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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Chip Roy- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-09-11
U.S. House Rep. Chip Roy, of Texas' 21st Congressional District, who is exactly the type of ***hole who would willfully have worked for Ted Cruz, but now is staking out his own white nationalist reputation.
On this date in 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled the U.S. House Representative from Texas’ 21st Congressional District, Chip Roy, who was elected to office for the first time in 2018, and whose prior political experience was working as a staffer for the loathsome Sen. Ted Cruz until he saw a plum GOP-leaning seat left behind by retiring Congressman Lamar Smith. And boy oh boy, is Chip Roy showing us that he’s just as much of an ***hole as his former boss.
In May of 2019, a bill cleared the Senate to approve $19.1 billion in disaster relief funding for victims of wildfires and hurricanes, which included areas of Texas damaged by Hurricane Harvey. On May 24th, 2019, it was expected to pass the House with a simple voice vote, and most of the GOP content to let it pass by a simple voice vote, provided no objections were presented by Republicans. GOP House leadership had no intention of doing so… BUT CHIP ROY is just that much of an ***hole, and he decided to hold up the needed disaster relief bill because Nancy Pelosi thought a voice vote would suffice. Remember, though, this was a bill that got fired through Mitch McConnell’s Senate, and BOTH Texas Senators voted for. But Chip Roy wasn’t gonna let Pelosi get away with… whatever she was doing that all his fellow Texas Republicans wanted.
That isn’t a one-off for how obsessive Rep. Roy is, as he’s kept members of Congress up until 4AM to try and secure money for Trump’s novelty project and all around stupid idea, the border wall… and it wasn’t just that he did that to just be a jerk to Democrats, who obviously have the majority and were gonna shoot that down… but it was that Roy ditched his own wife on their 15th wedding anniversary to do so. What a lucky gal she must be.
Meanwhile, in House Oversight Committee hearings, Roy has turned up to play defense as much as he can for the Donald Trump and his clusterf*** of an administration, including trying to insinuate during the Michael Cohen hearings that Cohen had only turned on Trump because he was bitter he didn’t get hired to work in the White House. He’s been far worse during hearings questioning the actions of ICE for locking children in cages, where he claimed to have been to the border many times and never saw a child in a cage (in spite of photos showing this leaking to the public), he went on to say Democrats don’t actually care about the kids and are just attempting to “score political points”. (Motherf***er, this isn’t a game. THOSE ARE CHILDREN IN CAGES. NOBODY IS PLAYIN’ WITH THAT.)
His voting record is, as you’d expect, one of the most rabidly conservative in all of the Republican Caucus:
Chip Roy is currently making headlines for some brazen sexism. There’s talks of making women eligible to file with selective service so they could be drafted should the U.S. ever have to have one for an armed conflict, and this simple equality has led him to have quite the fit, saying those looking to make women eligible “can go straight to Hell”. He also has ceased to have any kind of poker face about partisanship, admitting in a video he posted online that he views his role in Congress is to sow “chaos and an inability to get stuff done”, specifically in the hopes of helping Republicans’ cause in the 2022 mid-terms.
Maybe that’s because he knew it was only a matter of time before the other shoe dropped, which would have been in April of 2022 when we learned from January 6th Committee investigations that Chip Roy was in frequent conversations with Mark Meadows at the Trump White House trying to get “ammo” in the form of stories about purported voter fraud for him to flog in the public. Those were found to have come both before, and after the attack on the Capitol.
This man is clearly the kind of ***hole who would work for Ted Cruz, all right.
One Year Ago, September 11th, 2021: Chip Roy (TX)… 2021 Update
Two Years Ago, September 11th, 2020: Chip Roy (TX)… 2020 Update
Three Years Ago, September 11th, 2019: Chip Roy (TX)… Original Profile
Four Years Ago, September 11th, 2018: Joe Barton (TX)… 2018 Update
Five Years Ago, September 11th, 2017: Joe Barton (TX)… 2017 Update
Six Years Ago, September 11th, 2016: Joe Barton (TX)… 2016 Update
Seven Years Ago, September 11th, 2015:Joe Barton (TX)… 2015 Update
Eight Years Ago, September 11th, 2014: Joe Barton (TX)…Original Profile
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