Defenders of Republican Congressman Dave Taylor claims that the glaringly obvious miniature swastika flag hanging in his office is the result of an “optical illusion.” Maybe Taylor will let us all jump on his trampoline if we keep really quiet about it.
Over the last week, a shocking number of Republican lawmakers and bureaucrats have outed themselves as either neo-Nazis or Nazi enthusiasts, with the representative from Ohio’s 2nd congressional district standing out as one of the most high-ranking fans of Nazi iconography in the majority party. A recently leaked image from inside Taylor’s Washington, D.C. office showed an American flag with a swastika in the center adorning one of the walls, but the conservative media machine has jumped into action to hand-wave away a powerful public servant celebrating genocide and fascism from inside the Capitol.
Yesterday afternoon, Fox News ran a story in which sources claimed that the hate symbol in Taylor’s office was simply an “optical illusion” that was “easy to miss.”
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Considering how the entirety of political Twitter caught Taylor’s swastika on first glance, that excuse holds little water, and some fans of the cult-hit sitcom Community now wonder whether Taylor’s defenders should have gone in a completely different direction and claimed that the Congressman is just a big fan of puzzles:
As Community fans remember well, in the Season Two episode “Aerodynamics of Gender,” Jeff and Troy fall under the serene spell of a Greendale Community College groundskeeper named Joshua, who maintains a secret garden with a giant trampoline in it, which is, of course, a massive insurance liability for the school. Jeff and Troy enjoy the dreamlike bliss of the trampoline until a suspicious Pierce catches them in the act, and after injuring himself off of a dangerous double bounce, he blows the whistle on the forbidden garden.
The trampoline is destroyed and Joshua loses his job, and, on the way out, he confides in Jeff and Troy, “That’s what I get for trusting some Black guy.” In one of the most hilarious memory montages in sitcom history, a shocked Jeff and Troy piece together the evidence that Joshua is a neo-Nazi, including the fact that he showed them the swastika tattoo on his chest. “It’s going to be a maze,” he told the pair.
Considering that the “optical illusion” defense completely falls apart upon a mere glance at Taylor’s swastika flag, the maze angle genuinely might have been a better move for Fox News and Taylor’s PR team. Still, Taylor could always just pivot and claim that he thought the flag was just a fun little patriotic windmill:
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