Summary
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell claims Republicans fear criticizing Donald Trump due to threats against them and their families.
He says Trump’s social media attacks provoke harassment, forcing lawmakers to consider costly security measures. This fear, he argues, is eroding GOP support for Ukraine and discouraging opposition to Trump’s policies.
Other figures, including Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney, have echoed these concerns. Elon Musk has also pressured Republicans by funding primary challenges.
Some GOP lawmakers reportedly faced FBI warnings of credible death threats for opposing Trump-backed nominees.
Pussies
This is called ‘stochastic terrorism’. Publicly painting people in the most outrageous light until some of your acolytes feel called upon to realize the supposedly non-commital threats you made.
Fuck Trump. Fight the fascists.
This is called ‘
stochasticterrorism’.It’s carefully timed and targeted, thus no longer “stochastic”
… until some of your
acolytesderanged nut cases feel called upon … - FTFY
Fascists are cowards. We know this.
🇺🇸Nuke the GOP🇺🇲
Republicans: We’re in charge!
Trump and ELon’s SS:
All thanks to the greatest, brightest, most powerful, best at everything nation in the world🤪
I say they fear the media more. In deep red states the primary is the real election. Fox News plays kingmaker
It’s easy. You call him a fat little bitch who sucks at everything and who only won because Republicans are all idiots.
And that’s playing it neutral. If you like, you can start leaning into it a little.
Wait until the threats against them for criticizing Trump and those for not protecting their subsidies and pork barrels cross the equilibrum and start to shift the balance.
Guess we’ll just just have to threaten them even more physically to get the results we want then
Trump, quick, suck Elon’s toes if this is not true.
Some GOP lawmakers reportedly faced FBI warnings of credible death threats for opposing Trump-backed nominees.
I’m not saying it’s not entirely true because we’ve been hearing about this for years. But given who is in charge of the FBI now, I wonder how many of these “credible threats” are actually credible vs. how many of them are actually just made up by Patel to make sure they stay in line.
That said, it’s one thing for a civilian to not want to put themselves in a position where they could be harmed. They didn’t sign up for that. Civilians are largely in no position to do anything about it. But Senators and Representatives? This is literally what they fucking signed up for. This is what we grossly overpay them for. This is why we spend so much for their security. We elected these people and empowered them to do what we can’t.
Maybe if we start seeing a couple of these town halls full of angry people exercising their 2nd Amendment rights live and in real time, they might get the message.
I wonder how many of these “credible threats” are actually credible vs. how many of them are actually just made up by Patel to make sure they stay in line.
Well, he only just took office this week, and this crop of death threats have been reported for a month or so now. But I absolutely believe that Patel is going to try to return the FBI to its J. Edgar Hoover days of gathering komprimat on every single person in the country. We’re gonna need another MEDBURG soon.
I’m not saying it’s not entirely true because we’ve been hearing about this for years. But given who is in charge of the FBI now, I wonder how many of these “credible threats” are actually credible vs. how many of them are actually just made up by Patel to make sure they stay in line.
If the people saying there are death threats against you are the same ones who are supposed to investigate them: There are death threats against you. It just might be a fed holding the gun.
So then you’re saying they need more threats from constituents for supporting Trump?
Counterpoint, send credible death threats when they DON’T oppose Trump’s policies.
I mean that’s what they asked for. They’ve seen how Putin operates and Trump has shown great admiration for his methods. So they should assume he would use those kinds of threats and alleged follow-through.
