Thread of #GOPsOwnWords and #GOPonCamera.
Use the words and actions of the @GOP against them. Ample evidence to be found from the most reliable sources - themselves.
#GOPTweets #GOPHypocrisy #GOPRacism #GOPAntiSemitism #RadicalRacistRepublicans
Use the words and actions of the @GOP against them. Ample evidence to be found from the most reliable sources - themselves.
#GOPTweets #GOPHypocrisy #GOPRacism #GOPAntiSemitism #RadicalRacistRepublicans
July 2019: @RandPaul avoids answering questions on his objection to the bill to continue funding for the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. Instead promotes Fox News. https://twitter.com/NY1/status/1151987487448784898?s=20
@senatemajldr Mitch McConnell 1998: "I am completely and utterly perplexed by those who argue that perjury and obstruction of justice are not high crimes and misdemeanors." https://twitter.com/IndivisibleNet/status/1144578173729828864?s=20
October 2018: Since-deleted tweet from then-House Majority Leader @kevinomccarthy https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1055170806949523458?s=20
2019: "When Trump and others in his party are accused of hostility to black people, Muslims, and Latinos," @PeterBeinart writes, "prominent conservatives set the standard for what constitutes bigotry so high that itâs almost impossible to meet." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/republicans-standards-nothing-racist/594223/
"Republicans donât give a damn about anti-Semitism. They just donât care. And weâll know for sure that they do when they ask these six white Republican men to resign from Congress." Five just won re-election in 2020.
https://interc.pt/2IcU5XK by @mehdirhasan
https://interc.pt/2IcU5XK by @mehdirhasan
Dec. 2018: @replouiegohmert "George Soros is supposed to be Jewish but you wouldn't know it from the damage he inflicted on Israel and the fact that he turned on fellow Jews & helped take the property that they owned." https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1070700253693792257?s=20
Screenshot of October 2018 @mattgaetz tweet (still online as of 11/28/20)
"If they were in America pushing the platform that they push, they would be Republicans," @SteveKingIA defending Nazi-linked Austrian Freedom Party in 2018. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/413601-steve-king-members-of-nazi-linked-party-in-austria-would-be-republicans-if
Texas Senator @JohnCornyn panicking about changing demographics in 2019.
https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1142414736572768256?s=20
https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1142414736572768256?s=20
Regarding Clinton's impeachment. https://twitter.com/dcpoll/status/1119405609621889024?s=19
January 2019: "Shahid Shafi will retain his role as vice-chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party despite a push from a small faction of precinct chairs to remove him from his post because he's Muslim." #TXGOP #Islamophobia https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/10/tarrant-county-gop-shahid-shafi-vote-muslim/
Threat @ 1:03. "Thereâs a lot of us in this room that have had enough, and itâs time to start riding herd on the rest of these people that want to take your rights away from you...They need to be kicked to the curb and stomped on and run over a few times." https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/02/gop-lawmaker-cal-bahr-calls-for-violence-against-democrats-supporting-gun-reform/
June 2019: OR State Senator Brian Boquist: "Send bachelors and come heavily armed. Iâm not going to be a political prisoner in the state of Oregon. Itâs just that simple.â #GOPThreats
https://twitter.com/PatDooris/status/1141464157574684673?s=19
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/06/oregon-republican-senator-issues-threat-to-state-troopers.html
https://twitter.com/PatDooris/status/1141464157574684673?s=19
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/06/oregon-republican-senator-issues-threat-to-state-troopers.html
June 2019: Carbon Hill AL mayor Mark Chambers posts apology after defending social media comments on killing LGBTQ people and Democrats.
Resigned in June 2020 after more controversial Facebook comments disparaging BLM.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2020/06/29/alabama-football-mayor-resigns-black-lives-matter/3280008001/ https://www.wsfa.com/2019/06/04/carbon-hill-mayor-defends-social-media-comments-killing-homosexuals-transgender-people-democrats/
Resigned in June 2020 after more controversial Facebook comments disparaging BLM.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2020/06/29/alabama-football-mayor-resigns-black-lives-matter/3280008001/ https://www.wsfa.com/2019/06/04/carbon-hill-mayor-defends-social-media-comments-killing-homosexuals-transgender-people-democrats/
June 2019: Florida Rep. @AnthonySabatini's reaction to a reporter assaulted at a Trump rally. https://twitter.com/michaeldamianw/status/1141300071893540864?s=20
Texas Governor @GregAbbott_TX's 2015 lament about the relative lack of gun sales in Texas compared to California.
2018: Kevin Nicholson, GOP US Senate Candidate from WI:
Military service is 'conservative value' and questioning Dem veterans' 'cognitive thought process' https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/may/02/military-service-conservative-value-and-questionin/
Military service is 'conservative value' and questioning Dem veterans' 'cognitive thought process' https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/may/02/military-service-conservative-value-and-questionin/
2019: "TN Senator Kerry Roberts calls higher education a 'liberal breeding ground,' calls to remove it all together while speaking about attending a recent abortion legislative hearing on his conservative radio talk show on Sept. 2." https://www.newschannel5.com/news/tennessee-senator-calls-higher-education-a-liberal-breeding-ground-calls-to-remove-it-all-together
September 2019: My AR-15 is 'ready for you', Texas lawmaker tells Beto O'Rourke #GOPThreats https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/13/my-ar-15-is-ready-for-you-texas-lawmaker-tells-beto-orourke
February 2018: Rep. Don Young of Alaska - âHow many millions of people were shot and killed because they were unarmed? Fifty million in Russia because their citizens werenât armed. How many Jews were put into the ovens because they were unarmed?â https://apnews.com/article/ee4f00133e4b4d41b9087757de1abc24
July 2019: Arizona State Sen. Sylvia Allen Warns the U.S. Will Soon 'Look Like South American Countries' http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-state-senator-fears-decline-of-white-birth-rate-11333367 via @phoenixnewtimes
September 2019 fundraising email from @kelliwardaz, Arizona GOP Chair:
âSupport the Republican Party of Arizona today and, together, weâll stop gun-grabber Mark Kelly dead in his tracks."
https://www.azfamily.com/kelli-ward-email/image_e899fbd4-d0f0-11e9-a642-c3f6c24e1a0a.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share via @azfamily
âSupport the Republican Party of Arizona today and, together, weâll stop gun-grabber Mark Kelly dead in his tracks."
https://www.azfamily.com/kelli-ward-email/image_e899fbd4-d0f0-11e9-a642-c3f6c24e1a0a.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share via @azfamily
June 2019: Rep. Chris Stewart, a Utah Republican who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, said Friday that it would be âfoolishâ not to take information from a foreign government pertaining to an election campaign. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/06/14/utah-rep-chris-stewart
@LindseyGrahamSC on Meet the Press in January 1999 regarding impeachment: "He doesn't have to say, 'Go lie for me,' to be a crime. You don't have to say, 'Let's obstruct justice' for it to be a crime. You judge people on their conduct, not magic phrases." https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1176898525365440512?s=20
October 2019: @marcorubio dismisses seriousness of Trump's calls for China to investigate Biden.
https://twitter.com/minhtngo/status/1180191914991087621?s=19
https://twitter.com/minhtngo/status/1180191914991087621?s=19
2016: Al Baldasaro "She is a disgrace for the lies that she told those mothers about their children that got killed over there in Benghazi...This whole thing disgusts me, Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2016/07/20/trump-veterans-adviser-won-t-apologize-for-saying-clinton-should-be-shot/
October 2017: Former Trump advisor Seb Gorka addresses the Family Research Council Values Voter Summit. https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/919221080945856512?s=20
October 2019: Sevier County, TN Commissioner Warren Hurst's homophobic comments referring to Pete Buttigieg. https://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/Fireworks-fly-at-Sevier-County-Commission-meeting--563596251.html
House Rep. @laurenboebert of Colorado regarding the events of January 6.
In light of Trump's second #impeachment, a non-exhaustive review of GOP reactions to the announcement of the first impeachment inquiry. https://twitter.com/amestr144/status/1177001252405809152?s=20
2017: @RepGosar suggests Charlottesville was George Sorosâbacked conspiracy https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3xwm7/paul-glosar-charlottesville-soros via @vicenews
June 2018: Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in response to hearing about a 10 year old with Down Syndrome separated from her mother at the border. https://twitter.com/axios/status/1009225287756902402?s=20
Thread of @GOP elected officials defending Trump's July 2019 Twitter attacks on the 'Squad'. https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1150907449228124160?s=20
November 2019: Danielle Stella, a Republican seeking to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar, was suspended from Twitter after her account posted Tuesday about killing the congresswoman.
https://go.shr.lc/2Y0untW - @washtimes
https://go.shr.lc/2Y0untW - @washtimes
Dec. 2019: A fundraising letter sent by the campaign of George Buck, a Republican running for Congress in St. Petersburg, suggested Ilhan Omar and other Democrats should be executed. https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/12/03/we-should-hang-ilhan-omar-florida-congressional-candidate-writes-in-fundraising-letter/
@RepKenBuck's threat in the name of 2A towards Joe Biden & Beto O'Rourke still online as of 1/26/21.
@DevinNunes May 2020: "We are forced to have to ballot harvest because it's the only way to win. As long as we have a robust ballot harvesting operation come November and I hate saying that cause it's illegal in 49 states." https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1260770794436562944?s=19
Excellent thread of GOP Senators' 2016 stances on filling SCOTUS seats near the end of a president's term. https://twitter.com/zappaneese/status/1307122894334459905?s=19
Trump legal advisor @JennaEllisEsq. https://twitter.com/glaad/status/1215656732661288964?s=20
May 2020: @karlrove lambastes Obama for politicizing a virtual commencement ceremony by indirectly criticizing the Trump admin. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1262372183428472833?s=20
Marjorie Taylor Greene's own words. @mtgreenee
Then-Bexar County (TX) GOP Chair Cynthia Brehm at a May 2020 press conference held to denounce local COVID lockdown orders & mask recommendations.
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1263937751872868353?s=20
https://www.kens5.com/article/news/politics/repubs-decry-leadership/273-0170aac2-47eb-4d41-95c9-0af9ddb45558
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1263937751872868353?s=20
https://www.kens5.com/article/news/politics/repubs-decry-leadership/273-0170aac2-47eb-4d41-95c9-0af9ddb45558