GOP Insanity Thread: a bunch of weirdos weirding out

[pvn]

https://twitter.com/timjhogan/status/1790411052825395265

[m_reed05]

There should be a trojan horse Democratic candidate dressing up and acting like this in every red primary across the country.

[goofy]

A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating...

[grue]

[Jman220]

lol, that campaign ad is amazing.

[Coasterbrad]

How is this real life?

https://twitter.com/ValentinaForSOS/status/1783952331999949281

ETA: Idiocracy was a documentary

[LFS]

HOW DARE YOU DISRESPECT COSTCO

CEASE AND DESIST

[LouisCyphre]

West Virginia GOP Senate president, doctor who opposed drawing back vaccine...

[goofy]

Me, stupid: “surely even a Republican would pump the brakes on this guy”:

@goofy

This Texas murderer that Abbott has pledged to pardon is a real piece of work:

Daniel Perry's anti-protester social media posts reveal racist comments

A Travis County judge Thursday unsealed court records that revealed more anti-protester social media posts and messages that a jury did not see or hear while deciding whether to convict Daniel Perry on a murder charge in the death of Garrett Foster.

The posts included messages such as “Black Lives Matter is racist to white people…It is official I am racist because I do not agree with people acting like monkeys,” Perry wrote.

He also posted on June 1, 2020 “It is official I am a racist because I do not agree with people acting like animals at the zoo.”

On another Facebook post on June 1, 2020, Perry wrote: “now it is my turn to get banned (from Facebook) by comparing the black lives matter movement to a zoo full of monkeys that are freaking out flinging their s–t.”

Reality:

Daniel Perry trial: Gov. Abbott issues full pardon, restoration of civil rights

[BriansHat]

Mike Judge’s movies (office space and idiocracy) have proven to be weirdly prophetic about what my adult world would look like.

[Jman220]

Wow, in Missouri she’s totally winning.

[Jman220]

https://twitter.com/ValentinaForSOS/status/1754964444776443937

[Jman220]

If you assumed based upon her videos that she was a veteran of the military, you would be incorrect.

[akm]

How would I have done if I assumed she was a sub-90 IQ attention seeking sociopath?

[Danspartan]

https://x.com/markhamill/status/1791203847316419018?s=46

[goofy]

I forgot a core component of why I thought Abbott might not actually go through with the pardon:

Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality...

The court documents also revealed that Perry sent inappropriate messages to someone who claimed to be 16 years old through Kik Messenger, a communication platform that has been used to share child pornography.

"Also promise me no nudes until you are old enough to be of age,” Perry wrote, the same month he shot and killed Foster.

Before signing off, Perry wrote, “I am going to bed come up with a reason why I should be your boyfriend before I wake up.”

He pardoned a FUCKING MURDERER PEDO (and why is the media mega underselling that part, like why the fuck did I find this picture below on social media and not in the news where he confesses to POSSESSING FUCKING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY)

[goofy]

Why Did Greg Abbott Pardon a Racist Murderer?

No witness testified that Foster raised his weapon. A jury of Perry’s peers determined he had not acted in self-defense, and he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder in 2023. A day later, Abbott vowed that he would pardon Perry pending a recommendation to do so by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, whose seven members Abbott appointed. At the time, Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old who killed two at a protest in Wisconsin and was cleared of murder charges after arguing self-defense, was becoming a right-wing celebrity. For Abbott, who is ever trying to bolster his credentials on the right, vowing to pardon Perry was a no-brainer—particularly after TV host Tucker Carlson taunted him for not doing so.

A few days later, the court released records showing that Perry used racist language, compared protesters to “monkeys” in a “zoo,” and had fantasized for weeks about shooting a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally. “I might have to kill a few people on my way to work,” he posted once. Another time: “I might go to Dallas to shoot looters.” He flirted online with teenagers. His other writings reveal a man who was angry, alienated, and conspiratorial. He reminisced about the time he shot “an Afghan in the chest with a 50 cal,” adding that “they are not real people.” (He wrote that he believed the Black Lives Matter movement wanted his parents to lose their “4 bed room house” by giving it to a poor Black family.) His job as an Uber driver makes it hard not to draw the comparison with Travis Bickle, the character played by Robert De Niro in the 1976 movie Taxi Driver.

Given all the ugliness Perry spewed before committing murder, one might think Abbott would have second thoughts about offering clemency. The governor had until then been extremely reluctant to use his pardon power. While his predecessor, Rick Perry, often offered clemency to dozens of Texans a year, Abbott has been less lenient—granting just two pardons in 2022 and three in 2023—and typically only for nonviolent crimes such as writing hot checks and for convictions more than a decade old. I repeatedly asked Abbott’s aides in 2023 if the awful evidence of Perry’s racist views and homicidal intentions had changed his mind. I received no reply, which seemed like an answer of sorts. Criminal lawyers I interviewed thought the board would decline to recommend a pardon, saving Abbott the trouble.

Instead, on Thursday the agency recommended a full pardon. Abbott granted it less than an hour later, issuing a full restoration of Perry’s rights—which means that not only is Perry free, he gets his guns back. He can join Rittenhouse on the road as a hero to those who will have him. Abbott, a former Texas Supreme Court justice, did not offer a particularly compelling rationale for granting clemency. In a statement, he did not litigate the details of the case or advance a legal theory. He said simply that “Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney.”

Texas is not a military dictatorship, and Abbott did not send Perry to attack Black Lives Matter protesters. We are not yet in the Years of Lead. But the unjustified pardon of Perry is a form of state crime, and it’s ugly. What’s next? The news of the pardon came soon after Abbott deployed state police, heavily armed, to crack down on another peaceful protest movement that is unpopular among his supporters: the rally at the University of Texas in Austin against Israel’s conduct during its war against Hamas in Gaza. What strange forces are waiting in the wings that have taken the wrong lesson from what Abbott did this week? What will Abbott do—or fail to do—when they act?

[pvn]

this shit is absolutely infuriating, absolutely indefensible

[goofy]

I’m just gonna post every article about this because yeah, it’s 100% indefensible and disgusting and possibly the kind of thing people point to in the future as the moment when state-sanctioned terrorism for Trump’s fascist movement became a thing

Abbott Pardons Killing by Racist Who Explicitly Texted Apparent Minor

[hammypotter]

https://x.com/drewpavlou/status/1791612346844209225?s=46&t=45vgHoZvsEXz2aWNi8tmcw