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[–] whatupwiththat@kbin.social 165 points 1 year ago (1 children)

flat out fucking terrorists

[–] vertigo3pc@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Always have been

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 137 points 1 year ago (2 children)

FTA:

"These jurors have signed their death warrant by falsely indicting President Trump," read one post on a pro-Trump forum in response to a post including the names of jurors, which was viewed by NBC News."

What about second indictment, Pip?

[–] ATQ@lemm.ee 113 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, honestly, the FBI or relevant SBI needs to go dig these losers out of their trailer park and throw the book at them. We cannot tolerate traitors and fascists. These people are just begging for the FO stage.

[–] Neato@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago

Even just intimidating jurors is bad enough. Juries are the only thing keeping the courts from running roughshod through democracy is they chose to.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

I'm sure after a year and a half Garland will allow the FBI to think about taking a look.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

This was downvoted. Just pointing that out.

[–] discodoubloon@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

How did they even get this information? Shouldn’t this be pretty closely guarded? I assume there are maybe a few dozen people with their hands on it…

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Great way to prove your guy is innocent. Imagine if a democrat would have released this information about pending case against Biden or Obama. Republicans vilified the email lady just for being a woman.

[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Republicans would be lining up all the way to Russia to crucify a Democrat who did even a fraction of what Dullard Grump bragged about on television.

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[–] Chthonic@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand you guys are frustrated by Republican hypocrisy but it is literally designed into/a selling point of conservatism.

Wilhoit's Law:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

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[–] st3ph3n@kbin.social 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We are all domestic terrorists" No republican sadly gives a shit about laws or rights anymore. They just care about power

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The lack of political leadership on the right to denounce these threats — which serve to inspire real-world political violence — is shameful.

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[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

What the fuck.

We know the names of the terrorists that have done it. Track them down, arrest them, 10+ years un prison.

Ruin their shitty little lives.

Make an exapmle out of them.

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago (16 children)

What a bunch of jackasses.

Bet it was the same group that was pissed about protests at the Supreme Court Justice's houses, too.

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[–] RandallFlagg@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When Randall fucking Flag calls someone a terrorist you know they're bad!

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 25 points 1 year ago

Those people need special protection now. Holy fuck this is bad.

[–] fabian@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They've already performed their duty. Silly boys can't even stochastic terrorism right.

I guess this is what the bloviating one was talking about when he twatted "if you come for me i'll come for you."

Little slow on the draw there, gordito.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

It also acts as a threat that they'll do the same to jurors involved in the trial should it not go their way.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


ATLANTA — The purported names and addresses of members of the grand jury that indicted Donald Trump and 18 of his co-defendants on state racketeering charges this week have been posted on a fringe website that often features violent rhetoric, NBC News has learned.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis faced racist threats ahead of the return of the indictment and additional security measures were put in place, with some employees being allowed to work from home.

The grand juror's purported addresses were spotted by Advance Democracy, Inc., a non-partisan research group founded by Daniel J. Jones, a former FBI investigator and staffer for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

“It’s becoming all too commonplace to see everyday citizens performing necessary functions for our democracy being targeted with violent threats by Trump-supporting extremists," Jones said.

Advance Democracy also noted that users were posting on other social media sites the names and images of people believed to have been grand jurors.

— Advance Democracy noted that Trump supporters were "using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur" in posts online.


I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Morons probably don't even know how to use a VPN, so they're gonna get caught and fucked and Trump won't care.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Who would have had access to this information? I bet this leak could be traced back to someone on Trump's defense team if we investigated hard enough

[–] paddythegeek@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Terrorists.

[–] spider@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The U.S. version of al-Qaeda sleeper cells.

[–] ineedaunion@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

They are cowards after all. It's time we start hunting MAGA boomers and beating them in the streets.

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