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    McCaul went on to call the tactics despicable and added, “If this is the level of my party, I think it’s in the gutter and we need to get out of the gutter right now.”

    Hey, McCaul - you can get out of the gutter any time you want. If that is the level of your party, and you continue to carry water for them you are complicit.

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    Threats of violence, sounds like a Jordan MOB call. Guess Jimmy hasn’t changed his attitude much since helping to orchestrate January 6th for Trump, voting against election results, defending Trump during his impeachment, opposing Trumps investigations, voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act, backing Trumps ridiculous Mexican border wall, backing Trump’s efforts to roll back regulations on environmental regulations, financial regulations, and labor regulations… etc etc etc

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      It definitely sounds like a mob threat. “We hear you’re not voting our way. That makes Mr. Jordan mad. You don’t want to make Mr. Jordan mad.”

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      Oh, they said that they “weren’t violent like the left” before threatening to sexually assault her.

      They’re on base, and you can’t tripple-stamp a double-stamp, no take-backs, etc.

      These fuggin’ morons think (just like Trump) that using the magic words “non-violent” is a free pass to say whatever stupid and horrible shit they want without consequences.

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    Tapper’s face was priceless when he specifically said the message was edited to conceal who the lawmaker was and who the wife was, and then his guest immediately said who it was.

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    We aren’t like the left. We aren’t violent…you’re going to be fucking molested like you can’t ever imagine.

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      You forgot to add, as an after thought, “not violently”

      Gently fucking molested, I guess.

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      I guess Fox news and other right wing outlets are saying the left is violent? It wasn’t the left I saw trying to overturn American democracy on Jan 6th…with lots of violence.

      I am sure the right has spun the Jan 6th people as being peaceful tourist-because they have. The rights leader is an orange liar.

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        These people still think entire cities are smoldering craters from BLM. I wish I were joking but I have to listen to this shit sometimes.

      • Fascists have to accuse the left of being violent or they have no cover to be violent against the left.

        The left doesn’t need to lie about the fascists, the fascists are violent and that’s just basic facts.

        Didn’t one of these die hard “America First” Republicans stab a little boy to death in front his mother like not even a week ago? It’s clear who’s violent.

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    Wow this call is insane. New Republican low. Set.

    How could the dumbest idiot think this was a good idea or that it would be effective except as a backfire?

    Whoever told him to do this was very clear to remind the caller to not announce any acts of violence, to keep it all non-violent. And he was like “uh-huh. Uh-huh. Okay ‘we’re going to be up your ass molesting you, non-violent, non-violent’”

    Nailed it

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      It’ll take a fair bit to go lower than Jan 6 and the spineless kowtowing that followed.

      I’d just call this on brand at this point.

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      What happens when people in politics who only know how to deposit donors money into their checking accounts, try “negotiating” from a position of non-leverage?

      This.

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        Obama is just a puppet. You heard the voicemail, this guy said “We are Antifa now” this is clearly a Soros funded BLM crisis actor trying to sow chaos and damage public perception of republicans. We would never threaten a woman. She has every right to feel safe in her kitchen amongst the survivors of her 12 school age children.

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          Claims to be a supposedly radical and violent left wing group… Threatens them because they won’t vote for Jordans.

          I mean even for Republican standards this is sad – they try to at make sense with their internal attacks.

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      “Well, this shows you the level of political discourse in this country now — ” McCaul began before Tapper interrupted.

      Seriously what an asshole. Doesn’t matter what they do, they always find a way to blame the Democrats.

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      For people who stuff themselves into plate carriers and parade around with rifles bleating about “tyranny”, they sure do get upset when you don’t line up to felate their tyrants.

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    Wild that this person claims to be antifa (the Boogeyman) but can’t keep it up as they can only spout the garbage right wing messages.

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      Thsi being a false flag by Reps and right-wingers really doesn’t surprise me. These guys have seemingly infiltrated sides since Obama era

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      My impression was he heard about Antifa burning down cities and attacking the capitol, and now he’s threatening to become like that. But strictly nonviolently, of course.

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      Yeah he’s not saying he is antifa, he’s saying he will now become what he associates with antifa (destruction, anarchy, etc. Etc.)

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    To be clear McCaul, the faction you are referring to are the MAGAts supporting Trump. You know, the supposed second coming of Jesus you’ve been supporting. He has taken the GOP into the gutter. The GOP was shit before but now they are absolutely traitorous scum sucking shit bags.