Cruz reminds AOC the Democrats founded the KKK and

[WTH_Progs?]

If AOC had a point she'd have made one. She didn't. As Democrat's do when they can't defend FACTS, she simply threw the race card with no substance behind it.

 

[Augustine_]

If AOC had a point she'd have made one. She didn't. As Democrat's do when they can't defend FACTS, she simply threw the race card with no substance behind it.

Someone should remind Cruz that the KKK is a wholly republican organization in 2023

 

[themirrorthief]

Someone should remind Cruz that the KKK is a wholly republican organization in 2023

does that mean Joe has to give up his lifelong membership

 

[Thinker101]

If AOC had a point she'd have made one. She didn't. As Democrat's do when they can't defend FACTS, she simply threw the race card with no substance behind it.

AOC thinks this is KKK.

 

[candycorn]

It was 150 years ago. The parties have changed.

 

[Moonglow]

If AOC had a point she'd have made one. She didn't. As Democrat's do when they can't defend FACTS, she simply threw the race card with no substance behind it.

I see Cruz has no idea who started the KKK, one guesses, it was not the Democratic Party.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

That was an epic slap down

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Someone should remind Cruz that the KKK is a wholly republican organization in 2023

Link it

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I see Cruz has no idea who started the KKK, one guesses, it was not the Democratic Party.

It wasn't the party but it was democrats.

No way around that one

 

[Moonglow]

It wasn't the party but it was democrats.

No way around that one

It was created by sore losers like the Trumpettes.

 

[Moonglow]

Is Cruz trying to prove he's not a Cuaban Canadian?

 

[Synthaholic]

If AOC had a point she'd have made one. She didn't. As Democrat's do when they can't defend FACTS, she simply threw the race card with no substance behind it.

Notice that Cancun Cruz is using Democrat/Republican, not Liberal/Conservative. Because he knows that his followers are dumbasses who don't know that in the 1800s Democrats were Conservatives and Republicans, like Abraham Lincoln, were Liberals.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

It was created by sore losers like the Trumpettes.

Dude Trumpettes didn't exist in the late 1800s.

You're just being stupid

The democrats own slavery, Dred Scott, opposing civil rights.... it's fact

 

[Moonglow]

Dude Trumpettes didn't exist in the late 1800s.

You're just being stupid

The democrats own slavery, Dred Scott, opposing civil rights.... it's fact

Trumpettes are the current lot of disgruntled losers ready to shit on elections and claim they are stolen. I have noticed the Confederate flag is flown by Republicans nowadays when I was growing up in the 196s it was Democrats.

 

[BULLDOG]

It wasn't the party but it was democrats.

No way around that one

Can't get past history. Democrats were all up in the KKK a century or two ago. You caught us. Fortunately, the democratic party change long ago, and republicans have been the home of the KKK since then. The KKK has even campaigned for republican candidates for years. They are your's now.

 

[Synthaholic]

I love it when Kruse slaps down Cruz.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Can't get past history. Democrats were all up in the KKK a century or two ago. You caught us. Fortunately, the democratic party change long ago, and republicans have been the home of the KKK since then. The KKK has even campaigned for republican candidates for years. They are your's now.

BS... but at least you didn't try that comical the parties switched

You loons are too easy

 

[BULLDOG]

Dude Trumpettes didn't exist in the late 1800s.

You're just being stupid

The democrats own slavery, Dred Scott, opposing civil rights.... it's fact

It's silly that you still think the actions of the Democratic party a century ago has anything to do with it now.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

It's silly that you still think the actions of the Democratic party a century ago has anything to do with it now.

When was it the Dems fought the Civil Rights Act? Wasn't a century ago you history challenged jackass

 

[Synthaholic]

Kruse just fucking kicks Cruz' ASS!!!

Hey there, @tedcruz! Let's take a quick tour through the Texas Republican Party's history in the civil rights era!

As I've noted repeatedly on here, the first wave of Southern Republicans in the 1950s and 1960s largely showed the same support of segregation as Southern Democrats.

Texas Republicans in the 1950s and 1960s fit that pattern well.

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For instance, when the Brown ruling was handed down in 1954, the Texas GOP nominee for governor attacked the Court and promised he would preserve segregation if elected.

He went so far as to criticize Texas Democrats for failing to take a "positive stand for segregation."
Or consider the first Texas Republican elected to the House after Reconstruction, Bruce Alger of Dallas.

In 1956, he blamed the Brown decision on Democrats and insisted the GOP deserved credit for the "separate but equal" segregation doctrine.

(From Ed Miller's Nut Country
Look at the first Texas Republican Senator after Reconstruction -- Sen. John Tower, elected in 1961.

He filled the seat held by LBJ, who shepherded the 1957 & 1960 Civil Rights Acts in the Senate and later pushed for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as president.

Tower opposed that:
When it came time for the Senate to vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Republican Sen. John Tower voted against it, while Texas's other senator -- Ralph Yarborough, a rare liberal Southern Democrat -- voted for it.


HR. 7152. PASSAGE. -- Senate Vote #409 -- Jun 19, 1964This was the Senate vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. See also the final House vote.https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s409

After Sen. Yarborough voted for the Civil Rights Act, the Texas Republican running against him in the 1964 election -- George H.W. Bush -- stressed his own opposition to the bill in campaign ads and tried to use Yarborough's support for civil rights against him.
The stance Tower and Bush took against the Civil Rights Act with the larger approach of the Texas GOP.

In the House, Rep. Alger and Rep. Edgar Foreman -- the only two Texas Republicans there -- both voted against it too.

Most Dems did as well, but a handful broke ranks:
Both Alger and Foreman lost in 1964, so they didn't have a chance to vote on the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

But John Tower was still there as the lone Texas Republican left in Congress.

He voted no.


TO PASS S. 1564, THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965. -- Senate Vote #78 -- May 26, 1965Senate Vote #78 in 1965, in the United States Congress.https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/s78

Three years later, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 in tribute to recently assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

This time, though, John Tower didn't vote against it!

Instead, he bravely decided not to vote at all.


TO PASS H.R. 2516, A BILL TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN … -- Senate Vote #346 -- Mar 11, 1968Senate Vote #346 in 1968, in the United States Congress.https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/90-1968/s346

To his credit, George H.W. Bush -- then in the House -- voted *for* the 1968 Civil Rights Act, while the other Texas Republican in that chamber voted against it.
So the record of Texas Republicans on civil rights measures was *pretty* bad in the 1950s and 1960s -- worse even than Texas Democrats, who usually gave at least a few of votes in favor of civil rights measures.
Again, the lesson here isn't that Southern Democrats were all saints and Southern Republicans were all sinners. It's that *both* parties have past ties to white supremacy.

Anyone telling you it's just one party or the other is either ignorant of US history, or hoping you are.
As for the issue of Richard Spencer's effort to troll the Biden campaign with an endorsement, well, I think @tedcruz knows better than anyone that not all political endorsements are sincere.