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Behind the Aegis

(53,918 posts)
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 02:58 AM Oct 2021

GOP endorses local far-right candidate who said Pete & Chasten want to be human traffickers

The Kootenai County GOP in Idaho has endorsed David J. Reilly for a school board candidate position in the city of Post Falls. Despite pledging not to send his daughter to the school district or any public school, he says he’ll “do all in my power to make sure Kootenai County remains a place where families can raise Godly, conservative, patriotic children.”

The GOP’s endorsement comes despite the fact that Reilly has made several anti-Semitic and homophobic remarks, both on social media and as a writer and digital content creator. That includes his claim that out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, are “planning to start dabbling in human trafficking” because they sought to become parents.

Reilly made the statement in a 2020 tweet sharing an article by LGBTQ Nation in 2019 that reported the couple’s intent to become parents. Now, they are.



For years, anti-LGBTQ people and Republicans shamelessly attacked the couple for not having children before. Now that they are parents, many of those same people have wasted no time attacking the couple for being parents.

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A total asshole is attacking this...............

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GOP endorses local far-right candidate who said Pete & Chasten want to be human traffickers (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Oct 2021 OP
The GOP has hit rock bottom BlueLucy Oct 2021 #1
Conservapedia Claire Oh Nette Oct 2021 #2

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
2. Conservapedia
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 10:21 AM
Oct 2021

The GOQP has its own dictionary.
Adoption is now "human trafficking."


Never mind GOQP policies surrounding women's reproductive health will lead to 1) more unwanted pregnancies, and 2) a return to the forced birth/baby scoop era where affluent but inconveniently
infertile, childless Christain/Christofascists decide whether an inconveniently fertile young woman forced to deliver keeps her child or surrenders it.

Never mind the biggest pedos/human traffickers seem to be in the GOP.

Muddy up the language to hide what they're doing in plain sight.

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