'I know some gay folks': MAGA Republican vows action against 'demonic' Netflix cartoons

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) vowed to take action against Netflix for airing cartoons featuring LGBTQ+ characters.

Burchett spoke out on Thursday against Netflix after Elon Musk encouraged his followers to cancel their subscriptions because the protagonist of "Dead End: Paranormal Park" was transgender.

"Obviously, there are a lot of laws against this kind of stuff," MAGA influencer Benny Johnson told Burchett. "And I think that there should, quite frankly, be some penalties when it comes to companies that are overtly putting sexually explicit content into children's programming."

"Absolutely," Burchett agreed. "Pull the plug. When somebody's advertising something, when the Super Bowl is having a devil worshiper who cusses our president, we need to the sponsors of those, say if it's a car dealership or a truck dealership, I don't care if you go to church with them, call them and say we ain't buying any more."

"Would you be in favor of the Netflix leadership being asked to sort of testify over this?" Johnson wondered.

"Here's what I want to do on this one," Burchett replied. "I'm going to follow up with my folks after we get off. I'm going to call them and say which committee can they be brought in front of is."

"But yeah, yeah, they need to be brought in," he continued. "We need to find out what their agenda is and why they're pushing this stuff. Because from what I understand, that little cartoon is apparently the number one rated cartoon they have on their show."

"I know some gay folks, and they are getting a little more ticked off about the transgender situation because they're getting lumped in. That's not their fight. I don't think that's their fight. They need to pull off all that garbage. And because, you know, they got their win. They got their marriage."

According to the lawmaker, the Netflix cartoon was a sign that "there's some kind of evil demonic thing going on in this country with this transgender thing."

"The Chinese and the devil are working hand-in-hand. I'm not sure which is which, but that is exactly where it's going," he remarked. "The demonic thing is the power of suggestion."

"We can't allow it," he added. "It is complete indoctrination. And it needs to stop."