Josh Mandel, the Treasurer of the state of Ohio, who is also running against Sherrod Brown for a Senate seat in 2018, made a really stupid video somewhere on the border of Mexico and the U.S last week. (Or quite possibly somewhere on the side of the road in Dublin or something. Either way, he tweeted it last night.)

Complaining that politicians in Washington declined to fund Donald Trump’s wall last week (Trump backed off demands to include money for the wall in short-term funding that eventually passed to avoid a governmental shutdown as contentious opposition mounted), Mandel railed against their opposition and their choice to fund sanctuary cities. Never mind that it wasn’t a binary proposition, or that a federal judge blocked Trump’s efforts to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities, or… what even the fuck is he talking about? Also, why was he at the border? (A message to a Mandel spokesperson on that point wasn’t returned.)

He goes on to say it’s not his first time on a border, citing his military experience at the Iraq/Syria border, which isn’t exactly the same thing as the U.S/Mexico border, but we digress.

“My message to [House members in D.C.] is listen to the American People, listen to your President, listen to the Constitution, stop being Democrat-light, and vote to fund this wall.”

Enjoy the video below, but before you do, a reminder that a variety of recent polls show 60-percent of Americans oppose the “big, beautiful” wall that estimates show would cost some $21 billion.

This article appears in May 3-9, 2017.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

16 replies on “Josh Mandel Made a Really Stupid Video Supporting Trump’s Wall”

  2. When Mandel was in the Marines and in Iraq, he sat in an air-conditioned FOB. #borrowedvalor

  3. You’re a fucking tool and a pussy. Quit using my beloved Corps name in vane.

  4. This weasel has spent half his time in public office running for yet another office. He needs to go find a nice job in middle management somewhere in the private sector and stop inflicting his epic mediocrity on the people of this state.

  5. This jamoke almost makes Mark Zuckerberg look good, and that thakes some doing.

    Joshy-Boy Mandel: A shanda fur die goyim…

    Look it up…

    Charlie :twocents:

  7. “A shanda fur die goyim” is a phrase that deserves more use. (I know more or less what it means, but only from a book.)

    A very good moment to give it some exercise, sir.

  8. Thank you…it’s not all often that one can put Yiddish to good use these days. It’s a wonderfully expressive language, heavy on the sarcastic and the snarky (snarcastic?)…

    This late in life, I have many regrets…and one of them is that I took “easy” Spanish in high school because I thought German (from which Yiddish originates, along with some roots in Polish and Russian) was “too hard” to learn. And we were forever being told that Spanish was “the language of the future” when JFK was still alive, and dealing with Fidel and the Cubans (no, not the Latino band).

    My mother spoke only Yiddish until she began school at age five…and oh, how much I wish I could have picked up the phone during her final years (she made it to 92) and conversed in the “mama loshen”…the mother tongue. she’d have loved that so.

    Ah, well…[deep sigh]

    Chuckles the Clown

  10. Sorry, lady…this is Cleveland. We don’t build walls here. We build bridges.

    Chuckles the Clown

  11. well Cleveland scene you must support death to Americas. We need a Wall like all get out. We need the army and our Milltary to go down to Mob members of Mexico. We need to bomb these leader of the durg cartels homes. We need to blow up were they make these drugs. We need make weed Legal so people on herion can get off it.. They can smoke weed and help the get off herion. We need to stop herion funding the globish army. We need to fight the New Word order with our Minds and Jesus. This man posting about the wall is dead nuts.. So if don’t support this wall then move.. Heck sell you your paper in mexico.

  12. Noo Word Orda has everybody in the globish army hooked on durgs…especially you.
    Shoot summa dat herion to me, bro.

    Chuckles the Clown.

  13. Calling this desperate career politician a dirtbag…..would be an insult to dirt.

  14. Nothing says “We hate Ohio” like allowing this POS to run as the GOP candidate……for any office. Homophobic, racist, sexist, opportunistic, ineffective Mandel.

  15. The mere fact that he has held elective positions at the state level since 2007 does not reflect well on either the state of North Missitucky, or its sheeple. Time to send this bedraggled little clown home.

    Chuckles the Clown

  16. We must never, ever let this despicable creature called Mandel represent us in the Senate. Make it so, Ohio voters.

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