Photo of McConnell:

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

[FirstLight]

1. who is that guy?

I'm not getting it...

[oberliner]

3. Are you asking who Mitch McConnell is?

[FirstLight]

4. no...the guy he's with!

I am not able to remember him

[oberliner]

8. I think the point is that he is standing in front of a giant Confederate flag

Getting an award from some representative of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

[FirstLight]

10. I knew the flag was god awful...

just wondered who that other guy was...

[oberliner]

15. Gotcha

I don't think the other person in the photo has been identified.

[Iggo]

19. It's the wall-covering in the background.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. That does it. I'm never voting for that clown.

[EffieBlack]

5. Wow! Thanks for posting! I had no idea McConnell wasn't a bigot

It's important to know since that surely should make a difference in how we deal with racism in our own party.

Thanks!

[TDale313]

6. He should resign.

He won’t, but he should.

[applegrove]

9. The right has no shame.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. Gosh, I wonder what *his* base thinks about that?

[applegrove]

11. I know. They like traitors.

[Fuzzpope]

20. "My hero!!!"

"Sw000000nnnnnn"

[paleotn]

12. Par for the course

for a modern Rethug. They've been doing this shit since the development of the southern strategy and incorporating the dixicrats.

[Kingofalldems]

13. Kick and rec.

[treestar]

14. He's a Republicans, so it helps him

And stupid. KY was not a seceding state.

[BigmanPigman]

16. I just noticed that Lawrence O'Donnell posted it.

[Hotler]

17. Kicking nt

[procon]

18. Posing with a terrorist flag, how is that

any different than if he stood with a Nazi flag or the ISIS flag?

At the least ethics should investigate. But his resignation is warranted.

[world wide wally]

21. The goal of the Confederate states was to overthrow the "Unites States"

Is that considered treason?