From the August 22, 1959 NYT article announcing Hawaii’s admission to statehood: “Much of the opposition [to Hawaii statehood] came from Southerners in Congress who took a dim view of the mixed racial strains of Hawaii’s population.” So there’s that.

True. I find that when people say “What, it’s a joke!” they were just viciously mean to someone in a way that really hurt them.

The fact that he’s part of the crowd that just spent 8 years saying our first black President who was born in Hawaii was not a citizen is the cherry on top of this racist sundae.

I think as someone stated above, it’s more a broader definition of racism that includes bigotry, Maybe seeing the full quote would help. From the linked article, he said:

Saying, “it was a joke” is officially an admission that what was just said was laughably stupid. Not a good look for government officials who desperately need credibility.

Yeap. Those people can’t take a joke. Why do those people have to be so touchy? This goldang country is so PC because of those people.

I love how people think that saying it’s a joke somehow negates the fact they’re being racist or sexist. Who cares it’s only a joke!! Said every bully ever.

If my house was on fire I would run back in to save my CSN&Y box set. The hell with everything else!

I knew I should have drafted him in my college domestic violence fantasy league.

It might be sarcoidosis

And yet, there must be something great in there with mosquito and cheeto, and a variety of deadly diseases.

In elementary school in the early 90s, we had to miss a day of recess while they painted over the MS13 tags on my school’s exterior walls. Thanks Obama.

Here’s the thing - if you have an overpopulation of prairie dogs (whose cute little towns DO result in debilitating injuries to horses and cattle), and your choices are poison or shooting, shooting is probably your least disruptive option. But in this day and age you don’t make a big deal about it, or make it into…

Please, please, please let Jeff Sessions have a massive, outrage-induced heart attack as a result of this news.

Okay, but what kind of loser travels from New York City to the prairies to shoot rats or mice and thinks of it as a fun vacation? There is no angle to this that doesn’t make it clear that Junior is a pathetic idiot.

The thing that makes this particular hunting trip so horribly apt is that prairie dogs literally created America. During the early days of mammals in North America, after the glacial retreat, prairie dogs were attracted to the hard-pack that formed the area which is now the Midwest and the prairie, the breadbasket of…

I hope someone makes 1 million copies of your post and sticks it on every single fucking surface in Montana.

I’ve seen sources that will argue either way. Besides, no one ever made a nickel from mosquito merchandise and there is no Christmas song about mosquitoes. So work with me on the Hippo character.

Might I interest you in a reality show of this instead?

Does Greg’s wife know that he’s gay? Does he call her “Mother?”