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Ron Paul tweets racist cartoon

Michchamp

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Ho boy...

Not the first time he's done something like this, as the article mentions.

He's still using the "that wasn't me, that was just one of the racist shit stains I hired to work in my office" defense.

if racists "just happen" to keep showing up in your employment, probably time to start screening your people better. or just retire already...
 
I don't doubt it was some racist shithead he hired and not himself, but yeah, seems like someone with judgement that's that poor would have been noticed being a shithead before getting the reigns to the twitter account.
 
Probably is past time for him to retire. He falls into that camp where I'm glad he was there voicing his different perspective, but I'd never put him in charge.
 
Maybe it wasn't intended to be racist. Maybe it was meant to be inclusive and culturally diverse.
 
Maybe he was talking about Daniel Stumpf? Did he use the word "Spider Monkey?"

:p
:cheers:
 
who is Daniel Stumpf?

Tigers' pitching coach got fired for racial slurs (black man near him reported it he thought it was directed at him), and the coach denied it saying he was talking about one of his players, a white player, and they call him "Spider Monkey." The player had no knowledge of that..
 
That's okay. I probably could've done a better job promoting it in my post.


I clicked on a couple of the tweets below of RP supporters...taking me to their homepages...whoa...they and their followed/follower/retweeted are truly some Pepe pieces of derplorable work. One in particular bragging about whites "conquering" and then "civilizing" the New World.
 
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I clicked on a couple of the tweets below of RP supporters...taking me to their homepages...whoa...they and their followed/follower/retweeted are truly some Pepe pieces of derplorable work. One in particular bragging about whites "conquering" and then"civilizing" the New World.


Other than Trump, I don't know many (or any) supporters of most of the politicians with followers that post that sort of thing. But I do know a few RP supporters and they would hate that stuff if they were aware of it.
 
Ho boy...

Not the first time he's done something like this, as the article mentions.

He's still using the "that wasn't me, that was just one of the racist shit stains I hired to work in my office" defense.

if racists "just happen" to keep showing up in your employment, probably time to start screening your people better. or just retire already...

Retire from what? He's been out of the House of Representatives for over five years now.

I guess he spends his professional time these days just being Ron Paul; he's involved with a couple of activist organizations he founded.
 
You know what would be cool? If they made a movie about adrenalin junkie surfers who robbed banks wearing masks like the faces of the multi-cultural Marxists depicted in the cartoon, and they were infiltrated by an under cover FBI agent who had been a college football star at Michigan but ended up blowing out his knee, which kept him out of the NFL.

That is a great concept; I think I'm going to get right on the phone and pitch that to the studios.
 
Other than Trump, I don't know many (or any) supporters of most of the politicians with followers that post that sort of thing. But I do know a few RP supporters and they would hate that stuff if they were aware of it.

Yeah, but I didn't post that they were indicative of a typical Paul supporter, but obviously they were lured to tweet by becoming aware of the deleted image.
 
Yeah, but I didn't post that they were indicative of a typical Paul supporter, but obviously they were lured to tweet by becoming aware of the deleted image.


I'm not refuting what you said; just saying that of the politicians where I'd expect more of less of this sort of thing, I'd expect less with RP.
 
Retire from what? He's been out of the House of Representatives for over five years now.

I guess he spends his professional time these days just being Ron Paul; he's involved with a couple of activist organizations he founded.


I didn't know and almost said something about being surprised he hadn't already retired.
 
Retire from what? He's been out of the House of Representatives for over five years now.

I guess he spends his professional time these days just being Ron Paul; he's involved with a couple of activist organizations he founded.

retire from public life.

But I guess the allure of bilking Libertarian man-children out of their savings using the Ron Paul? brand is too good to let go.

As long as he has a pulse, someone can manage his twitter feed, put out newsletters in his name, and collect some $$$. it's obvious the occasional openly racist or white supremacist endorsement or association won't scare away the RonPaul lovers, because they care about "ideals" not "politics."
 
retire from public life.

But I guess the allure of bilking Libertarian man-children out of their savings using the Ron Paul? brand is too good to let go.

As long as he has a pulse, someone can manage his twitter feed, put out newsletters in his name, and collect some $$$.

This is pretty hyperbolic and counterintuitive - can you name one example of a single person being bilked out of their savings?

The guy is not a televangelist.

I guess some people subscribe to his news letter and buy his books. Nobody is going to go through their savings doing that.
 
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This is pretty hyperbolic and counterintuitive - can you name one example of a single person being bilked out of their savings?

The guy is not a televangelist.

I guess some people subscribe to his news letter and buy his books. Nobody is going to go through their savings doing that.

so I should've said "some percentage of their savings" not just "their savings?"
 
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