Martin O'Malley just drove Ken Cuccinelli out of the Dubliner in DC

[Suburban Warrior]

Link to tweet

A liberal ex-governor walks into a bar, followed by a conservative Trump administration official.

Instead of a punchline, what followed, one witness said, was a “shame-invoking tirade” by Martin O’Malley, the former Democratic governor of Maryland, directed at Ken Cuccinelli II, the former Virginia attorney general who is acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

The two political polar opposites crossed paths Wednesday night at the Dubliner, a Capitol Hill Irish pub popular on Thanksgiving Eve with Gonzaga College High School graduates. Both men attended the school, graduating five years apart in the 1980s.

Siobhan Arnold, who was visiting from Philadelphia, had just met O’Malley at the bar when Cuccinelli walked in. Soon the two men were face-to-face, she said, with O’Malley excoriating Cuccinelli over the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ken-cuccinelli-walked-into-a-bar-and-martin-omalley-lit-into-him/2019/11/28/8277421c-1191-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html

[oasis]

1. M.O'M. My hero.

[NCjack]

5. I wish he were a DEM candidate for the prez nomination -- I would support him. nt

[PAMod]

18. I had planned to support him, but he had other plans...eom

[Farmer-Rick]

46. That's how our naked first lady should have reacted

Instead we got a passive aggressive "I don't care. Do U?" On the back of an ugly coat.

This is why I hate Traitor Trump's Slovenian sex worker so much. She could have done someting.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

47. NEVER forget how fast she jumped on that "Birther" bandwagon, too.

[Mc Mike]

2. Rock on, Martin! rec, nt.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Cucc was such a recognized loser that the RNC quit funding him before his own failed gubernatorial r

Cucc was such a recognized loser that the RNC quit funding him before his own failed gubernatorial race was voted.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[paleotn]

6. Cuccinelli is a hater......

An out and out racist. But what I really don't get. What really bothers me is...he's Italian American. If anyone ought to know better it's him. My people treated his people just as bad or worse, and yet here we are...in the 21st century...with a descendant of Italian immigrants acting like the grand cyclops of the KKK. I don't get it. I really don't.

I was born in the south, pre-sun belt, so my genetics are pretty homogeneous. Every single family line we go down is pre-revolution. Every single one. My mom was DAR. My sisters could pick and chose an ancestor for eligibility. My people were at Camden, Guilford Court House, Cowpens and Yorktown. We built this goddamn country. And If I say refugees from Honduras, El Salvador or wherever are more than welcome to make a new life for themselves and their families right here in peace, then that son of "just got here" needs to shut the hell up.

[Archae]

8. I saw this myself in my own late Father.

Since he is the descendant of Volga Germans, the "pure" Germans here in Wisconsin gave him some flack at times.
The usual from bigots, he was like them, they all are lazy, inclined toward criminality, will cheat at cards, etc.

But my Father was racist, not the "I'll go join the Klan" type, more the "Keep them (fill in the blank ethnic slur) out of *MY* neighborhood" types.

He moved four times due to blacks moving into houses literally BLOCKS away from him.

[LeftInTX]

9. Even worse: Stephen Miller is Jewish

[PatSeg]

15. That attitude is not uncommon

Some of the most racist and xenophobic people are children of immigrants, even some immigrants themselves. I've seen that in a lot of Cuban American republican politicians, people you would think would be more sympathetic towards immigrants.

Of course, there is Trump whose mother, grandparents, and two wives were all immigrants, though apparently they came from the non-shithole countries, so they're okay.

Years ago, I lived in a town that had a lot of 1st and 2nd generation Greeks and Italians. For many years they did everything they could to keep black people out of their neighborhoods. My landlord would rent to pretty much anyone, as long as they weren't African American (he was an immigrant). I can think of many more examples that I have personally encountered, but you get the idea. Not all immigrants are as tolerant and accepting as they would like people to be toward them. I still find it a bit bizarre.

[CrispyQ]

23. John Oliver telling it like it is:

"There was only one time in American history when the fear of refugees wiping everyone out did actually come true, and we’ll all be sitting around a table celebrating it on Thursday.”
~John Oliver

[SMC22307]

30. Seriously, the whole 'WOP' thing... I don't get it either.

You'd think someone from a group of people challenged over 'papers' would be a little more sympathetic to refugees.

[whathehell]

39. That term was actually an acronym for "Without papers", but

it became a slur for Italian- Americans.

[SMC22307]

41. Yeah, I know. I guess my post wasn't clear. Thx.

[Dirty Socialist]

7. O'Malley for President

Seriously

[NewJeffCT]

10. when he ran in 2016

I was more impressed with him in the brief debate moments that I saw than I thought I would be. He never took off in the polls, though.

[Merlot]

12. M O'M was my first pic in 2016

[SCantiGOP]

16. Same for me

Too bad his candidacy never got off the ground.

[SMC22307]

31. The media wanted a horse race between Bernie and Hillary...

and they got it. O'Malley was barely noticed.

[elleng]

35. Right, including around here.

SOME OF US, however: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1281

[SMC22307]

36. Yep. He was a good candidate and should have gotten more notice. (n/t)

[quitnesset]

11. It's time to call them out

I had the “pleasure” of going to high school with billy o’Reilly, and undergraduate college with Wayne lapierre... I may start going to reunions only to meet them and tell them how they obviously sat in the same classes as me, but what disappointments they each became.

[cwydro]

13. I really liked him back when he ran.

Never understood how he couldn’t gain traction.

[Recursion]

14. I do not regret for a second supporting him in 2016 (nt)

[BlueMTexpat]

52. He was my second choice.

Hillary was my first.

But I never understood why MOM didn't get a lot more traction in 2016.

[BuffaloJackalope]

17. Some say we should be civil to the people running concentration camps on our southern border

Fuck that shit

[McKim]

19. Excellent!

These human rights violators should not be allowed to be public and should be hounded wherever they turn up!

[DFW]

20. Koochycrazy has been "almost-plaguing" Virginia for many years

Somehow, his special brand of right-wing-nut-case-ism never quite managed to convince a majority voters statewide. Despite heavy-duty cheerleading by hometown expert fundraiser Richard Viguerie, he never quite made it.

To Virginia's credit, I might add.

Nowadays, he needs a Trump appointment to put food on the table. Let's hope he's destined for a diet soon.

[calimary]

45. If there's really a Hell, I suspect ol' Kooch

will be busily trying to run for something down there, too, someday.

[DFW]

48. If he loses....

It won't be for lack of qualification

[bucolic_frolic]

21. My mom would call that "getting your Irish up"

She oughta know

[ancianita]

25. Mine, too. I wish I could read a transcript of that "irish up" exchange. We Kellys would love it.

[whathehell]

40. -------

That's my last name too.

[GeoWilliam750]

42. There aren't many third generation or longer families in the US

Where a Kelly has not slipped in somewhere

[whathehell]

43. Sounds right..

It IS the second most common name in Ireland, Murphy being the first.

[GeoWilliam750]

49. Got that one, too!

[whathehell]

50. Do you mean you have

a Murphy in your family?...If so, I do as well -- It's the maiden name of one of my great- grandmothers.

[GeoWilliam750]

51. Determined genealogist here

Not sure how many last names in the family tree, but it is more than I am inclined to count.

"One of very nearly everything and three of most"

[RainCaster]

22. O'Malley remembered his upbringing

Too bad about Cuckinelli.

[CrispyQ]

24. I love MO'M!

If he were running I wouldn't be undecided.

[Pachamama]

26. Oh how I would have loved to be there....wish there was a video of the exchange...

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. Public shaming like I have been saying for 4 years. it works

But not on real fascists, if this piece of filth cucinelli continues his violent acts, then ...well...

[elleng]

28. 'Interesting!'

Check this out:

Fmr. Gov. Martin O'Malley: Transparency Key To Future Of Government

https://www.newsy.com/stories/fmr-gov-o-malley-says-2020-run-wasn-t-in-the-cards/?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017560387

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Good for him!

He's a good guy. I wish he'd gotten more attention in 2016.

[Ponietz]

32. This is activism. They have earned public shame and scorn.

Don’t let them go out in public.

[SMC22307]

33. Fuckadoodledoo. I know he wasn't born in Baltimore,

but based on his service to the city, I'll say another fine Baltimorean!

[Peacetrain]

34. MOM.. would have been a great President.. we begged him to run in Iowa in 2015

And I was one of the few.. and let reiterate that.. Everyone took a wild hair for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, and you talk about media picking candidates.. It was bloody awful. There were only 3 of them in the debates, and M.O.M would get half the exposure that Sanders or Clinton got. I still hurt over that

[elleng]

37. ditto

[renate]

38. I hope he'll be considered for VP

He’d be so good.

[Skittles]

53. yup

but he did not pass the cult of personality test

[Mickju]

44. Thank you, Martin O'Malley.

Cuccinelli is about as low as it gets.

[calimary]

54. He spoke (and yelled) for all of us, I think.