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TexasTowelie

(116,759 posts)
Tue Oct 22, 2019, 02:23 PM Oct 2019

County Official Rants About A 'Queer' Running For President, Loss Of White Men's Rights

A county commissioner in Tennessee launched a tirade against the Democratic presidential field and the general state of white men in America on Monday during a debate about guns.

Warren Hurst, who sits on the Sevier County Commission, spoke up during a discussion on an upcoming vote to become a gun sanctuary city. He told the crowd, many of whom were holding little American flags, that it was time to “wake up people.”

“We got a queer running for president if that ain’t about as ugly as you can get,” he said, in comments captured by Knoxville-based station WVLT. “Look what we got running for president in the Democratic Party. We can go over here to Hoss’ jail [the Sevier County sheriff] and get better people out of there than those running for [the] Democratic [nomination] to be president of the United States.”

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is running in the Democratic primary. If elected, he would be the first openly gay president. His campaign didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/warren-hurst-tennessee-white-men-rights_n_5daf2189e4b0f34e3a7d4b9d

And finally:

“I’m not prejudiced, but by golly, a white male in this country has very few rights and they’re getting took more every day,” the commissioner added.


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County Official Rants About A 'Queer' Running For President, Loss Of White Men's Rights (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2019 OP
And I kid you not...he said all this with a GD toothpick hanging out of his piehole. Nasty fuck. CurtEastPoint Oct 2019 #1
I may have mentioned this before, but if we white men take credit... TreasonousBastard Oct 2019 #3
George Carlin quote... alwaysinasnit Oct 2019 #4
At least this one is honest kevink077 Oct 2019 #5
A true "Man of the People". Midnight Writer Oct 2019 #2
Ignorant Bastard RightiswrongTn Oct 2019 #6
Of course he says AMEN at the end get the red out Oct 2019 #7

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
3. I may have mentioned this before, but if we white men take credit...
Tue Oct 22, 2019, 02:31 PM
Oct 2019

for all the good stuff, we have to give white men the blame for the bad stuff.

So, I suggest we give others a shot. Even if a few of them fuck some things up, it's no worse than what we have done.

alwaysinasnit

(5,253 posts)
4. George Carlin quote...
Tue Oct 22, 2019, 02:41 PM
Oct 2019

“He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.”

kevink077

(466 posts)
5. At least this one is honest
Tue Oct 22, 2019, 02:47 PM
Oct 2019

At least he is Honest about what he thinks. Unfortunately most republicans think this way, but are too cowardly to say it..

 

RightiswrongTn

(92 posts)
6. Ignorant Bastard
Tue Oct 22, 2019, 03:12 PM
Oct 2019

Sounds like the County Executive of Polk County. Independent my ass.. he should be running for Grand Wizard

get the red out

(13,586 posts)
7. Of course he says AMEN at the end
Tue Oct 22, 2019, 03:23 PM
Oct 2019

Hate is all for GAWD.

I like the lady that loudly said "THIS IS BULLSHIT" as she got up and stormed out. Hopefully there are more like her in TN.

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