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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 12:18 AM Aug 2021

Josh Mandel-- another asshole who must be stopped...

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/josh-mandel-falsely-claims-us-postal-service-is-unconstitutional-vows-to-eliminate-it/

(If it's just one sentence, does it count as a paragraph?)

“In this country right now, we’re in a fight,” Mandel said. “We’re in a fight against the radical left, who are trying to take away our guns. We’re in a fight against the secular left, which is trying to take God out of all aspects in our life. My feeling is we shouldn’t be watering down our Judeo-Christian values; we should be doubling down on those Judeo-Christian values and instilling God in all aspects of the classroom, of work, and of society.”

“When I get to Washington, I’m going to make decisions with two documents in hand,” he added. “With the Bible in one hand and the Constitution in the other.”


Following his remarks, Mandel took questions from the audience, including one from an attendee who called for the abolition of the U.S. Postal Service because he was upset about having “to wait for our neighbor to bring our mail over.”

Mandel sympathized, falsely claiming that the existence of the U.S. Postal Service is unconstitutional and vowing to work to eliminate it if he’s elected to Congress.

“I agree that [it’s] completely incompetent and could never stand up in the private sector,” Mandel said. “But there’s a bigger issue here. And this is what I’m going to do when I get to Washington: I’m going to post on the wall of my office the United States Constitution, and right next to it, I’m going to post an organizational chart of the federal government. And for every agency, sub-agency, bureau, department—all these departments we’ve never even heard of in the bowels of the federal government—I’m going to work with people like [Sen.] Rand Paul and [Reps.] Thomas Massie and Jim Jordan and others to try to eliminate all these departments that are never called for in the Constitution.”


cross posted in Ohio
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Josh Mandel-- another asshole who must be stopped... (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 OP
christofascist theocrat Thomas Hurt Aug 2021 #1
Steven Miller Redux DET Aug 2021 #2
Sherrod Brown Whooped This Punk's Ass Twice ChoppinBroccoli Aug 2021 #3
Good to hear. At least California has Angelyne, and maybe Mary Carey, running... TreasonousBastard Aug 2021 #4
Talked with a Republican campaign advisor years ago Norbert Aug 2021 #7
A Lot Of WHITT Aug 2021 #5
Stupid is the lowest common denominator of the republican party, and voter. denbot Aug 2021 #6

ChoppinBroccoli

(3,784 posts)
3. Sherrod Brown Whooped This Punk's Ass Twice
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 01:02 AM
Aug 2021

He hasn't won a damn thing ever. He couldn't even get One Term Donnie's endorsement to run for Rob Portman's Senate seat. He's a nobody.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
4. Good to hear. At least California has Angelyne, and maybe Mary Carey, running...
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 01:47 AM
Aug 2021

in the recall. If you're gonna trash the entire concept of democracy, might as well go all out.

Norbert

(6,041 posts)
7. Talked with a Republican campaign advisor years ago
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 06:17 AM
Aug 2021

who thought they had the real deal in Josh Mandel when he ran for the senate the first time around. He tried to help advise Mandel on what to do to successfully campaign for the senate seat. Mandel would then go to the Tea Party powers-that-be and do just the opposite.

This advisor kept telling Mandel. "Josh, you can beat Sherrod Brown but he is no push over. You have to play it smart." Mandel would just go right back to the tea party and follow their advice. The advisor I know said he finally threw up his hands and told Mandel, "You do what you think is right" and washed his hands of the hot mess of a senate campaign.

So on the GQP side, leading the way you have Vance, Gibbons who is campaigning on 'everything that is wrong can be traced to the left' and Mandel who is now full MAGA. I just hope we don't lose a senate seat to one of these idiots. Does Stacy Abrams have a sister she can lend us?

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