Welcome to what is the 1150th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’re profiling the U.S. House Representative from Pennsylvania’s 15th Congressional District, Glenn Thompson, who currently serves as the ranking Republican member of the House Agriculture Committee. He has served in office since 2009, originally serving in what was Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District until a court order by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court redistricted it as the 15th back in 2008.
What he’s much more infamous for these days, was voting against the “Respect for Marriage At”, which would have codified same sex marriages as legal, and then leaving Washington, D.C. to attend the wedding of his gay son to his husband. We hope that the collective guests at that wedding all came together to tell him “Sorry, no wedding cake for you. It wasn’t made for hypocrites who don’t actually support this union.”
We’ll also make note of the fact that Glenn Thompson signed on to the amicus brief to the Supreme Court to try and overturn the results of the 2020 election, and voted for the objection to certify the results in the wee hours of Jan. 7th, 2021, so seditious activities combined with his voting against his own son’s marriage make a pretty plain case that he’s a corpulent old extremist. Well, that and
his claim that the FBI was being “weaponized for political gain” because they had to serve a search warrant at Mar-A-Lago to recover classified documents stolen by Donald Trump.
But hey, if you need more, he’s the rest of the low lights of his voting record since he took office:
- January 9th, 2009: Thompson votes against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
- April 29th, 2009: Glenn Thompson votes against the Hate Crimes Expansion that would provide protections to LGBTQ citizens.
- June 30th, 2010: After Wall Street bankers taking unnecessary risks nearly imploded the global economy in 2007, legislation finally comes forward to prevent the same behaviors from being permitted in the future. The signature piece of legislation to prevent another financial meltdown was Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, which Glenn Thompson voted against.
- July 30th, 2010: Months after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a bill comes to the floor to better regulate off-shore drilling. Thompson is apparently alright with ecological disasters continuing in the future, as he votes against it.
- December 8th, 2010: Rep. Thompson votes against the DREAM Act.
- December 15th, 2010: Thompson votes against the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.
- On January 5th, 2011, Rep. Thompson votes the first attempt by Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He has voted for almost every attempt to do so since.
- On February 18th, 2011, Glenn Thompson votes to defund Planned Parenthood.
- March 17th, 2011: Rep. Thompson votes to cut funding to National Public Radio.
- September 15th, 2012: Rep. Thompson votes for the “No More Solyndras Act”.
- September 21st, 2012: Thompson votes for the “Stop the War on Coal Act”.
- January 15th, 2013: Glenn Thompson votes against Disaster Relief Funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy.
- February 28th, 2013: Thompson votes against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
- June 19th, 2013: Glenn Thompson votes against restoring $20.5 billion towards the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
- September 30th, 2013: Rep. Thompson votes for the 2013 Government Shutdown.
- Feb 26th, 2014: Glenn Thompson goes “all in” on the faux-scandal surrounding the IRS researching SuperPACs by voting for the “Stop the Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act”.
- July 10th, 2014: Thompson votes for House Amendment 1040, to prevent the implementation of the dreaded United Nations Agenda 21 Treaty, that in spite of just being recommended climate change guidelines, have many conspiracy theorists within the extreme right convinced it’s a plot for global domination.
- January 22nd, 2015: Glenn Thompson votes for HR 7, an anti-abortion bill that makes even some Republicans pause before voting for it because of its language that tries to define the conditions for what “rape” is, in it.
- February 3rd, 2015: Rep. Thompson votes for the 60th Republican attempt at repealing the Affordable Care Act. This in spite of the fact that by this point, the law is not just working, but better than experts predicted.
- March 3rd, 2015: Thompson votes against funding the Department of Homeland Security as part of a Republican protest of President Obama’s executive orders on immigration.
- September 11th, 2015: Thompson votes against the United States’ nuclear treaty with Iran.
- September 18th, 2015: Rep. Thompson votes for a bill with most House Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood, based on highly edited “sting” videos submitted by a Pro-Life advocacy group that have been repeatedly debunked by investigators.
- November 19th, 2015: Thompson votes for the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act, reacting to the terror attacks in Paris by jihadists from France and Belgium by trying to create greater restrictions to keep out Syrian refugees, of whom exactly zero were involved in those attacks.
- February 2nd, 2016: Glenn Thompson votes for HR 3762, the 61st attempt by Congressional Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (which is still working better than was predicted).
- February 16th, 2017: Thompson votes for HJR 69, to make it legal for hunters on wildlife reserves to kill several species of hibernating bears or wolves while they’re sleeping. Because… well, the logic really isn’t there as to why, it’s just awful.
- March 16th, 2017: Glenn Thompson votes for HR 1181, which would allow veterans deemed mentally incompetent to continue to own firearms, and not have them taken away without a judge’s written order. We feel safer already.
- May 4th, 2017: Thompson votes for the GOP’s healthcare plan, that would allow 24,000 more people to die a year, give $50,000 in tax breaks to millionaires, would eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions, and would treat pregnancy, post-partum depression, and sexual assault as “pre-existing conditions”. Oh, and a provision in the bill would make sure that Thompson would be allowed to keep his healthcare plan as it exists under the ACA, which would be repealed for the rest of the country. He and his Republican compatriots threw themselves a beer bash to celebrate taking away healthcare from millions and then gloated about it with Donald Trump at a White House press conference, as well.
- June 8th, 2017: Glenn Thompson votes for HR 10, the GOP’s attempt to repeal Dodd-Frank financial reform, because what the country really needs is to allow the big banks to make the same mistakes that imploded the economy only a decade earlier.
- October 3rd, 2017: Thompson votes for HR 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, that would try to create a ban abortion at 20 weeks (even though medical science tells us fetuses do not have the capability to feel pain until 29 weeks).
- December 19th, 2017: Glenn Thompson votes for HR 1, the GOP’s $1.7 trillion tax cut to benefit the wealthiest Americans and corporations permanently that coincidentally also removes the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate and kicks 13 million people off their health insurance.
- December 18th, 2019: Thompson ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
- May 15th, 2020: Thompson votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- December 10th, 2020: Thompson signs his name to an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, begging them to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The same election that he won re-election in.
- January 6th, 2021: Glenn Thompson votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that he wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
- January 13th, 2021: Rep. Thompson votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because the Republican Party no longer feels like they should be accountable for anything, including failed coups that result in the deaths of both their participants and police officers.
- February 4th, 2021: Glenn Thompson votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Thompson’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
- February 25th, 2021: Thompson votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
- March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Thompson votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
- March 3rd, 2021: Glenn Thompson votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- March 10th, 2021: Thompson votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
- March 17th, 2021: Rep. Thompson votes against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
- May 19th, 2021: Glenn Thompson votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
- November 5th, 2021: Glenn Thompson votes against HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
- March 31st, 2022: Thompson votes against HR 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which would limit the cost that drug companies could list insulin at to $35 and make sure no diabetic was priced out of surviving their condition. Glenn Thompson would rather they be gouged by pharmaceutical giants and/or die.
- May 18th, 2022: Glenn Thompson is one of 192 Republicans who vote against HR 7790, to create supplemental funding for infant formula (while claiming to be pro- life).
- May 18th, 2022: Rep. Thompson votes against HR 350, the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, because these days, a plank of the Republican Party is ostensibly domestic terror.
- May 19th, 2022: Thompson votes against HR 7688, a bill which would help prevent gas companies from gouging customers on prices.
- June 22nd, 2022: Rep. Thompson is one of 67 Republicans who co-sponsor HR 1167, a bill to try to begin consideration on the Life at Contraception Act, which would, y’know, ban both abortion and birth control federally if passed if say… Roe v. Wade weren’t around to overturn it.
- July 15th, 2022: Glenn Thompson votes against House Amendment 262, which would require the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Secretary of Defense to publish a report on the infiltration of American law enforcment by Neo-Nazis and white supremacists, offer measures to be taken to remove them from their ranks, and prevent further infiltration by others.
- July 19th, 2022: Rep. Thompson is one of 157 Republicans who vote against the “Respect for Marriage Act”, which would codify same sex marriage into law nationally.
- July 21st, 2022: Thompson is one of 195 Republicans who vote against the Right to Contraception Act, which codified the right of Americans to have access to birth control.
Pennsylvania’s 15th Congressional District has a staggering +25 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, making it an unlikely district to flip for Democratic candidate Michael Molsevich, and a more-than-likely scenario that a bloated tick on American politics like Glenn Thompson can continue in Congress for another two years. We’re hoping at least, that his Thanksgiving dinners are a hostile experience when his son has to ask why his father tries to deny him his human rights whenever he has the opportunity.
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