GOP lawmaker can't identify where the constitution says socialists 'either go to prison or are shot'

[Soph0571]

The Montana Republican Party is facing another scandal over the use of violence to settle political disputes.

“A Billings Republican legislator said Saturday he believes the U.S. Constitution calls for the shooting or jailing of those who identify as socialists,” the Billings Gazette reports.

At a gathering of the state party on Friday, Garcia reportedly said the constitution requires jailing or shooting socialists during a Q & A with former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

“You know, Montana’s a great state,” Zinke replied.

“We have to do something,” Garcia urged.

On Saturday, Garcia was asked about his remarks.

“So actually in the Constitution of the United States (if) they are found guilty of being a socialist member you either go to prison or are shot,” Garcia claimed.

The newspaper noted, “Garcia could not to point to where in the Constitution it says socialists could be shot or jailed.”

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Fruit loop. But being a fruit loop is not funny anymore.

For him and his ilk the constitution is just the same as the bible. Deniers of democracy lay claim to it saying whatever bollocks they want it to get away with their far right nasty. . . and just like with the bible the far-right devilish fuckers consider themselves experts on the matter all the while never even having been arsed to read the two main documents they claim gives them the right to be the awful human beings they are. Go figure...

[jmowreader]

1. Wanting to execute your political opponents?

Gee guys, but that sounds pretty socialistic to me.

[maxsolomon]

11. Yes, this happens all the time in Scandinavia.

The word you're looking for is TOTALITARIAN.

[jmowreader]

12. I was thinking "revolutionary socialism"

That’s what the Warsaw Pact states had - in theory, state ownership of all the means of production (all these states had some private industry, but the large manufacturers and their Big Ag were government owned) coupled with a totalitarian, one-party government.

[maxsolomon]

13. Did you know the Nazis were Socialists, too?

It's right in the name "National Socialist"; it must be so!

[jmowreader]

14. Did you know there's more than one kind of socialism?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. I know for a fact ...

The first of the Ten Commandments of the Constitution states:

Thou shalt not be a GOPer.

And the fifth one says:

Therefore shalt thy take up thine mighty ballot and smite the heathen Republican, yea until the beast be driven forth even from the lowliest of office.

It's there, I swear it!
Look it up for yourself, I ain't doing the research for you.

[NCLefty]

3. Some people watch Handmaid's Tale and actually root for the bad guys. n/t

[murielm99]

4. I carry a copy of the Constitution

in my purse. I never leave home without it.

I was at a dinner a couple of years ago. A man there informed us that our country and our Constitution were based on God and the Christian religion. I whipped out my copy of the Constitution and asked him to show me where it said that. He became quite angry and would not talk to me any more.

[Rollo]

5. He wouldn't talk to you any more? A blessing in disguise.

[brer cat]

10. Way to shut him down!

I love it.

[ck4829]

6. Remember... buying food before a blizzard and not wanting to get shot in school is "socialism" today

[Cosmocat]

7. The sum total of republics understanding of both

The bible and constitution after decades of brainwashing by am radio, faux news, etc is "liberal bad."

[safeinOhio]

8. I found it right there in the Bible in those red letters

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least among you, you did not do for me.'" -Matthew 25:41-45

[mgardener]

9. And then there is this since they like Leviticus so much.

Perhaps they could pass it on to Trump.
Leviticus 19:11
“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another."

[Paladin]

15. What the fuck are we DOING about this?

We're within spitting distance of goose-stepping and red arm-bands in this country, and I want to know: What the fuck are we DOING about this?