Eric Swalwell tweeted: Fox News wants me and my staff physically harmed.

[Justice matters.]

Link to tweet

Fox News wants me and my staff physically harmed. Here’s how they do it 🧵

This week @JesseBWatters and @TuckerCarlson lied and said I traveled to Paris and stayed at the Ritz with my staff. They showed pictures of two staff members who they claimed were on the trip. 1/3

I have ( not* ) been to France since 2015. The staffers whose pictures they showed did not travel to France. I zoomed into a an event with Democrats living abroad. Our campaign covered the costs. But Tucker & Jesse don’t care. And then the death threats flood in. 2/3

To protect me/family/staff against Fox News inspired death threats we hire security. Then Fox News attacks us for spending money on security measures & death threats pour in. Repeat. This is intended to bring harm to me/family/staff. Or see me silenced. That’s not happening.END🧵

*I have not been to France since 2015.

Why is that nazi network allowed to continue its deliberate destruction of the country from the inside??

[Irish_Dem]

1. Yes they want to kill Dems. There is no doubt about it at all.

We have to face it, the GOP wants to kill Americans.

[area51]

29. +1 n/t

[SleeplessinSoCal]

31. The fall of the wall left us with the unforseen disaster at home...

....We became the enemy. This is the insanity/toxicity of the Conservative mindset.

[Irish_Dem]

39. Yes decades of hateful GOP propaganda demonizing Dems.

The ruthless attacks against the Clintons was a harbinger of things to come.

The GOP moved the American public into a new realty of hatred and fear.

[certainot]

63. the threats dems get are egged on by local radio stations and some are endorsed by universities

in their own communities, states!

it's fucking idiotic that dems allow more than 87 universities support 260+ x-limbaugh stations that attack democrats all day, take free potshots at them all day - without complaint. really fucking stupid.

limbaugh spent 1/2 hour creating a ridiculous premise merely to repeat variations on the phrase "take out AOC"

just like in sept 2008 he did the same to be able to say to 15M that "obama's head needs to roll"

[Irish_Dem]

66. Yes propaganda TV was everywhere you went. Playing loud and all day.

Talking about hating Dems, killing them, etc.

And here we are.

[calimary]

37. Sounds like desperation. Smells like it.

They want us out of the way so they can rule and ruin. So they can then point fingers at us and blame us for the destruction THEY caused.

Sounds like a brutalizing batterer, fucking with his victim with psychotic mind-games and blaming her for “making him do this.”

[Irish_Dem]

40. Right out of the CIA/KGB handbook. Attack a country or people and blame them for it.

Yes it is a common trait of ruthless sociopaths. It is always the victim's fault.
And the police are always out to get them.

[Eyeball_Kid]

47. If you are part of the leading edge of a successful fascist movement,

YOU GET LOTS OF CASH.

[Pluvious]

38. I've been a recipient of this myself

At a family gathering the Patriarch - reading from the ritual texts before the meal, on the litany of what his god must smite - bellowed out, “and May god smite all Democrats!!”

I don’t know how I’m going to be able to visit there again.

The brainwashing and radicalizing of the RW Rabid media viewership is out of control.

[Irish_Dem]

41. Started with Newt Gingrich going after the Clintons.

They literally passed out posters with a picture of Bill Clinton and a big bullseye.

So that is now the standard thought process.

Decades of ruthless propaganda demonizing the Dems has paid off.

It is right out of the KGB/CIA handbook. Blame the victims.
Also typical of sociopaths.

[H2O Man]

2. Recommended.

Outrageous! In my opinion, Eric is one of the very best spokespersons for our party. He is one of the most talented politicians of this era. And that is why they target him.

[MuseRider]

4. All the guns and constant threats

to them, their staff and their families. There have to be SOME people in that party that are as disgusted, angry and sad about this as we are?

I like him too. I really do not know too much about how he votes, I keep meaning to look it up because I do admire him and his constant willingness to not let this crap go.

[azureblue]

11. the response should be

"alright you chickenshit MFer - you come here and say that to my face - you don't have the guts - you're just a coward hiding behind a keyboard. What ever threats you have you won't do face to face or in the light of day - you want to hide what you do. Tell you what - you be a real man and step out - tell me who you are and where you live. Then you come over and we'll have a little chat about how real men behave. And remember that when you step on my property, you are there at my permission. And if any of your pissy little bunch gets near my family, you can best believe I will hunt you down. "

[Alexander Of Assyria]

13. So...no! 🦊 wants that! ???

[H2O Man]

24. Respectfully disagree.

The correct response is for law enforcement to arrest, try, convict and incarcerate those making the threats.

I do agree that one has the right and responsibility to protect one's home and family. But that ability is never enhanced by announcing that one is prepared to do so, and challenging the unhinged to a contest.

[soldierant]

55. You are, of course, correct.

But you do realize that there are now so many people maling these threats that if law enforcement were to be able to arrest (charge, convict, incarcerate) all of them that, just as one example, 100% of homicides would be unsolved (as opposed to the current roughly 90%) - and there would certainly be no capability to investigate anything else at all.

Of course, that may be part of their strategy.

[H2O Man]

56. Oh, definitely.

While on a much, much smaller level, I have had threats from idiots before. Often from people in public places, a few on the telephone. One time someone stuck a dead woodchuck in my mailbox, along with some white nationalist papers. Gracious!

I was never really concerned about the loud-mouthes, though they were annoying. About the same as house flies in the late summer. I did have a guy hit me with a board decades ago, while I was engaged in a rally/march for Native American rights. Luckily, the board struck my head, causing it to break, and I still have the broken piece here .... still with the American flag crepe paper the guy decorated it with.

The mail box bit did catch my attention. But I was always more concerned with those who were smart enough to not verbalize or phone a threat. Of course, as Malcolm X noted, in the jungle there are hunters, and those that hunt the hunters.

[MuseRider]

28. That is the response he and most of us would like to have

but it would be highly recommended that you not go all chesty with these people who would think nothing of taking you down. We need him and we do not need our leaders to inflame the crazies. They look like the bigger of the two (for most of us) by just letting them go with a response like he makes. It might make some of them more angry but who knows? I am actually pretty sure that we all know he might love to do that but has to keep his cool. There are too many fish to fry right now. Corral them then we can pick them off. These threats are all recorded for later.

[wnylib]

34. I think a slander lawsuit combined with

charges of reckless endangerment would be appropriate.

[H2O Man]

21. Great point!

Back in the days of the Obama presidency, some republicans thought they could exploit the "tea party." They did not anticipate that they would soon lose control, and the rabid right-wing would take over the republican party ..... as it has.

Thus, we must add one emotion to "disgusted, angry and sad" -- scared shitless. The current republican office-holders who recognize how out of control their party is are too afraid to speak out, for they have seen that if they do so, they put themselves at risk of more than a primary challenge.

[uponit7771]

65. +1,

[Maraya1969]

3. Swalwell should definitely sue Fox. I'm sure they knew he was in the US.

[malaise]

6. THIS!

[PatSeg]

10. Yes, it is time for some major lawsuits

This sort of thing has been going on for too long and people's lives are at risk.

[azureblue]

12. Stand your ground

The first time one of these Nazis gets shot under "I feared for my life" Will be the time these keyboard commandos meal team six idiots start to wonder - if maybe them liberals just might shoot back.

[PatSeg]

15. "Keyboard commandos meal team six"

[FarPoint]

20. That is my thoughts....

Include Murdock too... That said, Swalwell is a great lawyer....he knows what he can and can not do in this situation...

[PJMcK]

5. Fox News isn't news

In a lawsuit years ago, Fox news claimed that they were entertainment.

If they were a legitimate news operation, they would have called representative Swalwell‘s office to confirm that he had traveled overseas. One phone call. That’s all it would take to ascertain if he was in France or not.

But since they’re not a news organization, they couldn’t be bothered to make that phone call.

Fox News is a hack organization. They are un-American and simply a profit motivated outfit.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

16. Not just profit motivated, cause isn't every corporation!? Fascist motivation, to the core!

[KS Toronado]

35. After that lawsuit

I've often wondered why their evening talking heads are allowed to use the "FQX News" logo on their
programs. Shame we can't force them to use an "entertainment" logo since they claim that's what
they really are. Real truth in advertising law would label them "Fascist News"

[bucolic_frolic]

7. That's to juice ratings and make money. Rep. Swalwell is the raw material.

It's that simple.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

14. In part. But not that simple. Violence helps with the fascism movement.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. If Swalwell were ineffective, the Fascist Oligarchs eXtremists network would ignore him.

Fox wants to wear him down.

[Aviation Pro]

9. Why can't we hire investigators to tail these fucking fucks and catch them in compromising situation

Then broadcast them over MSNBC and CNN.

[azureblue]

17. what is needed

is to track down, doxx and expose the people making the threats. Send copies of the threats to their employers with a note that says "this is the kind of person you have working for you? I will not buy from you again."

Make a web site to list them all - that means their threats will go down in history forever and will come up if a websearch is done in the person's name.

Stop letting them hide behind anonymity

[Anti-tCON]

62. I like that!

👍

[progressoid]

26. I wish. But I don't thnk that works anymore.

Their viewers don't seem to care. After 4 years of accepting everything the orange anus did, their bar is set pretty low.

[DENVERPOPS]

46. By exclusively watching only Fox

they have been effectively "brainwashed" according to Psychiatrists across America.........

AND the massive Main stream Media helping out from the sidelines.

Remember 80+% of ALL major media in the U.S. is owned by Uber wealthy republicans........
TV, Cable, Print media, radio, etc etc.

[The Wizard]

58. After locating them, hire a Putin torpedo

to silence them.

[anarch]

18. their viewers want to kill liberals and progressives in general

Tucker Carlson should be hauled in as a fucking traitor.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

19. Time to stop texting and sue their asses! File complaint with FBI and any

..any agency at fed., state, local levels as necessary. And no don't have to give them heads up..just do it! That's goes for other Dems who are receiving threats of violence to themselves, family. They have the means to afford lawyers, court costs.

[TeamProg]

23. And sue them. n/t

[TeamProg]

22. F U C K E R S ! ! ! !

[Wounded Bear]

25. Stochastic terrorism on display and in action...nt

[Escurumbele]

27. Swalwel is a lawyer, why is he not suing Fox?

He should, one thing is "Freedom of Speech" and the other is to incite violence against someone, which is not covered by "Freedom of Speech".

[onetexan]

30. +1 -K&R!!

[Martin68]

32. Fox should be sued for the cost of his security.

[FakeNoose]

33. Let the ChumpHumpers try to take their gunz over to France

They'll end up in prison in 5 seconds, with no way home. And no phones to take their selfies with either.
Does Faux Noise understand that?

[LymphocyteLover]

36. Honestly there is no more dangerous entity in America than FoxNews. They are pure POISON.

[ificandream]

59. Agree 100 percent.

[elias7]

42. They are fomenting violence, pure and simple

[rockfordfile]

43. Time to lock up those fox news un-American pos.

[Martin Eden]

44. Stochastic Terrorism

Same tactic as TFG, even though Murdoch dumped him.

[Richard58]

45. Ugh!

I am so sick and tired of these right-wing shills demonizing Democrats and anyone who disagrees with them! They lie, tell half-truths and exaggerate to work their base into a frenzy and wonder out loud "When is someone going to do something about these people?" They know damn well this encourages the nutjobs in their audience to act out violently against their perceived "enemies". People are going to get killed because of their irresponsible, hateful rhetoric! But they don't care! They just love the ratings!

[Grins]

48. SUE THEM!! Along with Dominion you could own a network!

[867-5309.]

49. "Our campaign covered the costs."

What costs?

[pwb]

50. People are saying, I heard, someone said, is what they hide behind.

All practiced, staged and presented. Finally people are turning on the [R] Reverse movement.

[SWBTATTReg]

51. The FBI should be investigating where jesse and tucker got their information and if they lie to the

FBI, it's time to arrest their a&&es, throw them into jail. When someone utters something that could harm someone else, the game is over with, it's time to get serious, and put some serious jail time in the picture for these thugs.

[jaxexpat]

52. Fox is here until it's broke.

For the time being it's right between the ditches on the profit highway.

Welcome to Uhmerika.

[Samrob]

53. sounds like he is preparing for a huge lawsuit. nt

[Bucky]

57. It really ought to be a way to track down telephone and email death threats

It's a crime that's destructive to our civil society. The laws against it need to be rigorously enforced

The people engaging in these death threats are probably relatively small in number. Significant number are probably outsourced to overseas bad actors who are being paid to disrupt American civic life.

The ones from here in the US are probably clustered out of just a few cells, each spamming out death threats on the regular, and it all likelihood connected to online extremist groups.

All these waves of death threats, which create a sense of an entire nation is seething beneath the surface and ready to erupt in violence, are probably being issued by no more than a couple thousand individuals here and maybe a few hundred around Eurasia.

[onecaliberal]

60. Where is the @FBI?!?

[hadEnuf]

61. After reading stuff like this, it makes one wonder

why it's the right wing buying guns and not Democrats.

Just sayin'

[oldsoftie]

64. Why would anyone care if he went to FRANCE? Its not RUSSIA

[BComplex]

67. Fux Nooze needs to be sued when they bring danger to people like this.

Dominion voting machines sued them. There needs to be a class action suit against them sending their goons after people for political reasons.