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18th January 2017, 04:34 PM | #1 |
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Racist Paul LePage, Maine Guv, is at it again.
Paul LePage Tells John Lewis He Should 'Thank Lincoln For His Freedom'
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Gov. Paul LePage called Maine’s voting process into question Tuesday, saying that elections – which twice have put him in the governor’s mansion – aren’t “clean” because voters don’t have to show identification at the polls.
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18th January 2017, 04:48 PM | #2 |
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Okay, first, we gotta talk about these nicknames. "Smoothie"? That's a beverage. And "Shifty"?
Trust me, no black guy alive would willingly take on a nickname that sounds like some Dick Tracy character... Uh, anyway, this is not exactly a shock from LePage. Hopefully the Maine dems can get it together next time their governorship is up for grabs and unite behind a single candidate. As I recall, they basically split their vote last time, which is why this racist, union-bashing fool is still around. But regardless, his input is not welcome. |
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He's no different from multiple posters on this very forum, who have repeatedly said that Democrats are the real racists because southern Dems opposed civil rights 70 years ago.
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18th January 2017, 06:13 PM | #6 |
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He's a jackass, but he just spoke aloud what most Republicans in government either believe or wish were true.
They want credit for ending slavery but they want to yada-yada over the last 60 years of fighting desegregation. |
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I think it's very white of the gov to give credit to the white people who ended slavery and Jim Crow laws, and not to mention the non-white people who presumably established them.
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This came into focus when Rand Paul tried giving a lecture at Howard, a traditionally African American college. He asked the students if they knew Republicans had created the NAACP. They answered in unison with this perfectly bored, "yes." And Paul was dumbfounded. He thought that was his big ace in the hole.
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Who's this "us"? Are you self-identifying with racists? 'Cuz that's who I'm speaking about.
The point is that the new standard for conservatives is a bar that's that low. "I didn't man a firehose in Birmingham. I didn't lynch any black people. I never owned a slave in my life. Q.E.D., I'm not a racist. See? I proved it." And women. That's why the Republican Congressional caucus is 83% white men. It seems that "accepting" means "tolerating them 'cuz we have to according to the law". It doesn't mean support or vote for or make welcome in the Party. The majority (not vast, but majority nevertheless) is not racist. That is true. We are talking about the seamier dark underbelly of the conservative movement, who are blatant racists. When the rest of you defend LePage and Paladino and Duke as "not possibly a racist 'cuz they never owned any slaves" and hand-wave their bigotry away, you do yourselves and your country a disservice.
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19th January 2017, 03:57 AM | #20 |
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The funny part is, Paul's actually the member of the GOP who does outreach to black people. He was the only person in the GOP who said "Hey, this is awful!" back when police were driving around in military equipment in Ferguson.
LePage is from the "I love elites and hate the lessers" wing of the GOP. As much as he's an obvious racist, truth is that he'll sell the average white person up the river, too. |
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My perception of Rand Paul is that he is consistently libertarian and truly stands for libertarian policies.
It is also my perception that many whites seemed to feel that by ending slavery, we solved the race issue ignoring things like Jim Crow. LePage is probably the best example of this. |
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19th January 2017, 09:33 AM | #23 |
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LePage is simply awful. Recall that he also took down a mural dedicated to workers.
I'd never vote for Rand Paul. But when he says that he'd never enter a store that banned people based on race, I think he's telling the truth. I think his visit to Howard was also honest, though he was deeply ignorant as to his audience. There's a certain level of ignorance to his old objection to the Civil Rights Act, for sure. Even he could have made an argument based on the idea that racist businesses had formed a cartel. And of course, I lean liberal. But I do prefer him to the flat out raging hostility towards black people (or Hispanic people, or LGBT folk) that we often see from Republicans like LePage. And he does seem to stick to some principles, while others bend based on skin color. He's the best of a bad lot, I guess - while LePage is among the worst of the worst. (BTW, I don't trust Paul to be libertarian towards LGBT folk - and yes, that is a problem) |
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This is one of the problems we're having dealing with these ****** politicians: Even their critics too often avoid calling blatant lies what they are, moderating the tone of their comments as if they're dealing with an honest difference of opinion. There should hardly be a news story about LePage or the current occupant of the Oval Office that doesn't include some variation of the words "but given the number of lies he's told..." |
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In context, he was saying that LePage was ignorant and misinformed. In other words, it's the benefit of the doubt being given that he was in possession of inaccurate information. It's how you say that someone has made an incorrect statement without calling them a liar. That makes it easier for others to shrug it off because, shucks, who hasn't repeated information that they found out later was wrong?
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Luckily LePage is term limited and will be gone next year but I don't think he would be re-elected this time.
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Hopefully he won't get it into his head to run for US Senate, there are clearly enough people in Maine who think he's just great!
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Can't wait for Stephen King's comments on this; Maine's most famous current native son and LePage have been engaged in warfare for some time,most famously when Lepage accused King of paying no taxes in Maine....which LePage had to retract.
LePage probably has never heard of the 20th Maine, whose stand at Little Round Top on the Second Day of Gettyburg might have saved the Union. |
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Someone hook a generator up to Joshua Chamberlain's grave, it'll power the Western Hemisphere for the next 30 years.
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My grandpa would be horrified if he knew Yankees were trying to claim to have been on the right side of the War of Northern Aggression. I mean, Maine? You can't get any more Northern without turning Canadian!
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