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GOP "Mexican Invasion" meme runs amok in Arizona [1]

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Date: 2022-08-17

Real life incidents in Juarez, Mexico, a location featured in the film Sicario (2015) [Image Source: Intelligence Fusion] President Trump's comments about prayer rugs, duct-taped victims, and heavily-armored Mexican cars are eerily similar to multiple scenes in the 2018 crime drama 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Oath Keeper Mark Finchem (R-AZ) is playing off the “invasion meme” confusion as he tries to secure control of Arizona’s election apparatus as Secretary of State.

There’s not much paramilitary difference between off-duty military engaging in mercenary violence and serving military engaging in sedition and insurrection in the nation’s Capitol.

GOP candidate for Governor, Kari Lake has declared: "On day one within a second or two of taking my hand off the Bible, and taking the oath of office, we're going to issue a Declaration of Invasion." A reference to right-wing memes fostered in Texas and other border states, because they cannot declare actual war.

x NEW: Mark Finchem, the GOP nominee for Arizona secretary of state, kept a ‘Treason Watch List’ on Pinterest & shared conspiracies that the Mexican Army was making incursions into the US in preparation for a full-scale invasion https://t.co/Cq8oytqd6T — em steck (@emsteck) August 16, 2022

"CNN’s KFile team uncovered previously unreported posts from Mark Finchem, an Arizona state representative who won his party’s nomination with the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, on several social media websites linked from his since-deleted former Twitter account," CNN's Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck reported. "The posts included a Pinterest account with a 'Treason Watch List,' and pins of photos of Barack Obama alongside imagery of a man clad in Nazi attire making a Nazi salute; Finchem also shared photos of the Holocaust claiming it could happen in the United States." Kaczynski gave an update on the story to CNN's Jake Tapper. "Now, we asked Finchem about this content," Kacynski reported. "We just sent us a message back. He called -- he said CNN wasn't credible, he didn't respond to any of the individual allegations. He did delete one of his Pinterest boards, post-publication, that had some of this information on there, but we haven't heard him respond to any of the individual allegations in the story." www.rawstory.com/…

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