California man charged with threatening to kill Fani Willis

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

The man, Marc Shultz, posted multiple comments last October under two separate YouTube livestream videos

Hugo Lowell and Richard Luscombe
Fri 3 May 2024 17.58 EDT

A California man has been charged with sending death threats to Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney who is overseeing the Georgia prosecution against Donald Trump over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears at court in New YorkHope Hicks, a former top aide to former U.S. President Donald Trump, testifies during Trump's criminal trial before Justice Juan Merchan on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. May 3, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg

The man, Marc Shultz, suggested that Willis “will be killed like a dog” in one of several comments he posted under two separate YouTube live streams, according to the US attorney’s office for the northern district of Georgia.

He was charged with transmitting interstate threats to injure Willis because of her prosecution of the former president, prosecutors said.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/03/california-man-threaten-kill-fani-willis

[tanyev]

1. "the canine remark...closely echoed language Trump has used in the past"

Maybe that’s why Noem included the dog anecdote in her book. She thought it would give her a leg up in the veepstakes.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. GOP seems stuck with an undertone theme this week of killing or shooting dogs

and now that is related to an actual threat and charges.

I think these people are looney in the extreme. Their message is clear: my way or there could be violence.

[BaronChocula]

3. Current American conservatism is a mental illness

I'm not joking. It is a lifestyle bent on anger, resentment, and hostility that way too often lead to violent thoughts and actions.

[slightlv]

5. You forget its also

based on domination, which ties together everything you said.

[BaronChocula]

7. Textbook example

A lot of those people spent hours listening to limbaugh. His appeal was railing against the expansion of rights. He and his audience wanted to preserve an America where only white people devoted the notion that white lives matter first had input on the national consensus.

For that reason, magalimbaugh hated anything and anyone who was liberal. They denounced liberal policies that they actually benefited from because benefits for everyone is a sign of equality and if things are equal, they aren't the dominating force they wish they were.

[usonian]

4. It's a cult.

I've written often about the basics of cults.
Recap here:
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=18916581

But the gist of it is this:

They show the signs of cult membership, which are similar in many ways to addiction and mob (as in The Mob) culture.

They work on weaknesses in our brains which make us susceptible to limbic persuasion which overrides the reasoning part of the brain and makes people choose things that are self-destructive in exchange for the "kick" and also the "legitimization" of such things as hate, violence, racism, antisemitism, theft and so on. ( because "everyone else does it " )

And the key signs are denial and projection of their weaknesses and failures onto others. (so they can blame others for their failings and faults)

Cult zombie-ism is hard to break for even skilled therapists, and usually needs the subject to actually realize that there is a problem (that's not someone else's fault)

For the magats. it's the "legitimization" of violence and racism at the core.
The idea is to peel off followers at the periphery, who aren't deep down the rabbit hole.
With cults, when it happens, it's usually betrayal by other members or the cult leader, or disgust thereof.
Sometimes, the contradictions involved (as in "that applies to others and not to me" ) become too much to contain.

I am not an analyst or psychologist, but had to get some understanding in order to survive.
You can read the "signs" in books by Anne Wilson Schaef.
She deals with addiction, but when I read the symptoms, they rang bells.

[oasis]

6. Give him the max penalty

Let him stew with other hard core criminals.