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Home Front: Politix
Beto O'Rourke reveals that both he AND his wife Amy are descendants of slave owners
2019-07-16
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke;
    ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President...
     said he discovered that both he and his wife are descended from people who owned slaves
    That's what Democrats did in those days.
  • The former Texas congressman revealed that the documents showed that one of his paternal great-great-great grandfathers owned two women in the 1850s
    The old comely slave girls trick...
  • O'Rourke kicked off a campaign swing through South Carolina on Friday by pledging support for reparations for descendants of slaves

  • He is one of two dozen Democrats vying for the 2020 presidential nomination
Posted by:Fred

#14  I don't know about all y'all, but last Juneteenth, after finally reading the Emancipation Proclamation, I decided to free my slaves. All of 'em. I was meaning to do it last year, but it was hockey season and every time I thought about it, there was a game on.

Pity the Irish weren't more resistant to malaria. We could have picked our own damn cotton and avoided all this nonsense.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-07-16 20:34  

#13  Unfortunately for Robert's political future, both he and his wife are not descendants of Aztec heart cutter outers.

So for sure he won't end up being the Democratic candidate.
Posted by: gorb   2019-07-16 18:32  

#12  "Our first lady is a man, man."

Been done. See Obama.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-07-16 16:02  

#11  Attention whore.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2019-07-16 13:36  

#10  Wouldn't be shocked to see this character re-brand himself as "Lola" and come out as the trans-racial trans-gendered trans-age-bracket sibling of Rachel Dolezal and Prince's reincarnation. Birthed on a skateboard.
Posted by: Lex   2019-07-16 12:36  

#9  Came across my first bumper sticker wearing Beto. Total lutz. Texas tags with a Kansas Jayhawk on it, Austin plaques. Not one to drop the eaves, but he was making a show of himself. Dork. He was a dork.

Don't get me started on the Buttgig booster I came across. Something something my identity rests solely on a government face, "Our first lady is a man, man."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-07-16 12:10  

#8  As soon as he steps out of the election, his wife's filing for divorce.

"I never believed that man ! And you shouldn't too!"
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-16 10:28  

#7  "So I understand how people of color have been {insert verb] by white privilege."

-Beto
Posted by: Bobby   2019-07-16 10:09  

#6  I'm not a descendant of slave owners. Do I get to look down on those who are?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-07-16 07:35  

#5  Desperate for attention
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442   2019-07-16 06:27  

#4  Afterward he announced that the Sanders' family and his own parents shall present themselves before the black cockus for a very public flogging.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-16 04:38  

#3  <1%
Posted by: Frank G   2019-07-16 04:25  

#2  Unfortunately for Robert's political future, both he and his wife are not descendants of Aztec heart cutter outers.
Posted by: Kofi Thremp9877   2019-07-16 00:08  

#1  How....

Democrat.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-07-16 00:04  

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