4/ And we cannot discount the impact of MAGA's fetishization of guns. MAGA celebrates the tools of mass shooters and assassins - assault rifles, machine guns, silencers and high capacity magazines. MAGA doesn't treat firearms with respect - it celebrates their killing power.
5/ Trump sends other clear signals supporting political violence. Said he might pardon those that plotted the kidnapping of Gov. Whitmer; threatened peaceful protestors of his military parade with assault. Again, Democrats don't say these things. Not "both sides."
Any comment on Mike Lee, Bernie Moreno, and Benjamin Netanyahu all trying to pin the blame on the left?
6/ The deployment of the National Guard and Marines to LA was the next escalation. Trump sent the military into LA to inflame and create the conditions for more violence. The assault of Senator Padilla was the natural result of these purposefully heightened tensions.
Chris, please ask Tammy to explain the difference between a deployment and a mobilization.
7/ When MAGA uses violence against its political opponents and endorses private acts of violence when committed in service of MAGA, unhinged people listen - mostly on the right, but also on the left. Once violence gets mainstreamed, it's hard to put it back in the bottle.
8/ It's true the violence is sometimes trained on Republicans - including Trump. Yesterday, in fact, was the anniversary of the congressional baseball shooting. And yes, there have been some on the left who have been too cavalier about violence and they should be condemned too.
Doesn't this specific line play into the hard right strategy to pin the blame on the left? Why even take the bait?
9/ But there is no comparison anywhere on the left with MAGA's regular legitimization of violence in our politics. There is a straight line from Jan 6 to the pardons to the assault on Sen. Padilla to Minnesota. A democracy cannot function when one faction embraces violence.
Thank you- you’re absolutely correct about this
Political violence is also when you enact policies that hurt people.
The attempted White genocide by the Biden admin is slow motion violence. Trump was right to pardon the Jan. 6th rioters, they had suffered enough.
It's older than this, but right-wing terror should have been the #1 focus after Oklahoma City.
She posted this shorty after news broke of the Minnesota shootings and assassination.
She is a dangerous psychopath. She lost her mind a long time ago.
also, right wing media has been dehumanizing liberals since rush limbaugh
Corporate media (and Democrats!) have been likewise dehumanizing progressives!!
Shout out to Paul Pelosi.
Trump’s own response to this democratic assassination by a masked MAGA in police garb was to refuse to call governor Walz and rant about his awful HE is then he announced sending (ICE?) more armed masked MAGA to just democratic cities that follow the law!At this point how do we defend ourselves?
Republicans. They are fucking Republicans you fucking coward. maga is not a party or an entity but you keep using it as a noun. It’s not. You are demonstrating perfectly why millions of people are done with Dems. FFS be stronger than this.
MAGA and Republicans are synonymous. I don’t understand your outrage. Everyone knows exactly what he’s saying and who he’s pointing to
Your response is so out of touch with reality it’s mind boggling. The United States Senator in this thread isn’t even using the terms as synonyms. He’s making a clear distinction between maga and Republicans. This is NOT even close to how average voters see it. They think maga is a subset of the GOP
The biggest mistake the left makes about politics is thinking everyone has reached the same conclusion they have. It’s not true and it’s not accurate. If you think most voters automatically assume when they hear maga they think Republican Party you are wrong.
Just read the first post in this thread again. FFS he’s demonizing maga but suggesting Republicans suffer the same fate as Dems. He associates maga with evil but Republicans as victims as well with a minor caveat
The biggest mistake the Left makes is turning on itself because someone else on the left isn’t behaving exactly like you want, or using the exact words you’d use. He’s saying “MAGA” not “Republican” because the ONLY want to stop Trump is to try to bring some Republicans onside.
There isn’t - so stop with apologies for “left” violence. They murdered a democratic leader - you guys need to yell that from the rooftops! That little shit of a Speaker called for Newsom to be tarred and feathered. They threaten and commit violence against peaceful protest every day.
Hoping Boelter doesn't manage to kill himself in a cornfield or be killed by LE or commit suicide in jail awaiting trial. I want to see every detail of his hate-filled Christo-fascist MAGA journey put on trial. Connect the dots back to Trump and the GOP.
Corn is only a foot high, so hard to hide in, but mosquitos have hatched, so severe blood loss may be in Mr Boelter’s future.
I know your mosquitos ... used to call them the state bird.
Tis true 🤣 and recent rains/clouds have made this hatch a bumper crop!
Will you call out Sen Mike Lee?
A democracy can’t function when one faction abhors democracy, @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Call them out by name.
Call it Domestic Terrorism. Because it's true.
It stopped functioning already. They broke the dam.
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Hopefully you'll have words with your colleague from Utah who thinks the assassinations are funny
It is domestic terrorism. Did you read Katharine Belew’s book called “Bring the War Home: the white power movement and paramilitary America”? What we have is only a continuation of same, nothing new. It has a history.
Yes, thank you for mentioning this book and author. Below published that in 2018 and was trying to get attentn prior to that. The ultra rich have co-opted the radical right movement and created a powder keg moment all for the purpose of making obscene amounts of money. It will take lifetimes to fix.
Quite right, sadly.
Our piece of shit president’s son mocked Nancy Pelosi’s husband brutal assault with nary a consequence. I find zero equivalent on the left
Please do something!
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Hoping you and your Democratic colleagues will confront Mike Lee this week. Knowing Thune will never censure him, a formal request for it should go on the record notheless.
We can't negotiate with the violent lying terrorist MAGA party.
Sometimes it’s not just the violence. It’s the name calling. I’m still dumbfounded by MTG calling Representative Frost Antifa then having to be told how to retract her statement. Tip of the iceberg of the horrendous things they call Democrats. It creates permission for the violence.
How many of Trump's cabinet did you vote for? You aren't the hero.
Maybe you should have your spokespeople call it out for what it is. Jeffries and Schumer. And then everyone else as well.
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Yet the Far Right have accused Tim Waltz for orchestrating the attack. It’s disgusting. You’re in very serious trouble and by definition us. Very, very serious times
Fucking thank you prob the first elected Dem I've seen call it what it fucking is
Let’s also discuss the violent theocratic NAR cult AND the fact that is has infested the highest levels. Assassin, Speaker Johnson, Justice Alito, Marge & a bunch of other psychos. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Apo...
In the past, have voted Republican, Democratic (since Trump), Libertarian and Independent. But it's hard to see where I would ever vote Republican again. There are those who are complete scumbags (Lee), ignorant (Tuberville) or just plain looney (MTG). But the ones who stay silent may be the worst.
Never-Trumpers may oppose Democratic policies but they’re not getting their own party back. I saw a poll that showed the parties are still evenly split in voter support - after everything that’s happened. That says a lot about GOP voters. They’re not going away. Their unmasked fascism’s here to stay
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This is a good start. The right constructs bogeymen like a Soros-backed Antifa army, pretends cities are burning when one window is broken. Your colleague Susan Collins made polite pro-choice chalk messages on her sidewalk a grave security threat. There is no “both-sides.” bsky.app/profile/rude...
The PARDONS are deplorable. Full stop.
Please go say this on the Senate floor and every media appearance.
I agree with your thread for the most part and thank you for addressing what many in high dem leadership refuse to do, but if you have to go back to 2017 to share a left wing violent act, that's saying A LOT. How many right wing violent attacks have occurred since then vs left?
And no dem govt reps have stoked lies and laughter like the right has done in a consistently disgusting manner when their extreme actors perform acts of violence.
You might want to call out Mike Lee.
Yes!!!
Let's see a Bipartisan Senate and House make very PUBLIC statements that they ALL denounce violence and will shun any member who even hints a violence, while demanding the same of POTUS and every appointee in the Executive branch. Leaders behaving like role models, what a novel idea.
Cool. More talking with no action. Typical Democrat doing typical Democrat things.
Your Republican colleagues Sen. Lee and Sen. Moreno are spreading the lies that this Trump-voting evangelical anti-abortion zealot was somehow a "Marxist" on the "extreme left." Are you going to call them out? By name? Are you committed to the truth? Or a misplaced sense of comity and decorum?
I only have to hear Mike Lee's name for my blood to boil. Has there been a more venal creature in recent history?
There’s a tie with Ted Cruz, Lindsay Graham and Tommy Tuberville. All odious cretins for various reasons
They are on a foot race to the bottom.
This is f*cking despicable.
Comity and decorum. These senators wallow like pigs in shit to be part of an elite 100. Senate democrats refuse to use the tools they have to obstruct votes. They just keep allowing unanimous consent. For every 1 good thing Murphy does, he does 2 horrible things.
Is that Chuck Schumer I hear? .....nope, crickets.
He's in the minority, means nothing. Republicans should call out.
And now this. Mike Lee needs to be removed from office immediately.
He’s not. He keeps showing how he’s incapable of doing the real work by allowing his colleagues to hide behind his false maga label. They are Republicans and he can barely fucking say it.
These motherfuckers.
Mike Lee in particular. I remember being told he was one of the smart ones. He's a racist piece of shit asshole, who says stupid shit because he gets hard trying to own the libs, not knowing he's a pale imitation compared to the real douchenozzles, AND he's a god damned US Senator.
Marxism isn’t violent. White supremacy is.
He conveniently left out abortion clinics were on the list
I'm beginning to wonder if this guy was hired based on the circumstances. If true, they probably picked him because he was already on the inside and knew the inner workings of the political sphere. Do not be shocked to discover he was killed in action. MAGA would rather see him toe tagged.
@markwarner.bsky.social @schiff.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov What are you going to do about your sick fucking colleague Senators? He has no place in public office. He should be impeached.
One of his relatives (John Lee) was executed by a firing squad for his involvement in a mass murder in UT. Nice family.
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Thank you
Sen. Murphy regularly calls out the insane behavior of the right.
Seriously? Chris Murphy is out there front and center fighting and speaking the truth. The entire Democratic Party should follow his lead.
The entire Democratic Party should, in one voice, call for the censure of Senators Lee and Moreno.
Unlikely, since they’ve already forgotten the Senator Padilla was assaulted by federal agents in a federal building in his home state. The entire Democratic Party should be replaced with people who actually care about democracy.
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“Should” They never do
The entire Democratic Party should tell Mike Lee to meet them in the hallway and be prepared to use his hands to back up his mouth. Enough of this shit.
my money is on Tammy Duckworth
We just can't interupt Chuck's book tour. He might be available by next year, though.
Truth
He can go fuck himself. (He might find out that he already has)
We don’t have one voice.
Say it directly and out loud over and over, called out by name. More people need to know what these elected Republicans are doing and they’re not going to hear it on FOX or CNN.
He is but he needs to say their damn names. Speak the names and call them out.
It is always good and righteous to call on our leaders to do more. Chris Murphy is a public servant and it is good he is speaking like one; it will be great when he acts like one, too.
Yes, seriously. Time for guys like Murphy to grow a pair and start calling out their buddies they hang with in the gym and have drinks with after work. Trust me, Chris Murphy is not a good guy. The young women on the Hill are very wary of him. VERY. VERY. VERY
He is couching it in "both sides" rhetoric, that's pulling punches and equivocating between an ancient line wolf shooting and the fucking president elevating insurrectionists.
What? He specifically says, several times in that thread, that it's *not* both sides!
He needs to be made minority leader TODAY!
Murphy is doing a good job on this. Doing more than most other high-profile Democrats. It’s possible that he has already called out Lee and Moreno by name and I haven’t heard it. If he hasn’t, he should. Right away.
Okay then call them out somewhere that matters. Not Twitter or Bluesky.
So no he’s not? Because he sure hasn’t yet.
Yes. There was a time in this Country when Democrats loudly and proudly took a stand hate. And then there our current Senators who don’t want to feel uncomfortable in the Senate Dining room so they speak in generalities.
If someone on the left says something completely innocuous like man Barron is freakishly tall, the wrath from fucking both sides comes down upon them for four or five news cycles. The right says shit like this and it’s crickets
As long as we’re clear that maga = republican. No republican gets to skate clear of this violence. It’s the party and its followers, not some mysterious group from somewhere. It’s always republicans.
God damn right.
Yes do this but also note the sociopathy of the -entire- GOP at this point. What have the rest said? Anything? Thoughts and prayers?
Exactly. Spreading lies isn’t going to help.
Thank you, Kevin. We'll take Murphy seriously when he calls out Lee TO HIS FACE, ON TV, and online. Till then, this is meaningless. Trust me, he won't do the first two. Not a chance in hell.
MAGA calls liberals Communist while their hero is in love with an ex-KGB agent from the USSR. Mm-kay.
Senator Murphy, let’s go, call them out!
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Why are you going so hard on Chris Murphy. He's working his tail off. You can make the same point, but with respect.
Yes. Democrats need to start naming names. Call out MTG by name. Fox News, Sean Hannity, J.D. Vance, influencers. All of them. Everytime these jerks do something awful, they need to be callled out by name right when they do it. I noticed AOC was doing some of that rallies. I hope she keeps it up.
The next time Chris Murphy does a Sunday show, he should call out the Republicans by name. Tell the audience that said Republican needs to explain why they did that shitty thing they did. Put it on the interviewer to ask the said Republican why they did that shitty thing.
Fox News is what has destroyed everyone's brains.
‼️‼️‼️Unlikely. And that’s the whole game right there
MAGA terrorism
Murphy has been on the front lines for a long time.
CALL THEM ALL OUT #TrumpIsATerrorist and the #GOPMob is propping him up
I think they need a taste of what they falsely think the left is doing. It's the only lesson these asshats can learn. They think these birds will never come to roost for them
FYI @chrismurphyct.bsky.social So what are you going to do about your republican colleagues, Lee and Moreno, lying about the man that did this? Is there such a thing as censure in the Senate? If so, these two would be a good place to start with that.
I hate that there’s a whole bunch of people on X that believe all this shit too. Fucking so much evidence and videos of this dude speaking and one fucking look and a few words from him and he’s so obviously evangelical right wing maga nut. Did they not see his preaching videos in drc?SOMUCH EVIDENCE
That's what I want...call them out and demand they reverse course
Oh please give it a break. Chris Murphy has been on the fronts lines from the start.
Is he perfect? Is it not at all possible to encourage him to do more?
What do you want him ti do exactly? Challenge Lee to a duel?
I want the senate to censure Lee and Moreno.
He can call them out by name. Not hard. Yet he’s not doing it.
Nothing says Pro Life like maga killing people As an antiabortion statement.
How do you know he hasn't? It ain't all about you.
Kevin’s asking. Chris can answer. Seems fair enough, yes?
It's a pointed question.
If you think Senators need to post all their interpersonal communications on Bluesky for your self-indulgence, sure.
They did the same thing with the grifting nut job that assassinated President Garfield (one of the most educated men of the time), by labeling him an anarchist. Also a religious grifter.
Def
Murphy spent a year demonizing immigrations. He negotiated the “most conservative immigration bill ever”. Maybe he should look in the mirror on how language has an impact. He is generally right here, but even on this he feels obligated to “both sides the issue”. An excuse for no movement left.
Excellent question. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social given what we’re seeing from your GOP colleagues, what’s your response?
Democracy dies on the altar of senatorial decorum and comity
They will call him an extreme left marxist even after trump pardons him
Luckily it looks like he's going to be charged under state law. Trump cannot pardon someone found guilty of breaking state laws.
Good Senator to ask. Let’s hope he steps up.
The math ain’t mathing here.
*crickets*
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They need a full-court press to call out these fascist Senators
Dems should've started a Democratic network 25 years ago & set their own positions to control the narrative not the weaknesses they've shown for 30 years
I’m not sure that calling out these assholes by name would do any good. However, Murphy giving town halls in red districts is a good alternative. We need to ultimately vote the assholes out. And we need great Dem candidates.
We appreciate everything you've said, but if you don't start calling out these obvious abuses - start naming names - I don't see what good it does to talk about it.
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Yes, I think a reprimand, if not censure, of Senator Mike Lee would be a good, strong move from the Senate, if your colleagues actually believe that violence against politicians is a bad thing. He's a prime instigator in the Senate chamber.
I mean... call for hearings. Start prosecuting people for their role in terrorism, stochastic or otherwise?
We also MUST address the discrimination against anyone who’s not white or male. This is adding more fuel to the already out of control fire. I’m in Boston now. Boston is a rainbow. 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜
I won't post what they did, but Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) are posting is despicable they have embraced inciting of violence
This isn't about politics anymore. It's about immoral vs moral people. We're living among people who get off on being cruel. I have nothing to say to them anymore. MAGAts are in a cult. I'm all for secession at this point, by any means. Tired of trying to reason w/dangerous, delusional bigots.
Thank you Senator. But can you also talk about how the violence against Republicans is also often from the right? The guy who attempted to assassinate Trump was a registered Republican.
To begin we need to have serious conversations to address gun control and mental illness as a nation not just endorse the NRA
Please call out Senators Lee and Moreno. They are spreading disinformation to prevent the right from bearing the responsibility you address so well.
Let us all remember the numerous times Trump and his GOP shouted how open the borders were in the United States along with denying an increase in the budget for Homeland... What an ugly time in history will be told all due to the loud mouth ignorance of one man and the shadow army who backs him.
Good that a Democrat is finally saying this. It all starts and ends with Trump.
More of this, please! @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov THIS is the message that every one of you needs to be hammering. Over and over and over again. I am so sick of hearing about how LA protests are violent or how we need to better understaned MAGA. I understand. Do you?
Remember when he had a protest cleared out with tear gas so he could go hold a Bible upside down for a photo op?
He had ministers tear-gassed off the steps of their own church so he could have that photo op.
Thank you, Chris Murphy
If they can't win at the ballot box they go for the gun. Somebody named Hitler made a career of it.
Please start calling these people out by their names. Mike Lee needs to be censured at the least, though being forced to resign would be justice. These hate mongers need to face real consequences or nothing will change.
You should be the Senate leader, not Schumer. You understand the moment better than anyone else in the Senate.
Yes! And isn't that straight line (which started with the Tea Party) riddled with the same people? I want to see a story on who's behind the masks ... have the Jan. 6 rioters learned how to hide their IDs now they work for ICE? Did T just build his own army? Seems very possible.
If you really mean what you have posted you must demand that Mike Lee be censored for his disgusting posts. The GOP’s direct and indirect endorsement of political violence must stop! Please do something!
*censured
There is only 1 political party in US now - the Dems! The other group is the American Nazi Mafia!!!!
Barely
A democracy cannot function when we REFUSE to hold those in power accountable, at all levels. (see the 4 cops during the rodney king assault. See the captain of the exxon valdez, see the bankersters that collapsed the economy in '08, see the guy who tried to overthrow the government in 2020.)
You can't fight city hall but you sure can figure out how they stole city hall. I'd start with Ivanka's Voting machines trademarks fast-tracked by China in 2018. My guess is the fix was on in 2020 but the Trump's screwed that up (like always) 2024 they over corrected. There's no way he won that big!
It's the only thing that makes sense considering the way Trump acted when he lost... He knew his fix was in against Biden and only could not have lost...
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Just unbelievable. Do they think we forgot that Trump pardoned the violent offenders who attacked police on J6 2021? If this guy is ever caught, we can expect Trump to pardon him too. There is no bottom.
What is wrong with Mike Lee?
The only R senator that spoke out against the treatment of Sen Padilla was Sen Murkowski as far as I've heard.
We really need to get her to switch teams.
🤔 She might be threatened less.
Apparently Senator collins isn't concerned
She's certain those DHS staff have learned their lesson.
Why not? She's "concerned" about everything else.
Call out your lying colleagues by name, sen Lee & sen Moreno for starters, stop “reaching across the aisle” to these ppl who support this domestic terrorism with every move they make. MargeGreen posted a pic w her ar after these murders
I think this can even be traced back further to Sarah Palin. She talked about being "locked and loaded" and putting target sites on democrats' pictures. Instead of condemning these actions after Gabby's shooting. The media helped to normalize these violent messages against the democrats.
And members of Congress CURRENTLY have pix hanging outside their offices of judges w targets on their faces. They are guilty of inciting violence
WHAT
Make sure you take some pictures of what’s happening in LA to compare with what happened in Minnesota and around the country a few years ago when they were using the policy of “appeasement” against the “mostly peaceful protest” who actually continued to burn down cities and even police stations
Watch the movie The Order on Amazon. It's an older story but explains a lot of Christian Nationalism. The Turner Diaries, political assassination.
Ok now let's count. 2 awful actions by people on the left. Too many to count for the crimes committed by the right. Wanna talk about this anymore?
He only listed one action from the left.
There are 2: Scalise and Trump
Trump's attenpted assassin was right wing.
what are the two? and did Democrats pretend they didn't happen? Or revel in it?
Scalise and Trump=2. If you Google each of these and depending on what news outlet you listen to or read you will get the truth or not.
Ryan Routh, the guy who stalked Trump in Fl is not registered to a political party. www.factcheck.org/2024/09/what... The kid in PA was not a Democrat. No Democratic lawmaker celebrated any of these incidents, incl Scalise shooting. www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...
Stop being proactively defensive. They don’t give a fuck about your balanced approach. Honestly neither should we. You’re just both sidesing shit that has no business being bothsidesed. These two things are not the same and you know it. Just be tough and stand up for what’s right
I think they believe in "revolutionary action" the problem those people are usually the red brown alliance morons. 🤷♂️ I'd call them accelerationist they don't really have a consistent code besides everything needs to change.
Trump’s “assassination” attempt was fake af! Blood all over his face, a reported 2 cm hole in ear, an anti-security protocol photo op, Trump photographed multiple times the same week ear unmarred. Comsider those things- there is only one explanation
Falling for the propaganda is partially responsible for how we arrived at this moment…. Taking the high road does not equate with denying the truth. As long as the majority of us refuse to acknowledge how intentional and orchestrated this entire ordeal is, democracy doesn’t stand a chance
The violence trained on trump came from Republicans. Both “shooters” during the campaign were members of his own party.
So one violent act that wasn't committed by Republicans from like a decade ago is all you can come up with?
This is pathetic dude
So long as most Democratic law makers support the genocide of the Palestinians, they won't stop the political violence at home
Ohhhh. I see the fake assassination attempts. Yeah that was two republicans targeting a Republican candidate who wasn’t being MAGA enough for them.
This is no time for both-sidesisms, Chris. The violence at the recent protests has been exclusively provoked by, and almost entirely perpetrated, by brutal police attacks against unarmed demonstrators. There is one bad side in this scenario, not two.
is it both-siding or heading off 'what about-ism'? I don't know but it's a thought I had
This is NOT A BOTH SIDES ISSUE FFS!! There is literally NO COMPARISON on the Democratic side that equates to our tax dollars paying for Congressional DOMESTIC TERRORIST, WHITE SUPREMIST, MURDER ADVOCATES PROMOTERS AND GUN HUMPING FREAKS. Call these people out by name and stop playing nice!!!
oh no "cavalier"
Why do Dems feel the need to equivocate when Rs don’t? This is why you have NO power and are wasting your time
Yes! I'm a fire and brimstone progressive! But I want acccountability to come only and after fair trials. Why my friends further to the left think the French revolution was an awesome time to be alive, in France, is beyond me...
While only love can conquer hate peace cannot conquer violence. Only justifiable violent resistance protects you from violence thrust upon you. If one side is allowed permitted and unchecked violence - the other side will lose.
That baseball shooting helicopter flew right over my head, just above the treeline. The trauma that comes with violence is not limited to eyewitnesses.
Please stop both sidesing this. The difference is that elected democrats and left elites universally condemn political violence whereas republican electedes\elites either ignore right wing violence or in a lot of cases cheer it on/enable via pardons or fund raising or even lie and call it left wing
yes, all true what Republican senators like Mike Lee and Bernie Moreno are posting amounts to inciting more violence what Lee and Moreno are saying makes us all less safe
What Mike Lee specifically did was extremely disrespectful to the victims. Since he's obviously aware the shooter was no "Marxist" it comes across as not only callous and indifferent but also threatening.
Trump faked his assassination attempt. And sacrificed the lives of 2 of his supporters to sell the lie. It was staged. Full. Stop.
You did it. You both sides a good thread. You did not make it clear Trump shooting were not politically motivated, and now this one part can be pulled out (assuming you unnecessarily posted this on Twitter as well). The baseball shooting was enough. If you had to mention Trump, clarify assailant,
Ideologically motivated is another way to put it.
**Taking out his own fools for a FAKE assassination attempt ** -that says it all‼️
like sexual assaults: do women sexually assault men? yes, but Incredibly rarely. So rarely, its barely a blip
When maga is out of power, they use violence against the government. When they are in power, they use violence against the people. The common denominator of maga is violence. The maga cult embraces violence and lies. #impeachtrump
True.
Not to mention the attack on the Pelosi family, the shooting at the Capital Gazette at the HEIGHT of his calling everything “fake news” phase, the recent threats against judges…There is unfortunately no shortage of examples.
They have no intention or desire to put anything back in the bottle -the #GOPMob is lobbing Molotov cocktails
Why do you think he pardoned the violent cop killing Jan 6 insurrectionists. He knows he can groom them for the next step. There will be many many more episodes of this. And no consequences.
Violence begets violence..
Exactly. All of us - but especially people of great influence - are responsible not only for what we *say*, but for what others will predicatably *hear*. Hints at violence - wink wink - will energize angry, unhinged people. With easy access to guns here in the USA.
MAGA pols and mouthpieces have spread serious lies about democrats/liberals that have taken root in the fanatical: from adrenochrome to 'mutilating kids', election fraud to activist judges, new world order to jewish space lasers. They believe these thing so deeply they think murder is justifiable.
"I want to do it and who's going to stop me!" This seems to be part of the thrust? If so, his base must enjoy it? They're not, for example, recalling him from office, correct? I mean, if any group could push through legislation making state Recall a national instrument, as well, his base could.
MAGA politicians openly joked about Paul Pelosi being attacked with a hammer
Please, for the love of God, make some noise about this. And I don’t mean consulting the parliamentarian on the senate floor. Stop posting. Make some noise. Engage in a little political theater. But if this is as serious as you say it is—and it is—then get creative and get in some good trouble.
Why are you still taking campaign money from Paul Weiss law firm when they capitulated to Donald Trump?
What about the threatened coup - take over LA/CA & displace our Governor & the LA Mayor?
Don’t say them and it seems don’t do them is also apropos
Trump also makes a hammering motion when referring to Paul Pelosi and paid Ashley Babbit’s family $5,000,000.
And this www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
Yet the press continues to both sides the fascism. trump leads the press around by the nose he says something without evidence and the press reports what he says.
He has always sent clear signals www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-lau...
He’s the poster child for stochastic terrorism.
You are right. They don't say anything.
are you fucking kidding? maga fetishized guns? Republicans weren’t doing that before maga even existed? Get your fucking head out of your ass
There is becoming a point where you are losing more support with anti firearm rhetoric than gaining supporters. You and the party are stepping on their dick in golf shoes. Stop making everything about gun control and get off your asses and fight against this admin.
just like MAGA trucks, for MAGA guns are powerful and they serve as a replacement, or a compensation for their own loss of power, both at home and at work. MAGA is about fragile males seeking violence to feel strong but it just makes them all the more sad and pathetic
We need to talk about how gross it is that so many Republicans think it's appropriate to send Xmas cards with their families all showing off their guns
No f’ing kidding
Finally someone saying this!!!!!
#RepublicanHate #RepublicansDidThis
Are we to believe per Mike Johnson that Chuck saying 'we are going to go after xyz MAGA rep' isn't a death threat? The man who wanted our Governor tarred/feathered?
