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The GOP Staged a Racist Clown Show at Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jacksons Confirmation Hearings
DITCHING THE DOG WHISTLE
Republicans didnt even bother dog whistling today. They just went straight to the racist attacks against the first Black woman Supreme Court nominee.
Wajahat Ali
Updated Mar. 23, 2022 3:53AM ET / Published Mar. 22, 2022 8:02PM ET
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Its all ugly theater of the absurd, but thats 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.
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The reason the GOP is blatantly resorting to racism is because they have no other case. They cant attack Jackson on her actual record without lying. And as Tucker Carlson tried a few weeks ago by asking for the judges LSAT scores, they cant honestly flame her academic achievements either. They cant get her on temperament, as evidenced by her restraint, calmness, and professionalism during Sen. Cruzs bad faith, racist questions.
The GOP is obviously soft on racismI mean, two sitting members of Congress spoke at a white nationalist conference and were met with tepid condemnation by party leadership, who quickly changed the subject back to CRT panic.
Denying what is obvious to any Black woman in this country, conservatives insist the only real racists are grade-school teachers reading Antiracist Baby.
But the GOPs coordinated effort todayboth on social media and at the first Black woman Supreme Court nominees Senate hearingproves definitively that racism is a vital plank on the Republican Partys platform.
Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)He actually asked if she could treat all people equally without consideration of race. Has he EVER asked a white person that question? Ever? Where is his tiki torch?
Lovie777
(11,986 posts)that is who they are, even the only Black GQP senator probably enjoyed it.
Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)In their worldview, the most qualified nominee somehow becomes an unqualified token, purely because of her race and gender, and if they acknowledge her seat at the table somehow that puts their white, male dominated worldview at risk. That same irrational behavior is magnified in their base who fears anything that challenges their lily white idyllic lives & these so called leaders are brazenly pandering to those fears. If you want to understand why this country is so divided, look no further than the actions of these GOP senators and then understand that this same message is being echoed at every level of government down to city councils and proclaimed from many pulpits on Sunday. There is no compromise with these types because they see their view and actions as right and to compromise would put everything they believe in at risk.
evolves
(5,394 posts)Last edited Wed Mar 23, 2022, 10:23 AM - Edit history (1)
that the racist base of the GOP mostly don't live "idyllic" lives. Most of them are marginalized, poor, under-employed, with poor healthcare, and living hardscrabble lives. Being white is quite literally all they have. In their minds, it is the only thing that redeems them. To see a highly intelligent, highly educated, poised and polished Black woman in a position of power and authority is a slap in the face to them. They think she is undeserving, regardless of her credentials and accomplishments, because they think THEY deserve what she has and is because they are white, and for no other reason. They are mad as hell that "the system" is stacked against them, but don't have the critical thinking skills required to see that the people they continue to vote for are the ones conning them and keeping them marginalized, poor, etc.
wnylib
(21,146 posts)That is a spot on description of working class white Republicans and Trumpists. It overlaps into middle class whites who resent educated, qualified Blacks and other minorities getting hired for or promoted to positions that were once held almost exclusively by Whites.
When I was growing up in the 1950s and into the 1960s, the majority of working class people were Democrats, including nearly all of the South regardless of class, due to the Civil War. But when Kennedy and Johnson promoted integration and the Civil Rights bill, those people deserted the Democratic party and became Reagan Republicans. Reagan welcomed them with racist dog whistles and Jerry Falwell's Christian Coalition aligned themselves with Reagan's "true Americans."
"Government is the problem" was a euphemism for "Government enforcement of integration and civil rights is the problem." Every Reagan voter understood that perfectly.
Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)That mentality is pervasive for sure, especially in rural areas with poor, undereducated populace, but it seems just as strong in the suburbs here in Tennessee. I'm sure it's the same in your area of the state as well, evolves.
evolves
(5,394 posts)I'm in the blue dot in the sea of red, but did see signs for TFG in the yards of several tall&skinnies in my neighborhood (Jim Cooper's district). Those are the people living the idyllic lives, and who vote R not only because it helps keep their bank account fat and their 401k thriving (for now), but also because they think Black people should perpetually be "the help" and beholden to them, not autonomous, successful individuals in their own right.
Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)For some reason I was thinking you were in Chattanooga or East TN!
gab13by13
(20,864 posts)I saw racism on display. She has the votes so I turned the clown show off.
I was intrigued by Lyndsey's question of Jackson rating how religious she was. Lyndsey most likely rates himself a 10 just like the Pharisees and Sadducees did back in the day.
GB_RN
(2,267 posts)It was on blatant display from Raphael Ted sCruz-ball (R-Batshit Crazy), Tehran Tom Cotton (R-Israel), and Josh Hee-Hawley (R-Treason Weasel).
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Times a year. That would be Christmas and Easter, wonder what the third one was?
She answered that was not in her jobs description!
What do they hope to gain by showing their ignorance?
wnylib
(21,146 posts)True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Thank you, dear Sir!
wnylib
(21,146 posts)True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Need to tell this. Al Franken said Lindsey was a shop lifter. He was with him, saw him do it!
PS! SPELL CHECK gave the Frankenstein!
Marthe48
(16,690 posts)as people of color are. Judge Jackson is well-prepared and equipped to face the poison of the racists, with extreme dignity and aplomb. Anyone who watches the elisit, racist bigots question her and feel proud of this playground inquistion, are with doubt, are broken humans.
Pepsidog
(6,252 posts)GB_RN
(2,267 posts)Cruelty has been a feature, not a bug. In fact, cruelty has been the point. Prior to Agent Orange, it was merely a feature among the fringier nut bags. But then the inmates took over the asylum.
Pepsidog
(6,252 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,288 posts)but Durbin, Whitehouse, and Hirono handed their asses to them, to the point where after Cruz's chart was publicly ridiculed and shown to be false, he had a temper tantrum (triggering the others to chime in) reflecting his own arrogance, ineptness, and laziness in actually doing real research (including reading an article in the Washington Post that had the info that he naturally omitted but that torpedoed his whole schtick).
And as a note - she and Cruz were in the same graduating class at Harvard so she very much knows who and what he is.
PatrickforB
(14,514 posts)know better. They should. Cruz graduated from Harvard, and Hawley from Stanford and then Yale Law School. I mean, WTF? These guys really ought to have a sense of what is right and what is not.
I mean, idiots like Gohmert, Bats**t Boebert, and Margery 'Traitor' Greene don't - they are just plain stupid. And mean.
Now stupid and mean is a bad combination. It is.
But to be intelligent, well educated and as scummy as Cruz and Hawley - that is downright EVIL.
BumRushDaShow
(127,288 posts)(Harvard Law)
They are the type of scum that I am sure their classmates snickered about regarding their bloated self-important arrogance.
PatrickforB
(14,514 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,491 posts)His body language, his demeanor, using the word drug kingpin over and over. And yet, she provided a really good legal explanation with regard to how the system works.
It's interesting how little these senators seem to understand criminal law. They aren't used to judges who have real world experience. She not only has the experience, she is really good at explaining how the laws that congress makes actually work.
PatrickforB
(14,514 posts)These Republicans utterly disgust me. In fact, they should disgust any decent person.
wnylib
(21,146 posts)very well, well enough to know exactly how to deliberately distort their representations of it.
LymphocyteLover
(5,601 posts)win elections because their base is completely rotten and racist
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Lindsey is such a horse patooty! Usual fake tantrum.
I did notice he had pancake make up on. Got too close to the TV!
BumRushDaShow
(127,288 posts)True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Lindsey to just keep brow beating her and interrupting her I saw her look at Durbin.
All they doll is was complain about how bad Kavanaugh was treated. He was accuse d of a crime, just like Thomas and look what we have.
BumRushDaShow
(127,288 posts)Durbin waited too long to finally shut him down when he went past time while continuing to refuse to allow her to answer.
I do think this was due to the last 3 SCOTUS hearings, although the Judiciary Committee then was controlled by the GOP and they had more members on it.
But I also think it is a rewind back 30 years ago to Thomas' hearing and Anita Hill.
True Blue American
(17,972 posts). The guy behind Cruz is trying hard not to laugh. There is nothing in her background like Kavanaugh
BumRushDaShow
(127,288 posts)True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Makeup on! I got too close to the TV.
BumRushDaShow
(127,288 posts)He was an absolute ass. But then all of them were... although Sasse was about as less extreme as they get on that panel, including admitting that his own colleagues perform a clown show for soundbites due to the cameras (that big duh moment was slid in during his reference to support of having cameras in the SCOTUS courtroom).
The Mouth
(3,123 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,288 posts)but Clarence Thomas and the "pubic hair on the Coke can" (note that is what Cruz was drinking earlier) and "Long Dong Silver".
MotorCityBeard
(201 posts)I watch [those "senators"] and I'm embarrassed to be white.