A Republican aide has claimed that LGBTQ+ organisations are training eight-year-old children how to use butt plugs and dildos.

In a recently resurfaced speech, Erin Mazzoni, who reportedly works for the campaign of Franklin, Tennessee Republican mayoral candidate Gabrielle Hanson, alleged that children are being given sex toys by LGBTQ+ activists.

Mazzoni told a meeting of the Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen earlier this that she’d moved to Tennessee from Bucks County, in Pennsylvania, after apparently discovering that an LGBTQ+ organisation was teaching children how to use sex toys, which, she claimed, caused the community to “fall apart”.

Between sobs, she said: “It started out as Pride coming in, and I thought everything would be OK. It ended with a Rainbow Room where eight to 12-year-old kids were given butt plugs and dildos and trained.

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      The problem is they project it onto others.

      Like Christians who don’t rape and murder because they’re scared of hell, assume people who don’t believe do it all the time. They’re just telling on themselves that if they didn’t think Sky Daddy was watching them, then why wouldn’t they do horrible shit.

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      The one they describe is usually so much nicer, too. Kids getting sex education that isn’t abstinence only or the STD shock image hour? I wish.

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        These fundamentalists gutted sex ed and now we wonder why STI rates are up. Fuck them and everything they stand for

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      Had a chance to look at Fox news lately? My family turned to it last night and it was ridiculous lol. Look at this

      It was all about a parent who was blaming weed for her sons suicide.

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      Wouldn’t this stuff have to be real in order for it to be a reality?

      Butt plug training, stolen elections, no climate change doesn’t exist, Hillary Clinton harvesting children in pizza restaurants, etc. The GOP platform reads like fiction self-published on Amazon.

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    “Lady sobs because she imagined things that don’t happen”

    This kind of performative rhetoric, invented to assign wicked or demonic qualities to your scapegoat, is not a new thing. It’s just a retread of the blood libel, the red scare, the lavender panic, reefer madness, and today’s bathroom panics. All of them were lies told to justify violence and the criminalization of things that could be used to persecute their targets.

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    So, if the past is any indicator, in the next few months we’re going to learn she’s been molesting kids with butt plugs and dildos.

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    This is meant solely to hurt people. At best it’s satanic panic level insanity. At worst it’s an attempt to prepare people to commit atrocities.

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      I once met a Mormon dude who tried to put his thumb in my ass for alignment purpose.

      « Not gay if I’m the doctor » he said.

      « You’re not a doctor you bigoted fuck » I replied.

      Got my first appointment for prostatic exam next week. Can’t wait.

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      Indeed; these people often have an army of skeletons in their closets.

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    It really is amazing how people just believe whatever outlandish story they hear. Had an elderly woman tell our state legislators at a local forum that teachers where I work were literally locking children into closets and teaching them to be gay. Legislators response: “Mumble, Mumble, yeah… we need to do something about these teachers.”

    Lady, if we had the power to “indoctrinate” children, we wouldn’t have any late homework again, let alone tolerance for people different from yourself.

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    The only story I know about using buttplugs on children was that one instance where the child had to use a buttplug from their parents in order to keep the Devil out of their asshole.

    Christians are much worse than any drag queen.

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    I love how conspiratorial republicans get when the state is threatened with welfare and humanitarian measures, but when other republicans make insane claims no one asks for a source

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    How do these public lies not lead to consequences? Isn’t lying while testifying in a public setting perjury?

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    Funny they hardly ever cry about any of the children victims who were molested at churches or by GOP politicians.

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      Or children turned to swiss cheese during school shootings

      NRA training 8yr olds to shoot guns? Cool…

      Completely fabricated dildo training for kids? Outrage…