Rep. Eric Swalwell doesnât seem to know what the words âtoo soonâ mean. Just hours after dozens were killed in Kentucky and several other states because of tornadoes, the California Democrat used the occasion to remind Twitter that he doesnât like one of Kentuckyâs two Republican senators.
In response, the rest of Twitter let Swalwell know they werenât exactly enamored with him â and they brought up some of the former presidential contenderâs other peccadilloes. (You may have even forgotten about some of them, given how willing the media is to give him a pass for them. At The Western Journal, weâre not going to â and we help keep the media honest. You can help us in our fight by subscribing.)
The senator Swalwell used the disaster to slag with was Rand Paul, who tweeted out a message of support Saturday morning for those who died in Kentucky after a series of tornadoes hit the state late Friday and early Saturday.
âOur hearts are broken for all those suffering from last nightâs terrible storms,â Paul tweeted.
âI and my team will do all we can to assist local and state officials as they lead the immediate response, and will aggressively help families, businesses, and officials access recovery resources.â
Swalwell, meanwhile, decided it would be good time to use tornado dead â perhaps 80 of them with present estimates, according to CNN â to attack Paul.
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âWe should do all we can to help our Kentucky neighbors. God be with them â they are hurting,â Swalwell tweeted. âBut do not for one second forget that @RandPaul has voted against helping most Americans most times theyâre in need.â
This, as you can imagine, didnât go over swimmingly.
âItâs sad Politics have dipped to this level. Genuinely disgusting,â chef and Food Network personality Andrew Gruel tweeted.
The Michigan House GOPâs Andrew Wagner, meanwhile, asked âwhy are you like this?â
âIâm sure Kentuckians are thinking that now is the perfect time to take political pot-shots,â physician Andy Genova tweeted.
And there were a few people there to remind Swalwell he wasnât the one to go low:
Fang Fang, or Christine Fang, is an alleged Chinese spy that Swalwell had at least a friendly relationship with â and possibly more. Axios, which broke the story last December, said authorities believed that Fang had sexual relationships with mayors of two Midwestern cities and had acted to cultivate ties with politicians from coast to coast.
At the time, Business Insider reported, Swalwell refused to say whether or not heâd had sex with the alleged spy. And yet, despite the fact heâs on the House Intelligence Committee, Democrats refused to relieve him of his assignment.
Thatâs not the only reason Swalwell shouldnât be tweeting about these sorts of things; he has a history of Social media missteps, including a 2018 exchange in which he implied that if a conflict broke out in which Americans used their Second Amendment rights to rise up against a tyrannical government, a nuclear weapon could be used against them. (Pointing out the folly in that logic, gun-rights advocate Kyle Kashuv replied that âAR-15s are so dangerous that we must nuke gun owners to confiscate them.â)
This time, itâs not joking around about a nuke, but itâs using a tornado tragedy to try and pillory Sen. Rand Paul. In yet another self-own, the only thing Swalwell did was remind us all how much carbon heâs still wasting.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.