Question from another part of the world: do they believe this nonsense, or do they just think their voter base believe it, or is it just a shared excuse for misogyny? I’m so lost.

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The state senator had seemingly drawn his conclusions from a series of playful TikTok videos posted by Holscher’s 20-year-old daughter, Maddie, who had shared clips of her and her mom brushing their teeth set to a song from the Wicked soundtrack.

“Casting a spell so my mom wins Kansas Governor except she’s so done with me,” Maddie Holscher captioned one clip from April, in which she waves her arms around her mother.

why would you name your city have witchita then.

Until she's weighed, and found to weigh, the same as a duck, this is entirely baseless.

This person belongs in a mental ward.

She’d be cooler if she were.

Masterson is a fucking blight in human form. Even this hellhole of a state deserves better.

The fact that people are trying to emulate Trumps dementia riddled speech patterns is very concerning.

Go pray on TikTok, then. Either it's not witchcraft helping her, or your God is a farce.

Weird how the party of tough alpha wolf macho men is constantly looking for new dumb shit to be terrified of

They had preacher — I mean, they’re doing like prayers on TikTok so he can win the governorship. I mean, they’re like … it’s like demonic stuff that they’re doing, right?

When we said if you don't have dirt on your opponent then make it up we meant something like misappropriation of funds.

I figured this was going to start soon. I have made friends with a Murder in my neighborhood, I am related to two accused witches one of whom was hung in Salem and I own a black cat so I expect to be named in the upcoming witch trials too.

"I am not a witch." - Christine O’Donnell,

So his opponent is practicing her Freedom of Religion. In this instance, Wicca. If he's a solid Catholic, he's free to go drink the literal blood and eat the literal flesh of Jesus (after transubstantiation) during mass. By the same token, she should be free to perform whatever spell/s she likes. That doesn't make her 'demonic'. Unless she's literally summoning demons, in which case, Masterson needs to play The Best Song in the World.

Reminds me of Delaware Senate Candidate Christine O'Donnell needing to issue a preemptive denial back in 2010.

I thought y'all believed in freedom of religion? Witch is a religion

Fr I do really hate that being pagan is so controversial in so much of the country

whats his tanning leather skin doing outside.

LMAO!!!!

We aint in Kansas anymore, Toto...

Someone should take a serious look at whatever school that crazy person came out of. They failed.

I thought these shitbags only wanted to take us back to the 40s and 50s for bigotry and interracial suspicion and all that black/white segregation stuff and ... it was not a good time in my opinion. But we seemed to be fixing it. (surprisingly all that bigoted shit we were making go away has returned by truckload these days under trump - this for another time).

Now these dipshits want to take it back to the 1500's for some Plymouth era witch hunts.! Didn't the fucking republican dipshit, you know the clown puppet with the orange face? Didn't that fucker go ON AND ON AND ON AND ON about "witch hunts"? Every investigation into his criminal actions was/is "a witch hunt"? Is this the witch you seek, assclown?

WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH THESE SHIT NOZZLES???

Worse... what the fuck is the matter with the idiot shitnozzles who believe in this crap???

It's funny but sad that so many are bamboozled by all this superstition and supernatural stuff, indoctrinated and then never got out of it, stay in the safe comfort of dualism and don't have to think for self. They benefit from the system and indoctrinate their children too, just obey, it's easier than thinking, but hurts other people with the bad policies!