the right's answer to Swift for young women to look up to. You know, Boebert who fled her previous district to try to stay in politics, is polling badly right now, and pulled a Cape Fear's Max Cady during a Beetlejuice theater show.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Soleimani had American soldiers killed. At that point, the Grim Reaper is going to be hanging around.

Doing nothing also signals weakness.

Leaving aside the question of how many Iranian soldiers we've killed, the biggest problem with Trump killing him was that the man was a government employee, basically.

So Iran only lost a general, all the contacts and associates he cultivated, are still available to them. Trump undermined basic diplomatic channels for nothing.

[Username taken]

So, after the game yesterday, MAGA idiots are still mad, maybe more than ever, at Taylor Swift, who doesn't just own Time Magazine, the NFL, the Pentagon, and by now could be the Living Tribunal in Marvel. One even had the audacity to suggest Lauren Boebert is the right's answer to Swift for young women to look up to. You know, Boebert who fled her previous district to try to stay in politics, is polling badly right now, and pulled a Cape Fear's Max Cady during a Beetlejuice theater show.

The latest conspiracy theory is "they" rigged the Superbowl to get the Chiefs into the Superbowl. This because the Chiefs will win and Taylor Swift will bring in voters for Biden.

Note, this is the 4th time in 5 years the Chiefs have gotten to the finals.

I legit wonder what's happening with the world. Conspiracy stuff isn't new but they were never as mainstream as they are today and no matter how outlandish the theory is, some people will believe it.

[Wildling]

The latest conspiracy theory is "they" rigged the Superbowl to get the Chiefs into the Superbowl. This because the Chiefs will win and Taylor Swift will bring in voters for Biden.

Note, this is the 4th time in 5 years the Chiefs have gotten to the finals.

I legit wonder what's happening with the world. Conspiracy stuff isn't new but they were never as mainstream as they are today and no matter how outlandish the theory is, some people will believe it.

That's why conservatives destroy education and ban books, antagonize youths and women, including trying to raise the age to vote (like they care about democracy), attacking their body autonomy and what they like (Swift being a prime example) and grimace billionaires like Musk burning billions to promote neo-nazis. Their only way out is have a world where only Fox News tell everyone what to do and think.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”posted profiles of Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, who we noted actually was videotaped complaining to energy company executives about the price of gasoline dropping, because it would make it harder for them to keep fracking away if there was a lower demand for fossil fuels. Gov. Bryant also fought tooth and nail against gay marriage, trying to get a federal judge to override the lifting of Mississippi’s ban on it, and tried to pass a “religious freedom” law in his state to allow for the discrimination of LGBTQ citizens because of an individual’s “deeply held faith”. Bryant also has a terrible track record on women’s issues, supporting a statewide Personhood law (comparing its opponents to Nazis marching Jews to the ovens), pushing for abortion laws restrictive enough that he admitted he wanted to close all the clinics in the state that perform them (seething when it was overturned by a federal judge), frames the pro-choice argument as “Democrats have one mission in life, to abort children” and blaming Mississippi’s low test scores on public school students on “working moms making dumb kids”. Gov. He also lied to the public regarding Voter ID laws that had yet to go into effect already in the 2012 elections, claiming they were already the law, in a shocking attempt at voter intimidation. In June of 2015 Bryant to both the King vs. Burwell and the Obergefell vs. Hodges rulings by the Supreme Court that legalized same sex marriage, where he released a statement following each. After the former, he was whining about “the socialist takeover of healthcare being forced down our throats”, and in the latter ruling, he was bemoaning how the courts “usurped” his states’ right to decide if they could ban same sex marriage, showing that the governor could use a civics lesson. In late November of 2016, Gov. Bryant came out hard against the “liberal media” and the idea of Syrian refugees being relocated to Mississippi, countering critics who compared his attitude to that of the Americans who turned their backs on Jews fleeing Europe during World War II by arguing that it was an unfair comparison because “unless I missed my history lesson, the Jews coming out of Europe at that time were not blowing people up”. (Please note that the refugees being offered asylum in the United States are not carrying out attacks of any kind, and are almost exclusively women and children.) Phil Bryant has also formed a bizarre fellowship with Nigel Farage, the British anti-immigrant lunatic who orchestrated Brexit, hosting him in Mississippi, and then inviting him as his guest to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration, as well. Gov. Bryant signed HB 1523, an anti-gay “religious freedom” bill into law, releasing a statement on Twitter, unironically, that he signed the bill into law "to protect sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions ... from discriminatory action by state government." Phil Bryant later was interviewed by Tony Perkins, the leader of the anti-gay hate group the Family Research Council, where he insisted that Christians are still being “bullied”, and that’s why he signed HB 1523. When the law was predictably overturned by a federal judge, Bryant still decided to waste his state’s money, appealing the federal judge’s ruling against HB 1523, because y’know, he’d rather be “crucified” than allow that sort of thing to stand. Sadly, people didn’t start showing up with nails and boards to grant him his wish. In the wake of U.S. Senate candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith cracking jokes about public hangings in a state infamous for lynching (and photos emerged of Hyde-Smith wearing Confederate regalia). Well, Phil Bryant just couldn’t let facts impugn the honor of Hyde-Smith, giving a bizarre defense that opened with him referencing the conspiracy theory that “African American women are carrying out a genocide against their own race by utilizing their constitutional right to an abortion. When the local press in Mississippi called him out on it, Bryant tried claiming he read the statistic on Wikipedia… where no one can find such a claim. Then, only weeks later, he started railing about young African American men to high school boys, ranting, “I said they even changed the name to what you guys are now? Not dads or fathers anymore. What are they? Baby daddies. What a sad commentary for this nation.” The good news we have is that Phil Bryant was term-limited in 2019, and went off into the sunset to fantasize about denying LGBTQ citizens, minorities, and women their rights.

On this date in both 2020, 2021, 2022, as well as 2023, ”Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled Steve Palazzo, the sitting U.S. House Representative for Mississippi’s 4th Congressional District, who after serving five years in the Mississippi state legislature, was first elected to Congress in… what else? The 2010 Tea Party Wave. And, we have concerns about Steve Palazzo because of his close ties with the anti-gay hate group, the Family Research Council, and its lunatic leader, Tony Perkins. It was back around 2013 that Palazzo really kicked the homophobia into overdrive, when he reacted strongly to the Boy Scouts of America planning to lift its ban on gay scout leaders by comparing it to his career fighting in the Marines. He said at the time that President Obama and “his highly organized liberal machine”had “unfairly attacked” the organization. “These people who are out there protesting and petitioning, I don’t think they care one thing about the Boy Scouts of America and want the organization to fail,[/I]” he insisted. Palazzo did not dial back his homophobic comments until January of 2014, when he started up a Facebook campaign against "Gay Hollywood's version of matrimony" in response to that year’s Grammy Awards, where on air, Queen Latifah officiated 33 same sex marriages on air. As commenters on the thread began to point out how bigoted Palazzo was being, his people responded by not just deleting their comments, but blocking them. Steve Palazzo’s intolerance against the LGBTQ community is so ingrained that in November of 2013, when as a part of his defense of another anti-gay hate group, the American Family Association, it made him come to the logical conclusion that President Obama’s support of LGBTQ rights and that he signed the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was clearly a sign that he was “doesn’t share the same Christian faith that we do”, as part of some backwards Birther logic. Because, y’know, if Obama is a secret Muslim, that would make him REALLY supportive of gay rights, y’know? Mind you, that isn’t the only example we have of Steve Palazzo irrationally hating President Obama. Such much so that during the 2013 Government Shutdown he helped a bunch of right-wing nut-jobs and Neo-Confederates who staged a protest at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. to start grabbing barricades to drag over to the White House and throw down in impotent rage. Y’know, while Larry Klayman yelled at the president to “put down the Koran and come out with his hands up”. That would be the government shutdown that PALAZZO VOTED TO CREATE. Speaking of stupid things Palazzo has voted for or against, there was also the time he voted against disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy, when he seems to want disaster relief whenever a hurricane hits his district. But then… his whole voting record is a series of damaging ideas for the country, from repeated attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, to twice voting to defund Planned Parenthood, to votes against disaster relief unless it’s for his district, to votes for the past two government shutdowns, he is, for lack of a better term, a legislative miscreant. Oh, and in the waning days of the GOP’s majority in the House, Palazzo sponsors legislation to create bonds for the American people to buy that would fund Donald Trump’s insane idea for a wall on the U.S./Mexico border. Palazzo also voted against HR 183, a resolution to condemn anti-Semitism as a hateful extension of intolerance, HR 546, which stated disapproval of any attempt to readmit the Russian federation back into the G7 and make it the G8, voted against both Trump impeachments, signed his name to an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, begging them to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and voted for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election. Steve Palazzo was defeated in the GOP Primary for his seat by Mike Ezell in 2022, and was bounced from office, so we will set aside his profile at this time to profile another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1287-60, since this was established in July 2014.

[worstblogever]

Leo Benjamin
Welcome to what is the 1287th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Leo Benjamin, who was a failed candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia’s 4th Congressional District in 2023, hoping to win the seat formerly held by late Democratic Congressman Don McEachin. Benjamin was making this third attempt at getting elected to office as a right-wing pastor, and if you don’t know where this is going… spoiler alert, homophobia ahoy.

After a few controversial bigoted remarks through the years, Pastor Benjamin went into an interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart, and the anchor, who is gay, quoted Benjamin’s homophobic diatribe from a decade prior:

”Bring you sick, disease, gay, homosexual, lesbian, transvestite, bipolar, alcoholic, drug addiction friends and love ones!!!!!!!!!!”

We’ll follow that with the interview in 2022 that Benjamin gave where he declared “We are not a racist nation”, which would be true if you ignore most of American history.

Anyway, Leo Benjamin got obliterated in that special election by almost a 3 to 1 margin. We’re thinking this might be a clear indicator he’s not winning office anytime soon.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

So, after the game yesterday, MAGA idiots are still mad, maybe more than ever, at Taylor Swift, who doesn't just own Time Magazine, the NFL, the Pentagon, and by now could be the Living Tribunal in Marvel. One even had the audacity to suggest Lauren Boebert is the right's answer to Swift for young women to look up to. You know, Boebert who fled her previous district to try to stay in politics, is polling badly right now, and pulled a Cape Fear's Max Cady during a Beetlejuice theater show.

Ridiculous, amirite? And all because Taylor mobilized her fanbase to vote against conservatives. If she were a Trumper, MAGA Maggots would be over the Moon in love with her.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Ridiculous, amirite? And all because Taylor mobilized her fanbase to vote against conservatives. If she were a Trumper, MAGA Maggots would be over the Moon in love with her.

Did she? I thought she just encouraged people to vote

[CaptainEurope]

Did she? I thought she just encouraged people to vote

Well, she released video about how she struggled to come out against the right.

[kidfresh512]

And they have been proving her right since. The same with her parents who were concerned in the documentary. They are being insane right now.

[Mister Mets]

The latest conspiracy theory is "they" rigged the Superbowl to get the Chiefs into the Superbowl. This because the Chiefs will win and Taylor Swift will bring in voters for Biden.

Note, this is the 4th time in 5 years the Chiefs have gotten to the finals.

I legit wonder what's happening with the world. Conspiracy stuff isn't new but they were never as mainstream as they are today and no matter how outlandish the theory is, some people will believe it.

I don't know if these conspiracy theories are more mainstream than nonsense people believed in the past.

For example, the John Birch Society claimed that Eisenhower was a secret communist and they had about 100,000 members for some time after that.

Leaving aside the question of how many Iranian soldiers we've killed, the biggest problem with Trump killing him was that the man was a government employee, basically.

So Iran only lost a general, all the contacts and associates he cultivated, are still available to them. Trump undermined basic diplomatic channels for nothing.

The American President should care more about the lives of American soldiers than the other side.

Killing Soleimani wasn't for nothing.

It is a useful reminder that if someone has Americans killed, he shouldn't read long novels.

By all accounts, he was effective as a military leader within the Axis of *******s (the nations like China, Iran, Russia and North Korea that try to benefit by their willingness to lie, steal and kill) so his loss takes a top strategist off the table, and saves lives in the long run.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Well, she released video about how she struggled to come out against the right.

Ah, the classic 'With us or against us' that Republicans live.

Wonder how that'll work out for them

[Gray Lensman]

The latest conspiracy theory is "they" rigged the Superbowl to get the Chiefs into the Superbowl. This because the Chiefs will win and Taylor Swift will bring in voters for Biden.

Note, this is the 4th time in 5 years the Chiefs have gotten to the finals.

I legit wonder what's happening with the world. Conspiracy stuff isn't new but they were never as mainstream as they are today and no matter how outlandish the theory is, some people will believe it.

My father says the same thing about the Patriots run. He still insists the Tuck Rule (admittedly a very stupid rule to begin with, which is why it is no longer a rule) was made up on the spot.

[Dalak]

But releasing 5000 Taliban fighters who had been killing Americans for decades is a show of strength?

By all accounts the assassination of Soleimani was an belligerent mistake, egged on by Kushner, Pompeo and Pence, against military advice.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/w...ing-soleimani/

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-c...ing-more-clear

This blows holes in any tough stance against those who kill Americans, which is why it was ignored to make that case to defend Trump.

Leaving aside the question of how many Iranian soldiers we've killed, the biggest problem with Trump killing him was that the man was a government employee, basically.

So Iran only lost a general, all the contacts and associates he cultivated, are still available to them. Trump undermined basic diplomatic channels for nothing.

Trump consistently undermined the causes championed by America like Democracy or the Rule of Law. It helps conservatives to pretend this behavior isn't as bad as it could have been, conveniently forgetting how bad things would be in a second presidency with so many enablers in place to get rid of all the hurdles that kept Trump's worst impulses from being enacted previously.

The latest conspiracy theory is "they" rigged the Superbowl to get the Chiefs into the Superbowl. This because the Chiefs will win and Taylor Swift will bring in voters for Biden.

Note, this is the 4th time in 5 years the Chiefs have gotten to the finals.

I legit wonder what's happening with the world. Conspiracy stuff isn't new but they were never as mainstream as they are today and no matter how outlandish the theory is, some people will believe it.

And they have been proving her right since. The same with her parents who were concerned in the documentary. They are being insane right now.

The belief in things inherently untrue in defiance of the facts is something that's being embraced by the entire GoP and conservatism as a whole globally. What they feel is more important than actual facts and that's proved day after day when you look at the news or turn on any conservative entertainment channel, since Faux isn't News by their own testimony.

[CaptainEurope]

Ah, the classic 'With us or against us' that Republicans live.

Wonder how that'll work out for them

I'm hopeful that Swifties will be as damaging to Trump's campaign as the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth were for Kerry's.