Posted on 08/24/2020 2:40:49 PM PDT by grundle
Wikipedia says Richard Spencer
“is an American neo-Nazi, anti-semitic conspiracy theorist and white supremacist”
Spencer just made this tweet: (original, archive)
The text of Spencer’s tweet says:
“I plan to vote for Biden and a straight democratic ticket. It’s not based on “accelerationism” or anything like that; the liberals are clearly more competent people.”
Here’s why I’m not surprised.
The New York Times wrote the following about Joe Biden:
Joe Biden on Crime and Mass Incarceration
During the ’80s and ’90s, Mr. Biden helped shepherd a string of bills that transformed the criminal justice system – and, experts say, hurt America’s black communities.
As Joseph R. Biden Jr. makes his third run for the White House, he is being pressed to answer for his role in legislation that criminal justice experts say helped lay the groundwork for the mass incarceration that has devastated America’s black communities.
During the 1980s and 1990s, when Mr. Biden was a senator from Delaware, he and other leaders of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee helped fashion a string of bills that overhauled the country’s crime laws.
Among the most significant were: the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which established mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses; the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which imposed harsher sentences for possession of crack than for possession of powder cocaine; and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which was essentially a catchall tough-on-crime bill.
That New York Times article links to this other New York Times article, which says:
Now, more than 25 years later, as Mr. Biden makes his third run for the White House in a crowded field of Democrats – many calling for ambitious criminal justice reform — he must answer for his role in legislation that criminal justice experts and his critics say helped lay the groundwork for the mass incarceration that has devastated America’s black communities. That he worked with segregationists to write the bills — an issue that recently dominated the political news and seems likely to resurface in Mr. Biden’s first debate on Thursday – has only added to his challenge. So has the fact that black voters are such a crucial Democratic constituency.
So it’s largely because of Biden that the punishment for crack cocaine is more severe than the punishment for powder cocaine. And Biden worked with segregationists to create this policy. And it has devastated the black community.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post wrote the following about Donald Trump:
3,100 inmates to be released as Trump administration implements criminal justice reform
The announcement came at a news conference to discuss the Trump administration’s progress on putting into place the First Step Act, a criminal justice bill President Trump signed into law in December.
Since the act’s passage, Rosen said, 1,691 people convicted of crack cocaine offenses also have received sentence reductions. That is because the measure retroactively applied a different sentencing law meant to resolve the disparity between penalties for those convicted of possessing crack cocaine and those convicted of possessing powder cocaine.
So it’s largely because of Trump that the sentencing disparities between crack cocaine and powder cocaine are being reduced and/or eliminated.
Meanwhile, the New York Times wrote the following about Kamala Harris:
Ms. Harris fought tooth and nail to uphold wrongful convictions that had been secured through official misconduct that included evidence tampering, false testimony and the suppression of crucial information by prosecutors.
Consider her record as San Francisco’s district attorney from 2004 to 2011. Ms. Harris was criticized in 2010 for withholding information about a police laboratory technician who had been accused of “intentionally sabotaging” her work and stealing drugs from the lab. After a memo surfaced showing that Ms. Harris’s deputies knew about the technician’s wrongdoing and recent conviction, but failed to alert defense lawyers, a judge condemned Ms. Harris’s indifference to the systemic violation of the defendants’ constitutional rights.
Ms. Harris contested the ruling by arguing that the judge, whose husband was a defense attorney and had spoken publicly about the importance of disclosing evidence, had a conflict of interest. Ms. Harris lost. More than 600 cases handled by the corrupt technician were dismissed.
Ms. Harris also championed state legislation under which parents whose children were found to be habitually truant in elementary school could be prosecuted, despite concerns that it would disproportionately affect low-income people of color.
She also defended Johnny Baca’s conviction for murder even though judges found a prosecutor presented false testimony at the trial. She relented only after a video of the oral argument received national attention and embarrassed her office.
And then there’s Kevin Cooper, the death row inmate whose trial was infected by racism and corruption. He sought advanced DNA testing to prove his innocence, but Ms. Harris opposed it. (After The New York Times’s exposé of the case went viral, she reversed her position.)
So Harris knowingly and deliberately kept innocent people in prison.
Harris opposed DNA testing that would have proved that someone on death row was actually innocent.
Spencer’s use of the word “liberal” in his tweet is not an accurate description of the actions of Biden or Harris that are described in those New York Times articles.
No real “liberal” would do those things.
Only an authoritarian would do those things.
Only in the fantasy-land concocted by the Democrat media is Trump any sort of friend to a neo-Nazi like Richard Spencer. He’s an anti-capitalist who favors socialized medicine and is obsessed with identity politics. The Democrat Party is a natural fit for nuts like him, as it always has been.
Biden and Harris are teamed up to keep African Americans on the reservation. Trump is trying to give them jobs so they can run their own lives. Of course a white supremacist hates Trump.
Wasn’t it Spencer who followed Obama voter, Jason Kessler, to Charlottesville?
How can this be? According to the MSM, President Trump is the racist.
No current Democrats are liberals.
who cares??????????????
Fits right in to the panty-fuh democommie mind set.
A racist voting for the party of racism...makes perfect sense.
The liberals are “clearly more competent people”?! True. When it comes to destroying America’s values, principles and common decency...they’re masters!
This appear in the MSM anywhere?
When Dinesh D’Souza pointed out that these guys vote Democrat the media howled that Dinesh had communicated with white supremacists (because that’s what a journalist does, interviews people).
Lol. A demonRAT answer for his acts? When pigs fly.
And you are a grumpy old ass. He posted the whole article so your poor little anti-blog sensibilities would not be offended by having to click to read more. Douchebag.
Every 'right-wing' event he organizes ends up making his supporters look like Nazis, idiots, or violent thugs.
At least he didn’t excerpt it. So no need to open it unless so inclined.
Goodness, you seem upset.
Odd that it doesn’t bother you that some blogwanker presumes to educate you.
Why not? The Democrat Party is the Party of Racism. It always has been. It’s the Party of Slavery and the Ku Klux Klan.
You need to be educated
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