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Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) made headlines last month when Facebook removed one of his posts threatening to shoot armed Black protesters.
That reprimand hasn't led Higgins to choose his social media posts more carefully, if his most recent tweet is any indication.
Claiming his wife had the "gift of premonition," Higgins said she had a nightmare about squads invading their home and taking their belongings.
Read the bizarre tweet below.
My wife has the gift of premonition.
Last night she dreamed that Federal squads were in our home seizing guns, knives, “unauthorized foods" and stored water. They said we had been “reported".
Becca awoke crying.
What happened to our freedom? She asked.
What indeed.
— Rep. Clay Higgins (@RepClayHiggins) October 23, 2020
Higgins wrote:
"My wife has the gift of premonition. Last night she dreamed that Federal squads were in our home seizing guns, knives, 'unauthorized foods' and stored water. They said we had been 'reported'.
Becca awoke crying.
What happened to our freedom? She asked.
What indeed."
Despite the gloom-and-doom tone Higgins was trying to achieve, the tweet was met with widespread mockery.
*Borat voice* https://t.co/b7gdONG82U
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) October 23, 2020
I SAW GOODY HIGGINS
SPEAKING WITH THE DEVIL https://t.co/Yrj0CyFCMK
— Stefan Smith (@TheStefanSmith) October 23, 2020
President Biden stood at the Resolute Desk, listening for the screams from beyond the White House fence. Everywhere the Berniecorps was busy enacting Full Socialism, and he could hear liberty dying.
"Sir?" Asked the aide, "we have a new list of unauthorized foods."
"Excellent." https://t.co/723HgflOOX
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 23, 2020
The tweet was met with such unanimous ridicule that Higgins' opponent—Rob Anderson—made a fundraising opportunity out of it.
This is what we are up against.
Help us out. We are in the middle of filming three tv ads as we speak, to push in the final days.
Donate here➡️ https://t.co/PyBeoUg1Fb pic.twitter.com/Pqm1TNRkhB
— ⚜️"Rob" Anderson for Louisiana (@RobAnderson2018) October 23, 2020
And people heeded the call.
I just supported @RobAnderson2018 to fire Clay Higgins. Join me. Donate here➡️ https://t.co/NJHNuNJfBi pic.twitter.com/XTRn4bdq0B https://t.co/Q5aUQc5UIZ
— Ms. Choy (@lcchoy) October 23, 2020
Done! (This is also a thanks for being such a cool guy here on Twitter!) pic.twitter.com/kSm2zHYcFF
— Kelsey (@ZXORA2012) October 23, 2020
I donated you can too! It's time to take out the national GOP trash! 💙 pic.twitter.com/MJQeuklrPO
— ellenmbr8 (@ellenmbr8) October 23, 2020
As Congressman, Higgins sits on the House Committee for Homeland Security and the Committee on Oversight and Reform.
People were disturbed to see such unhinged posts from a person in power, especially from a party that's shown a growing embrace of conspiracy theories.
Clay Higgins—who managed a car dealership and then became an abusive police officer before entering politics—helpfully illustrates the difficulty of imagining a post-Trumpist Republican Party https://t.co/qHGkuDes9J
— Steven White (@notstevenwhite) October 23, 2020
What I'm hearing is that Republicans aren't willing to be held responsible for the actual deaths of 225,000 actual Americans from a virus they knew was coming, nor for ripping actual children from actual parents' arms, but they want to hold me responsible for their bad dreams. https://t.co/3Ysu0PCYna
— Emily L. Hauser אלה אסתר (@emilylhauser) October 23, 2020
This tweet is based on the idea that a member of the U.S. House of Representatives thinks his wife is psychic https://t.co/HqbWznFqxs
— Liam Stack (@liamstack) October 23, 2020
Higgins has yet to elaborate on the tweet.