Category: Dumbass Bullshit

John J. Pitney, Jr., a PoliSci professor at Claremont McKenna College wrote an opinion piece in USAToday entitled “I was a Republican until Donald Trump hijacked my party” in which he tries to prove that a professor in a California college could be a Republican. I’m sure that, given enough time and proper motivation, I could probably prove otherwise. If Mr Pitney was happy with the Republican Party of 2006, I’m glad he’s gone.

Until last year, I was as Republican as you could get. My family had belonged to the GOP since the 1850s, and both my grandfathers labored in local Republican politics. I started volunteering for the party nearly a half century ago, handing out Nixon pamphlets in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., at the age of 13. I went on to work for Republican politicians in the New York State Legislature and both houses of Congress. And for a couple of years, I served in the research department of the Republican National Committee.

But early in the morning of Nov. 9, shortly after Trump claimed victory in the presidential election, I took out my laptop and changed my registration to independent.

Yeah, well, I changed my registration to “Independent” years before when the Republicans started acting like Democrats while they ran the Congress. When they began telling us about “compassionate Conservatism” and spent like drunken sailors while feathering their own political nests instead of slashing wasteful spending. While I’m not particularly enamored with the Trump Administration, at least his policies have a basis in Conservatism, even though that isn’t his political stance. He ran on a platform of smaller, less intrusive government and that’s what put him in office.

I’m not surprised that a California professor liked a more liberal Republican Party, but you’d think he’d be smart enough to not make himself a target with a disingenuous piece of trash like the one he allowed USAToday to publish.

I don’t disparage those who voted for Trump. Economic change has left millions of working Americans behind. They think that an increasingly affluent professional class pushes them around. Voting for Trump was a way to push back. I get it. My father was a milkman in a college town. It was full of people with advanced degrees who looked down on people like us.

So now he’s one of the snooty pointy-headed residents of his hometown looking down on the rest of his, as if him dumping a bunch of words on paper is going to shame us into voting for the next Democrat statist to run for the office.

Kneeling to Trump, some [Republicans] are reversing long-held positions.

While opposing Trump, some faux-Republicans are ignoring the policies that Republicans traditionally represented. They don’t like his hair, they don’t like his super-model wife, they don’t like the way he talks, all the while ignoring what he’s saying…ignoring what Americans are saying. That’s why they will lose again in two years and four years down the road of this journey – the American Experiment.

The Leftists at Salon took a very weak shot at “busting” Sheriff David Clarke for stolen valor in their article entitled “Looks like Sheriff David Clarke’s “army” medals might be B.S.” in which they use as a source some guy named Charles Clymer who claims to be an Army veteran as well as a “Genderqueer” whatever that is.

1/ Okay, regarding Sheriff David Clarke, can I be petty for a second about something that's always irritated me? (thread)

— Charles Clymer (@cmclymer) May 17, 2017

At almost all of his public appearances, Clarke either wears a pristine cowboy hat with a natty suit or, more famously, a uniform festooned with shiny military medals. On Thursday, Twitter user Charles Clymer, an army veteran, pointed out that those military medals might not be all that legit.

Clymer went on to break down each individual medal, their placement and their apparently spurious provenance. Clymer acknowledged that legitimate medals are earned, and should be worn with pride, but accuses Clarke of “stolen valor” and calls Clarke’s collection, “a sloppy assortment of badge replicas arranged neatly, [that] looks imposing.”

Yeah, Clymer did no such thing. He complained that Clarke had too many shiny things on his uniform, none of which are related to military service. It was nothing but a feeble attempt to demean Sheriff Clarke personally, you know, because “Trump!!!”. I’m not familiar with any of the “bling” that Clarke is wearing in that picture, because, like I said, none of it is related to military service. It reminds me of when the Left didn’t like David Petraeus and made fun of the General’s uniform as they speculated about whether he had earned all of the awards on his uniform.

The whole thing is childish and it’s a political attack. We’ve busted phonies here on both sides of the political aisle, irrespective of their politics because that’s the nature of stolen valor. I can’t find any articles on Salon that take The Dick Blumenthal to task on his fake claims that Blumenthal was a Vietnam veteran.

This David Clarke/Charles Clymer thing is like me making a big deal and wondering if Clymer earned his tiara in this picture;

I’ve been avoiding this story because I don’t like I just don’t like these types of things about animal abuse, but you folks are incessant about filling my inbox with them. Anyway, this low-down piece of excrement who left the Army at Fort Bragg, NC in January 2017, tortured her dog for a Facebook performance along with the moron who is probably sticking his dick in crazy, according to CNN;

Marinna Rollins and Jared Heng were arrested by sheriff’s deputies in Cumberland County, North Carolina. They’re charged with animal cruelty, a felony.

According to a police report obtained by CNN affiliate WTVD, the pair took the gray-and-white male pit bill named Cami to a wooded area earlier this month.

Rollins shot the dog five times, authorities said, and is heard laughing in the video as she does it.

“It’s been real Cami. I love you. You’re my puppy. You’re my puppy but …,” the woman in the video says.

The dog belonged to Rollins and was her emotional support animal, Sheriff’s Sgt. Sean Swain told CNN.

So you can stop sending me links now.

Mr. Huxton sends us a link to the story of Christopher Hendon who went to a courthouse in Akron, Ohio with a child in handcuffs claiming to be a resource officer conducting a “scared straight” program.

Investigators determined that Hendon tried to enter a county courthouse on four occasions while dressed in tactical police attire and carrying a firearm. Another time Hendon tried to enter the Summit County Jail with handcuffed children.

[…]

Hendon was arrested and charged with four counts of illegal conveyance of a deadly weapon into a courthouse, four counts of criminal trespassing and four counts of impersonating a peace officer.

I think he was just exercising his right to free speech. They should release him immediately and stop persecuting people who self-identify as something they are not.

As we said the other day, the trial of Shane Ladner started on Monday. Ladner, you may remember, claimed that he was awarded a Purple Heart for wounds he sustained during drug interdiction operations in Central America in the 1990s. Our friends at Fox5 Atlanta report that, even though Ladner won’t be testifying on his own behalf at the trial, the prosecutor played a video of Ladner during a deposition in 2015 when he sued Fox5;

“I woke up and there was a Purple Heart on my pillow,” he told our attorney Cynthia Counts. “I was approached by someone in a– who I assumed was a Colonel. He was in a colonel’s uniform. I was instructed on the sensitivity of our missions. I was reminded of my nondisclosure paperwork and I was told that if anyone asked I was injured in Panama.”

The prosecution also brought in an FBI agent, special agent Mark Sewell, who could find no record of shrapnel wounds in Ladner’s medical records.

[T]he medical documents consistently showed only scars for an appendix operation at age 16 and a hernia operation at age eight. No shrapnel wound scar.

Chief Assistant District Attorney Rachelle Carnesale asked special agent Sewell about a February 13, 1991 visit to the clinic by Ladner.

“So on that day was Mr. Ladner in the hospital having his stitches checked?”

“No. It shows he was being treated for turning an ankle while running,” replied Sewell.

In fact, Ladner’s medical records produced in court describe only minor issues. During the time he was supposedly on a series of secret missions throughout 1991, he was treated for a Plexiglas window falling on his hand, a twisted ankle after stepping off a sidewalk, and a hurt nose when the door in his dorm room hit him in the face.

I guess Team Ladner’s strategy is to cast doubt on the Army’s record-keeping. Either that, or give the impression that Ladner’s wounds were so secret that the Army removed all evidence of his wounds from their records. There were no Purple Heart Medals awarded for drug interdiction operations – there was no war, so why would anyone get a Purple Heart?

Two and a half years ago, Eric Frein, a Cold War reenactor, murdered a Pennsylvania State trooper, Cpl. Bryon Dickson II. Trooper Alex Douglass was seriously injured in the attack. Frein was found guilty in a recent trial and during the sentencing part of the trial, Frein’s father takes the blame for his son’s actions, according to PennLive;

Eric Frein grew up listening to his dad’s war stories.

His father, Eugene Michael Frein, told him he was a tank commander in Vietnam.

And a sniper.

And that he was in many firefights with the Viet Cong.

And for all of his life, Eric Frein listened to the man he emulated.

But the defense is arguing there was a big problem with his father’s tales.

None of them were true.

“He was raised in a household filled with false stories about a hero who was not a hero,” Eric Frein’s attorney, Michael Weinstein, told the court today. Frein’s father exposed him to these exaggerations of his military service in what Weinstein said amounts to “self-aggrandized, narcissistic behavior.”

But it wasn’t only these made up war stories – which likely inspired his becoming a re-enactor – that had an influence on Eric Frein. It was also his father’s theories about the police having too much power and the government taking away too many rights, the defense argued, that all added up to Frein shooting two state troopers – one of them fatally.

“I failed Eric as a father,” the elder Frein said from the witness stand.

So, apparently, that’s all it takes – stolen valor causes murder.

Thanks to Thom for the link.