NPR Twofer: TX GOP denies Biden's 2020 win & calls for secession, MO ex-Gov Senate candidate calls for "RINO hunting"
On the one hand, I try to avoid the usual fray of political trolling. On the other, taking what is said seriously has its arguments and adherents.
NPR, not prone to exaggeration, and slow to move in taking the Orange Turd threat seariously in the 2016 cycle, seem to be more alert for the 2022 midterms:
Texas GOP’s new platform says Biden didn’t really win. It also calls for secession
President Biden is the "acting" president because he didn't win legally; Texans should vote on seceding; the Voting Rights Act of 1965 should be repealed; any gun control is a rights violation: this is the world as seen by the Republican Party of Texas, according to its newly adopted party platform.
"We can't compromise with Democrats who have a different and incompatible vision for our future," Matt Rinaldi, the state GOP chairman, said, according to The Texas Newsroom. "We need to be a bold and unapologetic conservative party, ready to go on offense and win the fight for our country."
The Republicans' 2022 platform is outlined in a 40-page document that addresses state issues but also much broader priorities — such as calling for the U.S. to leave the United Nations. Delegates approved it over the weekend, at the party's convention in Houston. ...
The TX GOP platform: https://texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/6-Permanent-Platform-Committee-FINAL-REPORT-6-16-2022.pdf (PDF)
A Missouri Senate candidate holds a shotgun and calls for ‘RINO hunting’ in a new ad
A new campaign ad from Eric Greitens, the controversial former governor of Missouri now running for U.S. Senate, prompted accusations of glorifying political violence before being flagged by Twitter and removed by Facebook for violating policies around violence and abuse.
"Today, we're going RINO hunting," Greitens, a Republican, said with a smile as he slid the action on his shotgun in the 38-second ad. RINO stands for "Republican in name only."
Greitens and a team of men outfitted in military gear are then shown bursting into a home, guns raised.
"The RINO feeds on corruption and is marked by the stripes of cowardice," said Greitens. "Get a RINO hunting permit. There's no bagging limit, no tagging limit, and it doesn't expire until we save our country." ...
The argument that the US Repubican Party is not a seditionist domestic terrorist organisation is becoming much harder to make.
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