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To paraphrase the late Freedom Center founder David Horowitz: scratch a tolerant, inclusive, compassionate “liberal” and just underneath the surface you’ll find a raging, totalitarian racist and antisemite. Wisconsin Democrat Congressman Marc Pocan is the latest example of this ugly truth.
On Wednesday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller tweeted in regard to New York City Democrats embracing Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani, a Ugandan immigrant, as the city’s mayoral candidate: “NYC is the clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration.”
In response to Miller’s suggestion that America needs to quit importing people who are actively seeking to undermine our nation and civilization, Rep. Pocan, 60, tweeted this intemperate message: “Racist fuck. Go back to 1930’s Germany.”
Racist fuck. Go back to 1930’s Germany.
— Mark Pocan (@MarkPocan) June 25, 2025
This is how far our political discourse has degenerated in these politically polarized times. A sitting congressman now has no compunction about abandoning civil, rational debate in favor of hurling vile obscenities and wishing a Jewish political opponent to be thrown to the Nazi wolves.
Needless to say, condemnations of this grotesque outburst – which as of this writing an unrepentant Pocan has left online – flew fast and furious. One commentator wrote, “This is appalling. It blows my mind that you’d even consider speaking like this to someone. Doesn’t matter who it is or what they’ve said, you’d be immediately terminated within the private sector. You’re obviously mentally unfit for your role in congress.”
Another wrote, “Congressman tells Jewish American to go back to a place and time when Jews were sent to ovens and gas chambers. @SpeakerJohnson if this doesn’t merit censure, what does?”
Republican lawmakers were rightly outraged. “What an absolutely disgusting comment from a Congressman to a Jewish WH official,” Anna Kelly, White House Deputy Press Secretary, wrote on X. “@MarkPocan must apologize — not just to Stephen, but to his constituents — and then seek professional help.”
“Wisconsin Democrats must denounce Pocan’s vile rhetoric or be complicit,” the National Republican Congressional Committee posted on X.
But Pocan dismissed his critics on Thursday, declaring that “only people who support Miller’s ultra-extremist views are jumping on” his comment. He stated he was “confident normal people are as troubled by [Miller’s] views as I am.” Claiming that Miller’s commonsense view that a nation has the right to enforce its immigration laws is “ultra-extremist” is as amusing as declaring that Pocan’s fellow Democrats are “normal people.”
“They rounded up people in the ‘30s, just as they are today with zero due process,” Pocan blathered. This is boilerplate Democrat propaganda. The only people being “rounded up” are ones in the country illegally, starting with illegal alien felons, including international gang members, sex and human traffickers, murderers, rapists, and other reprobates whom Democrats are typically passionate about defending. The far-Left, Pocan included, may not like it, but “rounding up” criminals whom they depend on to win elections is part of “due process.” And the vast majority of Americans want immigration laws enforced, the borders secured, and felons deported, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey,.
Who is Marc Pocan, you ask? As noted at Discover the Networks, the Freedom Center’s online encyclopedia of the Left, Pocan is a gay, alphabet activist, co-chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, serving as the U.S. representative from Wisconsin’s very blue 2nd congressional district in Madison since 2013. He:
- spoke several times at RadFest, an annual gathering of communists, socialists, and progressive activists in Madison, Wisconsin;
- supports illegal immigration and a path to citizenship;
- strongly opposes Voter ID laws;
- supports affirmative action, the DREAM Act, Head Start, regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, ban on offshore oil drilling, destruction of all American nuclear weapons, reduction in the U.S. defense budget, closure of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center and tax hikes on high-income households;
- is a strong supporter of “Palestine”;
- introduced legislation to abolish ICE;
- defends the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel;
- voted for multimillionaire lifelong communist Bernie Sanders in 2020, and
- walked out of President Trump’s address to Congress in March, 2025 while Trump was speaking.
While it’s regrettably common for people (myself included) today to let slip a public profanity here and there – an angry President Trump himself told a reporter the other day that neither side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “knows what the fuck they’re doing” – Democrats have turned degrading public discourse into an art form, and I’ve written about the reasons for that. In short,
Swearing sends a thrill up the left’s collective leg because Marxists and their inheritors, Progressives, consider decency to be a contemptable bourgeois value. Even though leftists control the culture, they still think of themselves as counterculture revolutionaries bucking the Establishment, like teenagers rebelling against their parents.
[…]
And that is the crux of the phenomenon: emotion. Leftists cannot win against the right on the playing field of reasoned debate, because they are animated not by logic and evidence but by feelings. They don’t let facts get in the way of their passionate conviction that they are right and the other side is not merely wrong but evil. And nothing displays passionate conviction quite like cursing. The right believes that public profanity is not just uncivil but unprofessional, and that it delegitimizes one’s argument, whereas Progressives feel that it legitimizes their passion.
A statement as despicable as Marc Pocan’s attack on Stephen Miller not only should be grounds for censure, but for dismissal from public office as well. There should be zero tolerance in Congress for the spewing of ugly, antisemitic obscenities. It’s long past time for America to demand that our political and cultural elites take the lead in establishing a public culture of decency, civility, and respectful dialogue.
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In reading the article all I can say is “yep–sounds exactly like a Democrat.”
Sad that is what so many of our fellow American’s have become.
Not that they ever considered us their “fellows” and of course they hate America.
Still sad that we have that many so totally unhinged people running around,
Speaking of civility, we do not need to leave the comment section at Front Page to find a frequent commenter who writes someone needs to assassinate an elected Democrat.
99% of the people in the U.S. illegally want to work hard to give themselves and their families better lives. (“Shocking that anyone would ever do that” say none of my four grandparents who emigrated to the U.S. from Ireland.) Listening to Trump, you’d think 99% were murderers and rapists.
As for the incredibly successful Jewish people, they are convincing proof that all cultures are not remotely equal. I can think of other groups that would do well to emphasize education more rather than blame their problems on systemic oppression.
One’s desires for the benefits available by immigrating to the United States, does not allow one to come surreptitiously into our country.
While many wish to benefit, far too many while “working” are availing themselves of benefits they have no rights to and they are being paid under the table without paying taxes as American workers do. This also denies a process in being given permission to come here by following our immigration laws.
Providing solace to those choosing to enter illegally is an action in total disregard for our nation, our laws and our Constitution. It plays well but it is a lie.
Yes, there are violent, murderous, child raping , cartel-trafficking illegals for whom their removal is top priority and it is also true that others who have illegally entered know fully well that in doing so they are violating our laws. Bottom line is a majority of Americans understand what it says about the fundamental character of those entering our country illegally; they don’t care about our laws, our people and they feel their problems give them permission to do so. That is the highest level of disregard and has far-too-often been evidenced by their affiliations with groups that hate our country.
The USA is not a depository for those who feel entitled to break our laws, hate our nation while also benefitting from it at the expense of our citizens and then screaming of their validity to illegally be here.
Amen. I don’t understand how this is so difficult to conceive.
I listen to President Trump often, and with open ears. I have never heard him suggest that 99% of any group were murderers and rapists, or anything even remotely similar to that. You might want to open your ears to the truth.
Well done concocting a statement. I never attributed any such statement to Trump. Get remedial help with critical reading.
It is overwhelmingly immigrants who work in the local hog processing plant. I suspect, but don’t know for a fact, that many are illegal immigrants. They’re hard working people trying to feed their families. They aren’t like the frequent commenter whose go to is gay references, who has shared with us that he doesn’t want to earn more money because he doesn’t want he ex-wife to get any. Great life plan!
” Listening to Trump, you’d think 99% were murderers and rapists.”
This is your statement is it not?
They’re depressing wages for real Americans. They need to go back to their crappy countries and fix them.
Liberals called them SCABS when they helped to bust the union contacts at the hog operations.
“The Progressive” magazine had updates on the progress of the strike in every issue in the early 80s when it happened
Today, the same liberals laud these scabs for “doing the work Americans won’t do”, but the REAL TRUTH is that Americans were more than willing to do the work when it paid a living wage.
The Real Americans who were screwed out of their jobs are no longer Democrats.
The Democrats have imported the third world to be their future voters…..and the live two or three to a bedroom and five or six to a bathroom. …..AND DO NOT CALL THEM “SCABS” ANY MORE ❗
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All of this is down the memory hole.
Thus, the above post to which I am responding.
I am a former liberal.
In the 70s and 80s and 90s, I subscribed to “Mother Jones”, “The Progressive”, “Common Cause”, “Utne Reader” and “The Atlantic”. …and I listened to NPR.
I know where the bodies are buried.
So, you’re for open borders then. So are the Dems.
“99% of the people in the U.S. illegally want to work hard to give themselves and their families better lives.”
You don’t know that as a fact. At best it’s wishful thinking. Naive dimwits like you contribute to the leftists attempt to destroy this country. Here’s a suggestion: GET THE F**K OUTTA MY COUNTRY! America doesn’t need people like you f**king everything up for the rest of us. Haven’t you and your ilk done enough already?
Your cursing and personal insults are DISGUSTING and GROTESQUE especially considering what Mark Tapson is addressing.
Out of control emotions are not an a rational argument.
Yeah, so? You’re an adult. Get over it already. You call it “out of control emotions.” I call it indignation. The article is a statement of facts and opinion. Am I not entitled to forcefully state my opinion of the person in the article and inane responding comments thereto without equivocation? You tell me.
It is up to we the readers to argue the matter without dragging Mark Tapson’s name into it. All he did was provide us with grist for the mill.
Mark has done a yeoman’s job of reporting on what the legacy media will not report so don’t drag his name into the conversation.
Most of the illegal border crossers were young single men.
All right Aisha glad you solved the problem. We’ll send al these hard working immigrants to Japan and China. THEY HAVE TO TAKE THEM.
How about India, Brazil or Qatar? Any of the rich oil countries?
A test of the rest of the world. They are and their leaders and people so good they will take them without a second thought. No white countries though. By the way I’m sure you’ll want to pay for these people and put them up, eehh? It won’t cost a thing.
Maybe the only way a country earns freedom and wealth and deserve it is if the people fight for it. If they won’t fight for it it will always be a garbage dump. What kind of solution is that? You must hate the people of that country if that’s all you think they are worth?
I doubt you have any data to back up your assertion about 99% of illegals. The data appears to say that the blueberry pickers, and meat packers are a small minority of the border jumpers — Stephen Miller says about 3%. The majority head to urban areas where they can find public welfare.
I dealt with ag migrants, legal and illegals, after the 1986 amnesty. It was a game of my company collecting SS numbers — some obviously stolen and forged — and filling out forms. Otherwise I’d get fined or charged with aiding illegal immigration. One group would show up to get hired with SSNs, the next group would pretend to be the same folks I hired, but weren’t. There was a racist assumption that a Gringo couldn’t tell one Hispanic from another.
Now, many of these folks I hired worked like sons-of-guns. But others became responsible for a lot of public troubles — knifings, drunken and disorderly, butchered livestock stolen for food, and despite being gainfully employed they were a burden on social services. They brought the third-world here.
Letting millions cross our border without any semblance of vetting was a stupid policy, but we all know why it was encouraged.
The Democrat Party of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, segregation, inner city slums,
drug cartels at the open border, abortions of live human babies, high taxes, high crime,
and child genital mutilation has no moral authority whatsoever to talk about
Republicans.
Why don’t you sanctimonious posers clean up your Demokkkrat inner city slums,
stop aborting live, healthy babies, stop burning up California yearly, and
stop electing lying frauds to congress? Got a fake dossier to peddle, Imsix?
Your comment, “” and of course they hate America.”
If that be the case why do they still want to live in America?
The door is always open, just leave.
Pocan is just the latest of many examples of why today’s Progressive Democrat Party should be treated the same as the Nazi party at the close of WWII. Dismantle it root and branch, build the prosecutions of its leading actors and field operatives for seditious and treasonous acts (a long list), shut down and prosecute its dark money network including its foreign supporters, shut down the CCP’s network that has been supporting many of its activities, remove its agents of influence at all levels of its NGO network and government institutions (local, state, federal), and dump on the ash heap of history this entire criminal enterprise that has been masquerading as a political party. This party is a cancer that presents an existential threat to the life of the American Republic and should be treated accordingly.
Interesting sentence, Dr.Tapson: “Swearing sends a thrill up the left’s collective leg because Marxists and their inheritors, Progressives, consider decency to be a contemptible bourgeois value.”
I contrast that with the inspired definition of love in the Christian Greek Scriptures. Under divine inspiration, Paul wrote:
“ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-6
Love is not arrogant or rude – it does not try to shock or hurt others.
And, given my age – well past my sell-by date under the Threescore Years and Ten Rule – in my lifetime I have seen language being dragged down into the gutter – into a few gutter grunts in some cases (with apologies to gutters everywhere). And I can see, looking back, how carefully this has been managed.
So, if these are “progressive” values, what are they progressing us to? At a guess, as far away from the moral standards of our loving Creator, the God of Abraham, as they can.
But do we have to be dragged down in this sad progression? We can draw close to our Creator now, if we wish, and be taught by him. We, Jehovah’s Witnesses, offer a free Home Bible Course to all who will accept. It can also be done online. I have clung to them ever since they first called at my house and showed me what the Bible on my shelf actually says.
As I have said here before these clowns are the result of a mutated amygdala. Today it is just socially acceptable to scream and curse in public as they do in private. Their words and deeds have resulted in a deterioration of the culture. This is why they have been ostracized throughout much of history.
Send Pocan to Tehran. He’ll be either thrown off a roof or the subject involuntary sex reassignment.
I’ll be giving that Jew hating fuck a call today.
Try watching any Netflix show, whether American or foreign, they are filled with the f word thrown in gratuitously even when it makes the dialogue awkward and weird. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an 8-year-old kid, a Korean grandfather, an 18th century French housewife, a pre-Columbus West Indian, or an 10th century Viking. Apparently, the word has been used across the globe in every single sentence by every age group and ethnicity, male and female since time immemorial.
Man, what is happening? This is getting really crazy!
Pocan is the first to come out. How many are out there that haven’t emerged yet?
BEWARE MALE INTERNS! THERE’S PREDATOR ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE! REPORT ANY IRREGULARITIES, CONSTANT SMILES COMING YOUR WAY, AND CHIT-CHAT. HE’S ON THE PROWL!
These people are obsessed with sex and will do it anywhere, anytime, with anyone.
What ever happened to the two men having sex in one of the Chambers?
Those two were flaming democrats, so the press flushed ’em down the memory hole. (Otherwise, we’d have heard their names a 1000 times during the inevitable hearings & related breathless coverage.)
The idiot patsy who mailed all the fake bombs in October of 2018 was a registered Democrat.
It was such an obvious coordinated exercise, that the press made sure to dig no further.
(That’s why no one knows his name.)
That’s also why the the Jan 6th fake bomber was ignored – even by Kamala who’s life had been in “danger”.
Yes, the Memory Hole. So yet another thanks to George Orwell for giving us the vocabulary in which to discuss the world we now find ourselves living in.
One of those would be Barney Frank of “I want to roll the dice a little bit more” fame. He supported continuing the efforts of FNMA to interfere in the housing market. The housing bubble subsequently burst and the taxpayers picked up the tab for a failed FNMA.
Yes, there definitely are a lot of gay guys who are almost manic in their pursuit of sexual encounters. Obviously, this is not to say that there are not hetero creeps, predators, and pedos, as well. And, certainly, attractive women have been putting up with unwanted and crude come-ons from men in all cultures (and in some cultures in particular). But, as a relatively good looking young man in in L.A. in the late 70s and early 80s, in particular, it was astonishing/appaling to be on the receiving end of such driven and over the top approaches. Subtlety was definitely not a part of the game. Hope things are a little more relaxed now, but they probably aren’t.
Having congress always takes place in a chamber.
Males have one lower chamber and one upper.
Females have two.
That is the difference between Tic Tac and Tic Tac Toe.
I recall that, years ago, Rep. Gerry Studds (LGBTQ Leftard-MA) was briefly “reprimanded” when nobody–not even Damnocrats–could deny that he was a pervert and a disgrace to the House and to his Party, with a teen-aged House intern.
Nowadays, not a single Damnocrat–or RINO–would vote for even such a meaninglessly mild, perfunctory “reprimand” for the offense.
Pocan needs, as a minimal First Step, to be stripped of all of his committee memberships, and then meaningfully censured and punished.
If Congressmen — of both parties — still had a shred of honor (hardly any still do, of course), they would expel him.
Imagine what the reaction–from “both sides of the aisle”–would be if instead of his obscene attack on Miller had been, instead (with just a couple of words changed from what he actually posted, verbatim):
“You fucking niggers should get off the porch and go back to the plantation!”
I’ll bet that not a single Member, not even a corrupt, hard-Left, America-hating Dem would dare to vote against his Expulsion.
Libertards are the skid mark in satan’s underwear – Let me explain – They are satanic – There was liberals of the 1960’s who wanted to end the protracted war in Vietnam of war profiteering interest only. And there was the hippie love – ok – but that de-evolved to what we have now – pure satanic communist marxist whatever you want to call it – it’s roots and goals are totally against the Will of YHVH, GOD ALMIGHTY – that is a fact –
Because Jesus, or Yeshua, when he taught and gave examples of supernatural power we can have with YHVH, told his Apostles to “fish off the RIGHT side of the boat” (John 21:6)- We use right-conservative, left-liberal in our every day common speak. Jesus sits at the RIGHT HAND OF YHVH . (Hebrews 10:12)
Libertards are the skid mark in satan’s underwear – They are all deadheading to the antichrist!
John 21:6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
This Pocan guy is running loose in DC. Anyone surprised!? The senate and House are rampant with people like him.
You got people like Jim Jordan (he always appears on TV with no sport coat on letting us know how hard he’s
working) and James Comer running Committees that get nothing done! Both chambers only work on how they can
fill their pockets-See AOC & Pelosi! THANK GOD for President Trump!!!
Seeing that Democrats have always been a thorn in the American’s side since our War of Independence against the British Isles, isn’t it time to bar Leftist Democrats from our political landscape?
Pocan comes across as a very destructive, angry, and dangerous (imho) cartoon. Kind of a quintessential stereotype who checks all the boxes.
Ranting and expletives is all the leftist have because they have no rational argument for their policies and stance on any issue. You know, wailing and gnashing of teeth. As for throwing this creep out of office ? Get real. The Demonic Party will uphold him as hero.
Anxious awaiting Mr.Miller’s scathing,biting retort.
Google this; House Committee on Un-American Activites. That’s what we need right now.
Gaygaygay activists are insane. As deranged as transsexuals.
He represents Madison one of the strangest places on Earth.
Where is the surprise?
He is an impotent angry miserable old queen.
Mark Pocan: the finished product of America’s public schools.
A little history: Mark Pocan is an obsessive anti=-Semite who votes against Israel and the Jews at every opportunity. He used to be on the fringe in the Democrat Party but they have come around to his way of thinking
what do his constituents think of this message?
for they are responsible for him!
the view that a nation has the right to enforce its immigration laws IS ultra-extremist.
I would further state that a nation that DOES enforce its immigration laws is normal. Else why even have the laws?
I regard this Pocan ignoramus as an inbred genetic defect who has more in common with the neanderthal species than homosapiens (aka, modern humans.) Perhaps one day he might learn how to not drag his knuckles when he walks or sh*t in his hand and throw it at someone when he gets mad.
Mark Pocunt? Go back to North Korea and blow “lil” Kim.
What grade in elementary school are you in?
And the Dem-O-Rats can go back to when they Wore their Bed Sheets Burned Crosses and lynched Blacks Bull Conner turning Police Dogs and Firehoses on them as well
American culture began to degrade in the 1950s with the appearance of the eternal teenager, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elvis, and Rock and Roll.
Before then the dominant American cultural ideal was the mature, grown up, gentleman and lady and the New England WASP cultural standard of emotional self-control. Then beginning in the 1950s and progressing through the 1960s and beyond, out went Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Sidney Poitier, Nat King Cole, Katherine Hepburn, Diahann Carrol, as the ideal gentlemanly and ladylike cultural ideal to the brutishness of Marlon Brando’s Stanley Kowalski, and the infantilism and emotionalism of James Dean, the rebel without a cause and without a mind. In came the crudity of Elvis and Rock and Roll.
It only took a decade more to reach lows and drug addled hell and nihilism of Jim Morrison and the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead. and Woodstock
I can only imagine getting a lecture from that old desiccated husk on what to like and what not to like. Gee T, you still have never realized that popular culture always changes and marches on. You may not like it and you are pretty much stuck in the past.
After all how many versions of “How green was my valley” and “Little Women” do we really need? All of those relics from the 1950s would be reincarnated and stuck doing remakes of films and music that has nothing to do with changing mores. We would be stuck with the lousy actors who were considered great but weren’t.
I suppose you fervently believe that you alone are the “mature, grown up, gentleman and lady and the New England WASP cultural standard of emotional self-control.” So what are you going to do with all of the black actors and musicians today who just don’t fit your stuffed shirt idea of what America is supposed to be. I guess you have no idea what freedom is either. But there is some hope for you. You don’t have listen to, watch or expose yourself to anything that exists after 1960.
Do you really think you are going to change anything or anyone. Thank God no one has to listen to a thing you have to say. For once, just this once I will actually watch this relic because I need a laugh.
The democrat party is a fascist political party bent on the destruction of the United States. It has become totally destruction oriented. Time for the American people to wake up to the revolution being spawned within our shores under the guise of multiculturalism and tolerance.
There is a constant pernicious and sinister attempt to blur the line between legal and illegal, moral and immoral, ethical and unethical, and all definitions by the DemoNazi Party.
They talk about illegal alien invaders that they have corralled into our country by the millions as if they are equal to legal immigrants who have entered our country legally.
Blurring the lines between legal and illegal damages the integrity and effectiveness of the legal system, hinders fair enforcement of laws, and can lead to an erosion of societal norms and trust.
Terrorist defending anti-semites like Pocan, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, etc. think
Islamists won’t come after them the next time they go on a rampage to murder infidels.
How many innocent people have to be murdered by Islamists before delusional people
believe muslims when they say “Death to America” and “Death to Israel?”
But then, Demokkkrat/RINOs have a special bond with the forces of darkness and
the Death Cult ideology.