NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2)

Have her relatives discussed an intervention?

I realize her statement is for consumption of the cult who will nod appropriately. They’re lost.

But to the sane, it’s a sickness.

Perish the thought of abolishing the thought! This is just where we wait for the Greed™ to kick in, when the bosses realize they can get free labor by deporting the workers just before payday.

And once again, the good part isn’t even in the headline:

and she quoted her father Friday in an attempt to convince the crowd of her falsehood.

“He said, ‘Stay in the fight, but if you lose, you lose with dignity, you shake the other person’s hand and you walk away,’” Lake said.

“I didn’t lose, so I’m not doing that.”

A remarkable example of “completely missing Dad’s point”.

Marge: Black and Hispanic men would rather join a gang than get educated.

And the graphic on the check was a portrait of Bernie Madoff. (From the Ponzi series by Checks Unlimited!)

So, as Shoeless pointed out, COVID is now apparently both real and deadly.

Huh.

Plus, Empty and all her friends were urging Biden to shoot down this plague-ridden giant balloon over American soil.

Gosh, you’d almost think that Empty and her friends didn’t care about the welfare of Americans…

George Santos would have been a great addition to his staff.

Has there ever been a Super Bowl where both quarterbacks weren’t “open about their Christian faith”?

Does she love the fact that both quarterbacks are openly Christian, or does she love the “fact” that the NFL is furious?

Tennessee state House Republicans are suggesting that a new Democratic legislator find another career after he showed up in the House wearing a dashiki and a combed out afro.

Bobert would lose that bet. The NFL is big on religion, patriotism, flags, anthems, sex abuse, but mostly money

She loves that she’s found something else to point to distract from the fact that both of the quarterbacks are black, which is what every other news organization is crowing about.

The point that the fly-over crew were all female was pretty silly.

It’s just more self-persecution fantasy. Literally the only people I’ve seen talking about how anyone “hates” the fact that the quarterbacks are openly Christian are these self-flagellating evangelicals. I haven’t seen anyone else even mention it, and I hang out with a lot of aggressively atheist people.

I’m not sure I would say “hate,” but I do get mightily displeased when a prominent athlete spouts Jesus or God nonsense at every opportunity. (Kurt Warner used to piss me off but he toned it down a lot.) Fortunately, I’ve read dozens of interviews with both Hurts and Mahomes and can’t recall either of them going there. (Please spare me the cites if they have and I’ve missed it.)

Well, I hated that god-botherer QB that never amounted to anything, Tim Tebow. I guess his piousness didn’t help him play better football. Either God doesn’t like phonies, or God doesn’t care/doesn’t exist. I still hate him about as much as one can hate someone they never met,.

This is the same NFL whose Superbowl involved the performance of a hymn?

So here’s my question. Did they even check to see if he’s actually a veteran or simply take his word for it? Presumably, checking on that, even under the guise of making sure he was honorably discharged and a cursory review of his service to make sure there’s nothing overly controversial in it, they would have found that he’s been accused of murder.
OTOH, if they simply took his word for it, then it’s not that they’re assuming the worst in their veterans, it’s that they’re actively avoiding looking for anything about anyone. Personally, I’m guessing this is the most likely case, that they didn’t do any kind of background check on him at all. If they did, I have to assume they knew about this.

I’d love to see Matt do this again and end up with Santos showing up under a fake name.

They clearly didn’t even do a simple Google search on his name. I did that, and all of the results were either stories about this screw up, or stories about the murder charges. If they’d even done this absolutely-the-smallest-amount-of-vetting, there’s no way they would have missed the murder stories.

So they either did nothing at all, or they decided to ignore the most obvious results of their search. Neither is a good look for what is supposed to be “a team of dedicated young professionals”.

Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. While they said they’re basically taking his word for his background because he’s a vet, but since they must not have actually verified that he was a vet, they’re actually taking the word of everyone, especially if they claim to be a vet.

Look, I’ll give you [Matt], “he’s a vet, I trusted what he said to be true”, but not “He said he’s a vet so I trusted him”.

I really want to believe that they simply never did a background check on him and honestly didn’t know about his murder charges because the other option, as you stated, is that they did know and this was yet another political stunt.

And, of course, if that’s that’s the case, you have to ask what they’re hiding while everyone is talking about it.