• Wrench
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    The call is coming from inside the House

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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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      also as an apologist for groomers. I mean, it’s almost like the republican mantra is “Protect the kids so we can rape them!”

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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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      “When I voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party, I didn’t think they would eat MY face!”

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        We have the Herman Cain Award, now I think we should create the Mike Pence Award.

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      They courted the crazy vote, only now there are true believers actually elected, and turns out that just screaming into the void and blaming everyone else doesn’t actually make you a good politician

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      Be me

      GOP

      Unleased chaos and craziness to gain power

      Got engulfed in the chaos and craziness

      No way to put this insane genie back in bottle

      MFW

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      Now THAT’s a dangerous precedent to set. We shouldn’t persecute people for voting for a terrible party. That’s literally fascism. Instead, persecute them for their criminal activity. That should be easy enough.

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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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    Is it okay to call them fascists now? Just wondering.

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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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      Whitepages.com. Seriously, that’s all you need. They automatically have your address, name, phone number, spouse/relatives, etc. You have to specifically ask them to delist you by contacting their support and verifying identity.

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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 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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      It could be an insider, but it’s also not hard to find that sort of information about a public figure.

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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.