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Marsha Blackburn is a joke and a white supremacist (Original Post) Docreed2003 Apr 2022 OP
Looks like its not real snowybirdie Apr 2022 #1
Marsha Blackburn is a white-winger Vogon_Glory Apr 2022 #2
"Voters who send the likes of her to Congress deserve what they get." MyOwnPeace Apr 2022 #5
I didn't vote for her. Blue staters don't realize what it's like redstateblues Apr 2022 #8
MANY have burdens to bear............. MyOwnPeace Apr 2022 #9
Whether this photo is real or not (some are calling it not) she is beyond the pale. Biophilic Apr 2022 #3
Snopes has determined this claim is "miscaptioned" mzmolly Apr 2022 #4
That's a really weird way to hold your hand...unless it's intentional Docreed2003 Apr 2022 #6
I agree fully. mzmolly Apr 2022 #10
And I just read the snopes article Docreed2003 Apr 2022 #7
Fully agree. mzmolly Apr 2022 #11
👍! Docreed2003 Apr 2022 #12

Vogon_Glory

(9,592 posts)
2. Marsha Blackburn is a white-winger
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 06:03 PM
Apr 2022

and, if I’m not mistaken, a “gift” to Tennessee from the anti-abortion movement and other white-wing culture warriors.

From Al Gore, Tennessee’s voters have fallen from Al Gore to Lamar Alexander to THIS.

My sympathy for voters who send the likes of Blackburn, Boebert, Greene, and others of their ilk to Congress and the Senate has almost disappeared. Voters who send the likes of her to Congress deserve what they get.

MyOwnPeace

(17,280 posts)
5. "Voters who send the likes of her to Congress deserve what they get."
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 06:22 PM
Apr 2022

But WE don't!

And it's idiots like this in Congress that are truly failing to do what their own 'Dear Leader' implored them to do: "Make America Great Again" - and Lord knows we have SO much work to do after THAT reign of terror....

redstateblues

(10,565 posts)
8. I didn't vote for her. Blue staters don't realize what it's like
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 06:56 PM
Apr 2022

to have a senator like her. We should be so lucky to have a Manchin type as our senator-not that I'm a fan of him but he's better than the right wing MAGA robot we have.

MyOwnPeace

(17,280 posts)
9. MANY have burdens to bear.............
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 07:25 PM
Apr 2022

I'm in the state where Pat Toomey (R - Wall Street) was about 2 steps behind Lindsey Graham - but would always claim he 'wasn't like them' (meaning the MAGAts - ). But he continued to vote the 'tRump' line from top to bottom - and is now on his way back to his office on Wall Street - taking the rewards of his 4-years of work on behalf of the 1%.

Yes, we all have our 'burdens' - and we must ALL unite and work to rid our country of them - Manchin included!!!!!

Biophilic

(4,904 posts)
3. Whether this photo is real or not (some are calling it not) she is beyond the pale.
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 06:03 PM
Apr 2022

What Blackburn said during the hearings was both absurd and racist. Yet she still retains her seat in Congress. We have so much to correct. If we can.

mzmolly

(51,698 posts)
4. Snopes has determined this claim is "miscaptioned"
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 06:14 PM
Apr 2022
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blackburn-white-power/

While the photograph is real, it was not taken during a hearing or vote on Jackson’s confirmation, and there’s no evidence that Blackburn was intentionally “throwing a white power sign” with her hand.


I don't dispute the fact that she's a racist, however.

mzmolly

(51,698 posts)
10. I agree fully.
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 08:43 PM
Apr 2022

And she was doing so when a black member of the military was being questioned.

Docreed2003

(17,852 posts)
7. And I just read the snopes article
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 06:29 PM
Apr 2022

It's labeled "mischaracterized" because the picture was taken during a hearing with Defense Sec Austin, who also happens to be black. Strange way to hold one's hands, especially in that context

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