The GOP better damn well hope & pray Clarence Thomas is “just” hiding from his dumpster fire of a wife’s text message treason because the way the actuarial tables and his karma are set up… 🥴
To clarify for the folk who don’t speak shade: if the GOP thought covering up a treason conspiracy with an infection/hospitalization conspiracy smack dab in the middle of a SCOTUS confirmation for the 1st Black woman Justice was a brilliant strategy, they need to HOPE & PRAY.
Whoever came up with said strategy is not only guilty but overpaid & dumb as hell too because why would you remind us that Clarence’s days on the court should/could be numbered when we’re STILL trying to avenge the loss of Obama’s stolen SCOTUS seat? Y’all thought we forgot? 🤷🏾♀️
There really aren’t even that many plausible options, either he *was* gravely ill & there’s risk of ongoing issues (like an urgent need to take extended medical leave) OR he *is* on the mend physically but his ego & career are still on life support because he’s a treason weasel.
All true but the problem for them is they aren’t God even though they pretend to be on TV. If he has a medical illness or morbidity/mortality risk ratio beyond their control over the next 2 years, their only option is doubling down on Constitutional crises to hold the line.
The real tea is we wouldn’t even be asking these questions if the story they’re telling made sense and didn’t sound like a crime in progress…
Actually the real tea is the judgment he deserves can really only be dished out by a higher power and natural selection. He messed with the WRONG ones too many times. #AmericanSociopath#LetItBurn
As I’m wont to do, I’d like to take y’all for a quick stroll down memory lane b/c the conversation around Biden’s age is so severely lacking in couth and nuance that I’m about to crawl out of my skin….
When Biden announced his candidacy in April 2019, he literally framed it as ‘look, I know I’m old, but America is in such tremendous peril that I’m compelled to un-retire and lead the battle for the soul of our nation.’ We had a ginormous field of youthful candidates, but HE WON.
As he is today, he was met with a resounding chorus of “he’s too old,” but you know what?! He didn’t give a flying FUCK! He watched how the primary unfolded & knew the MSM-built field was *incapable of mobilizing Black voters/the Democratic base*. Battle for the SOUL of a nation.
If the argument is Biden’s too old to do the job he’s *already been doing exceptionally well* for the last ~3.5 yrs, doesn’t it then follow that VP Harris has been secretly doing it for him, thereby proving that she’s fully capable of being POTUS if something happens to Biden?
Y’all aren’t fooling anyone but yourselves, WE know full well what a line of succession is b/c we already voted for it in ‘20, resoundingly. WE already have a VP we trust to be a heartbeat away from the presidency and her name is Kamala Harris. Put some respect on it & #ExpectUs.
Reality is Trump’s a deranged convicted felon/liable rapist & disastrous former fake POTUS under numerous additional indictments who still hasn’t picked a VP despite the very real prospect of him being incarcerated and/or progressively incapacitated. That’s a line of regression.
“To even pose this as not just a possibility but a campaign strategy is deeply condescending, dehumanizing and cynically, diabolically racist.”
@LeslieStreeter Inevitably, Black people end up re-explaining this shit over and over again, *every election cycle* because the GOP insists on lying about us to win votes and the MSM insists on amplifying said lies. Not only is their strategy diabolically racist, it’s mindnumbingly AHISTORICAL.
If the GOP was capable of producing a scrupulous candidate who could *both* appeal to moderates and speak explicitly to the bigotries & grievances of the GOP base without committing endless crimes, they wouldn’t have had to hitch their wagon to an aspiring felon in the 1st place.
Aside from the fact that Trump’s hubris and ego would never allow him to step aside, he’s irreversibly stuck to the GOP base like glue b/c he echoed their fear, jealousy and hatred of the 1st Black POTUS and promised them he’d “take our country back” and make America White again.
They felt traumatized by watching the Obamas restore our reputation on the world stage, while their most cherished Confederate statues, heroes & flags were torn down in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. They cried out for a White savior and Trump answered w/Birtherism.
Reality is the predominantly rural & suburban White Texans who keep electing Republicans aren’t actually winning anything but the freedom to die of Whiteness without interference from a functional social safety net. Their electoral “victory” ultimately amounts to self-sabotage.
They’re gonna keep killing themselves with guns, drugs/alcohol & science denial and the folk they just elected will keep not giving a fuck. Their kids will remain uneducated, unmotivated & uncompetitive and the wages of Whiteness won’t be enough to sustain them or turn the tide.
Also their feigned religiosity isn’t ever gonna save them from the consequences of their disastrous political choices. Their family systems are in a shambles and there aren’t enough behavioral health providers or community resources to clean up the endless messes they’re making.
FYI the reason why the usual suspects are so busy trying to stir up shit betwixt and against Black & Jewish ppl is b/c we’re the 1st & 2nd most reliable Democratic voting blocs & the midterm election’s quickly approaching. Intersectionality is OUR POWER. pewresearch.org/religion/2021/…
Matter of fact, it was this same intersectionality & solidarity in the fight for civil rights (and against White supremacy) that fueled passage of the CRA in the aftermath of the “Mississippi Burning” murders of 1964. It’s a bond solidified by trauma. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_o…
Bonus points if you’ve already connected the dots between the heinous killing of Black & Jewish civil rights workers in 1964 and the Mississippi location Reagan *intentionally hand-picked* for the launch of his racist ass presidential campaign in 1979… #SouthernStrategy101