Republicans terrified of crossing Trump due to physical threats, Democrat says

Yep. Fascism doesn't work without a dedicated cult of personality, and that's exactly what Trump has with his legion of MAGA asshole-idiots who are willing to commit violence for their messiah.

You're not allowed to say that or invoke Hitler until we're all in gas chambers! You're only allowed to call it out after it happens! You're supposed to believe the liars until people start writing the history of the events!

-Magoos

They can't kill all of us.

I’m not saying it’s not entirely true because we’ve been hearing about this for years. But given who is in charge of the FBI now, I wonder how many of these “credible threats” are actually credible vs. how many of them are actually just made up by Patel to make sure they stay in line.

If the people saying there are death threats against you are the same ones who are supposed to investigate them: There are death threats against you. It just might be a fed holding the gun.

I wonder how many of these "credible threats" are actually credible vs. how many of them are actually just made up by Patel to make sure they stay in line.

Well, he only just took office this week, and this crop of death threats have been reported for a month or so now. But I absolutely believe that Patel is going to try to return the FBI to its J. Edgar Hoover days of gathering komprimat on every single person in the country. We're gonna need another MEDBURG soon.

This is called ‘stochastic terrorism’.

It's carefully timed and targeted, thus no longer "stochastic"

.... until some of your acolytes deranged nut cases feel called upon .... - FTFY

I'm excited to find out!

won’t stick up for your kid

Emphasis mine. Why would they give a fuck about someone else's kid? That is how conservatives actually think, including the ones that get fucking elected. It's literally their job and they still can't give a fuck about a thing until it literally happens to them.

Nothing that cannot be helped or fixed.

If a death threat makes you back down I want you out of my government. I'd consider it on par with treason or like a soldier going AWOL in combat.

Maybe we should make them more afraid of us than of them? If that's what they're signaling works.

The only thing providing ANY resistance is the fear of what happens if constituents realize their representative killed social security.

There will be no resistance whatsoever for an anonymous vote.

I don't think it would help. They would just pick whoever they thought was most likely to turn. The threat of them picking the wrong person would create a peer pressure effect towards conforming. Much like the Roman army's decimation.

Where are they going to find someone older than a member of Congress?

Hate to break it to you, but the whole world is "a liberal cesspool" compared to the troll factory infested alt-right forums Xitter et.al.

Yup. You should fuck off to xitter or truth social if you want your hate speech.