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Dumb and Stupid Quotes Thread: Idiotic Source and Context are Key.
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Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Thursday said President Obama is using his executive actions to swell the ranks of Democratic voters with illegal immigrants.
“To put it simply, the president is importing millions of illegal aliens who when they arrive here he thinks, and he’s right, they are undocumented Democrats, and so the next phase of this is to document these Democrats so they can vote,” he said on Virginia’s “John Fredericks Show” radio program, according to BuzzFeed.
King also compared Obama’s immigration actions to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. The law’s creation allowed many blacks in the segregated south to cast ballots for the first time.
“It erodes the politics of this country, the respect for the rule of law, and it creates this massive electorate that will likely vote in large numbers for Barack Obama and his party, just like African-Americans have done so after Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, which by the way took the majority of Republicans in the House and Senate to make sure that that passed,” he added.
The Iowa lawmaker claimed that executive action on immigration makes Democrats “the beneficiaries” of an unfair electoral advantage.
“This is the president of the United States trying to stack the electorate with millions of people, lawlessly bringing them into the United States of America and giving them a presence here, and thinking and realizing that the longer you can keep them here the less likely it is that they will go home,” he charged.
“They don’t understand the law, they come from lawless countries,” King said of undocumented immigrants. “So they’re not at all likely to defend our Constitution or the rule of law.”
A federal appeals court in New Orleans will consider whether or not to lift a block on Obama’s executive order on Friday. The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals will hear arguments from the federal government and 26 states opposed to Obama’s actions that afternoon.
The president issued his executive order on immigration last November. It would provide deportation relief and work permits to as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants.
“To put it simply, the president is importing millions of illegal aliens who when they arrive here he thinks, and he’s right, they are undocumented Democrats, and so the next phase of this is to document these Democrats so they can vote,” he said on Virginia’s “John Fredericks Show” radio program, according to BuzzFeed.
King also compared Obama’s immigration actions to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. The law’s creation allowed many blacks in the segregated south to cast ballots for the first time.
“It erodes the politics of this country, the respect for the rule of law, and it creates this massive electorate that will likely vote in large numbers for Barack Obama and his party, just like African-Americans have done so after Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, which by the way took the majority of Republicans in the House and Senate to make sure that that passed,” he added.
The Iowa lawmaker claimed that executive action on immigration makes Democrats “the beneficiaries” of an unfair electoral advantage.
“This is the president of the United States trying to stack the electorate with millions of people, lawlessly bringing them into the United States of America and giving them a presence here, and thinking and realizing that the longer you can keep them here the less likely it is that they will go home,” he charged.
“They don’t understand the law, they come from lawless countries,” King said of undocumented immigrants. “So they’re not at all likely to defend our Constitution or the rule of law.”
A federal appeals court in New Orleans will consider whether or not to lift a block on Obama’s executive order on Friday. The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals will hear arguments from the federal government and 26 states opposed to Obama’s actions that afternoon.
The president issued his executive order on immigration last November. It would provide deportation relief and work permits to as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants.
GreekAnalyzer
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As we all know because people come from lawless countries that means they can't follow laws anywhere.
jackelgull
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This guy does realize that the Civil Rights Act of 1965 is considered a good thing, and that comparing immigration to that might not be the best strategy right?
Is it considered a good thing by the Republican base? That's a question worth exploring, since that's who he's targeting in this ridiculous claim.
SS-18 ICBM
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Pithy, if not for the confusion of cause and effect.
"Racist and sexist jokes never, ever just end at the punch line but chuckle their way through the fine print of laws, norms, and geopolitics."
-Ruha Benjamin, comment at Princeton chapel gathering
"Racist and sexist jokes never, ever just end at the punch line but chuckle their way through the fine print of laws, norms, and geopolitics."
-Ruha Benjamin, comment at Princeton chapel gathering
jackelgull
An aberration of nature
That's not obviously stupid enough to belong on this thread.
SS-18 ICBM
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Not sure how such jokes affect foreign policy. One mustn't confuse the reflection for the actual object.
That's cause you just don't want to see it.
In reality each time a person utters a racist statement, this gets turned through cosmic energy to one more athlete pushing the rope in the eternal great tag-of-war, for Team Racism.
The only end to this would be if enough people for enough time do not utter any racist statement at all, cause then the Team SJ will win the tag-of-war, and the result will be racism erased forever from the human collective subconscious.
But sure, keep on being part of the problem, instead of the solution.
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Tsk. What a typically Greek thing to say!
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Translation: "I don't know what a 3PN embryo is."
"This is a crime against innocent human lives. I feel so sad that human life is of no regard to these researchers that they would waste these healthy babies lives. This is a grave tragedy."
-Dima, comment on "Chinese Scientists Edit Genes of Human Embryos, Raising Concerns", New York Times
"This is a crime against innocent human lives. I feel so sad that human life is of no regard to these researchers that they would waste these healthy babies lives. This is a grave tragedy."
-Dima, comment on "Chinese Scientists Edit Genes of Human Embryos, Raising Concerns", New York Times
GoodSarmatian
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Jokes are a symptom of a mode of thought and not a cause, and the "never, ever" really pushes the quote over the edge and into stupid.
Borachio
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I'm not convinced that this is the case. Exposure to the mode of thought via jokes in an environment where these jokes are considered acceptable can - I suspect - lead to a person adopting some part of that mode of thought.
Do you deny the veracity of that quote?
(It's actually from Lord Voldemort, in his Harry Potter fanfiction. But plenty of sites quote Rowling as saying lines from her books, so I just did the same!
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