Welcome to what is the 1004th original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Shane Hazel, who traditionally, has run as a Republican in races in Georgia like when he lost in the GOP Primary to Rob Woodall for U.S. House Rep. for Georgia’s 7th Congressional District in 2018, but we’ll also note that when he ran for U.S. Senate in 2020, he ran as a Libertarian candidate (which whenever someone’s too crazy for even the modern GOP, they seem to try that route and things get even wackier). His ideas were as level-headed as repealing Obamacare (without any replacement), to completely abolish income tax, and defunding Planned Parenthood.
But our real head-turning moment with this guy is from his Facebook page, where he showed a photo of a ship full of Muslim refugees and after a friend wrote, “Maybe recon can accidentally sink it!!!” Hazel was not content with just “accidentally” murdering a boat full of people fleeing for their lives, responding, “The navy should overtly sink it and send a message.”
That’s only one of his Islamophobic, anti-Immigrant opinions, because Hazel shared memes claiming that the Muslim faith ”offers" rape, pedophilia, beheadings, burning people alive and slavery. He wrote: “Disgusting doesn’t even begin to paint the picture of Islam.” When someone on his post called him out for hate speech, Hazel upped the ante, replying ”more like fact spreading. Jesus didn’t teach pedophilia. Conversely the prophet Muhammad does. There are sick people of every religion. The difference is that Islam glorifies the sickness.
In yet another bigoted post he offered his opinion that a new US military dress code allowing beards and turbans was “BS,” and advocated for airplanes to be filled with pigs, so that “all suicide bombers body parts left over from the blast will be feed [sic] to pigs… And we won’t do this because we’re afraid to offend radical Muslims?”
Which… is definitely meant to be intolerant, but isn’t a really well thought out plan on… multiple levels. In spite of all those quotes, Shane Hazel refused to acknowledge being Islamophobic or anti-immigrant when confronted with his own words.
He’s currently podcasting, and referring to any politician who isn’t a Libertarian as part of a “Murder Cult”, which is very chill of him. We’re sure it will help him upset the establishment candidates during his attempted 2022 run to become the next Governor of Georgia.
Shane Hazel seems doomed to tilt at windmills… hopefully he ends up banned on social media platforms long before he reaches that point.
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