Sunday, January 24, 2021

Trump Loyalists Clown Show guest star from South Carolina: Ken Richardson, Horry County school board chairman


Ken Richardson

Photo credit:  Horry County Schools (clown pface added)


New York Times, 1/21/2021

“I am 100 percent sure that Tom Rice is going to be primaried,” said Ken Richardson, the school board chairman in Horry County, who is leaning toward running against Mr. Rice himself. He said he has had to charge his phone three times a day to keep up with the nonstop calls and texts urging him to enter the race.

 

Horry County is 77.7% white, compared to 63.7% for the entire state of South Carolina.  Its population has quintupled since 1970.


In 2020, Trump received 29,533 more votes than he did in 2016, an increase of 33%.  Biden received 19,770 more votes than Clinton did in 2016, an increase of 50%.  Moreover, Trump received a slightly smaller percentage of the overall vote in 2020 than he did in 2016.





1/20/2021 update starts here

Tim Remington


New York Times, 1/14/2021
On the one hand, there are those who are doubling down on their Trump fanaticism and their delusion that a Biden presidency will destroy America. “I rebuke the news in the name of Jesus. We ask that this false garbage come to an end,” the conservative pastor Tim Remington preached from the pulpit in Idaho on Sunday. “It’s the lies, communism, socialism.”



1/19/2020 update starts here.

Klete Keller


New York Times, 1/18/2021
Yet within days after he was spotted in videos of the pro-Trump crowds that assaulted the Capitol, friends and former teammates of Keller, 38, turned him in to the F.B.I. Strangers demanded that he go to prison. And prominent voices called for him to be stripped of his Olympic medals.


1/18/2021 update, "Retired Pennsylvania firefighter was 'just following orders'" starts here.

Robert Sanford

Photo credit: CONAN Daily, 1/14/2021  (clown face added)

New York Times, 1/17/2021
When Mr. Sanford got home, according to a criminal complaint filed last week, he told a friend he had gone to Washington to hear Mr. Trump, then “followed the president’s instructions” and moved on to the Capitol.




Dave Spaulding

Photo credit:  Sooner Politics (clown face added)

KFOR, Oklahoma CIty, 1/12/2021
Dave Spaulding, the chair of the Cleveland County Republican Party, wrote the post on Facebook the morning of the riot at the U.S. Capitol Building. 
It says, “I dont understand my conservative Christian friends who say violence is unacceptable. What the crap do you think the American revolution was? A game of friggin pattycake? Blood was shed and rightfully so! And Christ didn’t politely and kindly ask the money changers to change locations. Are you content to allow this country that our fathers fought and died for to become another banana republic?”

Apparently, Balding Spaulding didn't check the election results in Cleveland County.  

Joe Biden received 10,998 more votes than Clinton in 2016, an increase of 28%.  It was the first time since 1976 that a Democratic candidate for President received more than 40% of the vote.

Trump, on the other hand, increased his 2016 tally by 4,139 votes, a modest increase of 7%.   

And yet Spaulding sides with the insurrectionists.

Thank you, Dave.  Keep on posting!


But wait, there's more!!

As a member of the Norman City Council, Spaulding voted against an anti-bullying ordinance in 2012..


1/17/2021 update, "Conservative activist and home builder from Bakersfield, California", starts here.

Ken Mettler

Photo credit:  Wikipedia (clown face added)

New York Times, 1/16/2021
“I’ll just boil it down: He’s a RINO traitor [reference to Rep. Kevin McCarthy],” said Kenneth L. Mettler, a Bakersfield conservative activist and home builder. “President Trump did nothing wrong. President Trump communicated his case. He did not incite anybody. I do honestly think there were agitators, infiltrators.”
Ken utters 3 provably false statements.  Trump 'communicated his case' but not in the way that Ken illogically believes.


1/15/2021 update, "Jet-setting Texas realtor", starts here.

Jenna Ryan


New York Times, 1/15/2021
Also among those arrested Friday was Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate agent and life coach, who took a private plane to Washington to participate in the riot, according to court documents. She was charged with disorderly conduct and unlawful entry. Ms. Ryan had filmed herself in the Capitol during the riot, and afterward, at least initially, defended her actions and said she had “answered the call of my president.”

 

1/14/2021 update, "Trump Loyalists Clown Show recruits the Georgia version of the Three Stooges", starts here




The Republican rift in the state Senate came to a head Tuesday when Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan demoted three Republican senators who have backed attempts to overturn the presidential vote in Georgia over baseless allegations of irregularities. 
When the bloodletting was over, state Sens. Brandon Beach of Alpharetta, Matt Brass of Newnan and Burt Jones of Jackson were sapped of their political influence on the second day of the winter session.


1/11/2021 update, "The Trump Loyalists Clown Show lands a brainwashed recruit from Iowa", starts here.

Doug Jensen


Doug Jensen, 41, was arrested by the FBI on Friday in Des Moines, Iowa, after returning home from the riot. An AP photographer captured images of him confronting Capitol Police officers outside of the Senate chamber on Wednesday. 
Jensen was wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with a large Q and the phrase “Trust The Plan,” a reference to QAnon. 
Jensen’s older brother, William Routh, told the AP on Saturday that Jensen believed that the person posting as Q was either Trump or someone very close to the president. 
“I feel like he had a lot of influence from the internet that confused or obscured his views on certain things,” said Routh, of Clarksville, Arkansas, who described himself as a Republican Trump supporter. “When I talked to him, he thought that maybe this was Trump telling him what to do.”


1/10/2021 update, "The Trump Loyalists Clown Show heads to Wisconsin" starts here.

Mitchell Hoyt

Photo credit:  Skinny Sticks Maple Syrup (face paint and hat added)

New York Times, 1/9/2021

Mitchell Hoyt, a Trump voter in Wisconsin, objected when a reporter referred to the “storming” of the Capitol.  “
The people didn’t show up with guns trying to overthrow the government, but the media likes to spin it that way,” he said. Though he said he believed the break-in and vandalism at the Capitol were “not a good representation of conservatism in this country,” he added: “I don’t think those people should be demonized. They’re angry and when people don’t think they have a voice that can be heard, stuff like this happens.”


1/9/2021 update, "Trump Loyalists Clown Show visits RNC winter meeting at Amelia Island, Florida", starts here.

Michele Fiore



New York Times, 1/8/2021
“I surely embrace President Trump,” said Michele Fiore, the committeewoman from Nevada, where Republicans have lost two Senate races and the governorship since 2016. Ms. Fiore, who was sporting a Trump-emblazoned vest, said the president was “absolutely” a positive force in the party.

Terry Lathan


“I would love to see him go into states that have some House seats we can flip in ’22,” said Terry Lathan, the Alabama G.OP. chair, who said “absolutely not” when she was asked if Mr. Trump bore any blame for the attack on the Capitol.


Original 1/8/2021 post, "The New York Times visits the Trump Loyalists Clown Show', starts here.

 Rose Tennent


New York Times, 1/7/2021
Then the host took a call from an empathetic pro-Trump activist and regular guest, Rose Tennent, who was standing outside the Capitol as the situation escalated. “At some point, people break,” Ms. Tennent said, offering not a single harsh word about the violent protesters who had overtaken the Capitol Police.  
“This is the hill they want to die on. This is a battle that is just as important to them as the Revolutionary War was,” she said, adding that these lawless demonstrators weren’t entirely to blame for their actions. “If you ask me, the Democrats and the media are responsible for this.”

Laura Ingraham

She also strained to draw a parallel to the protests outside the White House in late May, when someone started a fire in the basement of St. John’s Church that caused minor damage, saying, “That was terrifying. It wasn’t all roses and sunshine and peaceful.”

Mark Levin

Mark Levin, whose radio program reaches 11 million people each week, told his listeners that while he thought the rioters were “idiots” who had hurt the Trump movement, there was a possibility that they weren’t really Trump supporters.

The cast of The Trump Loyalists Clown Show
Bernard Kerik.  (1/7/2021)


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