also lol @ elizabeth warren not playing by the rules and now making herself out to be jesus
check out those tweets
no shame
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Yea lol @ Warren for....driving home the point that Jeff Sessions has been actively antagonizing black people for decades with unconstitutional violations of their rights to vote. Yea lol @ anyone for pointing out he's a good old boy racist who has said nicer things about the KKK than the NAACP. Lol democrats amirite
nah more just lol @ elizabeth warren man
I didn't even mention clown sessions so please don't be fooled into thinking that opposing one=support of another, PD, never that.
i'm just disappointed at the embarrassing quality of political discourse
she got silenced because she broke the rules
rules that she was well aware of
then she tweets out ridiculous shit invoking the name of a civil rights icon
CNN's main headline was "Warren cut off for criticizing Sessions"
underneath in the second largest font was "Senator rebuked after reading Coretta Scott King's 1986 letter about Sessions"
and underneath that was "Senate GOP's effort to silence Warren backfires"
Hmm see anything disingenuous with those? Not to mention self-perpetuating?
This was not some grand gesture to Mr. or Mrs. King. All this did was try and absolve Warren of liability or complicity in his nomination. She could've stayed and made him sweat. Instead, we get "See! I got censored!" This was a transparently political move. Granted, it's a well-executed one in that regard, but it doesn't make it any less disappointing.
Why aren't black people mad at being used like this? When will EITHER political party tackle issues and not race? Why is it always so explicitly "my black friend" or "this will help african-americans" like they're one unit? We just had a black president for god sakes and people still do this. That picture I posted the other day of Hillary hugging a black guy with the words "thanks for the vote fam" as she fades away is ironic for a reason
Why not come out with an economic policy targeting inner-cities, or make tangible inroads in eliminating mandatory minimums?
How about having some faith that african-americans (or anyone for that matter) are smart and intelligent enough to decide whether a policy applies to them or benefits them on their own rather than just saying "look we're helping black people! look!!! please vote for us we think you're all the same and will respond to appeasement!!!!"
I swear at this point targeting sickle-cell would be more subtle than what our current political parties do
And that's pretty freakin sad (SAD! lol)
Like last week Nancy Pelosi was at a rally with someone (forgot his name sorry) after the EO and a hot mic caught her saying "tell them you're muslim, tell them you're muslim".
It's always 1 step forward, 2 steps back
I know this post is all over the place PD (between classes sorry) but my point is I'm not defending Sessions, not one single bit. I'm just saying Warren is disingenuous as fuck and it's analogous to larger shortcomings in both parties of still treating groups or races or religions as one unit and not actual people.
