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Unlike Texas Republicans, Maine Republicans are offering thoughts after 15+ were killed at a bowling alley in Lewiston Maine.

Texas Republicans stopped offering thoughts and prayers after the Santa Fe High School shooting which took the lives of 8 students and 2 teachers. You didn’t hear that phrase being used after Uvalde which took the lives of 19 3rd graders and 2 teachers. They stopped not because the offering is worthless, but because they were being ridiculed for doing it. People don’t want your fuckin thoughts and prayers. They want action.

But….Some Republicans didn’t get the memo and offered thoughts AND prayers including Lauren “Hand Job” Boebert, Chris Sununu, the Republican governor of New Hampshire, and Congressional Candidate Leon Benjamin. From Newsweek:

Leon Benjamin, who is running for Congress in Virginia, focused on policy and wrote: “Active Shooter in Maine! 22 Dead, 50+ injured! Pray and know how 5GW is very active right now. Our Nation is not being protected because of bad policies like: Defunding the Police!”

Don’t worry. After a week or so and after the funerals are over everyone will have forgotten the fallen and with Thanksgiving just around the corner they will be able to offer turkey, thoughts, and prayers.

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