Jeff Sessions' Attack on Jones Backfires

[Lisa's voting Biden]

https://twitter.com/jeffsessions/status/1271574937879314442?s=20

Doug Jones' Response:
https://twitter.com/DougJones/status/1271830734936969217?s=20

[Upstater]

I wouldn't expect more from the person whose middle name was that of a Confederate general.

[voice_of_resistance]

I wouldn't expect more from the person whose middle name was that of a Confederate general.

and first name

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

[Roblox]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

Yeah he's probably the best of the centrist/moderate democrats in the senate.

[Anna Komnene]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

Yeah he represents a community (southern blacks and southern dems more broadly) that usually has pretty much no voice in the Senate, which is really important when it comes to ensuring policies get designed in ways that actually help them. I like how on his website he actually gives examples of the things he's managed to do for Alabama despite never being in the majority. It's kind of refreshing to see. He also provides constituent services to people who normally wouldn't have anyone to turn to and jobs in his offices for AL dems that normally wouldn't have the chance to serve in those types of jobs. I guess the Senate Dem caucus could make up for it a little if they manage to pick off one of the Georgia seats, but it would still be a big loss. I'll always remember eating pulled jackfruit and collared greens while following the returns in his special election!

[Roblox]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

Yeah he's probably the best of the centrist/moderate democrats in the senate.

He's far-left. Not a moderate in any sense.

lol.

[Brittain33]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

Yeah he's probably the best of the centrist/moderate democrats in the senate.

He's far-left. Not a moderate in any sense.

A homework assignment for you. Please compare Doug Jones's policies and record to his colleagues Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and then come back to us.

Simply having the support of African-American voters and opposing glorifying the Confederacy doesn't make someone "far-left," Yellowhammer.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Douggie!

[KaiserDave]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

Yeah he's probably the best of the centrist/moderate democrats in the senate.

He's far-left. Not a moderate in any sense.

A homework assignment for you. Please compare Doug Jones's policies and record to his colleagues Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and then come back to us.

Simply having the support of African-American voters and opposing glorifying the Confederacy doesn't make someone "far-left," Yellowhammer.

If you're even slightly to the left of center (by US standards) you're a Marxist Leninist according to YH

[Progressive Pessimist]

As if things couldn't get any worse for Beauregard.

I'm going to miss Dougie Jones. Maybe he'll be Biden's Attorney General if he becomes President?

[Landslide Lyndon]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

Yeah he's probably the best of the centrist/moderate democrats in the senate.

He's far-left. Not a moderate in any sense.

If you lived in Germany during the '30s, chances are you'd say the same for Hitler.

[DrScholl]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

Yeah he's probably the best of the centrist/moderate democrats in the senate.

He's far-left. Not a moderate in any sense.

Anyone to the left of Steve King is far-left to extremists like you.

[Yellowhammer]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

Yeah he's probably the best of the centrist/moderate democrats in the senate.

He's far-left. Not a moderate in any sense.

If you lived in Germany during the '30s, chances are you'd say the same for Hitler.

Well Hitler really was a far-Left socialist, so of course I would criticize him as such.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

Yeah he's probably the best of the centrist/moderate democrats in the senate.

He's far-left. Not a moderate in any sense.

If you lived in Germany during the '30s, chances are you'd say the same for Hitler.

Well Hitler really was a far-Left socialist, so of course I would criticize him as such.

"You have nothing to lose but your chains," and "Arbeit macht frei," really vibe with each other.

[Trump v. Wong Kim Ark]

I wouldn't expect more from the person whose middle name was that of a Confederate general.

and first name

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is a name so southern that if life was a book, the editor would tell the author to dial back on the stereotypes.

[Cashew]

Are you sure it backfired? Sure by twitter standards it was a disaster but I would expect the average white Alabamian to be more upset by Doug Jones response than by Sessions defense of the Confederacy.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The character and decency of the Confederate Army:

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war

In perhaps the most heinous known example of abuse, Confederate soldiers shot to death black Union soldiers captured at the Fort Pillow, TN, engagement of 1864. Confederate General Nathan B. Forrest witnessed the massacre and did nothing to stop it.

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2013/06/30/Confederates-slave-hunt-in-North-a-military-disgrace/stories/201306300221


https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/how-confederates-kidnapped-and-enslaved-blacks-at-gettysburg-c5993631d4bf

For example, Rachel Cormany, who lived in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, recorded one tragic scene in her diary:

    [The Confederates] were hunting up the contrabands and driving them off by droves. O! How it grated on our hearts to have to sit quietly and look at such brutal deeds — I saw no men among the contrabands — all women and children. Some of the colored people who were raised here were taken along — I sat on the front step as they were driven by just like we would drive cattle…

Say it with me, these were free citizens of the state of PENNSYLVANIA, being kidnapped by Lee's Army and sent back as slaves. They didn't care, they weren't looking for papers, they looking for color and if you were black regardless of whether you had escaped yesterday or had been born free in PA, they took you. This is the kind of stuff you associate with WWII.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

Yeah he's probably the best of the centrist/moderate democrats in the senate.

He's far-left. Not a moderate in any sense.

For you Barry Goldwater would probably be a "leftist".

[EastAnglianLefty]

Are you sure it backfired? Sure by twitter standards it was a disaster but I would expect the average white Alabamian to be more upset by Doug Jones response than by Sessions defense of the Confederacy.

I agree the argument probably doesn't help Jones, but I don't think he was winning the votes of many supporters of the Confederacy anyway.

[Rural Radical2]

Has there been any polling of the Alabama race?

I dont expect Jones to hold on of course, though he may get within 10 points or so.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Are you sure it backfired? Sure by twitter standards it was a disaster but I would expect the average white Alabamian to be more upset by Doug Jones response than by Sessions defense of the Confederacy.

I agree the argument probably doesn't help Jones, but I don't think he was winning the votes of many supporters of the Confederacy anyway.

I would wager on a scale of most pro-confederate to least, AL-04 would be the most at this point and AL-07 would be the least, with the others ranged in between. How important this is and how effects the election for Senate I do not know but the usually Atlas/Talk Elections cliche applies so therefore, "discuss with maps".

[Lognog]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

Yeah he's probably the best of the centrist/moderate democrats in the senate.

He's far-left. Not a moderate in any sense.

If you lived in Germany during the '30s, chances are you'd say the same for Hitler.

Well Hitler really was a far-Left socialist, so of course I would criticize him as such.

Somehow your takes have gotten worse the further down this thread

[7,052,770]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

Yeah he's probably the best of the centrist/moderate democrats in the senate.

He's far-left. Not a moderate in any sense.

If you lived in Germany during the '30s, chances are you'd say the same for Hitler.

Well Hitler really was a far-Left socialist, so of course I would criticize him as such.

You can read Mein Kampf if you want to know Hitler's actual thoughts on socialism and the Left.

On second thought, I probably shouldn't be encouraging you read that book...

[MaxQue]

It's such a shame Jones is a toast come November. I'd love to see him getting a full term, not just because of the "D" letter

Yeah he's probably the best of the centrist/moderate democrats in the senate.

He's far-left. Not a moderate in any sense.

If you lived in Germany during the '30s, chances are you'd say the same for Hitler.

Well Hitler really was a far-Left socialist, so of course I would criticize him as such.

You can read Mein Kampf if you want to know Hitler's actual thoughts on socialism and the Left.

On second thought, I probably shouldn't be encouraging you read that book...

He obviously already read it.