A Republican aide has claimed that LGBTQ+ organisations are training eight-year-old children how to use butt plugs and dildos.

In a recently resurfaced speech, Erin Mazzoni, who reportedly works for the campaign of Franklin, Tennessee Republican mayoral candidate Gabrielle Hanson, alleged that children are being given sex toys by LGBTQ+ activists.

Mazzoni told a meeting of the Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen earlier this that she’d moved to Tennessee from Bucks County, in Pennsylvania, after apparently discovering that an LGBTQ+ organisation was teaching children how to use sex toys, which, she claimed, caused the community to “fall apart”.

Between sobs, she said: “It started out as Pride coming in, and I thought everything would be OK. It ended with a Rainbow Room where eight to 12-year-old kids were given butt plugs and dildos and trained.

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So whose children does Erin Mazzoni have access to?

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I hope none, for the sake of all children.

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She has a rich fantasy life, doesn’t she?

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Yes, and oddly specific.

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In her defense, saying things like “LGBTQ+ people don’t do butt-stuff on children,” doesn’t get you on public access tv.

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Let’s just say Freud would have some concerns!

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In reality she’s fantasizing about genocide

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I remember when I was around 13-14 years old we had sex education class and we had to put a condom on a dildo. We all thought it was great fun.

This isn’t really related to whatever this woman is talking about, she’s probably just making shit up, but it just reminded me of that and I thought I’d share.

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Probably?

Definitely, without question, 100% guaranteed.

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To give her the benefit of the doubt, (which you shouldn’t - I am a trained pedantry professional, please do not try this at home!) you could imagine that she saw a particularly young looking 14 year old learning to put a condom onto a dildo and being very bad at estimating the ages of kids, thought they were 8, and also misinterpreted the lesson as being about how to use sex toys rather than about safe sex.

Of course, I know fine well that this isn’t what happened. This woman is just spreading anti-LGBTQ+ hate, and it’s also very possible that she’s projecting. Even if she isn’t a pedophile, she is still a danger to kids, especially LGBTQ+ kids.

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Hahaha, teachers HATED that day at our school because they then handed out free condoms… Which everyone just attached to car exhausts in the staff parking lot.

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Ah, at our school we weren’t directly given free condoms, just told about how we could access them. So of course a bunch of kids got some free condoms which encouraged lively discussion around what flavours were the best before some of them inevitably ended up as balloons.

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Ma’am, that sounds like an awfully specific word choice for you to be using there…

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Republicans live in a completely different reality.

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The one they describe is usually so much nicer, too. Kids getting sex education that isn’t abstinence only or the STD shock image hour? I wish.

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These fundamentalists gutted sex ed and now we wonder why STI rates are up. Fuck them and everything they stand for

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Fuck them and everything they stand for

Make sure to use protection though

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The problem is they project it onto others.

Like Christians who don’t rape and murder because they’re scared of hell, assume people who don’t believe do it all the time. They’re just telling on themselves that if they didn’t think Sky Daddy was watching them, then why wouldn’t they do horrible shit.

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They don’t live in any REALITY. They live in a Fox News fever dream.

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Wouldn’t this stuff have to be real in order for it to be a reality?

Butt plug training, stolen elections, no climate change, Hillary Clinton harvesting children in pizza restaurants, etc. The GOP platform reads like fiction self-published on Amazon.

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Had a chance to look at Fox news lately? My family turned to it last night and it was ridiculous lol. Look at this

It was all about a parent who was blaming weed for her sons suicide.

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