Overnight Donald Trump promoted a video featuring an extreme close-up photo of his face in black and white, and audio of him making an obvious threat: “If you f— around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.” Trump “retruthed” […]
The man was literally arrested and appeared in court already.
This is nothing but more stochastic terrorism. Most of his supporters are too comfortable and too cowardly to do shit. But we do need to worry about the incel loser types who love to commit terrorist attacks.
That’s what everyone said last time, then people died. “Ignore it and it’ll go away” doesn’t work when literally millions of people still listen to this man.
I'm not saying ignore the man." I agree in that being actively dangerous. I''m saying we shouldn't help him keep engagement by sharing every stupid fucking thing he says. It's a deliberate way they help keep narratives shifted in their favor.
We should pay attention to the news ABOUT him, not the news FROM him.
It's worse than that. The audio from this came from an interview with Rush Limbaugh right before the 2020 election. The original context of it can be seen as leading up to Jan 6. The fact that it is resurfacing (with Trump's approval) means there is more coming.