Almost one-third of Republicans say they think violence may be necessary to solve the problems facing the United States, according to a new national survey by the nonprofit Public Religion Research Institute. The finding is part of PRRI’s 12th annual American Values Survey released Monday which, among other things, highlights the continued impact of the same falsehoods and conspiracy theories that fueled the violent Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol nearly one year later.
The survey was conducted between Sept. 16 and Sept. 29 through online interviews with a random sample of 2,508 adults living in all 50 states. Nearly one in five, or 18 percent, of overall respondents said they agreed with the statement: “Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country,” including 30 percent of Republicans, 11 percent of Democrats and 17 percent of independents.
“It is an alarming finding,” said Robert Jones, CEO and founder of PRRI. “I’ve been doing this a while, for decades, and it’s not the kind of finding that as a sociologist, a public opinion pollster, that you’re used to seeing.”
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Overall, the responses to this question illustrate the “significant and rapidly increasing polarization in the United States,” he said.
Protesters at the state Capitol building in Frankfort, Ky., in January 2021, during a nationwide protest called by far-right groups supporting Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud. (Jeff Dean/AFP via Getty Images)More
Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said that it’s “extremely disturbing” that “nearly a third of the Republicans measured in this poll are getting comfortable with the idea of political violence.” And, he said, the much smaller percentages of Democrats and independents who expressed support for this idea are also “enough to be concerning.”
Jones said the substantial showing of support for political violence among Republicans is “a direct result of former President Trump calling into question the election,” pointing to another stark finding from the PRRI poll: More than two-thirds of Republicans, or 68 percent, continue to believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, compared to 26 percent of independents and just 6 percent of Democrats.
According to the survey, Americans who believe Trump won the 2020 election are roughly four times as likely than those who don’t to agree that violence may be necessary “to save our country,” by a measure of 39 percent to 10 percent. Since he lost the election a year ago, Trump has spread false conspiracy theories claiming that the election was rigged and that President Biden’s win was illegitimate.
The findings also seem to demonstrate a clear correlation between people’s views and their preferred news sources. Among Republicans who trust Fox News above other outlets, 82 percent said they believe the election was stolen from Trump. Ninety-seven percent of those who rely mostly on far-right news sources like Newsmax and One America News (OAN) said the same, compared to less than half, 44 percent, of Republicans who trust mainstream news outlets.
“A large chunk of the Republican Party has been essentially radicalized,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. Beirich said she thinks “a lot of responsibility lies with Republican leadership” for failing to push back on the former president’s election fraud claims and efforts to downplay the violence of Jan. 6. Yahoo news
She noted that the few Republicans who have spoken out against these harmful narratives, like Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who serves as vice chair of the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6, have faced political backlash.
“It’s very sad, actually, and very dangerous,” said Beirich. She suggested that conservative media figures might be more effective at dispelling conspiracy theories and denouncing violence; she said religious leaders could also serve that role, noting the large presence of evangelical Christians within the GOP. According to the PRRI study, a majority of white evangelicals, 60 percent, said they believe the election was stolen from Trump. White evangelicals were also the religious group most likely to think that “true American patriots might have to resort to violence in order to save our country,” with 26 percent saying they agree.
Pitcavage, a historian and authority on extremism in the United States, explained that political violence in America has traditionally come from the fringes of society. But, he said, the more society becomes polarized “the more there is a chance that political violence will not only come from extremists, but will come from really angry, agitated people in the mainstream as well.”
Pitcavage pointed to the more than 650 people who’ve been arrested so far in relation to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol as an example of this.
“About a quarter of them have previous ties to known extremist groups or movements, from the militia movement to White supremacists, to conspiracy theorists,” said Pitcavage. “The bulk of them did not.”
“The nightmare scenario is that this polarization will continue and there will be more and more instances where there could be mob violence or other types of violence ranging from volatile lone wolves acting out to people actually organizing and committing terrorist acts,” Pitcavage said.
In response to a request for comment on the findings of the latest PRRI survey, a spokesperson for the FBI referred Yahoo News to previous congressional testimony by FBI officials addressing domestic extremism.
In testimony given last month before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that since spring of 2020, the FBI has more than doubled its number of domestic terrorism investigations, to about 2,700 open cases.
“To meet that evolving threat, the FBI has surged resources to our domestic terrorism investigations in the last year, increasing personnel by 260 personnel,” Wray told senators at the time.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security similarly pointed to previous comments made by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about domestic terrorism. The spokesperson further cited a number of actions DHS has taken during the Biden presidency to address this threat, including the February designation of domestic violent extremism as a “National Priority Area” for the first time in FEMA grant programs; the creation in May of a new Center for Prevention Programs and Partnership to improve the agency’s capacity to prevent terrorist violence; and the issuing of National Terrorism Advisory System bulletins in January, May and August of this year that highlighted the threat of domestic violent extremists.
Jones noted that, in addition to the most recent September survey, PRRI asked the same question about political violence on three earlier polls conducted this year in March, June, and August. He and his colleagues expected to see greater support for political violence “in the heat of the moment, right after Jan. 6,” but they predicted that people would back away from those views over the course of the year.
Instead, the responses have remained fairly consistent since March, when 15 percent of respondents agreed that “true American patriots may have to resort to violence,” including 28 percent of Republicans, 13 percent of Independents and 7 percent of Democrats.
“As we've gotten some distance [from Jan. 6], one might hope cooler heads would prevail, but we really haven’t seen that,” said Jones. “If anything, it looks like people are doubling down and views are getting kind of locked in.”
Among Republicans who trust Fox News above other outlets, 82 percent said they believe the election was stolen from Trump. Ninety-seven percent of those who rely mostly on far-right news sources like Newsmax and One America News (OAN) said the same, compared to less than half, 44 percent, of Republicans who trust mainstream news outlets.
“A large chunk of the Republican Party has been essentially radicalized,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. Beirich said she thinks “a lot of responsibility lies with Republican leadership” for failing to push back on the former president’s election fraud claims and efforts to downplay the violence of Jan. 6.
You have become radicalized by Trump since he won the nomination.
But, he said, the more society becomes polarized “the more there is a chance that political violence will not only come from extremists, but will come from really angry, agitated people in the mainstream as well.”
Pitcavage pointed to the more than 650 people who’ve been arrested so far in relation to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol as an example of this.
“About a quarter of them have previous ties to known extremist groups or movements, from the militia movement to White supremacists, to conspiracy theorists,” said Pitcavage. “The bulk of them did not.”
“The nightmare scenario is that this polarization will continue and there will be more and more instances where there could be mob violence or other types of violence ranging from volatile lone wolves acting out to people actually organizing and committing terrorist acts,” Pitcavage said.
He is even paying off, the people who stormed the Capitol building on January 6th.
Trump campaign blasted out curious payments the day after Jan. 6 riot -- to people not previously on the payroll
Travis Gettys
November 01, 2021
Republicans are still throwing money at firms involved with planning "Stop the Steal" rallies ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Donald Trump used the firm Event Strategies to help set up his rally that day, and it's become the preferred staging group for the former president and other Republicans despite its ties to the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, reported The Daily Beast.
Trump's fundraising organizations have paid the firm about $800,000 since the insurrection, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, including a $31,358 payment on Aug. 13 by Make America Great Again Action, a the super PAC previously run by Corey Lewandowski shut down last month amid sexual assault allegations.
The National Republican Congressional Committee reported spending about $3,675 for "facility rental" with the firm and $6,000 for "audio visual/staging" in late June, and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) paid $200,000 and $7,038 to the company in late August.
Trump groups paid more than $4.3 million to individuals and companies involved with organizing the Jan. 6 rally, including about $2.8 million to Event Strategies.
The former president's campaign also paid out travel reimbursements to nearly 60 people, including many who had not previously appeared on the payroll, the day after the Capitol riot.
The rorshack test to see if someone is hopelessly infected with TDS.
3 on this blog and counting.
And true to his mentally ill form, the alky steps right up to prove your point.
All the stories of the right turning to violence? All crafted by rabid left-wing nutbags looking to start a fight they can blame on the right.
In the face of relentless goading and prodding the right has shown remarkable restraint and HAS NOT taken any of the bait the left has laid out for them.
Meanwhile, never forget that it was a Maddow fanboi & Bernie Bro - James Hodgkinson - who actually DID resort to violence by opening fire on Republicans, almost killing Steve Scalise.
And it was reliably liberal asshole extraordinaire Alec Baldwin who just committed the mother of all fuck-ups by shooting an innocent woman.
Fuck you and your predictions of right wing violence, alky.
Don't start none, won't be none, as I've said many times on here.
The National Republican Congressional Committee reported spending about $3,675 for "facility rental" with the firm and $6,000 for "audio visual/staging" in late June, and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) paid $200,000 and $7,038 to the company in late August.
Trump groups paid more than $4.3 million to individuals and companies involved with organizing the Jan. 6 rally, including about $2.8 million to Event Strategies.
Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo is planning to challenge Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman revealed Monday morning on CNN that Pompeo has directly told the former president that he intends to run regardless of Trump's plans.
"At the moment, what I'm hearing from a bunch of other Republicans privately, again, they're not saying it publicly, that's the asterisk here," Haberman said, "but they are saying privately Trump is not a factor. Mike Pompeo has told a number of people he told Trump directly he will run even if Trump runs. Did he get annoyed? No one knows the conversation between them, but he said other Republicans are signaling Mike Pence. He will have a hard time running, as would Mike Pompeo for the same reason, but I think what you're seeing more often than not, Republicans signal that they're going to do what they want."
"That said," she added, "Trump is the 800-pound gorilla in this race."
Ari Fleischer https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1454809568773554177 When people chanted against Trump or Bush, there was something wrong with Trump and Bush. When people chant against Joe Biden, there’s something wrong with the people.
Bernard B. Kerik https://twitter.com/BernardKerik/status/1455004559206715397 At what point does Congress intervene and stop this charade. This guy can’t even find his way to the podium without a guide.
Biden appears to use prepared list of reporters after G20 summit in Rome: 'I'm told we should start with AP'
embarrassing
and everyone knows it
butt covered by lying state news media and minions
President Joe Biden used a “makes the trains run on time” reference earlier today at the G20 summit while discussing Sec. Tony Blinken’s role in helping to solve the supply-chain crisis. That’s right. Our elderly leader just made a Mussolini reference in Rome, Italy:
According to the 25th amendment it’s not Congress but the cabinet that initiates involuntary removal of a President for diminish capacity.
I think there's a little-known codicil in the 25th amendment that says a sitting president must shit his pants on three separate occasions in the presence of a foreign leader in order to be removed.
Stocks started the first trading day of November off strong on Monday as investors bet on a year-end rally after markets navigated a typically tough seasonal period successfully.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 170 points to a fresh record, helped by gains in Boeing and JPMorgan. The S&P 500 gained 0.3% and also hit an all-time high. The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite added 0.2%.
Shares of Tesla, which became a $1 trillion company last week, continued its gains for the year with shares up more than 2%. Investors have been piling into bets on Tesla options as of late.
Stocks linked to an economic recovery, such as Ford and Occidental Petroleum, were also higher. Ford gained 1% and Occidental Petroleum popped 2.5%. Airlines and retailers were mostly in the green, while mega-cap tech stocks underperformed.
“In our view, the key story arc driving equities is the strengthening global recovery,” wrote Fundstrat’s Tom Lee in a note to clients. “COVID-19 trends are improving, but with vaccinations and boosters, the improvement in healthcare risk could materially accelerate in 2022.
Toddler With Full Diaper And Incoherent Speech Goes As Joe Biden For Halloween
"Candy? Ice cweam? Poop?" the little Oliver responded. "Poopy in pants? Trunalimunumaprzure?"
"See?" his mom cooed. "He's just so perfect for the part! That made more sense than the last seven speeches I've heard the president give."
The Burnswax's neighbors loved his costume, though some thought it was the actual Joe Biden and slammed the door in his face, thinking he was there to monitor their bank transactions over $600 or jab them with a needle. But once they got the joke and had gotten over their fright, they all had a good-natured laugh over the classic costume.
At publishing time, Burnswax had said his first full sentence, "Wet's go, Bwandon."
Travis Tritt https://twitter.com/Travistritt/status/1455014585078108162 Jon Bon Jovi and Jen Psaki are just the latest “fully vaccinated” to come down with full blown Covid. How much more do we need to see before serious questions are asked of our government and the CDC?
and Psaki was obviously in close contact with Biden.
Who then spent hours with the pope (hands on) in an enclosed room with poop and no mask.
“In our view, the key story arc driving equities is the strengthening global recovery,”
Yeah, liberal globalist would say to avoid saying “the diminishing possibility a Democrat Congress will raise corporate taxes is triggering the current bull market.”
Vigilante enforcement is going to destroy the Texas abortion law.
Almost exactly two months after the Supreme Court allowed a novel abortion ban to go into effect in Texas, making it functionally impossible to obtain abortions in the state, the law is back in the justices’ laps. Today, though, the justices won’t directly consider the constitutionality of the ban, which prohibits abortions after fetal cardiac activity can be detected — often before women know they’re pregnant. Instead, they’ll be grappling with the law’s unique structure, which raises some thorny questions about the federal courts’ power over the states.
What Texas did wasn’t noteworthy because of at what stage it banned abortion. Plenty of other states have already passed laws restricting abortion after six weeks, or banning it outright. The Texas law’s innovation was how it banned abortion: Private citizens who successfully sue an individual for helping a woman get a prohibited abortion are eligible for a $10,000 reward, putting responsibility for enforcing the law in the hands of vigilante plaintiffs — and, crucially, taking it out of the hands of state officials, like prosecutors.
It’s not clear at this point whether the conservative justices have changed their minds about the Texas law since September. After all, the court recently chose once again to leave the law in place while the legal battle plays out — although it did add the case to its docket at lightning speed, suggesting the justices are looking to make a decision soon. There are signs, though, that the law’s unusual enforcement mechanism may be its undoing:
A new report reveals that, while Vice President Mike Pence hid in the bowels of the Capitol out of fear for his life on Jan. 6, President Donald Trump's lawyer castigated him for not helping the administration illegitimately stay in power. Eastman's logic was straightforward: If Pence had helped Trump pull off his coup, the angry mob assembled by the president would not have turned to violence.
"The 'siege' is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened," John Eastman, who represented Trump at the time, wrote to Pence aide Greg Jacobs, according to a report by The Washington Post. Eastman sent his email while Pence, Jacobs and many other public officials were under guard from rioters who had been egged on by Trump to "never concede," "show strength," "fight" and show "our Republicans" how to display the "pride and boldness that they need to take back our country." As the rioters laid waste to the Capitol, some called for Pence to be executed.
In an opinion article that Jacob later wrote about his experience, but chose not to publish, he observed that Eastman's email "displayed a shocking lack of awareness of how those practical implications were playing out in real time."
rrb would love to have them as rocky mountain oysters!
Foreign news agencies are literally laughing at Joe Biden. One Aussie news station actually said 'what the president need a is a retirement home and a warm bowl of soup'.
Big media is not reporting it. You have to go to breitbart to see it. Video and all.
The science deniers will go crazy mothrf***r at Biden
GLASGOW, Scotland — President Biden apologized to the world in a Monday speech at the United Nations Climate Change Conference for his predecessor's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord.
“I guess I shouldn’t apologize, but I do apologize for the fact the United States, the last administration, pulled out of the Paris accords and put us sort of behind the eight ball a little bit,” Biden said.
The world, the president asserted, had entered a "decisive decade" that will determine how extensive the damage from rising global temperatures will be.
"It's simple," Biden said, "Will we act? Will we do what is necessary? Will we seize the enormous opportunity before us, or will we condemn future generations to suffering?"
Biden's overall take on his efforts: On climate change, he’s got $900 billion planned for renewable energy, and Congress will vote this coming week. On supply chains, he has plans to make the ports run better and tamp down inflation. For workers, he’s building an economy with pay raises. On diplomacy, world leaders trust him.
So where the fuck are all these plans pastor political hack?
Even the Neanderthals who occuply this blog have got to know that rrb us full of s. when he tries to claim that the Alex Baldwin shooting was political.
But Roger is riht on target with all his articles about the rightwing encouragement of violent sedition and civil war.
Anonymous Myballs said... Foreign news agencies are literally laughing at Joe Biden. One Aussie news station actually said 'what the president need a is a retirement home and a warm bowl of soup'.
Big media is not reporting it. You have to go to breitbart to see it. Video and all.
Even the Neanderthals who occuply this blog have got to know that rrb us full of s. when he tries to claim that the Alex Baldwin shooting was political.
That was not the claim, pederast.
But thanks for revealing that you're just as fucking stupid as the alky.
Biden's overall take on his efforts: On climate change, he’s got $900 billion planned for renewable energy, and Congress will vote this coming week. On supply chains, he has plans to make the ports run better and tamp down inflation. For workers, he’s building an economy with pay raises. On diplomacy, world leaders trust him.
So where the fuck are all these plans pastor political hack?
The Paris Climate Accord was a rip-off from the jump and Trump was wise to shitcan it.’
You know what they aren’t serious about climate change when they tell the three biggest polluting countries to pollute away while telling the least green house gas polluting countries (the US) they have to do more.
This was never about the science, it was always about ceding power and sovereignty to the UN (one of the most undemocratic bodies in the world) so they can achieve their socialist utopian dream.
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The rorshack test to see if someone is hopelessly infected with TDS.
3 on this blog and counting.
Almost one-third of Republicans say they think violence may be necessary to solve the problems facing the United States, according to a new national survey by the nonprofit Public Religion Research Institute. The finding is part of PRRI’s 12th annual American Values Survey released Monday which, among other things, highlights the continued impact of the same falsehoods and conspiracy theories that fueled the violent Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol nearly one year later.
The survey was conducted between Sept. 16 and Sept. 29 through online interviews with a random sample of 2,508 adults living in all 50 states. Nearly one in five, or 18 percent, of overall respondents said they agreed with the statement: “Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country,” including 30 percent of Republicans, 11 percent of Democrats and 17 percent of independents.
“It is an alarming finding,” said Robert Jones, CEO and founder of PRRI. “I’ve been doing this a while, for decades, and it’s not the kind of finding that as a sociologist, a public opinion pollster, that you’re used to seeing.”
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Overall, the responses to this question illustrate the “significant and rapidly increasing polarization in the United States,” he said.
Protesters at the state Capitol building in Frankfort, Ky., in January 2021, during a nationwide protest called by far-right groups supporting Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud. (Jeff Dean/AFP via Getty Images)More
Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said that it’s “extremely disturbing” that “nearly a third of the Republicans measured in this poll are getting comfortable with the idea of political violence.” And, he said, the much smaller percentages of Democrats and independents who expressed support for this idea are also “enough to be concerning.”
Jones said the substantial showing of support for political violence among Republicans is “a direct result of former President Trump calling into question the election,” pointing to another stark finding from the PRRI poll: More than two-thirds of Republicans, or 68 percent, continue to believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, compared to 26 percent of independents and just 6 percent of Democrats.
According to the survey, Americans who believe Trump won the 2020 election are roughly four times as likely than those who don’t to agree that violence may be necessary “to save our country,” by a measure of 39 percent to 10 percent. Since he lost the election a year ago, Trump has spread false conspiracy theories claiming that the election was rigged and that President Biden’s win was illegitimate.
The findings also seem to demonstrate a clear correlation between people’s views and their preferred news sources. Among Republicans who trust Fox News above other outlets, 82 percent said they believe the election was stolen from Trump. Ninety-seven percent of those who rely mostly on far-right news sources like Newsmax and One America News (OAN) said the same, compared to less than half, 44 percent, of Republicans who trust mainstream news outlets.
“A large chunk of the Republican Party has been essentially radicalized,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. Beirich said she thinks “a lot of responsibility lies with Republican leadership” for failing to push back on the former president’s election fraud claims and efforts to downplay the violence of Jan. 6.
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She noted that the few Republicans who have spoken out against these harmful narratives, like Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who serves as vice chair of the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6, have faced political backlash.
“It’s very sad, actually, and very dangerous,” said Beirich. She suggested that conservative media figures might be more effective at dispelling conspiracy theories and denouncing violence; she said religious leaders could also serve that role, noting the large presence of evangelical Christians within the GOP. According to the PRRI study, a majority of white evangelicals, 60 percent, said they believe the election was stolen from Trump. White evangelicals were also the religious group most likely to think that “true American patriots might have to resort to violence in order to save our country,” with 26 percent saying they agree.
Pitcavage, a historian and authority on extremism in the United States, explained that political violence in America has traditionally come from the fringes of society. But, he said, the more society becomes polarized “the more there is a chance that political violence will not only come from extremists, but will come from really angry, agitated people in the mainstream as well.”
Pitcavage pointed to the more than 650 people who’ve been arrested so far in relation to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol as an example of this.
“About a quarter of them have previous ties to known extremist groups or movements, from the militia movement to White supremacists, to conspiracy theorists,” said Pitcavage. “The bulk of them did not.”
“The nightmare scenario is that this polarization will continue and there will be more and more instances where there could be mob violence or other types of violence ranging from volatile lone wolves acting out to people actually organizing and committing terrorist acts,” Pitcavage said.
In response to a request for comment on the findings of the latest PRRI survey, a spokesperson for the FBI referred Yahoo News to previous congressional testimony by FBI officials addressing domestic extremism.
In testimony given last month before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that since spring of 2020, the FBI has more than doubled its number of domestic terrorism investigations, to about 2,700 open cases.
“To meet that evolving threat, the FBI has surged resources to our domestic terrorism investigations in the last year, increasing personnel by 260 personnel,” Wray told senators at the time.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security similarly pointed to previous comments made by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about domestic terrorism. The spokesperson further cited a number of actions DHS has taken during the Biden presidency to address this threat, including the February designation of domestic violent extremism as a “National Priority Area” for the first time in FEMA grant programs; the creation in May of a new Center for Prevention Programs and Partnership to improve the agency’s capacity to prevent terrorist violence; and the issuing of National Terrorism Advisory System bulletins in January, May and August of this year that highlighted the threat of domestic violent extremists.
Jones noted that, in addition to the most recent September survey, PRRI asked the same question about political violence on three earlier polls conducted this year in March, June, and August. He and his colleagues expected to see greater support for political violence “in the heat of the moment, right after Jan. 6,” but they predicted that people would back away from those views over the course of the year.
Instead, the responses have remained fairly consistent since March, when 15 percent of respondents agreed that “true American patriots may have to resort to violence,” including 28 percent of Republicans, 13 percent of Independents and 7 percent of Democrats.
“As we've gotten some distance [from Jan. 6], one might hope cooler heads would prevail, but we really haven’t seen that,” said Jones. “If anything, it looks like people are doubling down and views are getting kind of locked in.”
You want a civil war two
https://news.yahoo.com/prri-poll-republicans-violence-040144322.html
Among Republicans who trust Fox News above other outlets, 82 percent said they believe the election was stolen from Trump. Ninety-seven percent of those who rely mostly on far-right news sources like Newsmax and One America News (OAN) said the same, compared to less than half, 44 percent, of Republicans who trust mainstream news outlets.
“A large chunk of the Republican Party has been essentially radicalized,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. Beirich said she thinks “a lot of responsibility lies with Republican leadership” for failing to push back on the former president’s election fraud claims and efforts to downplay the violence of Jan. 6.
You have become radicalized by Trump since he won the nomination.
The resemblance between Trump and Adolf Hitler's salute is undeniable.
I have seen threats of violence here.
But, he said, the more society becomes polarized “the more there is a chance that political violence will not only come from extremists, but will come from really angry, agitated people in the mainstream as well.”
Pitcavage pointed to the more than 650 people who’ve been arrested so far in relation to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol as an example of this.
“About a quarter of them have previous ties to known extremist groups or movements, from the militia movement to White supremacists, to conspiracy theorists,” said Pitcavage. “The bulk of them did not.”
“The nightmare scenario is that this polarization will continue and there will be more and more instances where there could be mob violence or other types of violence ranging from volatile lone wolves acting out to people actually organizing and committing terrorist acts,” Pitcavage said.
He is even paying off, the people who stormed the Capitol building on January 6th.
Trump campaign blasted out curious payments the day after Jan. 6 riot -- to people not previously on the payroll
Travis Gettys
November 01, 2021
Republicans are still throwing money at firms involved with planning "Stop the Steal" rallies ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Donald Trump used the firm Event Strategies to help set up his rally that day, and it's become the preferred staging group for the former president and other Republicans despite its ties to the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, reported The Daily Beast.
Trump's fundraising organizations have paid the firm about $800,000 since the insurrection, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, including a $31,358 payment on Aug. 13 by Make America Great Again Action, a the super PAC previously run by Corey Lewandowski shut down last month amid sexual assault allegations.
The National Republican Congressional Committee reported spending about $3,675 for "facility rental" with the firm and $6,000 for "audio visual/staging" in late June, and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) paid $200,000 and $7,038 to the company in late August.
Trump groups paid more than $4.3 million to individuals and companies involved with organizing the Jan. 6 rally, including about $2.8 million to Event Strategies.
The former president's campaign also paid out travel reimbursements to nearly 60 people, including many who had not previously appeared on the payroll, the day after the Capitol riot.
Blogger Commonsense said...
The rorshack test to see if someone is hopelessly infected with TDS.
3 on this blog and counting.
And true to his mentally ill form, the alky steps right up to prove your point.
All the stories of the right turning to violence? All crafted by rabid left-wing nutbags looking to start a fight they can blame on the right.
In the face of relentless goading and prodding the right has shown remarkable restraint and HAS NOT taken any of the bait the left has laid out for them.
Meanwhile, never forget that it was a Maddow fanboi & Bernie Bro - James Hodgkinson - who actually DID resort to violence by opening fire on Republicans, almost killing Steve Scalise.
And it was reliably liberal asshole extraordinaire Alec Baldwin who just committed the mother of all fuck-ups by shooting an innocent woman.
Fuck you and your predictions of right wing violence, alky.
Don't start none, won't be none, as I've said many times on here.
But if you insist...
He staged the attempted coup.
The National Republican Congressional Committee reported spending about $3,675 for "facility rental" with the firm and $6,000 for "audio visual/staging" in late June, and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) paid $200,000 and $7,038 to the company in late August.
Trump groups paid more than $4.3 million to individuals and companies involved with organizing the Jan. 6 rally, including about $2.8 million to Event Strategies.
It worked. You triggered Roger.
It's a rolling coup by Trump
Republicans are still throwing money at firms involved with planning "Stop the Steal" rallies ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
RINO alert
Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo is planning to challenge Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman revealed Monday morning on CNN that Pompeo has directly told the former president that he intends to run regardless of Trump's plans.
"At the moment, what I'm hearing from a bunch of other Republicans privately, again, they're not saying it publicly, that's the asterisk here," Haberman said, "but they are saying privately Trump is not a factor. Mike Pompeo has told a number of people he told Trump directly he will run even if Trump runs. Did he get annoyed? No one knows the conversation between them, but he said other Republicans are signaling Mike Pence. He will have a hard time running, as would Mike Pompeo for the same reason, but I think what you're seeing more often than not, Republicans signal that they're going to do what they want."
"That said," she added, "Trump is the 800-pound gorilla in this race."
McAuliffe finally gets it that the VA gov race is not about Trump. Way too late Terry.
And true to his mentally ill form, the alky steps right up to prove your point.
All the stories of the right turning to violence? All crafted by rabid left-wing nutbags looking to start a fight they can blame on the right.
I think even alky is embarrassed about Biden on the world stage,
Cutting a proposed live feed from the Vatican
Shitting in his pants
leading a monster climate transportation disaster to a supposed climate conference
Not being able to answer unscripted questions and again pulling out a card with "reporters" to be called on which even included their pictures
What the fuck ???
I think his handlers are trying to get him past a year in office for his "legacy".
No president has ever been such a failure despite a lapdog press.
And the world and America sees it
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman
with more unnamed "sources"
what a FAKE NEWS joke
who could be stupid enough to believe her after the many years of lying about Trump for a FAKE NEWS outlet ?
oh, the alky
ROFLMFAO !!!
Ari Fleischer
https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1454809568773554177
When people chanted against Trump or Bush, there was something wrong with Trump and Bush. When people chant against Joe Biden, there’s something wrong with the people.
Isn’t that how it works, especially for the MSM?
Lets Go Brandon
ad FJB
Glenn Youngkin
@GlennYoungkin
This election isn’t about the career politicians. It’s about us.
This is our moment, Virginia.
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1454108518785630217
Bernard B. Kerik
https://twitter.com/BernardKerik/status/1455004559206715397
At what point does Congress intervene and stop this charade. This guy can’t even find his way to the podium without a guide.
Biden appears to use prepared list of reporters after G20 summit in Rome: 'I'm told we should start with AP'
embarrassing
and everyone knows it
butt covered by lying state news media and minions
Roger AmickNovember 1, 2021 at 7:08 AM
RINO alert
Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo is planning to challenge Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman revealed Monday morning on CNN.
Since it’s the New York Times in general and Maggie Halbermen in particular, I doubt the story is legitimate.
However it just goes to show that there’s no shortage of highly qualified candidates in the GOP should Trump decide not to run.
At what point does Congress intervene and stop this charade. This guy can’t even find his way to the podium without a guide.
According to the 25th amendment it’s not Congress but the cabinet that initiates involuntary removal of a President for diminish capacity.
LOL:
President Joe Biden used a “makes the trains run on time” reference earlier today at the G20 summit while discussing Sec. Tony Blinken’s role in helping to solve the supply-chain crisis. That’s right. Our elderly leader just made a Mussolini reference in Rome, Italy:
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/10/31/president-biden-uses-a-makes-the-trains-run-on-time-reference-while-in-rome-italy/
According to the 25th amendment it’s not Congress but the cabinet that initiates involuntary removal of a President for diminish capacity.
I think there's a little-known codicil in the 25th amendment that says a sitting president must shit his pants on three separate occasions in the presence of a foreign leader in order to be removed.
We're at 'one' so far.
Stocks started the first trading day of November off strong on Monday as investors bet on a year-end rally after markets navigated a typically tough seasonal period successfully.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 170 points to a fresh record, helped by gains in Boeing and JPMorgan. The S&P 500 gained 0.3% and also hit an all-time high. The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite added 0.2%.
Shares of Tesla, which became a $1 trillion company last week, continued its gains for the year with shares up more than 2%. Investors have been piling into bets on Tesla options as of late.
Stocks linked to an economic recovery, such as Ford and Occidental Petroleum, were also higher. Ford gained 1% and Occidental Petroleum popped 2.5%. Airlines and retailers were mostly in the green, while mega-cap tech stocks underperformed.
“In our view, the key story arc driving equities is the strengthening global recovery,” wrote Fundstrat’s Tom Lee in a note to clients. “COVID-19 trends are improving, but with vaccinations and boosters, the improvement in healthcare risk could materially accelerate in 2022.
Toddler With Full Diaper And Incoherent Speech Goes As Joe Biden For Halloween
"Candy? Ice cweam? Poop?" the little Oliver responded. "Poopy in pants? Trunalimunumaprzure?"
"See?" his mom cooed. "He's just so perfect for the part! That made more sense than the last seven speeches I've heard the president give."
The Burnswax's neighbors loved his costume, though some thought it was the actual Joe Biden and slammed the door in his face, thinking he was there to monitor their bank transactions over $600 or jab them with a needle. But once they got the joke and had gotten over their fright, they all had a good-natured laugh over the classic costume.
At publishing time, Burnswax had said his first full sentence, "Wet's go, Bwandon."
https://babylonbee.com/news/toddler-with-full-diaper-and-incoherent-speech-goes-as-joe-biden-for-halloween
Looks like all he missed was a trailing group of swooning lapdog press.
Travis Tritt
https://twitter.com/Travistritt/status/1455014585078108162
Jon Bon Jovi and Jen Psaki are just the latest “fully vaccinated” to come down with full blown Covid. How much more do we need to see before serious questions are asked of our government and the CDC?
and Psaki was obviously in close contact with Biden.
Who then spent hours with the pope (hands on) in an enclosed room with poop and no mask.
"science"
Libs of Tik Tok
@libsoftiktok
How are people still falling for the mask BS. Unreal
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1455013259459715073
not one elite truly believes it, but the charade continues
“In our view, the key story arc driving equities is the strengthening global recovery,”
Yeah, liberal globalist would say to avoid saying “the diminishing possibility a Democrat Congress will raise corporate taxes is triggering the current bull market.”
Oh, the global tax agreement is dead on arrival.
Climate change is a grift.
Biden is running that grift now. He’s panicking his mark by saying it’s too late to argue the matter.
Typical leftist tyrannical drivel. Democracy dies on the alter of Globalization.
Vigilante enforcement is going to destroy the Texas abortion law.
Almost exactly two months after the Supreme Court allowed a novel abortion ban to go into effect in Texas, making it functionally impossible to obtain abortions in the state, the law is back in the justices’ laps. Today, though, the justices won’t directly consider the constitutionality of the ban, which prohibits abortions after fetal cardiac activity can be detected — often before women know they’re pregnant. Instead, they’ll be grappling with the law’s unique structure, which raises some thorny questions about the federal courts’ power over the states.
What Texas did wasn’t noteworthy because of at what stage it banned abortion. Plenty of other states have already passed laws restricting abortion after six weeks, or banning it outright. The Texas law’s innovation was how it banned abortion: Private citizens who successfully sue an individual for helping a woman get a prohibited abortion are eligible for a $10,000 reward, putting responsibility for enforcing the law in the hands of vigilante plaintiffs — and, crucially, taking it out of the hands of state officials, like prosecutors.
It’s not clear at this point whether the conservative justices have changed their minds about the Texas law since September. After all, the court recently chose once again to leave the law in place while the legal battle plays out — although it did add the case to its docket at lightning speed, suggesting the justices are looking to make a decision soon. There are signs, though, that the law’s unusual enforcement mechanism may be its undoing:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-supreme-court-might-overturn-texass-abortion-law/
Speaking of triggering.
Trump wants to castigate Mike Pence.
TrumpWorld is fuming at Mike Pence
Matthew Rozsa, Salon
November 01, 2021
A new report reveals that, while Vice President Mike Pence hid in the bowels of the Capitol out of fear for his life on Jan. 6, President Donald Trump's lawyer castigated him for not helping the administration illegitimately stay in power. Eastman's logic was straightforward: If Pence had helped Trump pull off his coup, the angry mob assembled by the president would not have turned to violence.
"The 'siege' is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened," John Eastman, who represented Trump at the time, wrote to Pence aide Greg Jacobs, according to a report by The Washington Post. Eastman sent his email while Pence, Jacobs and many other public officials were under guard from rioters who had been egged on by Trump to "never concede," "show strength," "fight" and show "our Republicans" how to display the "pride and boldness that they need to take back our country." As the rioters laid waste to the Capitol, some called for Pence to be executed.
In an opinion article that Jacob later wrote about his experience, but chose not to publish, he observed that Eastman's email "displayed a shocking lack of awareness of how those practical implications were playing out in real time."
rrb would love to have them as rocky mountain oysters!
I know it's not castration but it is implied.
I have actually eaten rocky mountain oysters!
Never again.
So the alky freely admits that he doesn't know the difference between the words "castigate" and "castrate."
Behold the power of his self-proclaimed 137 IQ.
LMAO.
THWAP!!!
Foreign news agencies are literally laughing at Joe Biden. One Aussie news station actually said 'what the president need a is a retirement home and a warm bowl of soup'.
Big media is not reporting it. You have to go to breitbart to see it. Video and all.
It was a bit of genus that the Texas state legislature made the law a private tort. SCOTUS could very well rule the case not yet ripe:
They may force the plaintiffs to wait for an actual lawsuit and sue the person initiating the tort.
The science deniers will go crazy mothrf***r at Biden
GLASGOW, Scotland — President Biden apologized to the world in a Monday speech at the United Nations Climate Change Conference for his predecessor's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord.
“I guess I shouldn’t apologize, but I do apologize for the fact the United States, the last administration, pulled out of the Paris accords and put us sort of behind the eight ball a little bit,” Biden said.
The world, the president asserted, had entered a "decisive decade" that will determine how extensive the damage from rising global temperatures will be.
"It's simple," Biden said, "Will we act? Will we do what is necessary? Will we seize the enormous opportunity before us, or will we condemn future generations to suffering?"
The implication and humor escapes your mind rrb
James, you forgot to answer.
"CommonsenseNovember 1, 2021 at 5:21 AM
Biden's overall take on his efforts: On climate change, he’s got $900 billion planned for renewable energy, and Congress will vote this coming week. On supply chains, he has plans to make the ports run better and tamp down inflation. For workers, he’s building an economy with pay raises. On diplomacy, world leaders trust him.
So where the fuck are all these plans pastor political hack?
Even the Neanderthals who occuply this blog have got to know that rrb us full of s. when he tries to claim that the Alex Baldwin shooting was political.
But Roger is riht on target with all his articles about the rightwing encouragement of violent sedition and civil war.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Foreign news agencies are literally laughing at Joe Biden. One Aussie news station actually said 'what the president need a is a retirement home and a warm bowl of soup'.
Big media is not reporting it. You have to go to breitbart to see it. Video and all.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1454645955337375748
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Even the Neanderthals who occuply this blog have got to know that rrb us full of s. when he tries to claim that the Alex Baldwin shooting was political.
That was not the claim, pederast.
But thanks for revealing that you're just as fucking stupid as the alky.
President Biden apologized to the world in a Monday speech at the United Nations Climate Change Conference
Hence the reason he’s tanking in the polls.
He learned how to bend over and Be the world's bitch from that obimbo queer.
How is "Big Mike" ?
😊🖕Alex Baldwin🤣
Who pedo?
The Paris Climate Accord was a rip-off from the jump and Trump was wise to shitcan it. -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-the-climate-pact-swindle/2014/11/20/f78f6474-70e9-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html
James, you forgot to answer.
"CommonsenseNovember 1, 2021 at 5:21 AM
Biden's overall take on his efforts: On climate change, he’s got $900 billion planned for renewable energy, and Congress will vote this coming week. On supply chains, he has plans to make the ports run better and tamp down inflation. For workers, he’s building an economy with pay raises. On diplomacy, world leaders trust him.
So where the fuck are all these plans pastor political hack?
rrb said...
So the alky freely admits that he doesn't know the difference between the words "castigate" and "castrate."
Behold the power of his self-proclaimed 137 IQ.
LMAO.
THWAP!!!
ROFLMFAO !!!
no wonder roger cowers as you constantly castigate him
terrorist !
Dennis
NOC STOCK $354.06 USD −3.16⬇️ (0.88%)today
DOJ Announced that :
"Let's go Brandon "
Is hate speech.
The Paris Climate Accord was a rip-off from the jump and Trump was wise to shitcan it.’
You know what they aren’t serious about climate change when they tell the three biggest polluting countries to pollute away while telling the least green house gas polluting countries (the US) they have to do more.
This was never about the science, it was always about ceding power and sovereignty to the UN (one of the most undemocratic bodies in the world) so they can achieve their socialist utopian dream.
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