.@LindseyGrahamSC is an embarrassment to the United States Senate. His performative vitriol and hostility to Judge Jackson whom he has repeatedly voted to elevate to the federal bench; and who he's now treating like a Black shopper he's following around the store, is repugnant.
Lindsey thinks the purpose of this hearing is to personally get revenge for Amy Barrett and accused teen rapist Brett Kavanaugh-and to vent his spleen about his SC candidate not being the nominee. Well @LindseyGrahamSC we already knew who you were. Thanks for confirming our view.
Lindsey and the other Confederates @SenTomCotton & @HawleyMO are trying to put a stain on #KetanjiBrownJackson that matches the stain on Clarence (who was accused of pushing porn on unwilling women) & Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexually violating high school and college women.
And in so doing, they're trying to rouse the Q-anon vote for Republicans in November, for the purposes of taking over the United States Senate for the MAGA faithful. What they're doing couldn't be more obvious, more unwarranted by the actual record, or more repugnant.
Every thinking, feeling Black woman in this country will remember this, @LindseyGrahamSC; as will every woman and decent person, period. Don't bother with any future complaints about Republicans being called racist. Just throw in sexist, phoney, calculating and repulsive, too.
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Clearly the answer to the right wing question #WhatIsAWoman is: a person you collect a bounty on if she tries to get an abortion and who you shrug at and say "have the baby or we'll sue you" if she gets raped. Also: someone whose job is to have big boobs and get men a sandwich.
Also #WhatIsAWoman -- A person, whether cis or trans, old or young, whom the right does not feel they need bother to respect if she is not white or MAGA or Christian or conservative. Even if she is a sitting federal judge. I think that about sums it up. thenation.com/article/politi…
While @TomCottonAR is badgering Judge #KetanjiBrownJackson re rape and other crime, and @HawleyMO@tedcruz@LindseyGrahamSC etc attacked her about child pornography, a reminder that the girls Brett Kavanaugh was accused of sexually violating were high school and college students.
I don't recall any of their outrage about that. Also: speaking of crime, as @ElieNYC has asked: do they think people convicted of committing violent insurrection against the United States should be sentenced to more time, or less than they have been by present federal judges?
Here are the allegations that we know of, against Republicans' favorite justice post-Scalia: Brett Kavanaugh... businessinsider.com/brett-kavanaug…
Oh joy. @tedcruz is now doing his distinctive brand of whingey white conservative male performance art; trying to goad #KetanjiBrownJackson into denouncing Critical Race Theory and the #1619Project, neither of which Cruz is smart enough to understand.
The bottom line for the right is that to be qualified for a SCOTUS seat, or really any position in “their” America, Black people must ritualistically disown and denounce Black people, Black thought, Black culture, Black history and any and all racial and historical consciousness.
They must vow to only and always defend white Christian male sovereignty over America, as enumerated in the original constitution. No white candidate for any office is required to similarly denounce white supremacy, white Christian nationalism, or even insurrection. We see y’all.
Please note, as @ElieNYC has previously pointed out, how insurrectionist Senator @HawleyMO is using openly Q-anon framing to try to turn Judge Jackson into a child pornography apologist — the exact strategy used by right wing groups to try to ban books by Black & LGBT authors.
Hawley doesn’t have actual evidence of this. He’s just throwing it out there for the purposes of smearing Judge Jackson, to aggrandize himself with with the nutso wing of his party, and to thus set himself up for success with the DeSantis/MAGA wing of Republican voters.
And like he had no problem with endangering his own Senate and House colleagues by pumping a fist to the violent lynch mob who came to the Capitol hunting for Mike Pence and @SpeakerPelosi, he has no problem endangering Judge Jackson by putting her in the target hairs of Q-anon.
The Russian gov’t mandates that its vicious war on Ukraine-which includes deliberate massacring of civilians, be discussed & taught in schools in only the most santized, feel-good way. The Putinite @GOP in the U.S. is legislating the same thing in redstate schools re our history.
It doesn’t get more obvious than that.
And it should be noted that many of the Russians the Kremlin seeks to indoctrinate with a convenient history have direct family ties to Ukraine. And the majority of American public school students Republican book banners seek to indoctrinate are nonwhite. nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/i…
It’s remarkable how effective President Zelensky has been. He is the literal flipside of Trump: an ex TV performer who also understands both televised & social media, but who actually loves and is devoted to his whole country, not just to what he can siphon out of it for himself.
Zelensky is compelling because unlike the draft dodging fake populist who tried to bribe him and withhold military aid unless he’d lie to help him stay in power, he is an actual leader, who is staying put for the fight; while getting the whole world to finally face down Putin.
It’s going to be very hard for Western governments to say no to what this man is asking for. Meanwhile Russia’s economy is collapsing, and Putin, hopefully, is destined for the Hague, where he has long belonged, for what he’s done in Syria and Chechnya too.