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death threats against US Senator Tom Tillis have continued to grow,
with graphic phone calls being released by his staff in
a YouTube video as evidence. This is the report from
Teresa Opeka at the Carolina Journal Carolina Journal dot com.
The threats reflect an unsettling trend in America's civil society,
happening from the White House to school boards. There's a
reason for this. By the way, a woman can be
heard saying that the joy of her week. That's a
quote from this woman who called left the message. She
said it was the joy of her week when she
heard other phone calls that were made, including a man
threatening to bash Tillis's head with an axe handle, and
all the comments were quote giving her life. So she
lives to torment with violent threats. That's what that's her
reason for living. It's giving her life, it's making her happy. Right,
There is a psychological condition that this describes. In an
explative laced call, a man said that he quote might
drive to North Carolina and shoot Tillis dead in the
streets like the dog. He is describing how he hoped
horrible things would happen to his wife and children in
front of him. Still, another call made by the same
man said you're all gonna die. Tom's gonna die, with
talk of his office being blown up with his staff inside,
and how all patriotic Americans would be clapping and thankful
that it happened. The Charlotte Observer posted a column by
the editorial board, and according to the report at Carolina Journal,
the search engine title pops up as quote, threats against
Tillis are wrong. But let me just stop you right there, McClatchy, Okay,
just you could have just just put a period, threats
against Tillis are wrong. Period. That's it. That's all you
need to say. That's the end of the freaking column. Guys.
There's nothing else to it. There's no but voters are scared.
To stop conflating your neuro with violent threats with physical violence.
You being afraid of everything up to end, including your shadow,
does not give anybody license to make violent threats, let
alone carry them out. Now, when you go to the
Charlotte Observer page, now the headline reads, death threats against
Tom Tillis are shameful. We hope he responds in the
right way, in the right way. See see Senator Tillis.
If you hadn't been wearing that skirt, it was really short.
You know, you can't just say it's wrong. This is
the thing about the left. There's always some sort of equivocation.
There's always some sort of dismissiveness or what about ism?
Always I'm not saying he should have threatened him, but
I understand, right, that's what you're doing. That's what you're saying,
and the people that read your rag are getting the
same message that I'm getting, which is lip service. Lip service.
Violence is beden, Kay. But I understand why you might
be feeling so said and might be driven to do
something like that. Let's try to keep in mind that
these are people that are really, really scared. On March sixth,
local Democrat Party groups and the Indivisible You're gonna hear
their name a couple times. Today, Indivisible Guilford County chapter
organized a protest at his at Tillis's Greensboro office. So
this would have been like two weeks ago. Indivisible at
the national level was formed in response to Trump's twenty
sixteen election victory. So this is the resistance right where
they believe violence is a viable option. They do. Now
some may say, oh, I don't think there should be violence,
but they do. That's why you get the what aboutism,
That's why you get the dismissiveness of the threats. That's
why you have these headlines, is that they actually do
kind of sort of thing. Violence is okay in some circumstances.
To quote somebody after the October seventh massacre in Israel,
what did you think decolonialization meant? This is at the
core of the philosophy. Folks, recognize where we are, Recognize
who these people are, and if you are unwilling to
simply state they are wrong, period, end of story. Know
what aboutisms?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I understand isms, no conflation with something else. It is
a simple thing, you know, like how you guys wrote
all of those pieces is about January sixth, and the
pieces were straightforward. The January sixth rioters were wrong. Violence
is never acceptable, period, full stop, end of story. That
was all you had to say about that. You didn't
talk about, you know, people in the crowd feeling anxious,
feeling that their votes were stolen, feeling that the election
was stolen. You didn't care about any of the motivation.
All you cared about was the end result. The action.
That's what is required of you now is to treat
this the same way you treated the j six That's it,
and you can't do it. This is democrat privilege. By
the way, Republicans don't get to say this. And by
the way, here's another angle of the privilege, which is
that there is no calls for disavowal. There's no calls
to defend right the game of D and D that
the media loves to play with Republicans on J six
for example, throwing that in every Republican and conservative space
for the last five years, demanding that they defend or
disavow everything and then the pardons and everything else, not
caring about any of the particulars of any of the cases.
They don't care. They want to play D and D
against you, they will not play it against Democrats. That's
democrat privilege as well. They never have to defend or
disavow this kind of violence. And on the rare occasion
when they are called to speak about the topic, they
give you this kind of crap, this, what about ism?
Speaker 4: This?
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's right, but I understand. Legislators in
Raleigh are also taking notice of the threats and saying
that it is happening to local public servants too, threatening
state level politicians like lawmakers, judges, even the governor. It's
already a felony under state law, but a new bill
would raise the classification. It's called House Bill ninety five,
and it's on the calendar for Wednesday. So this was
a story that ran the eighteen so this would have
been yesterday. It was calendared for yesterday, and it would
raise the threatening of local politicians like city council members
or school board members. It would raise it to from
a misdemeanor, yeah, up to a felony. And then Teresa
Opeika's report at the very end talks about a study
that was done by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point,
and they put out a report over the summer that
shows threats against public officials are at an all time high. So,
if you go back a decade and you look at
a three year window from twenty thirteen to twenty sixteen,
there was an average across America of about thirty eight
threats per year thirty eight over that three year span.
In the next three or four year span, it almost
doubled up to sixty two a year. In twenty twenty three,
it went to eighty two a year, and last year
it was at one hundred and eight per year. There
is a reason this is happening on CNN. Scott Jennings,
who's like the only Republican that they have given a
key FOB to to gain access into their building? I
think no, Liz Cheney doesn't count. No, Adam Kinsinger doesn't
count either. Scott Jennings got into a heated argument with
Nira Tanden. Does that name ring a bell near a Tandon?
This is Hillary Clinton's bff. She's from the Center for
American Progress, leftist organization. Joe Biden tried to put her
into his administration, but thank god, Joe Mansion blocked her appointment.
She is a partisan hack, and you will hear exactly
what it is that I'm talking about with this what
aboutism and this this dismissiveness and this conflation with j six.
You're gonna hear it from her, and Jennings loses it
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Let's jump over to the phones and talk with Marty
real quick. Hey Marty, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Hi?
Speaker 5: Hi Pete, how are you doing good? I got a
hypothetical question, and it's gonna sound a little weird, but
if I know the progression of how the Democrats and
others are trying to become more and more violent, and
I don't really see any words or any kind of
ideology can be put upon them that would change their minds,
And you know, just hypothetically, I know it probably couldn't
happen or wouldn't happen. But if you could have, say
like in eighteen sixty, if you'd have a civil war
that would change the Democrat party completely, say for one
hundred years, would it be worth it?
Speaker 2: I don't think war is ever worth it. I don't
know if it's I don't know how avoidable it might be. Though,
you're going to want to stay tuned for the next
two hours because I'm going to be going into a
theory that was put forward by William Strauss and Neil
Howe on the Four Turnings of how all of our
country and much of the Anglo history follows a cyclical pattern,
and we are what we are in what they refer
to as the fourth turning, which is the crisis phase
of the eighty to one hundred year cycle. And the
crisis phase has some sort of massive conflict, either from
external or internal forces.
Speaker 5: You can almost feel it in the air, Pete, it's
not going to end well, I don't think something major
is going to have to take place. There's no way
around it. I just don't see hearts changing at this point,
and it's getting worse, and there's always a bowling point
and then you know the pot so somewhat explode, right,
and I think we're headed there probably center.
Speaker 2: We think, yeah, that's the that is the fear. I
appreciate the call, Marty, stay tuned for the because like that,
this is the This is the focus of the of
the program, is the fourth Turning. Because the stuff that
we are seeing right now, I keep saying it, we
are seeing it for a reason. There is a reason.
This is happening. Ill, I lean towards believing. Let me
just say it that way. Here is Scott Jennings and
near A Tandon on CNN.
Speaker 4: Doubtful.
Speaker 6: It's Republicans attacking Tesla dealerships around the country.
Speaker 4: It's pretty wild.
Speaker 6: Actually, the other night Donald Trump said these are domestic terrorists.
Everybody laughed about it and scoffed at it. That video
looks like terrorism to me. I mean, it's obviously an organized,
coordinated effort. However, people are are communicating with each other
to do this to people around the country who chose
to buy a Tesla at some point in the past,
many of whom I'm sure were Democrats who bought them
in the first place, all because their entire political worldview
is ruled by their emotions. And that's the American left
right now. It is one angry mob after another willing
to take things into their own hands, up to and
including king fire bombing and otherwise vandalizing cars and car
dealerships and charging stations.
Speaker 4: It's outrageous. It is terrorism.
Speaker 6: People ought to be put in jail and left there
for a very long time and be taught a lesson.
Speaker 7: So when they do it to a Tesla Dealership. It's
really bad, but when they do it to the halls
of Congress, we should pardon them.
Speaker 4: Is that your position?
Speaker 6: No, I've never you're okay, I know you, I know
you have I know you haven't been around for a while.
Speaker 4: So let me educate you about my position about January.
I'm so sorry. Let me educate you. Let me educate you. No,
you don't need to you know you don't need and
you don't need to be condescending to me. So let
me educate you about my position. You want to technique,
let me, let me finish, Let me finish it, Let
me finish. Let's do this January sixth, the sorry getting
the yeah, I'm sorry. You're a condescend person who hasn't
been paying attention to what I do. So here's the issue.
Speaker 6: I didn't support what happened on January the sixth, and
was one of the first Republicans to call it out.
I don't support the pardons. I have repeatedly, just like
my friend Ashley here, I said, no violence in our
political system is acceptable. But this right here, what's going
on with a guy who helps our country, who runs
successful companies, who doesn't have to be doing this and
now one of his companies is under systematic terroristic threat
and violence all over the country, and people seem.
Speaker 4: To be laughing about it or fine with it. It's outrageous.
Speaker 6: I've sat at this table and had people say we
should cut Elon Musk from the government totally. He rescued
our astronauts today, is that what we want?
Speaker 4: The treatment of this guy is outrageous.
Speaker 6: These people who are doing this need to be found,
put in jail and made an example of.
Speaker 7: That's anyone who commits violence against Tesla or Congress or
anyone else should be put in jail. One thousand percent. Well,
that's does not stifle dissent or opposition from Elon Musk.
Speaker 4: Give it a little lip service, give it a little both.
Speaker 7: Sides here, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry to say
that both are legitimately upset.
Speaker 2: Somebody dropped and they're getting on their own.
Speaker 7: But there is no reason I have violence in the country.
But I just wish all of us would support criticism
of war, would support punishing people who are violent wherever
they are.
Speaker 2: All Right, So did you hear what she just did there?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: She did the I'm not saying violence is okay, but
I'm morally superior to you. Charles Cook from National Review
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Charles C. W. Cook. He's a writer for National Review.
He is an American citizen by choice. He came here
and became naturalized as a citizen probably about a decade ago.
And fantastic writer. He was on the Megan Kelly Show
the other day. She played that clip that I just
played for you of Scott Jennings arguing with near a
Tanden and near a Tanden. This leftist hack could not
simply say, as Charlie Cook says, speaking just as a
citizen of a free republic, that it's never acceptable to
fire bomb a car dealership because you don't like the owner.
That is all that is required of you. That's it.
Just say no, you should not firebomb car dealerships because
you disagree with the owner. But no, she had to
play what aboutism on January sixth, right, and then claim
some moral superior position that she occupies because she supports
free speech and she supports criticism. I think, you know,
it's not right to be doing the violence, but I'm
for free speech, and I think we should all support
criticism and such. And here's Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 1: At the root of modern American progressivism is the suspicion
at best and the conviction at worst that violence is
sometimes justified, that riots necessary, and that all these power
dynamics and hierarchies of grievances that we've been treated to
for years justify what we see on the streets often
and here at car dealerships. It's absolutely astonishing to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that there is this suspicion or admission or acknowledgment
or acceptance that sometimes this kind of violence is okay
for us to do against you guys. Ever okay for
you to do against me, obviously. But you know, if
you're not doing what I demand you do, well, then
I mean you kind of have it coming, right. I mean,
I'm not going to do what you tell me. You
want me to do. I'm just going to resist, and
that's the morally superior thing to do. But because you're
a Nazi, a fascist, literally Hitler and Stalin and Mao
all rolled into one, I don't have to listen to
you and your directives. Even though you may have won
the election, even though you may control the halls of
Congress and can write laws and such. I don't have
to listen to you. And if you try to tell
me to do stuff that I don't want to do,
then I'm going to burn down your house, right like.
That's that's okay for me. It's different for me than
it is for you. Here's a pete tweet from dude,
you nailed it. These media outlets are doing their psychological
conditioning to accept violence as a legitimate response to things
you disagree with. We need to call them out every day,
all day for this nonsense. All right, let me go
over and talk with Mark real quick. Hello, Mark, Welcome
to the show.
Speaker 3: Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm okay? What's up?
Speaker 3: I need somebody. I don't care if it's the CIAFB
see for police. I need somebody to come on your
show and tell everybody how come these people aren't locked up.
If I tell you, I'm gonna come up there and
blow your Conquista door off, I'm going to jail for
communicating a threat. How are these people getting away with
this and they're not locked up. I'm trying to figure
this one out.
Speaker 2: That you have to have the will to prosecute. To
investigate and then to prosecute, you have to have the
will to do that, and there are too many people
that do not. There are people in law enforcement and
in the judicial system, in these prosecutors' offices, they do
not have the will to do that.
Speaker 3: They don't want to they need to go.
Speaker 2: I agree, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3: That's it's just like this thing, this thing going on
with Tesla, it's going on in eleven states that they're
missing these dealerships. Now that means this is organized crime.
This is all But you know, it sounds like Jeorge
Soros to me, well, that it's bought and paid for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's yeah there. I mean, you have a
couple of things going on at once. You obviously have
the actors that are doing it right, the attackers, you've
got them. If they do have any kind of financial
backing or something, yes, you may have some of that
money involved, But then you also have this this wink
in and nod egging on these types of actions. And
it's coming from all sectors of the left, from Hollywood media,
the CNN talking heads, it's coming from all of these
different quote institutions, and it's letting them know that, oh,
you shouldn't do that, but we understand why you're doing it.
That's the problem. Mark, I appreciate the caul, sir, and yeah,
I mean maybe racketeering charges RICO go after people with RICO. Look,
here's another example here is to Mark's point about the
Tesla dealerships getting attacked. This is from the Daily Show.
I don't know who this new host is, Jim.
Speaker 4: They're taking to the streets or the parking lots. Should
I be? FBI and ATF now investigating.
Speaker 8: Multiple cases of possible Listen to the crowd targeting Tesla's
and cyber trucks.
Speaker 9: This dramatic video shows multiple cars and flames. Police say
the attacker used malotov cocktails. It's the latest in more
than a dozen instances of arson and vandalism targeting Tesla.
Speaker 8: The same suspect shot more Tesla's with a gun Tesla
cyber trucks were set on fire in Kansas City, and
earlier this month, shots fired a Tesla dealership in Oregon,
cyber trucks on fire in Seattle.
Speaker 6: Wow, you guys like pettiacs of domestic terrorism.
Speaker 2: That's the audience at the Daily Show, a liberal talk show, right,
They're cheering on this kind of violence. Jimmy Kimmel last night, even.
Speaker 10: Benond incidents of arson. Someone lit a bunch of Teslas
on fire. And here's the thing I get that people
are set burning a car might not be great for
the environment. I don't think that's what they had in
mind when they invented.
Speaker 2: The electric car.
Speaker 10: In Las Vegas yesterday, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at
a Tesla service center. At least five Teslas blew up,
one from the molotov and four because that's just what
Tesla's do sometimes. And no one should be setting fires.
You could kill somebody, you could hurt somebody. Elon Musk
might not care about other people, but decent Americans should
the world's richest man, it Can, has been.
Speaker 4: Trying to drum up sympathy for himself. Lately. His sales
are down, his stock is down.
Speaker 10: Last night, he was somber as he went through this
with Sean Hannity.
Speaker 4: Tesla has a peaceful company. We've never done anything hawful.
I've never done anything hawful. I've only done productive things.
So I think we just have a deranged there's some
kind of mental illness thing going on here. Because this
doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 10: Well, let me see if I can explain it for you.
When you pull out a chainsaw to celebrate firing thousands.
Speaker 4: Of people, they get mad. It's just a you know,
my god.
Speaker 5: I mean, there you go, this poor guy.
Speaker 10: You do one, maybe two Nazi salutes. Everybody gets all
bent out of shape.
Speaker 2: There you go, that's the wink, that's the nod. It's okay,
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got a message from doctor Paul who says not all
Tesla dealership owners even care about politics. It's said when
the Bible, the USA flag, and Tesla define your party affiliation. Now,
so yeah, I don't really know what to make a
second part of that, but the first part that is true.
The Tesla owners like I would guess most of those owners, well,
I don't know. I don't know what their political affiliations are.
I don't know what any car dealerships affiliations are. Doesn't
matter to me. But if you're selling electric vehicles, I
would imagine the first ones through the door there would
be people that were probably more on the left than
the right, just like the Tesla buyers, right, we're probably
more on the left than the right. Now, of course,
everything is flipping, and you get all these you know,
Trump supporters and Elon supporters that are like, we're gonna
go buy We're gonna buy electric vehicles, and these are
people that never would buy them. I mean, then you saw,
well this is Mark Kelly, the Senator from Arizona, and
he's like, traded it in my Tesla for a Chevy suburban.
So now you got the lefties that are all going
and buying gas guzzlers, proving obviously that the whole climate
change thing they didn't really believe it. It's not one
of their core principles. As we knew, as we suspected
at the very least, that this was all virtue signaling,
it was moral preening. And now they're abandoning the electric
vehicles for gas guzzlers, you know. I guess they're going
to penalize Gaya Earth for Elon musk hatred. I don't know,
but I am usually very specific when I talk about leftists.
They are not the same as liberal. Leftists are a
different category. I said this quote yesterday, I will say
it again, and I will say it probably many many
times before I die, which is Dennis Prager's quote. Conservatives
vote their principles. Leftists vote their principles. Liberals do not.
Liberals vote for the leftists, even though their principles don't
always really align very well with leftists. But they do
that because they don't want to admit that they are
actually closer to conservatives on a lot of these issues
than they are to the leftists. Right, the new Democrats,
remember them, main street Democrats, blue dog Democrats, whatever you
want to call them. Those are the more liberal Democrats.
Those are liberal Democrats. Leftists are the kinds that are
throwing molotov cocktails into Tesla dealerships. That's the difference. And
until the left the Democrat Party, until they get their
own house in order for this stuff, this will continue,
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