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Stop electing gqp thugs to congress and any public office until they find their moral compass.
McCarthy stripped Swalwell of his committee positions and called the California Democrat a “security threat” due to his link to a suspected Chinese spy.

But pay no attention to the known russian spy who infiltrated the nra and other high gop circles. >

swalwell bad, santos good - gop >

Need some accountability laws here.  Threats are 'real' and should have consequences. >

Indeed.  The attack on Paul Pelosi a prime example of the violence due to venom and hate that has become common language among the GOP and its water carriers like Fox News.  Not only that but the lies purported as truths used to amplify it.  Trump led the way in coarse and hate on a new level of public messages from a political leader.  
It is time for some long overdue changes.
Edited misspelled word >

They know. And they're smirking about it. They're counting on good people to play by the rules and not fight back. >

Just bc we play by (and within) the rules against known cheats, does not mean we can't fight back.
Edit: my point is that if you compromise your principles bc the other side is willing to do so, you've already lost. >

Your version of fighting back won't work if you only play within the rules when your opponents can stop you from making new ones. >

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.”  In this passage Sun Tzu uses the metaphors of Heaven and Earth to represent the moral and physical capacities of the conflicting parties.  In particular, it is noteworthy that the GOP has no endgame.  Their lack of morality (Heaven) precludes victory. >

That is not what Heaven and Earth mean. Sun Tsu literally explains what those phrases mean in the art of war. 
Sun Tsu even includes moral law as its own thing to be measured, unrelated to Heaven. 
"Heaven signifies night and day, cold and heat, times and seasons."
"Earth comprises distances, great and small; danger and security; open ground and narrow passes; the chances of life and death." >

Insightful.  I appreciate your reply.  I have absorbed Art of War in bits and pieces over the years, so excuse my misunderstanding. >

No problem. If you only read the quotes it's easy to interpret it in a million ways. 
It isn't very long, and it is worth reading all the way through. The gist is largely get information, apply your strengths, know your weaknesses, and manage your logistics. >

I have pushed people on this sub to read Machiavelli and Sun Tzu for years with a less than tepid response, as if I was pushing a war narrative or that's the only thing they are good for. The books are more than war/ruler "manuals", they are strategy guides that can be useful in today's politics when dealing with such extremists on the right, you can see the proverbial battle play out in real time (or even ahead of time) and understand what they are attempting and then be much more prepared for their culture war maneuvers. >

The ability to rant against pedos in one breath and threaten to rape and kill specific children in the next  basically sums up the GQP at this point. SMH >

It’s like that top Q conspiracy theory guy that turned out to be child molester living in a trailer. He was in This Place Rules. >

That was such a good set up by Andrew. Interview the dude, get him to solidly choose the hill to die on, then bring out the court records to rug pull the guy. When he pulled out the documents, that was the most nervous Andrew looked throughout the whole documentary. >

It's a real shame Andrew chose to be a shitty person too. Can't really bring myself to watch the doc after all that's come out, but it sounds like solid work.
edit: added article for context >

What has come out? >

Sexual harassment/assault allegations >

Link? I haven't heard about this. >

Article here, also added to my original reply. Thought it was more common knowledge, my b >

nbd for not including the link.
It's such a shame that he did those things. But, I'm glad he's seeking help, and his apology didn't consist of "I'm sorry your feelings were hurt" bullshit victim blaming apology that we usually get from folks who do these things. >

Nah, definitely big deal. Help only does so much, the people he assaulted have to live with it for the rest of their lives. >

A GOP candidate just shot up a bunch of Democrats homes. This is not an isolated incident >


This is not an isolated incident

But, hey, here's 30 more stories about cops running a train on another cop instead! >

But the stories are all going to be centered on how bad the woman is. Also, cancel culture somehow! >

I mean, they're all bastards, but homegirls been getting DRAGGED on the internet and especially black Twitter in a way I haven't seen since Rachel Dolezal >

This week happens to be the 25th anniversary of that time that Bill Clinton cheated on his wife.
It's worth going back and listening to Monica Lewinsky talk about this type of online bullying. Lady has some informed opinions on how gender impacts the fallout of this type of scandal. >

I remember reflexively disliking her because of the persistent narrative and me being only ~18 and ignorant. She was fucking railroaded and seems like a perfectly decent person who was just in over her head and victimized over and over by her 'boyfriend", her "friend", and then the entire media apparatus and public opinion. >

And they call themselves Godly 🤮 >

Point taken ! >

Democrats: "Man we really hate Republicans we need to vote in more Democrats in next election."
Republicans: "We really hate Democrats, lets try and kill them."
Both sides are not the same. But hey, Republicans, keep calling yourselves patriots, or something. >

For real though. I always think of that Mad Men scene with Don in the elevator and a guy is laying into him for being a piece of shit. It’s obvious that this man is consumed with hate of Don and has thought about him constantly. ~~He finishes and Don doesn’t even look at him~~ he finishes by telling Don he feels sorry for him and Don replies “I don’t think about you at all.”
And that is Democrats and Republicans >

Wait you mean it's not normal to put out multiple flags of your favored politician all year long, even after they lose? >

Youre supposed to hang them on your lifted pickup so its already terrible fuel efficiency drops even further. >

Don't forget the silly coded messages plastered all over it so they can chuckle to themselves for being SO clever. >

Fomenting violence has become the GOP go to it seems.  

“People parrot what Kevin McCarthy is saying when they call and make the threat,” Swalwell told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday’s broadcast of “Deadline: White House.”

.....

Swalwell had told and “publicly broadcast” to McCarthy that his rhetoric “leads to threats to me, my wife, our kids,” he said to Wallace.
“Recently someone said that they were going to rape and kill my children and they were using the language that Kevin McCarthy was using so there is a cost to this,” he added.
But McCarthy “doesn’t care” and instead just “wants to focus on, you know, carrying out the vengeance that he has promised in this corrupt bargain,” he claimed, alleging McCarthy “won’t even stop and talk to me when I have tried to talk to him.”

Article continues... >

Not only does McCarthy not care, he sees it as a power move >


Not only does McCarthy not care, he sees it as a power move*

This is what I think Dem congressional leaders still don't understand. 
GOP is in Martyr, kamikaze, jihad mode, being willing (and to have taken an oath) to sacrifice themselves (career, life etc) for the cause to ensure God's will is realized no matter the cost. 
They see every step as closer to achieving their mission as warriors for Christ. 
A (albeit deeply miguided) holy war that will supossedly bring a heavenly kingdom on earth attained only through the destruction of a perceived "demonic" order. 
They won't stop. >

It seriously bothers me how much of the GQP's fascination on Israel and Jerusalem is LITERALLY because they believe the sooner they can get Isreal to build the Third Temple in Jerusalem so that what's in Revelations can come to pass and Jesus will come rule again.
Like yeah nuclear holocaust from these assholes is bad, but there's so many with the literal platform of "Time to end the world!" >

I have no clue what this means in doctrine but if it really means literally building a temple they can do that for less than the cost of one or two days campaigning for a single house seat.
But then again, no one has ever accused them of actually being Christian. It is all a front to get the stupid to vote for them. >

The problem is the Temple has to be built in Jerusalem (see Trump moving the US Embassy moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - the US had passed a law to make the move in 1995 but every president until Trump deferred it because that's a fucking geopolitical land mine move) or Jesus won't come back.
The GQP Evangelists doesn't care about Israelis, Muslims, or whoever the hell else think they have a right to the area - they just know there has to be a Temple on the Temple Mount to get Jesus to come back and they'll all get snatched up to heaven like good little believers. They hope. >

My point was more that it seems like there is very little stopping them from doing this outside of the government (i.e. via private means). I'm pretty sure the council that manages Jerusalem is just as corruptable as anyone else. $1B to bring about the end of times would be nothing to actual believers with budgets like theirs.
Point being, they're frauds and don't believe any of this end of days nonsense that the voters do. >

The biggest obstruction to building the Temple is not the cost or bribing the Jerusalem council.
The biggest obstruction to building the temple is the fact that there's a 1400-year old mosque sitting right where the Temple supposedly has to be built. >

Yup. Was just about to make this comment. You beat me by 17 minutes. I too used to be interested in conspiracy theories before the whole genre was co opted by these fucking morons >

My favorite conspiracy theory is the dilution theory.
Add so many bullshit wackjob theories around that you get painted as a loon for being skeptical. >

Interesting. So the people crying about pedophiles and groomers want to rape his children?! Why am I not surprised >

“Democrats don’t like rape.  Therefore we can (1) accuse them of it and (2) threaten them with it. Because they will hate both.”
Not about what they believe. Only about what tools/tactics they can use to cause grief. >

Considering the maga Qanon nut job in NM (allegedly) def did hire hit men to shoot 4 democrats cuz he lost w 26% of the vote (wtf voted for him) >

His name is Solomon Peña
Why don’t you mention his name ? >

Say it's name: Domestic Terrorism >


Say it is name: Domestic Terrorism >

Man why does it need an adjective? Isn't it just straight up TERRORISM? Enlighten me so I can learn >

It underscores that it's local perpetrators, not some vague overseas threat. It's happening in our backyards, it's done by our neighbours, and it's many times more harmful to our safety and well being than any external threat. It's a domestic issue that needs to be dealt with at home, not by pumping money into the military. >

That makes sense, thank you. Doesn't it kind of give people an excuse to downplay it though? "Just more culture wars" >

Those losers would downplay anything no matter how you label it so I don't care what they say. >

Yeah the situation is pretty scary at the moment. And it's the dumbest of the dumb that are actually feeling ballsy enough these days to do it >

just another day of stochastic terrorism in america, folks >

He has the power to force a new speaker thanks to their own stupid rules. I'd say this would be a good reason as any >

It’s the new normal. This is what happens when politicians seek power through whipping up hate.
Half of the US supports going in this direction strongly. >

When no one fought back and allowed it to get to this point, did anyone really think they would self correct? >

The people who are supposed to stop it aren't being held to task because a lot of them are in support of the same ideologies. >

Masturbation is a grievous sin because you are thinking about sinful thoughts about the other person. But threatening to rape and murder someone's family is apparently totally ok. >

This country is under a very slow moving coup and something needs to be done about it before it really is too late. Laws are being broken and there's no DOJ protecting us. Corruption has taken over. >

Unfortunately I think seeds have already been sown, maybe too deep for us to pull, or pull without damage. We do nothing and what happens? Republicans tell more lies until their lies are believed more and more until their base is committing even more outspoken acts of violence. We go in and arrest tons of republicans for insurrection and treason? They see it as a act of war against them and will probably again motivate their base to resort to violence. Obviously, we don’t have a choice, we have to go with the second one if American democracy is to survive, but I don’t think we’re getting away Scott free >

I think this is the end of something, not the start -- the final grasps of Republicans clinging to power using any and all methods, because their party and power are quickly diminishing now. 
Every year more boomers die, and the GOP even helps it along by condoning vaccine conspiracy theories and pushing back against COVID measures. We saw in this last midterm that their craziness has hit a point of strong condemnation by most American voters. Candidates backed by Trump and who called elections rigged and stolen lost up and down the ticket. The crazies in Congress with solid red districts even faced some trouble, like Boebert in Colorado. 
Voters chose legal weed and abortion rights in red states on referendum. Republicans lost a Senate seat. They took the House by such a thin margin that they've become a complete laughingstock, and they're empowering exactly the kind of people Americans don't want to see in power. Democrats held and took governorships and state legislatures too, notably in some swing states. All of this, even though Republicans had so much in their favor: midterm year against the opposing party in power, high inflation, and a rocky economy. Add that to the voter suppression, gerrymandering, and general ratfucking, and they still floundered. 
Unless they excise the radical right, I think this is the best they'll get. It's only downhill from here. Boomers, leaning Republican, continually shrink, and eventually disappear. The next generation, Gen X, is 50/50 split. After that are millennials, who lean solidly left, and Gen Z, who have an even bigger lean left. Zoomers are starting to vote, Millennials are entering the age band where they reliably vote, and aging hasn't changed views. The GOP has nowhere to turn for more votes. 
I know this was a very long comment, but there's reasons to be hopeful. There really aren't many signs pointing in favor of Republicans, and if they don't speak out strongly against these attacks and threats, it'll only get worse for them. I'm worried about the people who might get hurt, on a more micro scale. But all we can do is do our best -- shame the "moderate" Republicans, vote in bluer Democrats, and demand these terrorists get held accountable. >

You're completely ignoring the historic trend of the tendency of voters to get more conservative as they age.
Plenty of boomers were hippies at one point, and they watch Fox News now. 
And, I don't think that the GOP will go quietly in to the night. They won't accept that the electorate has changed and they need to, as well. That's WHY we're seeing an increase in right-wing terrorism. They also see the writing on the wall and are increasingly becoming comfortable with breaking rules and norms, now laws, and eventually enacting violence in order to retain power.
No one willingly lets go of power. Especially not folks with their sort of ideology. >


You’re completely ignoring the historic trend of the tendency of voters to get more conservative as they age.

You’re completely ignoring that this is a myth perpetuated by folk wisdom and disproven by numerous studies. Voters don’t get more more conservative, society gets more progressive. Meanwhile our political values tend to remain largely the same. >

If you’re a minority, if you’re black or Asian or LGBTQIA+, or Native American then you’ve lived your whole life knowing that you are walking among people who want you dead, who want to rape you, who want to torture you and your people. The far-right has always been like this but it has become normalized to speak like this, to use this abhorrent language and then pass it off as if the other people are being “too sensitive”. And depending on where you are in the country, it is essentially like living among terrorists and Nazis. And you have no one to turn to for safety because you don’t know who is going to be the next Agent Smith. Is it the police officer? Your teacher? Your priest? Your coworker? >

McCarthy stripped Swalwell of his committee positions and called the California Democrat a “security threat” due to his link to a suspected Chinese spy. But Swalwell has never been implicated in any wrongdoing and the FBI has praised him for being “completely cooperative” with its investigation. The right is pushing a lie about Swalwell being a spy for China. What happened was China infiltrated California politicians from 2011-2015. (8 years ago) Swalwell was just one of the people affected. When the FBI alerted Swalwell to the woman, he broke off all ties and cooperated with them. >

Imagine that, the Party of Pedophilia wants to rape his kids. Just another day in the life of a right wing christian. >

What the fuck is up with the GOP and r*ping kids? This party is fucking disgusting and needs to be disbanded. >


What the fuck is up with the GOP and r*ping kids? 

They're well practiced, they do what they're skilled at. >

Not what coach meant by “play to your strengths“... >

Just standard rank-and-file Republican rhetoric any more.
These people are animals. >

I was watching a clip talking about this on CNN yesterday and the CNN reporter immediately tried to both sides this and said that republicans recieve threats too and didn't provide any examples lmao.   Fuck CNN. >

Treat them all like the monsters and terrorists they are. >

They're pro life so they can threaten children of people they hate >

What if - hear me out - laws applied to Republicans? >

I know I may be dating myself a little here, but I actually remember a time when people didn't threaten to rape and murder the children of politicians.    
Just like dreaming of getting the GI Joe Aircraft Carrier for Christmas, it's something today's kids will never understand. >

The Sears Wishbook had pages of GI Joe stuff I wanted >

God forbid someone actually goes through with these threats, do you think the GOP will come to their senses?
I doubt so. >

It has already been happening, and they have not. >

Paul Pelosi, New Mexico, substation attacks, the fucking insurrection 
I’m really not sure what the above means “if” they go through with it. They have! >

Hell, it happened over 10 years ago when Gabby Giffords and a bunch of other people were shot in Arizona. This really is nothing new at this point. >

Don't forget the Bundy shitheads who took over that wildlife building a few years ago in that standoff in Oregon. >

Or that jackass that sent pipebombs in the mail to a bunch of actors and politicians. I worked in times square at the time and many buildings were shut down after one showed up in the mail room for a news studio. You could spend HOURS trying to list all the domestic extremist attacks in the last decade. >

And I'd bet greater than 90% of them are related to the GOP. >

Strange party.  Goes from openly stating: “castrate and kill all pedophiles” to “I’m gonna rape and kill your children”.  These people are unhinged. >

Republicans being utter pieces of shit?  Must be a day ending in “-day” >

Violent rhetoric inspires violence. Republicans can’t keep getting a pass or they’ll keep pushing the envelope, why wouldn’t they when it’s effective and they don’t suffer any consequences for the harm they cause? Liars won’t stop lying, they need to be called out and pushed back against until no one believes their lies anymore. If we can’t deal with ghouls like Santos (or w/e his real name is) we’ll never have a collective sense of sanity and order again. >

The American Nazi Party has only violence and lies as a platform. >

Politics has become a room of adults with toddlers threatening violence when they don’t get their way >

I'm all for free speech, but the fact that you need "specific threats" to bring any sort of suit against these people, especially public figures, is a joke. 
Trump, Hannity, and others go on endlessly spreading lies and telling people their "way of life" and "values" are under attack by liberals and specifically name peole like Swalwell and Pelosi. Then people make threats against those specifically named individuals, repeating almost verbatim the lies told by Trump, Hannity, and others. The link is clear. Spreading lies but claiming through your lawyers that they're just a little too vague to be legally accountable needs to be fixed. If Nancy Pelosi can prove that another public figure was telling lies about her in order to encourage violence, then there needs to be liability if it is reasonable to infer those lies led to someone else taking extreme action. Public figures need to be held to tighter account of the things they say about others because their words have influence. We loosen libel protections for public figures, but they should be given less leeway in things they say if it's reasonable their lies or comments can lead to violence or crimes by others.
A man beat Paul Pelosi with a hammer because people like Trump and Hannity spread lies and called for violence against Nancy. Saying "someone should take her out" and then claiming you didn't try to cause that outcome is nonsense. 
Free speech is to express viewpoints, not to try to get people to commit acts of violence or to spread lies about your political opponents.
Edits: Cleaned up poor grammar and added some detail to my thoughts. >

100% agreed. This needs to be voted higher up. It'll be more interesting how this gets handled since the Supreme Court is expected to discuss whether to hear two cases this Friday that challenge laws in Texas and Florida barring online platforms from taking down certain political content. Next month, the court is scheduled to hear a case that questions Section 230, a 1996 statute that protects the platforms from liability for the content posted by their users. 
It'll be super funny if they repeal or limit section 230 while also thinking that people can't post whatever they want. That said, I'm super tired of people sending hateful and threatening messages to Doctors, Librarians, Teachers, Politicians, people's family and children. It's bizarre, scary and takes a very special person to not only write this stuff but actually send it off. Until someone who is famous and has their child or partner personally harmed by this type of speech I don't see it happening unfortunately. Ironically I was listening to a debate from David French last year and he is a conservative, first amendment lawyer and when he had right wing protestors show up at his house threatening his family, all of a sudden he thought there needed to be limits on certain types of speech or certain ways to protest. As usual, people are fully supportive of things until they are personally affected. 
Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee
The American right has lost the plot on free speech. >

Meanwhile, over on r/conservative they are mocking him and making all sorts of delusional accusations against him. And racist statements about Chinese people because they insist he is a CCP plant/agent/etc. We truly live in 2 different Americas. >

They trot out that bullshit every time his name is mentioned, no matter how many times it's debunked. >

Because logic, facts and reason mean nothing to them. >

The GOP base still believes that Swalwell had an affair with a Chinese spy. They get this idea from their political leaders and their rightwing propoganda outlets. Its all part of a smear campaign against Swalwell. The GOP saw he was a rising star and want to make sure he never holds a higher office.
Edit: For the record, here is some good Axios reporting on this Chinese spy. 
She did have sexual relationships with a couple of midwestern mayors. Thats the only sexual contacts we know about. 
FTA

What happened: Amid a widening counterintelligence probe, federal investigators became so alarmed by Fang's behavior and activities that around 2015 they alerted Swalwell to their concerns — giving him what is known as a defensive briefing.
-Swalwell immediately cut off all ties to Fang, according to a current U.S. intelligence official, and he has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
-Fang left the country unexpectedly in mid-2015 amid the investigation. She did not respond to multiple attempts by Axios to reach her by email and Facebook. >


The GOP base still believes that Swalwell had an affair with a Chinese spy.  

OK but... ~~wasn't~~ isn't Mitch McConnel married to a businesswoman who was kind of a big deal in China, and had strong ties to that country and its government?  And like no one in the GOP cared?  In fact, they made her Transportation Secretary.  
That's how you know they don't really believe Swalwell dated a Chinese "spy".  If they did, would have found her and ~~offered~~ sold her a cabinet position. >


wasn't

Aren’t they still married? 
Wouldn’t it be “isn’t Mitch McConnell married to…”
? >

Ah... yeah not sure what I was thinking there. >

GOP greed over people party. Now the party of death. 500,000 dead on their watch ,No one is safe.  Just like Germany.  They first came after immigrants.  Then women. Now democrats.   No one is safe. >

Repubs know this. This is why they repeat buzzwords over & over. Never forget prior to the Arizona governor being shot Sarah Palin put out a political ad that had fucking literal targets on a number of states, including Arizona. >

It is beyond time to call out and punish lawmakers engaging in stochastic terrorism. >

One loser GOP hired four individuals to shoot up Democratic lawmakers homes. Things like this is going to get real when MTG words get held against her. 🤬🤬🤬 >

It’s past time to start charging people who do this. It’s no longer trolling once you turn your thoughts into threats. People like this belong behind bars. >

It is disgusting that so many people voted for politicians who openly or covertly supported the attack on the capital and on our democracy.
There is a big and cancerous anti-ethics contingent in our society today >

GOP supporters are proud to be transitioning to being regular old domestic terrorists. They deserve whatever bad things happen to them as a party/group. >

Republicans make everyone else look good by default >

McCarthy is drunk on power, and he's just the kind of small man to use that power like trump used it. McCarthy is a political terrorist, and doesn't deserve this job of Speaker because he's a small man, like Gingrich was before him. Small. Vindictive. Set on punishing the American People. Sucking up to trump.
McCarthy is a POS. >

Just like shingles, republicans don't care.  They are actually disgusting.  Horrible humans.  Ugh. >

"We are all domestic terrorists"

Republican National Convention, 2022 >

Why is this acceptable?   Shouldn't the FBI be involved in this?   It's absolutely domestic right wing terrorism. >

The GQP Republican “Conservative” party are domestic terrorists.
Change my mind… >

We are doomed. Hate is powerful. Democracy, Medicare, Social Security, etc. all ending with GOP >

And after what happened in New Mexico it’s time to take these threats for what they are. You can drop the domestic and just call them terrorists. >

But be extra careful to avoid the "Top Republican"'s name in the headline, no matter how awkwardly you have to word it. >

Repubs using threatening language leading to death and injury?   
No!  Never heard of such a thing, huh Repubs.   Huh Repubs?   Right Repubs?
Yo Repubs. >

I always thought threats like this even online was an automatic knock on the door from the fbi or someone. I guess people can just get away with it easier than I thought. >

But wait!! Republicans aren't pedophiles!!?? Right!?????? >

Violent far right factions are seeing the rhetoric being spewed by GOP leaders, right wing media, hell, even their evangelical preachers in some cases, as a call to arms and okaying violence against their political enemies.
They try to play off things like the Paul Gossar anime video that depicts him murdering AOC and Biden but the unhinged lunatics are seeing it as the, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, violence against your political enemies is just fine with us.
They know exactly what they are doing and as I've said many times, it's a feature, not a bug, of today's Republican party.
They fan the flames and encourage violence and then when it happens, they act shocked and claim zero responsibility.
Also, fuck the GOP, fascist pieces of shit. >

How can the GOP claim to be the party of family values when this is what some of their members are advocating. I'm aghast. >

Republicans are no longer a real political party and have not been for years. >

Threats to rape should immediately put someone on a watch list, and threats to commit pedophilia should immediately get someone a restraining order from all schools and kid-friendly businesses. If you think it's okay to use your grungy dick to inspire fear in women and children, especially in this day and age, you are a monster. No debate. >

Democrats have been civil, law-abiding, dweebs during this entire slow-moving Murdoch and Co. coup of stupid corruption. I cannot believe everyone is pretending republicans act in good faith when the entire R party is an existential threat to our country. >

NPR and CNN has been referring to the insurrectionists in Congress that just got cabinet positions as "hardliners".  
"Hardliners?"  They tried to overthrow the government and replace it with a theocratic dictatorship only three years ago.   They think democrats, jews, liberals, and lgtbq+ literally kidnap and rape/murder children and drink their blood.  They think God sent Trump to save America by destroying their enemies, and that's why Satan helped Democrats steal the election.  
They put those people on powerful committees like Oversight and Homeland Security.   
And instead of saying "HOLY SHIT CONGRESS IS NOW RUN BY NAZI LUNATICS", NPR is just like "this is just political stuff as usual - McCarthy had to compromise with some "hardliners".  
Fuck.  Like they are just really opinionated about tax policy or something. >

The Jan 6 insurrection was one of the lowest points of NPR’s news coverage. They literally kept saying “nobody could ever have expected this.” Their mixture of bourgeois priggishness, neoliberal “centrism,” and abject timidity makes a toxic brew. Still listen, still hate it tho. >

Jesus Christ Christian Repubicans are sick bastards! >

It's amazing how common this is.  It happens all the way down to school boards.  It's funny how the crowd that claims to be family focused and god fearing loves to threaten people with the rape and murder. >

No shit, they literally tried to take over the country and y’all just…. Let them continue running the country >

But they never printed out an email that had the words "we hereby resolve to take control of the United States and eliminate democracy" and faxed to the FBI, so there's literally nothing for them to go on. >

Honestly, I would simply light McCarthy up on the House floor every chance I got... make sure everyone knows how spineless and craven he is. Two years of that seems fair. >

Boy conservatives really love raping kids, don't they? Just saying, based on the evidence at hand. It seems to be the case. >

I am stunned and yet never surprised at the capacity for people to say heinously evil things. I just cannot imagine hating anyone in the world enough to say this. >

Are there any democrats that are threatening violence or are there any radical democrat groups that promote violence of this level or at all? >

There's that huge list of republicans who are paedophiles. >

The GQP should be labeled a terrorist group. >

Right-wing/GOP extremists are disturbingly obsessed w rape. There have been threats to rape Harris and other female politicians. Also, the people who planned to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer intended to rape and murder her. It's also ironic (and extremely disgusting) that them same people who claim to be protecting kids from "grooming" are threatening to rape someone's children. >

Eric Swalwell has always seemed like a good guy, logical and prepared. GOP are domestic terrorists. >

Stop electing gqp thugs to congress and any public office until they find their moral compass. >

Swalwell should sue McCarthy's sorry ass. >

Swalwell has been a target since traitortrump took office. He and Schiff were among the first to realize that Putin owns trump and that trump is a clear and present danger to America. Swalwell participated in and promoted the documentary "Active Measures" that covers the background history of Manafort, connection to Putin, Ukraine crimes and how trump was brought into it. Swalwell was very outspoken about traitortrump trashing the constitution the whole time trump was in office, he is part of a lawsuit against trump for the INSURRECTION. So Swalwell has been a maga terrorist target for all of this and McCarthy just put out a hit order on him with his lies about Swalwell and the FBI. McCarthy is a lying criminal traitor who should be in prison >

Kevin McCarthy is a creep >

Inciting violence used to be a crime.....???? I'm not even sure anymore >

These abhorrent views are mainstream right-wing political opinions. This isn't some fringe. These aren't lone wolves. This is conservative ideology in the open.
Don't forget it. Don't let your guards down. >

Well MaCarthy  has turned in to a low class POS!
And the fucking psychopaths that follow Trump and the other low class POS house and Senate members have not problem with rape and death threats to their opponents wife’s and kids. #protectourchildren my ass! >

Hi. I'm a left wing person who lives in a deep red area. If some of you blue folks with remote jobs could move out here and keep me company and help me muffle the fanatical right-wing echochamber that's developed in these decaying parts of the rust belt, that would be great. Please. Move out to the semi-rural Rust Belt 'burbs-- the subsuburbs-- and vote in the local elections. Send your kids and your family values to the local public schools and the local public library programs, which are both well-resourced  but in real danger of being forcefully decayed by elected Christofascists if the tide doesn't turn. You can buy a decent multi-bedroom house with a yard for under $100k. Internet is fast, and there's a choice of providers. The odds are good that your neighbors will believe in QAnon and have a basement full of guns, but we're only an hour from the city. It's a good life. >

This is not by accident.
This is entirely the point of doing this.
This is terrorism.
This is the Republican party. >

The entire GOP Congress is a piece of shit. When you look at it. >

This man and his family are so abused with these vile threats -- so gross and nasty >

It's only a matter of time before it happens. >

Anyone who makes threats like that should just be erased from the planet. Wasting other people air with that. >

I mean Marge did it and got away with it. >

Never again.  Never again.  If this is ever over, never again.  Remember that. >

The people that make these threats should get rico'd into the stone age and jailed for 10 to 25. Would solve the problem pretty fast. >

The Republican strategy is to drive all the decent, law-abiding people out of political office so the Republicans' campaign donors can achieve their dreams, which have nothing to do with decency or adherence to the law. >

We are slowly watching the overthrow of our democracy. The indecency demonstrated by modern politicians is without a moral bottom.
The silent generation would be utterly ashamed. >

The GOP has lost is GD mind. I say that as someone who voted conservative for my entire adult life. Granted, I always considered myself somewhere in the middle but I was registered Republican.
I miss the days where I could just hate both groups and kvetch about both of them equally. The radical direction the GOP is going is just not for me and that's too bad. We need a 2 party system (more than 2, actually).
We should all be unequivocally against threats like this  but the GOP stay silent or just fucking joke about it like they did with Paul Pelosi. >

So we can't just name the "Top Republican"? >

These people deserve to be doxxed until the end of time >

Incitement is a crime.  Are these congresspeople immune? >

Could you imagine if moderates and liberals started threatening the GOP on such a large scale? They would freak out. They are provided with a sense of security because the people they demonize don't resort to violence at even close to the same levels as the GOP base. >

So weird that the headline TWICE describes but does not name Kevin Mccarthy. >

McCarthy is a thinned skinned prick, the GOPs war on democracy is going to get a lot of good people killed. >

Sadly, there are too many Republicans who are either sociopaths or psychopaths to have prevented behavior like this from becoming normalized. >

I think part of the issue is that the 'old guard' democrats still think the republicans are doing the standard 'dog and pony show' where both sides pretend to hate each other but are both secretly enriching themselves through kickbacks on highly pro-corporate policy.
What they don't realize is the NEW generation of republicans genuinely want them dead or in prison either because they believe it will let them grift EVEN HARDER or for 'jewish space laser' reasons. >

I blame Merrick Garland for refusing to prosecute those who make or incite death threats. >

The civil war has begun, between the growing, violent attacks on Democrats to FL governor Deathsantis creating a registry of trans college students... >

This is nothing new. I've had threats levied against me by conservatives when they lose arguments all the time back when I actively sought out debates with them. These days, I no longer bother because of that, and that they always argue in bad faith. >

That's just "regular political discourse" according to the media. >

The party  of ignorance. The party of violence. The party of threats to rape children. >

Send each and every threat to the FBI. Track these things electronically and arrest these stupid fucks. >

Political rhetoric falls on the sane, the borderline and the mentally challenged equally.  While it may be intended to influence the reasoning of "rational" voters, the impact on those less capable of rationality is unpredictable.  Therein the danger lies. >

What I find so ironic, is the rest of the Swalwell family is all Republican. Our grandfather's were brothers. To my knowledge I am the only other Democrat. Always proud to see him standing up for the people and being part of the solution rather than the problem. >

Protect yourself.. >

Does somebody have a list of specific wording that was parroted? All I saw was "security threat".  Most of the article is pretty devoid of specifics. >

McCarthy said that based on what the FBI told him, Eric Swalwell was a threat to our national security. Of course he didn't tell us what the FBI supposedly said. Everything I have read said the FBI didn't think he did anything wrong and praise him for cooperating with them. >

This is a change.  It drives me crazy how much the Democrats act like their "colleagues" across the aisle aren't insane nazis.  If the Dems hadn't spent 40+ years acting like the Republicans were sane, we'd be living in a better world. >

Time to replace Merrick Garland. >

Why? >

Too much insurrectionists being convicted. >

You want to get rid of him because insurrectionists are being convicted?  Why? >

Looks like the maga fringe are still terrorist trash. That kind of trespassers will be shot, and survivors executed. >

Hope Swalwell has filed a police report. His wife and children should sue McCarthy. >

"they were using the language that Kevin McCarthy was using,"
Like what bro? Quote the quote. >

I don't understand why Huffpost doesn't include what Kevin Mccarthy said. That would've been helpful.
I also find it absurd that this is tolerated, I imagine if this was my country, even if it wasn't possible to charge him with anything, that he would be impeached for simply being irresponsible with his speech. >

So glad he can counter-inspire.
We need those geriatric fucks out of power yesterday. >

The mafia used to deal with this type of threat very effectively. What you wish for your enemy, is what visits you. >

The Washington Examiner is a tabloid rag no better than the National Enquirer. >

Maybe it was the Chinese spy that he had sex with. >

You mean the one he didn't have sex with?
Get better material. This lie is getting stale. >

The new spin is talking about how he farted on TV that one time. They're losing their touch. >

Got to Love the Random Capitalization in the Title of this Post. >

Bet you would tough boy >

Wouldn't even think of it >

Sure it wasn't the Chinese honeytrap's parents? >

I could threaten to kill someone and throw in a quote from Eric Swalwell. Does that mean it’s Eric’s fault? >

If Eric specifically targeted you with language he knew would trigger you mental health to collapse? Yes. >

This dude went on twitter threatening to nuke people. No sympathy for this pathetic excuse of a spy. >

Can you give us a source for that? >

He's just demonstrating that there's no end to the chain of things they'll be wrong about in obvious ways in defense of their terrorism. You can't talk the pitchfork out of someone's hand. >

What would you have had him do differently?  Should members of Congress not be allowed to date Asian women maybe?  Or should they be required to do a background check on anyone they associate with?  If the latter, should Matt Gaetz have background checked the 17 year old he trafficked and paid for sex? >

He never even dated her. He knew her, and she was known for having slept with other unnamed politicians. That's it. It's like a bit where Amy Schumer asks if she's dating Bradly Cooper now because he talked to her at a party. >

He slept with a Chinese spy. How is the guy still in office? (Should have said “allegedly”  But he doesn’t deny it just evades the question) >

He didn't sleep with a Chinese spy. He severed ties with a Chinese spy working as a volunteer for his campaign as soon as the intelligence community informed him of the suspected spy. >

Damn I didn’t realize he had a wife and kids while dating a Chinese spy. Must be a busy calendar >

You're making light of children being threatened with rape & murder, solely based on whose children they are. Utterly detestable & indefensible. >

I’m just saying if he was cool he would’ve plowed the spy >

For anyone wondering, this is how fascism tries to creep into wider acceptability. It presents through sarcasm & derision, because the fascist mind derives enjoyment from cruelty. What was said was in no way funny, but implied by (written) tone like it should be interpreted as humorous. Fascists only offer the thinnest semblance of cover for their calls to truly monstrous behavior. In this case, the call is "enjoy the fact that this man's children were threatened with rape & murder by one of the other people who support the same political ideas I do, because their father is the political enemy." Again, utterly detestable & indefensible.
Fascists want you to be at least indifferent to horrible behavior, because they want to do horrible things to the people they don't like, & they want to know they'll get away with hurting those people. >


McCarthy stripped Swalwell of his committee positions and called the California Democrat a “security threat” due to his link to a suspected Chinese spy.

But pay no attention to the known russian spy who infiltrated the nra and other high gop circles. >

swalwell bad, santos good - gop >

Need some accountability laws here.  Threats are 'real' and should have consequences. >

Indeed.  The attack on Paul Pelosi a prime example of the violence due to venom and hate that has become common language among the GOP and its water carriers like Fox News.  Not only that but the lies purported as truths used to amplify it.  Trump led the way in coarse and hate on a new level of public messages from a political leader.  
It is time for some long overdue changes.
Edited misspelled word >

They know. And they're smirking about it. They're counting on good people to play by the rules and not fight back. >

Just bc we play by (and within) the rules against known cheats, does not mean we can't fight back.
Edit: my point is that if you compromise your principles bc the other side is willing to do so, you've already lost. >

Your version of fighting back won't work if you only play within the rules when your opponents can stop you from making new ones. >

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.”  In this passage Sun Tzu uses the metaphors of Heaven and Earth to represent the moral and physical capacities of the conflicting parties.  In particular, it is noteworthy that the GOP has no endgame.  Their lack of morality (Heaven) precludes victory. >

That is not what Heaven and Earth mean. Sun Tsu literally explains what those phrases mean in the art of war. 
Sun Tsu even includes moral law as its own thing to be measured, unrelated to Heaven. 
"Heaven signifies night and day, cold and heat, times and seasons."
"Earth comprises distances, great and small; danger and security; open ground and narrow passes; the chances of life and death." >

Insightful.  I appreciate your reply.  I have absorbed Art of War in bits and pieces over the years, so excuse my misunderstanding. >

No problem. If you only read the quotes it's easy to interpret it in a million ways. 
It isn't very long, and it is worth reading all the way through. The gist is largely get information, apply your strengths, know your weaknesses, and manage your logistics. >

I have pushed people on this sub to read Machiavelli and Sun Tzu for years with a less than tepid response, as if I was pushing a war narrative or that's the only thing they are good for. The books are more than war/ruler "manuals", they are strategy guides that can be useful in today's politics when dealing with such extremists on the right, you can see the proverbial battle play out in real time (or even ahead of time) and understand what they are attempting and then be much more prepared for their culture war maneuvers. >

The ability to rant against pedos in one breath and threaten to rape and kill specific children in the next  basically sums up the GQP at this point. SMH >

It’s like that top Q conspiracy theory guy that turned out to be child molester living in a trailer. He was in This Place Rules. >

That was such a good set up by Andrew. Interview the dude, get him to solidly choose the hill to die on, then bring out the court records to rug pull the guy. When he pulled out the documents, that was the most nervous Andrew looked throughout the whole documentary. >

It's a real shame Andrew chose to be a shitty person too. Can't really bring myself to watch the doc after all that's come out, but it sounds like solid work.
edit: added article for context >

What has come out? >

Sexual harassment/assault allegations >

Link? I haven't heard about this. >

Article here, also added to my original reply. Thought it was more common knowledge, my b >

nbd for not including the link.
It's such a shame that he did those things. But, I'm glad he's seeking help, and his apology didn't consist of "I'm sorry your feelings were hurt" bullshit victim blaming apology that we usually get from folks who do these things. >

Nah, definitely big deal. Help only does so much, the people he assaulted have to live with it for the rest of their lives. >

A GOP candidate just shot up a bunch of Democrats homes. This is not an isolated incident >


This is not an isolated incident

But, hey, here's 30 more stories about cops running a train on another cop instead! >

But the stories are all going to be centered on how bad the woman is. Also, cancel culture somehow! >

I mean, they're all bastards, but homegirls been getting DRAGGED on the internet and especially black Twitter in a way I haven't seen since Rachel Dolezal >

This week happens to be the 25th anniversary of that time that Bill Clinton cheated on his wife.
It's worth going back and listening to Monica Lewinsky talk about this type of online bullying. Lady has some informed opinions on how gender impacts the fallout of this type of scandal. >

I remember reflexively disliking her because of the persistent narrative and me being only ~18 and ignorant. She was fucking railroaded and seems like a perfectly decent person who was just in over her head and victimized over and over by her 'boyfriend", her "friend", and then the entire media apparatus and public opinion. >

And they call themselves Godly 🤮 >

Point taken ! >

Democrats: "Man we really hate Republicans we need to vote in more Democrats in next election."
Republicans: "We really hate Democrats, lets try and kill them."
Both sides are not the same. But hey, Republicans, keep calling yourselves patriots, or something. >

For real though. I always think of that Mad Men scene with Don in the elevator and a guy is laying into him for being a piece of shit. It’s obvious that this man is consumed with hate of Don and has thought about him constantly. ~~He finishes and Don doesn’t even look at him~~ he finishes by telling Don he feels sorry for him and Don replies “I don’t think about you at all.”
And that is Democrats and Republicans >

Wait you mean it's not normal to put out multiple flags of your favored politician all year long, even after they lose? >

Youre supposed to hang them on your lifted pickup so its already terrible fuel efficiency drops even further. >

Don't forget the silly coded messages plastered all over it so they can chuckle to themselves for being SO clever. >

Fomenting violence has become the GOP go to it seems.  

“People parrot what Kevin McCarthy is saying when they call and make the threat,” Swalwell told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday’s broadcast of “Deadline: White House.”

.....

Swalwell had told and “publicly broadcast” to McCarthy that his rhetoric “leads to threats to me, my wife, our kids,” he said to Wallace.
“Recently someone said that they were going to rape and kill my children and they were using the language that Kevin McCarthy was using so there is a cost to this,” he added.
But McCarthy “doesn’t care” and instead just “wants to focus on, you know, carrying out the vengeance that he has promised in this corrupt bargain,” he claimed, alleging McCarthy “won’t even stop and talk to me when I have tried to talk to him.”

Article continues... >

Not only does McCarthy not care, he sees it as a power move >


Not only does McCarthy not care, he sees it as a power move*

This is what I think Dem congressional leaders still don't understand. 
GOP is in Martyr, kamikaze, jihad mode, being willing (and to have taken an oath) to sacrifice themselves (career, life etc) for the cause to ensure God's will is realized no matter the cost. 
They see every step as closer to achieving their mission as warriors for Christ. 
A (albeit deeply miguided) holy war that will supossedly bring a heavenly kingdom on earth attained only through the destruction of a perceived "demonic" order. 
They won't stop. >

It seriously bothers me how much of the GQP's fascination on Israel and Jerusalem is LITERALLY because they believe the sooner they can get Isreal to build the Third Temple in Jerusalem so that what's in Revelations can come to pass and Jesus will come rule again.
Like yeah nuclear holocaust from these assholes is bad, but there's so many with the literal platform of "Time to end the world!" >

I have no clue what this means in doctrine but if it really means literally building a temple they can do that for less than the cost of one or two days campaigning for a single house seat.
But then again, no one has ever accused them of actually being Christian. It is all a front to get the stupid to vote for them. >

The problem is the Temple has to be built in Jerusalem (see Trump moving the US Embassy moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - the US had passed a law to make the move in 1995 but every president until Trump deferred it because that's a fucking geopolitical land mine move) or Jesus won't come back.
The GQP Evangelists doesn't care about Israelis, Muslims, or whoever the hell else think they have a right to the area - they just know there has to be a Temple on the Temple Mount to get Jesus to come back and they'll all get snatched up to heaven like good little believers. They hope. >

My point was more that it seems like there is very little stopping them from doing this outside of the government (i.e. via private means). I'm pretty sure the council that manages Jerusalem is just as corruptable as anyone else. $1B to bring about the end of times would be nothing to actual believers with budgets like theirs.
Point being, they're frauds and don't believe any of this end of days nonsense that the voters do. >

The biggest obstruction to building the Temple is not the cost or bribing the Jerusalem council.
The biggest obstruction to building the temple is the fact that there's a 1400-year old mosque sitting right where the Temple supposedly has to be built. >

Yup. Was just about to make this comment. You beat me by 17 minutes. I too used to be interested in conspiracy theories before the whole genre was co opted by these fucking morons >

My favorite conspiracy theory is the dilution theory.
Add so many bullshit wackjob theories around that you get painted as a loon for being skeptical. >

Considering the maga Qanon nut job in NM (allegedly) def did hire hit men to shoot 4 democrats cuz he lost w 26% of the vote (wtf voted for him) >

His name is Solomon Peña
Why don’t you mention his name ? >

Interesting. So the people crying about pedophiles and groomers want to rape his children?! Why am I not surprised >

“Democrats don’t like rape.  Therefore we can (1) accuse them of it and (2) threaten them with it. Because they will hate both.”
Not about what they believe. Only about what tools/tactics they can use to cause grief. >

Say it's name: Domestic Terrorism >


Say it is name: Domestic Terrorism >

Man why does it need an adjective? Isn't it just straight up TERRORISM? Enlighten me so I can learn >

It underscores that it's local perpetrators, not some vague overseas threat. It's happening in our backyards, it's done by our neighbours, and it's many times more harmful to our safety and well being than any external threat. It's a domestic issue that needs to be dealt with at home, not by pumping money into the military. >

That makes sense, thank you. Doesn't it kind of give people an excuse to downplay it though? "Just more culture wars" >

Those losers would downplay anything no matter how you label it so I don't care what they say. >

Yeah the situation is pretty scary at the moment. And it's the dumbest of the dumb that are actually feeling ballsy enough these days to do it >

just another day of stochastic terrorism in america, folks >

He has the power to force a new speaker thanks to their own stupid rules. I'd say this would be a good reason as any >

It’s the new normal. This is what happens when politicians seek power through whipping up hate.
Half of the US supports going in this direction strongly. >

When no one fought back and allowed it to get to this point, did anyone really think they would self correct? >

The people who are supposed to stop it aren't being held to task because a lot of them are in support of the same ideologies. >

This country is under a very slow moving coup and something needs to be done about it before it really is too late. Laws are being broken and there's no DOJ protecting us. Corruption has taken over. >

Unfortunately I think seeds have already been sown, maybe too deep for us to pull, or pull without damage. We do nothing and what happens? Republicans tell more lies until their lies are believed more and more until their base is committing even more outspoken acts of violence. We go in and arrest tons of republicans for insurrection and treason? They see it as a act of war against them and will probably again motivate their base to resort to violence. Obviously, we don’t have a choice, we have to go with the second one if American democracy is to survive, but I don’t think we’re getting away Scott free >

I think this is the end of something, not the start -- the final grasps of Republicans clinging to power using any and all methods, because their party and power are quickly diminishing now. 
Every year more boomers die, and the GOP even helps it along by condoning vaccine conspiracy theories and pushing back against COVID measures. We saw in this last midterm that their craziness has hit a point of strong condemnation by most American voters. Candidates backed by Trump and who called elections rigged and stolen lost up and down the ticket. The crazies in Congress with solid red districts even faced some trouble, like Boebert in Colorado. 
Voters chose legal weed and abortion rights in red states on referendum. Republicans lost a Senate seat. They took the House by such a thin margin that they've become a complete laughingstock, and they're empowering exactly the kind of people Americans don't want to see in power. Democrats held and took governorships and state legislatures too, notably in some swing states. All of this, even though Republicans had so much in their favor: midterm year against the opposing party in power, high inflation, and a rocky economy. Add that to the voter suppression, gerrymandering, and general ratfucking, and they still floundered. 
Unless they excise the radical right, I think this is the best they'll get. It's only downhill from here. Boomers, leaning Republican, continually shrink, and eventually disappear. The next generation, Gen X, is 50/50 split. After that are millennials, who lean solidly left, and Gen Z, who have an even bigger lean left. Zoomers are starting to vote, Millennials are entering the age band where they reliably vote, and aging hasn't changed views. The GOP has nowhere to turn for more votes. 
I know this was a very long comment, but there's reasons to be hopeful. There really aren't many signs pointing in favor of Republicans, and if they don't speak out strongly against these attacks and threats, it'll only get worse for them. I'm worried about the people who might get hurt, on a more micro scale. But all we can do is do our best -- shame the "moderate" Republicans, vote in bluer Democrats, and demand these terrorists get held accountable. >

You're completely ignoring the historic trend of the tendency of voters to get more conservative as they age.
Plenty of boomers were hippies at one point, and they watch Fox News now. 
And, I don't think that the GOP will go quietly in to the night. They won't accept that the electorate has changed and they need to, as well. That's WHY we're seeing an increase in right-wing terrorism. They also see the writing on the wall and are increasingly becoming comfortable with breaking rules and norms, now laws, and eventually enacting violence in order to retain power.
No one willingly lets go of power. Especially not folks with their sort of ideology. >


You’re completely ignoring the historic trend of the tendency of voters to get more conservative as they age.

You’re completely ignoring that this is a myth perpetuated by folk wisdom and disproven by numerous studies. Voters don’t get more more conservative, society gets more progressive. Meanwhile our political values tend to remain largely the same. >

Masturbation is a grievous sin because you are thinking about sinful thoughts about the other person. But threatening to rape and murder someone's family is apparently totally ok. >

If you’re a minority, if you’re black or Asian or LGBTQIA+, or Native American then you’ve lived your whole life knowing that you are walking among people who want you dead, who want to rape you, who want to torture you and your people. The far-right has always been like this but it has become normalized to speak like this, to use this abhorrent language and then pass it off as if the other people are being “too sensitive”. And depending on where you are in the country, it is essentially like living among terrorists and Nazis. And you have no one to turn to for safety because you don’t know who is going to be the next Agent Smith. Is it the police officer? Your teacher? Your priest? Your coworker? >

McCarthy stripped Swalwell of his committee positions and called the California Democrat a “security threat” due to his link to a suspected Chinese spy. But Swalwell has never been implicated in any wrongdoing and the FBI has praised him for being “completely cooperative” with its investigation. The right is pushing a lie about Swalwell being a spy for China. What happened was China infiltrated California politicians from 2011-2015. (8 years ago) Swalwell was just one of the people affected. When the FBI alerted Swalwell to the woman, he broke off all ties and cooperated with them. >

Imagine that, the Party of Pedophilia wants to rape his kids. Just another day in the life of a right wing christian. >

What the fuck is up with the GOP and r*ping kids? This party is fucking disgusting and needs to be disbanded. >


What the fuck is up with the GOP and r*ping kids? 

They're well practiced, they do what they're skilled at. >

Not what coach meant by “play to your strengths“... >

Just standard rank-and-file Republican rhetoric any more.
These people are animals. >

I was watching a clip talking about this on CNN yesterday and the CNN reporter immediately tried to both sides this and said that republicans recieve threats too and didn't provide any examples lmao.   Fuck CNN. >

Treat them all like the monsters and terrorists they are. >

They're pro life so they can threaten children of people they hate >

What if - hear me out - laws applied to Republicans? >

I know I may be dating myself a little here, but I actually remember a time when people didn't threaten to rape and murder the children of politicians.    
Just like dreaming of getting the GI Joe Aircraft Carrier for Christmas, it's something today's kids will never understand. >

The Sears Wishbook had pages of GI Joe stuff I wanted >

God forbid someone actually goes through with these threats, do you think the GOP will come to their senses?
I doubt so. >

It has already been happening, and they have not. >

Paul Pelosi, New Mexico, substation attacks, the fucking insurrection 
I’m really not sure what the above means “if” they go through with it. They have! >

Hell, it happened over 10 years ago when Gabby Giffords and a bunch of other people were shot in Arizona. This really is nothing new at this point. >

Don't forget the Bundy shitheads who took over that wildlife building a few years ago in that standoff in Oregon. >

Or that jackass that sent pipebombs in the mail to a bunch of actors and politicians. I worked in times square at the time and many buildings were shut down after one showed up in the mail room for a news studio. You could spend HOURS trying to list all the domestic extremist attacks in the last decade. >

And I'd bet greater than 90% of them are related to the GOP. >

Strange party.  Goes from openly stating: “castrate and kill all pedophiles” to “I’m gonna rape and kill your children”.  These people are unhinged. >

Republicans being utter pieces of shit?  Must be a day ending in “-day” >

Violent rhetoric inspires violence. Republicans can’t keep getting a pass or they’ll keep pushing the envelope, why wouldn’t they when it’s effective and they don’t suffer any consequences for the harm they cause? Liars won’t stop lying, they need to be called out and pushed back against until no one believes their lies anymore. If we can’t deal with ghouls like Santos (or w/e his real name is) we’ll never have a collective sense of sanity and order again. >

The American Nazi Party has only violence and lies as a platform. >

Politics has become a room of adults with toddlers threatening violence when they don’t get their way >

McCarthy is drunk on power, and he's just the kind of small man to use that power like trump used it. McCarthy is a political terrorist, and doesn't deserve this job of Speaker because he's a small man, like Gingrich was before him. Small. Vindictive. Set on punishing the American People. Sucking up to trump.
McCarthy is a POS. >

I'm all for free speech, but the fact that you need "specific threats" to bring any sort of suit against these people, especially public figures, is a joke. 
Trump, Hannity, and others go on endlessly spreading lies and telling people their "way of life" and "values" are under attack by liberals and specifically name peole like Swalwell and Pelosi. Then people make threats against those specifically named individuals, repeating almost verbatim the lies told by Trump, Hannity, and others. The link is clear. Spreading lies but claiming through your lawyers that they're just a little too vague to be legally accountable needs to be fixed. If Nancy Pelosi can prove that another public figure was telling lies about her in order to encourage violence, then there needs to be liability if it is reasonable to infer those lies led to someone else taking extreme action. Public figures need to be held to tighter account of the things they say about others because their words have influence. We loosen libel protections for public figures, but they should be given less leeway in things they say if it's reasonable their lies or comments can lead to violence or crimes by others.
A man beat Paul Pelosi with a hammer because people like Trump and Hannity spread lies and called for violence against Nancy. Saying "someone should take her out" and then claiming you didn't try to cause that outcome is nonsense. 
Free speech is to express viewpoints, not to try to get people to commit acts of violence or to spread lies about your political opponents.
Edits: Cleaned up poor grammar and added some detail to my thoughts. >

100% agreed. This needs to be voted higher up. It'll be more interesting how this gets handled since the Supreme Court is expected to discuss whether to hear two cases this Friday that challenge laws in Texas and Florida barring online platforms from taking down certain political content. Next month, the court is scheduled to hear a case that questions Section 230, a 1996 statute that protects the platforms from liability for the content posted by their users. 
It'll be super funny if they repeal or limit section 230 while also thinking that people can't post whatever they want. That said, I'm super tired of people sending hateful and threatening messages to Doctors, Librarians, Teachers, Politicians, people's family and children. It's bizarre, scary and takes a very special person to not only write this stuff but actually send it off. Until someone who is famous and has their child or partner personally harmed by this type of speech I don't see it happening unfortunately. Ironically I was listening to a debate from David French last year and he is a conservative, first amendment lawyer and when he had right wing protestors show up at his house threatening his family, all of a sudden he thought there needed to be limits on certain types of speech or certain ways to protest. As usual, people are fully supportive of things until they are personally affected. 
Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee
The American right has lost the plot on free speech. >

Meanwhile, over on r/conservative they are mocking him and making all sorts of delusional accusations against him. And racist statements about Chinese people because they insist he is a CCP plant/agent/etc. We truly live in 2 different Americas. >

They trot out that bullshit every time his name is mentioned, no matter how many times it's debunked. >

Because logic, facts and reason mean nothing to them. >

The GOP base still believes that Swalwell had an affair with a Chinese spy. They get this idea from their political leaders and their rightwing propoganda outlets. Its all part of a smear campaign against Swalwell. The GOP saw he was a rising star and want to make sure he never holds a higher office.
Edit: For the record, here is some good Axios reporting on this Chinese spy. 
She did have sexual relationships with a couple of midwestern mayors. Thats the only sexual contacts we know about. 
FTA

What happened: Amid a widening counterintelligence probe, federal investigators became so alarmed by Fang's behavior and activities that around 2015 they alerted Swalwell to their concerns — giving him what is known as a defensive briefing.
-Swalwell immediately cut off all ties to Fang, according to a current U.S. intelligence official, and he has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
-Fang left the country unexpectedly in mid-2015 amid the investigation. She did not respond to multiple attempts by Axios to reach her by email and Facebook. >


The GOP base still believes that Swalwell had an affair with a Chinese spy.  

OK but... ~~wasn't~~ isn't Mitch McConnel married to a businesswoman who was kind of a big deal in China, and had strong ties to that country and its government?  And like no one in the GOP cared?  In fact, they made her Transportation Secretary.  
That's how you know they don't really believe Swalwell dated a Chinese "spy".  If they did, would have found her and ~~offered~~ sold her a cabinet position. >


wasn't

Aren’t they still married? 
Wouldn’t it be “isn’t Mitch McConnell married to…”
? >

Ah... yeah not sure what I was thinking there. >

GOP greed over people party. Now the party of death. 500,000 dead on their watch ,No one is safe.  Just like Germany.  They first came after immigrants.  Then women. Now democrats.   No one is safe. >

Repubs know this. This is why they repeat buzzwords over & over. Never forget prior to the Arizona governor being shot Sarah Palin put out a political ad that had fucking literal targets on a number of states, including Arizona. >

It is beyond time to call out and punish lawmakers engaging in stochastic terrorism. >

One loser GOP hired four individuals to shoot up Democratic lawmakers homes. Things like this is going to get real when MTG words get held against her. 🤬🤬🤬 >

It’s past time to start charging people who do this. It’s no longer trolling once you turn your thoughts into threats. People like this belong behind bars. >

It is disgusting that so many people voted for politicians who openly or covertly supported the attack on the capital and on our democracy.
There is a big and cancerous anti-ethics contingent in our society today >

GOP supporters are proud to be transitioning to being regular old domestic terrorists. They deserve whatever bad things happen to them as a party/group. >

Republicans make everyone else look good by default >

Just like shingles, republicans don't care.  They are actually disgusting.  Horrible humans.  Ugh. >

"We are all domestic terrorists"

Republican National Convention, 2022 >

Why is this acceptable?   Shouldn't the FBI be involved in this?   It's absolutely domestic right wing terrorism. >

The GQP Republican “Conservative” party are domestic terrorists.
Change my mind… >

We are doomed. Hate is powerful. Democracy, Medicare, Social Security, etc. all ending with GOP >

And after what happened in New Mexico it’s time to take these threats for what they are. You can drop the domestic and just call them terrorists. >

But be extra careful to avoid the "Top Republican"'s name in the headline, no matter how awkwardly you have to word it. >

Repubs using threatening language leading to death and injury?   
No!  Never heard of such a thing, huh Repubs.   Huh Repubs?   Right Repubs?
Yo Repubs. >

I always thought threats like this even online was an automatic knock on the door from the fbi or someone. I guess people can just get away with it easier than I thought. >

But wait!! Republicans aren't pedophiles!!?? Right!?????? >

Violent far right factions are seeing the rhetoric being spewed by GOP leaders, right wing media, hell, even their evangelical preachers in some cases, as a call to arms and okaying violence against their political enemies.
They try to play off things like the Paul Gossar anime video that depicts him murdering AOC and Biden but the unhinged lunatics are seeing it as the, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, violence against your political enemies is just fine with us.
They know exactly what they are doing and as I've said many times, it's a feature, not a bug, of today's Republican party.
They fan the flames and encourage violence and then when it happens, they act shocked and claim zero responsibility.
Also, fuck the GOP, fascist pieces of shit. >

How can the GOP claim to be the party of family values when this is what some of their members are advocating. I'm aghast. >

These abhorrent views are mainstream right-wing political opinions. This isn't some fringe. These aren't lone wolves. This is conservative ideology in the open.
Don't forget it. Don't let your guards down. >

Republicans are no longer a real political party and have not been for years. >

Threats to rape should immediately put someone on a watch list, and threats to commit pedophilia should immediately get someone a restraining order from all schools and kid-friendly businesses. If you think it's okay to use your grungy dick to inspire fear in women and children, especially in this day and age, you are a monster. No debate. >

Democrats have been civil, law-abiding, dweebs during this entire slow-moving Murdoch and Co. coup of stupid corruption. I cannot believe everyone is pretending republicans act in good faith when the entire R party is an existential threat to our country. >

NPR and CNN has been referring to the insurrectionists in Congress that just got cabinet positions as "hardliners".  
"Hardliners?"  They tried to overthrow the government and replace it with a theocratic dictatorship only three years ago.   They think democrats, jews, liberals, and lgtbq+ literally kidnap and rape/murder children and drink their blood.  They think God sent Trump to save America by destroying their enemies, and that's why Satan helped Democrats steal the election.  
They put those people on powerful committees like Oversight and Homeland Security.   
And instead of saying "HOLY SHIT CONGRESS IS NOW RUN BY NAZI LUNATICS", NPR is just like "this is just political stuff as usual - McCarthy had to compromise with some "hardliners".  
Fuck.  Like they are just really opinionated about tax policy or something. >

The Jan 6 insurrection was one of the lowest points of NPR’s news coverage. They literally kept saying “nobody could ever have expected this.” Their mixture of bourgeois priggishness, neoliberal “centrism,” and abject timidity makes a toxic brew. Still listen, still hate it tho. >

Jesus Christ Christian Repubicans are sick bastards! >

It's amazing how common this is.  It happens all the way down to school boards.  It's funny how the crowd that claims to be family focused and god fearing loves to threaten people with the rape and murder. >

No shit, they literally tried to take over the country and y’all just…. Let them continue running the country >

But they never printed out an email that had the words "we hereby resolve to take control of the United States and eliminate democracy" and faxed to the FBI, so there's literally nothing for them to go on. >

Honestly, I would simply light McCarthy up on the House floor every chance I got... make sure everyone knows how spineless and craven he is. Two years of that seems fair. >

Boy conservatives really love raping kids, don't they? Just saying, based on the evidence at hand. It seems to be the case. >

I am stunned and yet never surprised at the capacity for people to say heinously evil things. I just cannot imagine hating anyone in the world enough to say this. >

Are there any democrats that are threatening violence or are there any radical democrat groups that promote violence of this level or at all? >

There's that huge list of republicans who are paedophiles. >

The GQP should be labeled a terrorist group. >

Right-wing/GOP extremists are disturbingly obsessed w rape. There have been threats to rape Harris and other female politicians. Also, the people who planned to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer intended to rape and murder her. It's also ironic (and extremely disgusting) that them same people who claim to be protecting kids from "grooming" are threatening to rape someone's children. >

Eric Swalwell has always seemed like a good guy, logical and prepared. GOP are domestic terrorists.