This is fucking awful:
A noxious ad that accuses "white Democrats" of returning to "race verdicts" and lynchings "when a white girl screams rape" has been airing on St. Louis radio in support of Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley.
In the ad, two black women discuss the recent Kavanaugh hearings and suggest that they could mean big trouble for the men in their lives. Republicans, one woman suggests, know that it's "dangerous to change the presumption of innocence to a presumption of guilt — especially for black men. .... What will happen to our husbands, our fathers, our sons, when a white girl lies on them?"
"White Democrats will be lynching black folk again," the second woman says.
"Honey, I always told my son, don't be messing around with that," the first woman says. "If you get caught, she will cry rape."
The ad is being paid for by a West Virginia-based political action committee calling itself Black Americans for the President's Agenda. It's reportedly also airing in Kansas City and in Arkansas, where someone captured audio of the local version and uploaded it to Twitter.
It gets worse:
A North Carolina-based political action committee has spent nearly $30,000 on the ads, and is facing widespread backlash for similar spots running in other states.
The lynching-themed Missouri ad features two African-American women discussing the treatment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation hearings and contends that African-American men will be presumed guilty if accused of rape.
“Black folk will be catching hell again,” one of the women says in the ad, which is referred to as the “Emmett Till” ad in an audio file that was shared with McClatchy. Till was an African-American teen lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman.
Another of the group’s Missouri ads accuses McCaskill, the Democratic incumbent who supports abortion rights, of not caring “that black babies that are aborted three times more likely than white babies,” said Vernon Robinson, the treasurer of Black Americans for the President’s Agenda, which has paid for ads in St. Louis and Kansas City.
In the ad, two African Americans discuss photos of their grandchildren. The conversation then pivots to abortion.
“Josh Hawley and the Republicans know that black babies matter… And it looks like to me the only black lives that matter to Claire McCaskill are the ones that have a pulse and can make it to the polls to vote for her,” the one woman says in the ad.
Robinson, a black 63-year-old activist and former congressional candidate who led the effort to draft Ben Carson for president
in 2015, called the ad “payback” for the Kavanaugh hearings, according to the fringe conservative site Populist Media.
Robinson told The Washington Post the ad was born out of a simple calculation: that black voters — “a constituency that Democrats have to win,” he said — could be persuaded to fear the specter of false rape allegations.
“The #MeToo movement overreached,” he said. “If Claire McCaskill gets less than 90 percent [of the black vote], she loses.”
This isn’t the only sleazy, disgusting bull shit the GOP has played on McCaskill’s campaign:
Today's episode of the hit show of our new fall season, Election 2018: What Is This Shit, Anyway? begins in Missouri, where Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill is in trouble because, every six years, Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill always is in trouble. This time around, however, she's not running against rape-explainer Todd Akin, but against the state's Republican Attorney General Josh Hawley. It seems that her campaign was clipped this week by agents of king ratfcker James O'Keefe and his Project Veritas. From The Kansas City Star:
In one video, a McCaskill staffer says that the senator downplays her support for gun control. Another staffer suggests she is downplaying her support from former President Barack Obama. In another video, McCaskill is accused of trying to hide her support from Planned Parenthood. McCaskill’s campaign has dismissed the videos, saying the senator has never tried to hide her positions on the issues from voters and the video contained nothing she hasn’t said publicly before.
So, an organization the founder of which was convicted of entering a federal building under false pretenses is now saying that a candidate might be downplaying certain elements of her positions to get elected? Ratfcker, fck thyself.
However, on Thursday, as the Star reports, the McCaskill campaign bumped up the pot considerably.
An employee of Project Veritas approached McCaskill’s campaign in May and expressed an interest in volunteering and interning on the campaign, according to an affidavit from McCaskill’s Columbia field director Luke Tonant. As an intern, the Project Veritas employee, who Tonant knew as “Adam Thomson,” had access to the campaign’s voter information database for a total of 20 hours between May and July, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit is part of a 115-page complaint McCaskill’s attorney filed with Hawley’s office Thursday in an effort to pressure the Republican attorney general and McCaskill’s opponent to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether Project Veritas violated Missouri law in the course of obtaining the videos.
If the allegations in the affidavit are true, and some of the data was purloined, and the purloined data ended up in the Hawley campaign, then I would suspect we're looking at a pretty hefty computer fraud and computer theft prosecution that would be undertaken by the Missouri attorney general's office. Unfortunately, Missouri's attorney general is...Josh Hawley.
The GOP is so desperate to stop the Blue Wave from happening because McCaskill has been calling out Hawley’s lies when it comes to voters health care:
A once-obscure health insurance buzzword — pre-existing conditions — is taking over the U.S. Senate race in Missouri. And the seemingly narrow issue could have a wider effect on the federal health care law, depending on whether Republicans maintain control of the Senate after the Nov. 6 midterm election.
Before 2014, when parts of the so-called Affordable Care Act took effect, insurance companies could deny coverage to customers who already had been diagnosed with anything from diabetes to depression.
Almost a third of people in Missouri have pre-existing conditions, and GOP Senate candidate Josh Hawley has said he’s looking out for them, especially because his oldest son has an unspecified chronic joint disease. That is, a pre-existing condition.
“We know what that’s like,” Hawley said in a television ad.
But Democrats and incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill have called out Hawley for what they say is double dealing. That’s because as attorney general, Hawley brought the state into a lawsuit with 19 other Republican-led states that’s aiming to get the federal health care law thrown out on the grounds that it’s unconstitutional.
The lawsuit, McCaskill said Monday on KCUR’s Up To Date, could undermine health care across the board.
“If that lawsuit is successful, it leaves a whole lot of people, and potentially millions of Missourians in a position that they can no longer access coverage just like it was before the ACA,” she said.
Hawley is campaigning behind a plan that he pledges will force insurers to cover pre-existing conditions, though aside from an op-ed in the Springfield News-Leader in August, he hasn’t provided many details.
Even some Republicans aren’t buying Hawley’s bull shit that he spewed in his debate against McCaskill:
While many in his party may have loved his fact-challenged but cheerful pugilism, none of those I interviewed on their way out of the debate did.
“Never in my life did I think I’d ever vote for Claire McCaskill,” said former Republican National Convention delegate Lynn Schmidt, a nurse in St. Charles County. But “Senator McCaskill will be getting my vote,” said Schmidt, who said that’s because she wants some checks and balances on President Donald Trump and found Hawley disingenuous. “It was all canned political speech,’’ she said. “I didn’t feel there was anything true or real in his responses, other than to attack Senator McCaskill.”
Hawley characterized McCaskill’s fairly hawkish views as supporting “weakness and appeasement.” He said he was surprised to hear her say she was fine with insurance premiums going up when she said no such thing. He claimed she wants to take away Second Amendment rights for law-abiding citizens, when no, she doesn’t.
But the answer that bothered Schmidt most was what Hawley said about McCaskill cutting Medicare to pay for the Affordable Care Act. (Thursday night, fact checkers said that “for years, PolitiFact has been skeptical of numerous previous claims that Obamacare cuts Medicare. Medicare spending continues to rise, but it will climb at a slower pace than without the law. The law reduced future spending for Medicare by targeting reductions in payments to health care providers.)
What bothered Schmidt, though, was when McCaskill tried to explain that, and Hawley answered that, “She can characterize it and go put as much lipstick on it as she wants, but the truth is she voted to cut” Medicare.
“That infuriated me as a woman,” Schmidt said. Two others in the crowd, one of them a man, also mentioned feeling insulted by the “lipstick” comment.
And McCaskill has been pointing out that Hawley will join Mitch McConnell’s (R. KY) crusade to gut Social Security and Medicare:
Sen. Claire McCaskill this week spent less than $500 on campaign funds to reach tens of thousands of Facebook viewers with a message that could impact the final days of Missouri’s Senate race.
It’s a tried-and-true Democratic message: That Republicans are coming after your Social Security and Medicare.
Democrats have used this tactic to effective results in past campaign, in particular, in 1986 and then again in 2006, when they flipped control of the U.S. Senate from Republicans. McCaskill was first elected in 2006 after she attacked Republican incumbent Jim Talent for belonging to a party that was talking about “privatizing” parts of Social Security as a long-term solution. Talent.
“Uh oh,” McCaskill tweeted in the Facebook ad. “Like the sun coming up in the morning. Tax cuts for the wealthy... now Republicans planning cuts to Social Security and Medicare to cover the increasing deficit they caused. Not on my watch.”
“It’s disappointing but it’s not a Republican problem,” McConnell told Bloomberg News when asked about the $779 billion deficit in President Donald Trump’s first full fiscal year in office, up 17 percent from the previous year. “It’s a bipartisan problem: Unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the demographics of America in the future.”
I am so fucking infuriated with this bull shit! If you are too, let’s help McCaskill defeat Hawley and his racist backers. Click below to donate and get involved with McCaskill and her fellow Missouri Democrats campaigns: