Gosar playing hooky

Mar 2nd, 2021 | By Ophelia Benson
Category: Notes and Comment Blog

Rep. Paul Gosar spoke Friday night at a Florida event organized by a white nationalist.

To make the appearance at the far-right AFPAC, an extremist alternative to the annual CPAC gathering of conservatives, Gosar, R-Ariz., had to skip voting in person on the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that passed the House early Saturday. He had notified the House in writing that he couldn’t be physically present in Congress because of the ongoing pandemic.

The ongoing pandemic of dogs eating his homework.

AFPAC stands for the America First Political Action Committee and was put together by Nick Fuentes, an anti-immigration conservative who attended the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville and last year was banned from YouTube for repeatedly violating its rules against hate speech.

Then the next day he went to CPAC and pretended to disapprove of white nationalism.

ABC News reported that Fuentes, the organizer, spoke after Gosar and told attendees that if the U.S. “loses its white demographic core, then this is not America anymore.”

I wonder if he realizes that to many of his fellow white nationalists, the name “Fuentes” gets you an automatic expulsion from the “white demographic core.”

In his letter Friday extending his voting by proxy, Gosar said, “I continue to be unable to physically attend proceedings in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency and I hereby grant the authority to cast my vote by proxy to the Honorable Yvette Herrell of New Mexico, who has agreed to serve as my proxy.”

In other words a manatee ate his homework.

Gosar wasn’t the only Republican to sidestep in-person voting in the House. Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., and Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., were among those who also filed for proxy voting and were scheduled to take part in CPAC events. They, too, cited the ongoing health emergency for their absence in Congress.

Manatees ate their homework! It’s pervasive whitenationalistophobia!

7 Responses to “Gosar playing hooky”

#1
iknklast
March 2, 2021 at 9:09 am

I wish a manatee would eat my homework. Manatees are awesome.
#2
What a Maroon
March 2, 2021 at 9:19 am

Speaking of CPAC and white nationalism:

For four days at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Orlando, speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference shared a number of contentious views, from echoing false claims about election fraud to undermining the seriousness of a pandemic that has killed more than 512,000 Americans.

But some critics also took aim at a seemingly more mundane detail: the shape of the conference stage.

Images of the CPAC stage went viral this weekend as many noted a resemblance to the Odal or Othala Rune, a symbol emblazoned on some Nazi uniforms. The Anti-Defamation League has classified the insignia as a hate symbol that has been adopted by modern day white supremacists.

And Madison Cawthorn is the future of the Republican Party

Madison Cawthorn was a 21-year-old freshman at a conservative Christian college when he spoke at chapel, testifying about his relationship with God. He talked emotionally about the day a car accident left him partially paralyzed and reliant on a wheelchair.

Cawthorn said a close friend had crashed the car in which he was a passenger and fled the scene, leaving him to die “in a fiery tomb.” Cawthorn was “declared dead,” he said in the 2017 speech at Patrick Henry College. He said he told doctors that he expected to recover and that he would “be at the Naval Academy by Christmas.”

Key parts of Cawthorn’s talk, however, were not true. The friend, Bradley Ledford, who has not previously spoken publicly about the chapel speech, said in an interview that Cawthorn’s account was false and that he pulled Cawthorn from the wreckage. An accident report obtained by The Washington Post said Cawthorn was “incapacitated,” not that he was declared dead. Cawthorn himself said in a lawsuit deposition, first reported by the news outlet AVL Watchdog, that he had been rejected by the Naval Academy before the crash.

Shortly after the speech, Cawthorn dropped out of the college after a single semester of mostly D’s, he said in the deposition, which was taken as part of a court case regarding insurance. Later, more than 150 former students signed a letter accusing him of being a sexual predator, which Cawthorn has denied.
#3
Sackbut
March 2, 2021 at 11:18 am

I wish a manatee would eat my homework. Manatees are awesome.

If I had a pet manatee, I’d bottle the water it swam in and sell it as a perfume. I’d name him Hugh, and call the perfume “Eau de Hugh Manatee”.
#4
Ophelia Benson
March 2, 2021 at 11:36 am

I had to say it aloud to get it, & then it made me laugh like a drain.
#5
Harald Hanche-Olsen
March 2, 2021 at 12:39 pm

I don’t know a lot about manatees, but can readily agree that they are awesome. I don’t believe eating homework is beneficial to their health, though.
#6
Your Name's not Bruce?
March 2, 2021 at 7:08 pm

If I had a pet manatee, I’d bottle the water it swam in and sell it as a perfume. I’d name him Hugh, and call the perfume “Eau de Hugh Manatee”.

Dugongit!
#7
Pliny the in Between
March 3, 2021 at 10:05 am

As the founder of SWAMM (society working against manatee misappropriation) I must object to any attempt to blame these most innocuous of creatures for the vile antics of Republicans.

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