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.
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.
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
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
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 be eatin moldy grains.
They should really lean into this by making a Wizard of Oz-themed television advertisement.
It’s hilarious how the radical right wing xtians will quote “thou shalt not suffer a witch to live”, but according to their own claims, they worship a witch.
What do you call the claims of magic that their guy did, if not witchcraft?
I mean, I know they like to pull this Jedi mind trick and claim that what their guy does isn’t witchcraft, but what their enemies’ magicians do is, but…
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.
I didn’t have the possibility of resurrecting the witch trials on my apocalypse bing-card.
His is an indirect argument for Christian Nationalism. God strictly forbids witchcraft and sorcery.
