In both 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as in 2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published its profiles of Pat Garofalo, a man with a history of demonizing Democrats and liberals in general with highly partisan rhetoric, gleefully trolling the opposite side of the aisle to an extent that he has compared the Minnesota state legislature in which he has served since 2004 to pro-wrestling, and defining his own antics as those of a traditional “heel” wrestler. (Oh, if only Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would show up and brain this jagoff with a steel chair…) On social media, Garofalo seems to relish that role, where he has taunted liberal bloggers for having names that sound too similar for slang terms for vaginas, related environmentalists’ distaste for mining companies to his own for Planned Parenthood, wished for a meteorite to hit a gathering of people watching cat videos to kill them all, and his most famous moment, perhaps, when he gave his humble opinion of what would happen if the NBA went out of business, “Let’s be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold tomorrow + nobody would notice a difference w/ possible exception of increase in streetcrime.” He apologized for that last one after being widely criticized, insisting that he in no way meant for his statement to be racist, and himself is not racist (Sure…)
Now, just being an unflinching ***hole for his own entertainment isn’t the only way that Pat Garofalo is an utter bastard… he also does so in terms of his policy suggestions and votes. Like say, the time back in April 2015 that he pitched the idea to lower the minimum wage for wait staff who get at least $4 an hour in tips, lying and claiming it was needed to save restaurants from going under after Minnesota voted to raise its overall minimum wage to $9.50 an hour. Heaven forbid the blue collar workers in the service industry get any kind of an increase in wages, right? I mean, especially after the countless times that Garofalo voted against minimum wage increases during the greatest period of income inequality our nation has seen in the past century. Maybe it’s not the waiters he hates, though, and just the waitresses if you apply his vote against Equal Pay laws to grant women equal pay for equal work. He also keeps insisting the Dept. of Justice “investigate massive voter fraud”.
(For the record, the Bush administration had its Department of Justice do the same thing, and found virtually none over a decade. Garofalo is effectively getting excited that taxpayer dollars will be wasted on something as useful as a unicorn hunt.)
In September of 2017, less than a month after Neo-Nazis terrorized Charlottesville and murdered Heather Heyer, members of Antifa turned up to face down a pro-Trump political gathering in Portland, Oregon. As tensions escalated, Garofalo, of course, only had a problem with the anti-Fascists, and put out the following suggestion on Twitter:
“1) Arrest them
2) Hold them for 72 hrs before posting bail
3) Give them alone time with Bubba in Appalachia.#EffectiveRehabilition”
Now, once some media outlets started reporting on Garofalo joking about hoping the anti-Trump protesters were raped in prison, he denied that’s what his statement meant. I suppose he had a completely innocent idea of what “Alone time with Bubba in Applachia” is, that isn’t referencing Deliverance or something? (Pat’s full of s***, moving on…)
In April of 2019, after Donald Trump canceled a foreign trip because he was sulking about the fact that Denmark wouldn’t sell him Greenland (that is a real thing that still happened), Pat Garofalo was ready to cash in on the potential publicity by offering Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to Minneapolis on a goodwill trip. Frederiksen, knowing a pathetic little fish when he sees one, kept swimming by.
By July 2019, Garofalo was again craving attention like a child whose parents never loved him enough, and decided to weigh in on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team during their World Cup run, and how the team was protesting over being paid less than the men even though they are far more dominant over the competition than their male counterparts. Garofalo’s take was, predictably, stupid and sexist, as he declared that the USWNT’s low wages “It’s not sexism. It’s MATH.”
People checked the math, and Garofalo’s claims about revenue, only to discover SURPRISE! The women were bringing in more revenue, too.
Minnesota’s House of Representatives has no term limits, and District 58B is aligned to be conservative enough that Pat Garofalo still wins even in presidential years comfortably by double digits. And regrettably, 2020 was no different, as Garofalo pulled down 62% of the vote for his tenth term in office. He is currently pretending like he never liked Donald Trump and that the people who stormed the Capitol Building in a violent coup attempt are not associated with the Republican Party… as well as “both sides”ing the events of 1/6 by lying and claiming that over the summer of 2020 that Black Lives Matter protesters somehow were the same in their own protests… that did not involve storming government buildings. Which is slightly more productive than him trying to spread misinformation about how bad the Covid-19 response of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz supposedly is (which has actually been good, compared to a lot of states).
But these things are to be expected of this hype-partisan troll and his s***posting.
One Year Ago, February 9th, 2020: Pat Garofalo (MN)… 2020 Update
Two Year Ago, February 9th, 2019: Pat Garofalo (MN)… 2019 Update
Three Years Ago, February 9th, 2018: Pat Garofalo (MN)… 2018 Update
Four Years Ago, February 9th, 2017: Pat Garofalo (MN)… 2017 Update
Five Years Ago. February 9th, 2016: Pat Garofalo (MN)… Original Profile
Six Years Ago, February 9th, 2015: Tom Mullins (NM)