I was on Twitter, as you sometimes are and
I came across something that made me stop for a second,
I don't know if Jayar has already seen this, so I'm excited to read it to him.
Comes from Steve King, former congressman who tweeted,
I spent Juneteenth all day in the hot sun hoeing and pulling weeds and
thinking about what it would have been like to have been a slave.
At the end of the day, I thought about what it would be like to
be an aborted baby, I got to see the sunrise and the sunset.
[LAUGH] And as I was reading that it just kept getting crazier inside
of one paragraph and I thought well surely, this is not a real Tweet,
even for Steve King, even in these trying times that couldn't be real.
But no, it checks out, every bit of that was real intentional, and
a human with the technically functioning brain typed it out Jayar, and sent it.
He spent a day hoeing and weeding and
thinking about what it would have been like to be a slave and
then he pondered what it would be like to be an aborted baby.
>> Let's start with the hoeing and the weeding,
because apparently Steve King who's a rabid racist,
reasons why his name is Steve King, and no longer representative Steve King,
it's cuz he's a rabid, rabid racist, remember cantaloupe calves.
I'm calves the size of cantaloupes cuz they're hauling pounds of cocaine and
marijuana through the desert,
talking about folks that are trying to find life, anyway that's Steve King.
So first of all, Steve King never thought about what enslaved people went through
until he was hoeing and
pulling weeds because that's what enslaved people went through.
They just hoed the land, and then they pulled weeds and
that was it, they didn't get sold into slavery, they didn't get family split up,
they didn't have their children maimed and separated from them.
They didn't have body parts of theirs cut off and destroyed, they weren't hung,
they weren't ripped in half, they weren't sick and attacked by animals,
no none of those things happened to people.
Maybe if Steve King went through those things, maybe if he went through what they
called breaking people, maybe if he went through those type of things he would talk
about how he understood what enslaved people went through in America.
But again this is, maybe he needs a couple lessons in CRT, maybe he needs to actually
learn about what happened within our history which by the way,
CRT is not that I'm just saying that because that's what they're saying it is.
The actual history of what happened in our country is not CRT, it's just history but
we're trying to avoid seeing that when we have ignorant people like Steve King
say this.
>> Yeah, and I'm glad that you pointed out some of his past controversies, including
by the way talking about how we should use cattle prods at the border because
migrants are like cattle basically and we should shock them, electroshock them.
Which was a joke in the Coneheads movie back in the '90s, and
then,ten years later, it's just something a Republican Congressman says and
danger, he finally was forced out.
How many things did he have to say and do before it finally happened, and
this was always the person that he was, it was always abundantly clear.
But he had to keep trying, desperately pushing the boundaries to finally get
tossed out because the republicans just refused to see it,
they just don't understand what the big hubbub is about.
>> If he was the president, he wouldn't have gotten run out and by the way,
if he said it now, if he's still in Congress now, if he said this right now,
he wouldn't get him run out of there look, we got-.
>> [CROSSTALK] No, he'd be fine now.
>> Lauren Boebert, they're not getting run out, he would not be run out.
>> Yeah, it's like Bill O'Reilly and
why am I blanking on the really crazy clown guy, he used to be on Fox news and
I was on the blaze, my God, I'm blank at this time.
>> Glenn Beck.
>> Glenn Beck, they got fired from Fox on the one hand for
saying something crazy and for the other for sexual harassment,
they should have just waited a bit because they would not get fired for
those things now you dummies, you got fired too early.
Anyway, I wanted to give some responses to this Tweet, Alonso Duralde,
one of my favorite movie reviewers responded with this,
I'm not gonna say it out loud, but you can see it.
[LAUGH] I love that, and it's themed to his work, which is what I appreciate,
Master Beef Producer fixed it to just, I spent all day hoeing,
see that would have been a funny Tweet, that would have been good.
And Michael Starrbury, I think speaks for many of us when he says,
I follow politics and I low key thought you passed away two years ago so
your Tweet is not only stupid, but it's kind of surprising,
which is 100% accurate, yeah, anyway- >> What
purpose does Steve King have in tweeting this, again, he's not in Congress.
>> You could have ended that sentence earlier,
what point does Steve King have, what is the point of Steve King,
honestly, cosmically, what is the point of this person?
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