A new normal? Florida Man running for Congress calls for 'extinguishing' the left
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...for-Congress-calls-for-extinguishing-the-left
Oh, man, red state Republicans really don’t like Democrats, do they? What could have possibly sparked these DEFCON 1 levels of outrage? Is it the
billions in tax dollars blue states funnel to red states through the big, bad federal gubmint? Was it
President Joe Biden trying to save their pure, unvaxxed bodies from their
Trump-infected brains? Or maybe—and this seems like the more likely answer—they can’t brook seeing LGBTQ+ and other traditionally marginalized people poking their heads out from the margins, asking to be treated like first-class citizens. Life is a zero-sum game, after all. If you get a cookie and then, 10 minutes later, your brother gets a cookie too, it logically follows that you’re now starving.
Of course, we know all about this hate. We feel this hate. It’s long hung over our heads like a
lavatory chandelier as we try to choose between the latest edition of
“Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader” and our nation’s contingency plan for invading
Greenland and
keeping all the fish oil.
That said, former Florida state representative and
current GOP congressional hopeful Anthony Sabatini is really heating up the rhetoric lately.
This is the kind of rant you normally reserve for your diary before burning it in a crematory and burying the ashes in a lead-lined safe below Area 51. But here Sabatini was—the
actual chair of the Lake County, Florida, GOP—saying
all the quiet stuff out loud as he spoke at the June 17 Florida Teenage RepublicansYouth Summit in Leesburg, Florida. In the video, which Lauren Windsor, executive producer and creator of the web show
The Undercurrent, recently shared on Twitter, the
Jesse Helms-loving Sabatini is heard but not seen. Which is probably for the best, honestly. But what you do hear is simply gobsmacking.
Watch:
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