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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMartin O'Malley just drove Ken Cuccinelli out of the Dubliner in DC
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 OMalley, 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 OMalley at the bar when Cuccinelli walked in. Soon the two men were face-to-face, she said, with OMalley excoriating Cuccinelli over the Trump administrations 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
(49,321 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)PAMod
(906 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,134 posts)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
(6,831 posts)Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)Cucc was such a recognized loser that the RNC quit funding him before his own failed gubernatorial race was voted.
dalton99a
(81,386 posts)paleotn
(17,876 posts)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
(46,299 posts)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
(25,103 posts)PatSeg
(47,239 posts)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
(36,413 posts)"There was only one time in American history when the fear of refugees wiping everyone out did actually come true, and well all be sitting around a table celebrating it on Thursday.
~John Oliver
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)You'd think someone from a group of people challenged over 'papers' would be a little more sympathetic to refugees.
whathehell
(29,026 posts)it became a slur for Italian- Americans.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Seriously
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)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
(9,696 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,862 posts)Too bad his candidacy never got off the ground.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)and they got it. O'Malley was barely noticed.
elleng
(130,714 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)quitnesset
(56 posts)I had the pleasure of going to high school with billy oReilly, 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
(51,308 posts)Never understood how he couldnt gain traction.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,365 posts)Hillary was my first.
But I never understood why MOM didn't get a lot more traction in 2016.
BuffaloJackalope
(818 posts)Fuck that shit
McKim
(2,412 posts)These human rights violators should not be allowed to be public and should be hounded wherever they turn up!
DFW
(54,268 posts)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
(81,085 posts)will be busily trying to run for something down there, too, someday.
DFW
(54,268 posts)It won't be for lack of qualification
bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)She oughta know
ancianita
(35,926 posts)whathehell
(29,026 posts)That's my last name too.
GeoWilliam750
(2,521 posts)Where a Kelly has not slipped in somewhere
whathehell
(29,026 posts)It IS the second most common name in Ireland, Murphy being the first.
GeoWilliam750
(2,521 posts)whathehell
(29,026 posts)a Murphy in your family?...If so, I do as well -- It's the maiden name of one of my great- grandmothers.
GeoWilliam750
(2,521 posts)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
(10,822 posts)Too bad about Cuckinelli.
CrispyQ
(36,413 posts)If he were running I wouldn't be undecided.
Pachamama
(16,884 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)But not on real fascists, if this piece of filth cucinelli continues his violent acts, then ...well...
elleng
(130,714 posts)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
(115,576 posts)He's a good guy. I wish he'd gotten more attention in 2016.
Ponietz
(2,934 posts)Dont let them go out in public.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)but based on his service to the city, I'll say another fine Baltimorean!
Peacetrain
(22,872 posts)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
(130,714 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)Hed be so good.
Skittles
(153,111 posts)but he did not pass the cult of personality test
Mickju
(1,796 posts)Cuccinelli is about as low as it gets.