The fear of not being racist enough

[Indydave]

Democracy is being strangled right now. The Dems have hardly done a thing about over the years the Rep/cons have been leading up to this day. This day that the Rep/cons are, indeed, strangling democracy, and the Constitution, as we speak.

what freedoms have you lost...how has democracy been strangled......how has the Constitution been amended to limit your rights......

 

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what freedoms have you lost...how has democracy been strangled......how has the Constitution been amended to limit your rights......

What Trump has done to DOJ's civil rights division is a ... - CNN​

https://www.cnn.com › 2020/09/11 › opinions › trump-ba...
Sep 11, 2020 — But during the Trump administration, the civil rights division has been turned upside-down, refashioned to promote a curdled vision of America, ...

Justice Dept. Seeks to Pare Back Civil Rights Protections for ...​

https://www.nytimes.com › U.S. › Politics
Jan 5, 2021 — The move is the latest in the Trump administration's efforts to pare back civil rights protections for minority and other groups. It has ...

Trump's Justice Department Redefines Whose Civil Rights to Protect​

https://www.nytimes.com › U.S. › Politics
Sep 3, 2018 — "Those choices have created a new overall position on civil rights that deviates sharply from years past. In offering civil rights protections to to a new set of groups, the department has lifted protections for others, especially gay, lesbian and transgender people and African-Americans. ..."

Jeff Sessions took one last dig at criminal justice reform on his way out the door

The latest Speed Read,/speed-reads,,speed-reads, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at The Week

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Ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a final memo to limit federal oversight of police forces accused of abusive and unconstitutional conduct on his way out the door.
NOVEMBER 10, 2018
"Signed Wednesday, Sessions' last day in office, and published by the Justice Department late Thursday, the memo expands the criteria under which the DOJ will enter court-enforced "consent decrees" with police departments to change their policies and break patterns of misconduct. It is no longer enough to establish the department has repeatedly engaged in unconstitutional behavior, and decrees which are approved will have a sunset provision of three years or less..."

If "you" includes women of child bearing age, more than likely the women of least economic means...

Texas Heartbeat Act - Wikipedia

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"...The law took effect on September 1, 2021, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request for emergency relief from Texas abortion providers.[1] It is the first time a state has successfully imposed a six-week abortion ban since Roe v. Wade, and the first abortion restriction to rely solely on enforcement by private individuals through civil lawsuits, rather than having state officials enforce the law with criminal or civil penalties.."
".. It makes no exceptions for rape or incest.[64].."
"..Because the law is enforced by private citizens rather than government officials, abortion providers have been unable to obtain relief that will stop private lawsuits from being initiated against them.[10] This has effectively produced an end-run around Roe v. Wade, which established a federal constitutional right to abortion, because the threat of private civil-enforcement lawsuits has forced abortion providers to comply with SB 8 despite its incompatibility with the Supreme Court's abortion pronouncements.[11][12]

 

[bluesmoke]

what freedoms have you lost...how has democracy been strangled......how has the Constitution been amended to limit your rights......

Any limitation or threat on my constitutional right to vote, specifically making it more difficult to do so, is a strangulation of democracy.

 

[Lucky 1]

There has been a lot of virtual ink spilled about the GOP being in thrall to Trump and its radicalized base. They operate from fear, not principle. The opposition to judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, however, exposed a level of debasement only previously fully displayed at Trump cabinet meetings.

Numerous GOP Senators praised her acumen, qualifications and intellect - even extolling the historic nature of her elevation - then vowed to vote against her. Claims were made that she was "radical" - always devoid of evidence - and "soft on pedophiles", which was not only laughably untrue, but openly hypocritical.

No, what is really driving the opposition is not politics, but good old-fashioned racism, and not the systemic kind. That is not to say all of the Senators in opposition are themselves racist (although some of them hide it poorly), but the fear of being perceived as "not racist enough" for the MAGA-infused "base" of their party.

Rather than standing on principle, or having a cohesive philosophy or coherent, consistent criterial basis for determining "qualification" for a Supreme Court candidate, they fall to pablum and openly disingenuous criticism to cover their fear. It's frankly disgusting and embarrassing. This is what the GOP has devolved to - surrender to the Klan. White flag, white robes; the distinction is immaterial. What is relevant is the whiteness.

What a bunch of BULLSHIT!!!!

The GOP apposed her NOT because she's black and NOT because she's a woman but because she's a radical leftist with a radical leftists agenda!

The REAL Racists are the leftists who constantly bring up race and use it as a decisive political tool.

Yes...the DEMOCRATS are the REAL RACISTS!!!

 

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What a bunch of BULLSHIT!!!!

The GOP apposed her NOT because she's black and NOT because she's a woman but because she's a radical leftist with a radical leftists agenda!

The REAL Racists are the leftists who constantly bring up race and use it as a decisive political tool.

Yes...the DEMOCRATS are the REAL RACISTS!!!

Two consecutive G.O.P. POTUS who entered the white house without winning a popular majority of the vote.

This is how they acknowledged that they were the POTUS of every voter.
They nominated to the Supreme Court four consecutive white male Roman Catholics, nominating a fifth white Roman Catholic to
the Court, a female raised in a tiny extremist religious sect along with her future husband, where she earned the title of "handmaid".
That most recent nomination was announced after early voting in the 2020 presidential election was well under way.

The second of the two consecutive G.O.P. POTUS who entered the white house without winning a popular majority of the vote,
in addition to nominating to the Supreme Court the most recent three of the five consecutive G.O.P. white Roman Catholic nominees
to the Court, nominated to the appellate court which consists of the 179 total seats of the nation's second highest court,
54 judges, none of them black.

Trump's judicial appointments reflect a serious lack of diversity​

https://www.usatoday.com › opinion › 2020/07/03 › tr...
Jul 3, 2020 — Trump and his Republican Senate allies have placed 200 judges on the bench. ... None of his 53 confirmed appeals court judges is Black.

The Federalist Society's network is now pushing the myth of ...​

https://slate.com › leonard-leo-federalist-society-voter-fraud
May 27, 2020 — "President Donald Trump with Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and ... the effort to seat 200 Trump judges has gone from a Leonard Leo ..."




This G.O.P. POTUS launched his political career with,

A look at Trump's 'birther' statements - The Washington Post​

https://www.washingtonpost.com › post › 2011/04/27
Apr 28, 2011 — "Donald Trump, March 30, 2011. "I have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding. He spent $2 million in ..."

Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories - Wikipedia

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"The movement falsely asserted Obama was ineligible to be President of the United States because he was not a natural-born citizen of the U.S. as required by Article Two of the Constitution. Birther conspiracy theories were predominantly held by conservatives and Republicans, as well as individuals with anti-black attitudes.

Theories alleged that Obama's published birth certificate was a forgery – that his actual birthplace was not Hawaii but Kenya. Other theories alleged that Obama became a citizen of Indonesia in childhood, thereby losing his U.S. citizenship. Still others claimed that Obama was not a natural-born U.S. citizen because he was born a dual citizen (British and American). A number of political commentators have characterized these various claims as a racist reaction to Obama's status as the first African-American president of the United States.

These claims were promoted by fringe theorists (pejoratively referred to as "birthers"), including businessman and television personality Donald Trump, who would later succeed Obama as president. .."

 

[NWRatCon]

Wow, I'm glad that I keep the fire-breathing racist conspiracists on ignore...