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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Joe Wilson- 2023 Update [1]
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Date: 2023-12-17
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day posted profiles of the U.S. House Representative from South Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District, Joe Wilson, who made himself notorious back in 2009 at President Obama’s first State of the Union speech when he took the unprecedented act to disregard all decorum by standing up and screaming, “YOU LIE!” at the leader of the free world during a nationally televised speech. At least when Waldorf and Statler heckle on the Muppets, they make it funny. The GOP closed ranks, and only one member of the GOP voted to admonish him for it.
Perhaps that should come as little surprise, because he once expressed his disappointment that nobody in the Democratic Primary in 2008 addressed Obama’s birth certificate. That seems to also fall into a pattern, because Joe Wilson was also a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans while a state legislator, tried denying his former boss on Capitol Hill, Strom Thurmond, had ever had an affair with an African-American woman, calling it “unseemly” and a “smear” that anyone would do so (meanwhile, genetic tests proved it true). In a debate about the soon-to-be Iraq War in 2002, Rep. Wilson denied that the United States supplied WMDs to Saddam Hussein in the 1980s to justify a need for force…
Since voting to send our brave young men and women to fight in that conflict, Wilson has voted over a dozen times now against healthcare funding for veterans. He’s still using military conflicts to make irrational political points, though, as he claimed President Obama had only started airstrikes against ISIL because he wanted to distract Americans from Benghazi (where investigators found no administration wrongdoing), the IRS Scandal (where no malicious wrongdoing was found), and Obamacare (which is actually a positive thing). Which is to say, Rep. Wilson spends a lot of time jumping at shadows, as he also was highly suspicious of Planned Parenthood after watching the hoax videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress.
So, while Joe Wilson has a district tailor fit to keep electing conservatives, things were hardly copacetic down in South Carolina’s 2nd District. Rep. Wilson hosted a town hall back in April that, quite frankly, devolved into his constituents chanting “YOU LIE!” back at him, because he was feeding them some less-than-honest statements regarding the GOP’s attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Wilson was another of the GOP’s witless morons who was duped by Sasha Baron Cohen on “Who is America?” , having himself recorded on video endorsing the idea of arming toddlers, saying, "A 3-year-old cannot defend itself from an assault rifle by throwing a Hello Kitty pencil case at it".
He still insists he’s not a lunatic.
Joe Wilson was shown during the 2018 elections to have received campaign donations from the indicted Russian influencer Igor Fruman during the 2018 elections. As in “Lev and Igor”, the chucklef***s who were looking to aid Russia’s attempts to screw with Ukraine on behalf of Donald Trump.
And yet, he keeps being re-elected. Which, based on that amicus brief we mentioned above, he’s somehow trying to help Donald Trump in a way that he also challenged the legitimacy of his own re-election in 2020. Because he’s a seditious moron. We don’t have a nicer way to put that, so we won’t.
We will note that on numerous times in the past few years, Joe Wilson has shared stories from Adam Kredo of the conservative blog The Washington Free Beacon. While he is in a perpetual state of declaring whatever conservative windmill tilt of the moment as “a crisis of Biden’s making”, he has been almost entirely silent regarding the attack on our Capitol on Jan. 6th, other than paying minimal lip service after the attack, and a week after attack, buying the traumatized officers of the Capitol Police Chik-Fil-A, because of course it had to be a way to get money towards an anti-LGBTQ corporation. We’re sure the officers preferred cheap-ass fast food on one afternoon instead of getting his support for a bipartisan investigation into who was responsible to the attack.
In his eleventh term, well… let’s just say Joe Wilson hasn’t changed much:
Joe Wilson just won re-election in 2022 with 59% of the vote, so he headed back to DC for a twelfth term in office as a part of the least productive Congress in modern history. Make no mistake, Joe Wilson is a disingenuous cheap shot artist who does no good for the country except to smear anything that isn’t conservative as “destroying this country”, and we’ll be better off whenever he buggers off back to South Carolina instead of haunting Congress for years.
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