Racist Rep. Steve “Cantaloupe Calves” King Says He’s As Hispanic and Latino as Julian Castro

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 06:08 pm

Steve King (R-IA) announced on his Twitter account, that he is as Hispanic and Latino as Julian Castro:

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As if to prove how he gets minorities, King said we needed to bring back profiling by law enforcement — right before his announcement that he was Latino (note how he is also doing the Republican/NRA thing of blaming gun-free zones for the horrific shooting of four Marines Thursday in Chattanooga):

That should be comforting to minorities, who might be dubious after King bashed Jews “who are Democrats first and Jewish second.” Or perhaps they are troubled by the time he tweeted a racist cartoon of President Obama.

Maybe the problem started when King proudly declared he was keeping an “enemies list” after his own party caught a whiff of King’s public stench and backed away slowly. King, like Trump, is known as a hardcore conservative. What does that mean? Well…

He’s a Tea Party Republican who hate-mongers about DREAMers, accusing them of being drug mules with “calves the size of cantaloupes” due to all of that pot smuggling he imagines immigrants do. This is what it means to be a conservative these days.

In April of this year, Democratic Congressman Jared Polis was fed up with Republican Rep. Steve King’s racism and bigotry, so he proposed a bill that would stop King from legislating. Speaker John Boehner even called King an “a$$hole”, though he let King and his Tea Party destroy the Republican party on immigration.

Perhaps minorities were troubled when King likened House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) to Jesus Christ after the scandal over his appearance at a David Duke white supremacist conference in 2002.

Whatever… It’s truly inspiring to see how Republicans are dealing with the result of their hate-mongering. Instead of dealing with the fact that their platform is a tough sell to anyone other than the woefully misinformed Fox viewer and the top 2% of the nation’s wealth, King skipped right over that refuge of the usual racist/bigot (I’ve got lots of Hispanic friends!) to announce that he, too, is Hispanic and Latino. Problem solved! There is nothing minorities love more than being told they will automatically vote for someone because of the packaging. (See previously failed Republican attempts with: Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, etc.)

Next up, King will announce he’s also more African American than President Obama, thus it’s totally okay that he hate-mongers about black people and advocates for policies that harm minorities.

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