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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulBullion View Post
    Roger Stone is begging people for money to pay his legal bills.
    I wouldn't bother to send him a wooden nickle. He can get a loan from his buddy Trump. Which reminds me, Trump's bills have to be pretty big. He also has all those pending lawsuits from when he was a private citizen. I think we're going to find a line of cash coming from Russian oligarchs. There was that suspicious sale of an aging Florida estate that Trump flipped to a Russian Dmitry Rybolovlev for example
    He paid Trump 100 million for a property Trump bought a few years earlier for $41.35 million.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Hey, WBE. If you don’t have him yet, I think Ed Henry deserves a spot in your queue.



    Henry went even further, suggesting that legal action against the women named in the Post story would be appropriate. “If they believe this man is predatory, they are guilty of allowing him to exist for 40 years. I think someone should prosecute and go after them," Henry said. Then he added, "You can't be a victim 40 years later."
    He's also in support of Trump's border wall, and hates Planned Parenthood over abortion, even though he pushed his girlfriend years ago to... wait for it... get an abortion.
    http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/201...ry_says_g.html

    Yeah, I think he qualifies in terms of hypocrisy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Iron Maiden View Post
    I wouldn't bother to send him a wooden nickle. He can get a loan from his buddy Trump. Which reminds me, Trump's bills have to be pretty big. He also has all those pending lawsuits from when he was a private citizen. I think we're going to find a line of cash coming from Russian oligarchs. There was that suspicious sale of an aging Florida estate that Trump flipped to a Russian Dmitry Rybolovlev for example
    He paid Trump 100 million for a property Trump bought a few years earlier for $41.35 million.
    Trump probably still thinks that WWE storyline where he bought the company from Vince McMahon and then sold it back for twice the price was real and not just a work in the world of pro wrestling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    Trump probably still thinks that WWE storyline where he bought the company from Vince McMahon and then sold it back for twice the price was real and not just a work in the world of pro wrestling.
    Trump worked himself into a shoot

    lol

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    This occurred to me while I was at the gym this morning: I saw on TV that Trump visited Vietnam as part of his Asia tour. While he's five decades late, I'm guessing his bone spurs must finally be feeling better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    This occurred to me while I was at the gym this morning: I saw on TV that Trump visited Vietnam as part of his Asia tour. While he's five decades late, I'm guessing his bone spurs must finally be feeling better.
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    On this date, in 2014, in 2015, and in 2016 "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, the former brain surgeon turned Seventh Day Adventist candidate for the GOP nomination for president who talks about turning around his life after a turbulent youth where he once tried to stab his best friend in the stomach, but through divine intervention, managed to only hit that friend’s belt and break his knife. As crazy as an origin story as that is, we also presented a dossier on the minute he announced he would be making a run for the Oval Office. Coming into this time last year, Carson had already denied the existence of evolution, compared homosexuality to beastiality and pedophilia, said “The Afforable Care Act is the worst thing that’s happened since slavery” or alternatively “worse than 9/11”, claimed progressives were trying to turn the United States into Nazi Germany, praised Cliven Bundy, called the VA Wait Times Scandal “A Gift from God”, claimed the legalization of marijuana was a plot to distract the populace from “what really happened in Benghazi”, that President Obama can wipe out ISIS “but just doesn’t want to”, and informed us that abortion is actually a form of human sacrifice. And that was just in our first profile.

    In our second profile, we covered some of the weirder moments from Sleepy Ben, including his “common sense solutions” to the immigration problem in the United States like punishing an undocumented immigrant is caught trying to commit voter fraud, see to it that they have their citizenship revoked. (You know, the citizenship they don’t have to begin with.) Carson had other terrible thoughts on immigration, like that President Obama had committed “high treason” for choosing to deport dangerous criminals among the undocumented immigrant population first, and claimed that his eulogy for the victims of the mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina at the A.M.E. Emanuel church was designed to tear our country apart with “race wars” and “class wars”. At the annual NRA convention, told the audience that the southern border of the United States had been infiltrated by “radical extremist Islamic terrorists”, and that everyone should not call for better gun control, because mass shooters are easy to take out if you “all gang rush them at once”, or alternatively, as he once did in a Popeye’s chicken, just tell a potential robber to steal from a nearby cashier and to leave you be. Carson also talked about carrying out drone strikes against illegal immigrants, called for a third separate bathroom for transgendered citizens because “they make people uncomfortable”, and later claimed Planned Parenthood’s true purpose is to “eliminate black people”. Dr. Carson said that gay rights and pro-choice advocates practice “hate speech” and are not following the teachings of Jesus, but are ”under the influence of Saul Alinsky”, and asserted that “being gay is a choice” leading to him avoiding the topic for a whole seven weeks. Carson criticizing people who protest against police brutality, saying that doing so “helps Al Qaeda and ISIS”, quoted the philosopher Thomas Hobbes that “Tyranny would never occur in American citizens have guns” (which is amazing because Hobbes died a full century before America was a nation with its own Constitution and 2nd Amendment), and that he also theorized that the Pyramids were not built as tombs for the Egyptian pharoahs, but instead were granaries for storing food. Carson was also caught lying about his involvement with the supplement company Mannatech, as well as his outrageous claim that he was offered a scholarship to Army’s West Point Academy. Oh, and he also claimed that a Muslim should never be elected President of the United States, so there’s that.

    And, since we last left Ben Carson during the waning moments of his ill-conceived and poorly run presidential campaign, he has still stayed in the headlines by becoming a surrogate for Donald Trump throughout 2016. In that role, Ben Carson falsely claimed that like Donald Trump, he also saw news footage of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the deaths of Americans on 9/11 that does not actually exist, kept pronouncing the Palestinian group Hamas as “hummus”, and began to discuss proposals to “crack down on liberal bias” on college campuses, lamented a supposed “ban on Christianity” in schools (which doesn’t exist, but that’s how he thinks the separation of church and state should be framed) and began suggesting that the Department of Education should be able to secretly monitor classrooms and libraries to prevent any such patterns of thought from being encouraged. He also again commented on same sex marriage, giving his opinion that LGBT citizens shouldn’t be given “extra rights” because they are “abnormal”, and claimed that he’s “read enough conspiracy books” to know that public school lessons teaching tolerance towards the LGBT community and anti-discrimination laws were put in place in the United States by secret communists to damage the republic. Carson also said that Democrats “intentionally destroy black families to cultivate their votes”, and when interviewed by Steve Bannon on Breitbart News, stated his inflammatory belief that “Muslims who accept American values must be schizophrenic” because he doesn’t feel the two ideologies could coexist. Carson was allowed to speak on the second night of the 2016 Republican National Convention, where he, no lie, he lost the crowd by playing six degrees of separation by first linking Hillary Clinton to Saul Alinsky, and then to Lucifer himself, as he goes off of teleprompter in an insane, rambling, incoherent speech. A few weeks later, Dr. Carson decided to weigh in on Donald Trump’s attacks against a Gold Star family, the Khans, by saying that the family should “call a truce” by first apologizing to Donald Trump, so he could then apologize to them. He would laterpaying into the Alt-Right movement’s conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s health, Carson called for an “elderly” Clinton to release her medical records, and while stumping for Donald Trump, Dr. Carson compares the difference between the two candidates to be akin to “like picking a paper cut or having both legs chopped off”. Truly, a ringing endorsement. By September, in the middle of an interview, live on CNN, Ben Carson suddenly remembers he forgot to pick up his luggage and abruptly walks away mid-question. A few days later on the same network, he tried excusing Donald Trump’s frequently changing positions on immigration because “he’s still learning” how to develop and stick to policies. In the final month before the election, in a truly astounding interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar, Carson gives a bizarre reason why the tape of Donald Trump boasting about sexual assault shouldn’t matter to women who are deeply troubled by it… the problem isn’t Trump, it’s THEM because they haven’t heard enough men talk in such graphic, demeaning terms and he finally lost his legendary sleepy, lethargic cool during an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, yelling, “NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO…” and demanding the microphone of the woman interviewing him be turned off for asking him questions about Donald Trump bragging about committing sexual assault, and how that can jive with his fondness for Christian values.

    Ben Carson , though plainly insane, was inexplicably chosen as a member of Donald Trump’s “Cabinet of Horrors”, not as Surgeon General, which in theory he would be qualified for, but instead as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, where he sabotages the department’s mission statement from within, gives bizarre speeches to department employees where he refers to African slaves as “immigrants”, and refuses to answer any questions about anything when called before Congress, because he doesn’t have the first clue of what he’s doing. We'll set aside the doctor’s profile to go ahead and take a look at a different wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 617-25, since this was established in July 2014.)
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    Dennis Richardson
    Welcome to the 617th original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where we’ll be discussing Dennis Richardson, the current Secretary of State of Oregon, who formerly spent twelve years as a state legislator from 2003-2014 before a failed gubernatorial bid in 2014. Richardson spent about $3.5 million on his 2016 campaign, which got him all of 47% of the vote, which thanks to independent candidates and Green Party candidates pulling protest votes away from Democratic candidate Brad Avaikan, was enough to get Richardson a four-year term to oversee things like elections in Oregon.

    We’re not going to dance around the fact that Dennis Richardson is a widely documented homophobe, not just because he doesn’t think it’s discriminatory to stop gay people from getting married, but back in 2007, he not only sent out a fundraising letter to warn of evils happening like the Virginia Tech Massacre or same-sex couples getting domestic benefits… which shows he has a lousy barometer for evil. Mass murder should not be mentioned in the same breath as gay people having rights, you know? But it only gets worse from there. Richardson has insisted “pedophilia is widespread among the homosexual community”, and even argued against gay adoption because, “to allow homosexual couples to adopt would require complete disregard of the statistics on the high mortality rate from HIV/AIDS, and high rate of alcohol and drug abuse, as well as the general instability and violent nature of homosexual relationships.”

    At another point in 2007, Richardson compared homosexuality to “smoking or drinking” because they are a "choice". And even though one of the most grotesque murders of a lesbian couple based solely on their sexuality took place in his district, in 2004, Richardson stated his belief that “hate crimes are a myth. As of September 2017, Richardson has not backed off of his intolerant views of the LGBT community, declaring that gay people are “immoral.

    As horrible as his views on gay people may be, Richardson has some deranged views on other issues, like say, guns. But days after the Newtown Massacre, Richardson thought more guns were the solution to Adam Lanza’s rampage, and that school teachers should be packing heat to start a crossfire with their students in the way:

    "If I had been a teacher or the principal at the Sandy Hook Elementary School and if the school district did not preclude me from having access to a firearm, either by concealed carry or locked in my desk, most of the murdered children would still be alive, and the gunman would still be dead, and not by suicide."
    Now, we are hoping that the people of Oregon are going to keep their eyes on Richardson, given his reaction to Democratic governors is to run against them, lose, and then try to have them removed from office so he can take their place… but it’s telling that his first act as Secretary of State was to appoint Leslie Cummings, an election official forced to resign over ethical violations that wasted taxpayer dollars as his deputy.

    It will be interesting to see what a 67 year old partisan homophobe will do over the next four years in a very blue state, but if Oregon needed a villain somewhere in its government, he’s sure going to fit the role.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kal-El Summers View Post
    Yes, the Alabama GOP is perfectly willing to defend a dude who might've sexed up kids. This is sadly expected for this embarrassment of a state.
    No, no let's not throw this solely at the feet of Alabama Republicans now. All Republicans seem to not have problems letting an alleged child molester represent them in this beautiful democracy of ours.

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    Also, Alabama has a impressive cadre of deviant Republicans in charge down yonder.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zinderel View Post
    It IS a bipartisan issue, inasmuch as both sides have predatory asses. However, what is NOT bipartisan is that when a leftie gets caught, unequivocally caught, we cast their asses to the wolves. When a rightie gets caught, they circle the wagons, and cast aspersions on the accusers, and end up just ignoring the issues until they lead to a meltdown.
    Your case would be stronger with examples of leftie politicians who were thrown to the wolves while still in office, since this is what lefties want to see the righties do with Moore.

    NOTE: Private citizens like Weinstein don't count.

    Hope that doesn't provoke too "emotional" a response.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ouroboros View Post
    Your case would be stronger with examples of leftie politicians who were thrown to the wolves while still in office, since this is what lefties want to see the righties do with Moore.

    NOTE: Private citizens like Weinstein don't count.
    It's hard to prove, since there are so few cases of this happening with Democrats recently for them to react to. Democrats have three examples of inappropriate conduct similar to Moore who absolutely, POSITIVELY were booted from office. Two of the three were mayors, and not members of Congress. All three have been disowned by the party, which for someone math or overall fact-challenged is a rate of 100%.

    • Anthony Weiner: Sent dick pics to women with their consent. Resigned, attempted a political comeback... more dick pics. Disowned completely by Democrats, who hadn't embraced him again, really, save for a few when he got caught again. Once one of the women he was still sexting was a minor, he got put on super-bonus-disowning-f***-that-guy territory.
    • Joe Morrissey, former mayor of Richmond, not just disowned by his party, but sued by them.
    • Ed Murray, mayor of Seattle, forced to resign. Democrats do not defend his actions or circle the wagons. Democrats worked to move on immediately to the next mayoral candidate.


    Nice try at producing a false narrative again, it was almost as pathetic as your attempts to defend the Confederacy as a noble cause.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ouroboros View Post
    Your case would be stronger with examples of leftie politicians who were thrown to the wolves while still in office, since this is what lefties want to see the righties do with Moore.

    NOTE: Private citizens like Weinstein don't count.

    Hope that doesn't provoke too "emotional" a response.
    Which office is Moore holding, sweetheart?

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    New poll of 500 likely Alabama voters polled yesterday has the race between pedophile Roy Moore and civil rights lawyer Doug Jones almost tied, though Moore has a slight lead at 46.4 to 46.0.
    https://s3.amazonaws.com/ddhqpolls/AL+Sen+11.9.17.pdf

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    Am I embarrassed by my state? You better believe I am. :/

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