Wash. Rep Shea - “Biblical Basis for War”, Liberty the 51st State, Christian Identity

[Skeptic Ginger]

Resign?
He needs to be put in Guantanamo!

Yeah, I don't understand why he isn't being charged with a crime yet.

And the way he and his buddies are still running around with assault weapons, I hope the police or FBI are paying attention.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

On a separate note, what a weird sex fetish, kill the men. Does he expect to round up the women?

 

[I Am The Scum]

On a separate note, what a weird sex fetish, kill the men. Does he expect to round up the women?

It's right out of the old testament.

 

[varwoche]

Shea in a new interview, quite appropriately conducted by an outlet called Redoubt News. link Scroll down a little bit.

A few minutes of the nuts fawning over one another. Leftist propaganda. Complaining about the cost of the investigation. Complaining that Shea has had more news stories about him than other people. (People who presumably haven't advocated mass murder.) Shea whining. A lot, with a very whiny voice. "Tho comparisons between you and President Trump are getting spooky". Etc.

 

[Giordano]

Never give up, never surrender!

This has become the new approach for when one is caught doing something reprehensible: just lie and deny the accusation no matter the evidence. Continue to do so no matter what happens. It doesn't matter if you committed the act on video tape in front of 150 witnesses and it is also documented by 232 physical pieces of evidence. Just deny it. It doesn't even matter if you previously acknowledged the truth of the charges yesterday. Just deny it now. Amazingly this appears to often work among one's dedicated supporters!

Who would have predicted that a line based on a Marx Brothers film, "Who do you believe, me or your lying eyes?" would no longer be a joke?

 

[acbytesla]

This has become the new approach for when one is caught doing something reprehensible: just lie and deny the accusation no matter the evidence. Continue to do so no matter what happens. It doesn't matter if you committed the act on video tape in front of 150 witnesses and it is also documented by 232 physical pieces of evidence. Just deny it. It doesn't even matter if you previously acknowledged the truth of the charges yesterday. Just deny it now. Amazingly this appears to often work among one's dedicated supporters!

Who would have predicted that a line based on a Marx Brothers film, "Who do you believe, me or your lying eyes?" would no longer be a joke?

The GOP in Washington State recognize that Shea is a problem for them. But they don't have the balls to do anything about him. They face the same problem with Shea that the GOP nationwide have with Trump. The party has become a coalition of moneyed, low tax, laissez faire citizens, religious zealots, gun nuts and now conspiracy theorists. And they need them all to compete. They can ill-afford to alienate the nut jobs. There was a time when the big money could humor these people and keep the status quo.

 

[varwoche]

The GOP in Washington State recognize that Shea is a problem for them. But they don't have the balls to do anything about him. They face the same problem with Shea that the GOP nationwide have with Trump. The party has become a coalition of moneyed, low tax, laissez faire citizens, religious zealots, gun nuts and now conspiracy theorists. And they need them all to compete. They can ill-afford to alienate the nut jobs. There was a time when the big money could humor these people and keep the status quo.

Far be it for me to defend these people but -- endorsing the investigation, expelling him from the party, removing his furniture, denying him party resources, and demanding his resignation is something.

 

[acbytesla]

Far be it for me to defend these people but -- endorsing the investigation, expelling him from the party, removing his furniture, denying him party resources, and demanding his resignation is something.

They could impeached and disqualify Shea from holding a public office in the State of Washington.

And no offense intended, but Matt Shea has been a well known nutjob and a GOP embarrassment for years. The representative has had multiple run-ins with Spokane area law officials. The party has been asked quite a few times to disown him and they haven't.

 

[varwoche]

They could impeached and disqualify Shea from holding a public office in the State of Washington.

There's no impeachment per se. He can be expelled by a 2/3 vote.

Regardless, I was simply pointing out that you were wrong when you said they didn't do anything.

 

[acbytesla]

There's no impeachment per se. He can be expelled by a 2/3 vote.

Regardless, I was simply pointing out that you were wrong when you said they didn't do anything.

I added something to my post before you made yours. This guy has been a whacko and in the the Washington State House as a Republican for a while. But you're right. They finally did something about Shea. He'll be gone. Shea left them no choice.

 

[varwoche]

Random Shea goings on...

He's wrapping himself around fellow witch hunt victim Donald Trump.

There’s a few of us that are standing in the gap. Trump is one of them. It’s not about him it’s not about me, it’s about all of us. They’re attacking the values that really make America great and that’s what really this is all about.

Two elected officials have expressed support --- the mayor of Spokane Valley and state rep Jesse Young. I was surprised to learn that Young represents a purple district in Kitsap County west of the mountains, and that he has his own noxious baggage (that is nowhere near Shea's). The virtue of self-proclaimed Christian conservatives.

Shea vows not to resign. It will be interesting to see if he gets re-elected.

 

[ArchSas]

I was surprised to learn that Young represents a purple district in Kitsap County west of the mountains, and that he has his own noxious baggage (that is nowhere near Shea's). The virtue of self-proclaimed Christian conservatives.

I'm not. Isn't the stereotype that people are weird on the peninsula? It's certainly been my experience, and Kitsap county is somewhat more specifically known for that kind of thing. IIRC, just after the Trump election, there were spikes of hate crime, and the KKK started putting up flyers everywhere.

Shea vows not to resign. It will be interesting to see if he gets re-elected.

I wouldn't be surprised given how that kind of voter loves a victimhood narrative.

 

[RecoveringYuppy]

the mayor of Spokane Valley

Recent link about him.



https://www.khq.com/news/khq-exclus...cle_a442f0ba-1170-11ea-9e46-7f7fb7d03056.html

 

[Trebuchet]

I'm not. Isn't the stereotype that people are weird on the peninsula? It's certainly been my experience, and Kitsap county is somewhat more specifically known for that kind of thing. IIRC, just after the Trump election, there were spikes of hate crime, and the KKK started putting up flyers everywhere.



I wouldn't be surprised given how that kind of voter loves a victimhood narrative.

Lots of military and former military in Kitsap, including at least one poster here. They tend to lean conservative.

 

[varwoche]

I'm not. Isn't the stereotype that people are weird on the peninsula? It's certainly been my experience, and Kitsap county is somewhat more specifically known for that kind of thing. IIRC, just after the Trump election, there were spikes of hate crime, and the KKK started putting up flyers everywhere.

I lived in Kitsap for 20+ years. (Though that was on Bainbridge Island, which is thoroughly non representative of the county.) Even though there is that element in Kitsap, it's a purple county and I don't expect elected officials to be that type of crazy.

 

[RecoveringYuppy]

I lived in Kitsap for 20+ years. (Though that was on Bainbridge Island, which is thoroughly non representative of the county.) Even though there is that element in Kitsap, it's a purple county and I don't expect elected officials to be that type of crazy.

Would you have any idea how extensive the Christian Identity movement actually is?

 

[varwoche]

No.

 

[varwoche]

"I stand with you brother"
- Jesse Young
WA state rep

Amusingly(?) Young is (was?) barred from supervising his own staff until he takes an anger management class, which he declined to take. How very odd.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...esse-young-restricted-from-supervising-staff/

 

[carlitos]

Recent link about him.



https://www.khq.com/news/khq-exclus...cle_a442f0ba-1170-11ea-9e46-7f7fb7d03056.html

Thanks. The article closes with him saying to "ask anyone; they'll tell you: I'm not racist." This from a guy who, when searching his mind for an example for the unfair treatment of a white supremacist state rep, says "the police should have shot Rodney King." Which was an analogy and taken out of context. It's always the not-racist people who use language like this.

 

[dudalb]

That would be eastern Oregon. West of the mountains in more liberal, especially the Portland metro area. It's why the state is reliably blue, not red.

It's not just the right;a few on the left have floated the idea of a "Pacifica" basically the West Coast States and Hawaii forming a independent country.