Lemon LIVE at 5: This MAGA Candidate's Racist And Vile Posts Are Beyond Disturbing
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Who is Bo French, the Texas Republican nominee facing backlash over racist rhetoric?
Why does this Monday feel like a Friday? I feel like I've been I've worked enough that it's Friday already, but it is Monday evening. So welcome to Lemon Live at five. Thank you for joining. Bless you. Who was that? Mariana just did you I don't know if you guys heard that. Uh the resident is sneezing. Uh, I usually have an audience. If you guys want to come in, you can. But welcome to Lemon Live at five. Um, happy that you're here. You guys know what to do. You first sort of business, you hit the like and the thumbs up because it affects the algorithm. More people become aware of our conversation, our channel. And I see that you guys are coming in there now. So great, great, great. So um we I have a lot to talk about.
Do you know? Um The racists have come out of the woodworks, they're not scared anymore. Not only they come out of the woodworks, it's like If you want to be racist and you want to be in office. I think we've I think we have uh been set up by certain administration or person. to encourage it. That the most vile people. can run for office possibly win. It's the truth. So we're gonna call it is what it is on this program right now. We're gonna talk about one racist. Mob, why'd you put that in my head to stop cussing? Because I you know I want to call him a racist piece of shit, but I'm not gonna call him a racist piece of shit because you said don't. So I'm just gonna call him a racist POS. Sorry. Just when you thought the far right Republican candidates couldn't get any uglier and any nastier and any dirtier.
Well, is it really far right? Or is it just kind of Is it kinda just the Republican Party which is MAGA now? Because I I don't think it's just the far right who's in here because
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lot of people are not calling him out. And they wouldn't call themselves far right. I think this is just the Republican Party right now. It's definitely a mag. So just when you thought they couldn't get any nastier or dirtier or more racist, I want you to meet One Oh French. Look at that handsome devil. A face only a mother could love. Do you know that's sarcasm, right? He looks like what was the thing in the the what was that thing in the eighties that we called it? Who had the square head? What was that guy in the box? Do you guys remember who I'm talking about? No, it wasn't Gumby. It was tell me who the guy in the box is in the thing. Remember he was Why can't I oh my gosh, it's right at the tip of my tongue.
What was the guy's name? He was like computer generated and he was uh I'll get it. I'll get it. I'll Max Headroom. Thank you. This Max Hedram looking character, look at him. He describes himself as someone who judges people by the color of their skin. And their religion. And that's why I feel like I can really talk shit about this person because he said he is the kind of person he says he he is. And I think he owns it. I think he likes it. It's very similar to uh it's a very similar language language he uses as JD Vance when he says that immigrants are making the country dirtier. So this beau French. It's also pretty much said that he is a racist and that he wants to deport one hundred million people in America.
So yeah. He is a hateful piece of shit. He is also the Republican nominee for the Texas Railroad Commission, a powerful statewide office regulating the heart of Texas's oil and gas industry. So he is running. To be in office.
Did Bo French call for public executions of political opponents?
And if he does, if he wins, that will tell you something about the Republican Party and it will tell you something about Republicans. Not that we need to be told, I think we kind of get it. And today we are learning a lot more about what this man Has been Saying online. I mean Oof. What he's been saying online. Things he may have thought the internet had forgotten. In posts that he has since deleted, he repeatedly advocated for public executions of political rivals. Yeah. Public executions, this guy. And so again, that's why I don't feel bad. Mom, I don't feel bad about using that language with him, because you're probably saying something even worse. I know you, you're probably saying that.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Bo French, the Texas Republican nominee facing backlash over racist rhetoric?
0:28–4:17
2
Did Bo French call for public executions of political opponents?
4:17–7:49
3
What did Bo French say about Muslims, immigrants, and Barack Obama?
7:49–12:10
4
Why are Texas Republicans condemning Bo French’s racist and Islamophobic posts?
12:10–20:06
5
How do Nina Turner and Tim Wise explain the political incentives behind racist rhetoric?
20:06–25:55
6
How has Trump-era politics made open racism more acceptable in the Republican Party?
25:55–37:23
7
Why does Tim Wise connect anti-Black racism to attacks on democracy and public education?
37:23–51:21
8
How did post-racial politics and Democratic failures contribute to today’s racial divisions?
51:21–1:00:07
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