John Cornyn tweets back at Barack Obama. Yes, he really wrote this:

[madaboutharry]

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=FhTvJIxog1ixdSAlp6B23A

I am just sick and tired of these racist motherfuckers.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Wow.

[Nevilledog]

2. He's a POS

And to tweet this to a black man.

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[txwhitedove]

42. Agree, POS and I am ashamed he represents Texas. He's jubilant about this.

Seems perfectly timed to pull the rug out from under Democratic Americans and stifle the truth and progress of J6 hearings!

[nini]

3. They're all saying it out loud now

They don't have to fake they're not as evil as they are anymore because those red states majorities are as bad.

This is exactly what they've wanted for decades

[wryter2000]

4. He ought to be wearing his hood in that picture.

I cannot believe these assholes.

[dalton99a]

5. Apartheid is their goal

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. Obama is a better man than I ...

I'd have responded something along the lines of 'you wanna step outside, old man?'

[KS Toronado]

8. Roe vs Wade was the tip of the iceberg

Rs and evilgelicals will not stop until America looks like they think it should.
Hell, bringing back Slavery is right around the corner.

[barbaraann]

20. I think they want something worse than slavery.

Slaves had to be purchased and had monetary value. What today's "masters" want is a limitless supply of disposable human minions that impoverished women are forced to bear every nine months--similar to the Orphan Train children.

[Hieronymus Phact]

30. Neo-Feudalism -nt

[barbaraann]

31. Exactly.

And we don't even want to think about how AI would be used.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

9. Cornyn is repulsive, but my interpretation here is ...

... that sometimes overturning precedent is good.

Of course his reasoning is flawed-- segregation is not an "intensely personal decision" or about freedom.

[ecstatic]

10. This should be the end of him. A sitting senator should not get away with saying

that.

[LoisB]

11. Son of a bi*ch. Bastard P.O.S. How ANY Black person can vote for or be a RepubliQON is

beyond the scope of my imagination. What more do they have to do to you?

[spanone]

12. He's a U.S. Senator and sent this shit to the first Black President???

FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE

[PurgedVoter]

13. Cornyn sworn to uphold the constitution and paid to rip it to shreds.

Wow, we knew it all along, but that was a pretty big reveal. I can only hope this goes as well for him as the worst gender reveal on YouTube.

[gldstwmn]

14. Plessy is their talking point. Watch Abby Finkenauer's epic takedown of Carrie Sheffield on CNN

last night with Sara Sidner:

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=39jS81jqXUSApZ1NsSFQyQ

[madaboutharry]

16. Overturning Plessy expanded rights, freedom, and dignity.

Overturning Roe did the opposite.

They are full of shit. Ending Apartheid is not equal to taking away women’s rights to reproductive freedom.

[gldstwmn]

18. If you watch the video Abby Finkenauer takes apart Carrie Sheffield brilliantly on that point.

I also loved it when she told Sheffield not to speak RBG's name. These people are not sane, rational individuals.

[PatrickforB]

49. Geez. What the heck were they thinking having that anti-abortion fanatic on there?

We need to grind on these Republicans this November, and crawl over broken glass if need be to VOTE and get these clowns OUT OF OFFICE and OFF the Supreme Court.

[gldstwmn]

57. CNN is heavy into the both siderism, a tactic that is going to fail them miserably IMO.

Apparently Sheffield is a reporter for Politico. The gall of that woman waving around her copy of the Constitution and mentioning RBG. I nearly flew out of my chair until Abby started speaking.

[mobeau69]

15. This is not tolerable. He should be expelled from office.

[bahboo]

17. I have no words....

and the words I would have, would probably earn me a visit from someone. Fuck this shit...

[Tommymac]

19. Jeff Tiedrich replies and calls out Cornyn for what he truly is:

Link to tweet

#GOTV2022
#VOTEBLU2022

[KY_EnviroGuy]

21. Not very smart to engage a constitutional scholar on Twitter.....

on a legal subject you know little or nothing about. Cornyn obviously is a tool of the Federalist Society.

Of course, I don't expect Republicans from Texas or Kentucky to send their brightest and best to Congress. That might be dangerous for their oligarchs and right-wing preachers.


KY......

[madaboutharry]

22. Before he became president, republicans liked to refer

to Obama not as a Constitutional scholar or Senator, but as a community organizer. They did this with the tone of every racist trope the could muster.

[Martin Eden]

23. Oranges vs Rotten Apples

Roe confirmed a personal right of bodily autonomy.

Plessy prevented others from discriminating against others based on race.

[TheRickles]

24. Not to defend Cornyn, but his point is that sometimes it's OK for Dems to override stare decisis.

Precedents aren't cast in stone, though some are more morally and ethically defensible than others.

[madaboutharry]

29. Pointing to Plessy is gaslighting.

And they know it.

Brown removed an apartheid system and sought to grant equality.

Reversing Roe restores women to second class status.

Further evidence of their ugly hypocrisy is that there were many of Trump appointed judges, coming off the Federalist Society list, who refused to agree that Brown was properly decided.

They are full of shit.

[TheRickles]

58. I agree. I'm just making the technical point that "stare decisis" isn't cast in stone.

[IronLionZion]

25. Apples vs spray tan

Institutional segregation vs individual choice

[paleotn]

26. John, John, John. I know you're a fascist piece of shit and all, but....

Overturning Plessy via Brown was GIVING people rights, not fucking taking them away.

Oh, and fuck you, John. Fuck you sideways.

[Traildogbob]

32. May some stray

Texas flying lead find its way up his ass. No killing wished here, just some uncomfortable lead up his ass. Not the one on his shoulders, the one he gets paid to sit on. And he has to stand while getting paid for the rest of his time. Put the loud mouth chicken shit in a ring with Obama, without his precious gun. There are a few seditionist I pray for the death penalty and we get to see it live.

[people]

27. John Cornyn is the Republican Whip of the Senate

Just goes to show how fking RACIST the republican party is -- they are as motivated by racism as they are by anything else. Truly horrifying!

[JoanofArgh]

28. Racist POS is now trending on Twitter. Cornyn's getting his ass handed to him.

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=k23iCIPPbTDURajPn10IMw

[AverageOldGuy]

33. And while they are at it . . .

. . . repeal the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery.

Do it NOW -- I have about 100 acres of cotton for Justice Uncle Thomas to pick.

[txwhitedove]

38. Exactly, seems they want to go backwards that far. OMG.

[treestar]

35. That's horrible

Who knew that was their next frontier?

[Paladin]

36. I didn't think Cornyn had the balls to convey such an ugly, racist message.

That's what I get for over-estimating a piece of shit.

[dlk]

37. The white hoods have come off...

[Botany]

39. Cornyn is saying the quite part aka blacks should know their place (Plessy v Ferguson) aka ...

... separate but equal ... government codified segregation ... was fine and Brown v Board of Education
which over ruled Plessy was a mistake. Why doesn't he just call President Obama a Uppity N****r?

"Plessy is widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history." from wiki

[Scottie Mom]

40. I had to read that reply to Pres Obama twice before I could for real believe a U.S. Senator is...

...that much of a RW fucking racist piece of shit. Unbelievable...a Const right to discriminate against people of color.

Holy shit...I feel like it's the 1950s all over again.

[vlyons]

41. Wow as a Tex voter, I'm flabbergaster that a senator could say such stupidity

I've always considered that he mainly works for Exxon. I think what he's doing here is trying to get back in the graces of the gun people and not be labeled a RINO. hE'S NOT UP for election this cycle, but when he is. I hope we rub his stuck up white nose in it.

[Botany]

47. I wonder if he will try the old "taken out of context" gambit?

n/t

[SergeStorms]

43. If you were going to give the U.S. an enema....

Texas is where you'd stick the tube.

C'mon Texans! You can do SOOOOO much better than this.

Cornyn should be....... I can't say what I'm thinking without getting a visit from law enforcement.

[Straw Man]

44. Ask Cornyn what he thinks about Loving vs. Virginia.

Clarence Thomas might be interested in the answer.

[malaise]

45. He should be condemned by both the current President and

Schumer should condemn it on the record in the Senate. This overt racis cannot get a pass.

[ismnotwasm]

46. Report it

He thinks he has a gotcha there, but he’s a racist piece of shit

[SleeplessinSoCal]

48. I bet dollars to donuts he is trying to reestablish credibility...

... with the gun nuts by going after Obama.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

50. They don't even try to hide their racism any more.

[ladym55]

51. Saying the quiet part out loud yet again

Well, Justice Thomas may want to be careful what he wished for.

[C Moon]

52. Holy crap!!

What a racist monster.

[BigmanPigman]

53. What about inter-racial marriage?

Would Justice Thomas like to weigh in on that too? I love how the GQP picks and chooses its hypocritical battles.

[cilla4progress]

54. Fuck that fucker

That is all

[Lonestarblue]

55. He's still a jerk, but I interpreted Cornyn's tweet differently.

I think he meant that the Plessy separate but equal doctrine was settled law for 58 years—longer than Roe’s existence—yet was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education, which was controversial at the time. I suspect that the reason Brown came so readily to Cornyn’s mind is that it has been in Republican crosshairs for several years. In reality, all this many years later, Brown (1954) has never been fully implemented, and John Roberts is definitely one who sides with the white conservative position, as he demonstrated when he and his fellow justices gutted the Voting Rights Act. Republicans are hoping to overturn Brown also now that they have a majority that favors anything Republican.

Here’s a bit on Roberts’ attempts to undermine Brown.

“By the way, just 15 years ago in the Community Schools v. Seattle School District case, U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in 2007 tried to turn Brown I’s “separate but equal is unconstitutional” decision on its head by claiming that that historic ruling meant the exact opposite of what the Supreme Court unanimously said in 1954.

In the 2007 case, Roberts rejected the laudable attempt by enlightened white school districts in Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky, to voluntarily desegregate schools and promote integration by utilizing racial classification to achieve diversity and to avoid racial isolation through student assignment.

And he accepted the argument of racist white parents who opposed that laudable attempt by contending that it was unconstitutional for a school district to use race as a factor in assigning students to a school in order to bring that school’s racial composition in line with the composition of the district as a whole.

In other words, he ruled that race is not part of racism and therefore should not be a factor in ending racism.

As documented by the American Economic Association (AEA), “Black children are five times as likely as white children to attend racially segregated schools, especially those in high poverty areas.”

The University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) pointed out that:

“[Since 1991 when] the Supreme Court issued rulings that made it easier for districts to be released from the … Brown … decision …, highly segregated schools with 10% or fewer white students have more than tripled from 5.7% to 18.6%.”

https://www.penncapital-star.com/commentary/brown-v-bd-of-ed-never-really-overturned-plessy-michael-coard/

[madaboutharry]

56. People got what he was saying.

It was the wording and the manner in which he answered Obama.

It was racist snark meant to remind a Black man how overturning a 50+ year old case allowed Black men to eat at the lunch counter at Woolworth.