Over the weekend, an incomplete lie spread on the internet. In Missouri, two Republican state Senators brandished flamethrowers on a dark, stormy night. They were surrounded by iPhone-wielding observers and they burned empty boxes that represented the “leftist agenda”. The Riverfront Times reported that one of the men involved was state senator Bill Eigel, who is a Republican running for governor in the year 2024. Their […]
A still from a Sen. Dan Sullivan( R – Alaska ) commercial from 2014
Fight misinformation by subscribing to Mother Jones Daily’s completely newsletter and keeping up with important news. A limited lie spread electronically over the weekend. In Missouri, on a dark night, two Republican state senators brandished flamethrowers and set empty boxes containing the” leftist” agenda on fire while being surrounded by iPhone-wielding onlookers. Democratic state senator Bill Eigel, who is seeking governor in 2024, was one of the men, according to the Riverfront Times.
Their joke was misinterpreted. The rumor that Eigel and his fellow state legislator Sen. Nick Schroer were actually burning books, just like the Nazi mobs who covered objectionable texts in paraffin and ignited them in public squares, was sparked by the aesthetics— a pyre of flames and chants of” Let’s Go Brandon” destroying” woke” things.
This is untrue. Eigel later consented to burning some books, and the state of Missouri has laws prohibiting materials from school libraries, but that was not his intention that evening. Eigel told The Kansas City Star that in the video,” I am taking a flame thrower to cardboard boxes representing what I am going to do to the leftist policies and RINO corruption of the Jeff City swamp.” To be clear, I’ll burn those woke erotic books on the top lawn of the governor’s mansion if you try to brainwash our children by bringing them to Missouri schools.
Are @ NickBSchroer and @ billeigel torching the awake liberal agenda? # mogov image 7FEDOMC0YY on Twitter
September 16, 2023, Jake Jackson(@ realjakejacks )
Cool. a typical male manner of speaking. Anyhow, this was one of the stranger, less enjoyable instances of a recently unrecognized tradition of campaign season: the metaphorical use of lethal force to describe how, should they win office, lawmakers intend to attack the ideas of their colleagues.
Speaking of policy in this manner has become a useful cliché, right? of advertising campaigns. A politician will typically shoot a number of agenda items that represent their opponent’s positions while brandishing, say, their gun. This provides a succinct summary of your justification for supporting them! ( The strategy differs from the well-known Daisy commercial from President Lyndon B. Johnson and former Arkansas governor ) The rip off of it by Mike Huckabee demonstrates the effects of the policies. In that case,” the stakes” of the election are implied by the picture of a helpless child picking weeds before an atomic bomb detonates.
My colleague Tim Murphy put together a list of politicians” blowing things up” in 2012 to highlight the lawmakers’ passionate use of firearms. The examples that follow are more new, with slightly broader criteria that also include other weapons. Please email me if you have any that I missed.
Joe Manchin, a weapon
Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane with me. When it was released in 2010, this genre classic made headlines. Senator Joe Manchin( D-W. Va. ) specifically shoots a” Cap and Trade Bill” in it, taking” dead aim” at some liberal policies.
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It is even on Murphy’s list, but it deserves to be revived because in 2018, Manchin went back to his shoot-a-piece-of-paper messaging. In the more recent commercial, the senator raises a shotgun rather than his rifle and fires the phrase” Lawsuit On Coverage Of Pre – Existing Conditions.” He claims that his opponents are” dead wrong” this time. I like that the advertisement, which is equivalent to a TV show, contains snippets where Manchin aids in recalling what transpired in the previous episode.
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Dan Sullivan, a firearm
Sen. Dan Sullivan( R-Alaska) released a statement in 2014 touting his strategy to divert outside funding from the Senate race and halt campaign ads from expensive Washington consultants” flooding” into his state. He claims in it that all of these advertisements will make you” want to do this.” Finally, Sullivan pulls a handgun from his pocket and fires the TV into the center of the field. This one has a little bit of an office space feel to it.
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Col. Rob Maness, a gator
Is this one too much? Yes. Is it actually amusing to watch? Without a doubt, I’m including it.
Colonel Rob Maness ran for the US Senate in Louisiana in 2014. Maness released an advertisement for that campaign titled” Gator ,” in which he promises to tie up one of the” gators” in Washington in order to attack them. But through some Benny Hill editing, he even makes the implication that the Obama administration’s policies would be gator-chomped. He declares,” I’ll stand up to the big spenders ,” and then it cuts to a gator chomp that sounds cartoonish. ” I’ll fight to get Obamacare repealed!” ( Gator chokes. ) ” I’ll defend our right to bear arms!” ( Chomp. )
Maness is implying that he will use the” gator’s” lethal weapon against his foes. a creative commercial that merits praise. In the jungle primary that year, Maness received 13 % of the vote.
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Axe of Joe Donnelly
Previous Sen. Joe Donnelly( D – New York ) lists things he’d chop and split( there are a lot of complicated metaphors) in this 2018 advertisement, which has heavy midterm energy, as the Democrat documents the ways in which they are no Democrats.
Many people noticed at the time that the advertisement mirrored one from the HBO series” Veep.”
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Jake Kemp, a gunman, and Brian Kemp
Democratic Georgia Governor during his campaign for governor in 2018 In an advertisement titled” Jake ,” Brian Kemp sat with his rifle crossed across his knees next to a young boy whose only motivation for being there was to try to go out with one of Kemp’s daughters. When questioned, Jake lists Kemp’s personal policies for a” young man” going out with his daughters, including” respect” and” healthy appreciation for the 2nd amendment ,” as well as his campaign policies, which include” taking” a chainsaw to regulations.”
The governor’s implied joke is that if the child misbehaved with one of his daughters, he would shoot him.
This is not intended to destabilize his rival’s policies. However, the cadence in this situation— a list of three agenda items and a gun — barely makes sense. The fact that the cherub boy shares my name and that I dressed exactly as he did when I was a child in the South amused my coworkers.
Please take note of the mise-en-scene: In the distance, there are even more guns.
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Bob Good, a mortal being
Is our physical form really a lethal weapon, I hear you ask? When Bob Good is concerning to pin your ass, you can bet on it.
Former associate athletic director at Liberty University, an evangelical organization started by Rev. Bob Good( R-Virginia ), Jerry Falwell has an advertisement in which he is challenged to a wrestling match against” progressive ideas.” The best way to describe this 2020 location is as something that could be chosen for a strong Danny McBride film. One wonders if any firearm could be as powerful when Good looks directly into the camera and declares,” I’ll pin that idea ,” which includes” Defund the Police ,” the” Green New Deal ,” and” government-run health care.”
Strangest congressional advertisement by Virginia’s VA-05 Bob Good, which slammed liberal ideas to the ground byu / retrogradeprogress in Charlottesville
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a firearm
We had to arrive because they were the ones who really sucked. Enter Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is posing next to Squad members with an assault rifle.
It is no advertising to post a picture of three black women with an assault rifle next to their faces. It’s motivation.
Death threats have now been made in response to this post.
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September 4, 2020, Ilhan Omar (@ IlhanMN )
Shooting guidelines in an advertisement? Fun, a little tense, but tolerable. indirectly threatening to shoot your coworkers and other public figures who happen to be there? Terrible. Those are my private political views. I’m eager to talk more about that later.
Ryan Busse, a weapon
We look to Montana, where Democrat Ryan Busse is running against Governor, for a more current illustration. ( R-Madison ) Greg Gianforte Gianforte may be known for body-slamming a reporter, but he has as focused on less aggressive, more methodical work, such as essentially eliminating cities’ ability to zone for affordable housing in his state.
Busse uses this advertisement to prove his credentials as a Democrat member of the gun community. He has his family prepare Gianforte’s policies for a skeet shooting pull, with Busse shooting them out of the sky after one child says,” Defunding public schools.” Lovely conclusion: His child rips at the conclusion.
excellent shape on the buckaroo. ( To be clear, I have only ever killed one squirrel in my life and am a terrible shot. )
Hello, my name is Ryan Busse, and I’m vying to become Montana’s following governor. I want all of our freedoms to be safeguarded in our great state as a father, husband, hunter, and happy Montanan. To find out more about me and why I run Pic, watch this video. LzprugBFl1 on Twitter
On September 14, 2023, Ryan Busse(@ ryandbusses )
Javier Milei, a chainsaw
It’s time to add a candidate from outside the US to the aperture. Javier Milei is vying to succeed Argentine as president. Despite being a return to the previous right-wing politics of the Latin American nation, Milei is supported by young people, as my previous colleague Eamon Whalen noted. Milei despises climate change, enjoys republican economics, and has a dog named after Murray Rothbard.
Milei just made an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s brand-new program. Carlson has been traveling the world and visiting several authoritarians in his new role as an X streamer, and he has apparently added a new layer of annoyance: study-travel blogger.
Former TV pundit Milei just rode through the streets of La Plata while holding a chainsaw above his head to symbolize his desire to undermine Argentina’s recent political system. He yelled,” The political caste is afraid ,” Reuters reported. Good enough, you have a chainsaw there.
Javier Milei, an argentinian candidate for president, uses a chainsaw to symbolize how he intends to” cut the political elite.” pic. kI9xdunjs1 on twitter.com
— September 17, 2023, Crazy Ass Moments in LatAm Politics(@ AssLatam )
Honourable mention: Do you recall the Blake Masters candidate’s video? The extremely frightening one, where he shoots a gun in the desert and claims it is German while acting like Jesus Christ, dude? That wasn’t something I mentioned. It doesn’t meet the requirements. According to Wall Street Journal reporting, Masters will run once more in 2024.
A limited lie spread digitally over the weekend. In Missouri, on a dark night, two Republican state senators brandished flamethrowers and set empty boxes containing the” leftist” agenda on fire while being surrounded by iPhone-wielding onlookers. Democratic state senator Bill Eigel, who is seeking governor in 2024, was one of the men, according to the Riverfront Times. Their…
Over the weekend, an incomplete lie spread on the internet. In Missouri, two Republican state Senators brandished flamethrowers on a dark, stormy night. They were surrounded by iPhone-wielding observers and they burned empty boxes that represented the “leftist agenda”. The Riverfront Times reported that one of the men involved was state senator Bill Eigel, who is a Republican running for governor in the year 2024. Their […]
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An image taken from an ad created to assist Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential run On the weekend, part of an untruth circulated over the internet. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) encourages people to fight disinformation by subscribing to the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and staying informed with the recent events. In Missouri, one evening, two Republican state senators held flamethrowers in their hands, while iPhone-utilizing watchers surrounded them, and set fire to free boxes symbolizing the “leftist” plan. Jeffrey Smith.
One of the men in question was Jeffrey Smith, a state Senator, reported the Riverfront Times. Bill Eigel, a Republican candidate for governor in 214, had a joke that was misinterpreted. Rob Olson, were somehow “beneficiaries”
The beauty of the scene–a blazing fire, people shouting “Let’s Go Brandon!”, destroying property considered ‘woke’–led to speculation that State Legislators Eigel and Rob Olson may have benefited from it in a way. Nick Schroer did not set fire to any books, contrary to the suggestion that Nazi mobs destroyed objectionable texts by covering them in paraffin and lighting them in public places. Eigel conceded that burning books and preventing certain materials from being accessible in Missouri school libraries were ideas he had, but this was not his task for the evening.
