Missouri to Texas: Here, Hold My Beer
Okay, just when you think that Louie Gohmert is the world champion goofy politician, along comes Missouri and blow us out of the water.
Please meet Steve West, who won the Republican primary for the state house in Missouri. Steve has a bit of problem with some people.
Missouri Republican who won a primary for state representative on Tuesday has a history of making anti-Semitic and racially insensitive comments, reported the Kansas City Star.
In 2017, West told a radio show that “looking back in history, unfortunately, Hitler was right about what was taking place in Germany. And who was behind it.”
Kinda make you wonder who he beat in the primary. A guy with a boil on his nose and an I Love Jane Fonda bumper sticker?
Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.
I want CT scan of his brain. Seriously. Oh by the way, anybody that thinks like this is a wimp.
1He won by nearly 25 points. His Missouri state district is in Clay County, MO 15th district, an area near Kansas City, so far as I can tell. The KC Star story goes on to add some quotes from before the election:
Some example of dog whistles from West’s statements before the election include him saying things like “Islam is a problem for America. … It is a political movement masquerading as religion and should not receive the benefits we provide religious institutions as well as access to our prisons” and “ Many parents and students don’t want to have to deal with alternative sex ed, and the LGBT clubs and staff at all the public high schools today.”
Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article216387050.html#storylink=cpy
Just wondering what the other 3 Republican candidates, whom he defeated, were like. My husband’s family is from KC, MO, but they are sane, and they live in a mostly black working-class neighborhood where I doubt that this dude could collect a vote even from the squirrel in the back yard.
2God, please don’t let this man breed or be elected to public office.
3“Hitler was right about what was taking place in Germany.”
Too soon?
4Yes.
(The correct answer for the rest of time Steve West)
Clay County is bang up across the river from Kansas City. In that area, if you have money, you live in Clay County. If not, you live in KC. Of course, that means KC has the kind of folks most of us would rather live with.
Remember the Good Old Days, when there was no disagreement in the US that (a) Nazis were the bad guys, (b) their ideas (about race especially) were Just Plain Wrong, and (c) both of the two mainstream political parties treated anti-semitism like a dead skunk and used a long stick to push it into a hole in the ground? Well, if some place is gonna instead make a dead skunk their mascot, Clay County is it.
5Look at his eyes. Even smiling this douchebag is pissed off. That’s the open secret.
We liberals have talked for years about how repugnantcans campaign on fear. And it’s true, but it misses the main point. They fuel their base and each other with anger and rage.
Fear can be debilitating and create the feeling of helplessness.
Anger and resentment are much more likely to spur action.
Like voting.
There’s a time for anger and this is it.
Seems like I heard that somewhere before.
6The current Representative and the Democratic candidate opposing West is Jon Carpenter. In addition to being a great guy, he’s also a former student and an Eagle Scout. He works closely with Clay County’s new Senator Democrat Lauren Arthur (the wife of a former student). There is hope if Democrats are winning in Clay County Mo and if a “Right to Work” initiative is resoundingly defeated there there may be more than just a little hope, but the fact that West can slither to a win is horrifying!
Yep, I’m a proud teacher!
7Reincarnation of Marge Schott, circa 1990s. “Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.” Does Stevie have a swastika armband as well?
8I can remember in high school, studying WWII, wondering how the German people allowed Hitler and the Ignazis to take over their country. How could that happen? And now, I see it happening in America and feel powerless to stop it, given that all the political power is in the hands of the Rethuglicans, who are at heart white supremacists. And the Grand Lizard sits in the White House.
9Maryelle:
10A guy named Theo Wilson was interviewed on CNN or MSNBC (I forget which) about an hour or so ago. He’s an African American actor who posed as a white supremacist online to gain insight into the batshit crazy racism being pushed online.
And he said something that made my ears perk up.
That all of the white supremacists he interacted with were miserable.
Even on the forums that supported their worldview and should have been comfortable safe havens.
Now look up at the douchebag,’s eyes again.
They feed each other a constant diet of resentment, anger, contempt, and scorn for people who are not them, to the point where it’s the only thing that gives them any satisfaction.
Happy as hell to be pissed off.
And miserable as….
Well, Steve West.
Look at the eyes again.
Now picture him in a SS uniform.
And look at the eyes again.
P.P. you are absolutely right. They are absolutely miserable, as this post by John Pavlovitz so beautifully explains
11https://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/08/01/the-miserable-people/
Let’s start a rumor that he’s Kanye West’s half-brother. That should take care of it.
12lazrgrl:
13Pavlovitz is awesome. His latest should be required reading for any evangelical.
But Buttermilk Sky wins the internet today.
Yes, the Pavlovitz piece is excellent.
My Missouri cousins are mostly GOP. Much of that fits them, except the anti-LBTG part. There’s me and a gay male cousin and we never could explain The Gay Agenda so they pretty much had to give that one up. They live around the Lake of the Ozarks. One is with the rich people. The others sometimes refer to themselves as hillbillies. The Gay one is the exception to all that.
On the other hand, my Iowa cousins, same side of the family, tend to be more liberal and Democratic and sane. They mostly to live in the real world.
14To anybody interested in my little RWNJ anger thread, check out Jim Wright’s latest post on Stonekettle.
15Station. Stonekettle Station.
16I live near here!
The other candidates were actually decent folks (as Republicans go, at least), but were all just Dudes* Trying Their Hands At Something New so didn’t get nearly the votes this yahoo was able to wrestle.
The KC start article was literally the first I’d ever even heard of this guy, so he really flew under the radar with this racist crap.
*Yes, all men, SO SHOCKED
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