Furor in Texas GOP after leaders post racist memes that suggest Floyd's death is a hoax

[TomCADem]

I guess if they are going to say COVID-19 is a hoax and over 100,000 dead due to COVID-19 hoax, then nothing is off limits to the right wing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/furor-in-texas-gop-after-leaders-post-racist-memes-that-suggest-floyds-death-is-a-hoax/ar-BB158zS7?li=BBnb7Kz

One Facebook post falsely claimed that the killing of George Floyd in police custody last month was a “staged event,” meant to rile up opposition to President Trump. Another showed a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. next to a banana — an established racist trope.

And a third claimed that George Soros, the liberal billionaire, paid “white cops to murder black people” and “black people to riot because race wars keep the sheep in line.”

All of these posts were shared in recent days by Republican county leaders in Texas, some of whom are now facing calls to resign from top officials within their own party, including Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn and Gov. Greg Abbott, who called the posts “disgusting,” the Texas Tribune reported.

The posts have unleashed a firestorm of controversy in the state of 29 million where Republicans are struggling to beat back Democratic advances in the rapidly diversifying electorate.

[hibbing]

1. It's what they do n/t

[Javaman]

2. Tell them life is a hoax.

There for they should kill themself because nothing will happen to them.

Watch as they try to wrap their brains around that lol

[johnnyfins]

4. Nah, just tell them that the whole country is a

rapidly diversifying electorate. Whitey repubs are skeered shitless.

[stopdiggin]

3. racists and conspiracy nuts in the GOP?

Shocked, I say, shocked!

[roamer65]

5. Mmmm...sounds like a Repuke party civil war.

Me lo gusta.

[Ford_Prefect]

6. It may be obvious but I'll say it anyway. These are mainstream GOP leaders,

not the lunatic fringe that they sound like. I hear the same garbage from people who are mainstream GOP voters here. They're addicted to all the right-wing propaganda and can't tell the difference between what IS real and what is an obvious distortion. That the reasoning in such an egregious fantasy is so contradictory does not prevent them from buying into it. Their fear and superstition blind them.

Once again, these ARE the mainstream GOP: leaders and followers who are fools and fantasists alike.

[Grokenstein]

7. When TED CRUZ says you're making the party look bad...