Witch hunts are back in vogue with Kansas Republicans—literally.
Ty Masterson, the Republican candidate in the Kansas gubernatorial race, accused his Democratic opponent, Cindy Holscher, of being an actual witch capable of “demonic” magic, while speaking at the Praise Chapel in Wichita on Sunday.
Masterson introduced the dubious portion of his pseudo-sermon by suggesting that God wanted him to run for Kansas’s top political office.
“God’s armies are out there in this,” Masterson said. “What we’re fighting right now is a spiritual battle that I’ve never seen before, in [this] state, in this politics.
“Evil is maturing with the brotherhood, and it is rising to a level that is just in your face,” Masterson continued as a pianist played a contemplative melody beside him. “Really, my race and the U.S. Senate race with Roger Marshall versus [Adam] Hamilton. Those are spiritual battles.
“Like I said, my opponent, she didn’t even hide it,” Masterson added. “She talked—they had witch—I mean, they’re doing like witchcraft spells on TikTok so she can win the governorship. I mean, they’re like … it’s like demonic stuff that they’re doing, right? Just in your face that way.”
Imagine being a grown-ass man and thinking magic spells work through Tik Tok.
Everyone knows they only work on Instagram Reels.
They only work on Etsy. That’s why they banned witches from selling their services there.
They don’t actually believe most of this stuff though, they are playing the sheep.
Covid did make me realize a lot more of them believe it more than I thought though.
Masterson added “Then she turned me into a newt! But I got better…”
Witches are preferable compared to a bunch of Trump supporters.
In my experience it’s usually the ones who invoke the name of God at every corner who aren’t to be trusted.
I mean, it’s just other magic.
Amen brotha!
Why not.
They beleive in a sky fairy that grants wishes.
A demon that they can shift blame to for all their misdeeds.
A magical land they get to go to after being pieces of shit so long as they repent, no matter the damage to people that the victims have to live with long after the PoS dies.
So witchcraft is right up their alley.
Or maybe they don’t actually beleive any of that and they’re just horrible humans that selfishly push their way through life while using fake religion as a shield. No difference, really.
does she float?
What also floats in water?
tiny pebbles
Churches! Churches!
Very small rocks
Why do the evil people always point at someone else and say the evil is over there? Actually that’s not my question, my question is why do people fall for it when they do this?
Lack of education, mostly
The professional class is given to believing bullshit too, and they’ve all been educated by societies’ standards.
Even in grade through high school, critical thinking and evaluating sources was drilled into us.
I think the failure is the anti intellectual bent in this country, which I believe was fostered by the rich in the business roundtable of 1971 that made a long game to overthrow liberal democracy.
Not being critical is hardly the only thing to mention, the nihilistic worldview where nothing matters other than money for oneself, that it’s not dishonorable to make obscene profits parasitically feeding on productive companies, killing of History class in any real way and corrupting what is left, and so forth.
why do people fall for it when they do this?
stupidity.
Brainwashed/indoctrination since childhood.
The satanic panic losers always strike me as insincere and performative, but they’ll use it to slander, abuse, and dehumanize.
They made me WANT to listen to “devil music” in the 80s.
That was also probably the goal. By talking about it constantly and making it sound more intense and interesting to everyone, it both scares their people more and intrigues other people. They bring the obedient and impressionable in and compel them to not partake, and they push the rebellious and skeptical into doing the thing they are already demonizing. You freely enjoyed a form of media because they demonized it and thus the hordes of heathens grew, strengthening their influence and control over the in-group.
They be eatin moldy grains.
They should really lean into this by making a Wizard of Oz-themed television advertisement.
Are you a good witch or a bad witch?
He’s the one casting Stupefy.
In a postindustrial society, in the third decade of the 21st century of the common era. A member of the legislative branch believes in witches.
Jesus masturbating on a skateboard, I hate this timeline.
Stop making your opposition look awesome challenge.
I didn’t have the possibility of resurrecting the witch trials on my apocalypse bing-card.
Really? These walnuts are all over the country. And the satanic scare wasn’t exactly centuries ago.
Pink triangles/genocide? Yes.
Them undertaking the effort to host a witch trial first? No. Simply, genocide w/o due process is cheaper and easier.
But does she weigh the same as a duck?
Who are thee who is so wise in the ways of science?
