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    On this date, in 2014, in 2015, and in 2016, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of former Colorado House of Representatives member Gordon Klingenschmitt, a.k.a. “Dr. Chaps” who in 2014, actually managed to get enough support to be elected in spite of the fact that he is, for lack of a better term, a complete goddamned lunatic. How much of a loon is he? Well, in our first profile, we went in depth on Klingenschmitt, a former military chaplain reprimanded and discharged by the Navy in 2006 for disobeying orders and attending a political protest in uniform. He also apparently while once counseling a rape victim on his vessel, discovered she was a lesbian and immediately stopped helping her through her trauma to restrain her and try to exorcise the demons out of her that were making her gay (I’m serious, he’s bragged about this). Klingenschmitt then took to the airwaves on a cable access show, where he has tried performing long-distance exorcisms on all sorts of famous people to remove demons from them, from liberal celebrities like Madonna, to politicians like President Obama and Texas State Senator Wendy Davis. The latter makes sense when you consider he claims the Bible teaches us to defend ourselves against “left-wing crazies” (I don’t remember Jesus saying that, myself). He also thinks the FCC have loosened guidelines to help demons travel through televisions to “molest and visually rape your children”, that the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. taught us to discriminate against gays, and repeatedly has claimed “Obamacare causes cancer”. Klingenschmitt, despite being pants-s***ingly insane (speaking of which, he has claimed the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” has made gay soldiers have to start wearing diapers from all the gay sex they’ve been having making them lose bowel control, because he’s that charming)… despite being that barking mad, decided to make a run for the Colorado House of Representatives. And just prior to the election, he claimed openly gay Democratic Congressman Jared Polis was “going to join ISIS and start beheading Christians” because seriously, at this point, could he really do anything to come off as more deranged? Within three months of being sworn into office, Colorado House Republicans refused to allow Klingenschmitt to participate in any committees in state government, for fear of what he might say on them, and halfway through his term, he praised the Bundy family for seizing a federal building and called on the judges who tried the case to be executed. He’s called for the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, arguing that we should “push gay people back in the closet”, which doesn’t make any goddamned sense because the people who have come out of it can’t put that genie back in the bottle at this point, and also claimed that a female Muslim cadet at The Citadel would lead to an increase in female service members being raped because… well, he’s insane, so don’t try to make sense of that. Klingenschmitt’s still going on his cable access show daily, where he continues to insist President Obama is a secret Muslim, argues that God preached against gun-free zones in the Bible, compares same sex marriage to “the yoke of slavery”, said that executives from Planned Parenthood have “blood dripping from their fangs” and blames polling that shows Americans are starting to accept same sex marriage on what else? Massive demonic possession. Mercifully, Klingenschmitt was defeated in his efforts to be elected to the Colorado State Senate in 2016, and hopefully will never, ever even sniff anything close to elected office again so while we’ll peek in from time to time to see what Dr. Chaps is up to over at RightWingWatch.org.


    On this date in 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Bill Nojay, a former member of the New York State Assembly who was first elected to office in 2012, and seemed to be well on his way to re-election until just a few weeks prior to the 2016 elections, he took his own life rather to go to jail on federal fraud and other white collar criminal charges he was facing (he actually won his primary days after he died). Months after his suicide, the FBI were still trying to sort out his criminal activities, which involved business dealings though out multiple countries across the globe, reached well into the seven-figure range, and were committed even years prior to his first run for office. In fact, it is believed that much of the money donated to a SuperPAC for Nojay’s first run for office was $91,000 looted from an escrow account on a construction project that was never completed for the King of Jordan. Perhaps not coincidentally given all the money the Trump Corporation and Paul Manafort are being investigated for grifting their way through in foreign real estate deals… Bill Nojay endorsed Donald Trump pretty early on in the 2016 elections, gave him advice on where his “lane” would have to be given he had no prior office or military service, urging him to run for Governor of New York instead, and eventually served as the Trump campaign’s New York Co-Chairman. Democrats were respectful following Nojay’s death, unlike their GOP counterparts who when placed in similar situations like with Seth Rich or Vince Foster, would start whipping up conspiracy theories about how the head of the ticket were responsible for his death.
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    On this date one year ago, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” first profiled the current U.S. House Representative from Texas’ 22nd District, Pete Olson, who has been in office now since 2008, and prior to that he spent a decade serving as aide to Texas Senator Phil Gramm for four years, and then as Texas Senator John Cornyn’s chief of staff from 2002-2007. And yes, he’s a Republican Texas Congressman, so obviously Rep. Olson’s going to have a long voting record that shows he’s anti-immigrant, anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ (Olson was actually the sponsor of the anti-transgender “Civil Rights Uniformity Act” that would have defined citizens by the gender of their birth), pro-gun, and the whole myriad of extremist ideas that come with it. What sets him apart from the rest, though?

    Well, our hands-down greatest WTF from Pete Olson is easily that during the 2016 presidential campaign, Olson was chatting on the radio with conservative talk show host Sam Malone, and straight up started theorizing that when Bill Clinton met Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the airport tarmac, the former president “must have threatened to kill her like the Clintons did to Vince Foster” to gain her loyalty and get FBI Director James Comey to stop investigating Hillary’s e-mails. If you think that we’re making out of context accusations, listen to the audio yourself:
    Alright, so… first up, the Clintons didn’t kill Vince Foster, that was a suicide, and Foster’s family REPEATEDLY keep telling Republicans to stop spreading conspiracy theories about his death, because that’s just f***ed up. Second… that would be some brazen and stupid obstruction of justice attempts, and if there’s something Bill Clinton knows about, it’s having to endure bulls*** investigations without doing anything that gets you charged with obstruction of justice. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have sat down with investigators during the Lewinsky debacle, or stopped the Starr investigation from looking into his taxes… etc. (Which seems to be quite the opposite of how the current occupant of the Oval Office handles things…)

    Anyway, Pete Olson is a conspiracy spreading moron. This wouldn’t be a one-off, as Olson also “misspoke” during a speech in August of 2018 in front of the India House in Houston, when he claimed that the 9/11 hijackers were Pakistani in origin. Because, y’know, there’s not enough tensions between India and Pakistan, so let’s just start telling Indians that the Pakistanis did 9/11. Nice one, Pete.

    Back in November of 2013, though, Pete Olson was also one of 19 Republicans in Congress who were calling for the impeachment of Eric Holder for not enforcing laws related to the Defense of Marriage Act. Now, it is the Attorney General’s duty to enforce the laws in our country, however, we’ve got to side with holder on this, because the Defense of Marriage Act was overturned by the Supreme Court about four or five months prior to Olson and company’s little tantrums. (Spoiler Alert: Holder didn’t get impeached.)

    Rounding things out, yes, Pete Olson is a climate change denier, citing that it’s obviously not man made because “our climate has been changing since God created Earth”. You see? That’s scientific, when you mention an invisible man in a sky to back up the science.

    But by all means, take a look at his decade-long voting record during his career in Congress to get an idea of how bad he is, while he votes against equal pay for women, against Wall Street reform after the banks almost imploded the global economy in 2007, against the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", or Disaster Relief Funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy or against the Zadroga Act to provide healthcare for First Responders of 9/11. What he will vote for inclues trying to defund Planned Parenthood and National Public Radio, numerous attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, an attempt to weaken the Americans with Disabilities Act, the past two government shutdowns, and HR 7, an anti-abortion bill that makes even some Republicans pause before voting for it because of its language that tries to define the conditions for what “rape” is, in it.

    That conservative lunacy has continued into his current term in office:



    Texas’ 22nd Congressional District, representing the Houston suburbs, has had a shift in its partisan makeup over the past decade, from a +15 Republican advantage when Olson was first elected in 2008, to now, a slightly more manageable +10 that is trending bluer all the time. And it’s looking more and more like it might flip for the first time since Tom DeLay resigned from it in disgrace and it flipped for one term in ’06. Pete Olson seems all too aware of what the portents are showing, as he has opted to retire rather than face re-election in 2020.

    We can hardly wait for him to no longer darken the doors of the House.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SquirrelMan View Post
    You can't make this up:

    From the New York Magazine regarding her guru Chris Butler in Hawaii:

    “Whenever Butler traveled, he’d have the homes he stayed in lined with tinfoil, to protect against electromagnetic radiation.”
    That fact calls for a song...

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    Looks like we are reaching the end of another discussion as we grow near to post 10k.

    May I suggest the next one be titled The Quickening? Things are really just getting more infuriating as time goes on so it is perfect as a subtitle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by InformationGeek View Post
    Looks like we are reaching the end of another discussion as we grow near to post 10k.

    May I suggest the next one be titled The Quickening? Things are really just getting more infuriating as time goes on so it is perfect as a subtitle.
    It seems like it could relate to both the Democratic Primary field and/or the last original Trump Cabinet members.
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    HUD officials admit they knowingly stalled Puerto Rico housing relief funds

    HUD’s chief financial officer, Irv Dennis, and David Woll, the department's principal deputy assistant secretary for community planning and development, made the admission Thursday before a House Appropriations subcommittee.

    The two told bewildered lawmakers that the agency missed the congressionally mandated deadline to issue a notice that would have kicked off a monthslong process to help Puerto Rico get billions in federal housing funds Congress allocated after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017.

    “HUD did fail to comply with the law,” said Rep. David Price, D-N.C., said at the hearing.
    The housing agency was supposed to issue funding notices to 18 states affected by disasters on Sept. 4. They published all the notices except Puerto Rico’s. The publication of the notice would have allowed Puerto Rico to start drafting a plan that would create the structures needed to manage the much-needed funds.

    Two years after Maria, Puerto Rico has received a third of the roughly $43 billion Congress allocated toward hurricane recovery efforts such as rebuilding tens of thousands of homes with damaged roofs, many still covered with blue tarps.
    “American communities have been waiting far too long for the relief and recovery assistance,” said Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., adding that such funding delays were unlawful.

    Woll admitted that HUD had “no statutory authority” to miss such a deadline.
    Woll and Dennis, in defending why HUD felt compelled to delay the distribution of funds, echoed previous talking points from HUD Secretary Ben Carson, President Donald Trump and other members of his administration in citing "alleged corruption" and "fiscal irregularities" as well as “Puerto Rico's capacity to manage these funds."

    Woll brought up events this summer that led to the resignation of Ricardo Rosselló as governor amid mass protests triggered by political scandals, as well as the island’s decadelong financial crisis, in justifying HUD’s decision to stall Puerto Rico’s funding process.

    Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., stressed that during Puerto Rico’s political unrest no indictments were issued against the island’s housing secretary, Fernando Gil-Enseñat, or the department he leads, known as Vivienda.

    Both Clark and Woll agreed that Gil-Enseñat is an “honorable head of housing.”
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    Mitch McConnell: Withdrawing from Syria is a grave mistake

    Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, is majority leader of the U.S. Senate.

    Withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria is a grave strategic mistake. It will leave the American people and homeland less safe, embolden our enemies, and weaken important alliances. Sadly, the recently announced pullout risks repeating the Obama administration’s reckless withdrawal from Iraq, which facilitated the rise of the Islamic State in the first place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    It seems like it could relate to both the Democratic Primary field and/or the last original Trump Cabinet members.
    That works as well!

    Should we wait until we hit Page 1,000 like the last thread? It's hard to keep up where we cut things off with threads these days.

    Mods, thoughts on that?
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    Let me get this in before the changeover

    Will Marco Rubio ever stand up to Donald Trump?


    When he eventually gets around to penning his memoir, “Lemming of the Senate,” perhaps Sen. Marco Rubio will finally answer the most vexing question regarding his career.

    Why would a hustling politician go to all the trouble to run for and win one of the most coveted jobs in American politics, only to spend his time as a cowering apologist for the Sammy Glick of the West Wing?

    You would think for the $174,000-a-year one gets for the part-time job of U.S. senator, every now and then Rubio might actually stand for something, anything, remotely resembling a principle. Too heavy a lift?
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    Quote Originally Posted by InformationGeek View Post
    Looks like we are reaching the end of another discussion as we grow near to post 10k.

    May I suggest the next one be titled The Quickening? Things are really just getting more infuriating as time goes on so it is perfect as a subtitle.
    More like 'The Plot Thickening'
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Tulsi Gabbard Rips Hillary Clinton In Twitter Tirade As A ‘Rot’ Sickening Democratic Party

    She hit back at Clinton’s suggestion that the Hawaii congresswoman is a Russian asset. The more Gabbard speaks, the more I dislike her and suspect she's a DINO (Democrat In Name Only).


    Been saying it for years now, current Democrats are what the Republican party was in the 1980s, many of the GOP from that era would never be elected today, being labeled "too liberal".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Astral Disaster View Post
    Been saying it for years now, current Democrats are what the Republican party was in the 1980s, many of the GOP from that era would never be elected today, being labeled "too liberal".
    For perspective, Elizabeth Warren makes sense as today's "extreme" Democrat, but she was a Republican thirty to thirty-five years ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    For perspective, Elizabeth Warren makes sense as today's "extreme" Democrat, but she was a Republican thirty to thirty-five years ago.
    Thankfully and finally clawing leftwards, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by InformationGeek View Post
    Looks like we are reaching the end of another discussion as we grow near to post 10k.

    May I suggest the next one be titled The Quickening? Things are really just getting more infuriating as time goes on so it is perfect as a subtitle.
    The limit for the server is actually 1000 pages, not 10,000 posts. This thread is only 2/3 full.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SquirrelMan View Post
    The limit for the server is actually 1000 pages, not 10,000 posts. This thread is only 2/3 full.
    Having two threads at the same time might be confusing. Might as well move on to the new one.
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