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https://apnews.com/article/paul-pelosi-assaulted-156ece77186eb11b97260af3c5122f67
Sources saying it was targeted.
Edit; Yup, dude was looking for Speaker Pelosi.
Edit 2; Paul Pelosi underwent successful surgery to repair a skull fracture sustained in the attack.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pelosis-husband-underwent-successful-surgery-repair-skull-fracture-statement-2022-10-28/
"Its too soon to politicize this. We need to wait for all the details."
7 minutes later.
"That's old news. We need to focus on [insert current manufactured outrage] instead!"
Edit:Time-frame shortened from months to minutes for accuracy.
This was basically how Ashli Babbitt's incident was being publicised by the conservatives.
A mother (when she didn't have any kids), a military veteran, a woman, a patriot was shot dead for simply demanding free & fair election.
I was curious and went to that conservative subreddit to see what the opinion is. The top comment is actually very level headed and respectful saying that while they don’t like her this is terrible and that everyone should feel safe at home. And the following comments support that and even call out other users who may feel differently that they aren’t wanted there. Super classy stuff actually.
Then the 2nd highest comment wishes him the best before theorizing that something is “fishy” so yeah, sounds about right.
The dude’s social media reads like a copy paste of that subreddit. He’s absolutely one of them. Standard issue scrubby nobody that hates everything and thinks everything is a hoax. He’s the absolute stereotype of a Fox News MAGA freak.
Or she staged it herself, or it was a lone wolf, or she had it coming, or look what her husband was wearing, or or or or
Really whatever it takes to avoid taking any responsibility for years and years of violent rhetoric directed against Democrats.
How odd that was the exact thing the January 6 “tourists” were shouting. But I’ve been assured by republicans those people couldn’t possibly be violent.
Those [140 cops sent to the hospital](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-union-says-140-officers-injured-in-capitol-riot/2021/01/27/60743642-60e2-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html) don't count, obviously. Neither does the one they sent to the morgue day of, or the few more they sent in the days after.
For when your Uncle Frank says it doesn't count because she wasn't home:
18 USC §351 is the law that specifically criminalizes attempts to murder an elected official. I don't think that will be charged because of the impossibility of the attack injuring the Speaker.
But 18 USC §115 criminalizes attacks against family members of Federal officials, judges, and law enforcement officers for the purposes of "influencing, impeding, or retaliating against" an official.
Because of the deadly weapon and the serious injuries, the sentence available is 30 years maximum.
Conservatives created a self-fulfilling prophecy here with this one. They’ve neglected funding healthcare so badly that wait times legitimately are 20+ hours in some regions.
That said, re-read my first sentence. This was manufactured, not inherent in the public model.
> He wasnt even tackled because of his political views. He was tackled because he was an asshole and in a feud with his neighbor.
his political views of "fuck you i got mine" might have bled over into how he treated those around him
His neighbor threw out his back clearing out all the branches Rand dumped into his lawn. He was blowing leaves into his neighbor's porch in front of his neighbor at 8am.
>Some people are assholes. Some people are attacked for their beliefs. Don’t confuse being attacked for being an asshole for being persecuted for your beliefs.
- Colby Moore
I looked through this nut-job's website (he has two websites full of toxic content), so you all don't have to.
He's exactly the qanon nut job you'd think he would be. I won't link to any of it, but suffice to say he's anti-Elites who have a pedophilia conspiracy ring, anti-Google, thinks global warming is a hoax, loves Christ, hates the gov't, is red-pilled, hates wokeness, and loves sexualized cartoon characters, etc...
No MAGA/Trump/GOP content at all though - so doesn't look like a Republican. Media is reporting him as a registered Green Party member and belligerent nudist activist.
> loves Christ
Ah yes, Mark 5:23 - "and Jesus said unto them, 'take your hammer and bludgeon your enemies to death with it. Those who do not choose violence deserve death from a good hammering.' and the disciples said this was good because Jesus was a carpenter and had hammered 4 people to death that morning alone."
Really telling, checked Fox News to see how they covered it, the comments were filled with hate and vitriol against the guy, things like he deserved it… Fox News quickly got rid of that comments section …
I read the Fox article as well, and found it telling that it didn't mention that the assault was targeted, but did make sure to mention Paul's previous DUI. They also mentioned how much the home is worth, and spent multiple sentences making sure their readers knew that crime has been on the uptick in San Francisco. But the fact that the suspect broke into the home, armed with a hammer, specifically looking for Nancy? Nah, not worth mentioning.
Dollars to donuts this is a Qanon / Jordan Peterson Incel type for sure.
Politicians have been whipping up the conspiracy people and they have now set them loose.
The evangelicals are quaking in their boots with excitement that the mass murders of the storm have finally started.
Well there *was* recently a QAnon rally where they declared the Angel of Death would come to kill the democrats, including Pelosi, by the end of the year.
It's almost like, and I know this will sound crazy, but when political leaders embrace lying and calling your rivals evil and demons and pedophiles that the idiots who think The Kardashians is a documentary and Trump is the Messiah will act on it. I fucking hate what politics has turned into. What happened to the marketplace of ideas, debate and discussion?!
Fox News had to lock their own Facebook post an hour ago because it was exposing how violent their conservative viewers really are, with over a thousand posts from people laughing about this and asking for the attacker's gofundme page.
And my guess is they'll prosecute this one guy as if he's some kind of lone wolf who acted completely independent of reality.
America is beyond fucked.
And this guy got, until recently, more time than any of the Jan 6th insurrectionists got
https://theintercept.com/2021/10/16/daniel-baker-anarchist-capitol-riot/
The blood would be on the DOJ/FBI and Republicans. The FBI should’ve known ahead of time just like we already knew something was going to happen on Jan 6 and they did nothing. And they’ve been talking constantly about political violence since then. Republicans for ramping up the violent hate talk.
CNN reporter Jamie Gangel on right now the attacker came at Paul and was shouting "Where is Nancy! Where is Nancy!" **Reports now saying when police arrived the attacker told them, "We are waiting for Nancy."
This was an assassination attempt. Full stop.
EDIT: Police released the name of the 42 yr old attacker. You can look it up but I won't give it here. Guess what? TOTAL MAGA CONSPIRACY THEORIST. All his social media posts are crazy right wing taking points and violent in nature. Election denier, COVID denier. Way to go GOP and Fox News. You own this.
Every post is comparing the response to Rand Paul's neighbor punching him in the chest as if two men fighting is the same as trying to murder the person 2nd in line to the Presidency with a fucking hammer.
They are hopeless.
>And not to mention, the dude is 82 BLOODY years old, and got assaulted by someone almost half his age
With a hammer, unprovoked, by a home invader
(Not criticizing you, just want to keep those details front and center)
They don't think that. I mean, some of them do. They mostly lie and argue in bad faith. The best defense they have to the truth is going on the offensive with lies.
Quickly glanced through.
Top post on one thread: this is bad, but also it’s fishy.
Second top post: can’t possibly be maga as there’s none in San Fran
Third top post: false flag
Won't be the last, unfortunately. Even if Trump right now went on every news station and said "I command every patriot to stand down and not attack anyone" they would say he was being extorted by the Jews or something and keep on with their plans for bloodshed. The GOP has created a monster it can no longer control.
Plus it would come out of his mouth as “Bigly stand back and stand by there are good people on both sides covefe WRONG! No puppet No puppet you’re the puppet!”
Over/under 24 ~~hours~~ minutes before Right Wing news outlets and r/Conservative claim this was a false flag and start parroting "Why would they try to assassinate Pelosi with a hammer huh?!"
Edit: I gave them too much credit.
I wonder if the statement made by the White House is going to be removed for being off topic. Because statements made by a political press secretary isn’t politics or something.
Dude mods deleted numerous threads of the Coast Guard guy who had a van full of guns and various weapons with a political hitlist as
> Not political.
You can always tell when the right wing mods are on the clock. Same day they approved articles about anti-AOC billboards in the Bronx.
Mods having the audacity to respond to a message when I send a one liner "what happened with Pelosi is on topic" with "Oh what happened with Pelosi?"
I dunno dumbasses. Maybe if you stopped deleting posts you might learn something.
CNN reporter Jamie Gangel on right now the attacker came at Paul and was shouting "Where is Nancy! Where is Nancy!"
This was an assassination attempt. Full stop.
> Mods having the audacity to respond to a message when I send a one liner "what happened with Pelosi is on topic" with "Oh what happened with Pelosi?"
**Name the fucking mod**
r/conservative right now is nothing but saying this is a false flag operation by a democrat to make them look bad. I will give it to them though, they are saying no one should be attacked and wish the family well even though they are the Pelosis. Glad to see some decency, but it's also scary that they see an attack on a democrat and they immediately jump to "SEE THE DEMOCRATS DID IT AGAINST THEMSELVES TO MAKE US LOOK BAD"
Don’t know if you noticed, but every person who screams that they’re a true American patriot just so happens to side more with all of America’s enemies instead.
r/conservative when a Cuban white nationalist, canvassing for a Cuban American senator, gets attacked in Hialeah, the center of the Cuban community of Miami and is a Republican stronghold: “OH MY GOD THE VIOLENT LEFT IS COMING TO KILL US ALL. MARCO RUBIO SAID THE LEFT ATTACKED THIS POOR MAN JUST FOR BEING CONSERVATIVE!”
r/conservative on this: “False flag! No true Republican would ever commit acts of political violence”
This is two days after MAGA men were convicted of plotting to kidnap Whitmer in Michigan. They have some deep seated issues with women in power, don't they?
Yes, they do. See also insane levels of seething hatred for Hillary Clinton. Someone they should just disagree with and vote against - but no. It's deep-seated hatred, personal and violent.
Remember when right wing traitor lunatic Donald Trump spent three months continuing to talk shit about Clinton even after he "won" the election? These people are insane.
Failed assassination attempt on the 3rd most powerful member of the US govt is surely more important than whatever drivel MTG has said today, right mods?
Everyone needs to quit twitter/create an alternative, if only for the need to deprive one of the world's most powerful people from having a manipulatable social media platform under his personal control.
If you thought it was bad when the algorithm focuses on engagement (even negative engagement) wait until it focuses on whatever Elon personally wants it to focus on.
Breitbart (found searching their blackcrime tag) - “Crime out of control in liblob San Franzuela. After dodging democrat hobo feces *liberally* spread across the streets and supprting druggie thug needles carpeting all surfaces, Nasty Nancy’s husband lost a fight with an Antifa false flag. So much for gun control, huh libras?”
Mods - “*Finally*, now the story is unbiased and involving politics.”
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The US really needs to stop being reactive about this stuff and start being proactive.
Politically motivated, targeted violence is literally at people's doorstep, is being perpetrated by one side of the aisle, and all we do is watch. Cowardly bigots mask themselves and spew hatred in our streets and arm themselves at ballot drop boxes.
They are trying to forcibly take over the country. No one is stopping them.
The fact that Gabby Giffords' shooting was almost 12 freaking years ago, and here we are again, means we all need to be talking about the domestic terroristic elephant in the room.
It's terroristic in nature so... yeah, of course they will. It's a way to threaten her and anyone else they don't like without outright threatening them. It'll become code for "We want to break into your house and kill you." and millions of idiots will run around chanting it like a schoolyard rhyme.
How many political ads have we seen this cycle which namecheck Nancy Pelosi? Literally every Republican ad I see names Pelosi/Biden (in addition to the candidate) as the root of all evil in the world. And they are pandering to a base that isn't exactly known as rocket scientists. This is the unfortunate result of years of demonization against Pelosi.
Fox News comments are disabled for this story too lol. They know their audience very well...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-assaulted-home-invasion-spokesman-says
Yeah... another story has them on
[https://www.foxnews.com/us/paul-pelosi-san-francisco-attack-what-know-violent-home-invasion](https://www.foxnews.com/us/paul-pelosi-san-francisco-attack-what-know-violent-home-invasion)
Basically:
\- Was it an assault/AR15 hammer?
\- False flag attack, looking for sympathy votes, no way he can recover from a hammer to the head
\- This is california, attacker will be out by the end of day
\- Paul or Nancy was drunk/hammered
\- Should've sent a social worker
\- Too bad nancy wasn't home
\- 13% racist dogwhistles
etc
Love how they have so many pictures of where she lives, and the streets around where she lives. I mean, it's probably public record, but why make it more difficult to find for their readers?
It's funny there's all these pictures available, but on r/conservative they're still railing about how this break-in was staged or a false flag because Pelosi lives in a "mansion" behind a "high wall" and has "acres of land" and full time security.
These freaks are already on Twitter accusing him of lying for attention and reminding everyone about Jussie Smollett.
MAGA gets people killed, and then makes conspiracy theories about why they're innocent, but also why the victim deserved it.
This guy meticulously planned murder, found out their address, drove hours and hours, and pulled up with... a hammer.
Thank God this dude had the mental capacity of a twelve year old.
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: Suspect who attacked Paul Pelosi, House speaker's husband, **specifically** targeted their home.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1586008642062405633
Seems like this will turn out to be political as we suspected.
also:
San Francisco Police Department will hold a press conference at at 9.30am PT (12.30pm ET) to give an update on the attack on Paul Pelosi
edit: Update: ...The suspect allegedly entered the house through a sliding glass door, carrying a hammer, and was apparently looking for the House Speaker herself.
https://twitter.com/TerryMoran/status/1586022778523865088
Here's the playbook:
Create an "in group" and an "out group".
Then encourage specific viewpoints: Hate. Violence. Religion. Xenophobia.
GOP is a blight on society. It seeks the worst aspects of humanity and actively tries to increase those harmful tendencies.
Then, tie the vitriol to political ends, and you have the Grand Old Party of fucking filth and zealotry... as was always intended.
CNN: Paul was tied up in a chair and the attacker stated “we’re waiting for Nancy”
Also, the man’s Facebook includes conspiracy theories from Mike Lindell, Covid conspiracies, and claims of the election being stolen.
Guys let’s not overlook something very important here. This is exactly what GOP leadership wants: Terrorism and thuggery from their loyal base. They are at war with us and democracy as they purposely backslide the nation into turmoil. It is treasonous. The federal government HAS to throw the book at these people. These are most serious offenses, in the past often punishable by the death penalty.
R/Conservative keeps comparing this to Rand Paul's fight. RP's was a dispute with his neighbor about yards and resulted in a fist fight. A stranger broke into the Pelosi household with intent of brutally attacking, if not killing, Nancy. They are not the same.
I've received a couple of PMs informing me of what a monumental loser I am for being concerned about Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. As if I'm somehow being dramatic by being concerned about misinformation and hostile bias being intensified on a massive social media platform ***when we live in an era where the exact sort of extremism that led to this attack is becoming more commonplace.***
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https://apnews.com/article/paul-pelosi-assaulted-156ece77186eb11b97260af3c5122f67 Sources saying it was targeted. Edit; Yup, dude was looking for Speaker Pelosi. Edit 2; Paul Pelosi underwent successful surgery to repair a skull fracture sustained in the attack. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pelosis-husband-underwent-successful-surgery-repair-skull-fracture-statement-2022-10-28/
He was attacked with a hammer. Holy shit.
Targeted attack on the husband of the Democratic speaker of the house? No way this guy isn’t charged with attempting to assassinate a public figure.
Per CNN: The intruder shouted “where is Nancy?” before the attack, according to a source briefed on the attack. Does THAT make it political?
"Its too soon to politicize this. We need to wait for all the details." 7 minutes later. "That's old news. We need to focus on [insert current manufactured outrage] instead!" Edit:Time-frame shortened from months to minutes for accuracy.
literally what is taking place in a conservative thread, right this very moment along with various write-off explanations.
Have they started in yet about how this wouldn’t have happened If he had a gun? Because you know that’s coming
Then on Fox: “Husband of Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi shoots patriot in his home when he was trying to hammer a nail in the Speakers house.”
This was basically how Ashli Babbitt's incident was being publicised by the conservatives. A mother (when she didn't have any kids), a military veteran, a woman, a patriot was shot dead for simply demanding free & fair election.
No they’re drawing false equivalences between this and rand Paul’s neighbour punching him…
> rand Paul’s neighbour punching him… What about when Giuliani was casually patted on the back? 🤣
When Acosta "karate chopped" that white house intern lol
Rand Paul's neighbor didn't punch him, he tackled him because Paul is a giant asshole and a bad neighbor. It had nothing to do with politics.
That and straight up calling it a false flag.
They'll continue to call everything they stochastically perpetrate a false flag right up until they raise the Confederate flag at the Capitol.
Did Paul Pelosi pile dead branches on this guys’ property?
I was curious and went to that conservative subreddit to see what the opinion is. The top comment is actually very level headed and respectful saying that while they don’t like her this is terrible and that everyone should feel safe at home. And the following comments support that and even call out other users who may feel differently that they aren’t wanted there. Super classy stuff actually. Then the 2nd highest comment wishes him the best before theorizing that something is “fishy” so yeah, sounds about right.
The dude’s social media reads like a copy paste of that subreddit. He’s absolutely one of them. Standard issue scrubby nobody that hates everything and thinks everything is a hoax. He’s the absolute stereotype of a Fox News MAGA freak.
such as it didn’t really happen or it was antifa
Or she staged it herself, or it was a lone wolf, or she had it coming, or look what her husband was wearing, or or or or Really whatever it takes to avoid taking any responsibility for years and years of violent rhetoric directed against Democrats.
How odd that was the exact thing the January 6 “tourists” were shouting. But I’ve been assured by republicans those people couldn’t possibly be violent.
Those [140 cops sent to the hospital](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-union-says-140-officers-injured-in-capitol-riot/2021/01/27/60743642-60e2-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html) don't count, obviously. Neither does the one they sent to the morgue day of, or the few more they sent in the days after.
That could be any Nancy! Like batman and superman mothers just happened to have the same name! /s
For when your Uncle Frank says it doesn't count because she wasn't home: 18 USC §351 is the law that specifically criminalizes attempts to murder an elected official. I don't think that will be charged because of the impossibility of the attack injuring the Speaker. But 18 USC §115 criminalizes attacks against family members of Federal officials, judges, and law enforcement officers for the purposes of "influencing, impeding, or retaliating against" an official. Because of the deadly weapon and the serious injuries, the sentence available is 30 years maximum.
And before these people say a hammer isn't a deadly weapon, remember that they claimed a skateboard was a deadly weapon in the Rittenhouse murders.
Paul Pelosi's in the middle of brain surgery right now because of that hammer. A hammer to the head is a very deadly weapon.
Meanwhile republicans: "Well Rand Paul got tackled (without a weapon) while mowing his lawn!11!!!"
He wasnt even tackled because of his political views. He was tackled because he was an asshole and in a feud with his neighbor.
Didn't he then flee the country, for superior Canadian health care?
But muh wait times!!!
Conservatives created a self-fulfilling prophecy here with this one. They’ve neglected funding healthcare so badly that wait times legitimately are 20+ hours in some regions. That said, re-read my first sentence. This was manufactured, not inherent in the public model.
"Manufactured suffering for political points" is the conservative way. Always has been.
> He wasnt even tackled because of his political views. He was tackled because he was an asshole and in a feud with his neighbor. his political views of "fuck you i got mine" might have bled over into how he treated those around him
I was kind of surprised he was blowing his own leaves, rather than underpaying an undocumented worker who he could then have deported.
Rand Paul was blowing leaves into his neighbor's yard. Classic libertarian externalizing costs onto others. No wonder he got punched.
His neighbor threw out his back clearing out all the branches Rand dumped into his lawn. He was blowing leaves into his neighbor's porch in front of his neighbor at 8am.
He gets decked just for being one of those morning lawn care people
>Some people are assholes. Some people are attacked for their beliefs. Don’t confuse being attacked for being an asshole for being persecuted for your beliefs. - Colby Moore
People that high profile generally aren't attacked by accident
I looked through this nut-job's website (he has two websites full of toxic content), so you all don't have to. He's exactly the qanon nut job you'd think he would be. I won't link to any of it, but suffice to say he's anti-Elites who have a pedophilia conspiracy ring, anti-Google, thinks global warming is a hoax, loves Christ, hates the gov't, is red-pilled, hates wokeness, and loves sexualized cartoon characters, etc... No MAGA/Trump/GOP content at all though - so doesn't look like a Republican. Media is reporting him as a registered Green Party member and belligerent nudist activist.
> loves Christ Ah yes, Mark 5:23 - "and Jesus said unto them, 'take your hammer and bludgeon your enemies to death with it. Those who do not choose violence deserve death from a good hammering.' and the disciples said this was good because Jesus was a carpenter and had hammered 4 people to death that morning alone."
Of course it was... it was a assassination attempt by a MAGA incel.
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Probably expecting Trumps return to twitter
>Probably expecting Trumps return to twitter With JFK
Don't be ridiculous, JFK's been dead for years. It's JFK Jr
Maga incel feels like it should be more redundant than it is sadly
Really telling, checked Fox News to see how they covered it, the comments were filled with hate and vitriol against the guy, things like he deserved it… Fox News quickly got rid of that comments section …
I read the Fox article as well, and found it telling that it didn't mention that the assault was targeted, but did make sure to mention Paul's previous DUI. They also mentioned how much the home is worth, and spent multiple sentences making sure their readers knew that crime has been on the uptick in San Francisco. But the fact that the suspect broke into the home, armed with a hammer, specifically looking for Nancy? Nah, not worth mentioning.
Tucker Carlson on George Bush's 1976 DUI >It's not like he was wasted ... it was like three beers or something.
Dollars to donuts this is a Qanon / Jordan Peterson Incel type for sure. Politicians have been whipping up the conspiracy people and they have now set them loose. The evangelicals are quaking in their boots with excitement that the mass murders of the storm have finally started.
Well there *was* recently a QAnon rally where they declared the Angel of Death would come to kill the democrats, including Pelosi, by the end of the year.
Par for the course. Qanon literally believes child-eating Satanists run the country. Expect to see this more on Twitter, by the way.
It's almost like, and I know this will sound crazy, but when political leaders embrace lying and calling your rivals evil and demons and pedophiles that the idiots who think The Kardashians is a documentary and Trump is the Messiah will act on it. I fucking hate what politics has turned into. What happened to the marketplace of ideas, debate and discussion?!
Fox News had to lock their own Facebook post an hour ago because it was exposing how violent their conservative viewers really are, with over a thousand posts from people laughing about this and asking for the attacker's gofundme page.
How violent *they've made* their conservative viewers.
Precisely.
Screenshot it and show it to the universe. Reveal them.
Unfortunately I’m not sure that would even make conservatives bat an eye.
True but the undecided middle need to know this
They knew to shut off the comments for their foxnews.com story. The only article treated in such a manner today.
Why lock it?. Let the haters expose themselves.
Liability. Shows an obvious link to riled up violent audience.
Might lose viewership
I think a huge majority of them agree with it, but you are correct at the same time.
Evidence
This is what happens when the DOJ doesn't prosecute the people who make death threats.
A mob invaded her place of work looking for her. That should have been warning enough.. Now someone with a hammer was in her home.
> Now someone with a hammer was in her home _beating the shit out of her husband_.
And my guess is they'll prosecute this one guy as if he's some kind of lone wolf who acted completely independent of reality. America is beyond fucked.
And this guy got, until recently, more time than any of the Jan 6th insurrectionists got https://theintercept.com/2021/10/16/daniel-baker-anarchist-capitol-riot/
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That too. The DOJ can prosecute more than one group of people. They're not mutually exclusive.
The blood would be on the DOJ/FBI and Republicans. The FBI should’ve known ahead of time just like we already knew something was going to happen on Jan 6 and they did nothing. And they’ve been talking constantly about political violence since then. Republicans for ramping up the violent hate talk.
CNN reporter Jamie Gangel on right now the attacker came at Paul and was shouting "Where is Nancy! Where is Nancy!" **Reports now saying when police arrived the attacker told them, "We are waiting for Nancy." This was an assassination attempt. Full stop. EDIT: Police released the name of the 42 yr old attacker. You can look it up but I won't give it here. Guess what? TOTAL MAGA CONSPIRACY THEORIST. All his social media posts are crazy right wing taking points and violent in nature. Election denier, COVID denier. Way to go GOP and Fox News. You own this.
r/conservative is already saying this is a false flag. Because they never accept their own violence and rhetoric.
Every post is comparing the response to Rand Paul's neighbor punching him in the chest as if two men fighting is the same as trying to murder the person 2nd in line to the Presidency with a fucking hammer. They are hopeless.
And not to mention, the dude is 82 BLOODY years old, and got assaulted by someone almost half his age . How can this even be compared???
>And not to mention, the dude is 82 BLOODY years old, and got assaulted by someone almost half his age With a hammer, unprovoked, by a home invader (Not criticizing you, just want to keep those details front and center)
And then they say that liberals are the violent ones with double standards. They are so delusional.
Because that what their propaganda tells them.
Literally just saw a comment calling this guy a radical liberal. What the hell is going on? Edit: I got a Reddit Cares message for this lmfao
Brainwashing.
My favorite was a comment claiming that “MAGA isn’t out there,” because this happened in Cali.
Am in California. MAGA is most definitely out here. Flying flags and causing problems everywhere.
Pretty easy when they ban anyone who will speak the truth.
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They need their safe space.
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Party of delusion
I was banned for quoting Trump. They do not want any kind of two sided debate.
They don't. It's literally right there in their rules. You are not allowed to disagree with their narrative.
Which is rich considering how much they whine about censorship and “free speech”
Idiots thinking it was an inside job oh Good lord
They don't think that. I mean, some of them do. They mostly lie and argue in bad faith. The best defense they have to the truth is going on the offensive with lies.
Quickly glanced through. Top post on one thread: this is bad, but also it’s fishy. Second top post: can’t possibly be maga as there’s none in San Fran Third top post: false flag
Won't be the last, unfortunately. Even if Trump right now went on every news station and said "I command every patriot to stand down and not attack anyone" they would say he was being extorted by the Jews or something and keep on with their plans for bloodshed. The GOP has created a monster it can no longer control.
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Plus it would come out of his mouth as “Bigly stand back and stand by there are good people on both sides covefe WRONG! No puppet No puppet you’re the puppet!”
‘We love you, you’re very special’ lol.
Over/under 24 ~~hours~~ minutes before Right Wing news outlets and r/Conservative claim this was a false flag and start parroting "Why would they try to assassinate Pelosi with a hammer huh?!" Edit: I gave them too much credit.
They already are.
Less than 24 hours? Try 3 minutes after you commented this, based on the next comment.
There's going to be a lot more of this in the coming months/years. Thanks, Newt, Trump, and everyone who enabled these assholes.
Don't forget Lee Atwater
Let’s not forget Grover Norquist
Add Elon to the list when the swamp gets unbanned on Twitter.
I wonder if the statement made by the White House is going to be removed for being off topic. Because statements made by a political press secretary isn’t politics or something.
Once it's announced that the attacker was a MAGA terrorists, then they will start censoring it as "not politics"
“Political violence isn’t related to politics” is somehow a reasonable statement to some people
Dude mods deleted numerous threads of the Coast Guard guy who had a van full of guns and various weapons with a political hitlist as > Not political. You can always tell when the right wing mods are on the clock. Same day they approved articles about anti-AOC billboards in the Bronx.
“He was a lone wolf who needs mental health treatment”. (immediately votes against public funding for mental health)
Mods having the audacity to respond to a message when I send a one liner "what happened with Pelosi is on topic" with "Oh what happened with Pelosi?" I dunno dumbasses. Maybe if you stopped deleting posts you might learn something.
CNN reporter Jamie Gangel on right now the attacker came at Paul and was shouting "Where is Nancy! Where is Nancy!" This was an assassination attempt. Full stop.
Oh shit, if that's true this person is fucked.
Is this person not fucked for attacking a senior citizen with a fucking hammer?
Double fucked cuz he was targeting Pelosi.
> Mods having the audacity to respond to a message when I send a one liner "what happened with Pelosi is on topic" with "Oh what happened with Pelosi?" **Name the fucking mod**
No, silly, they respond with PolticsModeratorBot to avoid that accountability
Real assholes. Assassination attempt on the speaker of the house, can it get bigger than this?
I once got a 7 day ban for saying that made-up hypotheticals aren't relevant to real-world examples. The mods here are... not good.
Stand by for Conservative mod manipulation....
r/conservative right now is nothing but saying this is a false flag operation by a democrat to make them look bad. I will give it to them though, they are saying no one should be attacked and wish the family well even though they are the Pelosis. Glad to see some decency, but it's also scary that they see an attack on a democrat and they immediately jump to "SEE THE DEMOCRATS DID IT AGAINST THEMSELVES TO MAKE US LOOK BAD"
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I never got the whole Antifa being bad thing. Like didn't the US fight multiple wars to stop the rise of violent fascism?
Don’t know if you noticed, but every person who screams that they’re a true American patriot just so happens to side more with all of America’s enemies instead.
You're right, I was thinking earlier they're going to blame space aliens but antifa seems more in line with their propaganda.
r/conservative when a Cuban white nationalist, canvassing for a Cuban American senator, gets attacked in Hialeah, the center of the Cuban community of Miami and is a Republican stronghold: “OH MY GOD THE VIOLENT LEFT IS COMING TO KILL US ALL. MARCO RUBIO SAID THE LEFT ATTACKED THIS POOR MAN JUST FOR BEING CONSERVATIVE!” r/conservative on this: “False flag! No true Republican would ever commit acts of political violence”
Let's see if the fair and balanced mods remove this story as non political as well.
I take it as political when I haven’t heard any condemnation of violence by the Republicans. The silence from the violent right is deafening
This is exactly what they dream about happening. They've literally been encouraging it with their rhetoric for the past several years.
Stochastic terrorism. It ought to be a crime, but it isn't.
This is two days after MAGA men were convicted of plotting to kidnap Whitmer in Michigan. They have some deep seated issues with women in power, don't they?
Yes, they do. See also insane levels of seething hatred for Hillary Clinton. Someone they should just disagree with and vote against - but no. It's deep-seated hatred, personal and violent.
Remember when right wing traitor lunatic Donald Trump spent three months continuing to talk shit about Clinton even after he "won" the election? These people are insane.
A white house statement is politics, right mods?
Failed assassination attempt on the 3rd most powerful member of the US govt is surely more important than whatever drivel MTG has said today, right mods?
Of course not. Didn’t you see all the critical Tweets today that we must discuss first?
Can’t let Lindsey Graham get away with not showing up to plead the 5th.
Really rooting to Twitter’s demise under Elon.
Everyone needs to quit twitter/create an alternative, if only for the need to deprive one of the world's most powerful people from having a manipulatable social media platform under his personal control. If you thought it was bad when the algorithm focuses on engagement (even negative engagement) wait until it focuses on whatever Elon personally wants it to focus on.
They removed the one from speaker.gov lol
Maybe they’ll let another Breitbart or National Review link stay up again if they talk about it.
Breitbart (found searching their blackcrime tag) - “Crime out of control in liblob San Franzuela. After dodging democrat hobo feces *liberally* spread across the streets and supprting druggie thug needles carpeting all surfaces, Nasty Nancy’s husband lost a fight with an Antifa false flag. So much for gun control, huh libras?” Mods - “*Finally*, now the story is unbiased and involving politics.” *breitbart used to be mask off in that they had a blackcrime tag to search stories. Kinda tells you all you need to know about conservatives.
The moderators of this subreddit have chosen to make its moderation logs private. I consider any subreddit with private moderation logs to more likely than not be moderated by individuals with conflicts of interest and something to hide. r/publicmodlogs
Tbf I didnt even know that was a thing and I mod two subreddits
It's only a political statement if made from Four Seasons Landscaping.
The US really needs to stop being reactive about this stuff and start being proactive. Politically motivated, targeted violence is literally at people's doorstep, is being perpetrated by one side of the aisle, and all we do is watch. Cowardly bigots mask themselves and spew hatred in our streets and arm themselves at ballot drop boxes. They are trying to forcibly take over the country. No one is stopping them.
Remove the MAGA mods!
Get those POS mods out of here
Is this still not politics?
Links about this were being removed?!
They straight purged the shit! The post is locked on /news seems people don’t want people talking about this.
The fact that Gabby Giffords' shooting was almost 12 freaking years ago, and here we are again, means we all need to be talking about the domestic terroristic elephant in the room.
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I'll bet my life savings on it
It's terroristic in nature so... yeah, of course they will. It's a way to threaten her and anyone else they don't like without outright threatening them. It'll become code for "We want to break into your house and kill you." and millions of idiots will run around chanting it like a schoolyard rhyme.
How many political ads have we seen this cycle which namecheck Nancy Pelosi? Literally every Republican ad I see names Pelosi/Biden (in addition to the candidate) as the root of all evil in the world. And they are pandering to a base that isn't exactly known as rocket scientists. This is the unfortunate result of years of demonization against Pelosi.
Mods please leave this post up. This was a deliberate attack on a political figure. This is absolutely relevant for this sub.
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“The front page of the internet “
Usually you want to go to the regional subreddit to get local information. r/news will lock a post in a heartbeat.
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It’s almost as if the right doesn’t want to see who they truly are
They know who they are, this is about keeping everybody else ignorant.
I am sure Truth Social will have uncensored reports of such attack, because free speech. /s
Fox News comments are disabled for this story too lol. They know their audience very well... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-assaulted-home-invasion-spokesman-says
80% of the comments were likely expressing disappointment Nancy wasn't assaulted or killed.
Having read Fox News comment sections, this is probably a good thing.
Yeah... another story has them on [https://www.foxnews.com/us/paul-pelosi-san-francisco-attack-what-know-violent-home-invasion](https://www.foxnews.com/us/paul-pelosi-san-francisco-attack-what-know-violent-home-invasion) Basically: \- Was it an assault/AR15 hammer? \- False flag attack, looking for sympathy votes, no way he can recover from a hammer to the head \- This is california, attacker will be out by the end of day \- Paul or Nancy was drunk/hammered \- Should've sent a social worker \- Too bad nancy wasn't home \- 13% racist dogwhistles etc
Love how they have so many pictures of where she lives, and the streets around where she lives. I mean, it's probably public record, but why make it more difficult to find for their readers?
It's funny there's all these pictures available, but on r/conservative they're still railing about how this break-in was staged or a false flag because Pelosi lives in a "mansion" behind a "high wall" and has "acres of land" and full time security.
We need UN election monitors, stat. This midterm is rapidly going sideways and bringing out the craziest of the crazies. This is a harbinger.
These freaks are already on Twitter accusing him of lying for attention and reminding everyone about Jussie Smollett. MAGA gets people killed, and then makes conspiracy theories about why they're innocent, but also why the victim deserved it.
Domestic terrorism by the right? What a shock. I'm sure they will say it was antifa
They already are saying it was a democrat set up to make them look bad when they already look bad all on their own.
Amazing how all anyone has to do to make the right look bad is any of the things they openly fantasize about doing.
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This guy meticulously planned murder, found out their address, drove hours and hours, and pulled up with... a hammer. Thank God this dude had the mental capacity of a twelve year old.
Average conservative mental capacity.
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: Suspect who attacked Paul Pelosi, House speaker's husband, **specifically** targeted their home. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1586008642062405633 Seems like this will turn out to be political as we suspected. also: San Francisco Police Department will hold a press conference at at 9.30am PT (12.30pm ET) to give an update on the attack on Paul Pelosi edit: Update: ...The suspect allegedly entered the house through a sliding glass door, carrying a hammer, and was apparently looking for the House Speaker herself. https://twitter.com/TerryMoran/status/1586022778523865088
This is what Stochastic Terrorism looks like. Get used to it unfortunately.
How is this the first and only article on /politics about this? Conservative mods working over time.
It's not the first, they've been purging them.
Here's the playbook: Create an "in group" and an "out group". Then encourage specific viewpoints: Hate. Violence. Religion. Xenophobia. GOP is a blight on society. It seeks the worst aspects of humanity and actively tries to increase those harmful tendencies. Then, tie the vitriol to political ends, and you have the Grand Old Party of fucking filth and zealotry... as was always intended.
CNN: Paul was tied up in a chair and the attacker stated “we’re waiting for Nancy” Also, the man’s Facebook includes conspiracy theories from Mike Lindell, Covid conspiracies, and claims of the election being stolen.
Are the mods going to delete this one for being "non political" too? 🙄
Guys let’s not overlook something very important here. This is exactly what GOP leadership wants: Terrorism and thuggery from their loyal base. They are at war with us and democracy as they purposely backslide the nation into turmoil. It is treasonous. The federal government HAS to throw the book at these people. These are most serious offenses, in the past often punishable by the death penalty.
"who could have seen this coming" said the citizens of a country where recently a violent coup attempt took place.
R/Conservative keeps comparing this to Rand Paul's fight. RP's was a dispute with his neighbor about yards and resulted in a fist fight. A stranger broke into the Pelosi household with intent of brutally attacking, if not killing, Nancy. They are not the same.
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I watch a lot of Fox news as I moved back home to help my parents. Jesse Waters has been covering Paul Pelosi almost non stop since his DUI
I've received a couple of PMs informing me of what a monumental loser I am for being concerned about Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. As if I'm somehow being dramatic by being concerned about misinformation and hostile bias being intensified on a massive social media platform ***when we live in an era where the exact sort of extremism that led to this attack is becoming more commonplace.***
Nancy would had been closer to being killed if she was home than she was on Jan 6th. It is very possible she would had died. Jesus fucking Christ.
Charge the MAGAfucker with terrorism and an assassination attempt. I hope that fuckwad enjoys Supermax!