Well DUHā¦ Republicans donāt want Democrats to vote, color me SHOCKED
The only surprise is she didnāt suggest to make it harder for black people to voteā¦ or that for every publicly hanged person thatās one less Democrat voteā¦
ETA: What isnāt surprising is that this rhetoric will probably help her in 2 weeks
A campaign spokeswoman for Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith criticized the video, saying the senator was joking.
Ah, the āit was only a jokeā defense. Donāt they usually hold on to that little nugget for their racist woopsies?
āJust a joke?ā
No, it was something meant to elicit a laugh from her bigoted audience. Not everything that makes people laugh is a joke.
Hey liberals in MSā¦ we know youāre out there. Donāt even think of sitting out this race.
Big joker about some despicable things, lynching and making it harder for certain people to vote. You are so funny.
Well, maybe she only tells one ājokeā per event, to warm up her crowd.
At some point there will be a retrospective collection on DVD and then watch out!
Joking? We tell the truth in our jests.
More typical right-wing humor. Har-har-har.
A Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi is shown in a new video talking about āliberal folksā and making it ājust a little more difficultā for them to vote.
Followed by the SOP REPUG RESPONSE when outed:
A campaign spokeswoman for Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith criticized the video, saying the senator was joking.
In Mississippi, the most liberals are black people. Dog-whistle, here.
Yeah, GOP humor. Tell the truth to your supporters then claim it was all in good fun.
Love the āwalking stereotypeā description Espyās spokesperson used about her. If that aināt one, I donāt know what is, unless she was wearing a white cowboy hat, mirrored shades and carrying a shotgun propped on her hip. Thatās probably her next campaign appearance.
Considering that she is running against a Black man to begin with, the jokes about hanging and Jim Crow vote suppression seem to be redundant. What we see here is her assuring her supporters that she hates Blacks. This throwback to Alabamaās George Wallace is still pushing his message of rage and race. Her jokes say Mississippi is racist.
"First, on Jan. 14, 1963, there was his inaugural address, written by a known Ku Klux Klansman, Asa Carter. In it, Mr. Wallace promised to protect the stateās āāAnglo-Saxon peopleāā from āācommunistic amalgamationāā with blacks and ended with the line that would haunt his later efforts to enter the Democratic mainstream: āāSegregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.āā "
Letās not bury some of the key points.
āAnd then they remind me, that thereās a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who that maybe we donāt want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think thatās a great idea,ā Hyde-Smith tells a small group.
Is she talking to wealthy white donors in a very high-value Pot-O-Ballots? Are these school donors, chancellors and regents? Local politicians with the ability to make voting difficult? Or just a normal smattering of R small potato donors? The Student Body for MS ST is about 73% white and so is the faculty. If you can suppress vote in a place like this you not only throttle all the students but a big pocket of the resident white D voters.
Parts of the state like this are big pots of D voters but very different I think from āBig Cityā D areas. All the local power and infrastructure could be in the hands of R activists whereas Big City usually has a lot more D machine control. Starkville might otherwise be a very R kind of place that always votes bluer than would otherwise be possible. Lots of liberals. Lots of young people. Students are easy targets because they donāt live at home and move every year in 9 month stints.
If this is portrayed correctly, it should really energize students.
Can folks who werenāt registered for the general election get motivated and get in on the Run-Off, I wonder?
why is it obvious she was making a joke?
please explain this rich vein of comedy that is over my head
Sure it was a joke. Itās just that the jokes that seem to naturally come to mind for Hyde-Smith involve racist murders, election fraud and white-on-black terrorism.
āI canāt make them pull it down because we didnāt ask them to put it up,ā Espy said. āItās racially divisive. Itās something that we didnāt endorse, and weād like them to pull it down. And by the way, this is exactly what the Citizens United ruling gave us."
FIFY, Mike. And good luck!
Now that the racist and antidemocratic inhibitors have been dislodged, people are donning the robes they inherited from emperors.