GOP Insanity Thread: a bunch of weirdos weirding out

[grue]

Not the right thread but

MY

VEINS

Trolling a school board that banned pride flags

[TheDuker]

What seems like a drunk idiot heckling Native American dancers performing in front of a Scottsdale art gallery turns out to be the owner of the gallery?

Not mentioned in story, he repatedly says “MAGA COUNTRY!”

Chaser:

Gilbert Ortega Native American Galleries is a 7th Generation Cultural Arts dealer. Gilbert Ortega’s family has been trading with the Native American community since the early 1800’s. The tradition has been one of love, respect, and passion for the native peoples hand made works of art and mastery from jewelry, pottery, baskets, weaves, and rugs its been a time honored tradition to bring these amazing works of art to the community for all to love and enjoy.

Scottsdale gallery owner apologizes after racist comments to Native American...

[VoteForSocialists]

i am sorry, what?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/02/10/george-santos-amish-puppies/

INVESTIGATIONS

Amish country farmers say George Santos took puppies, left bad checks

One breeder recounted how the future member of Congress made off with four golden retrievers, leading to a criminal charge in 2017

[Coasterbrad]

I’m no rocket scientist, but I’m starting think that this Santos fella might not be super trustworthy.

[Jman220]

[goofy]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1624135064865964032

Twelve years before she was elected as the first Mexican American woman to represent Florida in Congress, Anna Paulina Luna was serving at Whiteman Air Force Base in Warrensburg, Mo., where friends said she described herself as alternately Middle Eastern, Jewish or Eastern European. Known then by her given last name of Mayerhofer, Luna sported designer clothing and expressed support for then-President Barack Obama.

By the time she ran for Congress as a Republican, she had changed her last name to Luna in what she said was an homage to her mother’s family. A staunch advocate for gun rights, she cited on the campaign trail a harrowing childhood that left her “battle hardened.” She said she and her mother had little extended family as she grew up in “low-income” neighborhoods in Southern California with a father in and out of incarceration. She said she experienced a traumatizing “home invasion” when she was serving in the Air Force in Missouri.

Luna’s sharp turn to the right, her account of an isolated and impoverished childhood, and her embrace of her Hispanic heritage have come as a surprise to some friends and family who knew her before her ascent to the U.S. House this year. A cousin who grew up with Luna said she was regularly included in family gatherings. Her roommate in Missouri had no recollection of the “home invasion” Luna detailed, describing instead a break-in at their shared apartment when they were not home, an incident confirmed by police records.

[goofy]

Speaking of Florida:

Florida school district pulls children's book about Roberto Clemente off shelves

Duval County Public Schools, which includes the city of Jacksonville, said in a news release it is “taking further steps to comply with Florida laws on library books.”

Those laws, the district said, require books in schools to be free of pornography; instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade; and discrimination “in such a way that an individual, by virtue of his or her race, color, sex or national origin, is inherently racist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.”

PEN America, a New York-based nonprofit that works to defend free expression, reported the district had removed at least 176 titles from classrooms. They include works such as “My Two Dads and Me,” “My Two Moms and Me,” “Celebrating Different Beliefs,” “The Gift of Ramadan,” “The Berenstain Bears and the Big Question” and books about Rosa Parks, the Underground Railroad and Japanese internment camps during World War II.

Also removed was “Roberto Clemente: The Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates,” a 2005 book by Dormont’s Jonah Winter.

The 32-page book references racism Clemente sometimes endured.

The article focuses on the Clemente book as it’s reported by a Pittsburgh newspaper:

Winter, 60, said he never imagined the book would be at the center of controversy.

“Absolutely not,” said Winter, who grew up in Dallas but considered Clemente his favorite player and the Pirates his favorite team. “I would have hoped that, in the 21st century, there would be nothing controversial about a book about Roberto Clemente, the greatest all-around baseball player who ever lived and a true humanitarian.”

“I make mention of the racism that Clemente encountered as a younger player,” Winter said. “I guess they banned it because they think it might make some white children uncomfortable. These are very strange times that we live in.”

[Danspartan]

Pastor at Nikki’s campaign kickoff.

Kevin M. Kruse

The dumbest things ever blurted out by San Antonio Pastor John Hagee of...

It was the tough task to find the worst but the committee has chosen:

On the Holocaust (late 1990s)
”How did [the Holocaust] happen? Because God allowed it to happen … because God said, ‘My top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.’”

[CaffeineNeeded]

I mean if you believe in an all powerful god that can do anything you gotta explain why he let the holocaust happen

[boredsocial]

That doesn’t make the top ten list of the awful shit the Hagee clan has done.

[chupacabre_reprise]

Was Hagee the guy that used to get rubdowns while spun out on meth? Hmm, I think it was another megachurch preacher. They all act alike.

[Fatboy8]

@goofy

They include works such as “My Two Dads and Me,” “My Two Moms and Me,” “Celebrating Different Beliefs,” “The Gift of Ramadan,” “The Berenstain Bears

Wait until Florida finds out it’s actually The Bernstein Bears.

[chupacabre_reprise]

Ann Coulter tells Nikki Haley to go back to India. Well, the Xenophobic attacks took about 3.50 seconds, lol. And with Haley committing the egregious act of removing the SC confederate flag (heritage not hate), I am confident she has zero chance.

ETA: Sikhs do not worship cows. I am very smart!

[eyebooger]

[riverman]

Her actual name is Nimrata, I’m sure that won’t be weaponized at all

[goofy]

“I’m not hiding!”

George Santos

One day later…

Rep. George Santos barricaded himself in his district office as angry...

Santos!

[goofy]

Here’s the supposed “reasonable Republican” candidate for 2024:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3862946-haley-says-desantis-didnt-go-far-enough-with-dont-say-gay/

“Basically, what it said was you shouldn’t be able to talk about gender before third grade,” Haley said at a town hall in Exeter, N.H., according to Fox News. “I’m sorry, I don’t think that goes far enough.”

“When I was in school you didn’t have sex ed until seventh grade. And even then, your parents had to sign whether you could take the class,” she added. “That’s a decision for parents to make,”

What a hot take, the idea that talking about “boys” and “girls” is #actually the same as detailed education about genitalia and sex

[Danspartan]

I’ve seen the word “moderate” attached to her a lot this week. Complete and total bullshit.

[eyebooger]

It’s because every plausible GOP candidate is worse outside of Mitt and Hogan.

The Overton window has shifted so goddamn far to the right.

[Jman220]

This is like a made up issue, right? Like, My oldest is in second grade right now in a deep blue state. I’m pretty confident the number of conversations about gender and sexual identity she’s had at school is zero.