Menace, as a Political Tool, Enters the Republican Mainstream

[Nevilledog]

Last edited Sat Nov 13, 2021, 11:49 AM - Edit history (1)

Link to tweet

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/us/politics/republican-violent-rhetoric.html

No paywall
https://archive.ph/QDzTX

At a conservative rally in western Idaho last month, a young man stepped up to a microphone to ask when he could start killing Democrats.

“When do we get to use the guns?” he said as the audience applauded. “How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?” The local state representative, a Republican, later called it a “fair” question.

In Ohio, the leading candidate in the Republican primary for Senate blasted out a video urging Republicans to resist the “tyranny” of a federal government that pushed them to wear masks and take F.D.A.-authorized vaccines.

“When the Gestapo show up at your front door,” the candidate, Josh Mandel, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, said in the video in September, “you know what to do.”

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[liberalla]

1. The link for no paywall is not working...

[Nevilledog]

6. Let's try this one

https://archive.ph/QDzTX

[liberalla]

7. Beautiful! That is great. Thank you!

[Lovie777]

2. Possible another coup brewing . . .

GQP planning with shithole and their comrades.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Violence with political intent is terrorism...

Of course, one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

We're lost in a rhetorical morass that will spiral into violence withour some kind of intervention.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. The video that depicted harm and violence did not depict harm and violence

... if elected high-office RepubliQons are to be believed.

https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-gosar-addresses-violent-anime-video-depicting-aocs-death-2021-11

Gosar stated:

"was not meant to depict any harm or violence against anyone portrayed in the anime."

anime scene depicting a character with { Gosar's } face edited onto it using two swords to slash the back of the neck of a large character featuring Ocasio-Cortez's face. The "Attack on Titan" parody also featured the Gosar character approaching a figure featuring President Joe Biden's face with his blades drawn.

[madaboutharry]

4. There are many descriptive words to describe Josh Mandel.

Shanda seems to fit the best.

Shanda: “a disgrace, a shame, a terrible embarrassment, a scandal.”

[dalton99a]

8. Josh Mandel would have volunteered to shove his grandparents into the gas chamber

[madaboutharry]

9. I wouldn't doubt it.

He would have been a Kapo.

[maxsolomon]

10. But, it's in the NYT.

IT MUST BE EXCUSING WHITE SUPREMACY!