Republicans: continued

[JimC]

Just give up on the whole fucking "United States of America" thing, and make each state an independent nation. It would be a better reflection of your chaotic disparity...

[L'Emmerdeur]

The Republican US senators put on an amazing show on the 22nd, questioning Biden's Supreme Court nominee. You can hardly blame them after the shameful way Brett Kavanaugh was treated.

By focusing mostly on the oleaginous Cruz, the article below doesn't really do justice to a genuine ensemble performance of mendacious JAQing character insinuations e.g. Goes easy on pedophiles! Is a CRT ideologue! The cast of characters is classic, and really speaks for itself.

'The GOP Staged a Racist Clown Show at Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Hearings'

In news that manages to be both shocking and unsurprising, the GOP launched an ugly, racist attack against the absurdly qualified Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, whom President Joe Biden has nominated to be the first Black female Supreme Court Justice in this nation’s history.

At 10:52 am on the second day of Jackson’s confirmation hearings, the GOP’s official account tweeted a GIF with her face next to the letters CRT, which were then scratched out and replaced by her initials KBJ.

Subtle.

You can throw away the dog whistles of the old-time Republican propagandist Lee Atwater, the GOP of 2022 just goes right for the overt racism.

A few hours after the GOP’s racist tweet, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz did his part to advance the cause. Like a loyal footsoldier, he insinuated that Judge Jackson is an anti-white radical. He spent a majority of his time asking her about Critical Race Theory (CRT), knowing full well his questions had no bearing or relevance to her career, her qualifications, or her performance as a Supreme Court Justice.

It’s all ugly theater of the absurd, but that’s exactly the point. This is red meat for the conservative base, which has been increasingly radicalized and fed a steady diet of conspiracy theories and lies that deliberately and inaccurately redefine CRT as a pernicious ideology unleashed by the deep state to teach our children to be anti-white, anti-democratic, Marxist sex criminals.

As Judge Jackson herself said in response to one of Sen. Cruz’s many insulting questions, “[CRT] doesn’t come up in my work as a judge. It’s never something that I studied or relied on and it wouldn’t be something I would rely on if I was on the Supreme Court.”

[L'Emmerdeur]

Just give up on the whole fucking "United States of America" thing, and make each state an independent nation. It would be a better reflection of your chaotic disparity...

Nah, the US settled that question in the 19th century. Braun's yammering was primarily an expression of abject ignorance--his regressive ideological agenda is riding a merry-go-round horse. The article was being a bit arch when it noted that he's 'not an attorney or legal scholar or expert.' The feds are not going to roll over for these blithering yahoos. They'll continue to plague the country from within.

[L'Emmerdeur]

[Svartalf]

Mmmh, hasn't that states rights doctrine been, kind of, obsolete since 1865?

[Tero]

No. police powers etc have been state rights forever. Kidnappings are federal crimes, also crimes where the criminal crosses a state line.

It took forever to get all the racial practices out, voting and all the separate but equal business. That all came after the civil war, as blacks had few rights at all before that. If you were 1/8 black you could not ride in the white people train car. The Beatles were the first band to block segregation in sports arenas.

[Brian Peacock]

The Republican US senators put on an amazing show on the 22nd, questioning Biden's Supreme Court nominee. You can hardly blame them after the shameful way Brett Kavanaugh was treated.

By focusing mostly on the oleaginous Cruz, the article below doesn't really do justice to a genuine ensemble performance of mendacious JAQing character insinuations e.g. Goes easy on pedophiles! Is a CRT ideologue! The cast of characters is classic, and really speaks for itself.

'The GOP Staged a Racist Clown Show at Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Hearings'

In news that manages to be both shocking and unsurprising, the GOP launched an ugly, racist attack against the absurdly qualified Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, whom President Joe Biden has nominated to be the first Black female Supreme Court Justice in this nation’s history.

At 10:52 am on the second day of Jackson’s confirmation hearings, the GOP’s official account tweeted a GIF with her face next to the letters CRT, which were then scratched out and replaced by her initials KBJ.

Subtle.

You can throw away the dog whistles of the old-time Republican propagandist Lee Atwater, the GOP of 2022 just goes right for the overt racism.

A few hours after the GOP’s racist tweet, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz did his part to advance the cause. Like a loyal footsoldier, he insinuated that Judge Jackson is an anti-white radical. He spent a majority of his time asking her about Critical Race Theory (CRT), knowing full well his questions had no bearing or relevance to her career, her qualifications, or her performance as a Supreme Court Justice.

It’s all ugly theater of the absurd, but that’s exactly the point. This is red meat for the conservative base, which has been increasingly radicalized and fed a steady diet of conspiracy theories and lies that deliberately and inaccurately redefine CRT as a pernicious ideology unleashed by the deep state to teach our children to be anti-white, anti-democratic, Marxist sex criminals.

As Judge Jackson herself said in response to one of Sen. Cruz’s many insulting questions, “[CRT] doesn’t come up in my work as a judge. It’s never something that I studied or relied on and it wouldn’t be something I would rely on if I was on the Supreme Court.”

The GOP appear race obsessed - railing against the idea of the possibility of racism existing, while simultaneously seeming to refract every issue through a racist lens in order uphold basic racist assumptions.

[Sean Hayden]

Are you assuming Republicans wouldn't have brought up CRT with a white candidate?

[Brian Peacock]

Nah. I'm just responding to the post. It would have been just the same whatever the nominee's skin tone.

[Sean Hayden]

Meh, it's a brain fart anyway. I'm not sure where I was headed.

[Brian Peacock]

The important thing is the journey, not the destination.

[pErvinalia]

Meh, it's a brain fart anyway. I'm not sure where I was headed.

Well they suggested that it was racism. But if they would have done the same to a white candidate then it would refute that notion.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Are you assuming Republicans wouldn't have brought up CRT with a white candidate?

It's one of their favorite rhetorical cudgels currently, so yes it would have almost certainly got an airing. However, with a black nominee it was a foregone conclusion that they'd be flogging it for all they're worth.

[Tero]

[JimC]

...which include whipping naked gay black men...