{"id":67025,"date":"2016-07-23T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67025"},"modified":"2016-07-23T08:02:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T12:02:39","slug":"deja-kkkook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67025","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9j\u00e0 KKKook"},"content":{"rendered":"

They say that, \u201cA bad penny always turns up\u201d.\u00a0 We now have another example of the truth of that old proverb.<\/p>\n

Convicted felon and former KKK-dipsh!t David Duke is back in the news these days.\u00a0 Seems as if he\u2019s announced he\u2019s running for office yet again.\u00a0 This time, Duke\u2019s announced that he\u2019s running for the US Senate from Louisiana<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Duke does this periodically. He ran for the Louisiana State Senate in 1974 and 1979 \u2013 as a Democrat.\u00a0 He also ran for President in 1988, also as a Democrat; when that didn\u2019t turn out well, he successfully obtained the Populist Party nomination.\u00a0 He\u2019s run for a number of Louisiana and Federal elective offices since.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 (That gig didn\u2019t last very long for Duke; his tenure in office ended in 1992.)<\/p>\n

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 \u201cnothing but a con man\u201d.\u00a0 He also used Klan funds to largely remodel his home in the 1970s, justifying this by claiming that \u201cmost of his home was used by the Klan\u201d.<\/p>\n

Duke\u2019s also a convicted felon.\u00a0 In 2002, he pleaded guilty to mail fraud and filing a false tax return\u00a0<\/a><\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

Duke’s also managed to get arrested and thrown out of the Czech Republic in 2009.\u00a0 He managed to get himself banned from Europe’s Schengen area by a Swiss court as well.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also made apparently bogus \u201csecret squirrel\u201d claims<\/a><\/em>, claiming to have participated in clandestine missions in Laos in 1971. (Duke\u2019s 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.\u00a0 Duke managed to get himself fired.)\u00a0 Those claims have been effectively discredited by former Air America pilots, who\u2019ve pointed out that Duke\u2019s claims are don\u2019t square with their operating procedures; Duke also can\u2019t recall the name of any airfield in Laos from which he flew.<\/p>\n

Oh, and for completeness:\u00a0 Duke\u2019s also a racist, an anti-Semite, a Holocaust denier, and IMO an all-around evil bastard.\u00a0 (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.)\u00a0 He also apparently formerly wore Nazi regalia on a regular basis and sold Nazi literature out of his office.<\/p>\n

Nice guy.\u00a0 Too bad he hasn\u2019t yet consumed excrement and afterwards expired.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, neither being a convicted felon nor a freaking racist idiot nor a damned liar are disqualifying for Federal elective office.\u00a0 So he’s running for office yet again.<\/p>\n

Wonder if it\u2019s time to break out those old \u201cVote for the crook \u2013 it\u2019s important\u201d bumper stickers again.\u00a0 Hopefully the Louisiana electorate will body slam the old racist fool hard enough this time that he finally quits politics for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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