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Lawrence O'Donnell ✔@Lawrence
Dear Republican Senators & Chief Justice Roberts:
Are you absolutely sure @realDonaldTrump is not encouraging the assassination of @RepAdamSchiff?
How do you know? Seriously. How do you know?
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
Shifty Adam Schiff is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man. He has not paid the price, yet, for what he has done to our Country!
11:36 AM - Jan 26, 2020
100% valid concern!!!
Capperdan
(492 posts)This is hate speech and inciting violence.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Youd think that would be enough, but here we are again.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)the beheading thing
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Not that it makes any diff, but it should.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)magicarpet
(14,155 posts).... so that someone at the perfect moment for them can perpetrate the hatred and violence that they so thrive on against their political foes.
This is common Mafioso thug behavior,... but certainly not presidential.
global1
(25,253 posts)Take her out. Have their heads on a pike. And now this about Schiff paying the price.
Sounds to me that the mafia is running this country. Is anyone writing the script for Godfather 4?
colorado_ufo
(5,734 posts)"She's going to go through some things" "Take her out."
fwvinson
(488 posts)Schiff and Trump and his Trumpians would give him (Putti) a parade.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Those are Putin's favorite methods.
Evolve Dammit
(16,743 posts)tblue37
(65,408 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)against Democrats.
A very widespread campaign, from the most extreme hate radio right up through Fox & Friends and the rest of the Fox lineup, got going during Obama's first term. Fox's more "discreet" versions included daily impassioned, distressed wonderings from their mean girls after every reporting of Obama's latest attack on America, "How long can America take this? How long until...someone just...snaps?!" Leaning forward with waving hands and mouths open in helpless female outrage to illustrate how entirely justifiable "snapping" could only be a matter of time.
O'Donnell remembers. Media finally started reporting its own phenomenon, but it was only when some clever person catchily accused RW media of "trolling for assassins" that Fox and most backed off a bunch. But it's never stopped.
kag
(4,079 posts)Let's never forget that.
FM123
(10,053 posts)notinkansas
(1,096 posts)Nada!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)what happens in their recent past. Maxine Waters was buried in hate mail after the Orange Anus attacked her. And RW Media crowed from the roof tops about their effectiveness in making that happen.
But today's actions by the Orange Anus is a new level of personal threats. Anything happening to Schiff would be on the level of a Assassination attempt. Is the Republican Party going to stand for this?
fwvinson
(488 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)today with Tom Cotton and Landford.
spanone
(135,844 posts)crickets
(25,981 posts)It's not accidental or unintended. It's a purposeful strategy.
Stochastic Terrorism: Triggering the shooters
Jargon Watch: The Rising Danger of Stochastic Terrorism
Of course, Trumps people later said he meant they might vote. Thats how it works: Stochastic terrorism lets bullies operate in the open with full deniability, since the random element erases any provable causation.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Purposeful strategies involving violence are what the Republican leadership is up to in refusing to pass any of the gun laws even Republican voters strongly support.
Encouraging increased levels of violence in society, and thus the anxiety which increases support for authoritarian government, even demands it, is a purposeful early strategy covered in detail in Fascist Takeovers for Dummies.
usaf-vet
(6,189 posts)Shifty _________ [fill in the blank] is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man. He has not paid the price, yet, for what he has done to our Country!
I bet that the poster would get a visit from the FBI and/or the U.S. Secret Service. And rightfully so, because it sure sounds like a threat at the least of bodily harm or worst.
nini
(16,672 posts)And get their acct banned.
However their fuhrer can do anything he wants
dchill
(38,505 posts)There's just no way to prove it absolutely.
BKDem
(1,733 posts)Lyin' Donald Trump is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and a very sick man. He has not paid the price, yet, for what he is doing to our Country!
[It's a shame nobody listens to a word I say, especially not Armed Maniacs who think I'm The Chosen One.]
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Kaiserguy
(740 posts)that given the chance Trump will benefit himself.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Barr uses the FBI and DOJ to go after Schiff and Dems. No one is safe.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)He'll gladly have journos killed soon.
young_at_heart
(3,769 posts)This is absolutely chilling!!
OMGWTF
(3,959 posts)People have already died because of this GD misanthrope.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)More likely, they're absolutely sure it is, and that they've been similarly threatened. They value their families, even if they don't have family values.
Today's GOP: Putting the snivel back into cowardice since 2016.
packman
(16,296 posts)Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest? (sometimes expressed as troublesome or meddlesome priest) is an utterance attributed to Henry II of England, which led to the death of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170.
cp
(6,636 posts)"Not paid the price yet" is a direct order. Every FBI agent, SDNY prosecutor, and those familiar with mafia get it.
kentuck
(111,103 posts)"but we have a favor to ask you, though" ??
Traildogbob
(8,756 posts)I got banned for life for calling Tomi Lauren a street lamp post appendage after she praised gassing refugees during Thanksgiving. And trump is allowed to promote assassinations. AmurKKKa and free speech is warped. Why he had to flush 25 times. He put his adult diaper in the toilet, wiped his ass on the constitution and tried to flush it all, loaded with 5 pounds of handberders, chocolate cakes, fried chicken, and of course Diet Coke, for optimal weight.
Polybius
(15,437 posts)What can he do?
Mersky
(4,982 posts)Is unacceptable.
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)is very sick, come on arrest the MF'er.
If a HS school student threatened to kill or go after students, the authorities would arrest him.
what the hell are they normalizing what tRump is saying. What's next???
H2O Man
(73,559 posts)"Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?"
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,743 posts)happy if Dems were killed. I truly believe that. His history is one of punishing those who do not agree with you (X100). Melania said it and his former business manager said it. I'm sure he learned from Roy Cohn and his Klansman father, but Michael Cohen confirmed it's his MO.
EndlessWire
(6,537 posts)Trump is very vindictive over the stupidest things. When he tweeted, "what you've done to the country," he really meant himself. This is going to be unpleasant.
Stick together and vote them ALL out.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Voter had yet to speak. But if he meant voters he could have said voters. He didn't. He wants Rep. Schiff's head on a pike. And one segment of his supporters is itching for a 2nd Amendment solution. The concern is very real.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)You will own whatever happens, if anything.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)FUCK TRUMP
PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Just wait until he has been acquitted in the senate.
Threats will be passé.
pansypoo53219
(20,981 posts)wishstar
(5,270 posts)His threats against Schiff have been going on for many weeks and then how he got away with the "lock her up" chants going back over 3 years is stunning.
EndlessWire
(6,537 posts)raising2moredems
(641 posts)you think Baron is autistic and the cult followers go batshit crazy. Go figure.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,435 posts)are most certainly threats, will become reality if that Orange Shitstain wins and they control the Senate.
spooky3
(34,458 posts)rocktivity
(44,576 posts)Takes one to know one, Donnie...
rocktivity
seta1950
(932 posts)I hope the congressman is protected.