Maine’s secretary of state said she has received threats in the wake of her decision to remove former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment on Friday.
“I was prepared for the possibility of threats, and I really appreciate law enforcement and the people around me who have been incredibly supportive of my safety and security,” Shenna Bellows (D) said during a Friday appearance on CNN. “My safety and security is important, so is the safety and security of everyone who works with me and we have received threatening communications.”
“Those are unacceptable,” Bellows continued.
We should always expect violence from conservatives. Always. Any amount of resistance to conservative oppression will be met with violence and threats. This has been true throughout history.
Conservatism cannot be cured by pacifism. Expect violence and threats. Never let conservative violence stop you from doing the right thing.
Using violence, or the threat of violence, to affect the course of politics, that’s the definition of terrorisim, is it not?
Not if you’re a Republican, then it’s “free speech” and “exercising your rights.”
The only true terrorism is calling christofascist terrorism bad.
“We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said. “Make no mistake, these partisan election interference efforts are a hostile assault on American democracy.”
Living up to the GOP (Gaslight Obstruction Projection) standards!
They are masters of DARVO. Everyone from those in the very elitist echelons of their party, to the fascist bullhorns that they call “news”, right on down to the dumbest members of the base, who are at least capable of mumbling the DARVO talking points they are given to parrot.
Because sometimes I need a refresher on terms:
deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender
What’s DARVO?
Here’s a thought, how about we flood her office with thanks? I mean if there are 10,000 thank you letters and 10 stupid, incriminating threat letters, wouldn’t that be better?
Likely unwise. I want the 10 illegals to get charged, not have the chances of overloading mail rooms and ability to adequately sift through it all be bogged down. 10,010 letters saying mostly great things make for an easier situation to miss the 1 who acts on the threat.
Of course she did. The conservatives are throwing their hissy fit as per usual when they don’t get their way- which happens to be corruption to their benefit.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Maine’s secretary of state said she has received threats in the wake of her decision to remove former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment on Friday.
“I was prepared for the possibility of threats, and I really appreciate law enforcement and the people around me who have been incredibly supportive of my safety and security,” Shenna Bellows (D) said during a Friday appearance on CNN.
On Thursday, Bellows said she had concluded the former president “over the course of several months and culminating on January 6, 2021, used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the Capitol to prevent certification of the 2020 election and the peaceful transfer of power.” Bellows’ decision made Maine the second state to take such an action, after the Colorado Supreme Court last week via a 4-3 ruling.
The weight of the evidence makes clear that Mr. Trump was aware of the tinder laid by his multi-month effort to delegitimize a democratic election, and then chose to light a match.”
Trump’s campaign has denounced the decision and called Bellows a “virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat.”
“We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said.
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Is there a legal procedure to voluntary tap own phone so all these things get tracked better and timely beforehand? If a public official knows they’d be soon targeted by a harassment campaign, might as well give up some privacy to ensure evidence against threatening individuals is collected as soon as possible.
Yes, this would be a great way to draw some of them out and get them in prison, ideally. Not only would it keep them from joining an even larger organized violent effort, it would likely keep them from voting, too. win-win.
Not surprising, given we are talking about the party/movement filled with fascists, oops, I mean, “law and order” types.
