Kirk wants to run away from Trump, but makes the most racist and misogynistic comment of possibly the entire campaign season.
Her silence spoke volumes. Surely itās not the first time sheās had to deal with a patronizing jerk. At least he didnāt grope her, at least thereās that.
Kirk responded: āI had forgotten that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington.ā
I really donāt understand Kirkās point. What an odd comment
I sincerely donāt get it. I donāt feel he was being racist - he may be, I could be wrong - but Iām really trying to understand what exactly heās getting at here.
I would say this was unbelievable, but this election cycle has pretty much made that word meaningless.
Kirk manages outing himself with a trifecta- racist, misogynist and asshole- all at once. Usually openly racist misogynistic assholes take a little more time to reveal themselves.
Iām thinking itās just that he didnāt know that her dad was from America, and assumed both her parents were Thai. Youād think this would be the sort of thing heād know about, but presumably not. What a dumbass. I meanā¦did he think she just made that up?
In that picture, the guy is doing a decent impression of HO, what with the smirk and the thumb up.
Good point. As John Oliver says every week: āJust when you think the bar is so low you could never go lower, you look up through a hole in the ground to a hole in the clouds and see that bar.ā
Kirkās the moderate, right?
Because āDuckworthā wouldnāt have been some clueā¦ holy crap this guy Kirkās an idiot.
Thatās what Kirk and the GOP would have you believe. Heās just the master of claiming phony integrity to score political points. Iām glad he exposed himself in such a blatant and disgusting manner.
Since these repubs donāt believe in evolution, I guess we can assume they donāt know how genetics work either.
Because to most Republicans you canāt be a real American unless all your ancestors were āwhiteā.
Oh, look. Heās mastered the secret trumpthumb salute.
Take a civics test, Senator.
And this is supposedly one of the āmoderateā and ārationalā republicans. I would say āsadā but this word will be causing a bad taste in my mouth for a while.
How could that comment not be racist through and through? That was a dictionary definition racist attack, not a dog whistle at all, but completely open and viciously hurtful attack based entirely on her having Thai DNA.
Yeah, but presumably they understand inheritance laws, right?
I think he was being entirely racist. Itās a comment that could only be made by someone in a racist bubble. After all, how could someone who looks like that trace their family back to the American Revolution. If you want to say he wasnāt intentionally racist, well, perhaps.
Ladies and gentlemen, the face of the reasonable, anti-Trump GOP.
Surely indeed. She served in the U.S. Army in a war zone. Well prepared for the likes of Kirk.