Democrat pulls out a KKK-melted clock, drops it on the GOP mid-hearing, then asks the question that ties Stephen Miller

[sheshe2]

But Democratic Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon wasn’t having it. She delivered a blistering rebuke, directly linking the attack to what she called the Trump administration’s embrace of white nationalist ideology after the Department of Justice indicted the civil rights activist group in April.

The Pennsylvania congresswoman opened by invoking a piece of history that still hangs on the SPLC’s wall: a clock melted by the KKK’s 1983 firebombing of the organization’s Montgomery, Alabama, headquarters.

“This melted clock, which was frozen in time by the KKK firebombing, still hangs in SPLC headquarters as a reminder of the very real dangers of defending American civil liberties from hate,” Scanlon said during a May 20 hearing.

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“In the past year, we’ve seen pardons of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who orchestrated the violent January 6th attack, the DOJ hiding from the public government research confirming that right-wing extremism poses the biggest domestic terrorism threat to our nation,” she said, adding that the White House had issued directives to target left-leaning nonprofits “without evidence.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrat-pulls-out-a-kkk-melted-clock-drops-it-on-the-gop-mid-hearing-then-asks-the-question-that-ties-stephen-miller-directly-to-white-nationalism/ar-AA26fl8f

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“They’re trying to turn back the clock and drag America backward into some of the darkest days of our past.”

[RandomNumbers]

1. Rep. Scanlon is right on target.

I hope we can get a few more views and recs for this. (and recs over at Youtube also)

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. K&R

[brer cat]

3. Rep. Sconlon is right; they want to take us back to the darkness.

I will never forget, never forgive.

[calimary]

4. They're trying to turn back the clock (to the Bad Old Days)?

NOT if WE can stop it!!!

If it comes from Trump, I already know to say NO!!!

[Marcuse]

5. Yes. That's what MAGA means. Great for whom? Not for all.

[Alice Kramden]

6. K&R

[Martin68]

7. For those who accuse Democrats of doing nothing, pay attention! This is epic!

[sheshe2]

9. Thank you, Martin.

I agree.

[SouthBayDem]

11. Regarding "do something!" rhetoric,

I find much of it to be quite ill informed, with a desire to be entertained and titillated by grandstanding without consideration of the Constitution or current legislative majorities.

[Pinback]

8. Good messaging.

The horrors are not far beneath the surface still.

[oasis]

10. KKKMAGA

[Bayard]

12. K&R

[Blue Owl]

13. Nosferatu needs to be sealed in his crypt for eternity

[OldBaldy1701E]

15. No way.

Drag his undead ass into the sunlight!

[electric_blue68]

14. Woah that clock., i don't think I knew/rem about that bombing. Definately knew about rhe SPLC

[SergeStorms]

16. Bingo.

Fascism and white nationalism are kicking down our nation's front door, and all TrumpCo. does is supply more battering rams to aid them.

Thank you, Representative Mary Gay Scanlon!

[malaise]

17. K & R

Well done