Déjà KKKook
They say that, “A bad penny always turns up”. We now have another example of the truth of that old proverb.
Convicted felon and former KKK-dipsh!t David Duke is back in the news these days. Seems as if he’s announced he’s running for office yet again. This time, Duke’s announced that he’s running for the US Senate from Louisiana.
Duke does this periodically. He ran for the Louisiana State Senate in 1974 and 1979 – as a Democrat. He also ran for President in 1988, also as a Democrat; when that didn’t turn out well, he successfully obtained the Populist Party nomination. He’s run for a number of Louisiana and Federal elective offices since. The only public office to which he’s managed to get elected was the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1989 – in a special election where his runoff opponent was stupid enough to come out in favor of raising property taxes in a suburban district; Duke ended up winning by just over 200 votes. (That gig didn’t last very long for Duke; his tenure in office ended in 1992.)
Duke is a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and has been described by some of his former colleagues in that organization as “nothing but a con man”. He also used Klan funds to largely remodel his home in the 1970s, justifying this by claiming that “most of his home was used by the Klan”.
Duke’s also a convicted felon. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to mail fraud and filing a false tax return in conjunction with a mail solicitation scam (he admitted to having engaged a multi-year direct-mail solicitation campaign from which he diverted funds to support personal investments and gambling trips); he did 15 months time. Predictably, he now claims the charges were brought to derail his political career.
Duke’s also managed to get arrested and thrown out of the Czech Republic in 2009. He managed to get himself banned from Europe’s Schengen area by a Swiss court as well.
He’s also made apparently bogus “secret squirrel” claims, claiming to have participated in clandestine missions in Laos in 1971. (Duke’s father worked in Laos at the time; Duke visited in 1971, and his father managed to get him a short-term job teaching English to Laotian officers. Duke managed to get himself fired.) Those claims have been effectively discredited by former Air America pilots, who’ve pointed out that Duke’s claims are don’t square with their operating procedures; Duke also can’t recall the name of any airfield in Laos from which he flew.
Oh, and for completeness: Duke’s also a racist, an anti-Semite, a Holocaust denier, and IMO an all-around evil bastard. (I probably shouldn’t have to spell all of that out since he’s a former KKK Grand Wizard, but unless I do maybe some might not make those connections.) He also apparently formerly wore Nazi regalia on a regular basis and sold Nazi literature out of his office.
Nice guy. Too bad he hasn’t yet consumed excrement and afterwards expired.
Unfortunately, neither being a convicted felon nor a freaking racist idiot nor a damned liar are disqualifying for Federal elective office. So he’s running for office yet again.
Wonder if it’s time to break out those old “Vote for the crook – it’s important” bumper stickers again. Hopefully the Louisiana electorate will body slam the old racist fool hard enough this time that he finally quits politics for good.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Politics, Shitbags
“… he now claims the charges were brought to derail his political career.” He did an excellent job derailing his political ‘career’ by himself. And there is a special place in hell for any who advocate violence based on race or publically (or otherwise) state that 6,000,000 Jews were not slaughtered by that Hitler scumbag. Well, I guess being a loser pays the bills.
Duke-a-puke
Well…if they don’t elect him, he will have to come up with another scam or con game to make a living…..even shytheads have to eat LOL
For some reason, we have the most miserable time believing we’re dealing with real leopards, even when they’re walking around with a full set of spots. He’s exactly what he appears to be, NONE of it good. Nothing would please me more than to see this vicious bastard ventilated resisting arrest.
Fucking cocksucker.
re the Facebook post above – the man feels felons are ‘shit on forever’ – ell, I guess I am in that crowd then. Committing a felony is like shooting yourself in the foot – you’re gonna limp, jack, and it is all your own fault. Do the crime, don’t whine about the time. I’m glad you have turned your life around and all, but your incurring the penalties for your crime? You made that choice yourself.
Yeah, I read the FB post, too, and my first question is, what crime was committed? The label “felony” tells me virtually nothing. People who hear the word felony and imagine that the crime was necessarily some heinous or horrible offense may be wronger than wrong. What is a felony in one state may be a misdemeanor in another. What was a felony 40+ years ago may be a misdemeanor today–or no crime at all! (e.g., Before 1962 most, if not every, state classified sodomy as a felony.) Another example is what is called joyriding, stealing a car w/o the intent of permanently depriving the owner of its use. In many states, that’s a misdemeanor but, in others, it’s a felony. The man wrote that he was permitted to enlist and served for 22 years. Thus, whatever is crime was, it was not so bad that it kept him out of the military, regardless of the year of enlistment. (Like some of you, I wasn’t ever caught doing some things that I shouldn’t have done and for which I could have been charged and prosecuted. That’s all I’ll say about that!)
217….Good to know some of us have the balls to admit not being caught and incarcerated for something they did back in the early days. Like you, I’m no angel without a closet. Other to say it did not involve children or sex in general, mine was nothing to be proud of and nothing to remember or discuss. Obviously the error of my early mistakes were outgrown and left out of conversation. Those in prison most likely would reflect fondly on their mistakes as if it were a badge of honor to have “gotten one over on the man”.
Funny thing about this matter…just how many politicians could/would ever admit to having made such mistakes when they were younger? Less than one out of a thousand would be my guess.
Just goes to show, those like us lacked one gene required to serve in public office..ARROGANCE.
“On December 12, 2002, David Duke pleaded guilty to the felony charge of filing a false tax return under 26 U.S.C. § 7206 and mail fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1341[5] According to The New York Times: “Mr. Duke was accused of telling supporters that he was in financial straits, then misusing the money they sent him from 1993 to 1999. He was also accused of filing a false 1998 tax return…. Mr. Duke used the money for personal investments and gambling trips…. [T]he [supporter] contributions were as small as $5 and [according to the United States attorney, Jim Letten] there were so many that returning the money would be ‘unwieldy.'”
Horrible Crimes? Not really. But we can add “con-man” to our description of him.
All the press will focus on is that he was in the KKK and is now running as a Republican which they will then use to prove that all Republicans are racist.
*Sang to the tune of “The Streak”*
David Duke
He’s a puke
That David Duke
He’s a stupid fuckhead
Just you wait and see…
“former KKK Grand Wizard”
Wasn’t there some US Senator who was a former Grand Lizard for those dipshits? His name slips my mind but seems to me he was from WVA and was a Democrat. Grey hair and an old fart, gone now, don’t tell me, I’ll remember…
Seems like Duke’d fit right in with the Democrats – wonder if Hillary will support him…
If I remember correctly, it was Sen Byrd of WV. Got his name plastered of everything because he brought home Teh Gooberment Bacon.
Indeed. Byrd recruited 150 associates to form a new Klan chapter in Sophia, WV, in the early 1940s. He was elected the new chapter’s leader, the “Exalted Cyclops”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Ku_Klux_Klan
Yeah, but he was a dildocat, thus the DNC Pravda snooze media ignores that. I once heard that ‘ol “KKK Byrd” had more Federal Buildings named after him than any other U.S. Senator.
Byrd’s nickname in the Senate?
Sheets
Not exactly a secret Kluckker. Nor did he ever repudiate them. Yet the Dems thought highly of him.
He’s no worse than Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, Marion Berry, The “Go Gata” wench or the nutty LA lady Politician. The difference is no one calls out their constutuients that support them or put them in office repeatedly.
As far as KKK politicians I believe Tom Metzger got a nice chunk of votes while running for office in Califrnoa in the 1970s as a Democrat.
As far as being a felon there are several things I did that could have put me behind bars. Iv’e been a dumbass and driven with one too many, beat a couple of people’s asses. One slip of the sterring wheel of someone hitting their head on the curb could have ended up with me doing time for manslaughter.
When I worked in the shipyard several of my co-workers were felons. One guy stole a car and totaaled it, one smuggleds illegals, one had domestic battery and the foreman did 8 years for drug dealing. That was the ones I KNEW about. These guys all turned it around.
I’ve never been even the tiniest bit fond of the NBPP or BLM types, nor do I harbor any kind feelings at all for the KKK, NeoNazis, the Aryan B’hood or any others. I’m in favor of putting ALL of them on a remote uninhabited island and let them wipe each other off the face of the Earth!
Generally speaking, Duke’s history with the Klan is just that. …history past. Dose not bother me in the very least, especially when the Dems are out to allow former convicted felons to vote. What bothers me far more is his fraud convictions for scamming money from people.
That being said, I stand ready to offer two to one odds AGAINST his winning this current race for office. Any takers, we’ll send the cash for Jonn to hold and keep say 10% for holding and distributing. Nothing larger than a ten spot from anyone. And keep it to those who have at one time or another posted on here prior to this date. If some of you pervs prefer, in lieu of cash, we can meet at a place agreed on in advance and have the loser publicly kiss the winner’s ass. NOOOOOO…Now I take that back. Let that wager take place, and Lars would go out of his way to see it happen just for the hell of it. Even at that minimal risk, I refuse to take that chance…….even if Duke happened to die a natural death before the election. Cash is the ONLY way this will come to life.
In case you are wondering about the offer; believe me it ain’t no joke!
You need to offer a lot better odds than that. There’s me and maybe fifty other people in the state who aren’t running for that Senate seat this year – other than that the field is wide open. Duke doesn’t have a chance in hell of making the top twenty.
And speaking of Duke, I used to see the guy around campus back in the day, always hanging out at Free Speech Alley along with the preachers who were telling us we were all going to Hell for fornicating. Never did understand what anyone saw of interest in David. He was just another one of the goobers, most people there pretty much ignored him. How is it that forty years later he still makes the news?
His earlier Klan membership still matters to me, Jarhead. IMO it shows his true ideological “stripes”.
Duke has reputedly “disavowed” his earlier Klan and neo-Nazi group memberships. But he still appears to endorse their reprehensible ideals today. That tells me that any “disavowal” on his part was nothing but PR bullsh!t.
He’s a con man. I no more believe Duke has changed his views than I believe the sun will rise in the west tomorrow. IMO he’s still the same racist, neo-Nazi bastard he was in the 1970s. He’s just lying now in an attempt to fool the gullible.