#3 House Republican endorses every winger conspiracy theory to come down the thruway
Remember when Elise Setfanik was allegedly the moderate face of the New Republican Party?
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), the No. 3 House Republican, and other GOP lawmakers came under scrutiny Sunday for previously echoing the racist “great replacement” theory that apparently inspired an 18-year-old who allegedly killed 10 people while targeting Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo.
The baseless conspiracy theory claims that politicians are attempting to wipe out White Americans and their influence by replacing them with non-White immigrants. The theory was cited repeatedly by 18-year-old shooting suspect Payton Gendron in an online document that appeared to have outlined his intention to carry out his planned attack in Buffalo because of its significant population of Black people.
Eleven of the 13 people shot at Tops Friendly Market on Saturday were Black, according to police.
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Kinzinger was referring to a series of Facebook ads published in September 2021 by Stefanik’s campaign committee that charged that Democrats were allowing undocumented immigrants into the United States as a ploy to outnumber, and eventually silence, Republican voters.
“Radical Democrats are planning their most aggressive move yet: a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION,” reads one of the ads, which shows a reflection of migrants in sunglasses Biden is wearing. “Their plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.”
She is also not merely pushing QAnon bullshit but has mastered the authoritarian technique of telling lies so obvious that the intelligence insulting is the entire point:
brb have to take the pedos to soccer practice https://t.co/I9Uv7DUjb6— Seth Masket (@smotus) May 14, 2022
She believes the pedos are the future!