RIGHT WING EXTREMISM
‘Too Much Catnip’: State Senator Mocked Over Claim Students Now Identifying as ‘Furries’ – and Demanding Litter Boxes

A Republican state senator from Nebraska is being duly mocked for standing up in front of his fellow lawmakers in the legislature and falsely claiming school children are now identifying as cats and dogs, “furries,” he stated, demanding litter boxes, and defecating on the floor when they don’t get them.
Rather than doing any practical investigation to determine if his claims were accurate – they are not – Senator Bruce Bostelman merely passed the false claim on to his associates – and the general public (video below.) When corrected by a constituent he appears to have doubled down.
“I’m a little shocked, I guess, is what I would put it,” Sen. Bostelman declared. “It’s about something called ‘furries.’ If you don’t know what furries are it’s where school children dress up as animals – cats or dogs – during the school day. They meow and they bark, and they interact with their school, with the teachers in this fashion, and now schools are wanting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children, to use.”
“How is this sanitary?” Bostelman asked, with a straight face, seemingly convinced it is happening.
“I even heard from one person here recently,” he went on, “that a student identified as a cat, and wanted a litter box, and the school didn’t provide the litter box so the student went ahead and defecated on the floor.”
“Really,” Bostelman added, insisting it was true.
“Really,” he repeated, absolutely convinced.
He went on to decry that students are being kicked out of school for wearing American flags but not for “wearing a cat costume.”
A floor speech from Nebraska State Senator Bruce Bostelman that “is about something called furries.”
Just gonna leave this here: pic.twitter.com/drn6jUgCXf
— Jon Kipper (@jonnykip21) March 28, 2022
KMTV reporter Jon Kipper, who posted the video, points to an article that says similar rumors were so pervasive in Iowa and Michigan at least one superintendent had to deny they were true.
But what’s really going on, as the KCRG report states, is this is an anti-transgender misinformation campaign.
“Iowa State Education Association Director Mary Jane Cobb said the litter box rumors are a right-wing attempt to mock LGBTQ+ restroom equality,” KCRG reports.
“It’s absurd, and it’s mean-spirited, and it is absolutely not the focus we should be having right now,” Cobb said.
Bostelman is apparently doubling down, according to a progressive Facebook page, Seeing Red Nebraska, which posted what it says is his email. That email (below) has been confirmed to NCRM by Dr. Ari Kohen, a professor of social justice and political theory:
Here’s an email reply he wrote this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/wMGyt5lyLZ
— Ari Kohen (@kohenari) March 28, 2022
Meanwhile. Sen. Bostelman is being roundly slammed and mocked:
Senator Bostelman’s parroting of hate-fueled nonsense from Protect Nebraska Children will get laughs. But behind the nonsense is virulent anti-lgbtq hatred. And the people shoveling this bs are working hard to influence our legislators & they’re now running for office themselves.
— Ari Kohen (@kohenari) March 28, 2022
I think this Bostelman got his paws on the cat nip.
— Charles Burns (@charliebobburns) March 28, 2022
Has anyone possibly suggested to Senator Bostelman that the word “Gullible” isn’t in the dictionary and he needs to sponsor a bill to have it added? Also, someone should message the Senator to see if he’d like to buy some prime Florida real estate that’s totally not flooded.
— Eric Udell (@Airmon) March 28, 2022
Please let this be an elaborate joke. I pray it is a hoax that the fine folks of Nebraska’s 23rd district got duped into electing Borat posing in disguise as a farmer and former military officer named “Bruce Bostelman.”
Because I don’t want to learn that this dude is serious. https://t.co/rpjHFkNXSY
— Ben Wessel (@BenWessel) March 28, 2022
Senator Bostelman should be censored. This is beyond ignorant. It’s dangerous and destructive. State Senators have vowed to serve the people and the state. Spreading ludicrous conspiracy theories violates that oath. https://t.co/ze6JVgW9Pc
— Dennis Grady (@Franz_Kafka1) March 28, 2022
It’s pretty obvious that Bruce Bostelman has been doing too much catnip.
— Jeff Ralston 🥧🥧🍻💉💉💉😷 (@JeffR914) March 28, 2022
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