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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Mo Brooks- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-08-28
The moment that will be the political legacy for sedition-loving Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks.
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Alabama’s 5th District, Mo Brooks, the U.S. House Representative from Alabama’s 5th Congressional District. Brooks, a Tea Party Wave beneficiary, has already demonstrated that he doesn’t understand how the debt ceiling works and channels the sort of bigotry worthy of the legacy of George Wallace, having stated he is willing to “do anything short of shooting” illegal immigrants to solve the problem, and characterizing Democratic policies as part of a “War on Whites”. Brooks is currently one of the most xenophobic opponents of immigration, and on more than one occasion has stated his belief that immigration reform was a plot by Democrats to “dilute the voting power of Americans”, and has called for the impeachment of President Obama for his executive orders on immigration. He also has claimed Democrats use “class warfare”, "racial division”, and “sexual exploitation” to help them get votes, which is quite the shift in the actual paradigm in this country. On July 8th, 2015, Mo Brooks went on Yellowhammer Radio, and stated his belief that illegal immigrants have murdered more Americans than the six to seven thousand Americans who have died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq so far this century (Hint: That’s insane, and xenophobic, but that’s Mo Brooks for you). Brooks, in an interview not long after the worst mass shooting in U.S. History at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, weighed in by claiming that “the Muslim community, which, if it had its way, would kill every homosexual in the United States of America.” Because there’s no better way to respond to a tragedy by trying to stir up fears against foreigners, right?
Becaues Mo Brooks cares so much about what horrors are wrought by foreign adversaries and would like to do whatever he can to help the good people of this country who are harmed by those attacks— no, wait, he was one of tweleve people who voted against the Zadroga Act to provide healthcare to 9/11 First Responders impacted by inhaling all the dust in New York City while looking for people lost in the wreckage. Because of course he did. But he never seemed to shy away from being in the extreme lunatic minority, like when in 2020, he was one of only 14 Republicans who voted against the creation of a federal holiday to celebrate Juneteenth.
Anyway, there were 385 days to go until the 2016 election and Mo Brooks already was talking about impeaching Hillary Clinton for having a private e-mail server while serving as Secretary of State. A month later, Rep. Brooks, during a Congressional hearing, suggested the United States should arm Ukraine in their conflict with Russia, in the hopes that it would lead the Russians out of Syria. There was agreement from both hawk and dove alike on Capitol Hill that this was a moronic suggestion, and it was nice to see both sides agree that Mo Brooks has terrible ideas.
Much like how in April of 2018, that Rep. Brooks was calling for the National Guard to not just be deployed to the U.S./Mexico border, but they be allowed to use “whatever force necessary” to hunt for border-crossers. Many of whom, of course, are women with children fleeing violence and seeking amnesty, but hey, let’s just give the Guardsmen the green light to gun them down, y’know?
After winning re-election in 2016 with 67% of the vote in a safe conservative district, Mo Brooks tried to jump from the U.S. House, and supplant Sen. Luther Strange, the man appointed to replace Jeff Sessions by shamed (now former) Alabama Governor Robert Bentley. In July of 2017, Brooks promised that if elected to the U.S. Senate, he would use his position to filibuster by reading the King James Bible until Donald Trump’s proposed border wall (that experts note wouldn’t work) was funded, and then released an ad to promote his bid to get elected to the U.S. Senate that featured audio of the attempted assassination of Congressman Steve Scalise (he was there at the time). Both parties criticized him for trying to exploit the shooting, because obviously. Well, against some of the most conservative lunatics Alabama had to offer, Mo Brooks failed to advance out of the GOP Primary, finishing third behind Luther Strange. Of course, Roy Moore finished first so… it’s hard to like anyone involved in that saga.
Perhaps the biggest moment of utter stupidity from Mo Brooks of late came in May of 2018, when he tried a new strategy for denying climate change as a member of the House Science Committee. When faced with statistics about rising sea levels… you see, Brooks explained the sea levels were only rising because “rocks were falling into the ocean”. If that wasn’t insane enough, Brooks then went on to claim that the Antarctic ice sheet, which is melting rapidly, was somehow GROWING.
On March 25th, 2019, Mo Brooks Brooks took to the floor of the House, where he decided it was a great time to QUOTE HITLER. Yes, that’s right, he complained about investigations into President Trump by Robert Mueller, and compared the Mueller investigation to the “Big Lie” that Hitler talked about in Mein Kampf.
On January 6th, 2021, Mo Brooks was one of the opening acts at the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., and told the mob to “start taking down names and kick some ass”, prior to them marching to the Capitol as Donald Trump told them to. He obviously knew there was going to be violence that day, as he was wearing body armor under his jacket. And he knew everything he did leading up to that day was illegal, as he sought a pardon from the Trump White House.
During the attack, there are reports from some former aides of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy who reported that Brooks was “cheering on” the domestic terrorists storming the building. In the late hours of January 6th, as the mob attacking the Capitol was dispersed, Brooks got on Twitter to claim there was “evidence that fascist ANTIFA infiltrated Trump rally and stormed the Capitol,” which anyone with a functional brain knew was bulls***. Brooks never presented any of this evidence, because it doesn’t exist, and also, it would be obvious because “fascist Antifa” would be “fascist Anti-fascists”, which is about counterproductive as any group could be in name or deed. Of course Rep. Brooks then voted for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that he wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup. Five days later on January 11th, 2021, lamented that the domestic terrorists he encouraged to “kick some ass” actually “destroyed two months of debate and work”, but swore he would “never apologize” for his remarks that day. Of course he voted against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because he needed to make sure not to make Daddy Trump angry at him, or he’d never win a Senate endorsement.
While the consequences may not have been immediate for a lot of the sedition caucus in Congress, Mo Brooks was facing legal consequences in civil court a lot faster than the rest of those folks in Congress who promoted the Big Lie. On March 5th, 2021: Rep. Brooks was sued in court by Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell for his role in inciting the Capitol riot on January 6th, and five months after the attack, after weeks of dodging process servers attempting to serve him with notice regarding Rep. Eric Swalwell’s lawsuit, Mo Brooks’ wife was successfully served at their home in Alabama, sending Mr. Brooks to social media in impotent rage. Flailing about a day after being served, Rep. Brooks accidentally shared his private e-mail password because it was on a note on his computer screen in a photo took because he’s too much of an incompetent twit to know how to do a screen capture. The lawsuit would be dismissed by a judge in March of 2022, but not after Mo Brooks repeatedly owned himself in throwing tantrums about it.
In July of 2021, Brooks showed he learned absolutely f***ing nothing from January 6th and goes to CPAC to give a speech where he pleaded with modern conservatives to emulate soldiers in the American Revolution who “fought at Valley Forge,” the site of one of the Continental Army’s winter encampments, adding, “that’s the kind of sacrifice we have to think about.” He has continued such rhetoric, telling supporters they should hang onto their assault weapons so they can “take back” our government (ignoring that it should be taken back in a legitimate election, but hey, he still claims 2020 was “rigged”).
A month later, on August 19th, 2021, a Trump supporter named Floyd Ray Rosenberry parked a truck outside of the Library of Congress and threatened to detonate a bomb if Joe Biden didn’t resign and if Donald Trump wasn’t re-installed in office against any and all Constitutional procedure. Rep. Brooks weighed in on Twitter, and put out a statement that seemed to sympathize with the domestic terrorist while pretending to not know what his motivations were, writing, ”Although this terrorist’s motivation is not yet publicly known, generally speaking, I understand citizenry anger directed at dictatorial socialism and its threat to liberty, freedom, and the very fabric of American society. I strongly encourage patriotic Americans to fight back in the 2022 and 2024 elections because America’s future is at risk.”
Anyway, in 2022, Mo Brooks thought he had Donald Trump’s endorsement locked up after all the things we’ve listed above, where he slavishly continued to yell out the ”Big Lie”, and prove his conservative bonafides… but alas, he never did enough in Trump’s eyes to “rescind the election” (there is no process for that), Trump began backing his opponent, Katie Britt, going into the GOP Primary, while calling Mo Brooks “woke”, a political betrayal predictable to anyone who’s ever paid attention to a douchebag as disloyal as Donald Trump. Thus, he lost the primary, and both the House and Senate will be rid of Mo Brooks come January of 2023. We would like to wish him our finest “GOOD RIDDANCE” greetings at this time, and look forward to the day when he’s charged with seditious conspiracy and given a perp walk.
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