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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOur SoS to-be is a POS who called his Indian-American opponent a turban-topper
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/12/mike-pompeo-gop-candidate_n_680612.htmlA Republican congressional candidate and RNC committee member has personally apologized for a tweet his campaign sent out promoting an article that called his opponent a turban topper who could be a muslim, a hindu, a buddhist etc who knows.
Republican Mike Pompeo, who is running for a congressional seat in Kansass Fourth District, called State Rep. Raj Goyle on Thursday to offer his regrets for the offending post, Goyle told the Huffington Post. The apology was accepted. But Goyle, who seeks the seat being vacated by Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS), was not necessarily done re-litigating the matter.
also
Kansas GOP Candidate Links to Racist Blog
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kansas-gop-candidate-links-to-racist-blog/
Republican congressional candidate Mike Pompeo apologized Thursday after his campaign posted on its Twitter feed and Facebook page a link to a blog that uses a racial slur to refer to his Democratic opponent and calls President Obama an "evil muslim communist USURPER."
FUCK POMPEO!
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Our SoS to-be is a POS who called his Indian-American opponent a turban-topper (Original Post)
Exotica
Mar 2018
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dameatball
(7,396 posts)1. So, he defeated a "turban topper" and now works for a "Putin Puffer?"
dalton99a
(81,451 posts)2. America's chief diplomat
HipChick
(25,485 posts)3. Sounds like he'll fit right in...
arthritisR_US
(7,287 posts)4. These posts should be brought up in his
confirmation hearings. How can such a racist sack of shit represent your country and if he does what message does that send to all other countries about Americans?
lunasun
(21,646 posts)5. Ladies and gentlemen our new U.S.Secretary of State
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)6. K&R, Pompeo is another racial supremacist true believer
FakeNoose
(32,633 posts)7. Help me out here - Pompeo was only CIA director for one year
Before that he was a Kansas Representative for only 6 years years. How was he qualified to become the Director of the CIA - with no prior CIA experience?
Now he's the Secretary of State with - you guessed it - no prior State Dept. experience?
This guy has less experience than most McDonald's managers, and he's our new Secretary of State?
Exotica
(1,461 posts)9. He is a Koch favourite. They fucking love him like a son.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)11. the ability to kiss Trump's bloated orange ass is job skill # 1
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)8. Take a little "reminder" from THIS.
Link to tweet
Pompeo was a Koch-funded climate denier in congress and just has a long record indicating he's a full-fledged slimedog of the type this president surrounds himself with. That of course includes misrepresenting to congress the findings of the intelligence community on Trump-Russia (nothing here, folks). He's managed to develop a decent relationship with Trump. He's been giving Trump his 20-second intelligence briefings and undoubtedly has been in on/influenced a number of the decisions that bypassed the State Department.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)12. important, thank you. -nt
Skittles
(153,150 posts)10. racist piece of shit
Exotica
(1,461 posts)13. It is so so so fucked up! Like a bad dream you cannot awake from