The rise of menace as a mainstream political tool

[essentialsaltes]

Has a suspect been charged?

AFAIK, no suspect has been identified. But if they're in an oubliette, we wouldn't know.

 

[timothyu]

Truth seems irrelevant when it comes to publicity

 

[DaisyDay]

Truth seems irrelevant when it comes to publicity

To whom does it seem irrelevant?

 

[timothyu]

To whom does it seem irrelevant?

The publicist

 

[Oompa Loompa]

Well. James Comey, former FBI director sends a message to "86" the "47".

 

[Oompa Loompa]

Who is shooter Elias Rodriguez? Super-woke Chicago socialist unmasked

The suspected pro-Palestinian gunman who shot dead a Jewish diplomatic couple in Washington DC has been unmasked as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, a former BLM protestor and activist.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I didn't know if we were still adding to the list of politically motivated violence. But I figured this fits well here.

 

[wing2000]

The Trump administration continues its attack on the judiciary. Following the US Trade Court's decision declaring Trump's tarrifs illegal....

Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, called the decision a “judicial coup” on social media.

“We are living under a judicial tyranny,” Mr. Miller added on Thursday, reposting photos of the three trade court judges. Two of the judges were Republican appointees, one named to the bench by Mr. Trump.

..

Mr. Trump began the week with an all-caps Memorial Day message on social media in which he castigated efforts to block his administration from quickly carrying out deportations and rebuked “USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK.”

After the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration wrongly used a 1977 law to impose tariffs, a White House spokesman decried “unelected judges.”

“Three judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade disagreed and brazenly abused their judicial power,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters Thursday. She said they had moved to “usurp the authority of President Trump to stop him from carrying out the mandate that the American people gave him.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/...s-attacks-tariffs.html?searchResultPosition=3

 

[wing2000]

....threats against federal judges have risen drastically since President Trump took office, according to internal data compiled by the U.S. Marshals Service and obtained by The New York Times.

In a five-month period leading up to March 1 of this year, 80 individual judges had received threats, the data shows. Then, over the next six weeks, 162 judges received threats.

That spike in threats coincided with a flood of harsh rhetoric, including from Mr. Trump and his officials, criticizing judges who have ruled against the administration and even calling for their impeachment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/...s-attacks-tariffs.html?searchResultPosition=3

 

[wing2000]

"USA HATING JUDGES"....

 

[essentialsaltes]

Top Jan. 6 prosecutor says Trump's Capitol riot pardons signal approval of political violence​

Greg Rosen, who headed the Justice Department's Capitol Siege Section, said the notion that Jan. 6 defendants were "railroaded or mistreated is belied by the actual facts."

Judges appointed by presidents of both parties adjudicated the cases, and Rosen said the historical record created by the prosecutions "is what will speak volumes, not conjecture and not speculation.”

 

[timothyu]

Top Jan. 6 prosecutor says Trump's Capitol riot pardons signal approval of political violence​

Greg Rosen, who headed the Justice Department's Capitol Siege Section, said the notion that Jan. 6 defendants were "railroaded or mistreated is belied by the actual facts."

Judges appointed by presidents of both parties adjudicated the cases, and Rosen said the historical record created by the prosecutions "is what will speak volumes, not conjecture and not speculation.”

I thought Seattle did that

 

[essentialsaltes]

North Dakota man accused of threatening to kill Obama, breaking into historic trading post site​

The court papers say Stewart [who was armed] entered Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site on May 13 when it wasn’t open to the public, caused a building to evacuate and threatened a Park Service employee and Williams County law enforcement.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Who cares about arrests and trials? Let's start beating people up!

 

[Paulos23]

Who cares about arrests and trials? Let's start beating people up!

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That will calm things down. /s

 

[essentialsaltes]

Trump warns 'any' protesters at military parade will be 'met with heavy force'​

"People that want to protest will be met with big force," he said, noting that he hadn't heard of any plans to protest at the military parade in Washington yet. "But this is people that hate our country. They will be met with heavy force."

Last month, Army spokesman Steve Warren told reporters that the service welcomes peaceful protests, noting its motto is "this we'll defend," a reference to the service's commitment to upholding democratic values.

The U.S. Secret Service and Washington officials said Monday they were tracking nine small protests but that they didn't expect any violence.

 

[BCP1928]

Trump warns 'any' protesters at military parade will be 'met with heavy force'​

"People that want to protest will be met with big force," he said, noting that he hadn't heard of any plans to protest at the military parade in Washington yet. "But this is people that hate our country. They will be met with heavy force."

Hate our country=disagree with the Trump agenda. That slander is the basis of the whole problem.

 

[timothyu]

The fringe in the 60's used to put flowers in the gun barrels. The fringe today seems to run on an entirely contrary concept

 

[Bradskii]

"People that want to protest will be met with big force,"

Says it all. And if that's a not a call for a protest then I don't know what it. It would be nice to see this:

 

[essentialsaltes]

Critics argue that Ivey’s declarations amount to threats that undermine civil liberties.

Legal analysts have pointed out that excessive force is outlawed and that law enforcement must abide by strict rules concerning use of deadly force.

Ivey’s department has faced past scrutiny.

State records indicate multiple investigations into Brevard deputies for use of force dating back to 2016.

 

[essentialsaltes]

A man believed to be part of a peacekeeping team for the “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake City shot at a person who was brandishing a rifle at demonstrators, injuring the rifleman and killing a bystander among the crowd, authorities said Sunday.

Also an incident of a woman seriously injured in Riverside California when a car rammed into protestors and drove off. In AZ, someone pulled out a handgun at the statehouse, scattering protestors.