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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

GOP senator tells Arab American witness at hate crimes hearing to 'hide your head in a bag'

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GOP senator tells Arab American witness at hate crimes hearing to 'hide your head in a bag'

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Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana also repeatedly suggested the witness, a leading Arab American activist, supports Hamas even as she repeatedly denied it.
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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    It makes me so mad that this asshole is allowed to pretend she didn’t give the answers he was fishing for. She couldn’t have been any more of a prop for his grandstanding. He might as well have questioned a mannequin

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      It was fucking ridiculous.

      “Do you support Hamas?”
      “No. I do not support Hamas”
      “You haven’t told me if you don’t support Hamas.”
      “I did tell you. I do not support Hamas.”
      “Let the record show that she supports Hamas.”

      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Very Jeremy Jamms energy.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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          YOU JUST GOT KENNEDY’D!

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    Fucking racist cunt. Good job Louisiana. The next time New Orleans is destroyed, we shouldn’t bother giving a shit since they continually elect this shithead.

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      To be fair to New Orleans, they’re not all that responsible for this guy being elected.

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      I’m in Nola and I don’t vote for this cunt. Be mad at the real enemy

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        So you choose to live in a place prone to disaster and which is a state largely run by those you wouldn’t elect. Genius!

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          Or, hear me out, they were born in a place without their consent, raised in that place as a minor without their consent, and now are not financially or physically capable of leaving that place on their own.

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            They are right, I moved here and I have means to leave so it is a fair criticism. I fled Texas and my ex wife to be by family. First time I have been close to them in 15 years. But I agree. I don’t want to be in the south. I hate the heat and the politics and the fact that Poseidon keeps trying to reclaim the city. But my sister won’t leave, so for now I am helping her out.

            Now all my low income brothers and sisters here? They have no fucking choice.

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            Why you gotta bring logic and reasoning into this? Sheesh.

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          You’re raging against random people for the crime of being from somewhere. That’s pretty messed up.

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      New Orleans is an incredible place full of incredible people. Try directing your justified anger at the villains.

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        The guy is a senator. He was voted in by his state.

        If they don’t want to be represented by him, they should have voted him out in 2022.

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          New Orleans doesn’t have the voting power to do that. Orleans Parish was literally the only parish that went blue in that election.

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          New Orleans did vote against him. It was the only parish in the state to do so

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          One city cannot vote out a senator an entire state voted in.

          All mayors of New Orleans since 1872 have been Democrats.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_New_Orleans

          Several mayors, including the current mayor, have been black too.

          Do you think people voting black Democrats into the mayor’s office want John Kennedy representing them?

          Edit: The entire city council are also Democrats.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_City_Council

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          New Orleans is the only parish in the entire state where he didn’t win the vote, with only 16.2% voting for him.

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          My guess is him being a Republican he only “won” due to voter suppression and gerrymandering. I would be shocked if he even had the popular vote.

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            He’s a senator, so prepared to be shocked.

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          You do know that the city and county (parish) is New Orleans are the same thing? It’s actually a very small area and not a dense city. You really know nothing able the area.

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      NOLA isn’t the problem, it’s everywhere else.

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      Way to be a part of the problem

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    The GOP the party of hate and fear.

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      don’t forget immeasurable prideful ignorance

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    Or maybe we can hide conservative heads in a bag instead. Fair is fair.

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      They prefer a white sheet

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      I prefer a basket.

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      A plastic bag? Tied tigh…

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        With some rocks inside to make sure it sinks to the bottom of a lake

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          Reasonable. If they’re going to witch hunt, we need to make sure they aren’t witches first.

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            Well, are they made of wood?

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      As long as the bag is under a guillotine, I support this.

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    Foghorn Hatehorn, the shame of Louisiana, at it again.

    Few people in the world are stupider or more hateful than Senator John “the lesser” Kennedy.

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    When I heard he said “hide your head in a bag” my mind immediately went to those awful photos from Abu Ghraib. Sure enough, Wikipedia has that one picture front and center on its page about the prisoner abuse:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse

    It wouldn’t surprise me if that what this poor excuse for a human had in mind, too.

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      And probably the same methods where you answer their question and they keep torturing you and telling you to answer their question.

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        Well, there was no physical torture in that Congressional hearing, but that might only have been because of the cameras.

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    I watched these questions… Utterly gross.

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      This guy is s total fake. The corn pome accent and the conservative outrage. He was a Democrat until it was obvious he’d never win in Louisiana so he switched.

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    Pretty disgusting of this senator.

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    Almost have to give props to him for being a consistently irredeemable racist piece of shit.

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    This is embarrassing

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