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The Internet Blows Up Over GOP Rep’s Tweet About Immigration
Daily Caller ^ | 3/13/2017 | Scott Greer

Posted on 03/13/2017 4:49:45 AM PDT by HomerBohn

Republican Iowa Rep. Steve King on Sunday tweeted a message in support of Dutch nationalist politician Geert Wilders that included a concern that the children of recent immigrants can’t “restore our civilization.”

That message drew massive backlash from liberals and even a few Republicans.

“Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies,” King tweeted.

Wilders is a dark horse candidate for the Dutch presidency and has campaigned on the promise of “de-Islamizing” the Netherlands. He believes Islam is incompatible with western civilization.

Critics of King’s tweet accused it of being an endorsement of racism, Nazism and even genocide

The liberal outlet Slate declared King’s tweet is “an apparent, explicit call to protect white ‘culture and demographics’ from immigrants. It’s the type of rhetoric that you might find at a Klan rally.”

At least one fellow Republican lawmaker has criticized King’s comment. Florida Rep. Carlos Curbelo, who is Cuban-American, wondered if he counted as “someone else’s baby” in a reply to the Iowa congressman’s tweet.

King is a well-known immigration hawk who has been criticized in the past for his remarks on the subject. During an MSNBC panel last July, the lawmaker was called a racist for pushing back against a fellow panelist’s joy that “old white people” are going away and arguing for the greatness of western civilization.

(Read some of the Tweets at link)


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To: HomerBohn
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it. George Orwell
21 posted on 03/13/2017 6:02:29 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspirations)
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To: CitizenUSA

Actually it has more to do with the culture being imported is firmly tied to a medieval religion. Witness Bosnian and Chechen turmoil. Those people are Caucasians and just as terroristic as ISIS. One can learn a new culture just like you can learn a new language. It has been done for millennia. The Romans brought their culture all through the known world just like the Greeks before them.

Race is not the issue. The antique inhuman religion is.


22 posted on 03/13/2017 6:07:55 AM PDT by JeanLM (Obama proves melanin is just enough to win elections)
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To: central_va

Toe fungus is caused by Freedom.


23 posted on 03/13/2017 6:14:43 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: HomerBohn

I heard just part of an interview of Steve King on CNN this morning and, as expected, Chris Cuomo was yelling about “racism”.

Racism, xenophobia, misogynism, islamophobia, homo-lesbophobia, etc., etc., ad nauseum. Yes, it’s beyond tiresome but it’s all they’ve got.


24 posted on 03/13/2017 6:17:48 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Show me in the US Constitution where trans national free trade is made guaranteed right.


25 posted on 03/13/2017 6:19:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Freedom to buy and sell with whom I want free of higher taxes for the leviathan state and its infinite bureaucrats is not a constitutional right. It is just smart.

Why do you keep arguing for higher taxes and more bureaucrats like Hillary?


26 posted on 03/13/2017 6:23:35 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

I bet the school where Cuomo sends his kids is whiter than a dinner party at Bertchesgarten.


27 posted on 03/13/2017 6:26:09 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: HomerBohn

Good for Mr. King!

May we have more to speak up and show a backbone.


28 posted on 03/13/2017 6:26:10 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Uncle Miltie

Tariffs requite almost zero bureaucrats. The income tax that you Free Traitors™ hide behind is the bureaucratic nightmare behemoth that must die and be replaced by tariffs and a NRST.


29 posted on 03/13/2017 6:31:01 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: trebb

There is more TRUTH and PROOF in what King said than there is against what he said.

The anti’s quick resort to name calling is absolute proof of the truth of what King said. They (the anti’s) have no real argument against it.


30 posted on 03/13/2017 6:45:01 AM PDT by RichyTea (To those offended - take off your blinders)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Hell we can’t even assimilate our own peeps..the public system is full of white guilt-trippin history and globalist propaganda.


31 posted on 03/13/2017 7:09:27 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: KosmicKitty

Orwell was right on target, Kitty!


32 posted on 03/13/2017 8:09:50 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys are similar in that thorwing them down the stairs brings a smile to your face.)
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To: jughandle

Who was that SOB?

Kellyanne shouldn’t have perched on the couch like that, but she did and I really couldn’t care less about the incident; however, the asshole who said that needs mass ridicule.


33 posted on 03/13/2017 8:11:37 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys are similar in that thorwing them down the stairs brings a smile to your face.)
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To: bar sin·is·ter

I want these asshats in a state of perpetual unrest!


34 posted on 03/13/2017 8:12:23 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys are similar in that thorwing them down the stairs brings a smile to your face.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I answered that question before I scanned down to see the answer.

Not only was George Washington our first president, but he was the greatest. It’s HIS birthday that should be celebrated and sh-t can the rest of them included M. L. King.


35 posted on 03/13/2017 8:14:12 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys are similar in that thorwing them down the stairs brings a smile to your face.)
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To: Dick Vomer

Twitter, Facebook and the rest of these narcissistic (apologies to President Trump) leftist trash collectors should be avoided at all costs.


36 posted on 03/13/2017 8:15:20 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys are similar in that thorwing them down the stairs brings a smile to your face.)
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To: bert

Can’t disagree with that statement, Bert.


37 posted on 03/13/2017 8:16:03 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys are similar in that thorwing them down the stairs brings a smile to your face.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Yes. I kept imagining that graphic of the huge hole in the
earth with all the Democrat lemmings rushing lockstep to
be sucked into the abyss. - So, I on Nov. 8th, 2016, I
walked barefoot over rough gravel over to the polls and
marked my ballot for TRUMP/PENCE, ignoring the “I’m with
HER” bumper stickers - then came home to await the word.
As I watched the talking heads on the MSM stalling and
bawling, and HITLER-Y headquarters going home in a huff,
leaving her supporters sitting there bawling, failing to
watch the high glass ceiling being crashed through
special effects - I began to breathe a bit easier for
the republic.


38 posted on 03/13/2017 8:43:52 AM PDT by Twinkie (DEMOCRAT PARTY & MSM ARE DEAD & STINKING.)
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To: HomerBohn

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3530678/posts

Cedric Richmond(D), LA


39 posted on 03/13/2017 11:45:39 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: HomerBohn

I did not say MENTION Wilder, I said say the same thing as Wilder. JEEEEZE


40 posted on 03/13/2017 4:18:55 PM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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