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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Maine Governor Paul LePage |
More of a lifetime achievement award, but we'll get his nomination in for this most recent round of stupidity. http://www.vox.com/2016/8/28/12682876/maine-lepage-racist-shoot Maine Gov. Paul LePage: you shoot “the enemy” in war, and people of color are “the enemy” right now “The enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in are people of color or people of Hispanic origin.” In defending himself from accusations of racism and homophobia on Friday, Maine Gov. Paul LePage made yet another explicitly racist comment — arguing that people of color or of Hispanic origin are “the enemy” and suggesting that they should be shot. LePage said: Quote: A bad guy is a bad guy. I don’t care what color he is. When you go to war, if you know the enemy, the enemy dresses in red and you dress in blue, you shoot at red. … You shoot at the enemy. You try to identify the enemy. And the enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in are people of color or people of Hispanic origin. The remarks were at a press conference responding to the news and controversy that LePage had left a state representative an expletive-laden, homophobic voicemail. According to the Portland Press Herald, a TV reporter suggested that State Rep. Drew Gattine (a Democrat) had called LePage (a Republican) a racist, and asked LePage how he felt about it. Upon hearing about it, LePage left Gattine a voicemail with profanity and homophobic insults: Quote: Mr. Gattine, this is Gov. Paul Richard LePage. I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you cocksucker. I want to talk to you. I want you to prove that I’m a racist. I’ve spent my life helping black people and you little son of a bitch, socialist cocksucker. You… I need you to… Just friggin’. I want you to record this and make it public because I am after you. Thank you. LePage later expanded on his rage to the Portland Press Herald, saying, “When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I’d like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825. And we would have a duel. That’s how angry I am. And I would not put my gun in the air, I guarantee you; I would not be [Alexander] Hamilton. I would point it right between his eyes, because he is a snot-nosed little runt and he has not done a damn thing since he’s been in this legislature to help move the state forward.” Gattine, who has opposed some of the governor’s welfare reform plan and “tough-on-crime” efforts in the face of the opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic, denied calling LePage a racist. But if he had, he wouldn’t be the first to do so. LePage came under fire earlier this year after making other racist remarks at a town hall. LePage said: Quote: These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty. These types of guys, they come from Connecticut and New York. They come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue that we got to deal with down the road. The comments, surfaced by Get Right Maine, clearly played on racial overtones by using names typically attributed to black culture and hip-hop, and suggested that black people are outsiders, criminals, drug dealers, and rapists who take advantage of young white women. This racial trope in the war on drugs goes back to at least the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when local, state, and federal lawmakers pushed drug laws by suggesting that minority people would lure and harm young white women with drugs. So LePage’s most recent racist remarks are really just the latest in a string of offensive comments over the past several months. |
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| Author: | Jbi11s [ Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
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| Author: | Douchebag [ Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
READS JUST FINE |
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| Author: | Nas [ Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
I love that guy. He sounds like he should be a New Yorker. |
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| Author: | Jbi11s [ Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
I am waiting for the posters who agree with him... |
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| Author: | Telegram Sam [ Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
Maine - it's where the white women at |
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| Author: | redskingreg [ Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
He seems stable. |
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| Author: | good dolphin [ Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
Le Page is French for the page |
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| Author: | Seacrest [ Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
Nas wrote: I love that guy. He sounds like he should be a New Yorker. Like Hillary... |
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| Author: | Nas [ Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
Seacrest wrote: Nas wrote: I love that guy. He sounds like he should be a New Yorker. Like Hillary... #Truth |
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| Author: | Hank Scorpio [ Mon Aug 29, 2016 11:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
It's almost like he's actively seeing how far down the idiocy rabbithole he can go. He'll probably win re-election. 
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Mon Aug 29, 2016 11:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
Remember The Maine |
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| Author: | a retard [ Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
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| Author: | Tall Midget [ Tue Aug 30, 2016 2:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
How is this guy not Trump's running mate? |
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| Author: | formerlyknownas [ Tue Aug 30, 2016 2:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
good dolphin wrote: Le Page is French for the page and Walloons |
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| Author: | Nas [ Tue Aug 30, 2016 4:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
Tall Midget wrote: How is this guy not Trump's running mate? 
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| Author: | Rod [ Tue Aug 30, 2016 4:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
I've never considered "cocksucker" to be a homophobic insult. I suppose it is. I just got woke. Gotta check my straight privilege. |
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| Author: | Hank Scorpio [ Tue Aug 30, 2016 4:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote: I've never considered "cocksucker" to be a homophobic insult. I suppose it is. I just got woke. Gotta check my straight privilege. Good point. I consider it on par with MFer and asshole but this does make me think now. |
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| Author: | GoldenJet [ Tue Aug 30, 2016 4:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
motherfucking cocksucker |
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| Author: | Walt Williams Neck [ Tue Aug 30, 2016 4:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote: I've never considered "cocksucker" to be a homophobic insult. I suppose it is. I just got woke. Gotta check my straight privilege. I have a sudden urge to read Albert Camus |
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| Author: | 312player [ Wed Aug 31, 2016 6:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
This guy is nuts, he's gotta have early Alzheimer's or just he's just a huge asshole..should be impeached. |
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| Author: | 312player [ Wed Aug 31, 2016 6:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Maine Governor Paul LePage |
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote: I've never considered "cocksucker" to be a homophobic insult. I suppose it is. I just got woke. Gotta check my straight privilege. Agreed, I don't consider that homophobic, although this guy clearly don't like gays or blacks. |
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