Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in a forum Friday night that people of color “can go anywhere in this state,” as long as they are “conservative, not liberal.”
"Let me tell you why," began the senator. "The one thing I can say without any doubt, you can be an African American and go to the Senate, you just have to share the values of our state."
The senator pointed to fellow Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) — the only Black Republican senator — and the state's former Gov. Nikki Haley (R), who is of Indian descent, as examples of people of color who have been successful because of their “values.”
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The senator pointed to fellow Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) — the only Black Republican senator “You just need to be conservative, not liberal.” Yes, that certainly sounds like minority conservatives/minorities moving within conservative circles are much more successful than their liberal counterparts…
Oh wait, no, it doesn’t. On the contrary, this very much sounds as if the Republicans are pretty damn racist. Which they are.
So non-white people are only “acceptable” if they brownnose you republicans like slaves and show no free will!?
…Go die in a fire, you racist f*ckwad!
<@Why? > #60509
Lindsey Graham was before Trump's nomination one of Trump's staunchest critics inside the Republican party. He said all sorts of really bad stuff about Trump. Now he loves Trump 100%. The man is a spineless unprincipled lying ball of garbage who will say anything he thinks will serve him in the moment regardless of whether he believes it or not. In a few years, he'll be back to saying how awful Trump was and how he wasn't a true conservative and how he always felt thay way. He is truly pathetic.
I’d put Graham being gone at about 50-50, assuming no election fuckery (not a safe assumption, obviously), but the only way to be absolutely certain of the odds is to run the election about 1000 times, and that would be a nightmare that makes 2020 look pleasant. ;-p
Even more reason for Biden to get in the White House.
It'll be such a pisser when that Orange Disease you parasitically attached yourself to is vaccinated out of there, OP.
So much for your 'Opinions' when you have no power to back them up with.
@The_Crimson_Ghost #60534
Moscow Mitch is distancing himself from Donald and his goons, so I’m hoping that means he’s sensing a change in the waters. If that’s true, it’s quite possible Graham loses, especially after this remark. I ain’t banking on it either, though.
<@Why? > #60601
So he claims, but Bitch McJowell isn’t immune to the T Virus, plus he’s about 5,000 years old. I seriously doubt the tone deaf republican filth in the beltway has seen anything. The signs have all been there-that the majority of citizens hate them & their policies, yet they refuse to change. Other parts of the country are starting to see the light & vote them out of office, but the ignorant majini in sC & KY will have to be dragged, kicking & screaming, into this century. We can start by making the GOP criminals a minority, forcing the stupid rednecks to grow up.
<@Why? > #60601
So he claims, but Bitch McJowell isn’t immune to the T Virus, plus he’s about 5,000 years old. I seriously doubt the tone deaf republican filth in the beltway has seen anything. The signs have all been there-that the majority of citizens hate them & their policies, yet they refuse to change. Other parts of the country are starting to see the light & vote them out of office, but the ignorant majini in sC & KY will have to be dragged, kicking & screaming, into this century. We can start by making the GOP criminals a minority, forcing the stupid rednecks to grow up.
@The_Crimson_Ghost #60637
Yeah, uprooting Mitch especially will be a challenge. I’m cautiously optimistic about South Carolina. Even though Graham will probably win again, hopefully this will be a lesson to GOP senators about Trumpism. Hopefully, we’ll get President Biden, even if it means these two stay.
@The_Crimson_Ghost #60637
Will you please shut the fuck up about my state?! I'm actually here on the ground in SC and there's a lot more good people than you're giving us credit for, we're just gerrymandered to Hell and back.
And no one down here likes Graham. No one. Ever since it's become obvious just how spineless and slimy he is, he's become the laughingstock of the whole state. Anyone who's going to vote for him is because he's a Republican, not because they personally like him.
Hell, that's the basis for an ingenious ad campaign that's running here right now, appealing to pro-Trump voters, saying that he's corrupt scum who's preventing Trump from “draining the swamp.” And I think it might work. I would not at all be surprised if Trump wins the state but Graham gets tossed.
@Thanos6 #60732
Get a grip, sugar. If no one likes him, why does he keep getting voted back into office? Oh, the old gerrymandered thing. I won’t deny that right wing filth across the country does it, including in my state, but who keeps putting the rest of them back into office? Until changes are visible in the state, it will continue to be viewed as a backwards dump. The same applies to the entire south, & trust me, I’m not the only one who sees this. Besides, why would any of you strong, independent southerners give a shit what we think of you? After all, we’re all sushi eating, NYT reading, socialist gay baby eating snobs who prop up the ungrateful red states, as much as you folks down there like to deny it.
I hope you’re right about that ad working, but I suspect Lindsay will skate by again. Apparently most SC voters are ok with a vocally homophobic asshole who’s clearly in the closet more than they are voting for a black man. Prove me wrong, SC voters. Should that happen, I’ll acknowledge it in a post on this site.
Final note-I’m in NJ, the state that’s overwhelmingly viewed as the armpit of the US. We absorb far more flack than any other state, with the possible exception of Florida. Don’t cry to me about how you’re offended about your hick state being mocked because it’s overflowing with ignorant white trash.
Or alternatively consider for a moment that Republicans value Herman Cain's opinion more now that he's dead and no longer have to run his opinions by him first before he says them... Such as how he feels about the lethality of what killed him.
You tolerate the existence of black people as tools. That a select few seem well kept compared to the ones deliberately left out in the rain and worked into mangled lumps before being tossed out as disposable garbage doesn't change that. Not in politics and not on that plantation you're pining for.
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