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Every Martin Luther King Day, we must deal with the deluge of conservatives and right-wingers desperately parroting empty praise for the civil rights hero and making insincere appeals to “equality,” even though they represent everything Martin Luther King fought against.
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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) has spent his entire career trying to destroy the social safety net and the majority of the past six years trying to strip healthcare coverage away from millions of Americans.
Which is why the internet reacted in fury when he posted a canned photo of himself staring at a bust of Martin Luther King, pretending to look pensive while in all likelihood fantasizing about all the ways he could make the lives of poor Americans even harder.
Today we remember a great man and his work. We read his sermons. We recall his sacrifices. We give back. In doing these things, we raise our gaze and renew the spirit in which we serve one another. Such is the calling of #MLKDay. pic.twitter.com/UpNNtZJ8n5
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) January 15, 2018
The denizens of Twitter were quick to respond to this outrageously insincere attempt at virtue-signaling with the dragging it rightfully deserves.
Here’s a collection of the best responses.
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lmao fuck off pic.twitter.com/tIoezM2Ylh
— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) January 15, 2018
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You are such an enormous scumbag. Take Dr. King's name out your mouth.
— beth, not an alien (@bourgeoisalien) January 15, 2018
PAUL RYAN: (takes a deep breath) If you were alive today, I would have excitedly taken away your Medicaid. pic.twitter.com/ghi4c3ShNE
— Sean O'Connor (@seanoconnz) January 15, 2018
— Brendan O'Hare (@brendohare) January 15, 2018
MLK wanted ECONOMIC equality. You take healthcare from children. Don't pretend you love him. You prop up a POTUS who is the very antithesis of MLK
— Davey Gravy (@MrDaveHudson) January 15, 2018
My new paper-doll book, Thinking Paul Ryan, lets you place a studiously thoughtful Paul Ryan into the scene of your choice pic.twitter.com/YP4BXYl6xG
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) January 15, 2018
oh look a nice pic of paul ryan pondering when to cut government services vital to black communities & just how silent to remain when his party blows its dog whistles https://t.co/tNyI5I0q8e
— Current Affairs (@curaffairs) January 15, 2018
arigato @SpeakerRyan chan pic.twitter.com/LfrCbXiTdi
— Muscular Baby Jeb Lund (@Mobute) January 15, 2018
You could fight racism every day by standing up to Donald Trump. You refuse because you’re a coward.
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) January 15, 2018
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If there were a thought bubble over @SpeakerRyan's head, it would read:
"Hmm..how can we make sure your vision doesn't come true? We're stripping social services & education from the needy, widening race, gender, & wealth gaps, & have a racist in @WhiteHouse. But is it enough?"
— Only The Truth (@TantumVero) January 15, 2018
— Ryan Bordow (@rybo62) January 15, 2018
As long as you sit on your hands and "serve" this president, you are complicit w/ his racism. You may as well have coined the term "S—hole" yourself.
Pretty words in your post, but they ring hollow.
Dr. King would have prayed for you. What would you have done for him?— ⚡️Lynis Glover⚡️ (@LYNIS) January 15, 2018
Get his name out of your mouth, you pandering fraud.
“When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
^ the actual MLK— will settle for 53 cents (@1_Prtclr_Strngr) January 15, 2018
No, asshole, people need food or they'll die, you inhumane pile of cash tied under a Gomer Pyle wig. pic.twitter.com/C4Dcwo07q0
— beth, not an alien (@bourgeoisalien) January 15, 2018
