Well, it’s getting harder and harder for wingnuts to get any coverage, especially from a district where even the other side doesn’t care to mount an opposition. Gotta amp up the stupid to get noticed. Regular stupid doesn’t cut it anymore.
I have a feeling these people are up to the challenge.
Wait, Derleth is younger than me? I thought that he was some sort of eldritch horror from beyond the bounds of time. Or at least, like, 50.
A candidate for a seat in the Maine House is not very high profile. To the Party, this guy might be like a pimple on the ankle. If they ignore him, maybe he will fade into obscurity.
Aw, Happy Birthday…and on Pi Day, too!
At least he’s a candidate for something. Liberals are supposed to denounce every moron with a twitter account.
No. He’ll be elected and be responsible for shaping policy in the state house in Maine. He’s running unopposed.
Sad. No one should ever run unopposed.
I have broad tastes in pop culture (although my being 50 would make me an older Xer, which still wouldn’t be old enough for some of my references) and a very pragmatic view of politics.
Thank you.
(Einstein’s Birthday, too!)
Hey, I just realized something: If you turned 18 in 1968, you’ll turn 68 this year!
Republicans? White nationalists? Shouldn’t we just treat the two groups as congruent now? While the MAGA leader is off to North Korea to play liar’s dice with KimJong-un, his disciples are fighting evil closer to home.
This story’s funny, given the fact that Matt Heimbach (already famous for protecting a Trump rally from a black woman) was sleeping with his stepfather-in-law’s wife. These Trumpists out to make America great again aren’t actually from the inbred Kentucky heartland, but Orange County, Indiana is pretty close. Matt and his stepfather-in-law aren’t just ordinary GOP brownshirts; but top Trumpists — they co-founded the Traditionalist Worker Party (though Matt’s choking his stepfather-in-law unconscious may embitter that relationship).
I guess stepfather-in-law’s wife wasn’t Matt’s mother-in-law. Do paid subscribers to Washington Post get a Gedcom to help sort all this out?
Side note on that: the woman he pushed is part of a lawsuit filed against Trump. One of the attorneys representing her is Dan Canon, who was involved in the lawsuit against Kim Davis for her gay marriage fiasco. He’s a friend of mine, and he’s running for Congress.
In a rare moment of sense, Rand Paul has announced he’s opposed to the nomination of Gina Haspel to be the next director of the CIA. Because, ya know, she oversaw a program of torture and all that. In an all-too-common and expected moment of malignancy, Liz Cheney accused Paul of “defending and sympathizing with terrorists”.
Read the whole article. It’s short. It cites a report that, when she was running the torture site in Thailand, Haspel personally dropped by Abu Zubaydah’s cell to taunt him after he’d been waterboarded. So, she takes a personal interest in her work. She was described as “gleeful” in her approach to the torture of detainees.
Kentucky is considering banning the abortion of fetuses with Down’s Syndrome, if that is given as the reason for having the abortion in the first place.
Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, and Orrin Hatch, for starters.
Although Cruz would probably say he was giving the kids “choice” and “access to options” because freedom. Hatch would say “we don’t have the money” (and leave out that we just added $90 billion per year to the military budget. Which was already $610 billion. We have the money - we just don’t give a shit.)
Ryan on the other hand would proudly say he’s been dreaming of taking healthcare away from poor kids since college.
Republicans may be stupid, but apparently they aren’t stupid enough to offend their base voters:
Apparently Down syndrome is the new front in the abortion wars. My excessively pro-life Facebook friend has been banging that drum for a while. He was supporting a boycott of Iceland which may be encouraging the abortion of all fetuses with Down Syndrome.
You are saying that people can’t enjoy their work now?
Meghan McCain had a few words for Ms. Cheney after the latter accused folks of “slander[ing] the brave men & women who carried out this crucial program”:
I don’t know if McCain dropped the mic afterwards.
Well, not now that he doesn’t have to fundraise for re-election, anyway.