- New Hampshire GOP Senate nominee Don Bolduc repeated a hoax about youngsters utilizing litter packing containers.
- “They lick themselves, they’re cats,” Bolduc mentioned to a crowd at an occasion on Thursday, as per CNN.
- John Oliver debunked the hoax on “Final Week Tonight,” calling Republicans “heartbreakingly silly.”
Weeks after comic John Oliver known as Republicans “heartbreakingly silly” for perpetuating a lie about youngsters utilizing litter packing containers at college, a GOP Senate nominee candidate repeated the hoax at an occasion in New Hampshire on Thursday, in response to audio obtained by CNN.
Whereas chatting with supporters in North Hampton, Don Bolduc — who’s dealing with Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan — claimed that youngsters are being instructed they’ll use litter packing containers at school and are allowed to establish as cats or furries, the information outlet reported.
“Guess what? Now we have furries and fuzzies in lecture rooms,” Bolduc mentioned as the group laughed. “They lick themselves, they’re cats. After they do not like one thing, they hiss. Individuals stroll down the hallway and bounce out.”
“They’re placing litter packing containers, proper? Litter packing containers for this,” he added. “These are the identical individuals which are involved about spreading germs. But they let youngsters lick themselves after which contact every thing. They usually’re beginning to lick one another.”
CNN reported that Bolduc made comparable feedback earlier that day on a radio present.
On the October 16 episode of “Final Week Tonight,” host John Oliver delved into Republicans’ assaults on transgender rights, together with GOP candidates who declare faculties are permitting college students who establish as furries — individuals considering anthropomorphic animals, and sometimes undertake fictitious “fursonas” — to make use of litterboxes at faculties.
“If children have been utilizing litter packing containers at school, a state consultant from Minnesota wouldn’t be the one breaking that information to you,” Oliver mentioned. “If a child sh*t in a litterbox in first interval, it might be the one factor anybody in that state was speaking about by lunch. Minnesota would change its state motto to ‘Minnesota: Y’know, the state the place that child sh*t in a litterbox.'”
Bolduc is not the one Republican candidate to repeat the hoax, which has been disproven since 2021. In March, Sen. Bruce Bostelman, a Nebraskan Republican, apologized after claiming faculties have been accommodating youngsters with litter packing containers throughout a public, televised debate, in response to The Related Press.
The litter field conspiracy idea has change into so pervasive that it has its personal Wikipedia web page. The declare reportedly originated in October 2021 in Prince Edward Island, Canada when rumors started circulating throughout the public college system about college students figuring out as cats and litter packing containers positioned in faculties.
Bolduc is an Military veteran and a one-time election denier. Insider’s Madison Corridor reviewed congressional monetary filings and located that Bolduc flouted a federal conflict-of-interest and transparency regulation by failing to submit particulars about his personal funds in 2022.
Regardless of Bolduc successful his major, polling from October 30 reveals Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan favored to win the New Hampshire Senate race.
Representatives for Bolduc didn’t reply to Insider’s request for remark.
