Tuberville says ‘inner city rats’ live off the American taxpayers: Trump should send them ‘back home’

https://www.al.com/politics/2025/06/tuberville-says-inner-city-rats-live-off-the-american-taxpayers-trump-should-send-them-back-home.html

45 comments

  1. This guys should be censured. The people that siphon off cities are the billionaires

  3. I think he’s confused. It’s billionares who steal tax payer money and never pay it back, not workers he’s referring to as “rats”. Those “rats” are paying for rich people’s hand outs.

  5. How about instead we kick out all of the billionaires who live off the American tax payer and the wage labor of their employees.

  7. As a coach, he blew a whistle.

    As a Senator, he just blows racist dogwhistles.

  8. With this guy it’s safe assume it’s just racism and there’s no new metric anyone can point to which would demonstrate this. Property and sales tax per acre is crazy in dense neighborhoods. Less area, less infrastructure. More sustainable, less expensive per resident (barring tipping points).

  9. I bet his state and others like it get more from federal taxes than the “inner city rats.”

  10. Sorry, Tommy. The degenerates in your state are sucking the teat of the big cities. Unlike the deep red states, we put in more than we take out.

  13. The senator from one of the lowest-performing, least educated, highest crime states in the union.

  15. Oh, we’re at the stage where the Nazis call human beings vermin. Only a matter of time before they setup the gas chambers.

  16. > “You can stop the federal funding,” Tuberville said. “President Trump can do anything he wants when it comes to the federal. Again, these inner-city rats, they live off the federal government. And that’s one reason we’re $37 trillion in debt.
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    > “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.”

    These assholes have been saying the same thing for forty years, and in that time have neither changed things for the better, nor explained how and why they think “sending the rats” (whoever they are) back “home” (wherever that is) will make anything better.

    They haven’t bothered, because there’s nothing in their playbook. This is it. Being the nastiest, ugliest pieces of shit in American history is the only thing they want.

    (Don’t nag me about the who and the where–dude made it nice and vague, so everyone’s a target, and “home” is a hole in some jungle.)

  19. Hey, dipshit. That is where many of those human beings are from. And thus the slide into Nazism continues: the vile dehumanization of others.

  22. Anytime he does anything, I remember the Truman Capote quote I live by. “I am from Alabama, sir, and I intend to stay as far from Alabama as possible. “

  23. Says the guy that lives in Florida, but represents Alabama.

  24. Was the US this racist before Trump, just quietly hiding your hate from everyone not white and rich? Did Trump just allow everyone to show off how racist everyone is? Or is it something else? This is openly becoming the most hateful country in the world.

  25. Tuberville’s state (Alabama) consistently ranks among the top states in terms of its dependence on federal funding. They receive nearly double of what they pay in, most of it coming from “donor” states like New York, New Jersey and California.

    $66 Billion last year with $36 Billion in direct payments to Alabamians.

    As Senator of Alabama (and candidate for Governor) Tuberville is one of the biggest leaches of our tax dollars. He’s a hypocritical piece of shit who can go fuck himself.

  26. I’d suggest that Tuberville looks at Pol Pot as an idol, but let’s be honest, Tuberville is too stupid to know who Pol Pot is.

  28. “Send them ‘back home?'” I moved a 20 minute drive away from my childhood home — same city, same state. What is sending me “back home” going to do?

  29. Deal, I, an inner city rat, will stop paying taxes to support rural communities and those communities, in turn, can stop “paying taxes to support me.” Art of the deal baby.

  30. Comically almost every single red state live off the tax payer money and would fail without blue states. The narrative they never mention… all those “welfare queen” states rife with the dumbest Americans proudly wearing their red MAGA hats.

  31. Such a piece of shit racist. This is who they are.

  32. Where have I heard this sort of dehumanizing language before…

  33. The pointy hoods are completely off…they don’t give a fuck. At least we’re clear who they are.

  34. Yeah that’s some Nazi rhetoric if I’ve ever heard it.

  35. How about that healthcare you live on there, Tubee?

  36. Hmmm let’s compare the federal tax revenue that some states pay.

    Alabama – taxes collected $37,658,41 about 0.74%

    California – taxes $805,650,731 about 15.80%

    New York – taxes $384,447,300 about 7.54%

    Illinois- taxes $222,034,635 about 4.35%

    It’s hard to find any tax revenue by city but I can sure find their GDP.

    This vile verbage is to divide urban and rural citizens.
    We have more in common than you realize.
    The poorest are not our enemy so do not distract yourselves from who actually has lined pockets.

  37. He should be disqualified from his job immediately.

  38. Alabama is a big welfare state. It is time to cut the federal umbilical cord to Alabama.

  39. Really feels like the GoP is trying to push for a civil war. Too bad when all the blue states leave the union the country will be shit ass broke and everyone outside the oligarchy and proletariat will be all the street rats.

  40. Didn’t take them long to shift the outgroup from undocumented immigrants to inner city residents.

  43. I’m so fucking tired of MY blue-state tax dollars enabling his absolutely worthless welfare-abusing constituents to vote for that piece of shit.

  44. The obvious racism in this comment aside, I love the logic of the GOP, that people living off of scraps and begging for scraps are the problem in our society. When we have billionaires who constantly set up backdoor deals to rob Americans of taxpayers money, between government contracts, to local big city sports owners threatening to move their teams if they don’t get more taxpayer funding to build a new stadium (that they themselves own and account as part of their assets) all the way to companies being coursed to set up buildings in cities or states that are willing to give the most benefits or lowest taxes to open up their new offices in their location.

    It’s not the inner city people who are robbing America or ruining America.

  45. I live in Alabama, and I am so scared. This is some of the most vile, blatantly racist, and ignorant shit I’ve ever read, and he will almost surely be our next governor if he runs…

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