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You are here: Home / Economics / C.R.E.A.M. / Late Night Idiocracy Open Thread: SPRINGTIME FOR ‘SHERIFF’ ARPAIO

Late Night Idiocracy Open Thread: SPRINGTIME FOR ‘SHERIFF’ ARPAIO

by Anne Laurie|  January 10, 20181:39 am| 22 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Election 2018, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Assholes, Clap Louder!, Fucked-up-edness

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In the fantasy world where Mitch McConnell has a heart, he just had a heart attack pic.twitter.com/hOhAwXiU0t

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 9, 2018

If you thought the ‘Oprah for President 2020, or Not’ fooferaw was silly, pardoned felon Joe Arpaio has a bridge candidacy to sell you!

I have seen the future of the Republican Party and it’s 85 years old. https://t.co/bLuZFL6jwN

— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 9, 2018

This seems like a dream come true for McSally, a split in the far right anti-establishment primary vote. https://t.co/MDyDXsOQZ6

— Matt Glassman (@MattGlassman312) January 10, 2018


It’s a disturbing sign of moral decay in the modern Republican Party that a racist sheriff and convicted criminal in Arizona and an accused child molester in Alabama are the best they have to offer. https://t.co/8gqHagJ66a

— Tom Perez (@TomPerez) January 9, 2018

If Dems thought Roy Moore was a political gift from heaven, we have three new magic words: Arpaio for Senate.

— Jim Messina (@Messina2012) January 10, 2018

Springtime for Arpaio https://t.co/MTdGDhiNnb

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) January 9, 2018

Great basis to launch a campaign. https://t.co/bTqVCJWkz8

— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 9, 2018

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  1. 1.

    hilts

    January 10, 2018 at 1:46 am

    OT

    Washington Monthly has a great timeline detailing every instance in which Trump has violated the foreign and domestic emoluments clauses of the Constitution during his 1st year as President

    h/t https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january-february-march-2018/a-year-in-trump-corruption

  2. 2.

    piratedan

    January 10, 2018 at 1:47 am

    believe it when he files, he’s probably just milking the gullible for cash…

    McSally is a shark though, she’ll play herself off as a “moderate” to the general population but she was knee deep in the Congressional travesties earlier this year. She’s not as dumb as some of her fellow reps (i.e. Gohmert, Blackburn), she’s quite possibly savvy enough to pull it off, at least she’s demonstrably smarter in not publicly exposing herself as an idiot. Hoping that the Dem wave inundates her and leaves her broken, but suspect she’ll land on her feet

  3. 3.

    Roger Moore

    January 10, 2018 at 2:11 am

    @piratedan:

    believe it when he files, he’s probably just milking the gullible for cash…

    I fully expect him to file, since the grifting opportunities multiply for candidates and even more for corrupt officials.

  4. 4.

    Mike G

    January 10, 2018 at 2:23 am

    This is gold —
    Portland’s officials dubiously assert a right to search anyone’s garbage without a warrant:

    Prosecutor Mark McDonnell says that once you set your garbage out on the curb, it becomes public property.
    “She placed her garbage can out in the open, open to public view, in the public right of way,” McDonnell told Judge Jean Kerr Maurer earlier this month. “There were no signs on the garbage, ‘Do not open. Do not trespass.’ There was every indication…she had relinquished her privacy, possessory interest.”

    Police Chief Mark Kroeker echoed this reasoning. “Most judges have the opinion that [once] trash is put out…it’s trash, and abandoned in terms of privacy,” he told WW.

    So Willamette Week swiped their trash from public rights of way, and reported on the contents.
    http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-1616-rubbish.html-2

  5. 5.

    Jay S

    January 10, 2018 at 2:23 am

    @Roger Moore: Here’s hoping his campaign thoroughly milks the rubes until it collapses, Hopefully Arizona voters have had enough of him, and he gives Republicans heartburn for as long as possible.

  6. 6.

    Jay S

    January 10, 2018 at 2:27 am

    @Mike G: Actually the story is from 2002 and was updated in December 2017 for some reason. The assertion is not dubious, unfortunately. There are very few states with garbage privacy rights.

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    January 10, 2018 at 2:41 am

    One of the reasons Arpaiao lost as sheriff was because it came out that he was so obsessed with illegal immigration that he allowed child molesters and rapists to run rampant without so much as an investigation of the reports that were filed because he wanted those deputies to work illegal immigration cases instead.

    It’s child molesters all the way down in the Republican Party.

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    Amir Khalid

    January 10, 2018 at 2:58 am

    Joe Arpaio believes that, because a Presidential pardon rendered his sentencing hearing moot, his conviction for disobeying a Federal judge is void. I have to wonder why a man who doesn’t seem to understand or respect Federal law is so keen to have a hand in making it. At best, given Arizona voters’ disenchantment with him, I think he might end up like Roy Moore — a nominee with only tepid support from a Republican party that finds him an embarrassment.

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    January 10, 2018 at 3:04 am

    On a happier note, The Girl and I have spent a lovely day practising the riff from Neil Young’s Hey Hey My My (Into The Black). It sounds good with the Fender Champ 20 on a metal setting. Tonight we might have a whack at the solo.

  10. 10.

    Jay S

    January 10, 2018 at 3:11 am

    @Amir Khalid: I have no doubt he wants to make the law into his own image. Break it to make it. BTW it is very quiet tonight for some reason.

  11. 11.

    opiejeanne

    January 10, 2018 at 3:17 am

    @Amir Khalid: You are having such fun with that guitar and it’s been fun to hear a little about it.

  12. 12.

    opiejeanne

    January 10, 2018 at 3:19 am

    @Jay S: It is quiet but I need to sleep soon. Been sick since Christmas Eve, today felt like I’m finally starting to recover but sleep is still what I need most.

  13. 13.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    January 10, 2018 at 3:36 am

    Ironcially Ex-Con Arpaio lost the right to vote.

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    January 10, 2018 at 3:43 am

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
    But not, as I understand, the quite separate right to run for elected office. And he’s argued (in vain, but still) that Trump’s pardon means he’s not really a convict anymore.

  15. 15.

    Mary G

    January 10, 2018 at 3:57 am

    I don’t think it’s the wingnut welfare. Like Twitler he has to see his name in print no matter what. Now that he’s out of office he’s not getting the fix, so this will provide.

  16. 16.

    Patricia Kayden

    January 10, 2018 at 4:00 am

    @Roger Moore: And Trump and Bannon can come out to loudly endorse him. Worked out so well for Ed Gillespie and Roy Moore.

  17. 17.

    Raven

    January 10, 2018 at 7:12 am

    @opiejeanne: I hated to eat the hydrocodone but I had to have some sleep

  18. 18.

    mardam422

    January 10, 2018 at 8:09 am

    This is just a continuation of Arpaio’s grifting. But hey, Trump had no intentions of becoming President, either. So the longer this goes on, the better for Dems in AZ.

  19. 19.

    kindness

    January 10, 2018 at 9:02 am

    This Oprah thing. I admire her but the last thing I want is a media person running the country. It has never worked out well when that happened.

    Who do you think is priming the Oprah pump as I see it everywhere?

  20. 20.

    chopper

    January 10, 2018 at 9:47 am

    damn, that perez tweet is brutal.

  21. 21.

    worn

    January 10, 2018 at 9:57 am

    @Mike G: @Mike G: Dude, Mark K hasn’t been our chief for a long ass time & Mayor Katz passed away last year. The story is from late December 2002.

    ETA: Jay S got there first.

  22. 22.

    J R in WV

    January 10, 2018 at 10:39 am

    @Raven:

    Sorry you’re still under the weather. Your Dawgs did well, gave Bama all they could handle. Nothing embarrassing about losing by 3 in double overtime. It was a great football game beginning to end.

    I wish I could have seen it, but I found a play-by-play on the NCAA site and so could follow it a little bit. As in til the end.

    Take care of yourself, we aren’t spring chickens any more!

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