The House voted to censure Trump’s loathsome racist tweets.
The measure, introduced by Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., who was born in Poland, is titled “Condemning President Trump’s racist comments directed at Members of Congress.”
It unfavorably compares Trump’s comments to those of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, who praised the impact of immigrants on the United States, and “strongly condemns” Trump’s language, stating that it has “legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color.”
(And that’s not even all. It’s a gruesome abuse of power, and it’s misogynist, and it’s blatant bullying and incitement.)
“This is an affront to 22 million naturalized citizens who were born in another country,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a cosponsor of the measure, said of Trump’s tweets on the floor Tuesday. “It’s an affront to the hundreds of millions of Americans who understand and love how American democracy works.”
Mitch McConnell blathered about how we all have to elevate the discourse.
Pressed when he stopped short of calling the president’s attacks racist, McConnell said, “The president is not a racist. I think the tone of all of this is not good for the country.”
In response, Ocasio-Cortez told ABC News that McConnell is “complicit in advancing racism in America” for not criticizing Trump.”
“When you tell American citizens to go back to their country … that has everything to do with race,” she said.
And when you’re a birther, and when you take out an add to demand death for black suspects, and when you say “good people on both sides,” and when you have a history of racial discrimination in housing.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Tuesday that he didn’t consider Trump’s comments to be racist, and accused Democrats of trying to play politics against Trump with the resolution on the floor.
As opposed to what Trump was doing when he told the four women to get out of the country?
Just to be clear, 193 members of the House #Republican Conference just openly supported the use of #racist language by the @potus … 193 members of Congress who are more than just #enablers, more than just #complicit, they are, themselves, #racists
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) July 16, 2019
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9 responses to “Censure passed”
Why try to argue he’s not a racist… *everyone* knows he is and even his supporters acknowledge it. It’s an inauguration crowd level lie and not one you’d expect anyone to make that wasn’t him.
“Mitch McConnell blathered about how we all have to elevate the discourse.”
says the guy who prevents anyone from having any discourse at all about anything the people actually want. ONE PERSON should not be able to throttle all the work of 534 other legislators.
Blood Knight in Sour Armor:
It’s essentially the same tactic as they use on AGCC. By arguing in perpetuity about whether or not it’s real, they never have to actually address the need to do something about it.
Meanwhile, his popularity among Republicans jumped from 65% to 70%.
But a whole FOUR Republicans voted with the Democrats, though one did sneak in something about how the Dems should also be condemning the anti-Semitic elements in their own party.
Which, not coincidentally, is based on another R lie…
100% of black Republican Representatives voted for the censure!
Meanwhile, while we weren’t looking, the administration is actively breaking asylum law (both U.S. and international).
Trump’s mantra: “L’État, c’est moi”. Only in his own brand of English, because he could never be so elegant as to speak French. So, instead, it’s “I get to do what I want”.