Rep. King's 'Diamond and Silk Act' gets ripped by conservative pundits

[brooklynite]

Roll Call

Conservative media pundits panned Rep. Steve King’s new bill aimed at providing aid and resources to veterans and homeless people as a politically motivated ploy that unnecessarily involves the controversial conservative YouTube personalities known as “Diamond and Silk.”

“I understand the need for cheap shots in politics. But really, at the expense of the homeless and veterans?” Washington Examiner opinion columnist Becket Adams wrote in an article Monday titled, “Rep. Steve King makes a mockery of homelessness, veterans issues.”

The Iowa Republican’s new bill, which he has coined the “Diamond and Silk Act,” would take federal appropriations away from so-called sanctuary cities that don’t enforce national immigration laws and direct the money toward programs that provide aid to American veterans and the homeless.

“The ‘Diamond and Silk Act,’ which may also be referred to as the ‘End Sanctuaries and Help Our American Homeless and Veterans Act,’ is the product of a discussion on immigration policy with King held with Diamond and Silk earlier this year,” the congressman’s office said in a press release this week.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Typical whiny RW bullshit...

"We'll help someone you like, but in order to do so, we'll have fuck over someone else."

[KatyaR]

2. "...a discussion on immigration policy...held with

Diamond and Silk....?"

Are you f**king kidding me?

[Initech]

3. How does ending sanctuary cities help our homeless, exactly?

I really feel like "one of these things is not like the other".