A prolonged profile of Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters printed final month in Mom Jones included a leaked video of a youthful Masters sporting warfare paint and awkwardly rapping strains that included:
“How bout we speak about the way in which that I look/ All people is aware of that it’s off the hook/ I’ve obtained the warfare paint on, as you possibly can see/ Who stated what about cultural insensitivity?”
The video is making the rounds on-line, as such issues all the time do lately.
And, sure. In a colossally cringeworthy means Masters manages within the video to come back off as each creepy and racist.
Not a simple feat.
Changing into a serious league flip-flopper
The video was made whereas Masters was youthful man, earlier than he’d hitched his wagon to Peter Thiel, the billionaire puppeteer at present pulling Masters’ strings (by bankrolling his marketing campaign to the tune of $13 million.)
Nevertheless, what’s disturbing concerning the warfare paint rapper’s digital efficiency – along with the creepy racist vibe – is that the Blake Masters portrayed within the video … doesn’t appear to be all that totally different from the Masters of at present.
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His perspective hasn’t appeared to vary a lot.
One distinction – not in a very great way – is that the politician Masters morphed into is a serious league flip-flopper. The saddest, most cowardly selection.
GOP Senate candidate Masters was a vehement anti-abortion hardliner in the course of the major marketing campaign, after which scrubbed his web site of that view after he received (as produce other Republican candidates) understanding it wasn’t taking part in effectively with many citizens.
Receipts offered by Masters himself
Likewise, major candidate Masters spouted the Massive Lie concerning the 2020 election being stolen from former President Donald Trump and heaped reward on Trump, then scrubbed a lot of that after the first as effectively.
As if nobody would discover.
And whereas Masters might have wiped off the warfare paint from his youthful self he hasn’t precisely scrubbed away his xenophobic perspective, having fallen in with those that unfold the ugly “nice substitute” conspiracy, claiming that there’s an effort (by Democrats, in fact) to exchange white People with individuals of coloration.
And sure, there are receipts, most offered by Masters, a completely grown man who loves filming himself as a lot as that self-absorbed youthful man with the goofy pink smears on his face.
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