Eric Greitens--Oh dear fucking lord....

[Tommy Carcetti]

I mean, I know it's Eric Greitens.

Anyone who knows anything about this sick creature knows this is par for the course.

But even so, this is still just apeshit bonkers.

Link to tweet

Further context:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/eric-greitens-rino-hunting-campaign-ad-1370910/

GOP Candidate Fantasizes About Murdering Political Opponents in New Ad
Eric Greitens is dispensing with any subtlety as he seeks former President Trump’s endorsement

By RYAN BORT

The Jan. 6 committee has, for the past few weeks, been reminding Americans about the horrifying “war scene” that unfolded during the attack on the Capitol. Some conservatives are ignoring the panel’s findings and dismissing the hearings as a distraction. Others are doubling down on political violence. Eric Greitens, a scandal-ridden Republican running for Senate in Missouri, released an ad on Monday advocating for “hunting” RINOs, or Republicans In Name Only, a term for conservatives who haven’t veered far enough to the right.

The ad is not subtle. It isn’t even metaphorical. It features Greitens and an armed military team breaking into a house to execute Republicans who don’t sufficiently support former President Trump. “Join the MAGA crew,” Greitens says. “Get a RINO-hunting permit. There’s no bagging limit, no tagging limit, and it doesn’t expire until we save our country.”

Greitens is no stranger to gun-laden campaign ads. During his 2016 campaign for governor, he released a spot of himself unleashing hell with an automatic Gatling gun. Greitens won that election but resigned two years later amid scandals ranging from allegations of sexual misconduct to felony charges for using a veterans charity list to raise campaign cash. He thinks he’s still fit for federal office, however, running this year to replace retiring Sen. Roy Blunt. He’s still mired in scandal, too. His ex-wife in March accused him of physically abusing their children, taking away her belongings, threatening her on multiple occasions, and threatening to kill himself if she didn’t stand by him as he was trying to whether his past scandals.

Guns have been a fixture of Republican campaign ads ahead of the midterm elections, with several candidates implying they should be used to kill people. Blake Masters, the venture capitalist who recently landed former President Trump’s endorsement for Senate in Arizona, said in an ad that the “Second Amendment isn’t about duck hunting.” Janice McGeachin, who lost the Republican primary for governor in Idaho despite Trump’s endorsement, similarly said in an ad that the Second Amendment “isn’t about bird hunting.” But Greitens isn’t leaving the actual purpose of the Second Amendment to the imagination. He made abundantly clear in his campaign ad on Monday that it’s about executing those with opposing political views.

[sop]

1. Twitter allows this?

[TheBlackAdder]

19. Gee, it seems they selectively choose who can make death threats and calls to kill others.

[SheltieLover]

23. Wail till Musk buys it!

[czarjak]

24. "Kill 'em all"! It's their battle cry, and they mean it.

[Raven]

29. Forget Twitter, the FBI needs to act on this!

[róisín_dubh]

46. I asked a Twitter user if they've been kicked or punched one too many times...

(they were an MMA fighter who said they wouldn't allow their girlfriend to wear a sports jersey with another man's name). Anyway, I got put in Twitter jail for that question.

[gldstwmn]

51. I can't say f*ck on Twitter but this is allowed.

[uponit7771]

55. right ?!

[Sanity Claws]

2. This should be reported to Twitter

I would report it but I don't want to join it

[irisblue]

25. I just did. Interestingly, threatening to kill other Rs is NOT on the list.

I went with threatening violence, then added a message for suggesting political violence in the US.

[spanone]

33. I reported it too.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Why would fascists advertise their NAZI nature?

They are certain their fewer numbers are augmented by their superior firepower.

Candidates. Sitting memnpbers. TFG. They all count on their invisible VRWC nutjob army to seize the, eh, day.

[NutmegYankee]

4. Yep, they've gone full fascist.

[Miguelito Loveless]

5. Twitter apparently allows calls for violence against people

for political views since political views is NOT listed as a "protected" class.

[Ohio Joe]

6. I'm not really sure what to make of this phenomenon...

The size, scale and... Sheer murderous intent of the repug party infighting is like nothing I've seen before. It is one of the things giving me a good feeling for Dem's come November.

[Novara]

10. The implied violence is stunning

And it's ubiquitous throughout the GOP. It's been utterly normalized so that death threats mean nothing anymore.

This is not the kind of world I want to live in.

[FoxNewsSucks]

15. Not only do they get off on it,

it helps bolster their perception of being a majority. Others, whether liberals or "rino", avoid having bumperstickers, yard signs, flags or anything else. I think that's a big part of the reason you mainly see MAGAt type flags etc.

[Novara]

21. Yep. Intimidation is part of their brand

[Nevilledog]

48. Rick Wilson gets it

Link to tweet

Tweet text:

Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
All of y'all calling on the GOP to shame Greitens out of the race underestimate both Greitens and the GOP.

McConnell needs seats, and Greitens could kill a woman and wear her head like a hat and they'd support him until the last.

Shame is so 2014.
8:58 AM · Jun 20, 2022

[Tommy Carcetti]

11. They really want to drag us into a civil war, don't they? nt

[wnylib]

44. They want it so badly that they will not

give up until they have it.

They will look for things to justify starting it.

[Walleye]

7. And to get this hunting license how much do you have to "contribute" to this particular grift

Oh I looked at it, only $25. But keep complaining about gas prices

[sop]

34. Same fools complaining about gas prices spend half their disposable income on guns and ammo.

[hedda_foil]

8. I reported this to Twitter.

[demmiblue]

12. Same. n/t

[Scrivener7]

9. When you are discussing horrible tweets, would you PLEASE

summarize them. You are giving them traffic. That encourages them.

[catrose]

28. Amen. And people are retweeting them all over. I've stopped even liking this kind of product.

I ask myself if I want their message to spread, which it will, despite the outrage of the retweeter. Nope.

Wave to fellow Scrivener user

[LudwigPastorius]

37. Here, you don't have to click a Twitter link.

[Scrivener7]

40. That gives it youtube views. If people just described what the tweet or video

said or showed, we could decide if we wanted to give support to the one who originated it.

I don't want to support this crap either on Youtube OR on twitter.

More views encourage them to do more, and makes their allies think they have a zillion supporters who are like minded.

[LAS14]

42. I agree. nt

[llashram]

13. guns and

extreme RW creatures called defenders of the Constitution. His 'courage' is a joke. His intimidation tactic is laughable. His danger to innocent Americans? Real. This so-called 'patriot' is a clear and present danger to democracy. Some are swayed by his navy seal moniker. I'm not.

[Solomon]

14. i can't believe this is allowed.

[Cracklin Charlie]

16. Yea! My state!

I hope they run that ad a million times, so he can spend all the Koch’s money, and every person in the nation can see how disgusting this guy is.

He wants to be your president. No. Shit.

[tenderfoot]

17. This is what conservatives mean when they yammer on about "Free Speech"

The freedom to belittle, mock, shame, and threatened one with violence.

[Probatim]

18. Let them eat each other - shit like this will cause more problems for people

like Eyepatch McCain.

[Pyryck]

22. Who knew or could have guessed that the monster would start eating itself?

Imagine that!

[LuckyCharms]

26. Toxicity like this is like the snowball rolling down a hill analogy

Every day it gets bigger (worse).

From a Navy Seal no less.

Don't even know what to think about this kind of stuff anymore.

K&R

[Brenda]

32. It certainly has sped up in the past year.

One of the first hints I had that the Repub party had lost control was well before TFG. I was watching a clip of John McCain walking through his crowd after a speech in 2008. A woman was screaming Obama is a Muslin (sic)!

The LOOK on his face said it all. He said something like "No, you're wrong. Senator Obama and his family are long standing members of a Christian church." Did not deter her one bit.

They created this Frankenstein monster and now clearly they all know they must go along with all the kookiness or else they'll be labeled RINO, apparently not just an acronym but a real reference to a hunter's dream kill.

Scary shit indeed.

[LuckyCharms]

39. I remember that. Is this the clip (starting at about 0:28)?

[Brenda]

43. Not the one I remember.

It may have been part of that but it was a woman clearly saying Obama was a Muslim She kept repeating it.

But JFC, that first guy saying "we're scared" is such horseshit!

[LuckyCharms]

47. It took me years to realize that I can't even try to

figure these people out.

When I was very young, like 10-11 years old, I went through a political phase where I collected campaign buttons. They fascinated me. I had hundreds of them on my bedroom wall, mounted on a piece of fabric. I didn't understand politics at all, but I do remember my parents telling me that "Democrats are more for the working people, and Republicans are more for businesses".

This was in the late 60's. In other words, it wasn't terrible to be a Republican. Whether you were a Democrat or Republican kind of boiled down to your self-interest in which policies suited you better.

These days, it's more like "normal" vs. "insane".

[Brenda]

52. Hah, agree

About the normal vs insane thing.

I just googled a bit and can't find the specific incident I remember but the search results are saturated with the one you posted. There's probably many more like that one which is bad enough, right?

But just think, that was 14.5 years ago they were saying that crap to R's who grabbed the mic and said, um, no, you dumbshit, that is not true.

Then came the orange fat ass and no R's dare disagree with reality.

[TeamProg]

27. Magatt GOP'sters are just nuts. n/t

[nolabear]

30. He's been reported repeatedly to Twitter, the FBI and Homeland Security

Almost all the replies castigate him for that monstrous ad and many say they’ve called authorities.

What shocks me is that there had to be a whole production crew willing to create that atrocity.

[KS Toronado]

31. Heaven help Missouri

if this is the best they can come up with to go to Washington DC

[sop]

35. Greitens is the same asshole who used to be Missouri Governor and was forced to resign in 2018

"amid accusations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations." Despite this, Greitens is the leading Republican primary candidate to replace retiring Senator Roy Blunt.

"On Monday, new court filings revealed that Greitens’s now ex-wife, Sheena Chestnut Greitens, accused the governor of physically abusing her and one of their children."

“'Prior to our divorce, during an argument in late April 2018, Eric knocked me down and confiscated my cell phone, wallet, and keys so that I was unable to call for help or extricate myself and our children from our home...I became afraid for my safety and that of our children at our home.' She went on to describe how Greitens’s 'behavior included physical violence toward our children, such as cuffing our then-3-year-old son across the face at the dinner table in front of me and yanking him around by his hair.'”

"The latest accusations are a consistent addition to the ongoing Greitens narrative. In 2018, the details of his sexual misconduct were graphic and violent. The unnamed Greitens accuser said he forced her into a 'bear hug,' stopped her from leaving his basement, and made him give her oral sex while she was 'uncontrollably' crying."

https://newrepublic.com/article/165826/eric-greitens-scandal-spousal-abuse

[LudwigPastorius]

36. Ordinarily, I love seeing Republicans fight amongst themselves, but...

this is something else. This is a MAGAt encouraging his followers to hunt and kill those who disagree with him...in his OWN party.

The fascist appeals to violence are growing, and the pre-Trump GOP is just about entirely gone.

[2naSalit]

38. Fuck Twitter...

He needs to be kicked off the fucking ballot!!

If elected, perhaps he may not be seated in the Senate if enough members object?

[LAS14]

41. Interesting decision by Twitter. I approve this time, but having Twitter decide what...

... is worth breaking the rules is a slippery slope. I wish news organizations had access to banned Tweets and could put them in context.

[keithbvadu2]

45. Would Greitens issue a RINO hunting lisence for fellow SEAL Dan Crenshaw?

Would Greitens issue a RINO hunting lisence for fellow SEAL Dan Crenshaw?

What does he think about fellow SEAL Dan Crenshaw who other republicans call 'eyepatch McCain', a new republican name for traitor?

Who is the RINO there?

[LudwigPastorius]

50. The enemy is whoever they say it is. (Whoever is currently in the way of them grabbing more power.)

These cults all work the same way.

[Leith]

49. I reported it

And I called it "terrorism against people for their political beliefs."

That's exactly what it is: terrorism.

[FelineOverlord]

53. People have been mass reporting this

So now Twitter put a warning that it broke Twitter rules but if you click on it you can still see it.

The trick is to report him for "celebrating or praising violent acts" because the nutcakes at Twitter thinks "threatening violence" is only important against a "protected class"

So now he's being mass reported to the FBI.

Some people think TWEETING at the FBI helps.

It does not. They ignore that, and rightly so.

You must either call them or file an official report.

Link to tweet

Also, The Washington Post thought it was appropriate to run that ad and video:

Link to tweet

[moondust]

54. stochastic terrorism n/t