Dark Woke candidate in Texas
(midwest.social)
thelastaxolotl [he/him]
ChapotraphouseTweto https://x.com/MichaelKarlis/status/2056795237540925858
Article https://www.sacurrent.com/news/politics-and-elections/house-candidate-maureen-galindo-pledges-to-send-american-zionists-to-internment-camp/
House candidate Maureen Galindo pledges to send ‘American zionists’ to internment camp
Controversy-tarred congressional candidate Maureen Galindo this week pledged to transform a site south of San Antonio now used by the Trump administration to detain migrants into an internment camp for “American Zionists.”
“She’ll turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking,” Galindo wrote in an Instagram post over the weekend, referring to herself in the third person. “It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists.”
Galindo’s latest set of inflammatory remarks comes as the Democratic hopeful for Texas’ newly redrawn 35th Congressional District continues to draw national attention for remarks critics have called antisemitic and untethered from reality. The controversy is snowballing as she heads into the May 26 Democratic primary runoff.
Over the past week, Galindo has accused her runoff opponent — former Bexar County Public Information Officer Johnny Garcia — of participating in a human trafficking conspiracy orchestrated by billionaire zionist Jews. She also pledged during a Texas Public Radio interview to put Garcia on trial for treason.
Beyond her attacks on Garcia, Galindo has continued to promote the narrative that a cabal of Jewish zionists controls Hollywood, the media and even local politicians.
Even so, in comments to the Current and other media outlets, Galindo maintained she only has an issue with zionists, or those advocating for the existence of a Jewish state in their ancestral homeland, rather than Jews in general.
“I think it’s actually the zionists who are putting Jewish people at the most risk,” Galindo told the Current last week.
AOC has denouced her
This should be the bare minimum for Democrats
Hasan Piker is a coward
Holy fuck lmao that unnecessary AOC reply why the fuck would you even engage
AOC sees circus tent, dives in to join the clowns fuckin lol
To be fair I'm pretty sure she essentially said Zionist was code for jew, aoc supports Hasan which is anti Zionist, I do think nuance may be needed here
AOC supports the Democratic Party, which is Zionist.
AOC also supported the Iron Dome Funding which is zionist
I fear that we are quickly approaching the era where people who say really cool shit like this are either shot or systemically blackballed
just heard Hasan call her Marjorie Taylor Blue
aoc has denounced her
oh did she react to some of the more questionable statements from this person that were quoted by the nyt?
aoc denounced the cool and obviously correct thing that she said
She never misses a chance to make terrible posts
I have done no investigation
This person may be on the up-and-up, but I always worry about language like this being used by actual antisemites to backdoor their shit. IMHO Strasserites like ACP will be the biggest struggle for Marxist groups in the US over the next few years, and I just frankly don't trust anyone who says things that sound good but doesn't combine it with explicit theory. Tucker Carlson and MTG can also rail against Zionists.
Castrating Zionists might be a good sound byte, but without explicitly saying you include evangelicals and oligarchs like Musk, feels "dog whistley". I know her opponent is a fucking ghoul so I don't put much credence in the pearl clutching rhetoric against her.
Not in her district. If I were I would do some real investigation and form a real opinion instead of this vibes-based analysis.
It appears that she's actually got the correct definition of Zionist judging by some instagram posts where she explicitly states "putting billionaire zionists in prison does not mean putting all Jews in internment camps", but the fact that she has to go on the defensive and clarify that is not great. Like it's easy enough to say the phrase "Billionaire Zionists like Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein" just to send it home a bit.
from my understanding she's a tenant union organizer, dont think you can put her anywhere close to tucker carlson and mtg. my impression is that she's a left wing woo woo person which is where some of the antisemetic ideas/soundbites come from
I get that this is about where the median is for internet messaging, but I don't think "castrate people" translates to a successful campaign in like a door knocking, interacting with people face to face sense. I don't even think it does much to shift the Overton window.
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but if you're doing electoralism, it just doesn't seem strategically sound. Saying something that others find shocking and frustrating because you yourself are shocked and frustrated with the state of US foreign policy. Cathartic maybe, but... i dunno I fail to see how its anything more than cathartic.
Idk about the castration part, but I'm glad someone with any amount of power is calling for harsher treatment of US Zionists instead of deflecting with something like "so you want to kill my little Jewish grandma?" Incendiary speech seems to be the new norm, so it could work.
"All ICE agents and superiors who participated in constitutional violations, family separation, abuse, disappearance, detention without due process, or psychological terror will be exposed, prosecuted, and jailed as they have proven to be a danger to society." Like yes please.
from my understanding she actually came in first during the first round of voting lmao, who knows if she will win the runoff but i actually think this might work, "castrate all pedophiles" is not really an uncommon position in texas
Ah, I forgot this was specifically the Texas electorate. Ok, maybe the messaging is tailored to people who don't spend their free time online.
I am going to vote for her in my local election. I don't care that she's not running in my state. I'm also going to vote for her for president in 2028 even if she doesn't run. It's about time we had a strong woman in charge who's willing to end the wars!
More seriously though, if I hadn't already determined that AOCIA is cancelled for abetting the Palestinian Genocide, her denunciation here would be enough for me to cancel her. Zionists rabidly support and commit genocide, therefore they are evil and must be repressed. We all uderstand that about Nazis
It's unfortunate that antisemites actually have fairly recently adopted denouncing "zionists" (where "zionist" is a stand-in for jews) as a means to fan the flames and muddy the waters. Successfully, it would seem. It wasn't a thing before the media started calling anyone who was outspoken against zionism an antisemite. I expect that's where the actual antisemites got it from in the first place. I don't think we can/should move away from using the word "zionist" however, because that is still the word zionists use to describe themselves.
But zionism is literally the ideology. Even zionists call themselves zionists.
Not to mention, it's apt
When Alex Jones denounces globalists, we know what he is implying because the people he labels as such and the vitriol he attaches to the term clearly mark it as a euphemism for Jewish people
When we say Zionist, we are targeting those who believe in the legitimacy of the state of Israel; that includes evangelicals, religious separatists and the like
When antisemites say Zionist, they mean Jews in their totality and it comes through clear as day in the way they use the term
And like my dad used to say, a racist can make even a simple word like "boy" into a threat, that doesn't mean you don't use the word "boy", you just have to be cognizant of its use
Well, he didn't use the word cognizant and he rambled a bit more, but he got the point across to a young Flakes Bongler
First item on the issues page.
https://www.maureenforuscongress.com/issues
Was her ActBlue page taken offline? I want to throw a few bucks her way...
investing in a stronger america
dumbbells to every suburban home
telling me to be healthy is communism actually
idk, you kinda have to glaze the country to some extent to run for office at all. it's a limit of electoralism for sure, maybe she could be saying invest in the working class
Beyond her attacks on Garcia, Galindo has continued to promote the narrative that a cabal of Jewish zionists controls Hollywood, the media and even local politicians.
i think the article (as described) does somewhat point to antisemitism (as well as pedo punishment part, if not a rhetoric turn, usually points to rightwinger as well). lmaocia is disgraceful as usual (what is precisely the functional difference between (say genuine) anti-semite and zionist cop?)
Zionists do, in fact, control mainstream media, Hollywood, and politicians. Alas
imperialists control those, which zionism is one of the many forms of. is there a billionnaire railing against idk, saudis? maybe one party state of japan? is there a corporation with a lifegoal of subjugating brazil? maybe msm with pure hatred of canada?
Its hard to say if we dont have her non edited comments, she is definetely edgy with the castration part
The full statement is "castrating pedophiles, which includes most zionists." Castration as punishment for sex offenses is legal in Texas and a few other states.
That's what AOC decides to open her mouth about? Useless fucking tool
Castrating Zionists? Why didn't I think of that before?
half of them already don't have balls, and quite a few of them already reproduced so it's more work and less efficient than
AIPAC tracker also denouced her lmao
https://x.com/TrackAIPAC/status/2056877231813861624
Why do I get the feeling they don't have the same standards for Palestinians? 🤔🤔🤔
Damn. I would register as a Democrat to vote for her
She's got my vote!
