Here’s former Rep. Joe Walsh, a one-term Illinois Tea Party darling, responding to news on Thursday that snipers had shot and killed Dallas police officers at a Black Lives Matter protest:
This was quickly deleted and later explained away as follows:
Walsh made a small name for himself back in the day by going all bitchcakes on a constituent. He gave up his seat to Tammy Duckworth in 2013, whereupon he scored himself a goldbugs-and-fascism drivetime radio show from which he once got booted supposedly for saying “nigger.” A lot of subtext is going to become text in the next few days. Seems only right for Walsh to have gotten us started.