It is literally impossible for treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans to try and claim they love the United States of America while at the same time predicting and in many cases advocating for civil war and violence if they lose elections. While also advocating for secession from the United States of America just like they did when they started the first Civil War. Even when that was made illegal right after the Civil War ended. Proving they hate our Constitution, the United States of America, the rule of law, and democracy itself.




GOP candidates increasingly ramping up threats of riots and civil war as election looms: report

Tom Boggioni
July 24, 2022



Missouri's Eric Gretiens -- (Image via 'RINO hunting' ad on YouTube)


According to a report from the Washington Post's Dave Weigel, extremist GOP candidates campaigning to be on the November 2020 midterm election ballot are larding their stump speeches with warnings that riots and civil war are imminent if Democratic officeholders are not defeated.

Noting the growth are far-right rabble-rousers who have been emboldened to run for public office because of the success of Donald Trump who went from real estate developer to president of the United States, the report documents an alarming rise in violent rhetoric coming from the political neophytes.

According to the report, fringe GOP candidates are going far beyond complaining about their Democratic opponent's policy disagreements and saying Democrats believe conservative voters are the "enemy."

"The rhetoric is bracing, if not entirely new. Liberal commentators made liberal use of the word 'fascism' to describe Trump’s presidency. The baseless theory that President Barack Obama was undermining American power as a foreign agent was popular with some Republicans, including Trump, who succeeded Obama in the White House," Weigel wrote before adding, "Many Democrats saw the backlash to Obama as specific to his race, and saw Biden as unlikely to inspire mass opposition to Trump in the presidential election. But many Republicans also portray Biden as a malevolent figure — a vessel for a hateful leftist campaign to weaken America."

Writing, "...candidates described a country that was not merely in trouble, but being destroyed by leaders who despise most Americans — effectively part of a civil war. In both swing states and safe seats, many Republicans say that liberals hate them personally and may turn rioters or a police state on people who disobey them," Weigel continued, "[The] argument has been dramatized in ads that, for instance, show one armed candidate appearing to charge into the home of a political enemy, and another warning of 'the mob' that threatens ordinary Americans. In many cases the candidates are brandishing firearms while threatening harm to liberals or other enemies,"

"The arrests of hundreds of rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has frequently been cited by Republican candidates as proof of a government war on its people," the report adds.

You can read more here.

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-2657719190/

 

The old west is returning. Law at the end of a gun is what they want! Their way or no way!

 

That is incorrect.

 

Yet again, point made.

 

Neo-Nazi Marine planned killing spree of nonwhite people — and mass rapes to 'increase the production of white children': Feds

Matthew Chapman
July 26, 2022



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On Tuesday, Rolling Stone reported that Matthew Belanger, a former Marine with neo-Nazi ideology, plotted with a group known as "Rapekrieg" to engineer a killing spree of nonwhite people — as well as mass rapes of white women to increase white fertility.

"In a July 14 court memo, federal prosecutors say that, while a Marine, Belanger plotted far more serious crimes as part of the neo-Nazi group," reported Adam Rawnsley and Seamus Hughes. "The memo says Belanger trained with airsoft guns in the woods of Long Island as part of plot to attack the 'Zionist Order of Governments.' The memo also says Belanger was the subject of an FBI Joint Terrorism Taskforce investigation into allegedly plotting to 'engage in widespread homicide and sexual assault.' Much of Belanger’s ideology and plotting, the memo says, is based around a desire to lessen the number of non-white Americans and to rape 'white women to increase the production of white children.'"

Belanger served in the Marines for two years between 2019 and 2021, and was removed with an Other Than Honorable discharge — a punishment reserved for serious misconduct — after Marine Corps officials and the FBI searched his barracks and discovered his electronic devices contained thousands of "images, videos, and documents" of white power ideology and "violent uncensored executions and/or rape."

IN OTHER NEWS: Lauren Boebert's ex-campaign manager breaks down crying because 'elections matter'

"In a criminal complaint against Belanger filed June 8, prosecutors allege he violated federal firearms policy twice by purchasing guns via a strawman," said the report. "In one case, prosecutors claim an unnamed New York police officer purchased a PTR91 assault rifle for Belanger while he was stationed in Hawaii. Belanger allegedly had the same officer purchase a Luger, a handgun 'which was used by the Nazi armed forces during World War II,' for almost $1,000, FBI agents noted in an affidavit."

The Pentagon has been fighting in recent years to root out extremist ideologies within the military.

In another recent incident, a neo-Nazi terror cell within the Marines known as BSN was plotting to attack the power grid and carry out a series of assassinations to achieve their goal of creating a white ethnostate.

https://www.rawstory.com/matthew-belanger/

 

Attacking Jews.
Right up some liberals alley.

 

Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood posts videos of himself shooting his former allies

Sky Palma
July 28, 2022



Lin Wood speaking at a press conference in 2011. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


Defamation lawyer-turned pro-Trump conspiracy theorist and QAnon adherent, Lin Wood, has burned a lot of bridges with some of his former allies since he rose to the top of the movement denying the results of the 2020 election.

According to The Daily Beast, he's now taking his alienation from the pro-Trump far-right a step further by posting videos of himself fatally shooting his rivals -- including MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

As The Daily Beast points out, the doctored videos were taken from Clint Eastwood movies and created by “Buck Nasty,” an anonymous Telegram user whose activity mirrors Wood's agenda.

IN OTHER NEWS: Fox & Friends rushes to soothe Trump's ego after they report most GOP voters want someone else in 2024

"In the first clip, taken from Eastwood’s A Fistful of Dollars, Wood’s face is superimposed on the action star as he faces down an Old West rogue’s gallery that includes Lindell, Flynn, Senators Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, and members of the election-fraud movement that Wood feels have wronged him in some way. In the clip, Wood’s character shoots them all dead," The Beast reports. "In the other two videos, taken from films starring Eastwood as the vigilante hero Dirty Harry, Wood-as-Eastwood holds a gun on a criminal edited to look like Flynn. In one, Wood’s character threatens Flynn that he’ll 'blow your head clean off.'"

Most of Wood's bitterness is directed towards Flynn, a feud that seemingly began when he shared an audio clip of Flynn trashing the QAnon conspiracy theory as "nonsense."

https://www.rawstory.com/lin-wood-2657760329/

 

GOP Rep Plants ‘Seeds of Violence’ as Gun Victims Tell Their Stories

Michael Daly
Wed, July 27, 2022 at 11:53 PM·10 min read






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The self-styled Cajun John Wayne was at it again on Wednesday, only now he was not a cop who resigned from a Louisiana police department while facing disciplinary charges for lying about roughing somebody up.

And Clay Higgins’ tough talk was no longer aimed at fugitive felons, as when he made viral crimestopper videos at the second of two Louisiana police departments that subsequently hired him.

Higgins had parlayed the attention he got from the videos into getting elected the U.S. representative for Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District. He spoke as a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee during Wednesday’s hearing on assault weapons. He contended that the Democrats are seeking to circumvent the Second Amendment with an assault weapons ban, and he envisioned aloud shootouts between gun owners and federal agents.


In the view of his former boss in the Opelousas Police Department, retired Chief Perry Gallow, what might have been just theatrical bluster in Higgins’ former life as a ravin’ Cajun cop constituted dangerous talk by a political leader in a perilous time. And Higgins was doing it in a hearing that included two witnesses who had survived a mass shooting and three others who lost a loved one.

“In my opinion, the congressman should choose his words wisely, because his words matter, and there are people who are on the edge and could retaliate based on his words and the words of anyone who could suggest that,” Gallow said.

The Democratic leadership made its own use of video at the start of the hearing with an intense three minutes of brief statements by people who were directly affected by mass shootings committed with assault weapons. It began with the massacre of 20 children and four adults in Newtown, Connecticut.

In Newtown, 20 Little Angels and Six Uncommonly Brave Adults

“Hi, my name is Nicole, and nearly 10 years ago, I survived the Sandy Hook shooting in my elementary school, when I was just 7 years old,” said the first witness to appear on the screen. “Still to this day, I struggle through the horrible aftermath.”

Nicole Melchionna was followed by David Sallak, who survived the shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, that left seven dead. Two-year-old Aiden McCarthy was instantly orphaned. Eight-year-old Cooper Roberts was paralyzed.

“Our family was at the parade when I saw the shooter emerge above the second floor roof line and point his long gun at my family and those around us and rapidly fired,” Sallak said. “I threw my wife and son behind a metal park bench to save our lives. After the shooting stopped, I saw the father of Cooper Roberts standing screaming for help, while my wife saw their son Cooper convulsing on the ground, shot through the abdomen and spine.”

She Went Out for Pancakes—and Rescued Blood-Smeared Toddler at Highland Park Parade

Then came another Highland Park survivor, Ashbey Beasley.

“As we ran, clutching hands, not knowing if someone was going to shoot us and if we were gonna live or die, my son lost a huge part of his innocence,” she said. “He is not the same person. He’s broken and every day my husband and I are heartbroken as we try to help him get back to the carefree, sweet little boy he was before this happened.”

Next came a teen whose sister was one of the the 19 children murdered in Texas in May.

“Hi, I’m Jasmine Cazares. I’m 17, and I lost my little sister, Jackie, at the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde. “

She held up a photo of Jacklyn Cazares in a white dress, photoshopped with angel wings.

“This picture was taken on her first communion on May 10,” Jasmine Cazares said. “Sixteen days later, she was shot and killed [by] a Daniel Defense AR-15.”

Next was a Uvalde mother.

“My name is Ana Rodriguez. I lost my daughter, Maite Rodriguez, on May 24, 2022, at the Robb school shooting. Maite was a sweet 10-year-old girl who dreamed of attending Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi to pursue a career in marine biology. Maite was robbed of her future due to gun violence.”


There was also the father of 14-year-old Jaime Guttenberg, who died in the mass shooting at Parkland High School in Florida.

“My name is Fred Guttenberg. I am the father of Jesse and Jaime Guttenberg. On Feb. 14, 2018, I sent my two children to school to learn safely. Towards the end of that day, a gunman showed up at my daughter’s school, killing 17. My daughter was one of the 17 killed.”

There was also Tracey Maciulewicz, whose fiancé, Andre Mackniel, was one of the 10 fatally shot at Tops supermarket in Buffalo.

“My fiancé was shot and killed on May 14t by a white supremacist man when he went into Tops to buy our son a birthday cake. The shooter killed my fiancé with a Bushmaster X 15 rifle.”

Maciulewicz had her 3-year-old son in her lap as she posed a video question to the two gun company CEOs who had agreed to testify remotely.

“What are you going to do…” she began to ask, fighting tears.

Her son snuggled her and said, “It’s OK.”

“.... to make sure that your products don’t get into the hands of a white supremacist mass shooter ever again who will take a child’s father away?”

The answer from the CEOs, Marty Daniel of Daniel Defense and Christopher Killoy of Sturm, Ruger & Company, was essentially that they would do nothing at all besides market and sell ever more assault weapons. Daniel seemed at ease with himself even though he had just heard a mother say that her daughter had been killed by a rifle he manufactured and which bears his name.

The committee members asked questions and offered opinions that were consistent with their already stated views on assault weapons. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) owns a gun store called Clyde Armory in Athens, and he harmonized with the CEOs.

But that was not enough for Higgins of Louisiana. The Cajun John Wayne predicted widespread bloodshed between gun owners and law enforcement if those in favor of legislation banning the sale of assault weapons manage to get it through the House. That is not a sure thing, and there seems little chance of it getting through the Senate. But the mere prospect of it becoming law set Higgins ragin’.

“What my colleagues are doing, it’s really, unbelievably beyond the pale of, of anything reasonable or constitutional. Everything we’re leading towards here is a seizure of weapons from the homes of law abiding American citizens that have purchased those weapons legally. You’re setting up gunfights in the homes of Americans.”He went on:

“When do you think ATF and FBI comes to our house? In the dead of night. You’re setting up gunfights between American citizens defending their homes from dark shadows, clearly armed, coming into our home, onto our porch, and through our door. You’re setting up death.

He invoked an immediate future of “Americans killing Americans over some fantasy that you can define what is a dangerous weapon in the hands of those Americans, living beyond their true right to exercise their own decisions about what type of firearm they legally purchase and own. It’s insane. What you’re pushing, it’s not going to end well. You can push this bill through by party-line vote, but Americans are not going to sit and allow it without responding.”



He snapped his fingers as he continued.

“People make decisions like that. Again, in the dead of night.”

He was speaking as if he were the voice of experience.

“You’re setting up some extreme stuff and you’re 100 percent responsible for it. My colleagues in the Democratic Party, when those gunfights happen, that blood will be on your hands.”

He called the proposed ban a “political charade of pretending to be able to identify weapons that you from your ivory tower in D.C. you know better. ‘I can define the weapons that Americans shouldn’t have the right to own.’ It's already, we can’t buy a tank or have a caliber above 50. We carry light arms and we own them. We own them legally. We intend to keep them.”

He said the committee was headed for “a rabbit hole there is no escaping from.”

“Ultimately it ends with an American citizen standing to defend this freedom… Will it be argued in court or will it be settled on the front porch of Americans when the FBI and the ATF shows up to seize legally owned weapons from a law abiding American citizen?”

For part of his time with the Opelousas police, Higgins was on the SWAT team and served search warrants. His career there ended after a drug raid where he allegedly grabbed a bystander by the hair, then hit him. He did not help himself with what was viewed as an attempted cover-up

“Clay Higgins used unnecessary force on a subject during the execution of a warrant and later gave false statements during an internal investigation. Although he later recanted his story and admitted to striking a suspect in handcuffs and later releasing him,” the Department’s Discipline Review Board found.

Higgins did not respond to a Daily Beast request for comment. But in the version he later offered the local press, he was pushed out of the department after was overheard calling Chief Gallow a “peacock.”

“There’s a little more to it than that,” Gallow told The Daily Beast on Wednesday afternoon.

When informed of Higgins’ dramatic talk of widespread bloodshed over an assault weapons ban, Gallow initially suggested that Higgins was simply being dramatic for effect.

“As he often is,” Gallow said. “I know there’s theater in politics right now, and he does it well.”

But shortly after speaking to The Daily Beast, Gallow called back. He had read online an account of Higgins being challenged outside the hearing room by Beasley, the Highland Park survivor.

As reported by CNN, Beasley told Higgins that he was wrong to think the Democrats on the committee were just out to grab guns from law-abiding Americans.

“If you don’t think these guys in this body... if you don’t think they’ll come door to door to seize your weapons, you’re wrong,” Higgins told her.

“Have you ever run from a mass shooter because you were being shot at?” Beasley asked.

According to the report, Higgins told her that he had been a SWAT officer for 12 years, which Gallow suggests is an exaggeration.

“So don’t you know what it feels like?” Beasley asked.

Higgins did not respond, perhaps because he does not in fact know what it feels like. Gallow said that to his knowledge, Higgins was never in a shooting. Gallow is concerned that Higgins’ language might lead to one.

“I think it’s irresponsible,” Gallow said. “And it’s discouraging when our leaders plant seeds of violence.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-rep-plants-seeds-violence-055327784.html

 

First of all we have already seen this. Traitor Trump started recruiting his domestic terrorists the day he came down the escalator. Traitor Trump brought them into the fold at Charlottesville calling them fine people. Traitor Trump told his domestic terrorists to stand back and stand by during the presidential debate. And then Traitor Trump called his domestic terrorists to DC to stage an armed insurrection and attempted coup to try to hang onto power on January 6th. Traitor Trump knew they were armed, some of them with guns. He demanded the armed domestic terrorists be allowed to enter his rally, even some with guns, because they were not there to hurt him. They were there to hurt members of Congress and VP Pence to make Traitor Trump dictator for life.

So of course Traitor Trump is still trying to hold his domestic terrorists together and recruit more so he can sic them on the nation if he gets indicted or even just doesn't get his way.



'Nothing is off limits': Trump has convinced his followers that they're in a 'fight to the death'

Tom Boggioni
August 01, 2022



Donald Trump supporters (Photo by Olivier Touron for AFP)

In a column for The Atlantic, a former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan and both Presidents Bush made the case that Donald Trump has convinced his most ardent followers that the country will collapse into chaos and "savagery" if he is not reinstated into his rightful place as president of the United States.

As Peter Wehner, a frequent critic of the former president sees it, Trump has led his fans to believe that "nothing is off limits" when it comes to the "America First" ideology that led to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Using Trump's speech before the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) last week as a jumping-off point, Wehner wrote that the former president's "disordered personality" was on display, writing, "What he cares about is the performative part of politics, inflaming people’s passions, creating chaos and conflict."

According to the columnist, Trump is a master at ramping up "fear, hate and grievances" which he has put to good use last week and at his recent rallies.

IN OTHER NEWS: Capitol rioter will 'almost certainly get the longest Jan. 6 sentence to date' after son delivered devastating testimony

"Trump used his speech to portray his opponents as not just misguided but wicked and therefore suitable objects of hate," he wrote and cited the foirmer president telling the AFPI crowd, "“Despite great outside dangers, our biggest threat in this country remains the sick, sinister, and evil people from within," and then warning, "“But no matter how big or powerful the corrupt radicals that we’re fighting against may be, no matter how menacing they appear, we must never forget this nation does not belong to them. This nation belongs to you, the American people."

Adding that what Trump has done "in the eyes of his supporters is to set up a clash of epic, almost biblical proportions," the columnist added that to them it is a battle between "the children of light versus the children of darkness, patriots versus traitors, the decent versus the depraved. In an existential conflict such as this, everything is permissible; nothing is off limits."

Suggesting, "This is a fight to the death," the conservative author said of the 2024 presidential election, ,"Whether Trump wins or not, he has left an imprint on the Republican Party. In 2016, Trump was the outlier, a political freak. Today his inclinations, his enmities, his style of politics define the GOP."

"Whoever leads the Republican Party in the years ahead, the fear, grievances, and hate Trump poured into the cauldron won’t dissipate anytime soon. If and when the GOP finally does break away from the dark, fanatical, cultlike qualities that now characterize it, it will do so because the people who compose and define it seek—even if imperfectly—what is true and good and honorable," he wrote before concluding, "For the Republican Party, the only way out is the way up."



https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-fanaticism/

 

Parents of Sandy Hook Victim, 6, Isolating With Security Detail After ‘Encounters’ During Alex Jones Trial

The parents of a 6-year-old child murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School are isolating with an around-the-clock security team after a series of “encounters” during their defamation trial against conspiracy-theory broadcaster Alex Jones have left them “terrified,” their attorney said Monday. Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis are “under the protection of security professionals,” their lawyer Mark Bankston said, due to “encounters this week outside the courthouse.” Bankston declined to elaborate on the number or nature of incidents, other than to say there had been several in Austin involving both Heslin and Lewis. Grim testimony during the trial Monday from a pair of therapists said that both parents have suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety as a result of threats relating to conspiracy theories about the death of their first-grader child, Jesse. The court heard that Lewis doesn’t use her air conditioner in the summer because she wants to be able to hear if someone is coming to hurt her, while Heslin’s house and car have been shot at and he’s found bullets in his driveway.



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Psychiatrist says Lewis doesn't even run the air conditioner in the summer heat because she wants to be able to hear if someone is coming to try to hurt her. JFC








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Heslin's house and car were shot at. He found bullets in his driveway. He's withdrawn from friendships and socializing because people ask him about Jones's lies, which makes him feel guilty for failing to protect his child.
10:08 AM · Aug 1, 2022

Read it at CT Post

https://www.thedailybeast.com/squar...make-you-a-more-skilled-chess-player?ref=home

 

Michigan GOP cancels election night party after man threatens to torch headquarters

Matthew Chapman
August 02, 2022



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On Tuesday, David Eggert of Crain's Business News reported that the Republican Party of Michigan was forced to cancel an Election Night party following violent threats against their office.

"The Michigan GOP has abruptly canceled its primary election night watch party at a restaurant/pub in downtown Lansing due to a security concern," Eggert wrote on Twitter. "Deputy chief of staff Gustavo Portela says the party has received multiple threats about attacks to its building/staff."

"Portela says the latest threat came this morning, when a bystander near the party HQ in Lansing threatened to shoot the building and also told a female staffer that he wanted to enslave women and burn the building down," Eggert continued.

According to Fox 17 News, the Michigan GOP has filed a report with police about the incident, and will add "enhanced security" to a reception dinner tomorrow.

“This week, the Michigan GOP experienced several death threats which escalated earlier today when our building received several threats from a bystander who not only verbally assaulted a longtime female staffer but also indicated he was planning on shooting up the building and burning it down," said Portela in a statement. "It’s unfortunate that members of the opposite party would seize on this and joke about the situation, but this is the type of politics they play now a days. Our party won’t be deterred, and we will continue to work tirelessly for Republican policies despite on-going threats. No type of violence against women should ever be tolerated.”

This comes as right-wing activists around the country have threatened elected officials, including Republicans themselves, often motivated by conspiracy theories about the 2020 election having been stolen.

ALSO IN THE NEWS: Marine Corps veteran founder of neo-Nazi terror cell in talks with government about plea deal

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-county-parties-in-michigan/

 

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Justice Department details threats against election workers


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Kenneth Polite, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department Criminal Division, left, and Kim Wyman, senior election security advisor with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee as it hears from state election officials and Justice Department officials about the rise in threats toward elected leaders and candidates, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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The U.S. Justice Department has charged five people for making threats of violence against election workers amid a rising wave of harassment and intimidation tied to the 2020 presidential election, a top official told U.S. senators Wednesday.

Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite said one charge has led to a conviction so far through a task force launched last year as reports of threats to election officials, workers and volunteers raised concerns about safety and the security of future elections.

Overall, the department has investigated more than 1,000 harassing and threatening messages directed at election workers. Roughly 100 of those have risen to the level of potential prosecution. Polite estimated at least three more people have been charged for such threats at the state level.

Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee that those numbers likely do not account for countless more incidents nationwide, including election workers accosted on the street, that are not referred to federal prosecutors.


“We have thousands and thousands of election workers all throughout our country, and yes there has been a rise in all kinds of threats,” Hirono said. “So the thousand referrals sounds like a very small number.”

Polite said the department has tried to encourage election staff to come forward with any kind of harassing or offensive communication. As an example of one case, he detailed the charge against a Texas man who threatened to kill government officials in Georgia after the 2020 election.

“He said he was threatening to end the lives of these traitors and take back our country by force, threatened to exterminate these people, and he threatened to put a bullet behind their ears," Polite said.

Polite said prosecutors have had to balance safeguarding free speech rights with the onslaught of troubling phone calls, emails and social media posts targeting election workers. The intimidation efforts have especially targeted election officials in the battleground states where Donald Trump contested his loss to President Joe Biden.

Michigan's secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson, recalled for committee when dozens of protesters were outside her own home in December 2020, shouting “obscenities and graphic threats.”

“As a result, there is an omnipresent feeling of anxiety and dread that permeates our daily lives and those of our families,” said Benson, a Democrat.

She said too many election officials feel unsafe and fear for the safety of their colleagues and the security of future elections. State lawmakers have failed to set aside enough money for election security, she said.

“We are threatened with arrest for simply doing our jobs, for educating citizens about the right to vote. Or we are inundated with burdensome and often nonsensical, unnecessary demands for information and access to secure election equipment,” Benson said.

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican who has had talks with Democrats about potential voting legislation, asked Polite if he supports increased penalties for people found guilty of threats against election workers. Tillis noted that he has received two voicemails in recent days from a man who threatened to kill him.

“Any leverage that we can gain in terms of increasing the potential deterrence value of charges of enforcement actions here is absolutely critical,” Polite said.

A bipartisan bill in the Senate would double the federal penalties to up to two years in prison for those who threaten election workers, poll watchers, voters or candidates.

“Legal action is the last line of defense," said New Mexico's secretary of state, Democrat Maggie Toulouse Oliver, who spoke about receiving death threats during the 2020 election that forced her leave her home. "We will not stop such threats until the lies stop, the rhetoric gets racheted down and elected officials, the media, political parties and others find better ways to come together and educate the public about the realities of how elections are conducted.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/justice-department-details-threats-against-194905566.html

 

Old news.
Slow day?

 

Anything and everything to minimize...

 

Biden stands with Muslims after 'horrific killings' in New Mexico
Sun, August 7, 2022 at 12:07 PM



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden expressed solidarity with the Muslim community on Sunday after a fourth Muslim man was killed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in what authorities are describing as targeted attacks.

Biden, in a Twitter post after news of the fourth death, said he was angered and saddened by the killings.

"While we await a full investigation, my prayers are with the victims’ families, and my administration stands strongly with the Muslim community," Biden said in a Twitter post. "These hateful attacks have no place in America."

Police in New Mexico and federal agencies were probing the killings, the latest of which occurred on Friday evening.

The other three Muslim men killed in the state's largest city in the past nine months appeared to have been targeted for their religion and race, police have said.

Two of those murdered men were members of the same mosque, who were shot dead in Albuquerque in late July and early August. Police said there was a "strong possibility" their deaths were connected to the November killing of an Afghan immigrant.

New Mexico State Police, the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service are among the agencies helping in the investigation.

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a Twitter post late on Saturday, "The targeted killings of Muslim residents of Albuquerque is deeply angering and wholly intolerable."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-stands-muslims-horrific-killings-180729214.html

 

The biggest liars in the world are They Say or Sources Say -- or in this case, According to a report...

Dave Weigel is an American journalist who, since 2015, has worked for The Washington Post, while he is also a contributing editor for Reason magazine. Prior to that, he was a political reporter for Slate and Bloomberg Politics. Like most propagandists, this man is not a neutral observer.

 

The desperation is so obvious and so palpable with despicables.

We really need to figure out a safe space or they'll be pooping on our lawns come election day.

 

Enraged Trump supporters gather into convoy outside Mar-a-Lago after FBI search

Matthew Chapman
August 08, 2022



Photo by Charles Postiaux on Unsplash

On Monday evening, following reports that the FBI executed a search warrant at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club complex in Palm Beach, Florida, a small crowd of Trump supporters converged near the site in trucks bedecked with flags, in a fury over the federal law enforcement action.

The scene was first reported by Cristian Benavides, a local reporter with NBC 6 News in Miami.

In one of the videos of the scene, Trump supporters could be heard shouting out of their vehicles. "God Bless Trump!" one woman could be heard shouting. At another moment, a passerby shouted, "F*ck Trump!" at the convoy, to which another woman in the group shouted, "F*ck you!"

Still other supporters could be seen gathering on the side of the road, waving Trump flags.

RELATED: If Trump is convicted of destruction of documents he is barred from the presidency: legal experts

According to previous reports, the raid at Mar-a-Lago was executed as part of the federal investigation into classified documents that were apparently stolen from their proper locations as Trump and his associates left the White House. Some former officials, like Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, recount that the former president paid no attention to regulations surrounding classified information, and would often shred or pocket documents on a whim.

Trump has baselessly claimed that the warrant was part of a political persecution scheme against him, and even compared it to the 1972 break-in to the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.

Watch the video below or at this link.



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This is the scene near Mar-A-Lago where some Trump supporters have gathered @nbc6 @NBCNewsNow


















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The scene outside Mar-A-Lago where a search warrant was conducted earlier today Trump supporters have gathered in front of Mar-A-Lago as well @nbc6 @NBCNewsNow










7:09 PM · Aug 8, 2022

https://www.rawstory.com/mar-a-lago-convoy/

 

Desperation.
We really, really need to think about a safe space.