#johnneelykennedy — Public Fediverse posts
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“I like omelets better than sex. Not really, but you get the point. You can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs.”
— Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), quoted by the Daily Beast, while talking about the cuts at USAID and referring to the agency’s workers “tofu-eating wokerati.”
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Perhaps anticipating questions like #JohnNeelyKennedy’s, Berry encouraged senators, despite their concerns about the Oct7 attacks, to focus on “the increase in #HateCrimes our country has experienced for nearly the last decade & the need for a whole-of-society approach that can effectively stem the tide of all #hate targeting all communities.”
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#Republican Sen #JohnNeelyKennedy of #Louisiana questioned #ArabAmerican Institute Exec Dir Maya Berry during a #Senate #Judiciary Cmte hearing, asking her whether she supported #Hamas, #Hezbollah or #Iran as she repeatedly told him NO. Berry tried to explain how assuming that an #Arab #American would support a foreign #terrorist organization or state was an example of the kind of thinking [#racism] that leads to #HateCrimes but was repeatedly cut off by Kennedy.
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Absolutely disgusting display of #GOP #racism
#GOP senator insults #ArabAmerican advocate: ‘Hide your head in a bag’
Sen #JohnNeelyKennedy, #Senate #Republican badgered the #Arab #American Institute Exec Dir Maya Berry during a hearing about #HateCrimes in #Congress w/questions about whether she supported #terrorist orgs, finally telling her that she should “hide your head in a bag.”#USpol #VoteBlue #AlwaysVoteBlue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/18/john-kennedy-arab-american-hamas/ -
We know that congressional hearings often deteriorate into partisan performances. But recently we saw a disturbing attempt by Republican senator John Neely Kennedy to pass off his racist ideology as fact while actual facts DO NOT support his narrative.
“Why do you think that Chicago has become America’s largest outdoor shooting range?” Kennedy asked.
#Louisiana was among the top 10 states with the highest firearm mortality rates in 2021.