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    Do We Have A 'Silly Shit Politicians Say' Thread? If Not, Here We Are

    Figured rather than make an individual thread for each time a Republican says something racists or about rape or a Democrat shows off their public school math skills, we could just have something like the police thread.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gop-congressman-refers-wetbacks-father-ranch-article-1.1302370

    Rep. Don Young of Alaska said Thursday that he “meant no disrespect” when he used the term “wetbacks” to refer to the migrant laborers who used to work on his father’s California ranch. The Republican congressman dropped the racial slur during an interview with the Alaska radio station KRBD when talking about the changing market for U.S. labor jobs.

    “My father had a ranch; we used to have 50 to 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes,” he said. “It takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It’s all done by machine.” The term “wetback” was originally used to refer to Mexicans who entered the U.S. by swimming or wading across the Rio Grande.

    After an uproar about his use of the derogatory term, Young issued a statement that walked back the remark without exactly apologizing.

    “During a sit down interview with Ketchikan Public Radio this week, I used a term that was commonly used during my days growing up on a farm in Central California,” he said, according to Alaska’s KTUU-TV. “I know that this term is not used in the same way nowadays and I meant no disrespect.”

    Young, who is serving his 21st term in the House of Representative, is one of the most senior Republicans in Congress. His insensitive remark comes at a difficult time for the GOP, which is making a concerted effort to court Hispanic voters.

    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gop-congressman-refers-wetbacks-father-ranch-article-1.1302370#ixzz2Ow4SyAWp
    I mean I meant that racial slur in the most respectful way possible!

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    it's cool, he had slaves that he was friendly with that were wetbacks

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    Republicans acting republican. Being a Cuban, I am immensely flabbergasted at how Marco Rubio is the Uncle Ruckus of Hispanic-Republicans.

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    I think this is just proof that the pre-Boomers need to just die.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kuronosan View Post
    I think this is just proof that the pre-Boomers need to just die.
    Good news is they spent all their intelligence capital making boner pills and hair loss treatments instead of cures for the diseases that are going to kill them all off

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    Thought the reason they made poopdeck was so we would make separate threads for everything instead of lumping em all in giant threads

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    Poopdeck was so we wouldn't have general flooded with political threads. That doesn't mean we still can't have some universal threads, especially with how common foot in mouth disease is for politicians.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melena View Post
    Poopdeck was so we wouldn't have general flooded with political threads.
    This, it was to cut down on theopolitical babble in GD because reading those threads as mods makes you want to off yourself.

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    It was especially annoying when it was the same two~three people constantly making slightly different topics for the same exact issue.

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    whatever happened to that nigga that couldn't go 2 days without letting us know about the evils of zionism

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    you mean the nigga who was enlightening you fools as to why israel needs to be gone

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    He got banned for posting here even though they don't mod this place

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    Elvis was banned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mazmaz View Post
    He got banned for posting here even though they don't mod this place
    impressive

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    Quote Originally Posted by Milkster View Post
    Elvis was banned.

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    rofl

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mazmaz View Post
    He got banned for posting here even though they don't mod this place
    That's a bit of a misconception actually, it wasn't that this section was to be modded less, it was that mods were to have reign to ban indiscriminately without due process lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mazmaz View Post
    Thought the reason they made poopdeck was so we would make separate threads for everything instead of lumping em all in giant threads
    Says the guy who made the Elizabeth Warren thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mazmaz View Post
    He got banned for posting here even though they don't mod this place
    The mods were in on it

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    Took 6 posts for this to turn into the silly shit Mazmaz says thread.

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