In an episode of his show The StoneZONE on August 12, Roger Stone called the Democratic vice presidential candidate a “Kansas City f—–.”
The show is streamed on Rumble, a right-wing streaming service that hosts Trump’s Truth Social, and features Troy Smith as his cohost. This specific episode also had Caitlin Sinclair of Turning Point USA, a right-wing group that targets college students, on as a guest.
Walz got brought up as the trio was discussing the “unfairness” of the democratic process and Harris’ nomination as the Democratic nominee, and Stone began bemoaning Harris’ choice of Walz as her vice president. “She’s picked, this guy, Tim Walz. Saw him at a rally. I mean, I hate to quote, Mel Brooks, in Blazing Saddles, but he was jumping around like a Kansas City faggot,” he says, attempting to give himself a modicum of deniability. “This guy—really, really weird,” Stone continued, unsuccessfully trying to use Walz’s own “Republicans are weird” strategy back on him.
Moments after Stone’s use of a homophobic slur on live TV, Sinclair claimed that the opposite should be the Republican strategy, saying “What I think Republicans and conservatives need to focus on, including Donald Trump, is the vision, is the plan for how we’re going to put America first, how we’re going to lower gas prices (and) make food affordable once again (…) I think when we get into the semantics and the name-calling and all of the noise, which is so obviously a distraction and exactly what the left wants us to get involved in, we lose that focus on the vision.”
In a brilliant moment of typical right-wing hypocrisy, Stone responds, “I completely agree with you. Look, I think name-calling is a mistake, and it won’t work,” and then immediately went on to claim that Harris had been changing her ethnicity throughout her campaigns.
The lack of self-awareness would be funny if it wasn’t a depressing look at our future if Trump wins. This type of hate speech isn’t solely characteristic of Stone, either. In a report by Rolling Stone in January, young Republican spaces are filled with transphobia, ableism, racism, and liberal amounts of slurs. It’s now a part of the culture, in all ages of MAGA supporters.
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