Whoa: Maine Governor LePage Calls Minorities the “Enemy,” Suggests They Should Be Shot.

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Adam Parkhomenko
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Whoa: Maine Governor LePage Calls Minorities the “Enemy,” Suggests They Should Be Shot.



7:33 PM - 26 Aug 2016
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.@Governor_LePage calls people of color the "enemy" in an attempt to apologize for homophobic & racist remarks.


https://twitter.com/MaineDems/status/769254775863074816

[eShirl]

1. But he's not racist!

Just ask him.

[virgogal]

9. I thought he said this about drug traffickers.

When did he say it about minorities????????

[eShirl]

12. Yesterday.

Didn't you bother to read it?

[Chakab]

18. He actually has a black adopted son from Jamaica. Most of his

defenses for his various flaps regarding race include some reference to his black ward.

This guy is a prime example of how a person who has a close personal, possibly even intimate relationship, with a person of a particular race can still retain an overwhelming negative view of said race as a group of people.

[NNadir]

22. Slave owners had close personal, and even intimate relations with their slaves.

Examples include the third President of the United States, and the ninth Vice President of the United States, Richard Mentor Johnson, who openly acknowledged his paternity of his slave's children.

This didn't make them less racist in the least.

[Chakab]

25. Let's not forget everybody's favorite segregationist Strom Thurmond, who fathered a biracial child

with his family's maid at a time when his raison d'etre in politics was promoting separation of the races and anti-miscegenation laws.

[NNadir]

33. Good point. n/t

[randome]

2. As the GOP sails into the sunset with Trump at the helm, we'll see more examples of self-immolation.

All the old white racists are seeing they can no longer sustain their dream of running the world. They knew it before but buried the knowledge deep in their subconscious. It's all coming out now.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

[Johnny2X2X]

3. This guys has to go

And somine needs to tell him that whites deal drugs at a higher rate than minorities although they both use drugs at the same rate.

[Adrahil]

4. A preview of President Trump. NT

[BobbyDrake]

5. Sure, but this is all the consequence of the legislature not impeaching him for what he did

when he threatened a school to make them fire a Democrat they'd hired. LePage learned that there was nothing he could do that was "too far," and now the state has to deal with it. I don't know why the legislature didn't impeach him for abusing his office, maybe the Democrats couldn't muster the votes over GOP objections, but that's the root cause of this. LePage got away with something outrageous, and to him that meant he should keep pushing to see how far over the line he could be without any pushback.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

10. It was that they couldn't get enough

repubs to vote for it. The democrat that lost the job was Maine House Speaker Mark Eves. LePage was directly attacking a political rival. It was a gross abuse of power and I think it is disgusting he got away with it with no consequences. The man is out of control. He has attacked fellow republicans that have disagreed with him before too. Not sure if people are scared of LePage retaliating against them and that keeps them from taking any real action against him. I think they should have a little more courage than that if they want to represent us. They shouldn't be the type that will allow a bully to push them around.

[jtuck004]

17. The people elected him. Twice. This racist trash must represent them quite well. n/t

[Mc Mike]

21. No more than l'il bush represented us all, at all, when he was president.

Corbett didn't represent me when he was my governor. Walker, Snyder, Kasich, Christie, don't represent the Dems in their states. And we've won all of those states, many times, gov and prez.

Respectfully, I disagree, jt.

[jtuck004]

23. Doesn't need everyone, just enough. And you don't speak for them. n/t

[Mc Mike]

24. Corbett and bush 'represented' me, despite my best efforts. I was pleading for ME anti-gop people

not speaking for them.

So much for polite disagreement.

I liked and like the IWW, too.

[jtuck004]

26. It's a racist country, with racist people. There are pockets where people aren't but

take a look around. WA state, where they nearly shit blue, writes laws that let rich white people get richer and locks up black folks.

(By that I mean there are pockets where there are no people)

And that is in a so-called Democratic state. Over on the East side of the state, just before you get to Idaho and the Aryan nations folks, I read a story last year about a black kid crying cause he was the only black kid in the class again this year.

It's a racist country, with racist people, and even those who think they aren't enable the rest, and most can't be trusted.

There is no disagreement. People elect the person that is most like them.

[Mc Mike]

30. I have family who moved to Spokane, a couple of years ago.

The radical racists don't have their 'hitler's magical 10%', though there is a lot of racism in the US. There are a lot of forceful anti-racist advocates, too. We're pushing against them, they don't like it, and are getting louder and more agitated and aggressive. So there's more attacks against Hispanics, Blacks, Moslems, Native Americans, LGBTs, Women, because they're mad at the success of the pushback against their racist nazi ways.

I strongly suspect that's why there's such a marked uptick in actual racist violence by so many police departments across the US. After two high profile incidents in different parts of the country, you would have thought that word would go around all the squad rooms nationwide to 'hold off a bit, don't get the department in troublem, watch your step, mind you adhere to proper protocols', etc, especially with crime going down nationwide except in a small number of cities. Instead, the baddies within the departments just doubled down and went full speed ahead, like they're saying 'Obama was never my president. What's he going to do about it?'

I never feel the righties who's rule I have to live under represent me, just like what all the teabags have done since '09, with our 2 term President. I did feel bad about the world looking at bush and thinking an American citizen like me must be some stupid nazi, but I didn't travel abroad to hear it from them during those 2 terms.

[jtuck004]

37. One can say they divorce themselves all they want, but we still pay for the system that is racist.

We all do. And while we might do more, our lives and homes are more important than the lives of the black folks around us, apparently.

Which is the reason for the exhortation "Black Lives Matter". That appears to have been lost in the rush to insulate ourselves from the worst of us.

Else we would stand up and disband the racist police departments and fire the racist teachers, run the racist business owners out of town on a rail, and find a way to fix the broken adults who are raising broken children.

Except we are getting a paycheck, so perhaps tomorrow.

We really aren't as separate as we think, I suspect.

I liked these two sentences next to each other

"...like they're saying 'Obama was never my president. What's he going to do about it?'

I never feel the righties who's rule I have to live under represent me...

Nobody represents anyone any longer...which I think foretells doom for us.

[Mc Mike]

38. I'm in the city, with plenty of neighbors of all colors around me.

All I can do is vote and demonstrate. And I do both. Community control of the police is the way to get rid of the bad ones. Then we wouldn't have band-aid 'citizen's police review boards' with no teeth, no subpoena power, issuing whitewashes every time a high profile murder occurs, using our tax dollars.

I never liked living under Raygun, Poppy, but I lived with it. Protested, lobbied our side to legally oppose their moves, knew lobbying them was useless but still did so. Watching those creeps during the last 2 presidents' terms pull every kind of illegit and illegal bullshit possible to thwart the mandated will of the people made me realize they're arsonists, out to burn the gov down when they lose control, and trying to live as 'sovereign citizens' in violation of the constitution.

That's what made me add the statement 'I never feel the righties who's rule...', right after the statement that they say 'Obama was never my prez'. Living one term under that stupid repub piece of garbage Corbett helped cement that feeling I have.

They made it that nobody represents anyone any longer. They're constantly murder mouthing threats of civil war, and they don't have the numbers to make it happen. I don't think we're doomed, I think they'll try to pull a nationwide bundy, and get the same results, j.

[mythology]

28. You do realize that more people voted against him than for him right?

He won 38% of the vote in 2010. Admittedly he won 48% of the vote in 2014, but the two main challengers got nearly 52% of the vote. If Eliot Cutler weren't a vain buffoon, especially in 2014, LePage wouldn't be in office.

He hardly represents the voters of Maine. If we didn't have a strict first past the post system, he wouldn't have been elected.

[heaven05]

6. but, but, but

a whole majority of voter put this chump in office. This clown is the voters choice of Maines. Completely the voters fault this pig runs things. The voters wanted him and his racism, homophobia and hate. What's wrong with those people? Everything he declares as enemy, back at him. He along with his Trump loving constituents

[orwell]

7. Ah the great beauty of Democracy!

Not so good when the voters are morons...

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

11. It was never a majority that put LePage in office.

All the races LePage won had independents running that siphoned votes from the democrat.

[heaven05]

14. uh huh

enough still voted for this clown.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

15. Yes, well you know how die hard the tea party idiots are for Trump

It's the same deal with Lepage. It is about the same percentage in Maine of these folks as there are nationally and they sure do show up to vote. Meanwhile, everyone else doesn't like LePage and he is their last choice, but they are all divided on who their first choice is. That's how this happens and why we need that ranked choice voting in Maine that I sure hope the passes in Nov.

[True Dough]

8. This moron sounds as dangerous as Trump

Or more so. At least his reach is limited to Maine and not the entire country, but the idea that he has any power is scary. Hopefully he'll be out of office before long.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

13. He is overall pretty ineffective.

He has a big mouth, but he isn't allowed to get away with much else other than running his mouth. The state house and senate keep him in check. He had a hissy fit about something last year and vetoed every bill, but the house/senate dems and repubs were at least responsible enough to work together to override a lot of LePage's vetoes.

Nationally, I think it would be worse because the House and Senate are severely disfunctional.

[downeastdaniel]

19. It's a tie, both ding bat crazy and loose lipped too...y'know no editor.

[UCmeNdc]

16. This what he feels........

Paul LePage: People Of Color Are The Enemy

"When you go to war, you shoot the enemy."

[retrowire]

20. thats an attempt to apologize???

Lmao

[yeoman6987]

27. 2 1/2 years left and he's term limited thank goodness

[Divine Discontent]

29. Yep!

He's one of those people I just mentioned in my Donnie Darko post. He is sick and it's sad for Maine he's the gov. They need to push for impeachment, or shame the GOP who don't go along. His rhetoric is literally just inches off the ground for as low as you can get and be a major politician.

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

31. LePage is what happens when the left is divided

Sometimes one of the candidates is so inherently evil, so dangerous for society that they MUST be stopped. This is one of those times. Normally I am all for voting your conscience. That's just not enough this time around. The stakes are way too high and Trump is way too dangerous. I have never been fond of Clinton, but in my 50 years I have NEVER been so deeply frightened for this country as I am at the prospect of Trump being elected. If not for the left being divided in 2000 Bush would never have been elected. I truly hope everyone who loves our country recognizes the importance of their vote and does the right thing. No one wants a more powerful and diabolical version of LePage leading this country.

[Cicada]

32. 95% are males. Shoot the males.

That's his logic. And most drug dealers in Maine are white. The whites don't get arrested because they aren't noticed. So Paul's logic: use your constitutional right and shoot white males. Paul is flat out stupid.

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

35. Do a search of Maine Bath Salts dealer arrests...all white.

The heroin does come in from other states and usually minorities, but opiate pills and bath salts are a much bigger problem in Maine. LePage is an idiot.

[johnsolaris]

34. the past

Hi,

The more I listen to all the noise in this election year, It seems to me that the Republicans want to bring back the past & get rid of all undesirables, you, me and anyone that does not agree with them by bringing back the gas chambers & exterminating anyone they can. Correct me if you think I am crazy, Censor me if you think I am wrong. The level of hate is unbelievable.

I told a friend the other night that the joke is on us. We actually thought Race relations were getting better and that the State of the Union was getting better. I do not think it is & I suppose people like this will always be with us no matter what and this is not just a Southern state thing. I have traveled all over this country, from the Northeast to the South & all over the West. Racism is showing it's ugly face all over this country.

The Specter of the past is still with us.

[LeftRant]

40. It's better but it just improves soooo verrry sloooooowly.

Humans are just slow.

There's currently a backlash against this president, and much of it IS race-related, but the next swing is going to go the other direction. I also think we, as a country, will look back at this president quite fondly. It's going to be an overall win, even if we got dragged through the shit to get there. That's just how we work

[AgadorSparticus]

39. They have always been there. It is just good to know who they are now.

Next step is to get rid of them....