• Conyak@lemmy.tf
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    It’s laughable that he came out today condemning these threats after supporting an insurrection that got multiple people killed.

    It’s absolutely insane that he is even allowed to still be in office let alone run for speaker of the house.

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      His condemnation is as vague as can be. It doesnt at all reference that its inner party threats, doesnt say anything about why they are happening or who they are happening to:

      No American should accost another for their beliefs. We condemn all threats against our colleagues and it is imperative that we come together. Stop. It’s abhorrent.”

      The man ginned up his violent supporters to specifically threaten his GOP coworkers to get in line or else, and he wont even tell them directly to stop.

      Just a nothing statement that makes sure it doesnt say fucking anything while it gestures vaguely at the topic.

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    Gym Jordan is an insurrectionist and a traitor to the Republic. He should be treated as such.

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    I mean, maybe you shouldn’t have let the rhetoric of your party devolve to this point? Maybe you all shouldn’t have normalized abuse and violence against elected officials?

    Republicans really have no one to blame for this than themselves.

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    They let the lunatics take hold of their party during MAGAism and now they face real consequences. No sympathy. We have to stamp out domestic terrorists and would-be terrorists. These shitheads need to be charged for threatening to kill people.

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      This was coming way before Trump entered the picture. Rush Limbaugh in the 90’s, Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly during the Bush years (and everything involving Dock Cheney), and the Tea Party movement all were pushing to get us here.

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        It was wild to me that none of the conservatives I know connected the dots. If the person is railing against the anti fascists… what the fuck are they?

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          well obviously anti-fa are deep state operatives controlled by HH (Hillary and Hunter),so therefore they are the actual fascists and they also faked a trump rally on Jan 6 and tried to overturn the election in favor of trump.

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        Maybe not always (This “always” depends very much on your age). Basically, Republican move downhill from a normal party to a fascist MAGA-head group started with Nixon, and got accellerated with Reagan. But most people nowadays don’t even remember the times when the GOP had been a normal party capable of doing politics with Democrats and the people, and not just against them.

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          I’ll do you one better. Joe McCarthy was the one who started American conservatism down the road of extremism and paranoid conspiracy theories instead of policy.

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    I’d love to think maybe being on the receiving end of the GQP/MAGA cult will wake them up but it’s hard to imagine them growing a spine even for this

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      That’s the Faustian bargain they made with Fox News: get a diehard base of crazies whipped into a frothy rage. The GOP is now held to the most radical purity standards partially because that outrage is exactly what draws in viewers.

      Couldn’t have happened to a scummier bag of assholes.

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    First thing, who the hell has the phone numbers of the wives and families of the holdouts? To me, targeting that precise indicates that the person behind the threats is a political insider at the very least, if not tied directly to Jim Jordan. I don’t know why the reps receiving these threats aren’t demanding an investigation about who’s behind them. I damn well know I’d be looking for the head of anyone who threatened my kids on a pike, and to me these reps not willing to do the same for their own families is an act of cowardice.

    But with that aside, this is all a very entertaining episode of “Leopards ate my face!”. Tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode where Marjorie Taylor Greene refocuses her space lazer on Ohio, Matt Gaetz sees a picture of the middle school student who was threatened and gets excited, and Lauren Boebert whips out something completely unexpected.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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      Any licensed attorney can look this stuff up.

      These people are Nazis. They want fascism and they will kill to get it. They will certainly run some people searches from some two-bit lawyer’s office.

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        I very seriously doubt a licensed attorney is behind making multiple death threats to multiple representatives and their families. They’d be facing disbarment, hefty fines, and a significant amount of jail time. I mean it’s certainly possible, just like anything else. But the chances would be highly unlikely. Plus, remember that we’re talking about multiple targets. I very seriously doubt that a random lawyer would have the contact information of multiple government officials just laying around somewhere, and I have trouble believing even the most accomplished laywer would be able to put this together and coordinate everything in under a day. Given the time period we’re talking about and who was targetted, I’m much more inclined to believe that whoever started this already had that information ready to go, and who is most likely to have the contact information of multiple GOP representatives and their families on speed dial? One of their colleagues. And given the support was 100% in favor of Jordan, it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out which one of those colleagues it is.

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      I don’t know why the reps receiving these threats aren’t demanding an investigation about who’s behind them.

      Are they not?

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        The figures themselves? Yes. Their wives and families though? I would think that would be a bit harder.

        That, and this all happened over the course of, what, a day? An awful lot of people were specifically targetted and threatened in a very short period of time. We’re talking hours here. Maybe a single day. I have a lot of trouble believing attacks that were this numerous and this targeted over such a short period of time was the work of internet randos.

        If we were talking about a period of several weeks or even days, sure. But when that many people receive that many death threats over such a short period of time, that’s not (to me) the work of random people. It’s a coordinated attack from someone who had the information of multiple families already on hand.

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          You’re naive or uninformed then.

          In two minutes from my phone I found his phone number and personal email, two personal phone numbers for his wife, one is a landline, her personal email address along with the names and contact information for their kids. Their current and prior addresses. All of their ages, birthdays, aliases and neighbors. If someone was persistent and felt like spending an hour to put together profiles for them I have no doubt they could plant a very clear picture of everything they would want for whatever they are after. I was going to post links and screenshots but I don’t think that would be appropriate and as much as I don’t like him I don’t agree with the actions. You can accomplish a lot with OSINT profiling, be it people, organizations, whatever really. Nobody that has any idea what they are doing isn’t going to do recon ahead of time. Obviously using more secure methods than a simple fingerprinted google search but I was just doing it to verify I could and without any malicious intent I would need to cover my tracks for.

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          No, it really is way easier than you think. A day is more than enough time, especially if it’s done by a group of people connected on Discord or something, which it almost certainly was.

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    The House will hold another vote for Speaker at 10 a.m. ET tomorrow, Punchbowl News reports.

    it will be the third time that Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) candidacy is considered.

    The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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    What is it about Republicans that make them rally so fiercely around the shittiest candidates known to mankind? It’s one thing to give lukewarm support for a shitty candidate because the alternative is even worse, but they go frothing at the mouth crazy over the absolute worst representatives of humanity.