How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics

[robosmith]

How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics

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This was just a typical month in American public life, where a steady undercurrent of violence and physical risk has become a new normal. From City Hall to Congress, public officials increasingly describe threats and harassment as a routine part of their jobs. Often masked by online anonymity and propelled by extreme political views, the barrage of menace has changed how public officials do their work, terrified their families and driven some from public life altogether.

By almost all measures, the evidence of the trend is striking. Last year, more than 450 federal judges were targeted with threats, a roughly 150 percent increase from 2019, according to the United States Marshals Service. The U.S. Capitol Police investigated more than 8,000 threats to members of Congress last year, up more than 50 percent from 2018. The agency recently added three full-time prosecutors to handle the volume. 

No coincidence; the cause is Trump.

Donald Trump is the accelerant

Vox

https://www.vox.com › trump-violence-tweets-racist-hat...

 

Jan 9, 2021 — From 2015 to 2021, a comprehensive history of Donald Trump encouraging hate groups and political violence — from his messaging at rallies, .

 

[robosmith]

Jesus Is Their Savior, Trump Is Their Candidate

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As Donald Trump increasingly infuses his campaign with Christian trappings while coasting to a third Republican presidential nomination, his support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians.

Said one Trump supporter: "Trump supports Jesus, and without Jesus, America will fall."

Many of the T-shirts and hats that were worn and sold at the rally in March proclaimed religious slogans such as ‘Jesus is my savior, Trump is my president’ and ‘God, Guns & Trump.’ One man’s shirt declared, ‘Make America Godly Again,’ with the image of a luminous Jesus putting his supportive hands on Trump’s shoulders.

Many attendees said in interviews they believed Trump shared their Christian faith and values. Several cited their opposition to abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, particularly to transgender expressions. 

^These people are DELUSIONAL. Jesus NEVER advocated VIOLENCE like Trump does almost daily. See "unified reich."

 

[Nationalist]

Lol...Donny's in Bronx right now and the crowd is chanting "USA". 

I wonder how many in the Bronx would attend a Brandon rally?

[WestCanMan]

What a f'ing dipshit.

Is he seriously just noticing this now?

The FBI is committing crimes against political opponents, the DOJ has Biden's political opponent on trial for the umpteenth time, they even had a coked-up dog that was biting everyone there. 

[Fluffypants]

1 hour ago, WestCanMan said:

What a f'ing dipshit.

Is he seriously just noticing this now?

The FBI is committing crimes against political opponents, the DOJ has Biden's political opponent on trial for the umpteenth time, they even had a coked-up dog that was biting everyone there. 

Lets not forget

"Democracy is on the line"

"Trump is Hitler"

"If Trump is elected America is over"

"If Trump loses we are all gonna die"

"We never came closer to losing our Democracy than on January 6th"

 

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, Fluffypants said:

Lets not forget

"Democracy is on the line"

"Trump is Hitler"

"If Trump is elected America is over"

"If Trump loses we are all gonna die"

"We never came closer to losing our Democracy than on January 6th"

 

And we are only ONE WEEK AWAY From proving Russian collusion!!

[WestCanMan]

2 hours ago, Fluffypants said:

Lets not forget

"Democracy is on the line"

"Trump is Hitler"

"If Trump is elected America is over"

"If Trump loses we are all gonna die"

"We never came closer to losing our Democracy than on January 6th"

Or "judge" little Tanya Chutkan's brilyunt comment: "They attempted to overthrow the gov't and almost succeeded" 🤣

[robosmith]

4 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

What a f'ing dipshit.

Is he seriously just noticing this now?

The FBI is committing crimes against political opponents, the DOJ has Biden's political opponent on trial for the umpteenth time, they even had a coked-up dog that was biting everyone there. 

Are you being purposely OBTUSE. Alvin Bragg and EJ Carroll are NOT THE DOJ.

NONE of the DoJ cases have gone to trial. Duh

[robosmith]

2 hours ago, Fluffypants said:

Lets not forget

"Democracy is on the line"

"Trump is Hitler"

"If Trump is elected America is over"

"If Trump loses we are all gonna die"

"We never came closer to losing our Democracy than on January 6th"

Well you got TWO right. The rest are just YOUR FANTASIES despite your suggestion they are attributable to someone else.

The last one was Trump's plan, and fortunately HE FAILED. Duh 

Also unfortunate you're not familiar with the testimony of WH insiders that revealed THE DETAILS.

 

Inside the 'unhinged' West Wing meeting on Dec. 18

NPR

https://www.npr.org › 2022/07/12 › unhinged-west-win...

 

Jul 12, 2022 — In its seventh public hearing, the House select committee detailed an explosive meeting at the White House on Dec. 18, 2020, in which ...

[User]

I love how folks on the left are just pretending like the summer of BLM violence never happened, nor did this violence start back in 2013 that they have continually encouraged and "incited" ever since. 

 

[Deluge]

17 hours ago, robosmith said:

How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics

No coincidence; the cause is Trump.

Donald Trump is the accelerant

Vox

https://www.vox.com › trump-violence-tweets-racist-hat...

 

Jan 9, 2021 — From 2015 to 2021, a comprehensive history of Donald Trump encouraging hate groups and political violence — from his messaging at rallies, .

 

Why can't people just do as we command?

-- The left. 

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, User said:

I love how folks on the left are just pretending like the summer of BLM violence never happened, nor did this violence start back in 2013 that they have continually encouraged and "incited" ever since. 

 

Not to mention all the commentary they made at the time.  "Protests are SUPPOSED to make people uncomfortable".  "it's MOSTLY peaceful".  etc etc. 

The problem is their supporters don't call them on it. Their supporters believe whatever they heard in the last 5 minutes and don't take anything else to the consideration. So if the democrats say "This thing is wonderful" today,  and then say "This thing is terrible" tomorrow then in their mind there's absolutely no problem with that. They will scream and shout about how terrible it is in the first case and the next day join in with the cheers about how wonderful it is.

So the democrats know that all they need to do is lie today and regardless of what was said yesterday or tomorrow there people will support them.