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Hillary Clinton is condemning armed protests calling for the end to stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic, calling the demonstrations "domestic terrorism."
"Armed men storming a legislature to disrupt its democratic proceedings is domestic terrorism. It cannot be tolerated," Clinton tweeted Friday.
Her tweet linked to an article by Newsweek about Michigan choosing to close down its Capitol and cancel its legislative session after armed protests and death threats to Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Some 200 protesters turned out for Thursday's event, where one demonstrator was seen carrying an American flag with a doll hanging by a noose. The event mirrored a similar protest at the end of April, during which hundreds of protesters many armed with rifles entered the Capitol. One man is reportedly facing charges over death threats to Whitmer, and Newsweek reports there have been posts online calling to lynch her as well as suggestions to crowdfund for a hitman.
President Trump has offered his support to protesters demonstrating against state orders (calling them very good people.
Link to tweet
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/498060-hillary-clinton-calls-armed-michigan-lockdown-protests-domestic-terrorism
murielm99
(30,754 posts)Remember when they used to talk about dirty hippies?
They all look like they need to go home and take a bath.
comradebillyboy
(10,174 posts)DBoon
(22,385 posts)Freedom doesn't just mean the freedom to spread the coronavirus, it also means the freedom to spread body lice
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)ancianita
(36,128 posts)murielm99
(30,754 posts)SouthernAtheist
(45 posts)Not A GOOD LOOK, guys! LOL. No need for the Stars and Bars when you look like every slave owner in every faded old photo from the south.
BlueMTexpat
(15,370 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)oldsoftie
(12,579 posts)Is it possible that the law doesnt allow it? I dont know.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)They need to enforce it.
dalton99a
(81,558 posts)Ohiogal
(32,030 posts)A sitting President should be undermining orders from a states governor in favor of a handful of terrorists. Just mind boggling.
Beartracks
(12,820 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)ck4829
(35,079 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,188 posts)Yep, the same ones who trained for at least a week in their backyard to prepare for the end of civilization and who are now losing their shit because they can't go out to get a triple chocolate espresso vanilla smoothie cappuccino macchiato at their local Starbuck's! (Or have their hair done, I forget which.)
The line has obviously been drawn.
murielm99
(30,754 posts)They look like the kind of guys who go to the barber for a buzz cut. They probably drink black coffee from a thermos, laced with cheap booze.
I LOLed when I tried to picture them doing what you suggested.
relayerbob
(6,548 posts)I've been saying it since this all started, glad to see her joining in publicly. You know she said it privately all along.
albacore
(2,399 posts)Hillary Clinton, as Attorney General of the US under Pres. Biden, takes huge steps to stop this kind of shit. And investigate the Republicans ENDLESSLY.
Tell me that doesn't excite you....
SouthernAtheist
(45 posts)I would prefer the appellation of:
Madame Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
When I dream, I dream BIG. Hang in there Ruthie, we need your seat for someone for whom the republicans rage will burn bright enough to light up all of Washington D.C. for decades to come.
albacore
(2,399 posts)But I'm a very SMALL person. My feelings about revenge on the Republicans runs very deep. And I think HRC would carry that out. In the name of Justice, of course.
But SCOTUS would be OK, too.
SouthernAtheist
(45 posts)Perhaps we could compromise? Hillary as AG, and Obama on the SC? I had joked before that that's what a President Hillary should do as revenge for the theft of a SC seat by the Turtle.
albacore
(2,399 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,318 posts)Fla Dem
(23,717 posts)Of course that may have escalated the insurrection even more to where there was actualarmed conflict.
marieo1
(1,402 posts)Hilary Clinton would've made a wonderful president, she is brilliant and she is right on about these domestic terrorists. No other administration would have ever put up with it. DJT is a terrorist just like these creeps.