Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on Saturday lamented that the U.S. has become a “third world country” under President Obama.
Appearing at a campaign event with Donald Trump, King said that while he thought the “rule of law” was enough, he’s concerned about “the things that are coming at us from across the border.”
He claimed that undocumented immigrants and drugs are entering the U.S. along with ISIL militants and Ebola.
“That’s ISIS seeking to come into the United States threatening us, and we saw the beheadings in Oklahoma, we’ve seen the paralysis disease D68 that seems to be in most if not all of our states — happens to be the same places that the unaccompanied alien juveniles have been sent to … and on top of that, the biggest threat of all is Ebola,” King said while Trump nodded in the background, according to video captured by the Iowa Republican.
As Right Wing Watch points out, there are no substantiated links between the border and ISIL, Ebola or the Oklahoma beheading.
King then criticized President Obama’s “feckless” leadership.
“He must think now that he’s president of the world, that he’s going to treat people in Africa as if they were American citizens and somehow we can’t define this American sovereignty or American citizenship,” King said.
Watch the clip via Right Wing Watch:
This is like a PSA about the dangers of using lead paint in the home.
These two are consistent a-holes so nothing new there. That being said, why are so many conservatives so narcissistic? How can everything that happens is the world, be evidence of plots against you?
I don’t know if we have any psych clinicians among the regulars here to comment on this but I’ve heard delusional people, I mean really sick people, talk in this same very casual way about the craziest, most implausible things as if they were obvious to everyone. Your brain on ODS, man. Not a pretty thing.
This shit is hardly worth commenting on, except to say that it amazes me the number of moron assholes who seem to be front men for the Republican Party.
icymi - this Esquire article on how extremists are destroying our democracy is pretty good.
I understand how the grift works but I can’t understand how people keep falling for it. It’s like going to the state fair every year just to see the bearded lady.