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sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 01:38 PM Jun 2020

Gov.of WV, while discussing relocation of the RNC, says they would welcome any President but Obama

and they wonder why they have protests with blatant racism like this.....





Gov. Justice (R-WV), while discussing the relocation of the RNC Convention, says the state would welcome “any president” except "maybe not Barack Obama."
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Gov.of WV, while discussing relocation of the RNC, says they would welcome any President but Obama (Original Post) sunonmars Jun 2020 OP
Any president apart from the black one. Doodley Jun 2020 #1
The chuckle thrown in when he said it.May as well have called him Boy and burned a cross behind him sunonmars Jun 2020 #2
What a bag of dicks Nevilledog Jun 2020 #3
Boycott Wyoming kimbutgar Jun 2020 #4
Yes but this guys from West Virginia. sunonmars Jun 2020 #5
Doesn't he know WV split from VA so it could join Union, not Confederscy like VA? bobbieinok Jun 2020 #7
That was then. This is now. nt. Mariana Jun 2020 #16
Sounds about white. BannonsLiver Jun 2020 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Jun 2020 #8
Every rethuglican is out... Freedomofspeech Jun 2020 #9
Gov Buford T Justice? roamer65 Jun 2020 #10
That is great! Here's hoping they get the convention. It'll be great for the Squinch Jun 2020 #11
A couple of rundown Holiday Inns and Captain Zero Jun 2020 #29
They can decorate the Waffle House. it'll be fine. Squinch Jun 2020 #30
That lard ass sob was elected as a Democrat then switched Republican and endorses Trump. doc03 Jun 2020 #12
This crook owned a mining company that was sited for repeated violations Va Lefty Jun 2020 #13
he ran as a democrat BGBD Jun 2020 #14
Is there some requirement to have a cartoon worthy name in W.V. Politics? Nevilledog Jun 2020 #15
there is BGBD Jun 2020 #18
what a fucking racist asshole gopiscrap Jun 2020 #17
Does that mean HRC would be welcomed? After all, Hortensis Jun 2020 #19
No: dalton99a Jun 2020 #22
Oh, so that's the story they feed their voters to keep Hortensis Jun 2020 #26
President Obama has better things to do maxrandb Jun 2020 #20
HA! Aristus Jun 2020 #24
Filthy racist piece of trash dalton99a Jun 2020 #21
Are we supposed to reach out to morons like this? gratuitous Jun 2020 #23
Yeah, you came right out & said you're a stupid MF Cha Jun 2020 #25
He must be related to Buford T. Justice DFW Jun 2020 #27
wow Demovictory9 Jun 2020 #28
He is a racist POS, and his loathesomeness runs far deeper Tanuki Jun 2020 #31
I would chance to say onethatcares Jun 2020 #32

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
2. The chuckle thrown in when he said it.May as well have called him Boy and burned a cross behind him
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 01:42 PM
Jun 2020

Sick fuck.

Response to sunonmars (Original post)

Freedomofspeech

(4,223 posts)
9. Every rethuglican is out...
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 01:55 PM
Jun 2020

Of their fucking minds. What a racist pig. Of couse WV is our neighbor to the South.🤮

Squinch

(50,949 posts)
11. That is great! Here's hoping they get the convention. It'll be great for the
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 01:59 PM
Jun 2020

state. The greatest ever. Full of the best words and people.

Captain Zero

(6,805 posts)
29. A couple of rundown Holiday Inns and
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 05:44 AM
Jun 2020

35 donut shops in Charleston probably won't cut it even for the Republican Party trash.

doc03

(35,332 posts)
12. That lard ass sob was elected as a Democrat then switched Republican and endorses Trump.
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 02:08 PM
Jun 2020

I saw a billboard this morning in Wheeling WV. Trump and Justice making West Virginia Great Again. He has a TV ad playing
where he is holding a shotgun and shooting clay targets, the 2nd Amendment is the only one Republicans believe in. That's how you get elected in WV shoot a gun in an ad.

Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)
13. This crook owned a mining company that was sited for repeated violations
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 02:11 PM
Jun 2020

prior to a cave in that resulted in numerous deaths. He's a huge prick!

 

BGBD

(3,282 posts)
14. he ran as a democrat
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 02:17 PM
Jun 2020

and then cozies up to Trump and switched to R.

Trump came to WV and campaigned against him in 2016.

There is a decent chance he loses the primary to his old Treasury sec, Woody Thrasher next week.

Nevilledog

(51,094 posts)
15. Is there some requirement to have a cartoon worthy name in W.V. Politics?
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 02:25 PM
Jun 2020

Gov. Justice v. Woody Thrasher

 

BGBD

(3,282 posts)
18. there is
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 05:59 PM
Jun 2020

also a guy named Spike Meynard that was on the court a few years back. I think he got caught vacationing with Don Blankenship and that was the end of him.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
19. Does that mean HRC would be welcomed? After all,
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 06:10 PM
Jun 2020

she was elected president even if she couldn't be sworn in. And she had such great plans to create good jobs so young people wouldn't have to leave beautiful WV.

dalton99a

(81,483 posts)
22. No:
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 07:01 PM
Jun 2020
“I hate to say it but the Obama/Biden Presidency and everything devastated West Virginia. And especially southern West Virginia. And then, Hillary Clinton kind of chimed in and before you know it West Virginia was brought to our knees and everything and I hate that, I hated that so badly and everything because the good people of West Virginia - we suffered beyond belief.”

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
26. Oh, so that's the story they feed their voters to keep
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 02:43 AM
Jun 2020

them from feeling inexcusably stupid and realizing they betrayed their families and communities. Right.

The woman "kind of chimed in." Gee, what a surprise to find misogyny along with his racism. It's so rare that the roiling hostility in bigoted creeps targets both.

maxrandb

(15,325 posts)
20. President Obama has better things to do
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 06:52 PM
Jun 2020

then watch a bunch of toothless hayseeds swilling warm beer and bragging about how good their sisters are in bed.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
23. Are we supposed to reach out to morons like this?
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 07:01 PM
Jun 2020

Do knuckle-headed stonebrains like Gov. Injustice have any obligation to pry open their closed, sealed minds?

Cha

(297,196 posts)
25. Yeah, you came right out & said you're a stupid MF
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 07:10 PM
Jun 2020

racist.. asshole jiustice.

It's a badge of Honor for Pres Obama

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
31. He is a racist POS, and his loathesomeness runs far deeper
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 06:59 AM
Jun 2020

(The author of this piece, Ken Ward Jr., is a West Virginia treasure and MacArthur "genius award" recipient).

.https://www.propublica.org/article/the-billionaire-governor-whos-been-sued-dozens-of-times-for-millions-in-unpaid-bills/amp?__twitter_impression=true

... "Gov. Jim Justice is West Virginia’s richest man. Over the last three decades, lawsuits over unpaid bills have cost his constellation of companies more than $128 million in judgments and settlements.
.........
Among the plaintiffs: a mining equipment company in Virginia, a farm machinery dealer in South Carolina, a bank in Maryland, an insurance company in New York, state tax collectors in Kentucky, and even lawyers and accountants hired by the Justice companies to represent them. Coal miners working for Justice companies have filed at least a half-dozen suits to collect money they said was due to them when they were laid off without legally required warnings or when their paychecks bounced.
.........

Last year, Forbes documented $10 million in payments that courts had ordered Justice companies to make to suppliers, workers and government entities since 2016. The publication also noted a pending $60 million civil case. But ProPublica examined legal records dating back to the start of Justice’s tenure as CEO of his family’s companies, representing the most complete accounting yet of how the corporate empire overseen by the governor often forces those it does business with to sue to get what they are owed.

In multiple cases, plaintiffs had to go back to court to try to collect after either winning a case against a Justice company or settling with the governor’s empire. More than a dozen suits have been filed against Justice companies since Justice took office in January 2017, and several name the governor as a defendant."...(more)



(Justice bought the Greenbriar, an iconic WV resort/golf property which now includes casino gambling. My guess is that he would love to fill it up with GOP conventioneers, at a time when travel has cratered).

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