Rep. Ted Poe compares undocumented immigrants to Brazilian grasshoppers. David Lynch, much?
The campaign to dehumanize immigrants -- both those without documents as well all legal immigrants, especially Hispanics -- in America is on in full force. Microchipping them was just the start.
When I saw the grasshopper graphic I chuckled for a moment because it's so surreal, it's so not of this earth. It couldn't possibly come from a member of Congress, could it?
Speaking on the House floor last night, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), who has been a vocal voice in the bipartisan movement to increase border security, had a peculiar and offensive way of framing the issue.
Poe: "Now it seems to me that if we are so advanced with technology and manpower and competence that we can capture illegal grasshoppers from Brazil, in the holds of ships that are in a little small place in Port Arthur, Texas on the Sabine River. Sabin River, madam speaker, is the river that separates Texas from Louisiana. If we're able to do that as a country, how come we can't capture the thousands of people that cross the border everyday on the southern border of the United States? You know they're a little bigger than grasshoppers and they should be able to be captured easier.
Here's how Poe really feels about non-whites in America.
I was wondering if it came from a David Lynch movie. You know how he likes insects. Blue Velvet, maybe. The GOP, teabaggers and conservatives remind me of Frank Booth. (Not for children video clip.)
It sure looks like Republicans have been huffing the good stuff over this issue. As always, it brings out the eliminationist impulse, doesn't it?
Those pesky Mexis are like a swarm of locus.
Now, we know seagulls eat locus so all we have to do . . .
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Problem solved.
I think Puerto Rico is going to be the 51st. Mexico will have to be 52nd. Iran 53rd...
to announce run for governor of Arizona on Monday.
http://www.abc15.com/content/news/blogs/story...
"The campaign to dehumanize immigrants"
Rich white people. I fucking hate them all. Shouldn't this country install a King and Queen?
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I thought they already had Bill and Melinda?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
At least Bill and Melinda give up some money. Got to give them props for that.
is intended to be a factual statement
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The United States aspires to democracy, but no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power.
accolades.
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No. Actually, I think that gesture symbolizes greed in America. Ask yourself, why didn't they give away five billion when they hit that mark? Instead of waiting until 30 Billion? How much money is enough for Bill and Melinda to feel comfortable?
I guess the bottom line question is should we let people get this rich and what are the boundaries of people's lust for money?
everyone has their needs met by the taxpayer's pooled money. Too much to ask? Oh, I remember now. Money is finite, and the more spent on meeting the needs of real people, the less there is for the greedy and never satisfied among us.
Who are usually big on White Pride never fail to make me feel embarrassed about being White.
Speaking of insects they should be chasing this clown with a Butterfly net.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
these people live in the 15th and 16th centuries. They seem to forget it was that pride that stole a country and murdered hundreds of thousands to control a land that was not theirs. Yet they hate people who want what we have. What comes around goes around.
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The "real" white man's burden:nitwits like Teddy Poe.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
If they stop the immigrants who will the employers hire that they can pay lower wages and not pay the payroll taxes they are cheating the rest of the working class out of? What working class that is left anyway.
To make up for that cheap labor the greed will cause them to raise prices.
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lower profit margins.
cause them to raise prices so they have more money to spend and count to distract them.
Right on the money Ron.
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
all those illegals would get into holds of ships and head for
Port Arthur, our problems would all be solved.
And say hi to Janis when you get there.
Do Republicans expect to ever get a Hispanic vote again?
Or are they just going to mouth polite words, appoint a few tokens, and basically ignore Hispanics the way they do blacks?
Word to the wise, guys: Look at a few demographic forecasts before you commit to that strategy.
But both grasshoppers and cockroaches are in the same class, Insecta. So you can tell a wise staffer stepped in before he launched his first choice graphic
me-oww!
Believe me, right wingers have come up with far worse than cockroaches.
The Nazis compared thre Jews to insectsd and rodents..
Given how some Republicans like Pat Buchanon admire Hitler, it's a matter of time before the rat comparisons come out..
what gay people have been compared to over the many many many years.
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Who's the Hutu and who's the Tutsi here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcdUlVLwHCA
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw_zUUE4BE0
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
wow....and since Republican have no problem comparing Latinos to insects, how long before they demand we start killing them?
Republicans can kiss the Hispanic vote goodbye..
Is there any group of people they don't hate?
... Their hookers. Just ask their wives.
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
Here in the northeast there quite a few undocumented Irish immigrants- yet not a peep out of the local anti-immigrant crowd- They always target people with brown skin. I wonder if the pale skin and blue eyes of the Irish could be a reason they are givenm a pass...
I suspect that you were going for the understatement.
Democracy is the road to socialism. ~ Karl Marx
You're an ASH WHOLE!
on the one hand you have Republicans attacking Hispanics, and on the other, you have the Dem DOJ defending DOMA (again).
what a country.
America is a wasteland.
Step 1: Dehumanize (and further, demonize)
Step 2: Sew emblems onto clothes, build "camps"
Step 3: ...you know where it's going.
far left loon >.<
Step 4: Profit.
Dammit! Who let the gnomes in?
Democracy is the road to socialism. ~ Karl Marx
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R E M E M B E R:
America went to war against a country that made laws granting to the police the ability to stop whomever they saw as being suspiciously Jewish, Gypsy, or Gay.
WHERE DID THAT AMERICA GO?
FEAR the HISPANIC… (Gypsy)
FEAR the Muslim… (Jew)
FEAR the Gay… (duh!)
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
the only reason that America got involved was because America was attacked.
before America was attacked, America couldn't give two shits about what was happening.
Exactly. Kinda like we bailed out the rich nation of Kuwait with 500,000 of our own troops, but didn't lift a finger whenover half a million Rwandans were slaughtered.
Priorities America.
not to mention the wholesale slaughter and stealing of the land in the first place by hordes of illegal aliens who now don't want those "brown people" (most of whom have Native blood running through their veins) "illegally" in "their" country.
what a wasteland.
I'm worried about the Irish. It's especially troubling because I'm 1/8 Irish.
Just be glad that you're not a gay Irishman who lost his passport then.
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
No such thing as a gay Irishman.
They probably just got too drunk and slipped up.
I'm gay, and I'm Irish.
ooops!
You musta got lucky. I'm only 1/8th gay.
lol
I'm sure we could get you to 50/50 with a six pack.
12 pack will get you 150/5 (using Fox math)
well, we really should be drinking whiskey.
I'll pour you a fifth and we'll see what happens.
Whiskey puts me in hyper-sex mode. I might do the bottle before I get to you.
hahahaha
Crap, now I need a drink.
Democracy is the road to socialism. ~ Karl Marx
Umm, don't they capture those grasshoppers by gassing them?
the imbecile nevermore
What a brilliant plan. Sublime, really. In fact, please do keep up exposing your most racist and un-American tendencies without equivocation (or self-awareness, you can't really help yourselves, can you?) or shred of common decency or humanity, a sheen normally applied by the media who unfortunately for you are, at least on this topic, physically unable to lipstick that level of piggishness. I wouldn't want anyone, especially likely voters, to be caught unaware and possibly think you are anything but a heaping, steaming pile of
mierdahuman malfeasance masquerading as a real person, much less an American.Worst director ever.
Sorry, I take it back. That honor goes to Tim Burton.
Second worst director ever.
Oh no no. Your opinion is the wrong one. Lynch was willing to take risks. I like his work. I think it has variety and depth.
I bow to your mastery of satire.
Cheers.
Yeah we have quite a problem with Irish illegals / undocumented here too , they are always hanging out in droves at home depot here in Seattle and surrounding areas . ( LOL )
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Now here's an analogy with legs ... Eh!?
Snerd
Master Kan: What is gained by using one's strength in violence and anger?
Young Caine: A victory that is swift.
Master Kan: Yet to be violent is to be weak, for violence has no mind.
Snerd
Master Po: The undiscerning mind is like the root of a tree--it absorbs equally all that it touches--even the poison that would kill it.
Snerd
Young Caine: Master, must I always serve the law?
Master Kan: Hear the law; serve justice!
Snerd
Ted Poe seems to have forgotten that the difference between a horse's ass and a coon ass is the Sabine River. He illustrates the point quite effectively.
Who the hell lives and votes in Texas' 2nd District?
Why doesn't the GOP just start sending serial killers to Congress?
Shhheeeeeeeeesssscccchhhhhh!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Poe doesn't even know how to craft an insult.
This isn't a grasshopper, it is a katydid.
Katydids are solitary.
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That's the funniest line of the night there savannah ...
Snerd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCyJRXvPNRo
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
the terms?
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Got it...thanks.
Did he say, "illegal" grasshoppers?
Dear Rep. Welch,
I'd really like to know what the hell kind of drugs you people are on there in the House. I've just seen the story about Rep. Poe and grasshoppers. It is highly reminiscent of the German Nazi regimes demonization of Jews. And what I haven't seen or heard is a story of you or anyone else in the House calling this crazy Rep. out for his bigotry and calling for his censorship and/or removal from the House. Just what kind of a sick twisted pervert are you for not speaking out LOUDLY about this disgusting sick twisted perverted anti-American hate speech emitting from the House? If you can't act like a representative of the people of Vermont and speak out strongly against this kind of disgusting uncivilized behavior I'm sure we can find someone who can.
that the congressman doesn't - they are much smarter than he is...
...do the grasshoppers have their papers?
"If we're able to do that as a country, how come we can't capture the thousands of people that cross the border everyday on the southern border of the United States? You know they're a little bigger than grasshoppers and they should be able to be captured easier."
The Congressman deserves an answer to his question.
The answer is that, despite evidence to the contrary presented by Ted Poe, his family and his limited circle of friends, human beings are typically smarter than grasshoppers. Even when they are illegal immigrants from Mexico.
So Poe's making a comparison between Mexican illegals and grasshoppers, is he? Well, at least he is not calling them "Meskins." I grew up with, and participated in, the racial stereotyping and denigration of brown peoples and thankfully grew up to regret it and to make amends whenever I can. People with Poe's mentality -- well, let's not forget Ross Perot addressing a group of African-Americans, saying "You people..." without seeing anything politically incorrect about it! Let's face it, the GOP is a Southern minority party now that the country is hugely diverse. The Poe types are a dying breed. That's what really bugs them -- you should pardon the expression.
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
I think this law is terrible and I don't know anything about Poe but this is not blatant racism. If you say "we can put a man on the moon but we can't stop illegal immigration" are you comparing immigrants to astronauts??? There are plenty of racists out there that leave no doubt, go after them and stop parsing every word for subliminal racism.
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