Republicans Love Pinochet
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This kind of rhetoric makes perfect sense from Republican congresscritters, as many of them would very much like Donald Trump to be Augusto Pinochet and engage in mass murders of Democrats and other unwanted people, such as brown people of all shades.
Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) appeared to suggest migrants should be extrajudicially murdered in a social media post on Thursday.
Collins made the post on X in response to another post by Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY), who was reacting to a Fox News clip of an arrested immigrant in a Lakers jersey, giving a double middle-finger salute to the cameras as he was being led away.
“We feel the same way about you,” wrote D’Esposito. “Holla at the cartels and have them escort you back.”
“Or we could buy him a ticket on Pinochet Air for a free helicopter ride back,” replied Collins.
Collins is referring to right-wing Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet, who seized the country in a 1973 coup and became infamous for his government’s so-called “death flights,” where civilians kidnapped by the armed forces were thrown out of helicopters into the Pacific Ocean.
It could also be that social media is a complete sewer and has ruined our politics, but that cat is long out of the bag.