Imagine if you just finished Mother’s Day dinner and one of your kids gave you a greeting card showing blood streaming down your back after being shot with burning arrows.
You’d probably take that child to a therapist to try to find out what’s wrong.
That’s what someone should probably do with whoever’s in charge of the social media accounts for the Kansas Republican Party these days.
The state GOP’s official Mother’s Day greeting on Facebook was an artificial intelligence-generated image (at least I hope it was AI, if not we have bigger problems) showing a woman with six arrows sticking out of her body as she balances a shield, studded with another four arrows, behind her child’s back.
Four of the 10 arrows are on fire. She’s smiling and holding a book in front of the toddler. You can’t see the title, but the strong implication is it’s a Bible and not “Heather Has Two Mommies.”
The caption on this work of “art” was “Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms trying to protect and raise their children right in a world where evil is celebrated and good is mocked! Thank you for being so strong!”
I mean was this really necessary? Couldn’t the party leadership have just said “Happy Mother’s Day” and left it at that?
You’d think they would have learned a lesson on Easter, when President Donald Trump caught flak all over the place for celebrating the resurrection of Jesus with a demented online tirade about his own political adversaries, judges, law enforcement officials and his disproven theory of how the 2020 election was stolen from him.
The sad(der) part of this is that when new leadership of the state Republican Party took over in March, it looked like they were planning to let up on the gas a little from the opportunistic weirdness that marked the tenure of former GOP state chairman Mike Brown.
Apparently not.
For some reason, GOP leadership can’t seem to ever just take a day off and act like more or less regular people.
Since 1944, the slogan of the Hallmark greeting card company has been “When you care enough to send the very best.”
The GOP’s version is “When you care enough to own the libs, even on holidays.”
But on this particular holiday, the libs weren’t in a mood to be owned.
The GOP post drew more than 700 comments as of this writing and they were still flowing in steadily Monday evening.
The overwhelming majority were negative. Here are some of the more printable examples:
“You are the ones celebrating and collaborating with EVIL.
