Hey Jason, go to back to Planet Fitness.
This is why being a smartass isn’t always quite the thing. You mean one thing and what’s heard is another. Decent of the guy to apologize. I suppose four months down the road some journo will be able to churn out one of those “unlikely friends” pieces we all (yawn) find so interesting.
Now imagine Rep. Sharice Davids had retorted, “Go back to EUROPE, you land-stealing fuck!” Of course that would never happen, because being an asshole isn’t in the Dem’s DNA…
WTF is wrong with republican politicians yelling bs comments in public meetings?
You know…nice…he apologized but…MAYBE he was saying go back and ‘vacation’ in PR but WTF? Where was THIS dick on the weekend? HOME? There sure as sht wasn’t anybody in DC working on the SHUTDOWN so what difference did it make where reps chose to spend the weekend? It was a slur plain and simple no matter if it was racist or ignorant.
You mean you don’t know? It’s called RACISM.
Ozarka sends its trash to Congress.
They ‘think’ they’re a bunch of back benchers in Parliament…they’ve been watching too much PBS.
Damn. The Age of Trump indeed, where full-on racists get to profane the halls of Congress with their banal, insipid jibes and then find redemption in the class and decency of their intended victim. Maybe that light isn’t really a headlight after all…
I doubt few if any Republicans watch PBS! Animal House more likely.
“A few hours later, I received a call from Congressman Jason Smith, who took responsibility for the comment and sincerely apologized. I accepted his apology.”
I’m impressed but don’t think it’s a new Republican trend. Nah, just one guy/racist with a sense of shame that he couldn’t bury. Want to call it ‘good news’ but can’t do that.
Please spare us a Beer Summit.
Jason how’s the nail company doing? That’s in your district, right? What about the box company, the aluminum smelter, and how many hospitals are left in your district?
but, but Chief Justice Roberts swore we were living in a post-racist era now.
Wonder if he has any Puerto Rican DNA?
I’m glad cooler heads prevailed this time, but I don’t like the trend here. The recent incarnation of this shit started with the “you lie” shout during an Obama SOTU. In other stories on the “Puerto Rico” incident, it was reported that the Ds and Rs all gathered around their leaders as if getting ready to rumble. Yale historian Joanne Freeman wrote a book about violence in Congress in the mid-1800’s, if I recall my HS American history class correctly, that didn’t end well for our nation.
“The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War in The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. … Google Books”
If Air Canada offered this, I could fly to Quebec City for a nickel or at most a dime.
That is a great ad -well worth the click!
And we have to push back against this Republican slur that the Democrats were on “vacation” in Puerto Rico.
They weren’t. They were trying to shore up rescue efforts that the Trump administration has sabotaged.
The one guy near the end got pretty upset and used some choice cuss words! I would guess that a high percentage of US folks in the southwest whose families have been there for decades have mexican and or hispanic DNA