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2nd June 2020, 09:46 PM | #1 |
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Steve King of Iowa is an Ex Congressman...
Steve Young, notorous bigot, has lost the GOP primary in his district.
Can't wait for the reacion from the other Steven King..the one in Maine,who has made alot of twitter posts about how angry he is being confused with the Kind of Iowa. |
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2nd June 2020, 10:16 PM | #2 |
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Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Steve! Or do! I'd enjoy seeing that!
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2nd June 2020, 10:43 PM | #3 |
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3rd June 2020, 04:22 AM | #5 |
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He has ceased to be a representative. He has expired and gone to meet his constituency. Bereft of mandate, he rests in retirement. His legislative processes are now history. HE IS AN EX-CONGRESSMAN.
Well, soon anyway,. |
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3rd June 2020, 04:33 AM | #6 |
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His opponent has criticized King for being an ineffective ally to Trump, citing that King has been removed from all committee positions. This is about as close as any Republican is going to get to denouncing white supremacy politics as we can expect.
Still a victory, but it really shows how poisoned the GOP is these days. |
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3rd June 2020, 04:41 AM | #7 |
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Someone should kneel on his neck for 10 minutes.
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3rd June 2020, 04:51 AM | #8 |
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Here's to fond memories of Steve King. Like the time Ken Klippenstein got him to thank Jack Nicholson for his noble service as a Marine
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/...32590709248000 |
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3rd June 2020, 05:43 AM | #9 |
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Believe it or not, I am actually a bit conflicted here.
Don't get me wrong... King is a racist scumbag who should not be any where near congress (or any other position of political authority). But, the Republicans are replacing him with someone who plans to be a trump ally (i.e he supports racism, he just won't be as blantant about it.) Plus he checks all the Republican boxes... Strong marks from NRA, anti-abortion. At a time when the Republicans seem to be actually paying a price for their racism, turfing King allows them to clean up their image, without actually doing anything to actually fix the problem. I almost wish he stuck around so the democrats can use him to highlight problems with the Republicans. (Heck, I have read that the democrats had a chance of flipping his seat, but that is probably less likely now.) Sent from my LM-X320 using Tapatalk |
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3rd June 2020, 05:54 AM | #10 |
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3rd June 2020, 07:53 AM | #11 |
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That's the impression I've been getting fro the reporting. It wasn't so much that King was a racist that got him in trouble. Hell, McCarthy was trying to get him back his committee seats. The fact is, he was too overt, which was making it harder to get their far-right agenda passed.
The current nominee's platform is essentially "I won't say the quiet parts out loud." What the Democrats should do is keep running all those clips of McCarthy and the Weakling praising King, showing how much his record aligned with the GOP and paint the new guy as some compromise with the Dems. Get the crazies riled up enough to get King to run as an independent and split the vote. |
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3rd June 2020, 08:10 AM | #12 |
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The reason King got nommed out is because he is so overt that he was going to lose to a democrat in the fall.
So get someone with all the same beliefs but without Steve King's name and he will win again. That's what this is all about. They weren't concerned about his policies and beliefs, they were scared he was going to lose and wouldn't be able to implement those policies and beliefs. |
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3rd June 2020, 08:57 AM | #13 |
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And he won't be an ex-congressman until January, when he becomes a Fox News commentator. (Probably)
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3rd June 2020, 10:34 AM | #14 |
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3rd June 2020, 10:37 AM | #15 |
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I reported the OP. Ex-quarterback Steve Young did go to BYU, but calling him a bigot seems out of line.
As for Steve King, I hope that he gets shingles. |
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Trump: "Today I'm here to support Steve King. A special guy, a smart person with, really, the right views on almost everything."
Linky. |
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3rd June 2020, 12:01 PM | #17 |
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3rd June 2020, 12:02 PM | #18 |
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The other Stephen King...the one in Maine....must be happy he now longer has to explain he is not that Steve King...
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3rd June 2020, 12:36 PM | #19 |
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Steve King of Iowa will not cease to exist after this primary loss.
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3rd June 2020, 12:37 PM | #20 |
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It's also important to note that Steve King did not lose primary because he is racist.
He lost it because he was no longer an effective racist. |
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3rd June 2020, 12:51 PM | #21 |
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Meanwhile, in Maine
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3rd June 2020, 04:42 PM | #26 |
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And some more good news:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...am/3138433001/ Hoping for a trifect of bigotry and racism getting it in the neck... |
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3rd June 2020, 05:53 PM | #27 |
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3rd June 2020, 06:05 PM | #29 |
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Military enforcing civil law..worked out great for Britian in Boston.......
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By the way.. the Republican primary involved wide-spread adoption of vote-by-mail (with roughly 50000 votes cast that way, more than 10 times the number in the last primary.)
Wonder if we will hear anything about that from stubby Mcbonespurs. (Be a great question to ask at a press conference... "President... You complained about fraud in vote by mail... Do you think king deserves to still be the nominee?") Sent from my LM-X320 using Tapatalk |
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4th June 2020, 07:40 AM | #32 |
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Wait a second.
In the Trump thread he retweeted that he is 64-0 on candidates he supported winning. Trump supported King. King lost. How do we reconcile this? |
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You need to realize that when Trump says one thing and then either says the exact opposite or the exact opposite happens he somehow gets both sides to agree with him if they were already on his side.
When Trump says "Manhattan is the better Clam Chowder!" at one rally and then says "New England is the better Clam Chowder!" a day later and liberals are jumping up and down going "He's a hypocrite! He contradicted himself! Why isn't anyone mad about this!" what is happening is as long as they were already on his side or inclined to to agree with him Trump got... about 75% of the Manhattan Clam Chowder Supporters and about 75% of New England Clam Chowder Supporters to think he is supporting them instead of sacrificing it for 100% of one and 0% of the other. It's the advantage of talking to people who already agree with you. People really to understand that Trump supporters listen to Trump until he says something they agree with/want to hear... and then they stop listening so they don't care if he says something alternative or even outright contradictory later. |
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And, from the midterms on, the answer is:
Trump Endorsed: 75 Won election:42 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgo...-election-day/ |
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