Let’s face it: Marsha Blackburn is no Spring chicken. It’s been almost 60 years since her beauty queen days, with her most prominent win coming in the contest to name the Oil Festival Queen in Laurel, Mississippi—the same year as the first moon landing and a year before the Beatles broke up.
For some more recent context, Senator Blackburn became eligible to receive her Social Security even before Trump was elected the first time.
Yes, Marsha has been around a long time, plenty long to wind her way from selling Bibles door-to-door in Mississippi to the peak of legislative power in the United States Senate.
Over the decades, she has learned a lot about satisfying fascist billionaire donors who now decide the direction of what was once the Party of Lincoln. Her most recent corporate donors feature a private prison corporation, Core Civic, and the payday lending predator, Advance Financial.
By sponsoring a bill in 2009 to require presidential candidates to show their birth certificates, Marsha proved herself as an early promoter of “birtherism” in the House of Representatives. And so was born her alliance with the likes of serial bankruptcy expert and laughingstock of Manhattan, Donald J. Trump.
Isn’t it time for relics like Donald and Marsha to waddle off together into the sunset, joined as they are in all things hateful and conspiratorial?
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