House Republicans have yet to take a business stance on anti-Semitic comments through MAGA poster artists like Donald Trump and Kanye West, but they’ve begun cleaning up old tweets praising bigoted brandons should they want to jump ship.
Earlier in the day, a user discovered that a tweet from a few weeks ago through the Republican-run account on the House Judiciary Committee had been deleted from the group’s official account. The original tweet sent in October of this year, around the time Elon Musk welcomed Kanye to the social networking site and just a month before Trump’s account was reinstated. He simply said, “Kanye. Elon. Asset. ” The holy trinity of exhausting narcissists.
A reporter from The Daily Beast had visited the account to see if the tweet was still online, and at 1 p. m. Just 34 minutes later, another user saw that the tweet had been deleted.
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It appears this resolution is similar to West’s disastrous appearance on Alex Jones’ InfoWars show, which was livestreamed when House’s Republican account removed the post. On the broadcast, West donned a black mask that covered his entire face and brought a Bible to the set. He then got into a tirade about Jews pushing pornography before expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler for inventing things like the road and microphones.
“I also see clever things about Hitler,” West said. I love everybody, and the Jews are going to tell me, ‘You can love us and what we do to you with contracts and what we push with pornography. . . ‘But this guy who invented highways invented the total microphone that I use as a musician, you can’t say out loud anything smart that this user has ever done. Every human being has something of a price that he has put on the table. Especially Hitler.
It turns out that calling the Holocaust the only thing Hitler “put on the table” as a price tag was a step too far for the House Republican Party because its endorsement of West disappeared after that interview.
While this Kanye/Alex Jones livestream is taking place, the GOP House Judiciary account, regardless, deleted this tweet after nearly two months. https://t. co/jPfbmtoS0O pic. twitter. com/wWPzzy0t8X
– Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) December 1, 2022
Moreover, House Republicans were probably less angry about West’s approval of the genocide than their clothing choices. Blatant anti-Semitism and Hitler’s isolation are all well and good, yet we all know what right-wingers think about covering their faces. Wearing a mask is just a bridge too far.