Newsmax host Carl Higbie went on a tirade on Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury the day before.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to cover up extramarital affairs. Trump was concerned the affairs would come to light and harm his presidential aspirations. The Republican freakout has been swift if not predictable. Despite their outrage and indignation, some conservatives insist that being a convicted felon will help Trump’s chances of returning to the White House in November’s election.
During Friday’s edition of Frontline on Newsmax, Higbie demanded congressional Republicans drop everything and go after those involved in Trump’s prosecution.
Just a reminder that the Nazi party regularly said shit like this leading up to the Holocaust. The idea was to make it seem like, to the public, that they have been regularly giving warnings to and negotiating with Jewish people about their need to relocate out of Germany and give up their property, and that the refusal to cooperate was going to force Germany to use violence.
It was all propaganda. The intent from the beginning was to commit violence.
All of the people Republicans are mad out right now - queer people, educators, health care professionals, and social workers to name a few - are all being given “warnings”, with increasingly violent rhetoric attach, priming their base to eventually resort to violence when those targets “refuse to cooperate”. Really what they mean is “Never do anything that disagrees with our far right agenda, or we will murder you”.
The Fascists want a civil war. In their fantasy it plays out like The Purge where the big strong patriots destroy all the scary black bloc antifa terrorists and usher in a new era. The reality is that it would just result in a domestic crisis that on top of traumatizing the general public, would destabilize the country enough to permanently destroy our place in the world as a superpower.
Sup, dork - liberal with a bunch of guns here. I’ve been training since Duck Hunt and can shoot the cap off a trans label Budweiser from 100 yards with a .22.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking Trumpers have a monopoly on gun powder.
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If they don’t like it, they can just leave. That’s what they’ve been saying for decades, right?
Newsmax: Don’t go into the cities! They’re warzones and you’ll get shot…
Also Newsmax: We have all the guns too!
These people are so detached from reality.
they don’t care about reality at all.
they care about fantasy.
That 90% number is wishful thinking at best.
And so what if Cletus has a hundred guns. He’s only got 2 hands and early onset diabetes. I like my chances.
Good point, I could easily out maneuver a mobility scooter.
Better watch out now, Rascal makes a turbo model that’ll get up into the high teens. Strap a couple AK’s to one of those and you have the next Tarantino movie.
Does he even know who the hell we are? I’m a new Yorker and I’ve seen through Trump’s facade for decades. Why are people so devoted to this conman?
Those people are devoted to the letter R. Trump is living proof that you can actively try to be the most vile person alive and still get republican support.
I’d like to remind that News Max host that the city that convicted Donald Trump murders 400 people each year with guns.
Blue cities ain’t trying to pass gun regulations because they’re afraid of the idea of guns. They’re trying to pass gun laws because they have a fuck ton of guns.
Those aren’t fireworks we hear every night.
Conservatives underestimate how much firepower the left has - they just don’t advertise it like it’s their personality. Even strongholds like Texas actually have less guns per household than the national average.
There is a difference between owning guns and being an ammosexual. Let them continue not understanding that. Fine by me.
being an ammosexual.
Putting bullets in your butt does not make you a gun.
I think the chodes that own like 20+ pew pews are all far right. But you can’t use 20 at a time, so I guess that won’t help much. I’d put hard money on odds of much more citizens who’ve actually shot someone before as being non-republicans.
The truth is that Republicans shoot Republicans. Just ask Dick Cheney.
We have all the guns! We’re on the edge!
Liberals are trying to bait us into violence.
Wat?
Get in there and subpoena everyone. This judge, his daughter, everyone affiliated with anything ever, ever! I don’t care if we stop building bridges and highways and stop funding our government. You fight fire with fire. Otherwise, these Marxists are going to keep doing this.
You’re advocating against the rule of law and making threatening remarks towards millions of Americans. Like a terrorist. That’s what a terrorist does. Promote violence without technically saying you promote violence why don’t you.
You have never met America.
Have you? You wish harm on your country and her people. For god sakes your lord and savior man didn’t even win the popular vote when he was actually elected. What the hell are you smoking?
“And when he does, I’m gonna sit back, I’m gonna drink a beer, I’m gonna smoke a cigar the size of Cuba and laugh because they earned this one,” he stated.
Check where you’re buying your cigs mate.
As I’ve been saying, the people on the political left need to get strapped, they need to train, and they need to organize. Laws and cops aren’t going to protect you, esp. when most cops are on the side of Trump. All of the laws trying to ban guns and prevent most citizens from owning them are going to do is make it ever easier for the boot of the authoritarians to crush you.
You need to take that power back, and remind the police that they only get to enforce laws by the consent of the people.
Who says they already aren’t? We just don’t make it our entire personality.
Statistics are pretty clear, more than twice as many Republicans own guns than Democrats.