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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Vicky Hartzler- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-04-02  

Thanks to a mad quest to become a Senator, Congress is currently and hopefully forever rid of Missouri Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler.

On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” posted profiles of the current U.S. House Representative for Missouri’s 4th District, Vicky Hartzler, who returned to politics in 2010 after taking about a decade off to become one of the most rabidly anti-gay activists in the United States, if not the globe. Hartzler campaigned for Missouri to pass a law to outlaw same sex marriage, once upon a time, has compared same sex marriage to incest, and railed against the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, suggesting that the United States military should house gay soldiers in separate quarters from the straight ones. After the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, Hartzler released a statement that she would “continue to champion marriage as the union between one man and one woman so every child has the opportunity to have both a mom and a dad”, indicating she doesn’t understand that parenting is something gay people can do, as well.



Hartzler has also gone on social media to call climate change a hoax, has repeatedly perpetrated the myth that the Affordable Care Act would lead to “healthcare rationing”, went on record to say she has doubts about President Obama’s birth certificate, furthered the Center for Medical Progress’ crusade against Planned Parenthood by insisting the organization was “selling baby parts”, denies the existence of climate change, insists on a false history that our Founding Fathers were pro-life, and has warned Americans that China is spying on us by hiding secret microchips in our toasters. Because that doesn’t make her sound like a paranoid whack-job, right?



Now, on a day-to-day basis, the United States is currently at the mercy of whatever brain-addled decision Donald Trump makes, and his own Cabinet and advisers often seem surprised when he’s pushed in a direction politically by whatever he sees on Fox and Friends, social media, or the last person in the room who talks. That’s a part of why military advisers were baffled when Donald Trump announced a ban on transgender troops back in July of 2017. But what motivated him to suddenly come up with such a policy? Most guessed it might have been Vice President Pence in his ear, but after some digging, it was determined that Trump was getting a lot of pressure from Congresswoman Hartzler to ban transgender troops, as she lied (and continues to lie to the public) about “excessive medical costs” of sex-change surgery, because she just loathes anyone who isn’t straight.

“I think we raised the awareness for people all across this country of this failed Obama policy that had been inflicted on our military last year and the dangers to both our readiness as well as our ability to spend our precious defense dollars to meet the threat.”

This came on the heels of Rep. Hartzler having released a statement in June of 2016 where she compared transgendered soldiers to ISIS, North Korea, and Vladimir Putin, calling our own LGBTQ service members a “domestic threat”:

“At a time when we should be focusing on the threats from North Korea, and Putin, and ISIS, we’re having to deal with a threat here at home — a domestic threat — of allowing transgenders in our service, which is a real problem because it impacts their readiness, and it’s a huge cost for our military.”

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