A Texas woman has been charged with threatening to kill the judge overseeing a criminal case against Donald Trump.
Abigail Jo Shry, 43, allegedly called US District Judge Tanya Chutkan a “stupid slave” and used another racial slur in a voicemail message she left at the Washington courthouse.
She is reported to have said: “You are in our sights, we want to kill you… If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, b----.
“You will be targeted personally, publicly, your family, all of it.”
The article also includes an expectation meeting mugshot. For people that talk about violence, I’ve never been less intimidated.
Wow, that’s a rough looking 43
I assume that living in constant, irrational fear that the government is out to get you and anyone who isn’t exactly like you threatens your existence causes stress, which ages you prematurely.
Meth. It’s what’s for dinner
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Those fuckers carry handguns or AR-15s with them, so probably not wise
Anyone can carry guns bro
But they do and the left generally doesn’t.
The left also allows Republicans to get into power and steal away womens rights while they sit and do nothing as always.
Do yous measure the distance between her eyes in inches, feet, or washing machines?
Yes.
I mean calling a federal judge stupid when you’re making material threats on a recorded line… just saying.
My favorite part,
“The 43-year-old said she had no intention of going to Washington to carry out her threats, before adding: “If Shelia Jackson Lee comes to Alvin [a city in Texas], then we need to worry.””
How fucking stupid can you be to say this AFTER you’ve been arrested?
30% of Republicans believe violence may be necessary to “save” the country.
They legitimately don’t think it’s an issue to threaten violence against anyone who impedes Donald Trump. In their deluded minds, he’s an innocent victim who only wants what’s best for the country and all these evil judges and persecutors and federal employees are trying to take him down and literally destroy the country.
This is what you get when you allow people with power and influence lie all the time
Yes, we need freedom of speech, blah.
You don’t have true freedom of speech, not even in the US, this article literally shows that
We need more restrictions on speech. If you’re a politician and you obviously lie then you need to be at least called out on that, and be forced to correct yourself publicly. Maybe some naming and shaming will make politicians slightly more honest.
All politicians lie up to some point and it’s been tolerable and tolerated for a long time but Trump weaponised disinformation and lying. This needs to stop, those in power need to be held accountable. If you’re the president and you startte spouting proven conspiracy theories then you need to either be forced to correct yourself and say you were staying dishonest information or you need to leave.
Freedom of speech, but not freedom from consequences of said speech. If you go and say some ish then you better be able to handle the consequences of saying the things you’re saying.
So, like, what do you have then?
What is there to be ‘free’ from?
That’s an interesting question and highlights the gap between use of the phrase. The question is: who is free? The individual absolutely free from all consequence, or society to be free from dangerous, damaging, and intolerable behaviour?
Does it mean freedom from impediment? Are you are allowed to say whatever you want, but the community has a right to discourage, deplatform, and criminalise the effects of those words have in breaking the social contract (e.g. attempting to cause panic, promoting a riot, trying to over throw democracy, racial intimidation, etc)?
Or does it mean freedom from consequences? Are you allowed to say whatever you want and the community has no right to recourse for the effects of speech on the community (i.e. you can say literally anything and the without fear that it will negatively impact your standing within the wider community and social contract)? Does that mean we should allow people to promote ISIS? Or send direct threats to you and your family, if they never intend to act upon them? How about promote your family be seen as animals to be driven out or killed? Should those speech actions be free from consequences? Even if it escalates to a wider group or is given from a position of authority?
I do not believe the latter is a tenable way of maintaining any form of contract and only enhances the power of bad faith actors. It’s also only ever selectively employed.
The same people that tend to promote the latter in cases that suit their cause, threaten officials, promote hate, and drive division are the same group banning history books in schools. We cannot let people in bad faith muddy the waters of what free speech mean.
So then why call it ‘free speech’.
Perhaps some other name should be used to better explain the concept.
I disagree.
Free, in this context, means not captive (i.e. not controlled by a single entity). Speech is free. It just isn’t free from consequences in the wider standing of society. And most people do know that (my examples highlight it - should I have no consequences for inciting a lynch mob to kill your family if I didn’t string the noose?).
Don’t let bad faith actors force us to do…anything! They’re bad faith actors!
They’ve been doubling down on stupid their whole life.
How fucking stupid can you be to say this AFTER you’ve been arrested?
Well given what she was arrested for, I can safely assume that thinking is not her strong suit.
I’m not sure it’s necessary to question the intelligence of anyone who is part of the Trump cult. That question answers itself.
Quick, let’s just slap her on the wrists with 2 weeks of probation and then wonder why more of this will continue to happen.
But remember everyone, it’s not a cult!!! /s
Why would they let a woman who threatened to kill a judge oversee trump’s criminal case?
(Sorry. Had to be done)
I just woke up and that’s how I read it like 3 times in a row
English is weird man
They just had to add the word “is” after “woman” and it would’ve made perfect sense, but news article titles always need to be maximally confusing
Yeah, poorly worded. Could have Saud “Judge overseeing Trump’s election case receives death threats, Texas woman charged”
I think that every article on Trump should have the article’s real title and a clear one in parenthesis, it would solve a lot of issues.
ah, the ol’ lemmy switch-a-roo.
EDIT: as it turns out, comment links are completely and utterly broken at the moment. sorry! the switch-a-roo chain will eventually work.
Hold my recycled habits from Reddit, I’m going in!
link is weirdly broken for me though, any luck?
Broken for me too.
fuck
Not before dinner and a movie.
And wine.
I like to be wined and dined before I get FUCKED!!
I was seriously confused for a second… Grammar matters.
Remember folks, it’s not okay to (jokingly) threaten violence against things like the NRA convention or the Vatican. Please save your violent threats for judges and jury members of your favorite criminally-charged politicians. Thank you.
Master race you say? Hm…
The scary thing is she probably has zero regrets and would do it again.
It says she’s been jailed 30 times so that’s probably a pretty accurate statement
I’m sure Fox is already adding her to their lineup
How’s she gonna manage a job at Fox while simultaneously being in Congress?
No ragrets!
No rugrats.
That mugshot is the face of indignance.
As much as I hate to admit it, these willfully ignorant racist fucks won’t stop until they get another war.
These choads haven’t getting over the whuppin’ they got from the last one. Make sure we hold their head in the toilet bowl for the full 3 minutes this time
They won’t get a war, they will get jail time.
I mean, we say that, but they have enough collective anger and enough legal connections that they plausibly could start a civil war next year and possibly even win it.
There’s nothing that is stopping them from banding together and busting out the dumbasses thrown in prison over January 6th and, if they had the will, they could bust this stupid fucking clown out of jail, too.
This is conservatism when it starts to lose
More like this.
