Tuesday, my fellow Americans, our country elected some truly heinous people. Here are some of the most disturbing things said and done by candidates who got the vote. 1. Joni Ernst. Got Pig Balls? Because she'll cut them off and 'Make 'em squeal." The Republican Senator of Iowa is proud of her experience cutting castrating pigs. For realz. As she brags in her own sociopathic ad, “I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm so when I get to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.... Washington is full of big spenders. Let’s make ‘em squeal.”2. Don Young: death threats and butf***ing. It's hard to be surprised by anything this re-elected Alaskan Republican Congressman does. Most recently, his Democratic opponent Forrest Dunbar says, Young threatened, "Don’t you ever touch me. Don’t ever touch me. The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead.” Note that Young's spokesman didn't deny the claim. And the story is more than plausible, given Young's "interesting" history. He once condemned the NEA for funding "butf***ing," and once called Mexican-American farmworkers as “wetbacks" and once made silly faces while another congressman, paid tribute to a Marine from New Jersey who had been killed in Afghanistan. 3. Paul LePage: he won't "give it to the people without Vaseline." The current Maine Republican Governor complained that a Democratic State Senator of being eager to "give it to the people without providing Vaseline." Presumably, LePage has the decency to supply the people with vaseline. 4. Glenn Grothman: anti-Kwanza, anti-weekend, anti-equal pay, pro-raw milk. I may not like what Grothman has to say or what he does, but I won't deny that he is as sexy as his name. The former Republican State Senator, who won a congressional seat in Wisconsin, doesn't mince his words when he defended getting rid of equal pay legislation:
You could argue that money is more important for men. I think a guy in their first job, maybe because they expect to be a breadwinner someday, may be a little more money-conscious. To attribute everything to a so-called bias in the workplace is just not true.
He also is open about his opposition to Kwanza, a holiday invented by an "African American Marxist" who, "disliked the United States and he disliked Christmas, which he thought of as white. He, therefore, made up a holiday that he wanted for blacks." As Grothman, some of whose best friends are "blacks," I'm sure, explains, "Of course, almost no black people today care about Kwanzaa - just white left-wingers who try to shove this down black people's throats in an effort to divide Americans." But you know what Grothman is for? Legalizing the sale of raw milk. 5. Michael Grimm: "Sometimes I get my Italian up" and threaten to throw someone over a balcony. Not only has the now re-elected Rep. Michael Grim (R-NY) been indicted for criminal activity related to his campaign, but he literally threatened the life of a reporter who asked him about the then-ongoing federal investigation. After NY1 reporter Michael Scotto asked the Congressman some questions, Grimm replied, chivalrously: "Let me be clear to you, you ever do that to me again I'll throw you off this fucking balcony... No, no, you're not man enough, you're not man enough. I'll break you in half. Like a boy." But guys, there's a totally reasonable explanation for all of this. As Grimm explained in a debate: "Sometimes I get my Italian up... I'm human...it's a stressful job being in Congress." All true things. All true things.
6. Jody Hice: outing the gay manifesto. This radio show host, political activist, and Southern Baptist reverend is a Congressman in Georgia. Hice exposed the gay agenda he discovered when he came across a satirical essay he mistook for a true confession. In his book It's Now or Never: A Call to Reclaim America, Hice actually cites, "These shocking words by Michael Swift," which "have been considered part of the 'gay manifesto' by many, and reveal the radical agenda that is currently threatening our nation:"
We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.
And he also believes Muslims don't deserve First Amendment protection. And Hice thinks it's A. OK for women to enter politics: ''If the woman's within the authority of her husband, I don't see a problem."
