Moscow Mitch's Confederate Core Surfaces

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[Frustratedlady]

1. All the more reason, Mitch, baby!

We hope to airbrush you from the Capitol, as well.

[genxlib]

2. I too am descended from Confederate Soldiers

But I take no pride in it. The only thing that gives me any solace of the idea is that they died an ignoble death by disease in a prisoner of war camp.

Just because you have that history doesn't mean you have to live that history.

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[Botany]

4. So Mitch's great great grand pappy fought to keep human beings as slaves and he is ...

... proud of that? No wonder he was so pissed off @ having a black President.

[csziggy]

5. So his Kentucky ancestors backed the losing side?

Let's hope his losing heritage holds true this year!

[standingtall]

13. Turtle is from Alabama

and Kentucky was a neutral State at the beginning of the civil war until a confederate general violated the states neutrality. After that Kentucky was a Union state and remained so for the rest of the war.

[csziggy]

20. Oh - okay

My ancestors are from Alabama, also. Many of them fought as Confederates, but fortunately my mother left the state and left the racism behind. Too bad Mitch didn't.

[Solly Mack]

6. He's the descendant of a traitor to America.

A descendant of a loser.

A descendant of a person who would rather enslave people than to advance the promise of the U.S. Constitution.

Like ancestor, like descendant.

[Thirties Child]

7. My ancestors fought on both sides.

My Union great grandfather fought with the Ohio 16th. I don't know how much fighting the soldier from Georgia did because he died of dysentery in Richmond KY a few weeks after joining. Don't know why he fought since he had no slaves. I guess he was fighting for Georgia. He left a six-year-old daughter, my mother's grandmother.

[Dem4Life1102]

8. So he is a descendant of traitors

That explains a lot.

[Caliman73]

9. Why does McConnell support traitors in our capitol? Other than he is a traitor himself...

Guess I answered my own question.

Seriously though, I have not seen anyone ask that question. "Why would you not want the statues of people who fought AGAINST the United States out of places of honor in the Capitol of the United States?

Where is the statue of Benedict Arnold then? He actually fought for and won victories for the United States before he sided with the British. That is the same story as Confederate generals and yet one is a traitor for the rest of his life, while the others are venerated in our Capitol.

It isn't "airbrushing" the Capitol. It is removing the likenesses of people who do not belong there.

[Botany]

11. "Other than he is a traitor himself..."

Yup! He was told of the Russian interference into the 2016 elections and kept it
hidden from the American public in order to rig the outcomes.

McConnell actively worked to allow an enemy of America subvert our democracy.

[BComplex]

14. And the russians paid him well to do that.

Russian shell companies contributed to all the republican senators, and they knew where the money was coming from.

[Botany]

18. All those GOP senators knew that the they NRA money they were getting in '16 was from Russia.

OH's Rob Portman step on up.

[Caliman73]

16. I guess he is just living up to his heritage.

Is that how that works? If your grand daddy was a traitor, maybe your daddy will be a traitor, then you might be one too?

It might skip a generation. I don't know much about McConnell's daddy. The treason bug sure did bite him though.

[Botany]

19. Do you have any doubt that McConnell heard and used the term n****r lover as he ...

... was growing up?

[Caliman73]

21. I would bet he still uses it today.

In limited and exclusive company mind you, but I have no doubt that he retains the customs of his "heritage".

[BComplex]

22. Caliman73, you nailed that. I hadn't thought of it that way, but McConnell is a traitor in the same

way as his grandaddy was, now that you said it.

Traitor this time around, for certain.

[young_at_heart]

10. McConnell is only one tiny step removed from Trump

He will go down in history (IMO) as the very worst majority leader!

[Brainfodder]

15. Moscow Mitch's origin story includes this? I'm so shocked!

Bless his heart.... seriously, millions of times if that is what it takes!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. Smarmy Moscow Mitch yearns for 1850.