A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

  • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
    152·
    1 year ago

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

    And there’s also this:

    Yesterday — after Trump posted on his social media website that authorities were going “after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!” — Advance Democracy noted that Trump supporters were “using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur” in posts online.

    • OkToBeTakei@lemm.ee
      78·
      1 year ago

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

      this is the worst part, the most disingenuous garbage, and what makes fighting agains this even harder.

      REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP WANTS AND SUPPORTS THIS

      the sooner we all acknowledge this and treat Republicans - collectively - as the FASCIST THREAT that they are, we all will lose.

      • SIGSEGV@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        1 year ago

        Uh, I think those that are inclined have already acknowledged this. The others are very likely a lost cause, if this recent spate of reporting hasn’t convinced them that Trump is a freaking manipulator and crook. Where do we go from here? I don’t know how so many extremists could possibly just, you know, stop being so extreme. Naively, a civil war could fix the issue, but that is the last thing we need–war is never the answer.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
      41·
      1 year ago

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

      Classy as ever

      • Raging LibTarg@lemmy.world
        37·
        1 year ago

        The instant I saw the word “RIGGERS” in his removed ass post yesterday, I knew exactly what it actually meant. Just more dog whistling fog horn blasting racism from The Cheeto Mussolini. 😡

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
      20·
      1 year ago

      Trump supporters were “using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur” in posts online.

      How to get your ass kicked by A/V professionals, 3D animators, and pirates… all in one fell swoop!

    • grue@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

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

      Charge every Republican politician who fails to publicly denounce them as an accessory to whatever crimes get committed against these grand jurors.