Posted by
Rude One
Look, I have no doubt that Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi believed she was joking when she
praised
a supporter by saying that "if he invited me to a public hanging, I'd
be on the front row." (She had started her remarks with the bizarrely
bloody compliment "I would fight a circle saw for him.") I have no doubt
that she never thought twice about the history of lynching of black
people in her state. I have no doubt that she saw nothing wrong with
what she was saying, that it was one of those things that she's heard
and perhaps repeated a few times. We have a lot of phrases and sayings
that are based on appalling shit. You wanna know the history of "Eeny,
meeny, miny, mo"? The word "gyp"?
Of course, Hyde-Smith, being Southern and white and a Republican,
refused to acknowledge there was something fucked up with what she said,
aside from the anodyne bullshit of "Sorry if I offended you." She could
have quickly come out and made a statement like, "I understand that
some of the things we say come from a time when we did terrible things
to people. I apologize for saying it, and we all need to learn to do
better." But, you know, she didn't. She couldn't. She dug in her heels
and said that anyone who thought she was racist was a damn liar.
It was a signal to those Southern, white Republicans who will vote for
her that she has their racist, Confederacy-humping backs. "You don't
have to move beyond your barbaric prejudices, you dumb fucks," she's
telling them. "Your bigotry and ignorance is safe with me."
And thus, their economic anxiety soothed, the white working class went
about its business of telling everyone how the Civil War wasn't about
slavery.
We have learned since that moment that Cindy Hyde-Smith is not only a
racist piece of shit (even if we pretty much knew that prior to the
lynching remark) but that she's a shit human all around. For instance,
the rest of that little talk in Tupelo on November 2 is filled with
stuff that shit humans say.
There's one Planned Parenthood in all of Mississippi, in Hattiesburg,
and it doesn't do abortions, but Hyde-Smith still whined, "Planned
Parenthood is one of the worst things that has ever happened to us." She
praised "distant relative" Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois (now quite
gratifyingly dead) for the budget amendment that prevents any federal
funds from being used for abortion, except the way she described him:
"Many of you may have heard of Sen. Henry Hyde from Oklahoma."
And she's totally willing to use a closer relative for a political prop:
"My daughter, on her second birthday, got a lifetime membership to the
NRA." Yes, that's what every toddler wants. Fuck Tickle-Me-Elmo with the
barrel of a shotgun. Baby loves 2A, motherfuckers.
You throw in the other things we've learned about and heard about Hyde-Smith - like
dressing
up like a Confederate soldier while visiting Jefferson Davis's house
and declaring it "Mississippi history at its best" or "joking" again
that there are "liberal folks" at historically black colleges and
universities "who maybe we don’t want to vote. Maybe we want to make it
just a little more difficult" to the revelation that she
attended
an all-white school that was created to get around integration laws
(the fucking school mascot was a Confederate officer and that fucking
flag of the defeated traitors flew there) to the fact that she sent the
aforementioned NRA member
daughter there - and she's just fucking awful, with a fucked up, constantly degrading and violent sense of
humor,
like every heinous stereotype of the dumbass, racist, hateful
Southerner wrapped into one cynical package of the polite Southern belle
who sounds kind and moral but is secretly poisoning the sweet tea she
serves to her husband so she can get the life insurance.
How cynical? As pointed out by a whole bunch of Republicans who wanted
her to lose in the primary, she was a Democrat until 2010. Yeah, she won
election twice as a Democrat in the state senate in a once-Democratic
district. When she decided to run for statewide office, Commissioner of
Agriculture, she switched to the GOP. Republicans are so fucking
terrible in Mississippi that they
accused Hyde-Smith of voting for Hillary Clinton in 2008, a scarlet H that she denied.
But the worst Republican is often a born-again Republican, and
Hyde-Smith has embraced the most virulent, hurtful side of the party.
Wait...that's the whole party. Anyways, she has essentially become
another one of Donald Trump's ass remoras, suctioned on to his corpulent
buttocks and hanging on no matter how erratically he moves. Want us to
vote against pre-existing condition coverage?
Sure, suck, suck, suck. Want me to degrade women by voting for Brett Kavanaugh?
You bet,
suck, suck, suck. She's just devouring away on Trump's ass, downing
dead skin scraps and parasites that she hopes will get her a few more
votes.
Jesus fuckballs Christ, tonight's rally with Trump is gonna be a sight,
with Hyde-Smith just stuck on Trump's pants as he bitches and preens and
yells and does the rest of his tiresome shtick.
C'mon, Mississippi. You don't have to be this anymore. You can step into
the goddamn light of the present with Mike Espy. You can follow
Alabama, which, at least for one brief election, demonstrated that the
past can fucking die. You don't have to vote for a shit human like Cindy
Hyde-Smith. You can evolve.
(Note: Don't hold your breath.)
