Category: Dumbass Bullshit

The Washington Post reports on a meeting of Fox News’ Jesse Watters and Jimmy “The Body” Janos the other day at a speaking engagement Ventura had at a Cannabis Business Expo

After asking Ventura some questions about the pot business, Watters switched to questions about his lawsuit against Chris Kyle’s lawsuit;

“Were you high when you sued Chris Kyle’s widow?” Watters asked, throwing Ventura off balance.

“Was I high?” he replied. “You know, that’s a bulls??? question and I expect if from someone from Fox.”

Watters defended the seriousness of his question, but Ventura shot back that “I never sued the widow — I sued him.”

“Okay, well, she’s suffering a lot of pain right now,” Watters replied.

“No, she isn’t,” Ventura said, “because insurance pays for it all. She hasn’t paid one cent. How do I know it? It’s my case.”

Later, he added: “The case got overturned because the truth came out: Insurance is paying for all of it,” Ventura said. “It isn’t costing his family a cent. That’s the way legal works if you’d do your homework.”

The interview ended shortly after Watters asked Ventura whether he would apologize to Kyle’s widow.

“No!” Ventura replied. “She should apologize to me for the lie her husband told about me. Why would I apologize? I didn’t do anything. You only apologize if you’ve done something wrong, pal.”

Thanks to Pat for the link and for the advice to stay out of the comments.

Peter Dreier writes at Prospect.org that “The Virginia Shooting Isn’t About Bernie. It’s About the Right’s Embrace of Guns.” He tries to convince us that James Hodgkinson’s shooting rampage had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with lax gun laws. Yeah, well, Jeremy Joseph Christian, another Sanders supporter in Portland, Oregon, killed more people in his attack late last month and he used a knife, not a gun. And then there was Eric Clanton a community college professor who assaulted a Trump supporter in San Francisco – not with a gun but with a padlock in sock.

And, oh, by the way, there’s James Devine, a Democrat in New Jersey who is calling for an open season on Republicans.

A longtime Democratic operative from Union County has responded to the Wednesday shooting of a congressman by calling for a “hunt” of Republicans.

James Devine posted several messages on Facebook and Twitter following the Alexandra, Virginia, shooting of U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise and several others by a gunman with a history of violence and of making online rantings against Republican officials and their policies.

That might not turn out the way he imagines.

Dreier scribbles;

the Trump administration has taken steps to make it easier for both fugitives and the mentally ill to buy guns. Congressional Republicans have introduced a bill to allow people without permits or training to carry firearms across state lines (which they call “concealed carry reciprocity”).

Yeah, no. The Trump administration swept away a policy that took guns away from veterans without due process if they didn’t have the mental capacity to manage their finances. Name another right that it’s perfectly acceptable for the government to ignore without a legal reason to do so.

Dreier might like concealed carry reciprocity, since it provides another layer of background checks which even the Virginia governor can appreciate.

Dreier blames the AR-style rifle for the shooting (you know, even though the rifle isn’t a AR style rifle);

Hodgkinson apparently had a permit for the AR-15 assault rifle he used on Wednesday. According to the NRA, the AR-15 is America’s most popular rifle, with an estimated nine million in circulation in this country. The NRA claims that they are used safely by millions of people for sport. But it is also the weapon used in many mass shootings. It accommodates high-capacity magazines that can fire off 100 rounds or more within minutes. That’s clearly a quasi-military weapon, not a recreational tool. These kind of assault rifles were banned from 1994 to 2004 under federal law, before the NRA used its political clout to allow the ban to expire.

In contrast to NRA claims, most gun-related deaths are committed by people who purchase their weapons legally.

Most gun-related deaths are suicides, too, did you forget that, Pete?

I haven’t heard any Republicans calling for a preemptive strike on Democrats, but Democrats seem more than eager for another civil war. It has everything to do with politics and the fact that they want more gun control only reinforces the reason that there is a Second Amendment.

Lucy Richards, a Florida woman who thinks that the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012 was a government conspiracy was sentenced to six months in prison for making death threats towards a parent of a six-year-old victim according to the Santa Fe New Mexican;

Prosecutors alleged Richards left a series of menacing voice mails and emails with Pozner last January, saying in one, “death is coming to you real soon.” Three of the charges in her four-count indictment were dismissed under the plea agreement.

After she completes her prison sentence, Richards will be confined to her home for five months, according to court records. She will also undergo three years of supervised release, during which time she will be required to maintain a daily log of her computer activity.

In court Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Cohn told Richards her threats against Pozner were “disturbing,” according to the Associated Press.

The victim in this case, Lenny Pozner, took on another guy, James Tracy, who had demanded that Pozner prove his son ever existed. Pozner got him fired from his university teaching job.

In 2014, a self-proclaimed hoaxer in Virginia was sentenced to a year in prison after he stole Sandy Hook memorial signs from playgrounds honoring the victims. The following year, a Brooklyn man received a one-year suspended sentence for intimidating the sister of Victoria Soto, a slain Sandy Hook teacher hailed as a hero for shielding her first graders during the attack.

It takes all kinds, I guess.

The Washington Post reports that Jimmy Janos, AKA Jesse Ventura, AKA Scruff Face, the former wrestling actor and governor has gone over to the Russians because no one is paying attention to him these days;

Now, Ventura will star in his own reality show, “The World According to Jesse,” on RT America — the Washington-based branch of Russian state television.

Known previously as Russia Today, RT is funded by the Russian government and describes itself as a TV channel “for viewers who want to Question More.” Critics call RT a propaganda tool with poor journalism standards, as The Washington Post has reported.

“RT covers stories overlooked by the mainstream media, provides alternative perspectives on current affairs, and acquaints international audiences with a Russian viewpoint on major global events,” according to the channel’s website.

It’s odd to read about the Post criticizing RT because they seemed to support Donald Trump in the 2016 election season especially the way the Post sold their soul to the Clinton campaign and they’ve continued to criticize the President even though they’ve lost their grip on public opinion.

Anyway, Janos tells why he went to RT;

Ventura told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he been reassured by RT that he will not be censored.

“I have total artistic control and I can talk about anything I want,” he told the Star Tribune. “We’re more interested in talking about our country. I didn’t join RT to report on Russia.”

[…]

“What you will hear from me is opinions, not agendas,” Ventura said in a statement. “I look forward to holding our government accountable. I will be exercising my First Amendment rights with no filters.”

I’m sure RT’s ratings will fall down to Janos’ IQ level in no time. I guess Janos ran out of widows to sue.

ABC Region 8 tells the odd story of 73-year-old James Michael Sloan in Baxter County, Arkansas where he pretended to be a member of the Army Corps of Engineers. He was fist reported to police when his credit card charge for the rental payment on a resort cottage was declined, but he slipped through the cops;

On May 28, another report was taken at Robinson Point Park on Lake Norfork that said a man, later identified as Sloan, falsely identified himself as a U. S. Army Corp of Engineers volunteer campground coordinator. The report said he was directing campers to evacuate the campground due to a potential flood.

The sheriff’s office said a camper challenged Sloan about the flood risk, at which time Sloan reportedly said: “we will evaluate or die.”

Sloan had left the area before the deputy arrived this time as well.

Sloan was arrested by the Mountain Home Police Department on May 30 on separate charges.

He was taken to the Baxter County Detention Center. There, investigators were able to identify Sloan as the suspect in the campground incident. He was arrested on the above incidents.

Sloan faces criminal impersonation, theft, and disorderly conduct through the Baxter County Sheriff’ Office, as well as criminal trespass through the Mountain Home Police Department.

I can’t even guess why he’d try to evacuate campers, unless it was his intention to steal the stuff they’d leave behind. Weird.

Don sends us a link to the story of Gregg Nicholas who was arrested in Huntsville, Alabama Texas for impersonating a Homeland Security agent. He was caught when he tried to have DHS patches sewn on some camouflaged shirts. He had DHS decals plastered all over his truck which was fitted with red and blue lights and a siren;

Police seized 14 guns — four of which belonged to Nicholas — at his home on Madison 3044, according to court documents. Nicholas was convicted in 2007 of felony criminal possession of a weapon while living in New York, court documents show. As a convicted felon, Nicholas is prohibited from possessing a firearm.

Now he’s looking at more felony charges for his childish attempt to be a good guy with a gun.

The latest way to besmirch the nearly unblemished reputation of the American military is presented in the pages of Newsweek which screams from the rooftops that “Trump Effect Inspires Radical Christians in Military“. Their source? You guessed it – anti-Christian jihadist Mikey Weinstein of the misnamed Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

Many of the recent charges are coming from members of minority religions, including Roman Catholics, Jews and Muslims, and from atheists. Among the complaints: military family and marital therapy programs are being infused with Protestant Christianity, which would violate the U.S. Constitution; open anti-Semitism; anti-LGBT statements, posters, symbols and bullying; openly anti-Muslim teachers and Islamophobic attacks; a rise in on-base evangelizing; and increased pressure on recruits or lower-level personnel and service members to convert to fundamentalist Christianity.

“With the advent of Trump as the commander in chief of our armed forces, MRFF has experienced a massive influx of new military and civilian personnel complaints of religion-based prejudice and bigotry, most of them coming from non-fundamentalist Christians being persecuted by their military superiors for not being ‘Christian enough,’” Weinstein tells Newsweek.

I’ll remind readers that what would violate the 1st Amendment is the occurrence of Congress passing a law which makes any religion our national religion. The First Amendment says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….” Has anyone heard of that happening? I haven’t.

The MRFF estimates that 84 percent of military chaplains are evangelicals, and about a third of them are fundamentalists, defined by the MRFF as Christians who have decided that their evangelizing and proselytizing need not conform to the U.S. Constitution, case law or any DoD directives restricting their behavior.

The Christian right’s willingness to see Trump as a savior for their cause—if not a messianic figure, despite his living as an urban libertine who has had three wives and a history of lewd acts and statements—continues to grow. His selection of an evangelical as vice president, plus the appointment of at least nine evangelicals to his Cabinet, has apparently soothed any concerns the religious right had about his personal life.

I estimate that 99% of Mikey’s constituency are whiny little crybabies who fall for his shtick because they misread one line of the Constitution. If Trump is the problem, why were we treated to Mikey’s antics through the Obama years?

Weinstein also shared with Newsweek dozens of hate-filled emails directed to him from former and current service members, stating that they pray for his death and eternal life in hell. He says small victories like the one involving the Strong Bonds program last week can’t keep up with the changed tone at the top, and its effect on behavior in the middle and lower ranks among the fundamentalists in the military community.

“The reality of Trump being commander in chief has unleashed a raging battle cry along the lines of ‘There’s a new sheriff in town, and he loves white, male, straight, Christian fundamentalists one hell of a lot more than anyone else,’” Weinstein says. “The fundamentalist/Dominionist bullies have been emboldened by Trump’s own bigotry and that of his henchmen to such a profound degree that MRFF considers the dire situation to be nothing less than a full-fledged national security threat to our country.”

Did that hate mail begin on January 20th? I suspect that he has been getting hate mail since he founded his little band of uneducated butt-hurt snowflakes in 2005. His incessant bleating about Christians taking over the world has no basis in reality – he’s only doing it to line his pockets and avoid getting a real job. He’s this century’s Morris Dees fabricating a crisis where none exists in order to fleece Liberals.