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16 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Pat Robertson calls America's police force "a bunch of clowns running around who are underpaid and who really are not the best and brightest."

"We don’t have the finest in the police department."

What. Is. Happening.
Does this mean Pat Robertson is now one of those "woke" folks @MichaelWatsonMS warned us about? 🥴
Is Pat Robertson some weird anomaly for whom old age has the opposite effect compared to most people?

I mean, sure, he probably still hates gay people, but maybe his awokening will reach even us as he nears 120.
Here's the video of Pat Robertson calling the 👮🏻‍♂️ "a bunch of 🤡 running around who are underpaid and are not the best and brightest" with subtitles.

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17 Apr
THREAD: In a 1955, Dixiecrat Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi warned that the civil rights movement threatened "the death of southern culture and our aspirations as an Anglo-Saxon people."

Integration, he said, would threaten "their untainted racial heritage." 1/ Image
To fight the destruction of alleged Anglo-Saxon racial purity, Sen. Eastland declared "a crusade to restore Americanism" by fighting to preserve segregation.

The Mississippi Dixiecrat tied that fight to the fight against efforts to "socialize industry"—especially health care. 2/ Image
In 1938, Sen. Theodore Bilbo filibustered a federal anti-lynching law. Before he did so, he gave a speech explaining his opposition to the bill:

"It is absolutely essential to the perpetuation of our Anglo-Saxon civilization that white supremacy in America be maintained." 3/ ImageImage
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17 Apr
NEW: Mississippi elections chief Michael Watson is defending his warnings against registering "woke college students" to vote, claiming "far-left, liberal professors" are teaching them "to hate our country."

He also says he's the victim of a "hatchet job."mississippifreepress.org/11398/mississi…
His words he claims were misrepresented: “Think about all those woke college and university students now who will automatically be registered to vote … You’ve got an uninformed citizen who may not be prepared and ready to vote." mississippifreepress.org/11398/mississi…
“I think that those comments were probably taken out of context in a hatchet job in the sense that our job is to make sure that every Mississippian who is a United States citizens, who is a legal resident of our state, has the ability to vote,” Watson said.mississippifreepress.org/11398/mississi…
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16 Apr
Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus says Secretary of State Watson's attack on "woke" college voters "is a throwback to the awful time of Jim Crow."

He says Watson may be worried that "today’s college students...may not share his views on racial exclusion..."
mississippifreepress.org/11352/former-g…
Former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus: "Mr. Watson tips his hand when he uses the term 'woke.' ... Interesting, telling and exceedingly strange that he would not want those who are against racism to vote." mississippifreepress.org/11352/former-g…
Gov. Ray Mabus' 1988 inaugural: "A new day depends fundamentally on our resolve to banish racism forever from the State of Mississippi. We know in our hearts that the chains of prejudice have bound more than one group; they have held all of us back." mississippifreepress.org/11352/former-g…
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16 Apr
*CW: Suicide*

40% of trans adults report having attempted suicide—92% of them before age 25.

Republicans nationwide ought to be DAMN ASHAMED for launching these attacks against some of the most vulnerable kids in the nation.

Your hateful cruelty drives kids to kill themselves.
But instead of shame, there is pride in these hateful, cruel laws that don't solve any actual problems. They exist solely to remind innocent kids how much powerful people hate them and are willing to crush them to score political points with bigots.

It's disgusting. You cretins.
This is addressed as well to the handful of Democrats in state government who support these hateful laws. Be damn ashamed.
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15 Apr
Name this duo. Mississippi Governor Tate R...
I'm taking the easy route: Guv & Cong
Oh God what have I done
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15 Apr
NEW: On his FB campaign page at 11:15 a.m., Rep. Palazzo accused Biden of emptying out migrant detention facilities.

On his FB public figure page 58 minutes later, Rep. Palazzo accused Biden of cramming children into crowded migrant detention facilities.
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Candidate Palazzo, 11:15 a.m.:
"Joe Biden has spent $87 million to put illegal immigrants up in hotels, rather than place them in virtually empty detention centers that taxpayers already fund." 2/
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Rep. Palazzo, 12:13 a.m.:
"I’m horrified by what my colleagues witnessed at the border. As a father, the conditions these children are subjected to break my heart...I’m calling on Biden to fix the crisis he created.” [posted w/pic in crowded facility] 3/
mississippifreepress.org/11328/palazzo-…
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