Post by benson on Feb 15, 2022 9:53:50 GMT
Welcome to what is the 1073rd original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing Texas State Senator Bob Hall, who was first elected to District 2 of that body since first being elected in the 2014 elections. From the jump, it was clear he had guano on the brain, warning during his initial campaign for office warning how Barack Obama wanted public schools to teach a “communist indoctrinaton”, raving about the the threat of the Agenda 21 conspiracy theory, touting the ability of states to nullify federal law (which they can’t do) calling Texas State Senator Wendy Davis a “baby killer”, and insisting his Democratic opponent “Satan must have a stranglehold on him” and that his opponent’s support of end-of-life rights “would have codified—that is, made it law in Texas—medical death panels just like you’ll find in Obamacare”. Y’know, just boiler plate policy talk.
Bob Hall has not changed since arriving in office. In April of 2016, he actually warned during a special session of the legislature of the threat of EMP lasers being fired from space installations down onto planet Earth and crippling the global electrical grid, warning that one missile would lead to “America being snuffed out”. And we’ll point out that in 2021, the Texas power grid failed due to a friggin’ winter storm, meanwhile this idiot and Gov. Greg Abbott were worried about non-existent space weapons destroying it.
Now, it’s not just love for conspiracy theories and partisan rhetoric that concern us about Hall, either. It’s his passionate defense of self-admitting white nationalists. One of his good buddies is Ray Myers, who on social media, has openly identified as a white nationalist, and once commented about “a rope and a tree” as a solution to an African American woman supervising elections in Broward County, Florida. In 2019, Hall was in Washington D.C., staying at the Trump Hotel (always a welcome place for white nationalists) and he posted a photograph of himself spending time with Myers. When the Texas Observer asked Hall about Myers’ awful comments, he didn’t play dumb and say he hadn’t seen or heard them… he defended Myers and claimed he was the victim of “political correctness”
When reporters followed up to ask Hall about his feelings that Myers had identified himself as a white nationalist, he again, didn’t back down, saying, “According to the dictionary I use ‘nationalism’ is defined as ‘Devotion and loyalty to one’s own country’ and ‘white’ is a socially accepted term for Caucasian. It is clear that his statement was made based on these definitions.”
Not surprisingly, Hall has also appeared alongside Islamphobic conspiracy theorists like Frank Gaffney, and John Guandolo, who actively treat Islam as a threat to American national security.
Bob Hall is not a man in possession of any kind of critical thinking skills. Perhaps no greater example came than in April of 2019 during debate on sex education in public schools, wherein Hall started in on a conspiracy theory that abortion clinics want “initial sex education courses for the purpose of increasing their supply line of young women for abortions”. You see, he claims it somehow leads to MORE teen pregnancies (it absolutely doesn’t, and does the opposite for informing young people about the effectiveness of contraception), and that by getting kids educated about sex, they have more, more of them get pregnant, and it stirs up business for abortion clinics. After his witness rebutted his claim, he insinuated that she had “dodged his question”, when he never ASKED one.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/10/2079573/-Fanatical-Republican-Extremist-of-the-Day-Bob-Hall
Bob Hall has not changed since arriving in office. In April of 2016, he actually warned during a special session of the legislature of the threat of EMP lasers being fired from space installations down onto planet Earth and crippling the global electrical grid, warning that one missile would lead to “America being snuffed out”. And we’ll point out that in 2021, the Texas power grid failed due to a friggin’ winter storm, meanwhile this idiot and Gov. Greg Abbott were worried about non-existent space weapons destroying it.
Now, it’s not just love for conspiracy theories and partisan rhetoric that concern us about Hall, either. It’s his passionate defense of self-admitting white nationalists. One of his good buddies is Ray Myers, who on social media, has openly identified as a white nationalist, and once commented about “a rope and a tree” as a solution to an African American woman supervising elections in Broward County, Florida. In 2019, Hall was in Washington D.C., staying at the Trump Hotel (always a welcome place for white nationalists) and he posted a photograph of himself spending time with Myers. When the Texas Observer asked Hall about Myers’ awful comments, he didn’t play dumb and say he hadn’t seen or heard them… he defended Myers and claimed he was the victim of “political correctness”
When reporters followed up to ask Hall about his feelings that Myers had identified himself as a white nationalist, he again, didn’t back down, saying, “According to the dictionary I use ‘nationalism’ is defined as ‘Devotion and loyalty to one’s own country’ and ‘white’ is a socially accepted term for Caucasian. It is clear that his statement was made based on these definitions.”
Not surprisingly, Hall has also appeared alongside Islamphobic conspiracy theorists like Frank Gaffney, and John Guandolo, who actively treat Islam as a threat to American national security.
Bob Hall is not a man in possession of any kind of critical thinking skills. Perhaps no greater example came than in April of 2019 during debate on sex education in public schools, wherein Hall started in on a conspiracy theory that abortion clinics want “initial sex education courses for the purpose of increasing their supply line of young women for abortions”. You see, he claims it somehow leads to MORE teen pregnancies (it absolutely doesn’t, and does the opposite for informing young people about the effectiveness of contraception), and that by getting kids educated about sex, they have more, more of them get pregnant, and it stirs up business for abortion clinics. After his witness rebutted his claim, he insinuated that she had “dodged his question”, when he never ASKED one.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/10/2079573/-Fanatical-Republican-Extremist-of-the-Day-Bob-Hall