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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Glenn Grothman- 2022 Update [1]

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Date: 2022-10-10

U.S. House Rep. Glenn Grothman, of Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District, who never fails to blurt out illogical and bigoted things without being prompted.

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 Wisconsin’s 6th Congressional District, Glenn Grothman, a man whose record on women’s issues as a state legislator is bad enough that he didn’t just vote against emergency contraception for rape victims so that they couldn’t avoid get pregnant, he has publicly gone on record to say that women who seek it out are “trained” to say they were raped so they could get the morning after pill. He also has spent a lot of time badmouthing Planned Parenthood, calling the organization “racist” at times, and at others accusing them of allowing pregnant women to have sex-selective abortions, and arguing against funding them because “as a guy” he didn’t think their services would do HIM any good. Grothman would also like to cancel Martin Luther King Day, called Kwanzaa “a fake holiday for black people”, and while he’s at it, has tried cancelling the weekend for workers.



Grothman has pledged to cut all government assistance from others because “it’s a bribe to not work hard” and has encouraged his constituents to scrutinize people using food stamps in public to determine if they are “genuinely poor”. Rounding out his delightful personality is his support for the anti-gay laws Uganda pushed forth, where the punishment for being gay is death, and that he feels the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling should not be honored because it would be disrespectful to the American Soldiers who gave their lives fighting for their deeply held religious beliefs in the Civil War (because that makes sense).



Back in 2012, Grothman claimed that President Obama and Sen. Tammy Baldwin only won office in 2012 because of widespread voter fraud, so voting record in Wisconsin supported repeated measures on Voter ID In two consecurtive presidential elections now, Grothman straight up predicted Republican presidential candidate would have a better chance of winning Wisconsin because the Voter ID law was put into place, straight up admitting in April of 2016 that it would help stop Hillary Clinton (and sadly, he was proven correct).



Glenn Grothman has managed to weigh in on more issues in ways that we can only describe as inexplicably d***ish. In March of 2017, he went on a rant against college Pell Grants, arguing that they shouldn’t be funded because they, we s*** you not, “discourage marriages”. Don’t think about why attendance in college might discourage someone from settling down with a spouse too hard, because there is no statistic or logic behind Grothman’s stupid argument. But he was far from done… as the Supreme Court was making a ruling in the Gill v. Whitford case, which was aimed at overturning an outrageous level of gerrymandering that was set up in Wisconsin several years back. And yet, Glenn Grothman is challenging that the Supreme Court shouldn’t have the authority to do that.

Now, Grothman has made various insensitive racial comments through the years, and since we last updated his profile, he was asked about his feelings about Donald Trump’s “s***hole countries” remarks, and Grothman responded that it really wasn’t as offensive as things other presidents have done, like just for example, the time that Barack Obama met with the Reverend Al Sharpton:

Yes, Grothman just equated meeting with a civil rights leader with disparaging the entire African continent and Haiti as a “s***hole”. Making it worse? His comments came, of on all days… Martin Luther King Day.



Glenn Grothman withered in front of a town hall back in his home district in April 2017, and when faced with outrage over an attempted “Repeal and Replace” plan for the Affordable Care Act, straight up lied to his constituents and claimed that it would still cover pre-existing conditions (See Above, it didn’t). He was also his usually abrasively conservative self, acknowledging he supports a highly expensive but almost certainly ineffective border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, lying by claiming that Planned Parenthood is the “biggest abortion provider in the country,” and took time to s*** on the country’s welfare system, falsely claiming that it “discourages” work and marriage.

The +8 Republican lean of Wisconsin’s 6th Congressional District was enough to see Glenn Grothman was re-elected to a third term in 2020 with 59% of the vote.

Do you think he has a large swath of partisan votes that he’s made? You bet your ass he has:

Grothman has been doing the political calculus and seems to think that eliminating all of the social safety net for all Americans isn’t a winning formula for him, so instead, he’s specifically attacking the social safety net that’s available for immigrants, who he has also been demonizing in discussions about the U.S./Mexico border. Oh, and of course he wasted taxpayers’ time and money by trying to ban “Critical Race Theory” from being taught in schools in the District of Columbia, even though it wasn’t being taught anyway. He’s always had a white nationalist bent in who he makes the targets of his rhetoric, so this stance tracks with his overall brand of being an ***hole.

Of course, the big campaign issue in 2020 was Covid-19, and on that, Grothman almost certainly didn’t do himself any favors, turning up maskless at the Wisconsin GOP convention in July of 2021, and while speaking, going into a savage coughing fit that sent respiratory droplets into the crowd. He insisted he was never sick, and it was just “a dry throat”, but with all the other evidence turning up right now, the more likely thing is that he just doesn’t care if he spreads Covid-19 or any other disease to anyone else.

We have the greatest of regrets in reporting that… no one filed to run against Glenn Grothman in the mid-terms, so this cantankerous wanker will be the Congresscritter for Wisconsin’s 6th District through 2024.

Jesus wept.

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