‘Goobernatorial’ candidate and current US Senator Tommy Tuberville took his racist, MAGAt garbage to Benny Johnson’s far right podcast. “If you don’t know who Johnson is, a quick Google search will return important information — like how his show was once secretly sponsored by the Kremlin and how he helped spread the lie that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets.“
When Johnson started asking Tuberville what he thought of the Great Replacement — a racist claim that white people are being purposefully replaced to steal control of America — Tuberville didn’t seem fazed at all. He rolled with it, calling immigrants in major cities “rats.”
“These inner-city rats, they live off the federal government,” Tuberville said. “And that’s one reason we’re $37 trillion in debt. And it’s time we find these rats and we send them back home, that are living off the American taxpayers that are working very hard every week to pay taxes.”
As part of the same interview, the GOP senator also took aim at Muslim-American immigrants who might be thinking about moving to Tuberville’s adopted home state of Alabama.
“Well, don’t be expecting a free lunch, I promise you,” he said. “Bring your lunch with you, because you’re not going to be welcomed if you’re going to bring that Communist, Islamic atmosphere with you. We’re not going to deal with it. I’m telling you right now. ... They are going to try and overwhelm us. ... We have got to fight back.”
First, if Tuberville is looking for those “living off the federal government,” he might be surprised to learn about the degree to which Alabama receives more resources from Washington, D.C., than it sends to the nation’s capital in taxes.
