Madison Cawthorn

[Jimmy Higgins]

That's okay. I'm raising my daughter to tear the testicles off of monsters.

Cawthorn is about as unqualified to manage a fast food joint, forget serve in Congress. His only accomplishment was recovering from a brutal car accident, of which he has lied about many times.

 

[lpetrich]

'Ambitious cowardice at its worst': North Carolina Republicans are furious with Madison Cawthorn - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

According to a report from the Citizen Times, Rep. Madison Cawthorn's (R-NC) decision to switch districts -- and derail a popular Republican Party lawmaker's plan to run for that seat -- has rankled GOP insiders in the state who are growing tired of his act.

Cawthorn -- who has allied himself with attention-seeking GOP lawmakers like Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) -- decided to abandon North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District for another, the 13th, that has been made even more Republican-friendly which led to Tim Moore of Cleveland County to step aside after Cawthron launched a broadside at him.

With the report stating, "Moore was the longest-serving speaker in the history of the North Carolina House. And never mind that, thanks to Moore’s legislative allies, the new 13th Congressional District had been tailor-made for him so he could fulfill a dream to serve in Washington," Tom Fielder adds that Cawthorn's move has set off an "uncivil war" among North Carolina Republicans.

According to Charles Jeter Jr., an influential ex-Republican state representative, "This isn’t a noble effort. This is ambitious cowardice at its worst."

More to the point, Jeter wrote, "He's an embarrassment that we need to defeat.”

NC-11 is in the NW of the state and NC-13 is in the SW, just west of Charlotte.

What drama llama.

 

[Swammerdami]

I'd barely heard of this jerk, so clicked on Wikipedia. Like his idol, he's a serial liar. He lied about his accident; he lied that the injuries prevented his admission to the Naval Academy (he was rejected prior to the accident); he lied about his work experience. Another of his resume bullets: He's a serial harasser of females.

He did get admitted to some college, but dropped out with mostly D's. His excuse for the D's? The brain injury left him less intelligent and unable to learn. This is a qualification for Congress??? When he throws his hat in the ring for POTUS in 2032, will his campaign motto be "Not as stupid as Don Junior!" ?

He's the guy hoping to hire Kyle Rittenshit as an intern.

On political issues, he seems to follow his Fuhrer Donald Trump closely. He also whines about the demise of white privilege: 'Cawthorn's campaign['s] attack website accused [journalist] Fiedler of leaving academia "to work for non-white males, like Cory Booker, who aims to ruin white males running for office.'

Is he supposed to be a rising QOP star now, joining celebrities on the A-list like Boebert, MTG, Jordan and Matt Gaetz?

 

[Keith&Co.]

His excuse for the D's? The brain injury left him less intelligent and unable to learn. This is a qualification for Congress???

When you frame nearly everything as a fight between the brainwashed-leftist-by-college elites and the uneducated and still realistic common man, yes, being kicked out of the indoctrination factory makes you 'their kinda idiot man.'

 

[lpetrich]

His excuse for the D's? The brain injury left him less intelligent and unable to learn. This is a qualification for Congress???

When you frame nearly everything as a fight between the brainwashed-leftist-by-college elites and the uneducated and still realistic common man, yes, being kicked out of the indoctrination factory makes you 'their kinda idiot man.'

They want to have it both ways. They want to have higher-education credentials while disparaging the content of higher education. Something like them and the news media. They often seem to call anything negative about them "bias", and they refuse to consider that the "liberal media" is almost entirely capitalist. Seems like they would like ideological-conformity commissars supervising education and the news media.

 

[jab]

This young man is one of the youngest people ever elected to the US Congress, pressing against the 25-year minimum age. He is far from alone in that, but he is currently the youngest person in Congress, beating AOC, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

His district is NC-11, and it contains most of western North Carolina.

Madison Cawthorn wants to be the AOC of the GOP - Sep 23

She's definitely the vanguard for her party right now,' the 25-year-old congressional candidate says of AOC, 'and that's something I want to be for the Republican Party'

...
Cawthorn was invited to address the Republican National Convention in late August. During his speech on the third night of the convention, the camera zoomed out to show him seated in a wheelchair as he spoke about his effort to overcome adversity and empower himself after a near-fatal car accident six years ago left him paralyzed from the waist down.

“I say to Americans who love our country, young and old, be a radical for freedom, be a radical for liberty, and be a radical for our republic, for which I stand,” Madison Cawthorn concluded, rendering his statement literal by lifting himself, with the aid of a walker, out of his wheelchair and onto his feet.

He talked about visiting Adolf Hitler's mountain villa Eagle's Nest, calling him "the Führer".

“I’m not focused on tearing down statues. I’m not focused on gender reassignment surgery. I’m not focused on incremental GDP growth,” said Cawthorn, who believes that his message will resonate with voters. “I’m focused on dining room politics, what matters to a young family sitting around their tables with their kids.”

...
The young candidate positioned himself as fervently pro-Israel, assuring JI that he would push for a “stronger Zionist state” should he be elected to the House. Cawthorn reserved harsh criticism for the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement, which he characterized as “a hate organization” and an “antisemitic indoctrination movement.”

About the Jewish community,

“I’ve learned a lot — that the Jewish community is just really, mainly a cultural community,” Cawthorn said. “It’s not so much religious. And then, I also learned pretty heavily that there’s a difference between Judaism and Zionism. And, you know, I think I’ve really gotten a lot of insight as to why a lot of Jews vote Democrat.”

Like not caring enough about Israel, he claims.

Cawthorn — who is Christian and considers himself an “entity of God, as all Christians should” — described his first and only trip to Israel in 2018 as a spiritual journey. “It was a religious expedition, I would say, to go see all these Bible stories I’ve heard from a very young age, to go see the places that are connected with them,” said Cawthorn, who was coincidentally in Israel during the ceremony relocating the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

...
Though Madison Cawthorn did not earn Trump’s imprimatur during the primary, he casts himself as a strong supporter of the president’s goals, particularly on foreign policy.

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Cawthorn, whose policy priorities include deregulating healthcare and making infrastructural improvements to broadband, entered the race for Meadows’s seat because he saw, as he put it, “a deficit of courage in the Republican Party.”

...
In a recent debate, Cawthorn denied allegations of sexual impropriety, including forcible kissing and unwanted touching reported by the Christian evangelical news magazine World. “I have never done anything sexually inappropriate in my life,” he said.

He has had to explain why he used the acronym SPQR - an acronym that some white nationalists use. It's Senatus Populusque Romanus - roughly "Senate and People of Rome" in Latin.

As to him and AOC,

“I see myself as akin to her in a lot of ways,” Madison Cawthorn said. “I think that most of her policies and ideologies are pretty asinine, but I will tell you that the way she goes about executing them, I think, is incredible. I think it’s very effective. I think that’s something that Republicans need to learn from, just because she is influencing an entire generation. I mean, she’s doing a great job of it, too. And I’m sure her and I will get along when I get to Congress, but I doubt we will get along well on the House floor, just because we have very different political beliefs.”

“She’s definitely the vanguard for her party right now,” Cawthorn added, “and that’s something I want to be for the Republican Party.”

I thought SPQR stood for Sarah Palin Qanon Repug

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It seems nothing Cawthorn says is actually true. Which takes us to his alleged 'met my wife' narrative which has regained attention amid his divorce proceedings.

Cawthorn claimed in 2020 that he met his wife via a very convoluted path where he went on a trip with a friend right before a serious back surgery to... St. Petersburg, Russia (of all places). At a casino there, he met a US Army Captain who was out of Miami. And then more than a year later, said Army Captain invited Cawthorn to a CrossFit competition while on a "work trip" in Miami... that was actually just a ruse to introduce him to a woman. Because it is common to try and hook people up who live hundreds of miles from one another. Cawthorn would marry the woman (getting divorced right now).

This story sounds so nonsensically complicated. Like trying to mesh a couple real details with lots of fake ones.

 

[Patooka]

Ladies and gentlemen, the party of "support the troops":



For context, here is the full video. It's amazing the priorities right wingers have some times. But better than those libruhls who hate 'murica amirite?

 

[ZiprHead]

Did he lick and caress the gun to clean it?

 

[Patooka]

Did he lick and caress the gun to clean it?

I honestly can't think of an answer that would surprise me. I used to believe in the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the concept of entropy, but there is literally no bottom for these people. They just keep going.

 

[southernhybrid]

Maybe he won't be a problem after all, considering his connection to the insurrection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/opinion/14th-amendment-madison-cawthorn.html

Representative Madison Cawthorn has breezily dismissed a candidacy challenge filed by voters in his home state, North Carolina, seeking to bar him from re-election to the House of Representatives based on his role in the events of Jan. 6.

The plaintiffs, a spokesman from the pro-Trump Republican’s office said, are “comically misinterpreting and twisting the 14th Amendment for political gain.”

Mr. Cawthorn is being too quick to scoff. The 14th Amendment provision in question, while little known and not employed since 1919, is a close fit for his conduct around Jan. 6 — as well as that of at least a half-dozen Republican colleagues who the organization spearheading the challenge, Free Speech for People, suggests will be next.

The critical point to understand is that Section 3 added a qualification to hold office, one of the very few in the Constitution. The others are that members of the House must be at least 25, a U.S. citizen for seven years and live in the state the individual represents. It is no different in this respect from the qualification that the president be at least 35 and a natural-born citizen.

So, if the voter challenge succeeds in establishing that Mr. Cawthorn engaged in “insurrection or rebellion,” he would be as ineligible to serve in Congress as if it were revealed that he is 24 years old. Under North Carolina law, once challengers advance enough evidence to show reasonable suspicion that a candidate is not qualified, the burden shifts to the would-be candidate to demonstrate the contrary.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections will create a five-member panel composed of people from counties in the new district in which Mr. Cawthorn intends to run (which is more Republican leaning than his current one). The panel’s decision could be appealed to the entire State Board of Elections, and after that to the state’s court system. The board’s decision will be delayed until after a state court rules on a separate redistricting challenge in North Carolina. But the issue will have to be resolved in time for the state’s primary election, currently set for May, so the normal Trump playbook of stalling until the issue becomes moot is not an option.

The key question in the challenge will be whether Mr. Cawthorn’s acts of support for the Jan. 6 attack rise to the level of engaging in an insurrection against the government.

Here is what the first-term congressman did, based on public reports and allegations in the challenge: In advance of the riot at the Capitol, he met with planners of the demonstrations and tweeted that “the future of this Republic hinges on the actions of a solitary few … It’s time to fight.” He spoke at the pre-attack rally at the Ellipse, near the Whitehouse.

I will be both shocked and delighted if this jerk isn't permitted to run again, but I suppose it could happen. It's insane that we have so many people in Congress who were either involved in some way in what happened on Jan. 6th or are now lying about what happened on that day.

 

[blastula]

Madison Cawthorn calls Ukraine government 'evil,' Zelenskyy 'a thug'

U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn called the president of Ukraine a thug in a speech to supporters last weekend, saying, "Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and it is incredibly evil." (Video provided to WRAL News)

www.wral.com

Cawthorn may be the vilest member of this wing of the GOP.

 

[Harry Bosch]

Maybe he won't be a problem after all, considering his connection to the insurrection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/opinion/14th-amendment-madison-cawthorn.html

Representative Madison Cawthorn has breezily dismissed a candidacy challenge filed by voters in his home state, North Carolina, seeking to bar him from re-election to the House of Representatives based on his role in the events of Jan. 6.

The plaintiffs, a spokesman from the pro-Trump Republican’s office said, are “comically misinterpreting and twisting the 14th Amendment for political gain.”

Mr. Cawthorn is being too quick to scoff. The 14th Amendment provision in question, while little known and not employed since 1919, is a close fit for his conduct around Jan. 6 — as well as that of at least a half-dozen Republican colleagues who the organization spearheading the challenge, Free Speech for People, suggests will be next.

The critical point to understand is that Section 3 added a qualification to hold office, one of the very few in the Constitution. The others are that members of the House must be at least 25, a U.S. citizen for seven years and live in the state the individual represents. It is no different in this respect from the qualification that the president be at least 35 and a natural-born citizen.

So, if the voter challenge succeeds in establishing that Mr. Cawthorn engaged in “insurrection or rebellion,” he would be as ineligible to serve in Congress as if it were revealed that he is 24 years old. Under North Carolina law, once challengers advance enough evidence to show reasonable suspicion that a candidate is not qualified, the burden shifts to the would-be candidate to demonstrate the contrary.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections will create a five-member panel composed of people from counties in the new district in which Mr. Cawthorn intends to run (which is more Republican leaning than his current one). The panel’s decision could be appealed to the entire State Board of Elections, and after that to the state’s court system. The board’s decision will be delayed until after a state court rules on a separate redistricting challenge in North Carolina. But the issue will have to be resolved in time for the state’s primary election, currently set for May, so the normal Trump playbook of stalling until the issue becomes moot is not an option.

The key question in the challenge will be whether Mr. Cawthorn’s acts of support for the Jan. 6 attack rise to the level of engaging in an insurrection against the government.

Here is what the first-term congressman did, based on public reports and allegations in the challenge: In advance of the riot at the Capitol, he met with planners of the demonstrations and tweeted that “the future of this Republic hinges on the actions of a solitary few … It’s time to fight.” He spoke at the pre-attack rally at the Ellipse, near the Whitehouse.

I will be both shocked and delighted if this jerk isn't permitted to run again, but I suppose it could happen. It's insane that we have so many people in Congress who were either involved in some way in what happened on Jan. 6th or are now lying about what happened on that day.

Yea, he's a traitor. People like this shouldn't be allowed to run for public office.

 

[bigfield]

I was trying to figure out how this guy eeven got into office:

Madison Cawthorn

Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

ballotpedia.org

I'm not entirely sure how to interpret the results of the GOP primaries, but it looks like he is quite popular with GOP members in his district.

I bet there are plenty more pockets of far right extremism in the US just waiting for more of these Trump-like peeformers to take advantage.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Literally, his only accomplishment in life is recovery from a pretty bad car accident. But he says all the right Nazi stuff. And I don't say that lightly. This man is a fucking Nazi.

 

[Toni]

I was trying to figure out how this guy eeven got into office:

Madison Cawthorn

Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

ballotpedia.org

I'm not entirely sure how to interpret the results of the GOP primaries, but it looks like he is quite popular with GOP members in his district.

I bet there are plenty more pockets of far right extremism in the US just waiting for more of these Trump-like peeformers to take advantage.

He’s not bad looking. He’s in a very conservative district and he’s not afraid to say the racist dog whistles out loud.

Honestly, as much as everyone complains about the boomers, a lot of us are past the point of being willing to pass the baton. As an older person, I am excited to see young people (under 50) step up. When I first heard his name/age, I was a little excited. Then I read a quote and…

I really hope people start to get off ‘boomers are racist’ bit. Racism permeates every single generation, geography, socioeconomic level, political party. More prevalent in some places than others. More obvious in some strata than others. Almost impossible to see in a mirror.

Not to imply that Cawthorne isn’t a particularly disgusting and obvious example. He’s all that and burning cross.

 

[lpetrich]

I'm old enough to remember right-wingers calling the Soviet Union an evil empire, the focus of evil in the world, and the cause of all the trouble in the world.

Strictly speaking, Russia was not the Soviet Union. Russia was one of the SU's 15 constituent republics, something like US states, but the largest and most populous one and the dominant one. So a lot of people said Russia when they meant the Soviet Union.

But nowadays, many right-wingers seem like Russia-lovers and Putin-lovers, and are that way without acknowledging what their predecessors thought half a century ago -- and sometimes what they themselves thought. Not even to say how much Russia has improved over the last half-century.

 

[marc]

But nowadays, many right-wingers seem like Russia-lovers and Putin-lovers, and are that way without acknowledging what their predecessors thought half a century ago -- and sometimes what they themselves thought. Not even to say how much Russia has improved over the last half-century.

Well to keep people voting for republicans they need an enemy to get the voters focused on. Back then it was the soviet union. After their collapse they put more focus on other 'enemies': minorities, gay people, non-christians. Putin starts rebuilding the soviet union, but these people see he is also against minorities, gay people, and non-christians. And they didn't really mind the authoritarianism, as long as it was someone like them being the authority.

 

[jab]

Madison Cawthorn calls Ukraine government 'evil,' Zelenskyy 'a thug'

U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn called the president of Ukraine a thug in a speech to supporters last weekend, saying, "Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and it is incredibly evil." (Video provided to WRAL News)

www.wral.com

Cawthorn may be the vilest member of this wing of the GOP.

So, he's disgusted by "woke" culture. Therefore, we can call him the most vile abllist epithets, and provided they don't take the Lord's name in vain, he won't take umbrage.

 

[blastula]

Also,

North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn charged with driving with revoked license | CNN Politics

North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn is facing a charge of driving with a revoked license for the second time since 2017.

www.cnn.com

The Class 3 misdemeanor charge, which could carry a maximum penalty of up to 20 days in jail, is one of three pending traffic citations against the Republican congressman in his home state.