Ambition, mostly.
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I’ll also say this: If Tim Scott thinks he’s going to make ANY positive difference as a Republican, then he’s a shoo-in to win the next GOP Karaoke Night competition with a rousing rendition of “Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places”.
He must be lonelier than Tucker Carlson on the night of his senior prom.
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I’m pretty sure Michael Steele would disagree.
I can’t find info that Scott is married. If he’s not and has no children, especially boys, he really doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
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Do you refer to … The Talk?
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Someone said the repubs would never invite him to dinner.
I believe that’s literally true. Outside the Capitol bldg they wouldn’t give him the time of day.
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When the President of the United States sees a white supremacist march in Charlottesville to the site of a monument to the Confederacy, with a bunch of self-identified Nazis carrying swastika flags and yelling, “You will not replace us! Jews will not replace us!”, and says, “There were good people on both sides” —AND THEN gets 74 million votes for a second term, you’ve got a racist country, Tim.
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Scott’s response and explanation is disgusting!
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He said: If you are a black farmer, we will give you resources, but if you are a white farmer, you’re excluded from those same resources.
Some logic! If you’re part of the rapidly shrinking cohort of Black farmers, a group historically subject to vigilantism, terror, discrimination in the allocation of federal assistance, we will give you resources. But if you’re a white farmer and not subject to any of that, you’re excluded from those same resources.
He resorts to the logic of the Anatole France chestnut: The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Standard GOP talking point. “To end racism stop being racist.”
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Rep Scott should know, as a member of the House, that wearing the flag as an article of clothing, a mask in this case as sort of a snot rag, is against the law very specifically.
Next what Scott says about America not being racist he knows is a lie. But then lies are a Goober specialty, not just a bug or a feature, a specialty and a shameful one st that.
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It’s a dirty job…but someone has to do it.
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Scott is a Senator, not a member of the House. But you’re right about everything else.
BTW, Senator Scott: do you have your long-form birth certificate? That crescent moon on your flag-desecrating facial mask looks awful Muslim-y.
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And of course Uncle Tom Scott, even when he pretends to praise President Biden, can’t resist talking about “the Democrat party.”
Step’n’-Fetch-It. Serve your White Republican plantation masters.
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Thanks for the correction.
Senator Scott.
My bad.
But that mask is still wrong. It should not be made with a flag. It’s disrespectful if nothing else.
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No and no. However, he has been stopped for driving while black 18 times.
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Of course he has. I hope he never gets a cop with an agenda and murderous intent.
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He lives in South Carolina.
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All generalizations are sloppy and dangerous. “America is not a racist country” is one of those. If you define America by what the Declaration of Independence and the The Constitution declare, or even what most American’s believe, Senator Scott is right - America abolished slavery in 1864.
There are, however, far too many racist citizens and racist institutions in America for anyone to take comfort in where our culture or governance is today. One of those racist institutions is today’s GOP. Neither Lincoln or Jesus of Nazareth would register as a Republican today.
We are not in compliance, universally, with the spirit or the letter of the 14th Amendment anywhere in America, and that IS the big problem. We need to get in compliance with our own Constitution, and the George Floyd Act will help do that.
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America is not a racist nation is the sort of thing some Americans need to tell themselves so they can sleep peacefully, but we’ve all seen enough by this point to know it’s a lie.
We’ve seen numerous acts of overt racism from law enforcement, from senior Trump Administration officials, and from Trump himself. Not to mention numerous white nationalists organizations and many “out and proud” rank and file Republicans.
If we’re not a racist nation, then how do we explain the events of the last -I don’t even know the timeframe to use -decades?
Because when have we not been a racist nation? I say this because if we can’t even act like adults and acknowledge there is a problem, then we hamper our abilities to fix the issue.
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