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Why does McConnell oppose a black woman for the Supreme Court? (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2022 OP
Is she not enough of Kremlin-supporter? struggle4progress Mar 2022 #1
Is she not eager enough to smash windows in DC? struggle4progress Mar 2022 #2
Just a fine old blend of racism and misogyny, marinated in bourbon casks for a couple hundred years Hekate Mar 2022 #3
+++ JohnSJ Mar 2022 #6
What you said. ❤ littlemissmartypants Mar 2022 #9
Let's see...she is a Dem, she is a woman and she is black. BigmanPigman Mar 2022 #4
Rotten RayStar Mar 2022 #11
She was nominated by a Democratic President DFW Mar 2022 #5
I think... Mike Nelson Mar 2022 #7
Same reason he opposed Merrick Garland. n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2022 #8
👆 Roy Rolling Mar 2022 #10
Nailed it. no_hypocrisy Mar 2022 #12
I am sick to death of all these Republicans, I despise all of them. katmondoo Mar 2022 #13

struggle4progress

(118,268 posts)
1. Is she not enough of Kremlin-supporter?
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 02:57 AM
Mar 2022

Russian oligarch pouring millions into Kentucky
By Charles P. Pierce
Apr 24, 2019


The Louisville Courier-Journal .. story .. illustrates .. the current political moment ...

Kentucky might be going into business with the Russian mafia ... If all goes according to plan .. we’ll be in business with Oleg Deripaska, a buddy of Vladimir Putin ...


https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27259438/oleg-deripaska-kentucky-aluminum-mitch-mcconnell-rand-paul/

Hekate

(90,616 posts)
3. Just a fine old blend of racism and misogyny, marinated in bourbon casks for a couple hundred years
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 03:12 AM
Mar 2022

Thanks for showing us how it’s done, Mitch

DFW

(54,325 posts)
5. She was nominated by a Democratic President
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 03:25 AM
Mar 2022

That is enough for McTurtle to oppose the nomination even if the nominee were white, male, and had a swastika tattooed on his forehead.

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