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progressoid

(50,753 posts) Tue Mar 14, 2017, 04:12 PM Mar 2017

Rep. Steve King Being A Nazi Out Loud Again

Wonkette has a great piece on his assholery.

It’s not really big news that Iowa Congressman Steve King is a big old racist, what with his talk of most Dream Act kids being drug mules with “calves the size of cantaloupes” and his fears of America being overwhelmed by immigrant hordes. But King stepped it up a bit over the weekend with this tweet in support of Dutch politician (and racist, did we mention racist?) Geert Wilders in this week’s elections in the Netherlands:

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King’s message was wildly popular in some predictable corners:

Link to tweet

If you’re getting ecstatic responses from David Duke, you may want to reconsider some of your basic assumptions. Also, best reply to that Duke Tweet we’ve seen: “Every time you tweet I’m gonna race mix.”

But King certainly got some people excited, like this lady who sounds like she has to be joking, but apparently is completely in earnest:

Link to tweet

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Rep. Steve King Being A Nazi Out Loud Again (Original Post) progressoid Mar 2017 OP

Nope, the lady doesn't appear to be joking: Leghorn21 Mar 2017 #1

Yeah, I read a few of her other tweets. progressoid Mar 2017 #2

Social Darwinism has already condemned their worldview to defeat. Charles Bukowski Mar 2017 #3

Every time our resident Congressional Nazi speaks... 47of74 Mar 2017 #4

I jear he is putting a hurt on what little tourism we have rurallib Mar 2017 #5

Thing is, I generally hear positive things about how nice eastern Iowa is... 47of74 Mar 2017 #6

Leghorn21

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1. Nope, the lady doesn't appear to be joking:

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Tue Mar 14, 2017, 04:35 PM

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progressoid

(50,753 posts)

2. Yeah, I read a few of her other tweets.

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 14, 2017, 04:50 PM

Mar 2017

She's a pretty blatant fundamentalist and racist.

Charles Bukowski

(1,132 posts)

3. Social Darwinism has already condemned their worldview to defeat.

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Tue Mar 14, 2017, 05:40 PM

Mar 2017

These racist scumbags just don't know it yet.

47of74

(18,470 posts)

4. Every time our resident Congressional Nazi speaks...

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Mon Mar 27, 2017, 10:48 PM

Mar 2017

...I have to fight down an urge to look outside of Iowa for a home. Part of me wants to stay and ensure fucksticks like him just can't roll over the people of Iowa people without some opposition, but part of me is just tired of fighting these reich wing stooges.

rurallib

(63,207 posts)

5. I jear he is putting a hurt on what little tourism we have

Reply to 47of74 (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 29, 2017, 08:08 PM

Mar 2017

47of74

(18,470 posts)

6. Thing is, I generally hear positive things about how nice eastern Iowa is...

Reply to rurallib (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 09:35 AM

Mar 2017

...especially Dubuque, when I mention that I'm from there to people in other states. I think the reputation of Dubuque and of eastern Iowa in general has actually improved a little bit over the past few years.

But I can see your point, that people hear Iowa and automatically assume we're all a bunch of racist, homophobic fornicate sticks like Steve King, and they then decide to go elsewhere. And I think the King supporters in NW Iowa do need to be blamed for the harm he does to our tourism industry. I think they need to be blamed for the fact that there are many of us, like myself, who are seriously considering moving out of Iowa because of the racism and homophobia. And this "Steve being Steve" bullshit doesn't cut it anymore. As far as I'm concerned that's like a Hitler supporter trying to dismiss what his or her hero is doing by saying, "Oh that's just Adolf being Adolf."

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