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Majorie Taylor Greene Has A Meltdown Over Biden’s Plan To Nominate A Black Woman As Next SCOTUS Justice

Even though she swears she’s not a bigot or a racist, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is absolutely apoplectic that President Joe Biden has promised to nominate a black woman to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

Greene made an appearance on the “War Room” podcast of indicted former Trump administration official Steve Bannon on Monday, and she immediately began whining about Biden and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has said he welcomes the nomination of a black woman to the high court:

“We want leaders in Washington that are actually going to do the job instead of beg and cry on television for small dollar donations when someone is actually trying to get them out of office. And so for Lindsey Graham to stand there on television and defend Joe Biden’s pick for a Black justice on the Supreme Court, which is the most racist thing — I thought we were done with racism in this country — we should look at character, accomplishments, and he ability to do the job.”

Greene then added that all Graham is doing is “helping Biden’s agenda” and “doesn’t care about the two-tier justice system in America because he feels he was a victim of the riot at the Capitol right along with Nancy Pelosi…”

Did Marjorie have a problem with any of the SCOTUS nominees from failed, one-term former President Donald Trump? Of course not; they were all white and right-wing extremists.

The fact that Greene would dare to say, “I thought we were done with racism in this country” proves just how dangerously out of touch she is. It also suggests that she feeling aggrieved by the idea of a black Supreme Court justice because her bigotry cannot allow her to consider the idea without it arousing anger in her tiny cinder of a heart.

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Unearthed Video Shows McConnell Bragging: ‘My Party Does Really Good With White People And I’m Proud Of That’

Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) got caught in a controversy of his own making while discussing the issue of voting rights, telling reporters:

“The concern is misplaced because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.”

As the AP reported, that set off a wave of criticism for obvious reasons:

The comment implied that Black voters are somehow not American and underscored the concerns of voting rights advocates that Republicans in state legislatures across the country are explicitly seeking to disenfranchise Black voters. The timing was also notable, coming the same day that McConnell engineered a filibuster to block voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights leaders say is vital to protecting democracy.

Mitch tried to walk back his remarks as the full fury of the online shitstorm hit him:

McConnell addressed the controversy at a news conference in Kentucky, calling the criticism an “outrageous mischaracterization of my record as a result of leaving one word out inadvertently the other day, which I just now have supplied to you, is deeply offensive.”

Now, however, Patriot Takes has unearthed a video of McConnell circa 2015 in which he proudly brags that Republicans do well with white voters:

“My party does really good with white people and I’m proud of that.”

During the same 2015 Aspen Institute forum where McConnell expressed pride in being popular with white Americans, he mused on why blacks don’t want to join the GOP, according to Mediaite:

He accused Black voters of being “locked down against Republicans,” and the only hope he expressed for making inroads was the existence of some Black Republicans.

But perhaps most strange was McConnell’s assertion that “it certainly hasn’t been helped by having the first African-American president be a Democrat. I mean, that didn’t do us much good on that front” — as if Barack Obama just fell to Earth and into the Oval Office in a stroke of misfortune for the GOP.

Republicans love to say they’re not bigoted, racist, or opposed to civil rights for minorities in the United States. But that’s just another lie they tell along with all the others.

 

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Stephen Miller: White Americans Must ‘Push Back’ Or They’ll ‘Lose Their Heritage’

Before we get to what he said Monday during an appearance on Fox News, it needs to be stated that former White House aide Stephen Miller is one of the most disgusting bigots on the face of the planet and should be behind bars instead of giving interviews.

Miller was a guest on Laura Ingraham’s nightly propagandapalooza/TV show, and she teed up Miller nicely with this bit of compete nonsense:

“This kind of goes hat in hand with their entire agenda about America as a country being awful rotten racists, we have to atone for all of the past sins and the only way to do that is to take money and power from one group based on race and give it to another group based on race. But this is where it’s going if people keep electing Democrats.”

Bullshit! What Democrats want is for systemic racism in this country to be acknowledged and dealt with. And they also want to see the rich pay their fair share of taxes that can be used to help benefit all of us, no matter what race we may be.

As you’d expect, Miller took Ingraham’s statement and ran with it, not even bothering to hide the fact that he was eager to spew fear and hatred:

“Correct. This is where it’s going and this is just the beginning. The left’s goal is power and they’ve figured out that the way they can accumulate power, power over your healthcare decisions, power over your finances, power over life and death is to use race as their cudgel. To use race as their sword, and that’s what we’re seeing right now.

“And they’re saying that because you are a racist country, because you are systemically bigoted, we need to take all the power and decide as a government who gets medicine, who gets to live in safety, who gets rights and who doesn’t.”

That’s some dandy psychological projection you got going there, Steve. Republicans pretend they believe in freedom while they simultaneously pass laws that tell women what they can do with their bodies and restrict the right to vote based on skin color and economic status.

But Miller wasn’t quite finished with his blatant projection, using a word that is best applied to him and anyone like him:

“It is fascist and if we don’t push back and reclaim our heritage as a nation of legal equality, equal justice, we are going to lose everything that we love about America.”

Fascist? Hmm. Let’s take a quick look at the definition of fascism:

“Fascism is a system of government led by a dictator who typically rules by forcefully and often violently suppressing opposition and criticism, controlling all industry and commerce, and promoting nationalism and often racism.”

Violence and suppression of criticism. Promoting nationalism and racism. That sounds a hell of a lot like the basic tenets of Trumpism and right-wing authoritarianism that’s become the calling card of the GOP in the Age of Trump.

So spare us the bullshit, Stephen. You’re the one who stripped immigrant children from their parents and put them into internment camps. You’re the problem with this country, and you cannot be allowed to ever have power again.

Here’s the video:

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims The GOP Is Diverse Because It Includes ‘Yellow People’

According to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), there’s simply no way that Republicans can be bigoted or racist because the GOP contains “yellow people” in its ranks.

Speaking at “AmericaFest,” a conference sponsored by the right-wing youth group Turning Point USA, according to HuffPost, Greene began her remarks by noting that she’d “never been” to a conference for young conservatives, adding:

“When I walked in yesterday, I was like, what kind of people come here? So I’m walking around and seeing some good people, and I see white people, Black people, brown people, yellow people.

“And then there’s talk of freedom and loving America and conservative principles, some crazy people in here were talking about how much they love this guy named Jesus. And I heard — someone I really like — I think I heard that a lot of people here like a guy named Donald J. Trump.

“And then I said, ‘Oh, oh, I know exactly what this is. The left calls this a white supremacist party.'”

Yellow people? Really? The GOP must indeed be a white supremacist party based on the “yellow people” remark from Greene, because it’s a long-used racist trope that’s been around for centuries in the United States:

“Yellow” has long been a charged term to describe Asian people and is widely perceived as a slur. “Yellow Peril,” for example, was used as far back as the nineteenth century to vilify Asian people and cast Asian nations as a danger to Western values.

This rhetoric led to xenophobia and hate toward Asian immigrants, which flared again during the pandemic, due in part to other racist language like the terms “Kung Flu” and “China Virus” coined by former President Donald Trump.

Greene was taken to task on Twitter for her disgusting remarks, with former “Star Trek” star George Takei noting:

“I honestly haven’t heard someone use ‘yellow people, for decades. Perhaps she meant ‘yellow bellied people’ because there are certainly lots in that crowd.”

Sophie Zhang echoed Takei’s tweet:

“I’ve recently been called a ‘Chink’, a ‘Jap’, a ‘gook’, and more. Racists don’t excel at distinguishing ethnic background. But ‘yellow people’ is something that I haven’t heard in a decade or two.

“What is this, the 1960s?”

https://twitter.com/szhang_ds/status/1473059143539847170?s=20

Greene and her ilk probably wish this was the 1960s so all non-white people had to drink from different water fountains and could be lynched on a whim without any legal repercussions. That’s what Trump Republicans call “the good old days.”

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Former Aide Says Donald Trump Is ‘Obsessed’ With White Supremacists

During the final presidential debate during the 2020 race for the White House, then-President Donald Trump insisted that he wasn’t racist, remarking that he was the “least racist person in this room.”

That comment came during a discussion of the Black Lives Matter movement, which prompted Trump to say:

“You have to understand, the first time I ever heard of Black Lives Matter, they were chanting, ‘Pigs in a blanket,’ talking about police.

“That was my first glimpse of Black Lives Matter. I thought it was a terrible thing. As far as my relationships with all people, I think I have great relationships with all people.”

Of course, anyone with half a brain heard that and either shook their head or laughed because even Trump’s supporters know deep down in their hollow hearts Trump is one of the most bigoted people on the face of the planet.

And now we have confirmation of that in the person of Omarosa Manigault Newman, who, according to the Daily Mail, had this to say about Trump as part of the “Big Brother VIP” program:

“I was organizing the opening of a civil rights museum. He [Trump] was fascinated with the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) garb.

“He was obsessed with a white supremacist display. Who is this person?”

Omarosa’s comments shouldn’t surprise anyone that’s been paying attention, watching, and listening to Donald Trump over the years. After all, this is the man who was sued by the federal government during the Nixon administration because he and his company refused to rent apartments to African-Americans.

Consider these quotes from Trump about the people he refers to as “the blacks”:

  • “A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. I think sometimes a black may think they don’t have an advantage or this and that… I’ve said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.”
  • “Laziness is a trait in blacks.”

Donald Trump is one of the most racist people in the world. He tries to deny it, but his own words prove otherwise.