White Male Privilege: SIT DOWN and SHUT UP

[sheshe2]

Last edited Wed May 13, 2020, 06:41 PM - Edit history (1)

Yes, Mitch told our first Black President to Sit Down and Shut Up! Then called him classless for criticizing Trumpies botched, chaotic response to the pandemic.

Let us not forget this is not the first time he abused his perceived white male privilege and position as Senate leader, McTurtle did it to Warren and by default Corretta Scott King.

Mitch McConnell tells Elizabeth Warren (and Coretta Scott King) to sit down and shut up

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell silenced Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on the Senate floor in the debate over the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be attorney general. Warren was reading a portion of Coretta Scott King's letter to the Judiciary Committee from 1986, when Sessions was up for a federal judgeship, which he was denied because he was too much of a goddamned racist.

Warren responded to McConnell’s objection incredulously: "Mr. President, I am surprised that the words of Coretta Scott King are not suitable for debate in the United States senate. I ask leave of the senate to continue my remarks." "Object."

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McConnell is using Senate Rule 19 against Warren, a rarely used means of censuring—and trying to silence—a colleague. The rule says senators are not allowed to “directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator." She was reading someone else's words at the time, in fact not just Scott King's, but also the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, quoting his statement that "referred to Sessions as a 'throwback to a shameful era' and a 'disgrace' to the Justice Department."

Stupid move, McConnell. You take on one the lightening rods of the resistance—Elizabeth Warren? And Coretta Scott King? Over the nomination of this "throwback to a shameful era"? You will rue this day. And you are reminding the whole world that Scott King says Sessions is a racist. Let's just put the words that McConnell is trying to suppress out there again, where everyone can see them.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/7/1631178/-Mitch-McConnell-tries-to-silence-Elizabeth-Warren-Coretta-Scott-King-on-Sessions-nomination


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Are your ears so stuffed with lobbyist money that you can’t hear the American people,
@SenateMajLdr McConnell? - Sen. Elizabeth Warren

http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com/2020/05/mcconnell-has-gone-full-trump.html


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So to summarize the POS 'Senate Majority leader' has used his white male privilege's to try to silence a former President that happens to be black, the Senior Senator from MASS, who happens to be female and brilliantly outspoken and Coretta Scott King a powerful advocate for black lives who happens to be black and a soul mate to MLK.

I am out of words.

[leftieNanner]

1. My daughter gave me

a "Nevertheless She Persisted" T-shirt and I wore it yesterday.

Elizabeth Warren is my hero.

And I do hope that Moscow Mitch has truly overstepped his bounds and will suffer an ignominious defeat this November.

[sheshe2]

5. Mitch, yes.

All the rest of them can go down in flames.

My Senator, glad you have that T-shirt. She speaks for and with all of us.

Thanks, Nanner.

[leftieNanner]

13. Both of my daughters were Mass. Residents

They both went to college back there. Now one is doing a Post-doc in Boulder Colorado and the other one has an apartment in NYC. The NYC daughter flew out to LA about 6 weeks ago to be with her boyfriend. Hope she stays there a while longer. I could live in Boston in a heartbeat!

[warmfeet]

17. Yes, yes,

and yes.

[Iliyah]

2. And the Black community is not very fond of that . . .

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. He knows both Michelle and Barack are vastly superior human beings than he is.

He hates that greed doesnt drive them as it does him.

He hates that their first instinct in public service is PUBLIC SERVICE!

Their skin is supposed to mean they are inferior to him, that is the culture he comes from, that they are superior to him in every way is something he cant stand.

Stupid punk.

[sheshe2]

7. ++++

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Moscow Mitch needs to be ditched in November ...

[sheshe2]

8. That is Mitch.

Mitch, racist to the core.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. Mitch is racist, greedy, self-centered and a true believer in destroying the federal government.

Oops! Forgot to link that toon to where I got it:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213431067

[sheshe2]

10. those toons are heartbreaking.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. a bit of relief, from an OP earlier today ...

Pic is clickable:

[sheshe2]

12. Lol...

He just got off the clown car.

[jberryhill]

6. He's a neo-Confederate

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. I'm not so sure about the "neo" part.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/neo-confederate

I'm sure Mitch would find defacing slave memorials with urine and racial slurs to be distasteful; he agrees with the racism, but not the lack of decorum of the gangs. He prefers to use rules and the loopholes therein to impose his ideology while using that imposition as proof that his ideology is superior.

[onecaliberal]

14. Exactly. Sit the fuck down, and shut the fuck up. We are OVER it!

[Evolve Dammit]

16. Special place in hell for the Grim Reaper aka. Moscow Mitch. Maybe your wife has an exit plan.

You're gonna need one.

[niyad]

18. I have plenty of words left, and I used them to that racist, sexist asshole these last two days.

[sheshe2]

19. Good for you!

[RainCaster]

20. My hope is that Moscow Mitch loses by a slim margin

so that he will waste away in the US, hoping that he succeed. Then, it will be too late and he will not be able to immigrate to Russia or China.

[Cha]

21. KR!

TY, she

[Neema]

22. If I loathe trump with the white-hot fury of a thousand burning suns, I loathe McConnell

with the white-hot fury of 999 burning suns. Some days 1001.

[sheshe2]

23. I am with you on that, Neema.

[crickets]

24. Kicking for others who also may have missed this yesterday.

[sheshe2]

25. Thanks, crickets