“I always loved Trump, this is unfair”: Republican mayor can’t believe he’s facing deportation after 50 years in US
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awww, yeah? so now that you're being directly impacted by Trump's policies they've gone too far? could this have been avoided by not supporting a fascist perhaps? hmm..
They think they're special and they can do anything they want because they're republican.
What do you MEAN I'm out of the in-group? I was in the in-group.
For those smarter among us, this is why we want laws that apply fairly to everyone.
I don't want a world where crimes are expected, and you just have to continually manage whose good graces you're in in order to survive.
You'd think billionaires of the 1990s would agree, but they can 10x their money if they just avoid falling out of windows.
Yes, that is one of the Warlords: The Great Filter timelines.
How was he supposed to know that ALL THE IMMIGRANTS would include him?!
Bold of him to assume they'd send him back to Mexico and not to Sudan or whereverthefuck they're disappearing people to
He would be best to go back to Mexico on his own right now, or else he'll probably end up somewhere he doesn't want to be.
Of course, he's an idiot so this won't have occurred to him.
He openly admits that he doesn't actually know anything about the people he's voting for, and just votes for anyone who represents the republican party. He doesn't even know if he actually voted for Trump or not he just "suspects" that he probably did. This probably means he also doesn't bother to actually pay any attention to any of the policies of the republican party.
He just coasted through life without paying any attention or ever engaging in his brain. He's the reason that manufacturers had to start putting "don't drink bleach" warnings on bleach.
I don't think he read the warnings
That's for snowflakes!
Anyone who isn't even sure who they voted for for president just 15 months ago should not be holding any political office...
Actually if he did vote for president, he did so illegally.
I don't know, a lot of people in the US act exactly like him. I feel like you should be quizzed at the polling station with very basic questions about a politician's publicly announced policies. You know stuff that you would be able to find out with 30 seconds of research on Google. Nothing too taxing.
If you can't name at least one policy announcement you should be kicked out.
He's a fucking mayor, how does he not pay attention to policies?
I have colleagues who don't read emails, so I guess it's possible.
But given the fact that he appears to be ignorant of fundamental US laws, I have to conclude that he didn't bother reading any of them.
So he's voted in elections...as an alien?
The next plot twist will be he is illeterate and didn't know for real who he voted for.
It's difficult to understand how a permanent resident would think he's a citizen and therefore eligible to vote.
I'm also questioning why the state of Kansas didn't verify his voter registration in any way.
Right? What happened in his civics/U.S. government classes, he just thought the voting rules didn't apply to him? All the other people who moved to the States from Mexico by the time they were four, yes, just not him.
Some states allow non citizens to vote in non federal elections. I don't know the rules for Kentucky.
Apparently neither does he.
You mean Kansas?
Probably. To be honest, I couldn't tell you anything about either place. Except Dorothy doesn't make fried chicken as good as the dead white guy in the racism suit.
Kentuckian here, we're known for horse racing, bourbon, coal mining, and cave tourism. And also being ruthlessly exploited by the aforementioned industries for as long as the state has existed (and possibly even before then).
Big difference in voting for the local school board and voting for president.
Oh, both are easy to answer:
Because he's a dumbass Republican.
... but I repeat myself.
Because he voted the correct way for Kansas
Turns out we’ve been living in Dumbfuckistan the entire time.
Well, you know what they say about MAGATS: They're stupid.
"This is unfair," says man who suddenly experiences actual fairness for the first time.
He really shouldn't have ever voted in elections. His incompetence isn't a great excuse.
He was all for it when it was wrecking someone else's life.
He should go to Mexico and get a decent education because the US clearly did not teach him some basic ass fundamentals in civics and general comprehension.
We don't want him here, thank you!
Somebody has to clean your toilets, right?
Hahahahahaha. This is just the best. Newsflash "Leopard dies from overeating"
He says:
That just shows how these idiots think. His opinion on Trump and his legal position regarding citizenship are in fact completely separate. But they don't see this.
They think along the lines of "The state shouldn't punish me, I am on the right side". That's the sort of underlying mental model of the world they have. It's unfathomable.
Us vs them. Nothing else computes for them. Your actions don't matter.
History will remember these people in the same way it remembers those that tried to justify the slave trade.
They're completely unable to separate desire from reality. They want the situation to be x so they believe that it is x. They cannot understand that reality doesn't necessarily map to their desires. Which makes them considerably less intelligent than squirrels, who understand that, which is why they spend all summer stockpiling food.
"If I side with the bullies, I cannot be bullied."
If someone says "I love trump please save me daddy trump" sometimes it works sadly
Only if they say it while waving a couple million dollars...
https://youtu.be/UsQLWnfWqBs
I'm starting to wonder if this thinking goes the other way.
Do people like this also feel vulnerable if their candidate isn't running things? Like, did Obama or Biden feel like a legitimate threat while they were in office?
-GOPniks
Oh no!... hahahahahahahaha get fucked your racist piece of shit
the only shame is that it's happening to this schlub and not the creator of the entire shit show.
The SS went after the original Hitler loyalists first
Night of the long knifes
US already has the Gestapo, now they just need the SS
Bernie won't die of old age, Trump himself will kill him
Ice is the SA
Okay this is just a me, as a german with autism and history focus, thing, mixed with a pinch of macaber humor. But i always dislike when they are compared to the gestapo. ICE are villains alright, but not SUPER VILLAINS like anything the Nazis produced. The difference: PRESENTATION!!
ICE is rediculouse, just some fat low life looser thughs that a motion-disabled person could outrun
But yes i get why we compare them, brings the point across, both are fascists/nazis and SS is on a waaayy different level.
If ICE is that pathetic, how pathetic will be their attempt at an SS!?
Different note: i HOPE bernie outlives trump. I DO NOT want to witness what trump does when he gets this into his sausage pedo fingers
I don't know what your news filter is like, but these guys are far from comical. Yes, the first wave to arrive were a bunch of tubby Texans, but now they're going door to door in gangs of 'roided-up wannabe Rambos with full tactical gear and long guns, busting down doors and storming in like it's Iraq.
If you dont have a gun and you are outnumbered by a group with guns, ofc they are scary. They arent trained. They dont use tactics. Put them in a combat situation, an ambush, they wouldnt survive at all. The gestapo were trained in combat hand to hand, tech and fire arms. And that properly.
Take their armor and guns away and you once again only have "hubert your friendly neighborhood fascist"
Most of them are clowns, but a number are former military. And even then that's ignoring some of the real fucked up nazis who live in deep country
Edit: let me put it this way: you say if we took their guns away they would be nothing? Well, go take their guns away.
Whatever dude.
Ice is the SA the SS comes later
Yeah they are more SA
I see your point, the Nazis were meticulous, organized, disciplined...ICE are ridiculous untrained goons
If you know anything about Germany and the US, it makes sense that Germany would produce fewer, more refined Nazis while the US mass-produces cheap Nazis.
Seeing this would make Donald Pedo Trump have another baby meltdown
I disagree, the early Nazis had plenty of fucked up thugs to confront the communists and whoever else disagreed with them.
Yeah that was the SA, mostly veterans from ww1 that couldnt get a job anymore and got laid of due to the treaty over versailles
You say that as if they don't manage to still catch plenty of people and their fate afterwards isn't so great
We're doing fascism but it's being driven by mostly incompetent shitkids. I guess we should thank our lucky stars they are so incompetent because what happened in germany showed what competent types can do, and that's not really 'catching on' here in parallel to 1935 deutschland. The US is also a country with a longer history of open free discourse than the brief freedoms germans had between the wars.
And finally, although the economy is wretched, we aren't to the bread-lines and other horrors the depression brought.
We may get there though at this rate. And don't get it twisted, they aren't all incompetent fascists, just notably a bunch of incompetent moves. We aren't out of the woods yet entirely.
A little-known fact is that Hitler's purge of Ernst Roehm and other brownshirts acquired the name "Night of the Long Knives" because Hitler used the phrase (which dates to medieval times) to describe what Roehm allegedly had planned for Hitler in a speech shortly after the event. Hitler never intended his own actions to be called that.
Fascists always projecting.
It is a pretty rad name for something ngl
Röhm was also gay
I do not understand the cult of personality around Donald Trump he's the least appealing looking human who has ever existed, surely they could have found a more attractive cult leader. Most cults do.
Also how do you manage to get into politics and simultaneously be completely politically inept? You just get a free pass in the US if you just turn up?
That's what gets me too. America has always been in a weird place where they blindly worship everyone famous. And they treat politics like a sport. So it's not surprising that some guy rolls around selling them monorails. But i expected that guy to look like george Clooney and the charisma or Vince McMahon or something.
But instead they get ripped off by the dumbest, absolutely vile looking and provably smelling human being i couldn't even imagine. He looks and acts like someone that a scientist had to invent in a lab. He is the villain from an Austin powers movie.
I'm honestly surprised that some Hollywood action movie actor has never actually become president. I've honestly surprised it isn't Tom Cruise.
You forget about Reagan?
I think the US is so morally and socially bankrupt that a large percentage of the population basically worships money and by extension the people that have it. So trump being a literal slug man with no humanity but mega rich is a great example of how this works.
He's the weak man's idea of a strong man, and the dumb man's idea of a smart man.
The common theme is people who think they're the in-crowd bullying outsiders, discovering that no, they were never in the in-crowd, the in-crowd just told them they were for as long as it was convenient.
If you're even slightly any category of minority, and you vote Republican thinking that they'll count you as one of their own, then you've not paid attention in history class.
But they could be Kapos in the camps.
Aside from the main point of the article, how the fuck does it happen that someone votes since 1991 even though he's not eligible?
Does no one check that? Where I live, they have a list of people who can come to a vote in that specific region and unless you can present an official ID proving you're that person, you can't vote.
Every accusation is an admission with Republicans
Where I now live they check ID, but in the state over they didnt. You gave your name and address and if you were on the list you voted, if not then you weren't registered. Then they cross you off the list. Seemed to work well enough.
So was he voting under someone else's name+address?
More likely, he was incorrectly listed as eligible.
This is the most concerning part of the story to me. What is going on in Kansas that nobody ever caught this guy?
That's one fat leopard.
There's going to come a moment when those leopards are going to be perfectly spherical.
In my humblenopinion that moment has already arrived. They just wear very good corsets
Ozempic for Leopards.
It’s been eating A LOT of faces.
The sheer stupidity of this guy. He wants position, image and power, at the expense of (checking notes), people just like him.
Oh man, that's pretty rough Joe.
What I will do, is gather up all the empathy that you expressed for ICE victims before this happened to you, and then use exactly the same amount of concern for your wellbeing.
Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers.
Best I can do is zero empathy, and a healthy dose of schadenfreude.
🎻
Supporter and member of life-wrecking party is upset the party will wreck his life. Boo fucking hoo.
People like this should be sued for the oxygen they use.
He may not be the dumbest fucking idiot on the planet. However he ought to pray very hard that person doesn’t die.
Is that an original? It's very good.
Not original, just a term I haven’t heard in quite a spell.
Oh nooooo........anyways.
Lol! So...this guy is proof that what Donald Trump has been saying about immigrants voting illegally, is true?
You just can't make this shit up.
Broken clocks and such.
It's just really funny, that every time there's an actual example of the things they accuse Democrats of doing...it's always a Republican doing it.
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving fellow.
Unfortunately. Take what we can get I guess.
Only reason I don't want USA to deport Ted Cruz is cuz than he'd come back to Canada.
This will forever be Ted Cruz in my heart. It's over 10 hours on repeat, which....sounds about right.
The only credit I can give this man is he did come here at four years old, so it's apparent that the US education system completely failed him. At the same time, ignorance is not a legal defense, and a moron should not be in leadership position of being mayor, no matter how small the city. Best to self deport and try to get a proper education in Mexico.
After 50 years on a green card, he never applied for citizenship?!
I guess this question supports the theory that he never knew the difference between the two.
It's depressing to think someone could be so misinformed.
Apparently he's been illegally voting the whole time, so it never made a difference to him.
No one ever accused Americans of being smart.
I'm receiving word that according to a lot of people this guy isn't even an American so he can't use that excuse.
He wanted to be though.
Does wanting to be American when you're not make you more stupid? Like... You're choosing to be American. That must come with some low level of mental intelligence...
It's wild, dude is an "illegal immigrant" who came here as a child and ended up mayor of a small town in KS.
He might be proof the American dream is alive and well if he wasn't facing a bunch of felonies and deportation.
I doubt he had a green card. SS number, driver's licence, just assuming he has citizenship without asking.
That's a chonky leopard, so much chonk
Somehow an elected government official doesn’t know a really basic law.
He's perfect. He should run for Congress
Not gleeful here. Just definitely not sad.
might be a little gleeful considering the high position he held as mayor. His community will be better off w/o him.
I want to believe that that is what's going to happen but I doubt he'll see anyone but himself as a victim
ENJOY EL SALVADOR, BITCH! May the leopards leave a clean, smiling skull.
Absolute fucking numpty here.
Doesn't that make "vote blue, no matter who" an equally dumb thing to do?
Yes. Voting straight ticket is for lazy people who can't be bothered to look up who their voting for. Or for cult members of either side. Unfortunately many states (like the one I'm in) only allow you to vote for one party in the primaries, when most normal people would want to vote different people for different positions based on their individual policies. We should vote for people, not parties.
Open primaries. Rank-choice voting. Abolish the EC.
Also, a socialist revolution
Closed primaries are so fucking stupid.
Why yes, it's undoubtedly equally moronic.
Oh my god, this guy in particular can truly go fuck himself with a rake.
Goddamn, what an insanely priveleged hypocritical dumbass.
So the voter fraud was actually there, but supporting Trump?
Lol
Lmao
Roflmao even.
I prefer a nice ROFL aioli
Obviously you didn't love trump enough.
How did he get a ballot if he's not eligible to vote? At least in my state, you have to sign the voter register that has your name pre-printed. I suppose Kansas is different.
Right, that’s what these crazies always forget - register to vote is where your eligibility to vote should be verified, and there are ways to do that without suppressing votes
Interesting, apparently it’s only since 1996 that non-citizens voting became a crime, and that only applies to federal elections …. Then there’s whatever citizenship law Kansas tried to pass was ruled unconstitutional
Historically people in his situation were treated like human beings and immigration enforcement of a contributing member of society was civil, compassionate, and had due process routes to legality or at least to transitioning your life without hardship
So this guy was not committing a crime assuming he registered to vote more than 30 years ago, the state failed in their duty to check eligibility, and he might still be able to legitimately vote for himself
I suspect he registered to vote, and for whatever reason, the county/state failed to discover that he's not a citizen and approved his registration.
This seems to be the exact scenario that MAGA is screaming over. Lol every accusation is an admission.
A repugnantcan politician facing felony voter fraud? I'll give that the same probability as the sun rising tomorrow morning
That guy is literally the criminal element that the Republicans have been speaking out about for years. It sounds like he should be spending some time in jail before being deported. Luckily he admitted his crime in public and on the record so a case against him should go even smoother than a regular one.
Get fucked.
Signed, the decent third of the US (/sigh)
Ah, a most delicious face for our good leopard friends.
I really need to stop just setting it down when I'm done, cause I'm tired of looking for it. Hang on…
All right. Here's my tiniest violin…
I read the comments. Its hard to spot but you can just make out the republicans. /s
Fuckin ridiculous trash, Dems are the only ones who resign in shame after almost any scandal. Republicans have no shame it's why they never resign after a scandal, unless they're caught with a dead girl or a live boy.
Only time Republicans resign is when they see the shit heading for the fan, and they step out of the way to stay out of the spray.
Which is why you see so many Republicans quitting leading up to the midterms.
Not even scandals. the fucking Dean Scream.
or Al Franken.
The problem is that a 54-year old Kansas mayor is somehow technically not a citizen, after living here for decades.
That makes no sense.
He shouldn't have voted, and should have known not to, but he didn't expect this because he's stuck in a system that's been screwed up for decades. One that Congress won't reform precisely to leverage it as a wedge issue like this. And now that debt has come due.
Karma is a goddess
Leopards ate his face, blah blah blah. By this point, if you don't know Trump is a blowtorch and he's indiscriminate about where he points that flame, you deserve the face eating leopards. Carrying Trump branded blowtorches. Or something else also mixed in metaphor.
I thought Elon was the one who made the blow torches.
Elmo secretly makes all the methane that fuels his Space X launches. It takes many many trips to Taco Bell!
That's the thing about Trump. He doesn't give two shits about you. You can love him as much as you want. If you're not lining his pockets, he doesn't fucking care
Mmm, prime face meat.
Are you a hungry leopard?
No, I’m an obese leopard.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out
LOLOLOL! Zero sympathy you stupid racist fucknut and you should have maintained your Spanish.
Spanish is one of the easier languages to learn so he's got that going for him
Does he have any tattoos
They've yet to be added in post-production.
What kind of ad infested hellscape is that blog?
Sorry about that. The headline was more catchy than the Wichita eagle's similar article.
LOL Good riddance
This is genuinely fucking hilarious. Honestly, it’s peak comedy.
Fuck him.
not the onion?? lmaooooo
This doesn’t say if he’s actually allowed to be mayor or not. I would think if you can’t vote you can’t be mayor? I guess they let dogs do it sometimes though so, I don’t know.
I would assume it goes by the town/city charter.
You're correct. In the linked Wichita Eagle article it says
BTW there's a lot to shake your head at in that article. The stupidity and lack of education of not just this guy but apparently the whole town. They didn't know he wasn't allowed to vote. He wasn't sure who he voted for, he just always voted for the (R). Plus the whole town loves this guy so they're all mad at Kobach. That county went 80% for trump but they're all upset that they're having the day they voted for.
It's concerning and embarrassing how dumb the community appears to be
Hmmmmm. Torn on this one actually because yes, I do believe that we should exile those who blindly follow their party. Mindless voting is the most unstable component of any democratic system.
Oh my God, that's so insane. Oh my God, that's such a shame.
"Feo, Fuerte, y Formal." The Ghoul, born Cooper Howard.
It's like ol' yeller
I’m all for leopards eating faces. But, I encourage you to read the article this blog was ripped from instead of just the headline. https://www.kansas.com/news/state/article313143711.htm
He is the mayor of a town of 600, because he does things like put up the town’s Christmas lights. He doesn’t care about politics. Not exactly someone trying to build power within the Republican Party.
He got registered to vote because he raised his hand on a group trip to the court house. Imagine being the only person in the group to not raise your hand. The county clerk didn’t bother checking his status of permanent resident.
Even his friends basically say he is a ‘simple man’. I have a hard time holding resentment against someone who only votes because his friends do and who pays no attention to politics. According to his friends, he doesn’t even know the most basic differences between the political parties. It almost reads like he is on spectrum.
Let leopards eat faces. But maybe we can save the ridiculing for those who didn’t get eaten because the system failed them.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article313564934.html
Stupid or Evil don't make no difference to me, he's getting what's coming to him.
How about the other thousands of people who had a right to Due Process but have been kidnapped or murdered by ICE? This guy is special? GTFO.
My goal was achieved then, you at least read the article before commenting.
Many people weren’t.
Fair perspective.
Serious question here. Do you think that someone’s voting history should determine how the law is applied? It sounds like your saying that because bad things happened to good people in the past (days, weeks, months, and currently happening) that we should not give Due Process to this person because of their voting history. When I read the article I didn’t get the sense that he was asking to get special treatment because he voted a certain way. I read it as a person scared and hurt, the exact same tone I have unfortunately read hundreds of times this past year.
Edit: formatting
Sir, this is a small consolation prize for failing to understand my meaning.
Due Process is for EVERYONE. Implying that it is a privilege only afforded to this camp or that camp is exactly what the Republicans are doing right now. This guy either A) didn't care that the person he voted for was threatening to take it away from "other people," or B) didn't even know what he was doing at all. But who cares what knot was used in the binding?
No. Ignorance is no longer an acceptable excuse. Just because ypu dont care about politics doesnt mean politics doesnt care about you.
Look, I get it, I really do. It is nice to vent and see leopards eat the faces. “Ignorance is no longer an acceptable excuse.” I agree. But for me, that perspective only applies when I’m talking to someone directly either in person or online. But I also don’t get schadenfreude when it is pretty clear a total stranger in an article had no idea what was going on, and is trapped by a system that failed them decades ago.
People who licked store shelves in April 2020 to “own the libs” now that is schadenfreude.
My original post wasn’t to excuse his ignorance either. I wanted to raise awareness of the nuance of the guy’s situation. Several comments at the time clearly showed that it wasn’t read. We have a real problem with people commenting on headlines and not taking the time to read.
Lastly, in my opinion, this is pretty shitty leopardsatemyface content. If I went to another country and broke a law out of ignorance, it is one thing to be punished for it, it is another thing to be mocked.
looks like the article went down and archive.org doesn't have a backup
https://www.kansas.com/news/state/article313143711.html
Voter fraud is actually a crime. And being an uninformed idiot isn't an excuse for it.