A Trump Judicial Nominee Is Under Investigation For Not Telling Anybody He Comments On An Alabama Football Message Board As "BamaInBoston"
BFNews - One of President Donald Trump’s federal court nominees appears to have written posts for years on a University of Alabama sports fan website — including posts about gun control and immigration — and didn’t disclose the writings on his Senate questionnaire.
The messages on TideFans.com were posted by the user “BamainBoston.” In a Dec. 8, 2014, post, the user identified himself as Brett Talley, linking to a Washington Post article about Talley under the subject line “Washington Post Did A Feature On Me.”
The questionnaire also asks nominees to list “published material you have written or edited, including material published only on the Internet.” Talley listed posts he wrote for the blog Government in Exile and noted that he had also blogged on his personal website about horror writing. His posts on Government in Exile included pieces about the US political response to mass shootings — he called gun control efforts at the time “wrongheaded” — and pledging support to the National Rifle Association. There are no entries about posts on TideFans.com.
Finally a politics issue I can relate to! I may not get into the policies of Washington much, but let me tell you folks, if there’s one thing I can participate in an educated conversation about, it’s SEC fans. Fucking love SEC fans. Been studying and observing them in their natural habitat for years, National Geographic style. You know that show about the meerkats where they set up a million hidden cameras and observe the meerkat colonies and their societal structures? That’s like me with the SEC for the past eight years only instead of watching cute little rodents it’s like drunk girls and dudes swinging fists with ROLL TIDE inked across their knuckles. Made the mistake of not actually going to an SEC school and been trying to make up for it vicariously ever since. Craziest fans. Best fans.
And the message boards are where you get the cream of the crop. Just insane, wild-wild-wests of internet commenting. Grown men smashing their keyboards to smithereens over 18 year old backup defensive tackles. And of course, it’s the South. So you better believe politics are going to sneak their way into everything, and you better believe the direction of the takes.
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Many of BamainBoston’s posts are about sports. But some address politics and other nonsports subjects. On Dec. 17, 2012, a few days after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, BamainBoston posted, “My solution would be to stop being a society of pansies and man up.”
BamainBoston continued: “We shouldn’t depend on the government to protect us. We should be ready to protect ourselves. Everyone should know that part of their social responsibility is to learn how to use a firearm effectively and carry one with them at all times. I know some of you will freak out at that suggestion, but the only law I can imagine that would have stopped what happened in Connecticut is if every one of the teachers was armed with a gun and trained in how to use it.”
In 2011, BamainBoston posted in a thread about immigration. Responding to another poster who wrote, “can we all agree that wasserman is a complete moron, even if you agree with the overall agenda she is peddling?” — an apparent reference to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former chair of the Democratic National Committee — BamainBoston wrote, “Agreed. It is hard to reform something if we can’t even agree on what it is.”
Later in the thread, BamainBoston wrote on the subject of how the US government should handle undocumented immigrants: “As for those people who are already here, yes, they violated the law. Great. That tells us nothing. The debate is how to punish that violation of the law. Go ahead. Punish them. Fine them. Whatever. Then give them a path to citizenship. The last thing we want here is a permanent underclass of people. And the thought of the police breaking down the doors of otherwise law abiding citizens and dragging them out to be deported is horrible and un-American. The crime most of these people committed is wanting a better life.”
Anyway what’s my conclusion about Brett “BamaInBoston” Talley? Gotta get him out. Can’t have a guy like this in any sort of meaningful DC position. And by guy like this, I mean: a college football message board poster. Too crazy. Doesn’t matter what the takes are. Don’t care if he has threads calling for every citizen to be armed with 11 handguns or to melt every gun in existence down and use the metal to sculpt a Hillary tribute statue. Don’t care if he posts about building a 900 foot wall around the United States or posts to let every Mexican in and give them your job personally. Just being a college football message board poster in general. Lunatic.