This fucking guy:
Former Gov. Pat McCrory says the backlash against House Bill 2 is making it difficult for him to land a new job after he left office.
McCrory has been appearing frequently on national media outlets to defend the controversial LGBT law, but he hasn’t announced what’s next for his career. In a podcast interview recently with WORLD, an Asheville-based evangelical Christian news website, McCrory talked about his challenges on the job market.
The former Republican governor says HB2 “has impacted me to this day, even after I left office. People are reluctant to hire me, because, ‘oh my gosh, he’s a bigot’ – which is the last thing I am.”
Later in the interview, McCrory wouldn’t say if he’s being considered for a job in President Donald Trump’s administration. But he praised Trump, calling him “a breath of fresh air.”
McCrory said the liberal groups opposing HB2 have harmed his reputation. “If you disagree with the politically correct thought police on this new definition of gender, you’re a bigot, you’re the worst of evil,” he said. “It’s almost as if I broke a law.”
Republicans are the least self aware motherfuckers on the planet.
Carolina Dave
That’s Pat. Completely obtuse.
Nora
Cry me a river, you loathsome motherfucker.
Does anyone think that asshole is going to have any trouble finding himself a job? Wingnut welfare is just waiting to give him a nice sinecure.
Pogonip
Cole, the other night–which dog was doing the farting?
Ruckus
Republicans are the least self aware motherfuckers on the planet.
Not sure that most of them have the ability to understand what the word self means.
Mike E
McPotty is bummed, heh
Ian G.
There are evangelicals in Asheville? I just saw dirty hippies when I was there. It’s one of the reasons I love the town so much.
Carolina Dave
@Nora: a basic requirement to receive sweet wingnut welfare is that you can communicate a policy or idea. He wasted his entire gubernatorial career on HB2 and became the national profile poster child for the “bathroom bill”.
NobodySpecial
Bigots having trouble finding a job pleases me. Fuck that guy.
cmorenc
The irony is that before 2008, McCrory was widely considered the quintessential “moderate” Republican in North Carolina back when he was mayor of Charlotte. My seat-mate on a trip to D.C. happened to have worked closely with him at Progress / Duke Energy, and said his former colleagues were shocked at the huge transformation between the pragmatic, moderate guy they worked with and the political candidate and governor he became in 2012.
This is what happens when you sell your soul to the devil aka Art Pope (the wealthy NC version of the Koch Brothers) to win a gubernatorial election in 2012, after you lost the 2008 race. Too many people can see the devil’s ownership mark on your forehead, Pat, and they kind of back away from the sight of you.
zzyzx
This might be the saddest story I’ve ever heard. Poor poor poor guy.
Waldo
There he was minding his own business, trying to make life more difficult for others, when suddenly …
greennotGreen
Not only a bigot, but a stupid one as well, although I think that’s redundant.
JaneE
Chances are he wouldn’t recognize a transgender individual if he met one on the street. There are lots of people who look fairly neutral, and dress may or may not identify them as one sex or the other. If someone like that is in a public restroom, I have to assume they know how their plumbing works and choose accordingly. If they were to ask about a urinal, I would send them to the men’s room.
celticdragonchick
Pat haz a sad?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AH JEEZUS I CAN’T EVEN…
BTW…I’m a transgender teacher in Greensboro, NC, who had a take a fucking month out of the classroom last year after GOP assholes like McCrory came after my job and fucking threatened to sue to have me fucking fired.
Pat can go fornicate himself with Negan’s goddamned baseball bat.
Dolly Llama
Completely and utterly OT, but I just realized Alec Baldwin is not the ideal Trump; it’s Bob Odenkirk. Trump fucking IS Saul.
Baud
@celticdragonchick: I’m happy for you.
cmorenc
I offered McCrory a job cleaning out toilets in unixex bathrooms – even offered to throw in enough to buy medical coverage on an Obamacare bronze plan.
But he turned the gig down. He just wants a wingnut welfare job, not a real job properly suited to his talents.
japa21
@Ian G.: Happens to be the home of the Billy Graham Teaching Center
delk
Bigots seldom recognize themselves.
cmorenc
@celticdragonchick:
Ah, the ambiguity of the English language – are you transgender yourself, or else teach transgender students, or both?
SiubhanDuinne
@greennotGreen:
Well (she said thoughtfully), I suppose there are a few bigots that aren’t stupid. And I suppose there might be a few stupid people who aren’t bigoted. But all in all, I expect there’s a large overlap in that particular Venn diagram. So yeah.
Dolly Llama
@celticdragonchick: I’m up the road from you in Raleigh, at the cow college. Keep the faith.
LAO
@celticdragonchick: Enjoy this moment of schadenfreude. I certainly am, on your behalf.
Hal
Your intolerance of my bigotry makes you the bigot!
max
McCrory said the liberal groups opposing HB2 have harmed his reputation. “If you disagree with the politically correct thought police on this new definition of gender, you’re a bigot, you’re the worst of evil,” he said. “It’s almost as if I broke a law.”
You just know some Klan motherfucker talked exactly like this after getting busted lynching somebody back in the day.
max
[‘Aaaaammmmeeeerrrrrriiiiiiiiiicccccaaaaaaaaa…the fucking stupidddd….’]
Kropadope
I just accidentally broke the world’s tiniest violin while face-palming.
I’m just a non-bigoted person who pushed and signed discriminatory legislation.
The only one trying to enforce any sort of politically correct thought policing is you, McCrory (there are really 2 Cs in that?). You want to tell people how they should identify themselves, how they perceive themselves in their own mind. Then you’re out there demanding that people who perceive you as a bigot should be willing to hire you. Get fucked sideways with rusty, mechanized farm implements.
debbie
Oh, Pat, you poor thing. Didn’t your mommy teach you about consequences?
SiubhanDuinne
@max:
Alfuckingmost, you goddamned motherfucking scum of an ex-governor.
boatboy_srq
@Carolina Dave: Hoocoodanode that a politician who could be bought (cough cough hello Art Pope cough) can’t sell himself in the private sector?
amygdala
It’ll take an electron microscope to see the violin I’m playing for this clown. Good grief.
Gex
What is the lethal dose of schadenfreude? This has to be pretty close. I better go lie down and monitor my vitals.
Mike J
Look at how much money he lost the state because he wanted to tell people where to shit. Whether you’re pro human rights or a bigot, losing money is the biggest sin in the business world.
ET
Crickets I hear crickets and very tiny violins….
I am sort of surprised that Liberty University or some other Conservative Christian institution can’t make up some sort of position for him. He was just doing their work and this is how he is repaid.
geg6
I’m looking for a fuck to give for this guy and coming up short.
ET
@Ruckus: oh they understand “self” it is aware that I am not sure they get. Its 2 syllables.
Kropadope
@ET:
But he lost doing it. The Wingnut Welfare circuit doesn’t need the loser stink. It has enough.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@cmorenc:
What’s that old skit from Monty Python?
(The ken Shabby skit starts at 34 sec)
The Girl’s Father:
Ken Shabby:
The Girl’s Father:
Ken Shabby:
SenyorDave
I don’t think this is something we should crowing about. We disagree with this guy and that’s fine. But to celebrate his inability to make a living? That’s just plain over the top.
Oh, wait its March 13th, not April 1st. Fuck him.
dm
@cmorenc:
I don’t know. That guy seems too interested in what people do in bathrooms for his own good. Not sure I’d trust him in a bathroom my daughter used.
Shalimar
McCrory knows a lot of people more bigoted than he is, so he knows what a real bigot is. Too bad for him that he became their leader in his pursuit of power. As evil as the bigots are, McCrory is worse.
Roger Moore
I’m searching for the world’s tiniest violin, but I can’t seem to recall where I put it…
boatboy_srq
@Kropadope: That grift works well enough for Liberty Counsel…
Roger Moore
@cmorenc:
She’s transgender herself; it’s come up here before.
bemused
@cmorenc:
Oh those poor persecuted whiny bigots. He’s probably holding out for a job more in line bigly with his money and ambition goals and the radio interview is a headhunter avenue.
Woodrow/Asim
@cmorenc:
Seconded, as a Charlotte resident during his tenure. I strongly suspect a lot of his appeal came because he was able to bridge between the wacky “true believers” and the GOP-lite folks who run Charlotte post-financial boom.
And there’s a lesson for use, as well, other than Fuck You McCrory. Guys like him just want to win, and they may talk a big game (Hello, Gov. Walk-all-over-you), about it. But if we can dismantle at least the gerrymandering system that keeps them in power, and leverage the tools that people like rev. barber of the Moral Monday coalition bring to the table, we can bring them to heel.
This is a winnable fight.
Villago Delenda Est
I am trying very hard to feel sympathy for Pat, but just can’t do it.
Pat, you made this shit sandwich yourself. Eat it, asshole.
FlipYrWhig
It’s like Pat never heard the “But you fuck ONE GOAT” joke.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Really? I expected Duke Power to welcome him back.
Villago Delenda Est
As others have mentioned, I’m surprised he hasn’t landed a gig with Franklin Graham or any of the other godbothered bigots within a 500 mile radius of Raleigh.
FlipYrWhig
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Duke Power? Is that a He-Man character?
Aleta
Ha ha
You just aced the job interview bud!
Meanwhile the junior DJT gets up onstage in Texas. He now realizes how much he likes politics!
But Jr. DJ is a gracious guy.
Chet
The free market all sounds well and good until you realize it doesn’t want you. Better pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, guvnah.
mai naem mobile
I don’t understand. I thought Art Pope would have given him a nice little gig post governorship being that he was such a good whore for him.
celticdragonchick
@cmorenc: I’m a trans woman. I teach in Greensboro.
Obdurodon
So much for the party of personal responsibility. It’s quite reasonable for people to decide that hiring a famously callous son of a bitch might not be good for either morale or business.
Also, he *did* break a law. It’s called the equal protection clause of the constitution. He should be grateful that trouble finding a job is the worst consequence he’ll feel.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@FlipYrWhig: Nothing so pleasant. It’s the local electric utility. We’ve been known to call him McCrony, R-Duke Power. Or sometimes R-Art Pope.
celticdragonchick
@Dolly Llama: @LAO: @Dolly Llama:
Thanks :)
@LAO:
:)
hovercraft
I find it funny how their ideas and beliefs are principles, but ours are just politically correct thinking. It’s almost like they think they can force their views on the rest of us and we have no way of fighting back.
There are no thought police, but there are these beings called voters, and they voted your bigoted ass out. The reason corporate America is supportive of LGBT rights is because they have to appeal to as many people as possible, pissing off the majority is not a good business strategy, just saying.
Where the hell are his twin benefactors, he’s served both his sugar daddy and his former employer so well, why won’t they hire him?
Life’s a bitch, no you didn’t break the law, but you passed a discriminatory intolerant one and refused to back down, How’s it feel to be the one walking around with a label on you.
Karma, Yay !!
Roger Moore
@Villago Delenda Est:
From the sounds of it, though, he isn’t a true believer. He’s a former “moderate” who decided to go along with the religious nutters because it was the path to electoral success. Now he’s discovering that going along with their program doesn’t make him one of them.
SiubhanDuinne
Any front-pagers around? I’ve had a comment in moderation for a while now, one level down (Anne Laurie’s “Dystopian” Open Thread), and would be most appreciative if someone in authority could unlock the prison doors.
efgoldman
@Kropadope:
Powe baby!! Woodgie boo!! Somebody hurted powe, powe McCwowy’s feewings?
Why doesn’t his puppetmaster Art Pope give him a job? Found somebody cheaper to fellate him and shine his shoes?
Oh boo hoo.
SFAW
All you people piling on pore ol’ ex-Gov Pat make me SICK! How do you expect to get back the all-important economically-anxious-WWC vote, if you exhibit so much glee at the misfortune of others, particularly the blameless Republicans?
Before you go too much further with this hate-fest, you-all need to ask yourselves one question:
What would Jesus say to poor Mr. McCrory?
[Also: general request to the more edumacated commenters: How does one say “Fuck you, asshole” in Aramaic? Asking for a friend.]
efgoldman
@SFAW:
The closest google translate comes is Hebrew. לך תזדיין, חתיכת חרא
Felonius Monk
@SFAW:
I think He would go with: “Seriously, Just go Fuck Yourself to Death”
Works for us, works for Him.
Comrade Scrutinizer
I’m surprised that they would characterize World Publications as an evangelical organization; unless things there have changed radically, it was pretty much mainstream Presbyterian a few years ago. I know the family that runs it, and they are a pretty leveled-headed bunch.
I’m not surprised that McCrory is having problems with wingnut welfare. He managed to lose in a state that was gerrymandered to fuck and gone. I don’t think that Art Pope has much use for losers.
Barbara
@max: Poor guy, here he thought he had found a group he could sucker punch with impunity to get the loony tune evangelicals stoked to vote for him, but no, those idiot liberals have to stand up for even the freakiest freaks and now it turns out he ended up sucker punching himself. My heart is bleeding.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@SFAW: Indeed, wasn’t this poor, humble but TRUE Christian (as in White, male Republican) just helping these poor people by publically humilating them?
boatboy_srq
@hovercraft:
That’s because they have a Good Book they rely on for their bigotry, and since there’s no single tome that encapusulates what the rest of us use for guidance they assume there is no code.
I wonder sometimes whether this misconception is what leads so many FundiEvangelical wingnuts to stray so far from the Gospels they purport to hold so dear – the misconception that there is only One ethical guide, and no matter how far they stray from Biblical strictures they’re still not as lost as the unWashed, unSaved, unXtian masses who only have Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Locke, Malthus, Descartes, Spinoza, Wollstonecraft, Swift, Pope, Kant, Hume, Schiller, Engels, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Voltaire, Rousseau, Dickens, (and the rest of the socio-philosophical world) to point the way toward a just, equitable, humane life.
Larry Dickman
I was always confused by his timeline–he seemed to be working for Duke Energy AT THE SAME TIME he was mayor of Charlotte. Is that possible?
Wiki: “In January 2008, after 28 years with Duke Energy, he retired from the company to run full-time for governor.” and yet he was Mayor of Charlotte from 1995 to 2009. What goes on in North Carolina?
Thru the Looking Glass...
@FlipYrWhig: Ah yes… Giuseppi the Boat Builder… one of the true classics…
Gex
It’s also funny listening to a Republican whine about being passed over for employment for these reasons in at will employment state. By their own principles, employers have every right to discriminate against workers for whatever reason they want. And not just based on race or religion as is the goal, but also based on “political correctness.”
So boo fucking hoo.
Roger Moore
@SFAW:
I think that’s in Matthew 25:41-46:
Thru the Looking Glass...
Watching Sean Spicer on CBS Evening News mumble his way thru the new ‘Wiretapping’ claims revision…
laura
“It’s almost as if I broke a law.”
He did break the law. The intent of HB2 is to deny equal protection under the law. The intent was to ensure beatings of transgenered persons when they attempt to comply with the law. All that bullshit about not wanting “men” using the same bathroom as little girls was really about forcing those who present as female to use the mens room -victims will report to the bathroom for their beat downs and no law to protect them.
That is some kind of evil.
So yeah, I’m with Cole, fuck that guy with a rusty pitchfork.
Aleta
@celticdragonchick: Thank you for all you do. Deeply grateful to you.
laura
“It’s almost as if I broke a law.”
He did break the law. The intent of HB2 is to deny equal protection under the law. The intent was to ensure beatings of transgendered persons when they attempt to comply with the law. All that bullshit about not wanting “men” using the same bathroom as little girls was really about forcing those who present as female to use the mens room -victims will report to the bathroom for their beat downs and no law to protect them.
That is some kind of evil.
So yeah, I’m with Cole, fuck that guy with a rusty pitchfork.
Thru the Looking Glass...
And now Donald is telling me I’ll lots ‘n lots of choices for medical coverage under Trumpcare…
“Choices we don’t even know about yet… choices we’ve never had before…”
Choices so amazing we’ll have to invent new words to even describe them…
Choices so bright and shiny we’ll all have to wear sunglasses to even look at them…
Like… the” Go Without Coverage and Die Like a Dog” Plan… very affordable for the poor…
Or the “Go out Sucking on a Shotgun” Plan… even cheaper and quicker, but you do have to either have a shotgun or can borrow one…
Or the ‘Say Fuggit and Move to Canada’ Plan… for the libruls…
Thru the Looking Glass...
So now Spicer is back on… it appears he’s resorting to the old “I know what you are, but do you know what I am?” ploy… what’s next… ‘Who’s on first?” Will he explain the wiretapping charges using balloon animals or hand shadows? Finger puppets?
celticdragonchick
@Aleta:
I just do my bit and try to get kids through the day and hopefully they have learned something before they go home.
Thanks, though.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Villago Delenda Est: Speaking of Franklin Graham, I’m fond of Jer 14:14-16:
Can’t beat the Old Testament prophets.
efgoldman
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
He’s another asshole who won’t be able to find a job. And he’ll have to look sooner rather than later.
He’s not a facile enough liar for Fox. You can see his nose growing.
mapaghimagsik
His statements look like a cry for wingnut welfare to me.
The Zodiac Killer said it best: “Why am I persecuted!?!?”
Villago Delenda Est
@Comrade Scrutinizer:
Sturm und Drang, Fire and Brimstone…that’s entertainment!
hovercraft
@boatboy_srq:
Only partially, they pick and choose what they want to take as literal and what figurative. They choose to ignore most of the New Testament and all it’s talk about tolerance and not judging. I can’t take any of them seriously until they start stoning kids and cutting off hands, and blinding each other, then I’ll take their them at their word when they say they are living according to the bible.
Villago Delenda Est
@efgoldman: The Ron Ziegler of the 21st Century. So far.
efgoldman
@Villago Delenda Est:
Ziegler was a much better liar. He. at least, acted like he believed what he was sayong.
Citizen_X
Can’t he get a job in North Carolina agriculture, now that we’re tossing the Mexicans out?
Baud
@mapaghimagsik: When did Cruz say that?
J R in WV
@celticdragonchick:
I like Greensboro, it’s a nice town for NC. We have cousins there. We stop there on our way to Raleigh and back.
Thanks for what you do in the schools.
Best wishes from the green rolling hills of WVa.
Mike in NC
Pat McCrory just might have too much loser stink on him to even land a job fetching Bannon’s daily booze order.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Villago Delenda Est:
Nah, Spicer is more Baghdad Bob. Ari Fleischer, now, he’d get my vote. That fucker was a stone believer.
J R in WV
@boatboy_srq:
Actually, many people have actual real built-in morals, and don’t need any books to understand right and wrong. Some of those folks also study the books about morality, and come to learn that, By George! right is right, and wrong is never right.
And this is why, no matter the distortions people created in the Bible, no matter how energetic the evangelicals are about their immorality, good people aren’t often snowed by the BS being shot around by the haters.
amk
surprised no one has come up yet with hoist with his own peetard.
Obdurodon
@Roger Moore: That’s awesome. Thank you.
Citizen_X
@Comrade Scrutinizer: True. Ari Fleischer is who Stephen Miller wants to be when he grows up.
SFAW
@Felonius Monk:
Since you seem to want to put the words of our host in the mouth of Jesus, that makes me wonder …
John Cole – – – Jesus Christ
Coincidence? I think NOT.
Christ, I can be such a suck-up sometimes.
Mike G
Maybe he can join the Republican Toilet Police force since he’s so fond of criminalizing bathroom visits.
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
I don’t know if the thing from Matthew would be what McCrory deserves … but then again, Jesus would have gone easy on him. A real hard-ass would just de-nut McCrory on the spot. With a dull spoon. And no anesthetic.
SFAW
@Mike G:
Except when it’s Larry Craig doing the visiting. Then it’s them Lie-berals doing the persecutin’.
Felonius Monk
@SFAW:
Well, Nude Mopping is sorta like Walking on Water.
RPh
@Carolina Dave: More obtuse than a trick question on the AP Geometry exam?
Chris T.
@SFAW: Yeah, but he’s John G Cole, vs Jesus H Christ. More brothers than same-person, in other words.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Maybe McCrory can just chalk this little hardship up to having made “bad life choices”. Isn’t that why they say poor people are poor? Bad life choices? Or does that only apply to poor people, and not our betters like this shitstain?
SiubhanDuinne
@Felonius Monk:
My own real life initials are JC.
There was a very brief period in the 1970s when the leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada all simultaneously had the initials JC (Jimmy Carter, James Callaghan, and Joe Clark).
MsInformed (@MsInformed)
He fucked himself, then others and won’t take responsibility for his words and actions.
J R in WV
@amk:
OMG, That’s so good. Now, NOW I’m jealous !
sunny raines
racists and bigots don’t get to define whether or not they’re racist and bigoted; its the people that feel the brunt of their racism and bigotry that get to make that determination.
Procopius
@cmorenc: He has talents?
Redneck Josh
The HB2 law also prohibits any discrimination lawsuit. As in…Racial, Sexual, or Age Discrimination. Not hired because you’re Black…can’t sue. Boss grabs your p????…can’t sue. Laid off for a younger worker…can’t sue.
HB2 is more than a bathroom law.
Soprano
@cmorenc: The same thing happened to Lamar! Alexander on a larger scale. Lamar! was a decent-enough governor of Tennessee and an adequate, if unexciting, Secretary of Education. The minute he was elected to the Senate, he became the quintessential Republican a**hole. (My apologies to a useful part of the human body for comparing it to Lamar! Alexander.) As a Senator, he makes a great piano player. Never fails to toe the GOP line. Occasionally, he makes noises like an independent thinker, but his voting record is pristine Thug. He has always seemed like an opportunist to me.
boatboy_srq
@J R in WV: That, uh, was my point (hence the long list of philosophers and of writers on ethical subjects). We get it that there are other resources than The Book on which we can draw for a moral life; it’s the Fundies that don’t understand that – either because they’re convinced they have the Sole Guide For Righteous Living™ in their grip (no matter how little actual attention they give it) or because their communities never taught the others because Heresy™ and Blasphemy™.
boatboy_srq
@amk: @J R in WV: amk won yesterday’s Internets. Is next day delivery good enough?
NCSteve
The motherfucker whose long history of bigotry now makes him unemployable is a multi-millionaire.
Some guy
Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
BiloSagdiyev
In ancient times, it was written by the elders, and it has ever been thus: nobody likes an asshole.