Steve King implies Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor and Kagan are lesbians - Polidicks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-steve-king-says-he-hopes-supreme-court-justices-sotomayor-and-kagan-will-elope-to-cuba/2018/11/05/e63f38f4-e14a-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8d83e11a7913 Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Monday that he hopes Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor “will elope to Cuba,” hours before he is set to appear with Iowa’s governor in an election-eve rally. King has a long history of making inflammatory comments on race and immigration. He recently drew a rebuke from a top Republican Party leader and lost support from corporations, including Land O’Lakes, although he is still favored to win reelection on Tuesday. At an appearance in Hampton, Iowa, King was discussing the Supreme Court and said that he was optimistic that “we’ll have a 7-2 court” after Tuesday’s midterms, according to Weekly Standard assistant opinion editor Adam Rubenstein. King added that perhaps “Kagan and Sotomayor will elope to Cuba,” referring to President Barack Obama’s two Supreme Court appointments. A spokesman for King did not immediately respond to a request for clarification of the congressman’s remarks. Rubenstein had previously written a Weekly Standard piece in which he described King as “America’s most deplorable congressman.” King is set to appear later Monday night with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), who is facing a tough reelection bid of her own. Reynolds’s Democratic opponent, Fred Hubbell, criticized Reynolds in a tweet, saying, “Instead of removing Steve King as your co-chair, you close your campaign standing beside him.” “The message is clear: you stand with Steve King’s actions,” Hubbell said. Reynolds’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Hubbell’s criticism. King’s remarks come less than a week after he was rebuked by Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, over what Stivers described as King’s “completely inappropriate” comments about white nationalism. In response to Stivers’s criticism, King issued a statement on Twitter last week in which he denounced “Establishment Never Trumpers” and attacks that he said were “orchestrated by nasty, desperate, and dishonest fake news” and aimed to “flip the House and impeach Donald Trump.” He's also attacking Republicans for backing a gay candidate.

Imagine caring this much about harmless aspects of people's private existence all because you want to ruin it for nothing. Everything they've done for two years has been a vindictive spiral straight to the pits. Republicans are a disease to this country. I'm tired of looking for bright spots and giving them the rope they use to tie up the hands that reach out in understanding to them. Don't want to be labeled a complete waste of space? Don't willingly call yourself a Republican and knowingly swim in the waters they've muddied.

I don't understand why they would escape to Cuba, maybe King's one of the nutters that believes in the "Red Wave" and thinks after all the libtards are btfo they'll go crying to Cuba. This guy's going to be expelled from the House if he wins.

Why does it matter if it was true, and it isn't?

Based on the rest of his comments, I think he thinks that there's going to be a giant red wave, and Sotomayor and Kagan will be so distraught/fearful for LGBT rights they'll flee to Cuba.

This country is such a joke

Quickly, send this to the Japanese! Soon a manga author will create "As a Female Supreme Court Justice, my Lover is also another Female Supreme Court Justice?!"

That this was the one representative who maintained his seat in our midterms baffles the mind.

I know people who live in that district. With them as a metric, I'm completely unsurprised King kept his seat

That this guy isn't in jail baffles the mind.

He's not promoting imminent lawless action, and slander would be impossible to prove. Since Dems have a pretty big majority I think the Dems would vote to expel him and the GOP would vote along to safe face.