House candidate Maureen Galindo pledges to send ‘American zionists’ to internment camp
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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.
The San Antonio Jewish Federation (JFSA) doesn’t see it that way.
“The JFSA strongly condemns the spread of antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories in public discourse,” the group said in a statement responding to Galindo’s remarks. “Divisive and hateful rhetoric targeting the Jewish community has no place in our civic life.”
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The democratic party really leaning into becoming the party of Platner...
Both major parties have a cohort of anti-semites.
No...
Republicans aren't rallying around with a candidate with an SS tattoo, nor, when they have party conventions, are Jewish members forced to meet in secret locations with security to protect them from other delegates. The most "antisemitic" elected Republican was MTG and she's now the belle of the progressive ball. Oh, and there is Thomas Massie, who Trump who doing everything in his power to defeat in the upcoming primary and who will no doubt have a long career on MSNBC if Trump succeeds.
Trying to both sides this is pure cope.
If this is accurate, this woman is not only unfit for office, but also mentally disturbed.
therefore she'd be a shoe-in for office if she changed parties ...
She'll fit right in with the squad:
If the report is as bad as it reads, she may well get support from Doug Fuentes.
People like that woman are ONE of the reasons why it is necessary to defend Israel, to be the only truly safe place for Jews to exist. She would put me in her desired Nazi-like extermination camp.
This is the majority of the democratic party today.
This woman will win in a landslide because this is what many on the left base want to hear
I don't believe all her attitudes and ideas are the majority of the Democrat party today anymore than I want to believe that all the attitudes and ideas of Trump are the majority of the Republican party today. She is an extremist in the party and as we both know, the extremists are the loudest ones out there.
You are correct. This hyper-partisan bullshit of finding the outlier and gaslighting the crowd into thinking it's the norm isn't fooling anyone except those with a confirmation bias. All flavors of Populism isn't popular. It's insular and can't hold up under the weight of our large diverse population.
Partisans are energized to turn out in primaries. Then the rest of the electorate is left with picking the 'lesser of two evils'. We can chart the growth of left wing populists as a direct correlation to answer the rise of right wing populists.
As more assholes like this woman pop up the more money and support the parties loose in general elections. Already the right has lost a lot of backing from crossover groups like Latinos they had two years ago. The same thing will happen to the left if they keep it up.
That and critical thinking skills. Its not the teachers (generally), but the hyper-partisan populists who've fucked around in curriculums for the last couple of decades that are failing our newest generations.
Progressives have controlled education since the early 1970s.
Yeah... it's progressives that keep trying to put creationism, bibles and 10 commandments in classrooms. /s
It' always amazing to see progressives deny everything they do. You really are going to sit here and pretend progressives have not controlled the department of education, college teacher programs, curricula, and certification for generations? Not to mention teacher unions and textbook publishing houses.
Oh.. right but a couple rural districts put a bible in a school it all so it's all the same, right?
I don't blame you for being embarrassed by what progressives have done to education, but at least try and acknowledge reality.
It's always amazing to see you flail about deflecting from what someone actually posted.
Exactly where did I dismiss progressives? Are not progressives also "hyper-partisan populists"? Or are you too wrapped up in your bubble to acknowledge that?
Whole fucking states Sean! Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Florida, Utah, Montana and Ohio have all passed laws to inject religion into schools across their states. Trying to gaslight me won't work. Trying to deflect to "...it's all the Progressives fault..." won't work.
Not really. It's why have different terms for progressives and populists. Th progressives who've controlled the institutions of education for decades are not "populists" You seem to conflate "partisan" and "populist" for some reason.
r are you too wrapped up in your bubble to acknowledge that?
Now you want to argue that I won't acknowledge progressives are hyper partisan? That's a good one.
ing to gaslight me won't work. Trying to deflect to "...it's all the Progressives fault.
Of course it is. You are so desperate to both sides it and deflect that you are reaching for points that don't make any logical sense. Some schools might have the ten commandants posted somewhere? OH LAWDYYYY How can anyone learn to read with those or a bible in the building....
Do you believe the ten commandments have magical powers? Or the bible? That their very presence in a building prevents kids from learning?
By all means, provide the logical claim that any of these supposed attempts to inject religion in school are what prevent kids from learning now ? By all means, use data from when religion and religious texts were much more a part of education than they are today, and show how the completely secular districts like Chicago are outperforming states like Utah, which supposedly have religion "injected into them." How do you square religious schools outperforming public ones if "injecting religion" into them somehow causes kids to be unable to learn?
It's such a desperate ploy to deflect from the reality of what decades of institutional progressivism have done to our educational system. Again, all one has to do is look around to see why you so desperately need to do that. But blaming conservatives for what happened to public education is laughable.
Nonsense.
Projection.
Deflection.
It is pretty funny to see a man with no legs think he's winning an ass kicking contest. A little sad to watch sometimes, but hard not to chuckle a bit at their impotent frustration.
I agree. Sad to see it happen to him. You, of course, can empathize with him, I'm sure.
Now you have to resort to just misusing words?
I guess when you when can't create logical arguments, that's all you could do.
Logic is wasted on those who tilt at windmills.
You don't have to tell me. Your responses have demonstrated that perfectly.
You actually believe that?
It is definitely heading in that direction. The days of moderate democrats is slipping away and more and more of them seem to think "the other side" are hateful nazis that need to be dealt with harshly.
You think the Ds are moving in the direction of this fringe nutcase. Do you then also think that the Rs are moving in the direction of blatant violation of the oath of office, blatant lying, blatant corruption, blatant abuse of taxpayer dollars, blatant self-aggrandizement, etc.?
Because, RdtC, if you think a candidate for office is a fine indicator for an entire party, then surely you would recognize that the sitting PotUS is a fine indicator for the direction of his party.
She is not the only one
I believe the Rs are moving in the wrong direction also. But this article is not about them.
Don't put words in my mouth and try to get me to argue it. She is one of many and the rhetoric from the left (not just her) is getting more and more radical. You don't see the left going farther left?
Put words in your mouth? A lame excuse for refusing to deal with the challenge.
Your grand argument is merely a claim that she is one of many and that there are so many like her that the D party is moving in that direction. A mere claim. You did not back it up with any facts or reason.
You have nothing.
The 800lb gorilla problem we have is Trump and his control of the GOPTRUMP and you are worried about some abstract movement by the Ds that you cannot even substantiate.
Yes
No
You don 't see the left moving farther left?
A mere claim when the comment cant be refuted
Trump might be an 800 pound gorilla in some folks minds but he sure doesn't live in my head. Especially when people with nothing to add to the string try and pivot to trump.
Put forth an actual argument rather than posting more tripe.
The 'left' is not the key problem. A single left nutcase is not the key problem. The key, present problem is a PotUS who continually abuses his power for his own purposes. Most recently, to create a ~$1.8 billion fund that he effectively controls and a 'deal' to prevent the government from pursuing tax claims, etc. on himself and his sons for all his prior transactions.
Do you not recognize blatant corruption when it is right in front of your nose?
It is definitely a major problem
Read what I wrote. She is not the only nutcase on the left right now. You don 't see the left moving farther left?
The article is not about Trump ergo I am not commenting on him, no matter how much you seem to want to pivot to him.
Of course not. You engage in faulty generalization using one left nut yet refuse to even acknowledge the fact that the PotUS has corrupted the GOP well beyond what it was and continues to damage this nation. You even refuse to acknowledge the immediate, blatant corruption of the ~$1.8 billion fund controlled by Trump and his immunity against IRS audits.
The 800lb Gorilla is trashing the place, but you only care about some whacko running for office because she is a D.
Correct, the article is not about him.
It is not about the Ds either. It is about one nutcase.
So when you engage in faulty generalization, it is reasonable for me to point out how you are totally ignoring the 800lb Gorilla (Trump) trashing the place right in front of you.
And you ignore it and instead try to trash the Ds.
My comment was not about one nutcase and neither was the comment I was responding to.
Interesting segue.
Correct, you fallaciously generalized to the entire D party. Exactly as I noted.
Nope. I responded to a comment with an observation about the same topic. You don 't see the left moving farther left?
This nutcase hasn't actually been elected by a majority of Democrats to anything. Just about anyone can run, that doesn't mean the party they claim to be running as supports them.
Also, it's interesting that the seeder didn't include this from their seeded article:
I guess that poked too many holes in the dumb fuck narrative some desperate schmucks seem to be trying to sell here of all Democrats running towards some extreme antisemite left.
That doesn't answer the question
Because the answer was obvious. No. The 'left' is not moving farther left. It only looks that way to rightwing conservative loser incels sliding so far right they're falling off the edge.
Name calling and hiding a head in the sand is not a good look.
AOC backed Democrat who claimed Bondi Beach massacre was a false flag carried out by Zionists headed to Congress...
The squad gets another bigot...
How? Did she win an actual election? When did we start sending unelected candidates in a primary to Congress? Or could this be just more tired rightwing conservative 'sky is falling' lies used to distract the poorly educated masses so they're more likely to vote for the party of the convicted felon President and pedophile protectors? Sorry, you don't need to answer that, everyone here already knows the answer.