Politics: Helpful Advice before Using Act Blue

I don’t have time for either of the main posts that I should be doing so I guess that I have no choice but to delay them even further to bring you this long delayed update of any kind. Some of you might want to support liberals by donating to money to candidates on Act Blue. You may not even want to support a candidate, but you can support just whatever Democrat wins whatever nomination against the Republican incumbent in that office. I have some advice for you if you want to do that.

 

1- Make sure that you use an email that you don’t care about and isn’t important in any way for signing up for Act Blue. Never use a school email and especially never use a work email. I suggest creating an original one that you want just for this purpose. You won’t have to keep track of checking the emails because the 2 emails you get daily from every candidate you have ever donated money to won’t matter since you won’t have anything important on this email to keep track of. I highly suggest using gmail in case you do want to filter them to delete in the end in the event that there is more that you care about on this email.

 

2- Also avoid giving them a work cell phone number. You can stop any and all of the texts that you get, but try not to give out your phone number to too many. It’s sad that they force you to do this and that they will send you a shitton all on the last day of every month (even New Year’s Day!), but you can at the very stop them. In fact, if you have a landline still or know someone who does and wouldn’t mind having their number in this system, give out that number and know that they will never be able to text a landline.

 

3- Give as soon as possible after the primary results are in. The sooner they have your money, the more they can do with it. So give as much as you want to as many people as you want, just be sure to only give what you want to, as soon as you want to, as much as you can afford, and try not to donate to someone by mistakes.

 

4- Only give to candidates and not pacs. I think that I only once gave to a pac and not because I wanted to but because I was confused by something that I couldn’t really figure out what I might have done wrong. The only pac that might be good to donate to is Operation 147.

 

5- If someone starts sending you emails that you neither signed up for nor donated to, then you shouldn’t ever support them. I have no idea why so much email sharing happens and it can even start to leak out into other emails that you have. But I always hate it when I get emails from a candidate I’ve never heard of and know that I haven’t supported or done email alerts of. In fact, I’m unlikely to ever willingly sign up for email updates from a candidate ever again.

Politics: No Labels’ Weird Quest

There is a political group in the US now that is doing something weird. It is claims that the major third party candidates in the 2016 election are how Trump won and Clinton lost. It then goes on to say that the lack of major third party candidates in the 2020 election are how Biden won and Trump lost. It now feels that the best way to ensure that Trump doesn’t win again in 2024 is by… running a third party candidate. Say, what?

 

I don’t know how much, if any, legit traction this group will get. I’ll have to say that it is weird that enough people are already worried about it, even though it doesn’t seem to have a major impact at all just yet, if it will at all.

 

I’m not convinced that third party candidates are the answer nor that we need them in the 2024 presidential election. There are too many unknowns at the time that we don’t really need yet another one affecting things. But I think that we’ve been hearing about a supposed major third party for a while now that I don’t believe that one will happen now or any time soon.

 

Think about it: the last majory third party candidate in a presidential race was in 1992. It was notable because this person was at one point polling about either of the major party candidates. But then he shot himself in the foot by dropping out of the race at one point. While he got back into it later, by then, the damage that he did to himself was done and he didn’t win a single state in the Electoral College. As for how long it has been since a third party candidate even won a state there, that has been far too long ago to even matter.

 

While I don’t know for sure if this group has any chances of influencing the election in a good or bad way for the country, I don’t think that we should worry about them this yet as it seems like there were too many potential candidates for this party and picking people who should have just been on one side (liberal or conservative) isn’t going to do themselves any good, especially if you mix and match by escentially picking one candidate from each party for one ticket.

Politics: The Pandemic Era Governors

With the 2023 elections coming up, any new governor elected this year will have the priviledge of being the first post pandemic era governors in the country’s history. While covid will never be over, the pandemic is. And what can we say about the pandemic era governors?

 

I know that I would be a fool to say that all of the Republican governors have had a bad pandemic response or that all of the Democratic governors have had a good pandemic response. But it is quite telling that most of the states with the highest per capita dead of covid all have Republican governors. This fairly brief post will talk about some of them. And if you don’t believe me when I say that Republican states were badly lead during the pandemic, here’s the start of links to share:

 

https://www.salon.com/2021/03/12/study-republican-led-states-had-highest-covid-cases-and-death-rates/

 

Republicans hate Biden so much that they fought against his pandemic measures. This is while they blamed him for the pandemic since they couldn’t blame China anymore since their dear leader, the previous president and insurrectionist, was no longer in office.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/571602-gop-governors-vow-to-fight-bidens-new-pandemic-measures

 

While I don’t remember for sure what all Pete Ricketts of Nebraska did wrong, he seems to be a bad pandemic governor from what I remember and now he is a senator after being appointed to the job after the coward Ben Sasse threw his hands up in the air and quit during his term long before it had ended.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/20/1962256/-Has-Ricketts-Brought-Nebraska-To-The-Brink-Of-Disaster?utm_campaign=trending

 

The worst governor in office right now is the only person running for president that makes me wish that we could have another term of Trump instead. But Ronald DeSantis (who hates nicknames so much, he banned them in schools because apparently politicians get to dictate how education works despite, you know, not being an educator) did so many wrongs with just his handling of the pandemic alone (and leaving out a whole shit ton of other problems) that it is disgusting that he thinks he can win and more so that at least at one point, raised more money than even Trump did in his presidential run.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/17/2104679/-Ron-DeSantis-makes-Florida-the-only-state-affirmatively-against-vaccinating-children

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/20/2111514/-Florida-newspaper-rips-DeSantis-says-his-White-House-aspirations-are-terrifying-to-contemplate

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ron-desantis-says-bidens-vaccine-mandates-will-plunge-people-into-destitution/ar-AAPA2l0?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnb7Kz

 

https://www.salon.com/2021/03/10/desantis-allies-discussed-how-vaccine-sites-in-wealthy-areas-could-boost-his-re-election-hopes/

 

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ron-desantis-is-the-nations-worst-covid-governor

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/gov-desantis-never-gave-a-damn-about-covid-cases-deaths-state-audit-confirms-it-opinion/ar-AAYdgxi

 

While I did hint at it in the above comments, it was interesting to note that when a hurricane hit the state of Florida, Ronald did terribly. And the supposedly liberal media seemed to praise him as he was reelected handedly after this.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/6/2127383/-DeSantis-cracks-under-the-pressure-of-his-first-real-crisis?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

I am getting more and more disgust for Missouri’s governor and will not to photo albums on facebook until after he is out of office. It seems that a recurring theme among Republicans is to hide any and all evidence that disproves them in anything they don’t like or contradicts the talking points that they make. These are the same people who rally hard against any video evidence that exists.

 

https://www.salon.com/2021/12/02/missouris-governor-attacked-mask-mandates--and-concealed-evidence-that-they-work/

 

It turns out that perhaps the best part of America in terms of a pandemic response wasn’t a state, but Puerto Rico. The much maligned covid passports lead this to being one of the states with the highest percentage of vaccinated people and did so well that you have to wonder why this was criticized. Perhaps it is because people don’t pay attention to such a thing?

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/puerto-rico-enacted-strict-covid-measures-it-paid-off-and-its-a-lesson-for-the-mainland/ar-BB1eBl5F?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnb7Kz

 

Perhaps the only real stinker in the Democratic Party in terms of his pandemic response was Andrew Cuomo of New York. While I’m a bit unsure that there was a ship based option to deal with the nursing home people, it was still a terrible idea to put covid patients there. There are plenty of other things he did wrong and that’s why he resigned.

 

The bad Republican governors that I can think of are Doug Bergum of North Dakota, Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Ronald DeSantis of Florida, Greg Abbott of Texas, Doug Ducey of Arizona, Mike Parson of Missouri, Bill Lee of Tennessee, Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, Brian Kemp of Georgia, Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, and Tate Reeves of Mississippi, if I can remember them all.

 

What was often done or not done that was bad includes, but is not limited to, allowing super spreader events to occur, banning mask mandates, keeping schools open, forcing people to work, and overall siding with the dicks.

 

But there have been good Republican governors in this like Larry Hogan of Maryland, Jim Justice of West Virginia, Phil Murphy of Vermount, Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, and Eric Holcomb of Indiana.

 

Part of the problems that have happened where Democratic governors were were the lockdown protests that happened because the insurrectionist mentioned that people should “liberate” the blue states. As some people remain convinced that the lockdowns were wrong, remember that they have yet to be disproven as the wrong way of handling things. And I fear that the one in the capitol building in Michigan would become a precuroser to the storming of the capitol.

 

Well, this wound up being a longer post than I was originally planning and expecting to make. But I got this done late and published it earlier as I’m allowing myself to do more and more of just to get shit done. Still, I hope that you like this post.

Politics: 2023 Kentucky Governor Election

It is becoming a bad habit of mine to lie and say that these updates were published before they really were to fit in with the dates that they were supposed to go up as I just don’t have the time for things that I used to when I was doing next to nothing with my life and had no career even though I had jobs. Anyways, let’s not focus on that and get to a special post on the Kentucky gubernatorial election this year before I hopefully get caught up on more of the past elections or maybe focus on next year’s presidential one.

 

Let’s start with the incumbent Democratic governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear. He has done a wonderful job leading through the pandemic. He has helped his state a lot throughout the many disasters and crises that it has gone through, such as the tornados and flooding.

 

Then we have the Republican challenger, Daniel Cameron. He is the current attorney general of the state. I have no idea how he wound up with the nomination. He has done a terrible job so far and beat far richer candidates.

 

How can he declare himself the law and order candidate? Well, this narrative myth that comes from the mind of the Republicans is worth a blog post in my Good Wife blog once I both bring back blog posts in it and do political updates in it since it needs to be destroyed. He tries to paint himself as the victim of, I guess, cancel culture, because he let corrupt cops get away with the murder of a black woman, namely Breonna Taylor. Thus, he supports cops, albeit cops who kill people, and turns his back on black people which is sad since he himself is also black.

 

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/07/15/who-is-kentucky-attorney-general-daniel-cameron-deciding-breonna-taylor-case/5400028002/

 

https://www.wlky.com/article/kentucky-ag-daniel-cameron-breonna-taylor-case/40812114

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/02/politics/daniel-cameron-kentucky-attorney-general-breonna-taylor/index.html

 

https://www.essence.com/news/grand-jurors-in-breonna-taylor-case-file-petition-to-impeach-kentucky/

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/8/5/louisville_police_sentenced_breonna_taylor_doj

 

He has even tried to get rid of Andy’s orders that have helped during the pandemic because the people who love freedom so much don’t care that getting rid of this causes death as they don’t bring up the negative affect it has on lives and livihoods and only make it a personal rights issue and not one that brings up how affective mask orders are.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/12/kentucky-supreme-court-upholds-gov-beshears-mask-mandate-emergency-restrictions-.html

 

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/16/daniel-cameron-files-motion-block-all-covid-19-orders-kentucky-governor-andy-beshear/5450207002/

 

I forget what all this link says, but I wanted to include it in this blog post. It might relate more to some of the stuff I talked about more elsewhere in this post so enjoy. I should have made more of a note about it in the end.

 

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-ky-state-wire-shootings-us-news-d91fa6a9f2d6c8adca5f81b8fd03d55b

 

Since I live close enough to Kentucky to see the ads to it, I can talk about the political ads so far and responses to them. Basically, Daniel has stated that he supports police which you don’t want to do when they unlawfully kill someone. Andy has talked about his leadership during the pandemic. Daniel’s pac aired ads that are transphobic and largely seem to exist just to rile up his base. He has focused on more attacks like that. Well, his pac has as he hasn’t even been airing ads. He’s just letting them do the work for him instead of doing his own work.

 

Another thing that is worth noting about the ads is that by forcing Andy’s hand, we see whether or not he embraces some of the ludicrous stuff that he is said to support. He doesn’t disavow trans people, but he does say that he doesn’t support what Daniel claims he does.

 

Whatever you want to think, it is still the the state’s and country’s best interest to reelect their governor. Thus, my endorsement is for Democrat Andy Beshear in the Kentucky election for governor of that state.

Politics: Seditious Countdown- 129

Remember when I finally did the blog post on the results of the 2020 presidential race way late when I felt that something time sensitive meant that it finally had to be done? Well, here we are with the next long post that fits this category. I learned that a member of the sedition caucus will be resigning from office. He will not be mentioned in this post since I haven’t posted what has happened to this former group of 147 people and how it has dwindled down since it was formed. I might as well get to this post which will, like future ones like it, double as both an election results post for the last House race and also be a post about the next House race as well. Hopefully, like the other post that I told you about, I can focus on this enough of the time that it can be complete.

 

Starting with the House election results, there were nine seats flipped giving Republicans a 222 to 213 majority. These elections had lots of things going on since in addition to this being the first time that any of the sedition caucus could face retribution at the hands of the voters, there was redistricting, gerrymandering, Trump’s continued influence, abortion protests, inflation, gas prices, and lots more besides that. First, what did Democrats do wrong to lose the House?

 

The Democratic failures were numerous by the key failure in losing the House was probably a simple one: not running enough candidates in the races. Too many of the races, and just the ones with members of the sedition caucus in it, did not have any Democratic candidates in the race at all so there was no alternative to the terrible Republicans running. Many of them didn’t run any ads on TV. Others didn’t counter the ads that the other did. Some would have had an easy candidate to beat if they only said what needed to be say. If you don’t point out what people need to know, then how would they know it? Another problem is that they didn’t run on the importance of the infrastructure bill that passed.

 

Republican failures were also numerous. They just barely won the House and that was more or less the only benefit they had in any of the elections in 2022. After the Supreme Court victory in Dobbs, Republicans could have pointed out all the good that the end of abortion would bring. Instead, they went dead air on that and refused to address the topic at all. This means that the Democrats would slaughter them in abortion ads, much like how unborn babies are slaughtered in the womb because of abortion. The election denialism left a lot of the candidates as laughing stocks to the general public.

 

How many of the 147 have left office? If you count up all of them together from when they were first informally formed on January 7^th * of 2021 until May of 2023 (since I’m not covering anyone later just yet in this post), there are 18 that are no longer in office. This leaves the 129 that are in the title of this post.

 

*By this point, the vote to overturn the election wasn’t until the next day after the storming of the capitol was over.

 

Died (3)

 

Ron Wright: He made little to no impact on the world of politics. He took office, joined the sedition caucus, got covid, and then died of covid. This Texas Congressman didn’t do much outside of being the first person in the sedition caucus to leave office. It wasn’t his choice at all. I don’t want to damper any of those that did die for any reason as it seems mean. I’m not like Mitch McConnell who takes all of a few hours to politicize a death. I’m only posting about what has happened to these people.

 

Jim Hagedorn: He also died. I forget why. It wasn’t covid. But he won’t be around to cause any further problems for the country. I think that he was from Minnesota. I don’t care enough to look up anything about him.

 

Jackie Walorski: There was a traffic collision that killed her. I had already donated to her competitor at that point and felt a bit guilty. Also, my facebook habit of writing political acrostic poems about those who left office in specific categories will normally not apply to those who died so she will never get one since I don’t want to bash a dead person. I might do them if I do like the person.

 

Resigned (1)

 

Devin Nunes: He’s now a part of Trump’s current ways of swindling people that the supposedly liberal media won’t hesitate to tell you about. (Trump has good fundraising numbers! Trump has high polling among Republicans!) This is a guy who lost a lawsuit to a made up cow, so I’m not sure what Trump saw in him. But with the way that he cycles through people in his life, maybe Trump just doesn’t know how to vet people at all. That explains a lot of problems that have happened throughout his administration.

 

Lost redistricting races (none)

 

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/

 

This was one of the more disappointing things to me. While I wouldn’t have known for sure how all other Republicans in races against each other would have presented themselves, I would only hope that some of them could have presented themselves as the better candidate for being less extreme than their opponent. But we’ll have to wait until the 2032 House races before there will be any potential for any of them to lose to hopefully better Republicans that way. But this is not the only way that Republicans can lose to other Republicans.

 

Lost primary for same office (3)

 

Tom Rice: I’m not even sure what all there is to say about him. I know that on facebook, I do a bunch of political acrostics and have a certain set planned to be written about certain groups of politicians. I should be more ahead than I am now in July, but I will write one on him and see just how badly he messed up to lose a primary.

 

Madison Cawthorn: This guy is so crazy that even Republicans couldn’t renominate him. I just can’t believe what all happened with this guy. I mean, he had a sex tape with his cousin! It is messed up enough to have any sex tape at all. But with your cousin? What? Why?

 

Steven Palazzo: Again, this is something that I will probably talk more about in an acrostic that I will post on facebook at some point in time. I can’t remember who this person is or why he lost in a primary to the same office that he had. But it is one less person in the sedition caucus that we have to deal with, which is wonderful.

 

Lost primary for higher office (5)

 

Jody Hice: He ran for Georgia Secretary of State and lost the primary to the incumbent, Brad Raffensperger. While I largely want most Republicans to lose their elections, especially in the important office of Secretary of State, I actually wanted Brad to win because it is just so stupid that he is ostrasized in the Republican Party (the people reelecting him, notwithstanding) for simply calling Trump’s ridiculous lies out for what they are.

 

Vicky Hartzler: She ran for US Missouri senate and lost the primary to Eric Schmitt. She ran only one ad where she attacked a trans woman saying the same thing that got her banned from twitter (at least at one point). Does she want us to side with trans people? That’s all that’s going to happen if that’s your only campaign strategy.

 

Billy Long: He also ran for the US senate seat in Missouri. He never made a presense in the ads and did terribly in the primary as a result. I’m not sure what he was even trying to do. What’s the point of running in a race if you don’t make yourself known?

 

Louie Gohmert: He ran for Texas attorney general and lost the primary to the incumbent at the time (should something happen to him), Ken Paxton. I wasn’t wanting either Louie or Ken to win and actually wanted a Bush to win the primary. Even though Ken still won the general election, at least I knew that one of the terrible people would lose.

 

Mo Brooks: He ran for US senator of Alabama. While he was in the run-off, he lost to Katie Britt, now the state’s current senator. He was one of the less intelligent people and even in Alabama, they must not have given him much leeway. “We ain’t dumb,” was something he said. He was. And his own state didn’t want him to continue in office as a senator. It’s good because, while it could still happen, no state yet has both of its senators in the sedition caucus.

 

Lost election for higher office (1)

 

Lee Zeldin: He ran for governor of New York and lost the election to the incumbent Democratic governor of New York after winning the Republican primary for the office. I can’t say I give him points for trying, but he only would have succeeded against Cuomo and there is no way that Cuomo would have won a primary.

 

Retired (3)

 

Fred Keller: I can’t think of much to say about him and am not sure that I feel the need to right now. I want to get this post done so I might as well just copy and past this paragraph since it would best signify my feelings for a person that I didn’t like and am glad just quit.

 

Bob Gibbs: I can’t think of much to say about him and am not sure that I feel the need to right now. I want to get this post done so I might as well just copy and past this paragraph since it would best signify my feelings for a person that I didn’t like and am glad just quit.

 

Chris Jacobs: I can’t think of much to say about him and am not sure that I feel the need to right now. I want to get this post done so I might as well just copy and past this paragraph since it would best signify my feelings for a person that I didn’t like and am glad just quit.

 

Lost reelection (2)

 

Yvette Herrell: She was in office in New Mexico so it seems more likely that she could lose since most of the others are in too red a place to lose reelection. While she might try to win her way back into office, that’s not a topic for this blog post.

 

Steve Chabot: He was from Ohio so it makes me have some good hope that this state might have some hope in the future, even though he was the only one of his state with three others still in office that I plan to get to later in the post.

 

This is where the good news of the post ends as I am going to get to bad things we have to deal with relating to the sedition caucus. Two of them have now won higher office. And the rest of them are all still in office. Let’s get to the worst part first.

 

Won election for higher office (two)

 

Markwayne Mullin: He is now a class three senator from Oklahoma. While he should be a person who is making great strides for his race, instead, he makes me more and more worried about just how deep red his state is becoming.

 

Ted Budd: He is now a class three senator from North Carolina. I’m also worried about just how deep red the state of North Carolina is and remains. I don’t expect it to get better any time soon. At least, like the previous person, he is replacing a bad, outgoing senator. But he is also bad and could be worse in other regards.

 

All reelected and staying in office: Alabama: Robert Aderholt, Jerry Carol, Barry Moore, Gary Palmer, Mike Rogers, Arizona: Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Debbie Lesko, David Schweikert, Arkansas: Rick Crawford, California: Ken Calvert, Mike Garcia, Darrell Issa, Doug LaMalfa, Kevin McCarthy, Jay Obernolte, Colorado: Lauren Boebert, Doug Lamborn, Florida: Kat Cammack, Mario Diaz-Balart, Byron Donalds, Neal Dunn, Scott Franklin, Matt Gaetz, Carlos Gimenez, Brian Mast, Bill Posey, John Rutherford, Greg Steube, Daniel Webster, Georgia: Rick Allen, Buddy Carter, Andrew Clyde, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Barry Loudermilk, Idaho: Russ Fulcher, Illinois: Mike Bost, Mary Miller, Indiana: Jim Baird, Jim Banks, Greg Pence, Kansas: Ron Estes, Jacob LaTurner, Tracey Mann, Kentucky: Harold Rogers, Louisiana: Garret Graves, Clay Higgins, Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise, Maryland: Andy Harris, Michigan: Jack Bergman, Lisa McClain, Tim Walberg, Minnesota: Michelle Fischbach, Mississippi: Michael Guest, Trent Kelly, Missouri: Sam Graves, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Jason Smith, Montana: Matt Rosendale, Nebraska: Adrian Smith, New Jersey: Jeff Van Drew, New York: Nicole Malliotakis, Elise Stefanik, North Carolina: Dan Bishop, Virginia Foxx, Richard Hudson, Greg Murphy, David Rouzer, Ohio: Warren Davidson, Bill Johnson, Jim Jordan, Oklahoma: Stephanie Bice, Tom Cole, Kevin Hern, Frank Lucas, Oregon: Cliff Bentz, Pennsylvania: John Joyce, Mike Kelly, Daniel Meuser, Scott Perry, Guy Reschenthaler, Lloyd Smucker, Glenn Thompson, South Carolina: Jeff Duncan, Ralph Norman, William Timmons, Joe Wilson, Tennessee: Tim Burchett, Scott DesJarlais, Chuck Fleischmann, Mark E Green, Diana Harshbarger, David Kustoff, John Rose, Texas: Jodey Arrington, Brian Babin, Michael C Burgess, John R Carter, Michael Cloud, Pat Fallon, Lance Gooden, Ronny Jackson, Troy Nehls, August Pfluger, Pete Sessions, Beth Van Duyne, Randy Weber, Roger Williams: Utah: Burgess Owens, Chris Stewart *, Virginia: Ben Cline, Bob Good, Morgan Griffith, Robert J Wittman, West Virginia: Carol Miller, Alex Mooney, Wisconsin: Scott L Fitzgerald, Tom Tiffany, and Louisiana senator John Kennedy.

 

*He is set to resign on 9-15-2023 to focus on his wife’s health issues.

 

Not up for election this cycle: the class one senators of Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Cindy Hyde-Smith, and Rick Scott and the class two senators of Cynthia Lummis, Roger Marshall, and Tommy Tuberville.

 

There’s still more to write in this blog post in question. You see, there are links to cover some of the subjects that are still worth covering in this blog post. I might do more in future versions of this blog post.

 

While I need to check this list with the people who ultimately wound up in the 147, the idea for this eventual problem all started with people wanting to support the Texas versus Pennsylvania lawsuit that sort of went before the Supreme Court. I’m pretty sure that some of them did not ultimately vote to overturn the election. Maybe some were wise after what happened earlier that day. Others may have abandoned it a long time before that.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/27/2001412/-A-breakdown-of-all-126-seditious-Republicans-who-signed-on-for-a-coup-d-tat?detail=emaildkre

 

If you want to know more about the horrible person that Madison Cawthorn is, such as one of the many controversies that got him ousted by his own party in the primary, or the terrible ways of him being a sore loser who can’t accept election losses because that tends to be a common problem among Republicans of today, then read either of these articles.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/6/2096259/-BREAKING-Video-of-Madison-Cawthorn-Apparently-Face-F-king-His-Cousin-Surfaces-Really-Yes-Really?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/19/2099048/-Madison-Cawthorn-calls-for-Dark-MAGA-to-truly-take-command?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

One of the most despicable current members of Congress would undoubtably have to be Paul Gosar. He does a video where he threats another member of Congress and people defend him as if cancel culture is worse than the real controversy that he caused. And that’s not even what this article here is about.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/29/2032700/-Paul-Gosar-celebrates-the-life-of-an-insurrectionist?detail=emaildkre2

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/17/2104709/-Arizona-Rep-Paul-Gosar-I-started-the-revolution

 

Here is a story of a Congressman from the sedition caucus misusing funds. In the world of TV, you often run across people not facing their due punishment for what they did wrong. What’s shocking is how rare it is for a Republican to be punished for their wrongdoing.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/25/2093937/-Rep-Ronny-Jackson-Trump-s-former-White-House-doc-spent-campaign-funds-on-country-club-membership

 

Here’s a story about one of the many PPP loan controversies that arose out of the pandemic and people’s response to it. Some people abused the system for sure. While I can’t remember if these two people were among them or not, feel free to read on.

 

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2022/09/06/fact-check-ppp-loans-forgiven-republicans-matt-gaetz-marjorie-taylor-greene/65470173007/?fbclid=IwAR1hrIiyxXhpyD8mVdW8_LoQFztRniQ9XqvMUY4W5q4WzXey2dUTchusDuY

 

While it is a well known fact that Lauren Boebert believes a lot of conspiracy theories, that she believes them isn’t always just the extent of her dumbness. There’s a lot of dumb things that she believes or says and here’s one of them:

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/27/2100746/-Lauren-Boebert-Vies-for-Dumbest-Member-of-Congress-Title-We-Didn-t-Ban-Planes-After-9-11

 

It seems that people like to plead the 5^th Amendment a whole lot and, both constitutionally and legally, there is nothing that anyone can do about it since it is written into our laws, I’m not sure if people can always just refuse to appear before a court when ordered to, although they can refuse to talk to the court as stated before.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/10/2073757/--Material-witness-Jim-Jordan-refuses-to-talk-to-Jan-6-committee

 

Matt Gaetz continues to be a despicable human being who can’t face reprocussions for his actions, be it at the ballot box or in court. He has lots of people against him with their testimony in his potential sex crimes cases. And even his own party walked out on his speech.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/6/2145770/-Things-are-going-great-Republicans-walk-out-en-masse-on-Florida-man-Gaetz-during-speech

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/16/2030748/-Rep-Matt-Gaetz-mocks-child-sex-trafficking-allegations-as-paying-for-naughty-favors?detail=emaildkbow

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/10/2079642/-Another-revelation-for-Rep-Matt-Gaetz-as-latest-witness-says-he-was-in-the-room-where-it-happened

 

Now people have given Biden a lot of crap for high gas prices. They didn’t thank him when it went down because of him (more on this in a later link), but they sure love to blame him when things go wrong. This link is just one of many that points out that many gas industries donate to the sedition caucus, known Biden enemies.

 

https://www.citizen.org/news/report-fossil-fuel-pacs-donated-8-8-million-to-republican-sedition-caucus/

 

Skipping ahead a bit, there is now the committee investigating the January 6^th committee, aka the United States House Judiciary Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. People need to give these people mirrors. I do know that some Democrats are on the committee which is actually a good thing and not something that we should dismiss them for being DINOs as. Whether or not they can hold the lease of the poodles in the other party is unknown. What is known is this issue:

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/30/2150133/-House-GOP-is-going-to-waste-a-lot-of-time-in-the-next-two-years-on-our-dime?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main&traffic_source=Connatix

 

The House speaker election was a crazy part of the US government process and was nice to see the supposedly liberal media focus on Republican infighting as they often tend to focus solely on Democratic infighting. After many votes with the far right “Freedom” Caucus finally getting their successions from the incoming speaker, Kevin McCarthy became the weakest Speaker of the House in quite some time. Read on for more of his terrible ways and how he is not nearly as powerful as he could be with his own party.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/25/2155012/-Media-Organizations-go-after-McCarthy-for-equal-access-to-the-J6-Recordings?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/8/2156972/-McCarthy-already-has-Senate-Republicans-reeling-on-Jan-6-and-he-s-just-getting-started

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/21/2093331/-Breaking-Maddow-drops-a-bombshell-tape-on-McCarthy-considering-asking-Trump-to-resign

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/7/2140582/-Aid-Leaks-Incredible-McCarthy-Memo-to-Republican-Caucus

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/4/2145299/-Cartoon-Kevin-McCarthy?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main&traffic_source=Connatix

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/10/2146448/-McCarthy-s-miniscule-majority-marches-on-to-fascism-in-day-two-of-legislative-work?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main&traffic_source=Connatix

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/25/2149280/-McCarthy-puts-a-pair-of-unhinged-conspiracy-cranks-in-his-new-pandemic-oversight-subcommittee?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main&traffic_source=Connatix

 

While the title of this article isn’t present due to some sort of glitch, this is a story that I felt was worth sharing relating to Josh Hawley. It was probably about something dumb he said or did so enjoy this article about whatever it was.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/16/2157836/undefined (Josh Hawley related)

 

The United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack was pretty good. It had ratings about as high as the highest rated show on television right now. And they did a lot of good that you will see if you pay the slightest bit of attention.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/11/2079797/-If-Not-For-The-January-6-Committee-We-Would-Not-Know?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/14/2091910/-Stephen-Miller-appears-before-Jan-6-committee-as-Archives-prepares-to-send-more-Trump-docs

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/21/2041066/-Trump-insurgents-came-within-seconds-of-capturing-nuclear-football-on-Jan-6?detail=emaildkreicymi

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/5/2114782/-PA-Gov-Running-Scared-Mastriano-R-Now-Trying-To-Back-Out-Of-Testifying-Before-Jan-6th-Committee?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

If you remember or heard about Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, you would know that he seems to have given an unsantitioned tour to people who would storm the capitol the very next day. It would not look good at all to anyone, that is, except the people who reelected him.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/19/2098988/-Insurrection-probe-hits-lawmaker-who-allegedly-gave-tours-of-Capitol-with-request-for-cooperation

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/19/2098999/-1-6-Committee-demands-Barry-Loudermilk-R-GA-spill-on-denial-of-5-January-2021-tour?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

Like Josh Hawley, Rick Scott is a senator part of the sedition caucus who was not up for election this past cycle, but is worth talking about in a post covering the subject. He thinks that he’s so smart, yet can’t remember simple things like who a senator is that he’s criticizing.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/24/2099960/-After-calling-Biden-incoherent-Rick-Scott-delivers-bumbling-diatribe-on-Senator-he-can-t-recall?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

You’d think that the party that doesn’t like Trump being investigated because they are convinced that it has to be politically motivated wouldn’t be so openly hypocritical about investigating Hunter Biden, but if you thought that, you don’t know jack shit about the Republican Party.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/17/2104758/-SCARY-The-GOP-is-Demonizing-Hunter-Biden-in-a-Desperate-Attempt-to-Deflect-From-January-6th

 

There is far too much wrong with Republican’ts and they will do anything and everything in order to escape accountability. Here are other stories that I deem relevant to this blog post that I can only hope are worth the read that I felt were good.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/24/2099979/-January-6-committee-can-t-have-RNC-records-three-Trump-judges-say

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/22/2041302/-Republicans-are-discovering-that-they-ve-done-too-good-a-job-in-separating-their-base-from-reality?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/25/2143776/-Trump-supporting-losers-double-down-on-alienating-the-rest-of-the-country?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

The last person that I feel like giving a section to in this blog post is Marjorie Taylor Greene. While I have pointed out how some bad Republicans lose in primaries to others (who aren’t necessarily good, just different at best or bad for other reasons, even though some are good), she beat someone who might have been a good Republican when she first took office. There are a lot of problems with her and I can only fear what all happens as she stays in office.

 

https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/democratic-veteran-challenges-twisted-qanon-promoting-greene/2JF4KV2RPBH6XETYMVWLOODFXA/

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-heading-to-jail-tomorrow-and-the-internet-has-thoughts/ar-AA18Zks7?cvid=fe00522b93b04360a29c8215206d6919&ei=111

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/02/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-twitter-suspension/index.html

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/2/2114061/-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-finds-it-troubling-that-Zawahiri-was-killed-ahead-of-the-midterms

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-jan-6-what-matters/

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/27/2149714/-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-Bashes-Biden-for-Bringing-DOWN-Gas-Prices-Ted-Lieu-Claps-Back-Brilliantly?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/26/2143884/-MT-Greene-is-so-dumb-she-says-the-1-6-insurrection-was-Pelosi-s-fault?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

*Note that the article’s mention of the Dunning-Kruger effect is wrong.

 

There’s no better link to end this article with (before the real closing) than the one on just how much the Republican Party is like a circus. This cartoon can convey it well enough just how much it can be like that at any given time.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/23/2159710/-Cartoon-Republican-circus

 

When it comes to the upcoming House election next year, there isn’t too much else to say about it. There are some notable people of both parties seeking a higher office. There are once again far too many Democrats doing that which could hinder their chances of regaining control of the House. Due to a Supreme Court decision, Alabama has to redraw their maps. I look forward to the elections at hand and will post again about it after the election has happened. I just hope not to be this late again, but knowing me, it could happen. I mean, I did want to have this post written two days ago. Still, I hope that you enjoyed this post and like knowing about who isn’t a part of the sedition caucus anymore.

Politics: It’s the Candidates

There is something that I’m coming to realize with elections. While there are plenty of ways that the Democrats do good, there are also other ways where I just shake my head at them and wonder how they can be so stupid. One of those ways is not having any candidates in the races that they need to win.

 

How can you win without any candidates in the race? It’s simple, really: you can’t. I forget who said this quote, but “you miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take.” While the analogy is flawed as people who don’t play basketball don’t have to take shots, this is a different world that still needs to be taken into account.

 

When the Democrats lost the House in 2022, one of the key reasons why that you don’t hear mentioned is that many Democrats weren’t running in the races at all. It doesn’t matter just how red you think a state is, you need to at least run one candidate to have any hopes of winning. Look at the state of Arizonia. It was largely a laughing stock for Republicans in 2022 where any and all of their candidates would have been better comedians because of how hard it is to take them seriously, Republicans didn’t do badly in the House in that state because there weren’t any Democrats running at all. How did Paul fucking Gosar not have an opponent?

 

If this seems like a missed opportunity like not mentioning the government shutdown in 2020 or other issues that Democrats should be focusing on, but aren’t, then it seems that with at least this one issue, Democrats are learning. There are a lot of candidates in the races that lead to a certain Republican victory, especially against the members of the sedition caucus. Maybe the Democrats could actually win the House back, even if the prospects of the senate currently look a bit grim. Let’s hope that the Democrats know better in the future than to not do something as basic as running candidates in the races they need to win.