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demmiblue

(36,823 posts)
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 08:35 PM Feb 2021

GOP Sen. John Kennedy calls Haaland a "neo-socialist left-of-Lenin whackjob," per Hill pool.

GOP Sen. John Kennedy calls Haaland a "neo-socialist left-of-Lenin whackjob," per Hill pool. On Tanden, he says, "I'm not saying she's a smoked turkey, but the smoker is heating up."

Kennedy says there is "concern by both Republicans Democrats" that Tanden's "allegiance is not to America and it's not to President Biden, it's to Secretary Clinton."




Well, there goes his mean tweet argument.
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GOP Sen. John Kennedy calls Haaland a "neo-socialist left-of-Lenin whackjob," per Hill pool. (Original Post) demmiblue Feb 2021 OP
OOOHHH!! Neo Socialist. Mr.Bill Feb 2021 #1
Just musclecar6 Feb 2021 #2
Apparently, Kennedy's a pretty smart fellow leftieNanner Feb 2021 #3
Kennedy is the definition of an idiot. riversedge Feb 2021 #22
If this is his reason, Oldem Feb 2021 #27
Exactly! TomSlick Feb 2021 #33
+10000000000000000 Celerity Feb 2021 #35
This goober's voice makes my skin crawl. sop Feb 2021 #4
Both of which characters were at least decent human beings, even if not terribly bright niyad Feb 2021 #8
Merely Vanderbilt, UVA law, Oxford dpibel Feb 2021 #20
Ah fuck that W got an MBA from Harvard ChubbyStar Feb 2021 #26
He puts on the dumb sourtherner act to win elections. Even changed his accent several years ago. Elwood P Dowd Feb 2021 #32
Mr. Haney from Green Acres. The Wizard Feb 2021 #16
Shit for brains. BlueIdaho Feb 2021 #5
Manchin needs to talk to this guy about his mean comments. Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #6
+1 Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2021 #11
This rhetoric is totally fine because it wasn't a tweet. Nevilledog Feb 2021 #13
no, it was ok because he is a white man . JI7 Feb 2021 #39
I know, right. onecaliberal Feb 2021 #19
What an ugly, hateful, ignorant, terrified little misogynist. niyad Feb 2021 #7
The GOP in a nutshell. rickyhall Feb 2021 #9
+1 spooky3 Feb 2021 #12
Someone got Triggered Bigly jpak Feb 2021 #10
Another GOP Nazi running his sewer-hole Nazi mouth. hadEnuf Feb 2021 #14
Sticks and stones may break my bones WVreaper Feb 2021 #15
So says the Senator from The Wizard Feb 2021 #17
Yes, he was one of the July 4th republican delegation to Moscow. cspanlovr Feb 2021 #18
I wish an investigative reporter... dhill926 Feb 2021 #28
Hate women much, John...? dlk Feb 2021 #21
Like a horse straining at a dry, firmly stuck turd, Kennedy strains at decency and integrity . . . . hatrack Feb 2021 #23
Is Senator Kennedy limited in his vocabulary? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 #24
Maybe the shit-kicking chicken-fried redneck act is less of an act than we thought . . . hatrack Feb 2021 #25
Most Republicans are limited in their vocablulary. GoCubsGo Feb 2021 #40
Sec. Clinton is retired. She's doing the grandmother thing. Ilsa Feb 2021 #29
Not a thing. crickets Feb 2021 #31
Foghorn Leghorn on two legs. He is vile. And having that name makes me want to puke. kairos12 Feb 2021 #30
I honestly believe Kennedy has worsening dementia dsharp88 Feb 2021 #34
Biden won 7m votes than Trump, radius777 Feb 2021 #36
"and by 'left-of-Lenin,' I mean she used to run her own small business" struggle4progress Feb 2021 #37
Translation: she doesn't want to mine and drill every square inch of the land in this country. Vinca Feb 2021 #38
"Corn pone" Kennedy's opinion is about as worthless as shit on a stick. nt oasis Feb 2021 #41

Mr.Bill

(24,238 posts)
1. OOOHHH!! Neo Socialist.
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 08:38 PM
Feb 2021

I bet he doesn't even know what that means. Which is okay, because the swamp rats who vote for him don't know either.

TomSlick

(11,088 posts)
33. Exactly!
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 11:50 PM
Feb 2021

Our boy Tom Cotton ain't a dumb hayseed either but he know that the Goobers back home like it when he sounds like them.

sop

(10,103 posts)
4. This goober's voice makes my skin crawl.
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 08:41 PM
Feb 2021

He sounds like a cross between Barney Fife and Gomer Pyle.

niyad

(113,067 posts)
8. Both of which characters were at least decent human beings, even if not terribly bright
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 08:50 PM
Feb 2021

or educated.

Where did this disgusting piece of human filth go to school again??

dpibel

(2,826 posts)
20. Merely Vanderbilt, UVA law, Oxford
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 09:29 PM
Feb 2021

Not just that, but Phi Beta Kappa at Vanderbilt and LRev editor and Order of the Coif at Virginia Law, which ain't peanuts.

He's clearly gotten a lot of mileage out of the drooling goober act. But you can't have those credentials and be even slightly dumb. Just can't happen.

ChubbyStar

(3,191 posts)
26. Ah fuck that W got an MBA from Harvard
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 09:58 PM
Feb 2021

Maybe you don't know how money can influence educational status? Lots of dumb fuckers have credentials.

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
32. He puts on the dumb sourtherner act to win elections. Even changed his accent several years ago.
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 11:48 PM
Feb 2021

The Bubbas in Louisiana lap it up.

From BuzzFeed - "Kennedy’s public image can sometimes verge on country bumpkin — but in fact he is one of the best-educated members of the Senate. He graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University. He edited the Virginia Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif at the University of Virginia Law School. He went to England to earn a civil law degree with first-in-class honors from Oxford. As treasurer of Louisiana, he ran the state’s finances for 17 years."



BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
5. Shit for brains.
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 08:42 PM
Feb 2021

Wants to resurrect a Clinton meme... again. Guess he knows Biden is ridin’ with a 65% approval rating.

hadEnuf

(2,177 posts)
14. Another GOP Nazi running his sewer-hole Nazi mouth.
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 08:58 PM
Feb 2021

Him and Traitor-Green need to get a room together.

dhill926

(16,314 posts)
28. I wish an investigative reporter...
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 10:30 PM
Feb 2021

would really dig into this. Asswipe Johnson from WI too, right?

hatrack

(59,578 posts)
23. Like a horse straining at a dry, firmly stuck turd, Kennedy strains at decency and integrity . . . .
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 09:49 PM
Feb 2021

The difference is that for the horse, relief and resolution are somewhere on the horizon.

hatrack

(59,578 posts)
25. Maybe the shit-kicking chicken-fried redneck act is less of an act than we thought . . .
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 09:54 PM
Feb 2021

What an asshole.

GoCubsGo

(32,075 posts)
40. Most Republicans are limited in their vocablulary.
Thu Feb 25, 2021, 09:06 AM
Feb 2021

It's the same tired, old canards they always spout. If I had a buck for every time I heard them spew "radical" running up to the election, I could renovate my kitchen, both bathrooms, and my yard, with a fat chunk of money left over.

Ilsa

(61,690 posts)
29. Sec. Clinton is retired. She's doing the grandmother thing.
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 10:35 PM
Feb 2021

Just what does Kennedy think Tanden is going to do for her?

dsharp88

(487 posts)
34. I honestly believe Kennedy has worsening dementia
Thu Feb 25, 2021, 02:49 AM
Feb 2021

The signs have been increasing with non sequitur comments, lack of concentration, and losing his train of thought.

radius777

(3,635 posts)
36. Biden won 7m votes than Trump,
Thu Feb 25, 2021, 03:32 AM
Feb 2021

and Hillary won 3m more votes than Trump. Biden's nominees are ideologically similar to him and he chose them to carry out his agenda - which the people elected him to do.

The country likes liberalism - and these right wing tools can't cope with it - hence their desire to throw out democracy.

Vinca

(50,237 posts)
38. Translation: she doesn't want to mine and drill every square inch of the land in this country.
Thu Feb 25, 2021, 08:58 AM
Feb 2021

This fake "good ole boy" needs to be gone. Whenever he's up we've got to find someone who can beat him.

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