Intruder came in yelling “where’s Nancy!?” and hit Pelosi’s husband with a hammer. Agent 47 possibly? This shit is crazy, I know the Lenin quote about weeks and decades happening and shit, but holy cow this is too many weeks in a row, can someone full-on Minecraft Schumer or DeSantis next lmao

    • ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.mlOP
      141·
      2 years ago

      I was discussing this with my brothers earlier, most of these “plots” if you can even call them that were majorly unsuccessful. Jan 6 Almost led to Pence’s death(security escorted Pence out seconds before MAGAts would’ve swarmed him) some guy tried shooting up congress members in a GOP softball game(I think he maybe shot one in the leg, not positive tho) some crackers in Michigan tried to capture their governor too(they’re in really big trouble bc they planned that one semi-extensively)

      • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
        14·
        2 years ago

        The idiots in Michigan have a good chance of going free or a reduced charge, because 1/3 of their group were FBI agents who may have “accidently incited them and helped them plan”, what a joke.

    • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
      121·
      2 years ago

      God I hope not

      Edit: as in God I hope it’s not the last attempt to murder a western politician in the next few months.

    • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
      27·
      2 years ago

      This is a thing where both sides is probably a bad thing. Right wing attack means more support for the ghoul, a tankie attack will just put is further into a shitty position in the US. Although one of our party members punching a right wing politician a few days ago did make us more popular, so who knows.

    • ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.mlOP
      11·
      2 years ago

      My dad is a lib and keeps up w Twitter and he says MTG posted saying “wait for tmr” or something the day before so he thinks she either set it up or a MTG psycho did it after seeing it, seems like a stretch tho bc she has A LOT of enemies

  • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
    32·
    2 years ago

    Remember those rumors about Xi being couped in China, because he hadn’t made any public appearances for a while?

    Turns out he was in San Francisco setting this up.

  • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
    231·
    2 years ago

    Dude breaks in on the one day Nancy isn’t in town and couldn’t figure that out? Then elderly husband gets hit with a hammer and will make a full recovery? The family that were already targeted with obviously fake graffiti?

    I hate that this shitty ass imperialist hegemon makes me question everything I hear lol

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
      16·
      2 years ago

      Even a deranged, depressed lunatic could somehow build an entire black powder firearm from scratch to kill a politician with shrapnel and ball bearings… but a fanatical man couldn’t even wound an elderly man with a hammer while hitting him for several minutes? Huh?

      • Llyich@lemmygrad.ml
        110·
        2 years ago

        The attacker had him restrained but didn’t hit him until the cops showed up and tried to rescue him. Then he tried to kill him.

        • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
          12·
          2 years ago

          No, when the police arrived the assailant was apparently body locked with the husband in a melee over the hammer. He managed to get a “lucky” swing in on the husband in front of the cops before being incapacitated.

          Which brings up the question… what the hell was the intruder doing for the 15 minutes before the police arrived? Was an armed 42 year old man really held off and bested by a frail 82 year old that walks with a cane? For 15 minutes?

          • Llyich@lemmygrad.ml
            114·
            2 years ago

            Not what I have read. Which is that the attacker planned to wait for Pelosi to come home. Who hates Pelosi most? Trump.

            • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
              9·
              2 years ago

              How would that be possible? He was seen by several witnesses and tripped the alarm system when he broke in, so he knew that police were on their way. He probably realized really early on that Nancy wasn’t home, so what was the plan? He takes a hostage for several days and orders the cops to bring Pelosi to him???

              • relay@lemmygrad.ml
                9·
                2 years ago

                I guess even in helping high profile politicians, the cops are useless and show up too late.

              • Llyich@lemmygrad.ml
                25·
                2 years ago

                I wasn’t there but the SFPD says this happened:

                In a news conference on Friday, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said officers responded to a call at around 02:27 local time (09:27 GMT) in the city’s wealthy Pacific Heights neighbourhood.

                They found Mr Pelosi and the suspect - named by police as David DePape - both struggling over a hammer, but it was wrestled from Mr Pelosi’s control by the suspect, who violently assaulted him with it.

                The suspect was then tackled and disarmed by officers. He had attempted to tie up Mr Pelosi “until Nancy got home”, law enforcement sources told CBS News.

    • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
      101·
      2 years ago

      Seriously, it’s not hard to kill an elder man with a hammer, even accidentally. This person had no intention of actually doing harm.