Ted Cruz says a Black woman on the Supreme Court is an 'insult to Black women' (not The Onion)

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Ted Cruz thinks that Biden’s commitment to appoint a black woman to SCOTUS is an insult to black women! How many people of all races and gender think that Cruz is an insult to humanity? 🙋?♀️
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independent.co.uk
Ted Cruz says a Black woman on the Supreme Court is an ‘insult to Black women’
‘The fact that he’s willing to make a promise at the outset, that it must be a Black woman, I got to say, that’s offensive’
5:42 PM · Jan 31, 2022

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-cruz-supreme-court-black-b2004406.html

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Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has said that President Joe Biden’s promise to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer with a Black woman is “offensive” and an “insult to Black women”.

“The fact that he’s willing to make a promise at the outset, that it must be a Black woman, I got to say, that’s offensive,” Mr Cruz said on his podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. “Black women are, what, six per cent of the US population? He’s saying to 94 per cent of Americans, ‘I don’t give a damn about you’.”

“It’s actually an insult to Black women – if he came and he said ‘I’m going to put the best jurist on the court’ and he looked at a number of people and he ended up nominating a Black woman – he could credibly say ‘I’m nominating the person who’s most qualified’,” Mr Cruz added.

“He’s not even pretending to say that, he’s saying ‘if you’re a white guy – tough luck, if you’re a white woman – tough luck, if you’re [Attorney General and 2016 Supreme Court nominee] Merrick Garland – how much does it suck to be Merrick Garland?” Mr Cruz pondered.

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[leftieNanner]

1. How much does it suck to be YOU Ted?

He wants two things in life that he will never have.

#1 - POTUS

#2 - SCOTUS

[NCjack]

12. #3 - Donald's respect

[Hekate]

2. Senator Hagfish is an insult to humanity. nt

[leftieNanner]

13. Senator Hagfish!

Perfect!!

[Drum]

3. New awful depths of mansplaining

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. About time for you to take another trip to Cancun Teddy boy.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. Ted Cruz is an insult to our country.

[2naSalit]

16. ...to our species!

[Docreed2003]

6. It's incredible the lengths that racists will go to justify their racism

How about this Ted? Black women have never, not once had representation on the Supreme Court. Meanwhile white males have had representation since the courts inception! Screw him and his not so subtle dog whistles.

[tavernier]

18. Of course. Thank you.

And he very well knows this too. He just thinks that wrapping it up in cliches and sprinkling it with glitter will make his package look new, instead of the same old shit from a second rate manure salesman.

[Pinback]

7. Ted Cruz in the U.S. Senate is an insult to

slime molds.

[Solomon]

14. !

Ya got me.

[Marcuse]

8. He is so accustomed to default privilege that equality seems like oppression.

[2naSalit]

17. +1

[LakeArenal]

9. How the hell would he know what is offensive to black women.

I’d love to see the research on that.

[MyOwnPeace]

10. Good point, Teddy.......

Let's talk about why Merrick Garland is NOT on the Supreme Court - and let's talk about "fair" - and let's talk about who should be insulted.

What a waste of oxygen Ted Cruz is........

[Blue Owl]

11. Crawl back in your slime pit, Turd Cruz

And stay there.

[kskiska]

15. So Ronald Reagan was insulting to white women

when he nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court?

[mucifer]

19. I didn't know ted cruz was a Black Woman Learn something new every day

[librechik]

20. Ted Cruz is an insult to toxic bottom-feeding pests, And yet there he is. n/t