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

[CaptainEurope]

Okay, something I noticed on Twitter that I'm curious if anyone knows about. I have been seeing an increasing amount of posts that are WELL over the character limit. I'm talking posts that are several paragraphs long. And all of these posts are on accounts that have the blue checkmark. So I'm wondering- if you pay $8 a month, does that mean there are no character limits on your posts anymore?

Yes.
Or you can just go to facebook or tunblr for free.

[Jeremi]

Originally subscribed to him because I thought he was funny, but a pretty solid wrap up.

[worstblogever]

No, they really can't. You cannot call yourself a moderate Republican and then support a candidate who spews anti-lgbtq garbage just about every time he opens his mouth.

AOC on the otherhand doesn't have that kind of negative aspect that would cause someone who wasn't that far left to object to.

I mean, Ron DeSantis wants to criminalize drag performances, and anyone even saying the word gay in front of children and do everything he can to prevent transgender citizens from receiving medical care, as well as allow doctors to refuse to treat LGBTQ people so they just die based on their "religious beliefs". To say nothing of his history of racist policies, white nationalist anti-immigrant rhetoric, or his inability to even say something is bad about Neo-Nazis.

AOC supports Democratic socialism, believes everyone deserves a fair chance to escape the poverty line through their work, and enjoyed dancing, and well at that, while she was in college.


BOTH SIDES are clearly just as bad, and someone pathetically trying to "WHATABOUTISM" on DeSantis being a white nationalist fascist by just impotently bleating out "BUT AOC!" clearly proves it isn't a fallacy.


I think we all can say the debate is settled.

[The Negative Zone]

So I don't get into politics, I try not to debate it. I don't follow it at all, I see what people are saying on Twitter, here, an occasional glimpse into news feeds. But from my understanding, it seems like

If I vote left wing, the right-wing will call me a "groomer" or a "pedophile"
And if I vote right wing I'm going to be called a nazi and a supporter of genocide.
I suppose if I vote for neither, I'll be a monster who let it all happen.

Sorry for being cynical but it seems like no matter who wins, both parties want violence on people who disagree with them.

[JCAll]

So now Lauren (Bim)bobert is attacking North Face for doing an ad with a drag queen. She essentially refers to all LGBT+ people as degenerates and is now threatening the company with treating them like she and her diseased vermin colleagues did with Bud Light. Article Link

I wish someone would explain to her about the pot calling the kettle black.

Let's see...fake christian, married to a guy who is a sex offender and apparently beat his kid if reports (with audio clips of the 911 calls) are to be believed. Has a son who knocked up a 15-year-old and she trumpets it as some great achievement and consistently reveals herself to be one of the dumbest people to ever be elected to office. And that's saying something. And let's not forget those rumors (never proven to be true but where there's smoke, fire eventually follows) that she fucked Ted Cruz.

So I guess she would be the world's foremost degenerate then, right?

I refuse to believe that Ted Cruz knows what sex is.

[worstblogever]

I refuse to believe that Ted Cruz knows what sex is.

Assuming his definition includes Chunky soup.

[worstblogever]

So I don't get into politics, I try not to debate it. I don't follow it at all, I see what people are saying on Twitter, here, an occasional glimpse into news feeds. But from my understanding, it seems like

If I vote left wing, the right-wing will call me a "groomer" or a "pedophile"
And if I vote right wing I'm going to be called a nazi and a supporter of genocide.
I suppose if I vote for neither, I'll be a monster who let it all happen.

Sorry for being cynical but it seems like no matter who wins, both parties want violence on people who disagree with them.

There's just one problem with this indifference...

The right calls the left "groomers" and "pedophiles" and it's a lie.
The left calls the right white nationalists because that's what they are now, and if you support them, you support white nationalism.

I wouldn't say you're being cynical so much as that you might have enough privilege to not care about the lives of the people the right would oppress or even extinguish. I would suggest trying actual empathy for human life. Which, in spite of one party claiming to be "pro-life", they sure have a lot of policies that seem eager to let people die and do nothing about it. Even if we take the white-nationalism out of the equation (which we shouldn't).

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”posted profiles of the current U.S. House Representative for Michigan’s’ 3rd District, Justin Amash, who believe it or not, both Democrats and Republicans agree, is one of the most unflinching ***holes in Washington, D.C. Amash is a disciple of the Ron Paul Libertarian school of Republican thought, and occasionally votes against GOP supported measures because in his mind, they are not conservative ENOUGH. He was actually branded a "Whacko Bird" along with Sen. Ted Cruz by Sen. John McCain, and has continued his rivalry with the former standard bearer of the GOP. He has had pundits on Sunday morning shows laugh in his face for saying things like the GOP would be doing the Obama administration a favor by delaying implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and has outright lied about even the basics of what that legislation does (he said pre-existing conditions were covered prior to its passage). He's into the libertarian ideal of smaller government so much that he is against all forms of hate crime legislation, advocated that the entire Department of Education should be dismantled, voted against disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy, voted against the creation of a national suicide prevention hotline, and even voted against the 2014 version of the Farm Bill, considered to be one of the biggest legislative "no brainers" Congress ever votes on. But his "hands off" approach to government sure doesn't apply to abortion, because Amash has stated he believes that abortion should be outlawed 3, yes THREE days after conception (when most women don't even know they're pregnant, and longer than some states' waiting periods for abortion). Justin Amash remains an unpredictable, petulant bastard, but he does remain bluntly honest about that fact. Case in point, he's not pulling punches about the possibility of Donald Trump being impeached when asked about it by the media. The social media director for the Trump White House, Dan Scavino, responded by calling Amash "a great liability". By July of 2019, Amash had announced he was leaving the Republican Party, and in May of 2020, announced he would be seeking the Libertarian Party’s nomination for president. He then backed out of that plan within a fortnight and was last seen questioning the expertise of scientists during the Covid-19 pandemic in the name of "freedom".

On this date in 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Peter Lucido, a former divorce attorney by trade, and member of the Michigan State Senate from 2019-2020 , representing District 8 in that body, and prior to that, who served in District 36 of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2015-2018. And if you’re wondering what could inspire Lucido to scream in rage like in the above photo, that was him turning up as a face in the crowd at a Trump rally days before the 2016 election in Sterling Heights, MI. His first political campaign in the 2014 was, at the time, one of the most expensive races for a seat in the Michigan state legislature in history, and that was just to advance out of the GOP Primary for the seat. After both Lucido, and his opponent Stan Grot spent weeks claiming the endorsements of conservative groups they did not actually get, he won by a slim margin of 103 votes, and was guaranteed further victories in a highly conservative district. Our reason for profiling Lucido is not related to what terrible legislation he’s supported, it’s more of that he has been accused by three different women, including a fellow Republican State Senator, of sexual harassment while serving in office (Thus why his Trump support makes a hell of a lot of sense). The first instance of it being reported was pretty easy for the media to have found out about, considering he sexually harassed a reporter. Allison Donahue, a reporter for the Michigan Advance, had Lucido yell at her and tell her that a visiting group of boys to the state legislature from a local high school could “have a lot of fun” with her if she were to “hang around” with them. She took offense to the remark, justifiably, and after originally acknowledging he said it but meant no offense and apologizing, once calls for him to resign came forward, Lucido started claiming he was “misquoted”. And then, Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow came forward to report Lucido had slid his hand down her back towards her upper rear. And then a third woman came forward. That got Lucido removed from all leadership positions in the Michigan State Senate, and probably wrecked his chances of a planned gubernatorial run he was rumored to make in 2022. Peter Lucido resigned from the Michigan State Senate in January of 2021, not because of the sexual harassment accusations, but because he was elected the Macomb County Prosecutor by, again throwing a ridiculous sum of money into the election, and by criticizing his opponent for not agreeing to a debate with him… where he hand-picked the “moderator”. We don’t expect him to press charges against himself, and still think in the Post #MeToo world, he needs to go altogether.



On this date in 2020, and 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Mike Detmer, a 2020 candidate for Michigan’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, one of five Republicans in the GOP Primary for that seat who were vying for the right to take on Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin. While we have concerns that Detmer a former mortgage banker, has hung out with Michigan’s “guns rights activists” where they’ve openly talked about creating a “Second Amendment sanctuary”, as if guns in the United States were an endangered species…

We’re more concerned about how Mike Detmer has been hanging out with the Proud Boys, and is so comfortable with this group of white nationalists and domestic terrorists that he took a selfie with them. When called out for goofing around with a hate group, Detmer went on to compliment the organization, and pretend as if they weren’t a group of neo-fascists committing violence across the country, writing that the group "is about protecting our freedoms." Detmer than listed the tenets of the Proud Boys, which include defending the First and Second amendments… but missed the parts where they promote Western chauvinism, closing U.S. borders to immigrants, anti-racial guilt and "venerating the housewife." (To say nothing of their future hobby, attempting a violent coup attempt to be carried out on the Capitol in January 2021 to stop the certification of the electoral vote count.) Detmer then gave an interview where he claimed that the Proud Boys have been wrongly labeled as a racist hate group. He posted their tenets "to provide facts, so people could put this group into context" while claiming he hadn’t “seen anything to suggest that they're a white-supremacist hate group”. Detmer lost the GOP Primary for that seat in Congress by only 6,000 votes.

And, we were hoping Mike Detmer would just go away… but no, he’s back in 2022, and after briefly running for that seat in MI-8 again… he instead turned around to run for District 22 of the Michigan State Senate, with the GOP primary coming up for it in August. Which is not to say he’s dialed back his rhetoric of supporting the Big Lie, or domestic terrorism as relates to elections, given that he told his supporters some advice about coming to the polls in 2022 packing heat:

”The right to bear arms tells the government the citizenry is armed ... The ideal thing is to do this peacefully. That's ideal. But the American people, at some point in time, if we can't change the tide, which I believe we can, we need to be prepared to lock and load. You asked what can we do. Show up armed.”

We are glad to report that Mike Detmer failed in his attempt to get re-elected in 2022, but still holds a position as the Vice-President of the Dorchester County Council. With any luck, he continues to fade into obscurity, and never reaches higher office.

[Spike-X]

What has DeSantis said that is so extreme that no moderate Republican should consider voting for him over Biden?

Are you seriously fucking kidding with this ****?

[Spike-X]

So I don't get into politics, I try not to debate it. I don't follow it at all, I see what people are saying on Twitter, here, an occasional glimpse into news feeds. But from my understanding, it seems like

If I vote left wing, the right-wing will call me a "groomer" or a "pedophile"
And if I vote right wing I'm going to be called a nazi and a supporter of genocide.
I suppose if I vote for neither, I'll be a monster who let it all happen.

Sorry for being cynical but it seems like no matter who wins, both parties want violence on people who disagree with them.

Many on the right want violence towards LGBTQ people simply for existing.

Some on the left see violence as an acceptable means of preventing that.

Both sides are not the same.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

‘I Can’t Wait Until This Guy Dies’: Former GOP Congressman Says Many Republicans Hope for Trump’s ‘Mortal Demise’

As Donald Trump grows older, there are apparently some Republicans who wouldn’t mind if time hurried things along a little bit. That’s according to former GOP Rep. Peter Meijer, who, in an interview with a journalist from The Atlantic, said there are “a lot of folks,” among the ranks of MAGA Republicans who hope for Trump’s “mortal demise,” Insider reports.

Any man Trump's age who's obese, has a horrid diet, barely exercises (save for golf), endured four years of arguably one of THE most stressful jobs on the planet as President and came down with COVID during the height of the pandemic would've already died, yet Caramel Caligula is still around and giving us the middle finger by surviving, perhaps even thriving. The sad truth is that evil like Trump's just doesn't go away prematurely, no matter how hard people want it to happen.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

double post

[Jeremi]

Are you seriously fucking kidding with this ****?

Not like there's a 25 min video about what the **** is wrong about DeSantis

[Vakanai]

So I don't get into politics, I try not to debate it. I don't follow it at all, I see what people are saying on Twitter, here, an occasional glimpse into news feeds. But from my understanding, it seems like

If I vote left wing, the right-wing will call me a "groomer" or a "pedophile"
And if I vote right wing I'm going to be called a nazi and a supporter of genocide.
I suppose if I vote for neither, I'll be a monster who let it all happen.

Sorry for being cynical but it seems like no matter who wins, both parties want violence on people who disagree with them.

The difference is this - conservatives call liberals groomers and pedophiles because they're being insulting and aggressive with no evidence to back their claims. While liberals call right-wingers nazis because Republicans are actually pushing for and pushing through actual laws that are demonstrably racist, misogynist, homophobic, and transphobic.
The left wing is calling the right nazis out of genuine concern born out of the hateful behavior, words, and actions committed by the right wing. The right wing is accusing the left of being pedos because that's the worst thing they can think of to call someone. These two motivators are not the same and are not equally valid.

[Mister Mets]

So I don't get into politics, I try not to debate it. I don't follow it at all, I see what people are saying on Twitter, here, an occasional glimpse into news feeds. But from my understanding, it seems like

If I vote left wing, the right-wing will call me a "groomer" or a "pedophile"
And if I vote right wing I'm going to be called a nazi and a supporter of genocide.
I suppose if I vote for neither, I'll be a monster who let it all happen.

Sorry for being cynical but it seems like no matter who wins, both parties want violence on people who disagree with them.

It's a good point on nasty rhetoric, and I suspect it often turns people off politics, or at least off being willing to discuss major issues publicly.

Fortunately, the people who want violence are a minority.

Are you seriously fucking kidding with this ****?

Of course not.

This was a serious claim, so I'd like to know what persuaded you that a politician is so extreme that moderates of his party should not even consider voting for him over an octogenarian who is a typical member of the other party. That's a tall order.