Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza polled Twitter Tuesday over whether it is “appropriate to cheer” if China shoots down House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plane for visiting Taiwan....
Right around the time Pelosi touched down in Taiwan, D’Souza asked his Twitter followers, “If the Chinese shoot down Pelosi’s plane, is it appropriate to cheer or immediately demand World War 3?”
As of 3:20 p.m. ET, more than 13,000 people had voted in the poll, with more than 75% of them agreeing cheering such an outcome is “appropriate.”
Among the people who responded to this tweet were two U.S. senators and the chair of the Republican Party:
You don't need to be an economist to know that more wasteful spending will not fix a recession.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) August 2, 2022
The Biden Admin won’t let the 2022 Wimbledon Champion compete in the US Open, but they’ll let countless unvaccinated border-crossers be shipped to a location nearest you.
— Dr. Roger Marshall (@RogerMarshallMD) August 2, 2022
Democrat politicians are “good” at two things: raising your taxes and wasting your money.
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) August 2, 2022
Yes, these are replies to the D'Souza tweet. If you ask these folks, they'll say they never expressed glee at the thought of Nancy Pelosi dying in a shootdown -- they just used this tweet as an excuse to spread unrelated right-wing talking points.
But apparently it's unthinkable that the head of the Republican Party and two U.S. senators might actually condemn this eliminationist tweet. While we're told that random liberals on social media said cruel things about Kentuckians who are experiencing deadly floods, here's one of the most influential ideologues on the right gleefully imagining the death of a Democratic Speaker of the House, and no one on the right can be bothered to condemn it.
It's not just that Republicans are awful -- it's that they rarely pay a price for being awful, or tolerating awfulness.
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