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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 11:49 AM Jan 2018

Trump appointee who said he dislike gays and "blacks are morally lax" is fired





An appointee of President Trump has resigned from the federal agency that runs AmeriCorps and other service programs after remarks he made disparaging blacks, Muslims, gays, women, veterans with PTSD and undocumented immigrants surfaced in the news media.

Carl Higbie lasted less than six months as the chief of external affairs in the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Higbie’s Thursday afternoon resignation, which was prompted after CNN unearthed the comments he made, comes amid increased scrutiny of the president’s appointees for racist or anti-Muslim statements made in the past.


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/01/18/i-just-dont-like-muslim-people-trump-appointee-resigns-after-racist-sexist-and-anti-gay-remarks/?utm_term=.56817b9629b
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Trump appointee who said he dislike gays and "blacks are morally lax" is fired (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2018 OP
He really does collect deplorables. eom Control-Z Jan 2018 #1
Gee, What A Guy! ProfessorGAC Jan 2018 #2
The expression on his face there Bayard Jan 2018 #3
Shooting undocumented immigrants, and more: muriel_volestrangler Jan 2018 #4

ProfessorGAC

(65,168 posts)
2. Gee, What A Guy!
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 12:43 PM
Jan 2018

No wonder they put him in charge of that corporation. He's clearly a deep thinker. (Or something that rhymes with thinker.)

muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)
4. Shooting undocumented immigrants, and more:
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 08:04 PM
Jan 2018
"Go back to your Muslim shithole and go crap in your hands and bang little boys on Thursday nights," Higbie said. "I just don't like Muslim people. People always rip me a new one for that. Carl, you're racist, you can't, you're sexist. I'm like Jesus Christ. I just don't like Muslim people because their ideology sucks."
Ed: Yeah, just like Jesus Christ ...
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"What's so wrong with wanting to put up a fence and saying, 'hey, everybody with a gun, if you want to go shoot people coming across our border illegally, you can do it fo' free,'" Higbie said. "And you can do it on your own, and you'll be under the command of the, you know, National Guard unit or a Border Patrol, I think stick a fence six feet high with signs on it in both English and Spanish and it says 'if you cross this border, this is the American border, you cross it, we're going to shoot you.'"
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"Nothing gets me going like Ted Cruz, when he went off on the Feinstein Bitch about the Second Amendment and he put her in her place," Higbie said. "That was just fantastic. I can't stand that woman. She's another one. Her and Pelosi. I'd love to just take both their heads and smack them together a couple of times."
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"If you have taken any benefit, if you have elected to take any benefit from the government at any given time during any election cycle, you do not get to vote at the subsequent election," he said. "Because now you have people voting for a living. They don't have to work, and if you want to solve them now -- it's very hard to get something like this past, I'll be honest -- but if you pass something like that, what you would see is, you would see people who aren't contributing to the system, not voting for the system and you'll have a massive slide to the right in this country."

http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/18/politics/kfile-carl-higbie-on-the-radio/index.html

He's been offensive to more groups than I can fit in 4 paragraphs. 'Deplorable' doesn't begin to cover this guy.
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