Racist Steve King loses in Iowa primary

[Bitek]

I never even heard of King until now. I am interested to see the primary with AOC though.

Ok Trump...

But please, tell us more about "The Squad" and what salon they went to today

 

[Juiblex]

Lets hope the next guy will represent the people of the area. (BTW, it is mostly proud white racists in that area)...

 

[Pohemi]

I never even heard of King until now. I am interested to see the primary with AOC though.

I'm sure you've never heard the names Devin Nunes or Trey Gowdy either, huh? Either blind or full of shit or both.

 

[HomerJS]

I never even heard of King until now. I am interested to see the primary with AOC though.

Dude, this one stunk so bad everybody smelled it.

 

[hal2kilo]

With virtually all precincts reporting, Steve King has lost soundly in his district primary. And due to the nature of Iowa election laws, he can't run as an independent. We'll be free of his racism in politics for at least four years.

Haven't heard much about the winner, Ralph Feenstra, but it wouldn't take much to be an improvement over King.

Also, isn't it symbolic that King lost on a day full of anti-racism protests? They didn't necessarily cost him the vote, but I'd like to think of it as a treat for the US that at least one racist has lost power.

People will live longer happy lives, not losing 5 minutes they have lost listening to anything that hateful man has to say.

 

[Commodus]

Dude, this one stunk so bad everybody smelled it.

Oh, it's entirely plausible that Thunder never heard of King. The issue to me isn't whether or not he's lying, it's that his political bubble may have sheltered him from King to avoid telling an unpleasant truth (that the American right wing frequently tolerates overt racism).

 

[woolfe9998]

Oh, it's entirely plausible that Thunder never heard of King. The issue to me isn't whether or not he's lying, it's that his political bubble may have sheltered him from King to avoid telling an unpleasant truth (that the American right wing frequently tolerates overt racism).

Yeah, sadly that is very true. An editorial on CNN put this in perspective. King was making these offensive remarks all throughout his House career, but continued to be re-elected. It was just that this time, King had been stripped of his committee assignments, and his opponent ran ads saying "Whatever you think of Steve King, it's clear he's no longer effective, he can't deliver for President Trump and he can't advance our conservative values."

I tend to agree with the editorial, that the only thing that was different this time is that King lacked any power in Congress and so he presented as impotent to conservative voters.

 

[VRAMdemon]

Who wants to bet he gets a presidential appointment next?

 

[darkswordsman17]

Who wants to bet he gets a presidential appointment next?

Turmp will probably offer to pardon him. Based on ignorance and his assumption that King committed a crime to help him.

 

[Indus]

Damn, you beat me to it.

Doesn't matter that it's 2 years instead of 4 BTW. After losing this primary, he's politically dead. The odds of him ever serving elected office at the federal level again are minimal.

The odds of him becoming Potus just went up.

 

[cytg111]

You realize what the poster would say if he tapped King for VP?