GOP Rep. Paul Gosar spread a baseless transphobic rumor that the Uvalde school-shooting suspect was
Source: Business insider
FULL HEADLINE: GOP Rep. Paul Gosar spread a baseless transphobic rumor that the Uvalde school-shooting suspect was a 'transsexual leftist illegal alien'
Following Tuesday's mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, Rep. Paul Gosar, an Arizona Republican, spread a false and transphobic claim that the suspected shooter was a "transsexual leftist illegal alien."
Gosar tweeted the claim even though authorities had already identified the shooter as an 18-year-old male resident of Uvalde, where the shooting occurred.
As of Tuesday evening, the GOP representative had not commented on his tweet, which was deleted about two hours after being published.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-shooting-uvalde-paul-gosar-touts-false-claim-transgender-woman-2022-5
More BS from the Nazi north of Arizona.
Evolve Dammit
(16,741 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Gosar is main stream Republican Party
bahboo
(16,343 posts)maybe but won't matter in his district, but so what. Attack the fucker...
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)They're there to Gish Gallop, to distract and agitate. That's it.
There is no equivalent on the Left.
Lonestarblue
(10,011 posts)Just like a significant portion of the Republican Party.
Warpy
(111,270 posts)which is what his family tried to warn his district about. He missed the target on all 3 counts, but he's never let that stop him from throwing out any slur and cheap shot he can think of, even when the target is dead.
He's a blob of ooze at the bottom of a subduction trench, as low as you can get.
Mz Pip
(27,450 posts)So what? He bought these guns and tons of ammo with no background checks or waiting period.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)That they plug his nose.
Hes just a dumb fuck opportunist pice of shit
Novara
(5,843 posts)No?
WHY THE FUCK NOT?
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)How many ways is that not surprising?
pfitz59
(10,381 posts)he's high on something
RussBLib
(9,019 posts)A trans person, a leftist, a illegal alien.... I don't see a reason why any of those "types" would shoot up a school.
Now, if he were an incel, I could see it.
Tom Kitten
(7,347 posts)His inner ugliness is so pervasive it just announces itself in his appearance . Just one mean ugly MFer.
IronLionZion
(45,451 posts)Why not throw in CRT and space lasers too
catsudon
(839 posts)people should've left twitter a long time ago, even before trump.
IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)If that doesn't speak of the kind of "person" or "leader" that Gross-ar is...
As far as I'm concerned, Gosar's tweet not only was done to incite violence, but was hate speech. Period. Ohhh, I'm sure some people are going to read this post and think I'm overreacting, or being paranoid or whiny or whatever... But this motherfucker, this Nazi motherfucker, went to Twitter and tried to accuse this country's latest mass-murderer of being trans, during a time when we're already being labeled "Groomers", being portrayed as threats to children, being made out to be worse than bin Laden and Hussein (combined?). No facts, no proof, but, these are Republiqans, known for the slogan "FUCK FACTS!"
He said this, knowing it'd reach the eyes and ears of UltraMAGAs, people who have made it clear time and time again that the "solution" to everything is the Second Amendment. This wasn't "an accident." This was intentional. His hope was to add more fuel to the fire in the Nazi vs Trans "war" that exists in 2022 (is it a war when it's one-sided attacks?) He wanted, and still wants, some of his precious gun-humping foaming-at-the-mouth American Taliban to "second amendment solution" trans people. Accuse us of "killing" kids, so that these fucking knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers who are already screaming "STAY AWAY FROM OUR KIDS, GROOMERS!" reach for their guns and kill us.
Gosar should've been banned from Twitter. PERIOD. The fact he hasn't been - even if he deleted the post - proves Twitter is still full of fucking shit on enforcing their rules, especially when it comes to inciting violence. What Gosar did was every bit as rotten and vile as the shit Drumpf was spewing shortly before they had enough and banned his ass.
I'm tired of it. I'm tired of it all. Whether it's Failin' Palin with "Don't retreat, reload!" (which got Gabby Giffords shot), or Drumpf inciting 1/6, or now Gosar trying to incite violence against the trans community, I am beyond fucking tired of these domestic terrorists trying to incite acts of terrorism against "the others." I am tired of living in fear because of sentient scum like Paul Gosar and the basement-dwelling incels of 4chan.
People wonder why I get so worked up here, and push back as much as I do against some of the... less supportive and compassionate stuff toward the trans community here? This. There's a war going on (again, if one-sided attacks are a war?) here. The QOP has made it open-season against the transgender community (as well as LGBTQ's) in 2022. The same ol' "groomer", "they're going after our children!" bullshit. It's been bad enough with over 300 hateful bills written up in 2022 alone. It's bad enough with sentient slime like Carlson and Ingraham ranting and raving about us on the airwaves to their millions of brainwashed MAGAts, along with the help of loyal bigots like Chappelle, Gervais and Maher. But now it's escalated to "Groomers", and now an Arizona Nazi trying to claim one of us shot up a school.
These people are trying to get us killed - either by an UltraMAGA, or by our own hand because fear and despair drives us to our breaking point. The cruelty is the point. Death is the point. And two nights ago, Gross-ar not only fired another salvo at us, but turned up the heat.
There will be a mass shooting where the victims are trans people or participants of Drag Queen Story Time before the year's over. That sickens me to say, but, MAGA's shooting up the country and their puppet masters are doing everything they can to rile up hatred for the trans community.
Then what? Are we going to throw people like Gosar in jail for inciting? Or just "Ho hum, oh well, tots and pears..."? I already expect the QOP to scowl at us and say "You asked for it", or even openly laugh.
Fuck Paul Gosar. Fuck transphobia. Fuck Nazis.
tonekat
(1,815 posts)It's hard not to feel we're running out of time...time until the midterms, whatever year they get around to prosecuting the people behind Jan. 6...
And all GOP politicians seem to have received instructions to just spout the craziest things one could thing of non-stop. This is intentional, to just throw bombs in such quantities that it's a waste of time to respond to each and every bizarre belief they express. It's to jam up the works and mislead the sheep.
It's quite the strategy.
IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)Like you, I'm scared as well. Each day that goes on without the people behind 1/6 being prosecuted, I worry more and more. Each day that their ranting become more and more insane, I worry more and more. Even if we win the midterms (and at the moment, things look to be trending in that direction)... Will they throw an even bigger MAGA tantrum and act even worse?
All the QOP politicians do anymore is spew insanity and push hatred. The UltraMAGAs respond by getting even more menacing and threatening. Hate crimes against LGBTQ's are on a record pace. Mass shootings on a record pace. Some days anymore it feels like we're sitting on a ticking time bomb.
Then you throw in shit like this: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216748102 What the hell is this going to lead to? More school shootings?
When people tell us who they are, believe them. I think the QOP has left no doubt who they are.
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)Is he dead from the neck up?
AZLD4Candidate
(5,698 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,827 posts)He mispronounced transsexual, republican, Congressman.
He was just projecting and the words confused him.