Fixed it.
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Republicans largely created the atmosphere of incivility and outright threat that some of their saner members complain about. The 6 Jan insurrection was their creation, after all. The fact that anyone other than the most radical R’s are being driven out of the party is very worrisome.
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My R sister said a few weeks ago, “WTF is wrong with everyone? I’m almost afraid to go anywhere anymore.”
Kept my mouth shut because pointless.
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“I’ll tell you it’s a terrible way — we have seen civility really downslide here,” Upton said. “I’m concerned about my staff. They are taking these calls.”
Just out of curiosity, Fred, do you think the caller was a Rethugliklan? Do you think the Guardians Of Plunderers had anything to do with the complete destruction of civil discourse in this country?
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No no no. It was antifa - because lots of antifa follow MTG on “the twitter”.
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The threatening voicemail was merely a concerned citizen expressing his proper manliness.
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“I hope you die. I hope everybody in your f**king family dies,”
…because you voted for an infrastructure bill.
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It was just a tourist looking for information.
Wanting to show his love.
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LOL
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It’s not Trump so much as those profiting from Trump.
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Upton then expressed concerns for his staffers who take calls that contain “very disturbing, adult language.”
Not by any reasonable definition of that word, no.
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Democrats need to run HARD against all 13 Republicans who supported this bill, giving no credit whatsoever for doing the right thing this one time. The one time they got something right, does not excuse the mess they made that got us to this point in the first place. They’re vulnerable with their own party turned against them, so go for the jugular FFS!
I guess Upton should consider himself lucky that he didn’t do something that, you know, a reasonable - and sane - person would get truly upset about.
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Part of a trend?
The next morning, the caller followed up with more texts to the journalists. “I am going to destroy you and that is a threat.” In multiple texts, he said he would “ruin” the life of one of the reporters. On Oct. 30, he left two more voicemails for them. “You are all going to f‑‑‑‑‑‑ hang. I’m going to make sure of it,” said one. “Bad s‑‑‑ is gonna to happen to you,” said the other. “Your days are f‑‑‑‑‑‑ numbered.”
He also sent the reporters four messages with the same picture: a grainy black-and-white photograph of a public execution that has been shared widely in far-right social media, with a caption claiming it showed “members of the media” hanging in “Nuremberg, Germany.” (In fact, the photo was taken in Kiev, Ukraine, depicting Nazi officers being hung for war crimes.)
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I don’t always make terroristic threats, but when I do, I like to send them via easily traced text messages and I like to say they are, in fact, threats, just so we’re all clear on that.
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Miscellany.
Because slavery is so 19th Century*
*It’s not.
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But you know this has been going on for years. It’s what they say instead of howdy. I doubt one in fifty has been in so much as a shoving match since grade school.
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“I’ll tell you it’s a terrible way — we have seen civility really downslide here,” Upton said.
Well, maybe you should have a chat within your caucus about staging a more civil assault on the Capitol next time. Or being a little less rude when bombing abortion clinics. Or possibly finding more polite ways to convince your base that anyone who disagrees with you are agents of Satan, hell-bent on murdering children as a means of dooming the entire world. You know, while you make sure to fight so very civilly against not dooming the entire world through climate change.
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