Stick a fork in Mitch McConnell, 'cos he's done

The BBQ Pit
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I think the argument is a bad one, and also that this and many other arguments Mitch McConnell makes are made in bad faith (though not all). The most obvious reason this argument is not compelling is we don’t have a counterfactual to see at what rate Black Americans would vote if they had as much easy access to ballots as others do.

But I also think that his statement here is neither a justification of disenfranchisement nor is it a suggestion that the real Americans are white. It’s a moderately awkwardly worded statement that has one obvious interpretation that is a fairly straightforward claim.

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Never mind

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Which is why they’re still at it.

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Yes, that’s what he was doing. Since the last election, especially in Georgia, Florida, and Texas (especially Georgia), laws have been passed that will make it harder for African Americans to vote. This was done on purpose, because the Republicans were blindsided by the loss of both senate seats in Georgia.

The Senate was trying to pass several election laws that would make it harder to pass the kinds of laws that those states passed, so the Senate was trying to prevent the current and future disenfranchisement of African Americans. McConnell was against those bills, and pointed to the past, where the new Georgia (etc.) laws hadn’t passed yet.

So, he was saying that in order to justify voting against bills that were trying to prevent the disenfranchisement of African Americans.

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Or this fork.

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This also begs the question - what if a White South African emigrated to the U.S. and became naturalized? Is he an African American?

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ISTR it was George W. Bush, referring to British citizens of African ancestry. I may be mis-remembering though.

Republican Blake Masters, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona, called Elon Musk the ‘richest African American entrepreneur’ in the nation.

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I don’t care if it’s a shrimp fork, as long as we ALL get a turn.

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Murder On The Orient Express?

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It was a stupid thing to say. Probably often untrue. I don’t see it making much difference in the long run, sadly.

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Not in elections without Obama on the ticket.

2016 Non-hispanic white 65, non-hispanic black 60 (+5 net).
2020 Non-hispanic white 71, non-hispanic black 63 (+8 net).

Source: census.gov

Unless you plan to normalize reality for income/education level, it doesn’t really matter what you’d guess.

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Would that include Australian Aborigines, who also refer to themselves as “black”?

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never mind

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Bingo. He’s a racist representing racists, AKA a Republican.

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To Hell with McConnell on this. All the grief the pubbies give President Biden over his speech impediment means they have no ground to stand on here.

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Blacks aren’t real Americans, that’s what he meant. It was a Freudian slip. Pence made a similar slip previously. The GOP is a white supremacist movement, hence the fascist game show host that leads their party.

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[Libertarian Inbreds] grumble grumble Rand Paul grumble grumble [/Libertarian Inbreds]

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Every Republican is some combination of evil and stupid, some are more stupid than evil; some are more evil than stupid.

Some, like Paul, are split right down the middle.

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Let’s not forget greedy.

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Well, the GQP can’t take credit; they’d have to thank his neighbor for that.