“The Poor Are Genetically Inferior”

[left-of-center2012]

Governor Butch Otter (R-Idaho) : “The Poor Are Genetically Inferior”
"...it’s not like we can kill them (laughter from Otter)
But we need to stop spending… you know, spending so much on the inferior… It’s going to raise taxes
I represent the genetically inferior (laughter from Otter)
Inferior need to work harder now and realize that big government isn’t here in Idaho.
... (they) won’t be able to compete with the superior, but let’s keep the message that they can”

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. Excuse me, but that is "B i t c h ," not Butch.

In a follow up, he will do his best Dauphin of France imitation, ie, Marie Antoinette.

[shenmue]

2. Fuck that

Pardon my terms.

[sakabatou]

3. GAH!

[msongs]

4. so, what church does this guy to, one that is a business using religion as a cover? nt

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. What do you expect from a man called Butch Otter?

Just think how much worse it would be if you had to take him seriously.

[jwirr]

7. Please do not get insulted but isn't Idaho supposed to have a lot of Nazi groups up there in the

mountains?

Wonder if he is related to Herman Otten the anti-Semite holocaust denier who writes the hate filled newspaper called The Christian News that the Missourian publishes?

[hunter]

11. And quite clearly in the Governor's office too.

Please proceed, governor...

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Idaho and E. Washington have always been very conservative.

Seems like they have gotten much worse since I was in that area many years ago.

Quite a few skinheads and others of their ilk infest the area.

[AikidoSoul]

28. I hope you're wrong about E. Washington being "very conservative"

I would like to move there and my research shows that W. Washington is conservative and E. Washington much more progressive.

[happyslug]

29. You do realize Seattle and Tacoma are in WESTERN WASHINGTON???

Eastern Washington border Idaho. Blue is Democratic, Red is GOP:

It is WESTERN WASHINGTON that went for Obama in 2012, and EASTERN WASHINGTON that went for Romney??



Here is how each house seat went:

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. My family lives there, politically active all of them.

On the West side of the Cascades.
And I was born and raised there, spent the first 40 years of my life in Puget Sound.
So, you might want to check your sources again, unless something has drastically changed in the last few years.

Where were you hoping to move to, exactly?

[SammyWinstonJack]

34. Faulty research. It's the other way around.

[edhopper]

8. And they keep voting

these idiots into office.
And applaud when they do things like this.

It's hard to imagine a bigger douchebag than LePage in Maine, yet he is re-elected.

[Ferd Berfel]

9. THIS is a view the the Republican mindset

I have Republican friends who actually say (out loud) like to see people not doing as well as them because it makes them "feel better" about themselves.

Think of the level of brain-washing involved in poor people STILL supporting this! This is why you can't get through to them. It's like attempting to de-program a religious cult member. It requires concentrated TIME, that you dont' have a a conversation of a few minutes.

Ideology is easier than thinking.

See: Bob Altemeyer's - The Authoritarians

[phantom power]

10. "the people won’t be able to compete with the superior, but let’s keep the message that they can"

Wow. Just... wow.

[PeaceNikki]

12. That is satire. Please edit or self-delete.

[hunter]

23. Ah, bummer...

But it hit it's mark.

[bananas]

27. They fooled me! Here's the disclaimer on their website

http://cityworldnews.com/disclaimer/

<snip>

CWN assumes however all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website – even those based on real people – are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any persons, living, dead, or undead is purely a miracle.

<snip>

[Chiyo-chichi]

30. This site is pitiful. One has to dig to find that disclaimer.

And there's absolutely nothing funny enough to give a reader a clue that it is supposed to be satire.

A made up story that Val Kilmer has AIDS? Hilarious.

[Avalux]

13. There's a lot of hate in those eyes.

He'd like to kill the poor if he could get away with it. He would have been an enthusiastic cheerleader for Hitler's attempt at ethnic cleansing; he's repacked it as poor people cleansing. I wonder how he would determine who would live or die, how much a person would need to make to not die.

[Codeine]

14. Fake story

[brewens]

15. I actually worked with it's brother Paul Otter for awhile. Paul was a total

douche. Still bitter after decades from having his business machine company go under. Wouldn't have occurred to him to expand and diversify into computers! LOL He freakin' hated computers and was trained like a parrot, knowing only enough to just get by when he had to use one.

I actually asked him if his brother "Butch" got that nickname from Larry Craig? That pissed him off! I also once thought I had a high school kid at a school in a small Idaho town talked into asking "Butch" that question but he chickened out. Too bad, it would have been funny.

[raccoon]

16. As poster said in #12, this is satire and you need to indicate that. nt

[Shrike47]

17. Remember, satire site! He might think it but he didn't actually say it.

[hifiguy]

19. The essence of modern Republicanism in a brief paragraph.

Says it all.

[BlueJazz]

20. Hell, somebody change the name to Obama and Fox News will be blasting it at 6:00 PM.

"Obama is really in hot water this time after referring to the poor as..."

(Yes, I know it's fake) I can fantasize though....

[yuiyoshida]

21. SUB Humans should BE GRANTED rights too!!!

and MUTANTS!!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Has this been confirmed through any other source?

If so, wow. Makes Romney's 47 percent quote look like child's play.

But is anyone else reporting this?

On edit: Looks like this website is of the World Weekly News variety. So nothing to see here. I'm sure Governor Otter can give us some real quotes soon enough.

[senz]

25. This is why I'm a Christian. Because Jesus said things like

"How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." Mat 18:24-25

Followers of Jesus are few and far between among Republicans, while among Democrats, they're the norm. Even when they call themselves atheists.

[lpbk2713]

26. Trump has been bankrupt several times. Did that make him poor?

I'm pretty sure he's inferior in hair genes.

[RKP5637]

31. Spoken like a true sociopath! n/t

[Enthusiast]

33. Is he a Neo-Nazi? Sure sounds like one.

[blackspade]

35. Another souless GOP functionary

[sendero]

36. People who think the poor..

... are genetically inferior, are genetically inferior (i.e. lacking in intelligence).