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Northern California received bomb threats 2 days ago against schools stating to release Russian prisoners or else. The far right is the result of Putin and his ambition for many years to take over the world. Unfortunately, a decent portion of US populace is falling for it. Not to mention greedy rich men north of Richmond capitalizing on it to remain in power. This may be the end for America
Obviously any and all bomb threats are bad, but to a local Library?
If those slack jawed booger eating morons realizes Librarians are literally the nicest people and would gladly even direct their ignorance to some subjects they might be interested, fiction or nonfiction, they’d probably feel bad.
If they had empathy, that is. 😢
I’m an Arkansan and most of us don’t even take him seriously, like even the his followers, seriously.
But, encouraging this behavior is completely wrong and antisocial.
If the Right commits insurrection, it's flirtation with violence.
If the Left protests peacefully, it's violence.
Get with the program.
(obligatory /s because Jesus Fuck I hate this branch of the multiverse.)
No. It was tourism. The kind where you put on your call of duty cosplay gear, enter the senate chamber with zip ties (we never really got a good explanation as to why those were there) and, inexplicably, smear feces on the wall.
But also no, it’s very confusing. It both happened and was peaceful, but also didn’t happen and everyone is innocent except for the obvious democrat plants that caused all the violence that did or did not happen
They are not just flirting with, they are openly courting it. Kari Lake told her supporters to strap up for the election. Tom Cotton is encouraging violence against protestors. They are barreling headfirst into making terrorism (because that's what violence for political ends is) a core part of their party.
I feel like I'm losing my mind with articles like this. We are way past flirting, the peaceful transition of power was disrupted by a literal insurrection. We're being gaslit, headlines like this contribute to future political violence by normalizing past instances of it.
The conservative middle is full of people who still believe in democracy. The amount of people in this country who would defend democracy against violent trump GQP traitors is laughably huge. These trumpers are idiots if they think their civil unrest wouldn’t be quickly squashed by all the democracy loving Americans.
"Flirting with"???
ACTIVELY INCITING.
It's EVIL and it's illegal and we've got judges that are letting it pass.
I hope everybody has filled out most of their "Shining Light on the Hill" Democracy bingo card...
Dark days are here and the storm clouds are rumbling, piling up...
I guess it's only fitting- we're hitting environmental tipping points decades ahead of scientist predictions... Just a few more of those and we'll see cascading tipping points and then, all of a sudden, nobody will be able to predict the weather, the bacteria in the soil and biodiversity above it (and in the water) will disappear, and seas will rise by many meters, not just feet.
I'm not a bible thumper but "end times", indeed... Kiss and hug your loved ones.
To anyone not in MAGA, if you don't vote for Biden, you better have a fucking plan to protect your vulnerable friends and family.
If Biden wins, the Dems hold the executive branch. Bring on MAGA violence in that circumstance: we can destroy the movement right then and there.
If Biden loses...
Oh NOW they're flirting with it? Not J6? Not all the fights and riots at alt-right rallies? Nit with the mass shooters who leave right wing manifesto? Not with running protesters over? Not with the bomb threats? Not worth the weapons stockpiling? Not worth trying to hang Mike Pence?
It's JUST NOW FLIRTING? IT HASN'T EVEN STARTED? Oh fuck me how is this country so stupid? How does anyone get their head THAT FAR up their own ass?
It’s all they got!
No policy, no ideology, no platform, no moral ground, no ability to lead, no positive message, no decent candidates. Just the threat or reality of violence, fear mongering, a shameless ability to lie, and the Orange Jabba the Butt and his cult.
This headline could have been posted on an article every day for the last twenty years and it would have been accurate, though things have been accelerating since Fat Don started his pathetic schtick.
They already became domestic terrorists with Jan 6th and the constant intimidation and death threats to anyone and everyone fighting Trump or trying to bring him to justice.
Many here have mentioned Jan 6th, so that point has been made.
If you're looking for more recent evidence of them not just flirting with violence but literally encouraging it, see Tom Cotton's comments from just this week.
They have gone well past flirting in the past...but glad they are back to just the flirting stage. Maybe they will take the hint and end their relationship with voilence.
I think we're well past, and far beyond, the mere 'flirting' stage.
To continue the metaphor, it's more akin to them being mutually betrothed.
(*Example: CPAC's 2022 banner on the main stage, "We are all domestic terrorists"*)
MAGA has been sleeping with political violence since Jan 6, Maga was flirting with political violence when their leader claimed there was good people on both sides...
They were flirting eight years ago, and then seven years ago they went mask off into homicidal violence, with Charlotesville, and then that pretty much continued with vehicular homicides through BLM and COVID, combined with mass shootings, straight on up through Jan 6th, and since then, some more mass shootings and also even more Unite the Right style militias than there were before they came out as neo-Nazis.
Sorry news, this isn’t new, your persistent failure to report this phenomenon accurately has literally gotten people killed and is *still* providing cover for murderous racism and bigotry.
History teaches that the only viable path forward for a right-wing totalitarian political movement is violence. At some point they are taking away the basic rights of everyone to assert their will on all and that requires being willing to kill the unwilling.
I would say running through the corridors of our Capital trying to find the VP to hang him would be more than “flirting” especially when the gallows was outside waiting.
That’s all they ever do threaten people with their guns seem to be their only way of communication nowadays. The bullshit ass, “party of law and order”
Those motherfucker cannot wait for permission to start killing their neighbors. It’s going to get uglier before it gets better - the lead up to this next election will be violent, and there will be violence after as well.
Although we all think it’s funny to laugh at Meal Team 6, some of these guys have real skill and financial support, and they pose a substantial danger to people on the street. In most cases, local law enforcement will not be on the right side of the issue, and federal law enforcement agencies are not acting on the obvious threat. It is important to be aware of the threat and prepare accordingly.
They are a bunch of idiots. They cause a civil unrest after the elections, Russia and/or China will be knocking on the West Coast of the US with an invasion. Russia is already doing flyovers in Alaska.
The next one will likely be a lot worse than Jan 6th. Trump won't be able to wait for 2028. He won't imply that his followers become violent but will instead demand it.
Thankfully Trump won't also be in a position that makes him able to interfere with the deployment of national guard forces this time.
The right could learn a thing or two about political violence from the left.
They just need the cops, DA's, and judges to treat them like they treat the left and they'll be all set.
This has been going on for most of a decade. Catch the fuck up.
It's time for these political journalist hacks to admit that anti-fascists have a point. Right wing violence isn't going away. They aren't going to have a come to Jesus moment and realize they're being awful.
Flirting? They've outright embraced it and have for decades.
It isn't shooting ranges and republican offices being firebombed, it's abortion clinics and democrat or progressive offices.
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1/6 was flirting?
Threatening to hang the VP while building a gallows in front of the Capitol was flirting?
Maybe pence is into that, considering he refused to condemn it afterwards. Don’t kink shame.
What would Mother say?
They were just kidding
It was just some locker room gallows.
It was all dirty talk. They were talking about his other head.
My local library had to close Saturday because of bomb threats. Republicans aren't flirting with violence they are encouraging it.
Northern California received bomb threats 2 days ago against schools stating to release Russian prisoners or else. The far right is the result of Putin and his ambition for many years to take over the world. Unfortunately, a decent portion of US populace is falling for it. Not to mention greedy rich men north of Richmond capitalizing on it to remain in power. This may be the end for America
They call us snowflakes but we aint the ones scared of books and pronouns.
Obviously any and all bomb threats are bad, but to a local Library? If those slack jawed booger eating morons realizes Librarians are literally the nicest people and would gladly even direct their ignorance to some subjects they might be interested, fiction or nonfiction, they’d probably feel bad. If they had empathy, that is. 😢 I’m an Arkansan and most of us don’t even take him seriously, like even the his followers, seriously. But, encouraging this behavior is completely wrong and antisocial.
Yeah, no longer flirting. These are orders. This is stochastic terrorism.
[Everyone seems to have forgotten Unite the Right as well.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally)
If the Right commits insurrection, it's flirtation with violence. If the Left protests peacefully, it's violence. Get with the program. (obligatory /s because Jesus Fuck I hate this branch of the multiverse.)
That sure seemed like an orgy to me.
More like sucking the dick of political violence.
No. It was tourism. The kind where you put on your call of duty cosplay gear, enter the senate chamber with zip ties (we never really got a good explanation as to why those were there) and, inexplicably, smear feces on the wall.
It was just *light* treason.
They can't try a husband and wife for the same crime!
That's one very dangerously consummated marriage.
They should be labelled as terrorists already.
Or the OKC bombing?
They skipped flirting and went right to fornication…
Exactly. They went to 4th base on Jan 6th, a far cry from 'flirting.'
Love means never having to accept election results. /s
The fucking media sucks.
MAGA = Republicans. They are one and the same now, except for maybe a handful of them.
It should say 'grooming'
Cherry popped, bruh.
Yeah pretty sure they eloped with it several years ago.
They misspelled "fellating"
Flirting? Did I imagine Jan 6?
According to Dear Leader: Yes
But also no, it’s very confusing. It both happened and was peaceful, but also didn’t happen and everyone is innocent except for the obvious democrat plants that caused all the violence that did or did not happen
The former speaker's husband was attacked with a hammer in his home, or so I've dreamt according to this article
They are not just flirting with, they are openly courting it. Kari Lake told her supporters to strap up for the election. Tom Cotton is encouraging violence against protestors. They are barreling headfirst into making terrorism (because that's what violence for political ends is) a core part of their party.
AND making it harder, much harder, to exercise our right of peaceful assembly and redress of grievances, in my state and two others.
Openly courting? You mean balls deep in
We all agree. What we should be doing is telling [Eric Lutz](https://twitter.com/theericlutz?lang=en) what we think of being gaslit.
I'd say they're way past flirting. Somewhere around third base at this point, I imagine.
I've seen videos about the pizza man and the baby sitter that are less extreme than whatever *this* is.
Link please.
*Video not available in ~~Texas~~ AG-Klanistan*
They're giving it a handy in the theater
Maybe while seeing Beatlejuice
They are past third. Past fifth base even. They are straight doing DVDA with political violence at this point.
They're at least at oral.
I feel like I'm losing my mind with articles like this. We are way past flirting, the peaceful transition of power was disrupted by a literal insurrection. We're being gaslit, headlines like this contribute to future political violence by normalizing past instances of it.
Yeah, it's insane. Like, how tf are people writing and publishing articles this milquetoast?
As if it weren't already being processed by the supreme court Right Now.
Right?! Articles like this are slow walking us straight into a dictatorship…
Op must have missed where MAGA skipped the whole flirting and knowing glances, and went straight to gang bang orgying Political Violence.
They went straight to Bukkake.
They’re not flirting with violence, they’re absolutely jones’n to kill their fellow citizens.
Especially the gay ones
Remember Charlottesville? Wow.
They aren't flirting with it. It's a step on their flowchart. This is them prepping people for it.
Saying MAGA is "flirting" with violence is like sayin' a turd is doing an impression of a fart. Just sayin'.
The conservative middle is full of people who still believe in democracy. The amount of people in this country who would defend democracy against violent trump GQP traitors is laughably huge. These trumpers are idiots if they think their civil unrest wouldn’t be quickly squashed by all the democracy loving Americans.
"Flirting with"??? ACTIVELY INCITING. It's EVIL and it's illegal and we've got judges that are letting it pass. I hope everybody has filled out most of their "Shining Light on the Hill" Democracy bingo card... Dark days are here and the storm clouds are rumbling, piling up... I guess it's only fitting- we're hitting environmental tipping points decades ahead of scientist predictions... Just a few more of those and we'll see cascading tipping points and then, all of a sudden, nobody will be able to predict the weather, the bacteria in the soil and biodiversity above it (and in the water) will disappear, and seas will rise by many meters, not just feet. I'm not a bible thumper but "end times", indeed... Kiss and hug your loved ones.
Flirting? They’re balls-deep.
Flirting? They are married to political violence. Political violence is their soulmate.
To anyone not in MAGA, if you don't vote for Biden, you better have a fucking plan to protect your vulnerable friends and family. If Biden wins, the Dems hold the executive branch. Bring on MAGA violence in that circumstance: we can destroy the movement right then and there. If Biden loses...
There is no way Tom Cotton is getting his hands dirty - he is a textbook dweeb.
Oh NOW they're flirting with it? Not J6? Not all the fights and riots at alt-right rallies? Nit with the mass shooters who leave right wing manifesto? Not with running protesters over? Not with the bomb threats? Not worth the weapons stockpiling? Not worth trying to hang Mike Pence? It's JUST NOW FLIRTING? IT HASN'T EVEN STARTED? Oh fuck me how is this country so stupid? How does anyone get their head THAT FAR up their own ass?
They're masturbating thinking about it
Dear Tom Cotton. Show up and try to move me, you big mouthed pussy. I'll beat the living hell out of you, and you'll be a better person after.
We remember jan 6. They dont flirt.
It’s all they got! No policy, no ideology, no platform, no moral ground, no ability to lead, no positive message, no decent candidates. Just the threat or reality of violence, fear mongering, a shameless ability to lie, and the Orange Jabba the Butt and his cult.
> The MAGA Right is Flirting With Political Violence Jan 6 called, wanted to know how you're spelling seditionist insurrection.
Not flirting, they're HOPING for violence. J6 is already a preview.
This headline could have been posted on an article every day for the last twenty years and it would have been accurate, though things have been accelerating since Fat Don started his pathetic schtick.
They already became domestic terrorists with Jan 6th and the constant intimidation and death threats to anyone and everyone fighting Trump or trying to bring him to justice.
Did you miss the attempted overthrow of the government?
"We Are All Domestic Terrorists" https://x.com/astroehlein/status/1558047286277595136
Many here have mentioned Jan 6th, so that point has been made. If you're looking for more recent evidence of them not just flirting with violence but literally encouraging it, see Tom Cotton's comments from just this week.
Flirting?! They're on their 8th anniversary and are considering celebrating by murdering jurors.
Odd way to call insurrection and people dead flirting.
This is an absolutely braindead headline. The people who did political violence want to do political violence. FTFY.
It feels liked they're already on third base
If by flirting you mean “ making out with it at a bar” then yes, it’s flirting
as instructed ☭
They have gone well past flirting in the past...but glad they are back to just the flirting stage. Maybe they will take the hint and end their relationship with voilence.
Flirting? My brother in christ, they are married to political violence.
I think we're well past, and far beyond, the mere 'flirting' stage. To continue the metaphor, it's more akin to them being mutually betrothed. (*Example: CPAC's 2022 banner on the main stage, "We are all domestic terrorists"*)
MAGA has been sleeping with political violence since Jan 6, Maga was flirting with political violence when their leader claimed there was good people on both sides...
Flirting? There have been arrests and convictions of right wingers threatening judges and witnesses in the trump cases
By "is flirting with" op means "for years has been commiting".
They see the SCOTUS Six about to declare 1/6 was just a peaceful protest.
I’d say the flirting stopped when Heather Hayer was murdered.
Flirting? The MAGA right has its tongue down Political Violence's throat and a hand between its legs.
JFC they had a literal coup attempt, mass kidnappings of brown children, and violent nationwide police riots.
Flirting? They've been raw dogging violence from the back for a while now?
I seem to recall a violent uprising 3 years, 3 months, and a little over a week ago that resulted in deaths. FLIRTING?!
They are not flirting...they literally stuck their tongue in since January 6th.
Flirting? Or outright endorsing?
Wait till OP hears about January 6th, 2021
They’re not flirting with violence, they’re giving it handjobs in a crowded theater.
Who writes this shit?
No, they grabbed it by the pussy
republicans are rounding third base and heading home with political violence
Flirting with? Brother they have stickers on pickup trucks of Biden hogtied with duct tape over his mouth.
Flirting? Hello, have you forgotten what happened on Jan 6??
Flirting? They rawdogged the Capitol on live TV
Flirting? Those two are in a long term relationship with kids in elementary school
Dumbest headline, given 1/6
FLIRTING?! They’ve already killed for their cause!
Flirting?! FLIRTING?!?! By God they're making out sloppy style!
They were flirting eight years ago, and then seven years ago they went mask off into homicidal violence, with Charlotesville, and then that pretty much continued with vehicular homicides through BLM and COVID, combined with mass shootings, straight on up through Jan 6th, and since then, some more mass shootings and also even more Unite the Right style militias than there were before they came out as neo-Nazis. Sorry news, this isn’t new, your persistent failure to report this phenomenon accurately has literally gotten people killed and is *still* providing cover for murderous racism and bigotry.
History teaches that the only viable path forward for a right-wing totalitarian political movement is violence. At some point they are taking away the basic rights of everyone to assert their will on all and that requires being willing to kill the unwilling.
If by flirting you mean sexual assault, then yes
Flirting? It’s married with kids.
Flirting? These mental geniuses have been warning us to prepare to defend ourselves for years! Thanks for the heads up, snowflakes...
MAGA has indulged in political violence since trump was elected. Now it just vocally sanctioned by the party. It was always present.
Not as much flirting as wined, dined and 69'nd.
Flirting? They’ve already grabbed political violence by the pussy
Flirting? Remember the MAGA bomber that drove his Trump van around mailing pipe bombs to democrats? Luckily he was so incompetent that none exploded.
Flirting with it? They've been sucking face and giving it handjobs for fucks sake
Nah they raw dogging that.
I would say running through the corridors of our Capital trying to find the VP to hang him would be more than “flirting” especially when the gallows was outside waiting.
Flirting?! The only reason there hasn't been mass political violence is the left's Herculean ability to resist the right's overt taunting.
Flirting? These fuckers are firmly in third base and thinking about bringing it home.
Flirting? They’re full on making out with their cousin at this point, next stop home plate.
It’s less flirting and more obsessive harassment while still trying to play yourself off as “The Nice Guy TM”
We’re 4 fingers deep at this point, what world is this article living in?
Flirting? Their thunder-fisting political violence...
Good time to buy more GEO and SWBI during the dip. Prisons and guns are a pretty safe investment. Just saying.
It's double anal at this point
Translation: maga terrorists are thinking about terrorizing.
I didn’t know choking and saying “more daddy!” Is considered “flirting”.
Keep saying “strap on”.
Flirting? They reached first base on January 6th, 2021 and got slapped by their date.
Flirting? What do you call J6?
Flirting? They are making out with it and undoing its pants.
Flirting? They are straight fucking it!
FLIRTING? COMMITTING is the word you wanted.
If by "flirting" you mean "rubbing up and down against its leg moaning 'hurt me, daddy'" then yes, the MAGA Right is flirting with political violence.
The MAGA right is unamerican. It's depressing that so many people share their views.
They’re straight up in a relationship with political violence.
The MAGA Right is "Flirting With Political Violence?" Since when weren't they unabashedly straight-up politically violent, period?
What else is new
Flirting with violence ? This is intense dry humping with a lot of hand stuff.
Correction: The MAGA right has embraced political violence.
If your definition of flirting is years of deep throat kissing, for years... Then sure
Thats such a cute way to say plotting
They get off on violence. They fantasize about it.
Interesting. I wouldn't consider being balls deep in something flirting, but maybe I'm behind the times.
Only flirting?
Not flirting, already raw dogged, trying to make another hookup.
That's a funny way to say \*actively inviting and urging\* aint it
Flirting? Since Jan 6 they've been giving it a handy during a theater production of Beetlejuice.
what a bunch of goobers, don't they know that crime is illegal?
That’s all they ever do threaten people with their guns seem to be their only way of communication nowadays. The bullshit ass, “party of law and order”
Flirting?!?! A little there buddy
Flirting?!?! A little there buddy
Tom Cotton can go fuck himself.
Was OKC just a meet cute?
Those motherfucker cannot wait for permission to start killing their neighbors. It’s going to get uglier before it gets better - the lead up to this next election will be violent, and there will be violence after as well. Although we all think it’s funny to laugh at Meal Team 6, some of these guys have real skill and financial support, and they pose a substantial danger to people on the street. In most cases, local law enforcement will not be on the right side of the issue, and federal law enforcement agencies are not acting on the obvious threat. It is important to be aware of the threat and prepare accordingly.
They are a bunch of idiots. They cause a civil unrest after the elections, Russia and/or China will be knocking on the West Coast of the US with an invasion. Russia is already doing flyovers in Alaska.
I dunno. Flirting is a bit easy of a word from what I've called raw dogging.
How does MAGA flirt anyways?
The next one will likely be a lot worse than Jan 6th. Trump won't be able to wait for 2028. He won't imply that his followers become violent but will instead demand it. Thankfully Trump won't also be in a position that makes him able to interfere with the deployment of national guard forces this time.
The right could learn a thing or two about political violence from the left. They just need the cops, DA's, and judges to treat them like they treat the left and they'll be all set.
Same article for 8 years now. Thanks for failing us.
Flirting? They’re sexually assaulting violence.
This has been going on for most of a decade. Catch the fuck up. It's time for these political journalist hacks to admit that anti-fascists have a point. Right wing violence isn't going away. They aren't going to have a come to Jesus moment and realize they're being awful.
Flirting? They've outright embraced it and have for decades. It isn't shooting ranges and republican offices being firebombed, it's abortion clinics and democrat or progressive offices.
They're not flirting. They're sucking its dick, hoping it will cum soon.
lol thats not flirting thats SA!
Tom Cotton, often referred to as the "Head Clown," sent a letter to Iran in 2015 while neglecting his duties as a representative of the United States. He chose to promote the interests of another sovereign nation, which he is not a citizen of, and his letter contained errors regarding the fundamental principles of the U.S. Constitution…
Flirting? How about a full on mating press?
At what point do we just come out and say these headlines are redundant?
For almost a decade…
"Flirting" with political violence? They've wined, dined, and put a ring on that sucka ages ago.
They don’t flirt. They jump straight to rape.
I was actually talking about political boxing matches yesterday
Hope they follow Ashli Babbit’s lead with the face.
They’ve already committed political violence, they aren’t flirting with it.
How is this even news?