Nothing But Liars

Let’s start with freshman North Carolina GOP Representative Madison Cawthorn, who has a lot going for him, starting with being kinda hot. But if you scratch the surface you find out he’s more than just the youngest member of Congress in history, at age twenty-five, he’s also a rightwingnut, insurrectionist, white supremacist.

Oh, and he’s also a liar.

In 2014, Cawthorn became disabled after a car crash left him paralyzed from the waist down, and he claims that, at that time, he was a successful business owner headed to the Naval Academy.

Lie. In 2014, before the accident, he had already been rejected from the Naval Academy, and his real-estate investment firm, SPQR Holdings LLC has reported no income on its tax documents, and lists Cawthorn as its sole employee. His only real work experience was managing a Chick-fil-A and serving as a staff assistant in the congressional offices of Mark Meadows—the last Chief of Staff of the former administration.

Oh, and SPQR is an acronym for Senatus Populusque Romanus [The Senate and People of Rome] a phrase used to describe the Roman state in Republican and Imperial times, and also used as a favorite abbreviation of white nationalists.

Cawthorn also said he was in training for the 2020 Paralympic Games, and hoped to compete in the 400-meter dash at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, but his hopes were dashed by his worsening disability.

Lie; there is zero evidence of such an opportunity or any meaningful steps he'd taken to get there. Cawthorn attended Patrick Henry College, a tiny Christian college in Virginia that doesn't offer a disabled sports program, and other wheelchair athletes don't recall ever seeing him at events.

He lies … about everything, except for the time he posted photos to Instagram from a vacation visit to the Eagle’s Nest, a Nazi retreat Hitler visited more than a dozen times. He posted that the visit was on his “bucket list” and called “Führer,” a term of reverence.

Liar and white supremacist, and elected ReTHUGlican.

And then there’s Tom Cotton, who, from the jump running for political office, lied about his military service. He has claims to have been a U.S. Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan, and, in a campaign ad, said he ‘volunteered to be an Army Ranger.’

Fact? Cotton was never part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, the elite unit that plans and conducts joint special military operations as part of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command.

Fact: he’s in office as a member of a political group that says they fully support our military, but he lies about his own service.

Liars … just like House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy who, on January 13, said the former President was to blame for the insurrection at the nation’s capitol, now says he never said that at, and he, in fact, blames almost everyone else in this country for the attack, but not the former president.

Lastly, Colorado GOP Representative Lauren Boebert—who espouses a pro-police, law-and-order message—has been arrested at least four times over the past decade.

And, to be fair, while the three arrests and one court-ordered summons were for petty crimes—and in one case all charges were dropped—Boebert’s record is unusually long for an elected official.

Boebert’s first run-in with police was in 2010, after a neighbor, Michele Soet, alleged that Boebert was harassing Soet and Soet’s husband. The alleged harassment occurred in the days after Soet called police because Boebert’s pit bulls were loose and threatening the life of her dogs.

Boebert was arrested twice in 2015, first, Boebert was detained after a verbal altercation with police at Country Jam, a music festival near Grand Junction. Boebert, then 28, shouted at people detained on suspicion of underage drinking, urging them to flee from police, which caused the young drinkers to become unruly. She was handcuffed for disorderly conduct, and tried to twist away from police, shouting that her arrest was unconstitutional, that “she had friends at Fox News and that the arrest would be national news.”

It only became national news after she was elected to office.

Her last case was when she was released from custody and told to appear in court but missed her court date because, as she told a judge, she forgot what day of the week it was.

Elected to office, doesn’t know how to read a calendar?

The judge rescheduled for later that year but Boebert again was a no-show and gave no reason for her absence.

Boebert was arrested for failure to appear, which also landed her in jail a year later, and charged with careless driving and operating an unsafe vehicle after rolling her truck into a Garfield County ditch in the summer of 2016. They were minor traffic charges, but once again Boebert skipped her court date. She was booked into the Garfield County Jail in 2017, for failure to appear and spent exactly 100 minutes as an inmate before being released on bond.

And remember, she’s a law-and-order politician. And remember, she is accused of giving a tour of the capitol to a group of people who later led an insurrection of the building.

IU hate to say that the GOP is full of liars, racists, white supremacists, Hitler lovers, criminals and that ilk, but it’s hard to when the evidence is right in front of your face.