1y ago

Mother of Jan. 6 officer Michael Fanone swatted after he called Trump 'authoritarian'

www.nbcnews.com

Fanone was abducted by the mob on Jan. 6 and nearly killed when a MAGA-hatted rioter who believed Trump's lies about the 2020 election drove a stun gun into his neck.

Michael Fanone, a former police officer who was nearly killed by a mob during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, spoke outside the courthouse during closing arguments in Donald Trump's hush money trial Tuesday, calling Trump "an authoritarian" with "a violence fetish."

Hours later, Fanone's mother was "swatted" at her home in Virginia.

On Tuesday, a fake "manifesto" attributed to Fanone was sent to a number of email addresses, including some associated with a high school that Fanone attended for a year more than two decades ago. The "manifesto," viewed by NBC News, claimed that the writer had killed their mother and planned to go to the recipient's school Wednesday and shoot more people. It provided Fanone's mother's home address.

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Thanks for showing that officer to be correct, MAGA fans.
- They know. The difference is, they like it, thinking it projects "strength".
  
  I heard people say that Trump is a weak persons idea of a strong person, seems pretty accurate.
- Time after time maga proves to be as bad as any seemingly hyperbolic comments made about them by others.
  Basket of deplorables indeed.
- Enough consecutive Democratic wins and both parties will be forced to shift further left to capture more of the vote. That requires people to show up and vote in all elections, not just presidential. You can blame Bush and his shift of the Overton Window on the disenfranchisement of Gen X, but it’s starting to sound like young Millennials and Gen Z are willing to let Israel justify an even larger shift to the right.
- You can't really expect logical consistency from any large group of people. It will always be trivial to find 2 people with conflicting views, so trying to paint the group as hypocritical is worthless.
  But Republicans are indeed worthless shitcunts, so it's never hard to find an individual being hypocritical. Unfortunately, the accusation means nothing to them. They don't care if they're hypocritical, immoral or bigoted, they only care about getting what they want -- and there's nothing they won't say to get it.
I hope the FBI gets to the bottom of the person, or people, responsible. That is super fucked up.
- Well they could take care of the root of the problem as well. That stupid fucking idiot trump.
  
  He not the root, he’s just another leaf on the gympie gympie that the right has become over the last fifty years. The FBI itself is another part of it.
The other day, at the libertarian convention, some MAGA hats went and harassed other participants who were calling Trump authoritarian. It's amazing how they'll just go and take denunciations of their nature as a challenge to enact it, unable to see that they're actually harming themselves.
- A libertarian convention sounds like it would have been so chill before like 2016. Maybe my views of the past are a little naive though.
  EDIT: I thought they said librarian...
  
  Real high wacko quotient. There's a lot of people who are just there because they are gold fetishists.
Thus proving her point.
- Call the gestapo on someone who questions the Party.
There are three sorts of MAGA asshole.
Cynical as hell and only supporting it because they want to make money in the chaos.
Genuinely evil, cruel and racist (Steven Miller) and wants to hurt people in the chaos.
Ignorant as fuck and frequently also coupled with lower intelligence. Honestly has no fucking idea about anything beyond their daily existence or the tip of their nose, and doesn’t care to become informed. Low information voter and proud of it. Opinions and raised voices count far more than being able to read. Hopes they can get cheaper gas and beer in the chaos.
- Don't forget the 4chan incel meming nihilists!
  Our society is full of ignorant assholes. The only thing I'll say is the red dunce cap makes them easier to spot and filter.
  
  Wow I've been 2 to 3 of those at different times; doesn't feel great
- Thank fuck I may be dumb, but at least I'm nice
- I have, in younger years, not been particularly informed about politics and was glib in saying things like ‘they’re all the same” etc. but I was at least lucky to have a family background with enough smarts to never have given the time of day to a piece of shit like Trump.
  To be charitable, there are unimaginably VAST numbers of people who are not actually idiots, but lack any point of intelligent reference in their family or community with which to leverage any thinking outside of the purposely-regressive framework set up by the GOP types; the RW media, the business grifters, the churches, the impassioned-but-warped-and-misguided funders, the downright evil. They are all in that mix.
  Ever since he was the front runner in 2016 I’ve become determinedly interested in politics and the courts and become loquacious in attempting to describe their importance to people who claim the disinterest I used to.
  Help spread the word to people you know need the help to understand the importance of it!
  Yes politicians can be self-serving, but GENERALLY on the Left, particularly the progressive Left, politicians are not there to line their own pockets. This absolutely cannot be said for the Rightwing.
- As Trump said, "we love the poorly educated."
  
  He might, I don’t.
BaCk thE BLuE!!!!!
Right folks?
Back in the day, someone said that it wasn't the big Hitler in Berlin that was making life tough. It was the million little Hitlers in Paris.
If they caught the fuckers that did that, I hope they go away for attempted murder.
The "law and order" party has become the anarchy party.
- Don't insult anarchy like that. Anarchy requires respect for each other, that's why you don't need a leader or rules.

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