United States Congress of Fail - Part 4

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Journalists were just gunned to death but this is what Rubio is worried about 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Ryan: Profile in courage...NOT:

 

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[Howl]

Just came across this.  Ready to blow up in Jim Jordan's face in three, two, one....

[Cartmann99]

2 hours ago, Howl said:

Just came across this.  Ready to blow up in Jim Jordan's face in three, two, one....

Since he's a Trump fan, I expect the usual suspects to start screeching about this being a liberal plot to take down a good man. 

[47of74]

2 hours ago, Howl said:

Just came across this.  Ready to blow up in Jim Jordan's face in three, two, one....

In a perfect world Jimmy and ol' Denny Hastert would have to share a prison cell for the rest of their rather useless lives.   

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Ted you little scamp

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[47of74]

And now according to Jimmy it's locker room talk

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Friday vehemently denied claims that he knew of alleged sexual abuse taking place on the Ohio State University wrestling team while he served as assistant coach, while calling into question the timing of the allegations.

Jordan said on Fox News' “Special Report with Bret Baier” that the timing of the allegations was "suspect" after his widely publicized hearing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and his bid to become the next House Speaker.

Politico reported shortly before Jordan’s appearance Friday night that six of the former wrestlers had spoken to the publication about the alleged abuse.

“Conversations in a locker room are a lot different than allegations of abuse or reported abuse,” Jordan said Friday, adding that “no one ever reported any abuse to me.”

Jesus Fornicating Christ Jordan.  Buy a new excuse instead of ripping off Herr Fornicate Face.

[Cartmann99]

39 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

"Conversations in a locker room are a lot different than allegations of abuse or reported abuse,” Jordan said Friday, adding that “no one ever reported any abuse to me.”

I read an article earlier this week that talked about how the wrestlers openly made jokes like if they needed to see the team doctor about a hurt shoulder, the doctor would want them to take their pants off. These young men were using humor to cope with what was happening to them, and to try to get someone in a position of power to make it stop. Unfortunately, since the subject made people uncomfortable, those in positions of power looked away.

 

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[Cartmann99]

And then there were seven....

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"‘Where are the babies, Mitch?’: McConnell pursued from restaurant by angry crowd"

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A group of democratic socialists and other angry protesters pursued Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) through a restaurant parking lot on Saturday, berating him with a mixture of immigration rhetoric and personal insults — and at one point an apparent threat to visit his home.

The Louisville encounter was the second time in two weeks that McConnell's private life has been disrupted by a spontaneous protest — and it was the latest in a weeks-long series of confrontations between powerful Republicans and those eager to shame them on camera, wherever they are found.

“If the Leader comments on being called a fascist and a supporter of ICE by a small handful of extremist protesters then I will let you know,” McConnell's spokesman, David Popp, wrote to The Washington Post after the incident.

McConnell — who supports the Trump administration's detention of families who illegally cross the border but opposed the president's short-lived policy of separating parents from their children — was having lunch Saturday at Bristol Bar & Grille, in his hometown.

As it happened, hundreds of people were protesting outside Louisville's Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office, just a few miles from the restaurant. Among them were leaders of the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, whose national fame has been growing since one of its members upset the Democratic incumbent in a New York congressional primary last month.

So when someone spotted McConnell at the restaurant and asked for help confronting him, the socialist group spread the word on social media.

And within a few minutes — just as happened in recent weeks with Trump's homeland security secretary, his press secretary, his Environmental Protection Agency administrator, and McConnell and his wife, Elaine Chao (who is also Trump's transportation secretary) in a separate incident — a scene was made outside the Bristol Bar & Grille.

At least half a dozen people, several with cameras, were waiting in front of the restaurant when McConnell walked out, with his checkered shirt tucked into his jeans and two dining companions at his side.

“Vote you out, vote you out!” the crowd began to chant.

“Where are the children?” one of them asked, not for the last time.

The three men didn't stop or slow, or even look at the crowd, though someone shouted “Go home!”

As McConnell's party turned a corner into the parking lot, a woman with an ankle-length dress and a backpack tried to block their path. She walked a step ahead of the Senate's top Republican, and the rest of the crowd followed close behind, still chanting and shouting.

“Where are the babies, Mitch?”

“Turtle head!”

The democratic socialists of Louisville told The Washington Post that three members were in the crowd, but said the group had nothing to do with the man who called the majority leader “turtle head” — and a few moments later shouted: “We know where you live, too, Mitch! We know where you live! Yeah! We know where you live, Mitch!”

"This person is not a DSA member, nor do we know who he is or what he meant by that statement," the chapter wrote in an email. "We believe it is a reference to peacefully protesting in front of McConnell’s house, which is a regular occurrence in Louisville. However, we cannot speak more to the comment because it did not come from our organization or our members."

In any event, McConnell said nothing in reply; he simply climbed into the back seat of an SUV with a “Team Mitch” sticker on the window. The two other men (one of them a top state Republican, according to the Courier-Journal) got into the front, and the protesters could only shout at them as the engine fired up.

“Abolish ICE, abolish ICE!” they chanted.

“No justice, no peace!”

“No comfort for fascists!” said the man who called McConnell a “turtle head.”

“We did good, fellow citizens,” a man told the rest of the group as the Highlander backed out of its parking space.

And true enough, video of the impromptu protest would be seen by hundreds of thousands of people, make national news and be praised by those on the left who think Trump's allies deserve no peaceful meals while hundreds of migrant children are still being held from their parents.

But not everyone thought so.

As McConnell's SUV left the parking lot, one of the videographers turned around to see a red convertible idling behind them, its driver glaring.

“Let them live their lives,” the man said as he pulled up beside the group. “It's none of your f---ing business.”

A few of the protesters stopped chanting after the departed majority leader and turned on this driver who would dare confront the confronters.

“What a potty mouth!” a woman behind a camera jeered. “Keep on talking, fella, you're going to be a star.”

Like McConnell, the man in the convertible made no reply. He soon left the parking lot, too, accompanied by indistinguishable angry screams.

 

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Ted Lieu gets harsh treatment in a restaurant: 

 

[TeaELSee]

I just skimmed this thread so I apologize if this has been discussed before. If you are on Twitter consider following a young woman named Sarah Kendzior, (@Sarahkendzior) she has a PHD in authoritarian governments and has predicted and warned about what is happening since 2015.  She has also published many articles and appears on AM Joy pretty often. Her book, “A View from Flyover Country “ is an excellent read also.

This is not a drill, it is real and we are slipping into authoritarianism fast. I’m afraid NATO is next to go. 

[WiseGirl]

1 hour ago, TeaELSee said:

I just skimmed this thread so I apologize if this has been discussed before. If you are on Twitter consider following a young woman named Sarah Kendzior, (@Sarahkendzior) she has a PHD in authoritarian governments and has predicted and warned about what is happening since 2015.  She has also published many articles and appears on AM Joy pretty often. Her book, “A View from Flyover Country “ is an excellent read also.

This is not a drill, it is real and we are slipping into authoritarianism fast. I’m afraid NATO is next to go. 

Thanks for this info. Good grief, I miss the old days when I just followed comedians on Twitter. 

Side note : Every once in a while when I pass the exit to New York state north, I think, or ask myself, do you think you should get some cash out, put it in the firesafe with passports, credit cards, documents, you know just in case you find yourself having to drive like mad to the Canadian border? I used to think dystopian novels were the best, now I'm not so sure and every once in a while it crosses my mind is this how those dystopian novels start in real life? I'm blamming The Handmaid's Tale. (until this administration I never, ever thought like this).

[Howl]

2 hours ago, TeaELSee said:

Sarah Kendzior, (@Sarahkendzior)

She is amazing.  I second following her on twitter.

[GreyhoundFan]

Clarence Thomas' wife has stood up for Jordan. I guess she still doesn't believe victims: