“I heard you!”
Hard to miss the dogwhistle here:
and later this exchange:
KENNEDY: You have the right to believe every one of these things. You do. This is America. I don’t mean any disrespect, but I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade.
OMAROVA: I’m not a communist. I do not subscribe to that ideology. I could not choose where I was born…
So the real question is this: Does the Oxford-UK educated Sen. Kennedy ever get tired of playing the stupid hick for the folks back home in Possum Hollar?
Mock Paper Scissors 
While the USSR doesn’t exist one of its former KGB officer does rule Russia now and enjoys the admiration of the leader of the tRump cult. During the former guys single term as president those followers claimed to rather be Russian than a Democrat. So this Reb Baiting is again cognitive dissonance by the right wing. Hugs
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Sorry for the typo, not Reb Baiting but Red Baiting. Hugs
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Oh, I dunno. Given their affinity for the Confederacy, it very well could be Reb Baiting.
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I thought Reb Baiting was pretty good too.
Imma steal that probably.
Rgds,
TG
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Reb-baiting also works, Scottie. That’s what wee libruls should be doing in the Great Wahr of Confederacy Attrition.
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I like “Reb Baiting” as a phrase, too.
Listen to that jerk, Kennedy. Does he put extra effort into sounding like a stereotypical Reb? The phrase fits him.
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She’s impressive. She remained calm through the whole ordeal, not once losing her temper. Not sure why the good Senator (me smirking here) was asking any of this. Did he not know that membership in the state sponsored youthful communists was not an option, or was objective just to embarrass her? Either way he proved his ignorance while failing to embarrass her. Good job Miss nominee. Here’s hoping that you will be better by the GQP when confirmed…
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HIs goal was to gain some street cred with the knuckle-walkers by being an ass.
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Anytime that redneck asshole or any of the morally bankrupt republicans open their filthy mouths, it’s not to find a greater truth, but to create ‘gotcha’ moments while loosely throwing around a loaded word, which currently happens to be ‘communism’ for the delight of real ‘muricans in possum hollar. The various Biden nominees all show the utmost admirable professionalism during these shitshow interviews in which average people would unleash a needed tirade of insults at these hack politicians.
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Faux Goober Kennedy needs to go back to rubbing his gun slide. Without their Bigotry RepubliKKKans would only have their Fascism.
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Many years ago here in the TSKoA we had a turbulent time on our City Council; the existing council, cognizant that we live in a fucking desert approved a large water rate increase (along with tiered rates, and a number of other things.)
There was a Great Hooferaw of a Hullabaloo of CONSTERNATION AND ANGER!!!
AMAHGAWDYOORAISED MAHWATERBILL!!!!
The cementheads promptly ran successful recall campaigns against most members of the city council and so were duly elected to the council…whereupon they were finally told the unpleasant truth that “Yes, our water rates REALLY DID need to be raised and by the way our infrastructure is falling apart yah dumb fucks” by the Tucson Water engineers.
And thus the Gret Water Rate Rebellion fizzled out. All the new members declined to run in the next elections except for one who was a degenerate Bircher republican asshole. In the next election he ran against a UA professor of political science, and loudly proclaimed that his opponent couldn’t be trusted because he was brought here (as a child) from COMMIELAND; in Professor Volgy’s case, Hungary.
And he was from Hungary, being carried by his parents on foot, across the border to Austria, in 1956 with nothing but the clothing on their backs.
Fleeing for their lives, having participated in the 1956 uprising.
the degenerate Bircher republican asshole lost in a landslide.
(someday when the time is right I’ll tell the tale of our county administrator who was caught shoplifting frozen steaks…in his shorts….the 70’s were a weird time folks!)
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I don’t know whether to call you goober or white trash, senator.
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¿Por que no los dos?
Although peckerwood springs to mind; read “The Learning Tree” in 7th grade and that really stuck with me.
Too bad that book is more or less banned in much of America now because it depects racist white people.
Thinking back I had some seriously subversive English teachers in HS…we read The Crucible, and Bless the Beasts and Children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_the_Beasts_and_Children_(novel)
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Pure tool because he has something to gain from being an asshole. Guys like him make me stabby.
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“Perhaps, Mr. Kennedy, if you tell us whether you have resigned from the KKK it would help me know which to call you.”
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Seems like a waste of an Oxford degree to me.
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pretty much a waste of everything, honestly.
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A thermometer has a lot of degrees. You know what they do with that.
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Like Kevin McCarthy, this POS is another disgrace to my Irish ancestry. I absolutely loathe him.
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