Dana Rohrabacher

1997 official photo.

2009 official photo. Shoulda kept the beard, man.

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“”There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump. Swear to God.

—Kevin McCarthy to a group of fellow Republicans, June 15, 2016.

Dana Rohrabacher (1947–) was a long-term California Republican Congressional Representative who finally lost an election in 2018. He is a long-haired hippie who dresses in black jeans and turtlenecks to symbolize anarchy, burns draft cards at YAF conventions, travels around the U.S. west coast singing radical folk songs about laissez-faire and smashing the state, lives in an anarcho-village of science fiction fans and underground economy advocates, doesn't vote, and spreads the anarcho-pacifist gospel of Bob Lefevre.

Or so we still wish. What a sellout.

Obviously, an old libertarian like that would never run for Congress as a Republican, formulate the Reagan Doctrine, play second fiddle only to Tom Tancredo as an anti-illegal immigration hardliner, or campaign against gay marriage.

What a sellout.

However, he is not a doctrinaire Republican. He supports medical marijuana and voting rights for DC (though with a bizarre plan to make them part of Maryland).

He's also been connected to Jack Abramoff and was one of the few Congresspeople to publicly defend him.

Republic of Vemerana

Before he became a US Representative, Dana Rohrabacher visited the New Hebrides in the 1970s and was likely connected to the Phoenix Foundation. At this time, the Phoenix Foundation was attempting to prevent the New Hebrides from decolonizing and becoming the independent state of Vanuatu. Instead, the Phoenix Foundation was trying to create the libertarian Republic of Vemerana via a mercenary army.

Scholarly observations on global warming

Rohrabacher has made some astute observations on climate science:

• Dinosaur flatulence caused previous warming
• Rohrabacher unleashes a PRATT tornado on Richard Alley
• Global warming is "liberal claptrap" (Channeling someone perhaps?)

Trolling Sirhan Sirhan

Rohrabacher claimed to have been in the Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968, at the time that Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan. Rohrabacher is a believer in the conspiracy theory that others were involved in the assassination, and he went so far as to visit Sirhan in prison while dressed as a woman and badgered him about the assassination.

Supporting ISIS

Rohrabacher has actually suggested that the United States should support ISIS when they attack other terrorist groups after they attacked the shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini (of Iran, which supports Lebanese terrorists Hezbollah).

• "GOP lawmaker: Wasn't ISIS terror attack in Iran 'a good thing'"

Return of the mercenary

In 2018, American warlord Erik Prince, co-owner of Blackwater, announced that he would host a fundraiser for his longtime friend Rohrabacher. At the time, Prince had been under investigation by the FBI over whether he tried to establish an illegal backchannel of communication between Russia and the Trump transition team. As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rohrabacher was an unusually robust supporter of Russia and Wikileaks. Rohrabacher has also been tied to Robert Mueller's FBI investigation when Rick Gates admitted to lying about a meeting between Rohrabacher, Paul Manafort and a lobbyist on Ukraine. In 2016, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy "told other Republicans that he thought Rohrabacher and President Trump were on the Russian payroll."