Mitch McConnell Campaign Posts Images of Opponent's Name on Tombstone, and White Men Sexually Assaulting AOC

Sen. Mitch McConnell's campaign posted
 an image of his electoral opponent's tombstone
hours after the El Paso massacre at which
dozens were killed and wounded by a
racist Trump supporter.

McConnell campaign spokesperson mocks objection to icon of dead opponent in wake of racist mass killing

 

Updated - Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-Kentucky) campaign is off to a roaring start.

Hours after the El Paso massacre committed by an emboldened Donald Trump fan, Trump's ally, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Kentucky), and his campaign sent out its response in images from Kentucky's annual political event, the Fancy Farm Picnic held last weekend.

The Mitch McConnell campaign tweeted out a mock graveyard of grave markers that included McConnell's 2020 election opponent, Marine Amy McGrath (D).

"RIP Amy McGrath, November 3, 2020," reads one tombstone.

Writes the Marine, Amy McGrath (D): "Hours after the El Paso shooting, Mitch McConnell proudly tweeted this photo. I find it so troubling that our politics have become so nasty and personal that the Senate Majority Leader thinks it's appropriate to use imagery of the death of a political opponent (me) as messaging."

Ms. McGrath's tweet is below:

Hours after the El Paso shooting, Mitch McConnell proudly tweeted this photo. I find it so troubling that our politics have become so nasty and personal that the Senate Majority Leader thinks it's appropriate to use imagery of the death of a political opponent (me) as messaging. pic.twitter.com/2x5kO5jwPi

— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) August 5, 2019

In case Kentucky voters did not get the message what Republicans stand for, six Mitch McConnell volunteers dressed in Team Mitch t-shirts posed for pictures of the young men groping, choking and assaulting an image of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

One young man grabbed Ms. Ocasio-Cortez' mouth in a simulated act depicting violent control over a woman prevalent in rape culture in which a woman is ordered to 'suck it.'

The image and Cortez' response is below:

Hey @senatemajldr - these young men look like they work for you.

Just wanted to clarify: are you paying for young men to practice groping choking members of Congress w/ your payroll, or is this just the standard culture of #TeamMitch?

Thanks. https://t.co/ysRJuwonUx

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 6, 2019

The McConnell's campaign's response made light of the simulated assault and mocked criticism: Team Mitch "in no way condones any aggressive, suggestive, or demeaning act toward life-sized cardboard cutouts of any gender," (Huffington Post).

Sexual assault and aggravated assaults are crimes now normalized in the Republican Party.

Reports Huffington: "Some of the same men also appeared in a photo on the official "Team Mitch" Instagram account for the Fancy Farm picnic, holding aloft cutout faces of Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch."

Kavanaugh was exposed as a rapist during his Senate confirmation hearings.

In the faces of the young Kentucky Republicans in Team Mitch's photos, it is easy to see a young Brett Kavanaugh, and other violent youthful Republicans who don't know enough not to treat fellow human beings as less than human.  

Sexual assault, mass shootings and other violence do not come from nowhere.

Today, these crimes are legitimatized by a major American political party, the Republican Party, that  mocks the idea that cultivating dehumanization of political opponents is unacceptable and indecent.

Midterm Voting Has Begun — Trump, Grassley, Hatch, McConnell All Lie for Rapist-Wannabe

Republican wannabe rapist hides from FBI with help
from GOP senators and Trump.

Voting has begun for American servicemembers.

The federal Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE) law mandates states and territories transmit ballots for federal elections "to absent uniformed services and overseas voters no later than 45 days before federal elections. Sept 24 is the latest date to send out absentee ballots.

Republican senators do not care, though they pretended to care two years ago.

GOP senators 237 days before 2016 election: "We can't confirm Merrick Garland because it's too close to presidential election"

GOP senators 47 days before 2018 election: "It's imperative we confirm Kavanaugh before the midterms"

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) September 20, 2018

Voting has begun, the 2018 elections are happening now.

Republicans will do anything to get the felon Brett Kavanaugh onto the United States Supreme Court, though this piece of shit belongs in prison.

Brett Kavanaugh Is a Lie, Senate Dems Need to Stop Vote by Any Means

Opponents of Brett Kavanaugh rallied outside the Untied
States Supreme Court last night. "Are you ready for a fight,"
said Bernie Sanders. Yes, America appears ready for a fight
that may dwarf the 1987 Bork nomination by comparison.

Kavanaugh and Bork Are Two of a Kind

"He looked, and talked, like a man who would throw the book at you — maybe like a man who would throw the book at the whole country," said Tom Shales, media critic at the Washington Post, commenting on the Robert Bork confirmation hearings in 1987, cited in the exhilarating book, Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America, (W. W. Norton), by Ethan Bronner. [Pick a copy of Bronner's work if you have even a passing interest in the biggest political event since 2016, stopping the Kavanaugh nomination.]

Bronner chronicled a landmark breaking point in American political history when the people rose and the United States Senate listened, defeating the Bork nomination 58-42. The vote led to the nomination and confirmation of Anthony Kennedy, a corrupt justice responsible for the among worst decisions in American judicial history: Bush. v. Gore (2000), Citizens United (2010) and Shelby County v. Holder (2013), among them.

Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) publicly warned the zombie-like Senate Dems to assume war footing against the Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh who is even worse than Kennedy.

Defeating this radical corporatist-statist Kavanaugh presents problems vis a vis the radical corporatist-statist Bork.

First among the challenges is the current composition of the Senate — 51 (R) to 49 (D), (115th Congress).

In 1987, Bork faced a Senate controlled by Democrats 55 (D) to 45 R), (100th Congress).

In 1987, six Republican senators voted against Bork, (Los Angeles Times).

In 2018, only a fool would count on any Republican senators rejecting the Christian fascist nominee.
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Bork was a public relations disaster on a superficial visceral level.

Kavanaugh came across as a blend of Jimmy Stewart and Matt Damon, who above all loves his family and likely says nice things about your mother.

Kavanaugh's unmistakably appealing image is a lie. The visible malice of Kavanaugh as a younger man has melted into the kind visage we watched last night.

Kavanaugh comes prevetted by the radical, anti-civil liberties Federalist Society, armed with a jurisprudence that is savage and hateful.
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Trump is a malignant clown, but whatever delusions from which Trump suffers, he knows how to unite the right into a fascist, corporate, Christian state that animates the political animal Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh will vote to further degrade civil liberties and target women, minorities, immigrants, gays and elevate corporate power, executive branch power and any level of law enforcement over everyone in the name of god-almighty.

Our rights mean next to nothing.

The Republican Party and Kavanaugh will use the Supreme Court as a means of decimating the rights of the citizenry and any competing political opposition.

Make no mistake Kavanaugh is ambitious, vicious and deceitful. A woman's right to her body is gone with Kavanaugh on the Court.

Plan A should be no hearing, no vote until the Congress convenes in 2019.

Stopping Kavanaugh and Trump is doable.

We have the anti-Trump infrastructure in place, public opinion and mid-term elections. Trump and Republicans in Congress enjoy consistently low levels of approval.

We need determination and political competence.

This is the time of Bernie Sanders and it is the time of us. Our rights depend on what we do in the next six months.

As Stephen Macedo writes in The New Right v. the Constitution:

When conservatives like Bork treat rights as islands surrounded by a sea of government powers, they precisely reverse the view of the Founders as enshrined in the Constitution, wherein government powers are limited and specified and rendered as islands surrounded by a sea of individual rights.

Think of the younger generations, because the country we are leaving them will not be recognizable — a society of diminished rights, and people living as tools to power, tightly constrained, with little legal recourse.

A democracy without rights is tyranny.

Do we trust the future of our democracy to these six senators? Not on our lives:

Susan Collins.
Lisa Murkowski.
Heidi Heitkamp.
Joe Manchin.
Joe Donnelly.
Doug Jones.
If you live in Maine, Alaska, North Dakota, West Virginia, Indiana or Alabama WE ARE ALL COUNTING ON YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW to tell them you oppose #KavanaughSCOTUS (202) 2224-3121 ☎️

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) July 10, 2018