So maybe everyone remembers a few months back the GOP released an autopsy saying in short they really really need to reach out to minorities, specifically Latinos, if they want to survive as a party. And of course they've been having a few problems, but I guess with any major shift that's to be expected.
Well bad news for the republicans, as of last week, their problems just got King sized, specifically Iowa Congressman Steve King,
See Congressman King was trying to explain why he would be against an immigration bill that would include the "Dream act", which is a piece of legislation that basically says if you were illegally brought here as a minor (15 and under) by your parents, you can stay in the country and gain citizenship by either graduating college or serving in the military for 2 years.
And this was his excuse:
"For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds — and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert,"
Now there are several small problems with the original statement (beyond the obvious racism):
1) those are some strong ass kids. I mean they are basically carrying 60% of their body weight across a desert.....Look my hats off to them, I couldn't do that, my guess is no one reading this could either
2) Those are also some big ass calves. Normal cantaloupe is about the size of a Human head. Go ahead, put your head between your legs, and see how many people you've seen with calves that big. I'm gonna guess Zero.....
3) apparently all drug dealers are Latino.
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| 5 wrongfully accused drug kingpins arrested in Flordia in April. Not being Latino, or 130 lbs they should be set free |
4) and this is kinda the obvious one. Even if Rep King was right, those people wouldnt be covered anyways. Remember the qualifiers about needing to be in school?
Actually Steve King does. See after his first quote surfaced, King tried to defend it by saying that he stood by it saying:
"This is real, We have people that are mules, that are drug mules, that are hauling drugs across the border and you can tell by their physical characteristics what they’ve been doing for months, going through the desert with 75 pounds of drugs on their back and if those who advocate for the DREAM Act, if they choose to characterize this about valedictorians, I gave them a different image that we need to be thinking about because we just simply can’t be passing legislation looking only at one component of what would be millions of people.”
To be fair, King is kinda right, you do have to be willing to look at everyone who will be affected, not just one group. And the DREAM does apply to multiple groups, Students and Soldiers.
Well congratulations to all the Latino's in the Military, your now all suspected drug smugglers.....unless youre fatter then 130 lbs, in which case your weak ass couldnt survive in the desert or even carry 75lbs.
Nor did King stop there. The next day he tried to defend himself from all his detractors on the floor of the House and well shit got real crazy:
'As you remember, Mr. Speaker, the high priest said to Jesus, did you really say those things? Did you really preach those things? And Jesus said to the high priest, as the Jews were watching, ask them. They were there, they can tell you. That was, Mr. Speaker, the assertion by Jesus that he had a right to face his accusers. That principle remains today in our law that we have a right to face our accusers. And when he said ‘ask them, they were there, they can tell you,’ he’s facing his accusers and demanding they testify against him rather than make allegations behind his back. And what happened when Jesus said that? They believed and the high priest believed that jesus’ answer was insolent, and the guard struck Jesus. And Jesus said, ‘If I speak wrongly you must prove the wrong. If I speak rightly, why do you punish me?’ He asserted his right to be innocent until proven guilty before a Roman court. Those two principles remain today in our law, a right to face your accuser, innocent until proven guilty, you face that — proven guilty, you face that jury of your peer. you need a quick and speedy trial. they didn’t have that then. the punishment came quickly whether right or wrong.
To translate: Steve King has the right to face his accusers. And they must present evidence he is wrong, or else its assumed he's not. Because in this story, Steve King is Jesus.
Which is actually kinda ironic when you think about it, given that most people I've ever known named Jesus were Latino......
Nor does the crazy stop there. Believe it or not Rep King found a way to top even comparing himself to Jesus the next day, when he was asked by FOX news of all places how exactly he had such an exacting description of the majority of DREAMer's
His answer, He actually caught them himself. No I'm not even remotely kidding.
"That description comes from many days down on the border, riding and sitting with the border patrol and without them at night, no night vision, watching the shadows come across the border, picking people up personally with my hands, unloading illegal drugs out of a vehicle with a false bottom under the truck, I mean this is a personal experience, and I sit there at night and border patrol agents would come to me one at a time in their civil clothes and talk to me clandestinely."
Now I know what your asking, and the answer is No Rep. King has never worked for the Border Patrol.
And No, Iowa doesnt border Mexico. And no, none of the committees King sits on have anything to do with the Border Patrol.
So there is no real reason at all for King to have actually ever sat on the Mexican Border. I don't know for sure, but I'm assuming Rep King just got a bit confused. Maybe he sat on the Iowa border and caught some Nebraskans illegally crossing into Iowa.....it would explain why none of this so called border patrol agents were wearing uniforms, its just the locals who live on the Iowa state line trying to figure out what the crazy guy is up to this time.
By the way, King's still not done. See he went back on FOX the next day to defend THOSE comments about sitting on the border. And it appears his friends at the Border Patrol, none of whom wish to be publicly identified (always the problem with invisible friends), had a message. According to Mr. King
“I got a call from them yesterday, and I said, ‘Did I need to come back down and refresh myself?’ They said, ‘No, you’re spot on with what you’re saying but maybe you got the weight ten pounds up."
Well congratulations, it only took a week but we finally got a walk back.........but just of being incorrect about his precise bigoted delusions. But on the upside all the non existent cantaloupe calved 130lbers are breathing a sigh of relief.....but all the 120lbers just went into hiding.
But it turns out all of this is only the icing on the cake of the Steve King problem for the Republican Party.
See publicly all the Republicans have been disowning him and disavowing his comments. Of course as he lives in his fantasy world, King doesnt really accept that.
In fact he said:
"My colleagues are standing by me. They come up to me constantly and talk to me and say, you’re right, I know you’re right, Is the description such that they have to go out to the press and do a press conference or can they come and tell me, I know you’re right, I support you? They can do that privately, You know, they have a lot at stake here. There is a leverage within the House of Representatives and they all need to be concerned about their own leverage, so I’m not asking them to step forward, I wouldn’t ask them to step forward. I don’t want them to take repercussions."
Now of course from a guy who thinks he's spend a lot of time on the border that no one else can account for, and also may or may not think he's Jesus, it would be very very easy to dismiss this as yet another delusion of a bigoted mind.
And actually Republican's would love for you to do just that.
See back at the start of June, the House voted on an amendment to the Homeland Security spending bill. This particular amendment would eliminate the policies the DHS can currently use to NOT automatically deport DREAMer's. In short it would force DREAMer's to be deported, even if they dont actually remember any other country or speak the local language.
And the amendment passed, with all but 6 republicans voting for it.
And the author of the Amendment? Yea, Rep Steve King.
So actually it looks like at long last, Rep King accidentally said something true.
And the fact that people are now looking this up,and releasing what the Republicans supported, even though they all now claim they never agreed with the moron with the Jesus Delusion who believes in cantaloupe calved illegals, is the real Republican Steve King problem. They dont want you to know what they actually WILL vote for, at least not after someone says anything about it in public.
So much for the rebranding and outreach......back to the drawing board (Again).
And No, Iowa doesnt border Mexico. And no, none of the committees King sits on have anything to do with the Border Patrol.
So there is no real reason at all for King to have actually ever sat on the Mexican Border. I don't know for sure, but I'm assuming Rep King just got a bit confused. Maybe he sat on the Iowa border and caught some Nebraskans illegally crossing into Iowa.....it would explain why none of this so called border patrol agents were wearing uniforms, its just the locals who live on the Iowa state line trying to figure out what the crazy guy is up to this time.
By the way, King's still not done. See he went back on FOX the next day to defend THOSE comments about sitting on the border. And it appears his friends at the Border Patrol, none of whom wish to be publicly identified (always the problem with invisible friends), had a message. According to Mr. King
“I got a call from them yesterday, and I said, ‘Did I need to come back down and refresh myself?’ They said, ‘No, you’re spot on with what you’re saying but maybe you got the weight ten pounds up."
Well congratulations, it only took a week but we finally got a walk back.........but just of being incorrect about his precise bigoted delusions. But on the upside all the non existent cantaloupe calved 130lbers are breathing a sigh of relief.....but all the 120lbers just went into hiding.
But it turns out all of this is only the icing on the cake of the Steve King problem for the Republican Party.
See publicly all the Republicans have been disowning him and disavowing his comments. Of course as he lives in his fantasy world, King doesnt really accept that.
In fact he said:
"My colleagues are standing by me. They come up to me constantly and talk to me and say, you’re right, I know you’re right, Is the description such that they have to go out to the press and do a press conference or can they come and tell me, I know you’re right, I support you? They can do that privately, You know, they have a lot at stake here. There is a leverage within the House of Representatives and they all need to be concerned about their own leverage, so I’m not asking them to step forward, I wouldn’t ask them to step forward. I don’t want them to take repercussions."
Now of course from a guy who thinks he's spend a lot of time on the border that no one else can account for, and also may or may not think he's Jesus, it would be very very easy to dismiss this as yet another delusion of a bigoted mind.
And actually Republican's would love for you to do just that.
See back at the start of June, the House voted on an amendment to the Homeland Security spending bill. This particular amendment would eliminate the policies the DHS can currently use to NOT automatically deport DREAMer's. In short it would force DREAMer's to be deported, even if they dont actually remember any other country or speak the local language.
And the amendment passed, with all but 6 republicans voting for it.
And the author of the Amendment? Yea, Rep Steve King.
So actually it looks like at long last, Rep King accidentally said something true.
And the fact that people are now looking this up,and releasing what the Republicans supported, even though they all now claim they never agreed with the moron with the Jesus Delusion who believes in cantaloupe calved illegals, is the real Republican Steve King problem. They dont want you to know what they actually WILL vote for, at least not after someone says anything about it in public.
So much for the rebranding and outreach......back to the drawing board (Again).
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