Twitter Critics Post Jan. 6 Photo Of Terrified GOP Rep Now Handing Out Assault Rifle Pins

[highplainsdem]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-andrew-clyde-assault-rifle-pins-house_n_63defb68e4b01e928871b032

Twitter critics incensed Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) is handing out assault rifle lapel pins to his colleagues amid horrific mass shootings are now circulating a photo of a panicked Clyde hiding from violent insurrectionists at the Capitol.

In the photo, Clyde — a look of utter terror on his face — cowers behind a Capitol officer pointing a gun at the door of the House chambers prepared for the insurrectionists to burst in after they stormed the Capitol on Jan, 6, 2021.

Clyde is also photographed helping shove furniture against the door to keep out the Donald Trump supporters. One Twitter wit suggested that maybe Clyde distribute lapel pins of barricades — not assault rifles — to his colleagues.

Clyde has been raked by Democrats and others after distributing the lapel pins of rifles to Republican lawmakers in the House.

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Btw, this blustery coward is the owner of Clyde Armory, which HuffPo says is "a major Georgia gun retailer."

[Autumn]

1. What a wuss

[LakeArenal]

8. Not a wuss to me. I would be terrified too.

I think if him more as a hot gas filled hypocrite.

[Autumn]

11. Scared to death for himself but no one else. He got over it quick cause he knows they're on his side

taking cover like a wuss.

[LakeArenal]

13. Okay.

[Hope22]

18. On 1/6 House members were told to take their pins off so as not to identify themselves.

Maybe the gun pins are so the next intruders will know friend or foe. Frightening thought. I wouldn’t put anything beneath them!

[Autumn]

21. Those pins are a signal to someone.

[tanyev]

2. So...anybody making pins of an AR-15 tied in a knot?

[LaMouffette]

3. I don't think this asshole and other GOP members understand the horror--and the sorrow--felt by the

majority of Americans who see those AR-15 rifle pins on the lapels of Congress members. Or rather, they know, but they don't care.

Except for their gun-culture-infused base, we are as a country experiencing PTSD from mass shooting after mass shooting after mass shooting in the US. When I see those pins, I think Sandy Hook. I think Uvalde. I think Parkland. I think Columbine. And those are "just" some of the school shootings!

The GOP in their cruel disregard for others might just as well put a pin on their lapels that depicts one of the hijacked planes crashing into one of the World Trade Center towers to show their support for airplanes.

[LakeArenal]

9. "I don't think this asshole and other GOP members understand the horror-- and the sorrow..."

Or do they: and, relish and are emboldened by our fear.

[LaMouffette]

33. I think you are right. They relish it AND they see it as pumping up their NRA cred, which translates

into NRA money and NRA members' votes.

[plimsoll]

14. I believe you're mistaken. They know and they care.

Their "base" routinely talk about a "civil war" and seem eager to act out their internal snuff films. Sure, it's not actually a particularly large percentage of the population, but it is the one that most openly says it wants to kill Americans.

These days when I see these folks with various stickers and slogans on their cars I wonder why it's OK to be their brand of terrorist, but can't imagine what would happen if someone put an Osama Bin-Laden sticker on their car.

[markodochartaigh]

20. "...can't imagine what would happen if someone put an Osama Bin-Laden sticker on their car"

Well, this is exactly what Bill Maher did a couple of decades ago. He said that the Saudi hijackers had courage. It got his popular TV show dumped quickly. I think that the bipolar dichotomy of the US zeitgeist cannot admit any weakness or incorrectness on the "good" side nor any strength or correctness on the "bad" side. A simple construct for a simple people.

As to whether they care, or actually enjoy the cruelty, I wonder if studies were done on the lynching picnics in the early years of the last century. Surely some people were there just for the barbecue, while others wanted to see and be seen, establish their authoritarian bona fides. And a certain portion were there because they enjoyed the cruelty, the feeling of power. And for most it was probably more than one reason.

At any rate the motivation of the spectators probably made little difference to the people denied even a façade of justice.

[LaMouffette]

30. To racists, people of color are less than human, just as the Nazis perceived the Jews to be. That's

how they're able to commit atrocities and be uncaring witnesses to atrocities. You would think that after the Holocaust, the human race would have learned to banish that horrifying mindset, but no.

[LaMouffette]

32. Like religious fanatics, they believe God is on their side, so they themselves are "patriots" and

those other people over there are the "terrorists."

The think is, if only we could harness their anger and turn it against the REAL villains: the obscenely wealthy. But the rightwing propaganda machine has done such a remarkable job of brainwashing them into voting against their own interests. It's just baffling how anyone making less than $50,000 a year could be convinced that workers' unions are a bad thing, that public education is evil, that a college education is elitist, that social programs = socialism = communism.

[3auld6phart]

17. And those

you mentioned are only the mass killings.There are multiple shootings it seems everydayThose GOPers have no care or feeling, totally ignorant filth. These gun nutters are ,it seems a world wide problem. We have our share, New Zealand, Scotland the list seems endless.places you’ d
think more laid back and easy going. Any ways take care and stay safe.

[LaMouffette]

31. You're right. I saw on some news program where they interviewed people in Europe who said they

would like to visit the US, but they were too afraid of the gun violence. It's so disgraceful.

Thanks for the well-wishing, 3auld6phart! You stay safe, too! Oddly enough, I feel pretty safe in Montana, as far as gun violence goes. People are overall pretty mellow here, apart from the pockets of gun-totin' militia-type folk, none of which I have run into yet, although I know they are here.

[Cha]

4. Clyde is also the one who said that

Jan6 was like a regular tourist day or something like that.

[highplainsdem]

23. Thanks, Cha! I'd forgotten he was the one who said that. Link to a news story with video:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/13/politics/andrew-clyde-january-6-riot/index.html

[Cha]

24. Mahalo hpd 🕯

Clyde is a fucking dumpster 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[sheshe2]

5. Any member wearing one should be barred from the house floor.

[highplainsdem]

26. +1,000,000

[Justice matters.]

6. Domestic terrorists should be banned from the United States House of Representatives

Cowardish guns profiteer is one of them:

[aggiesal]

7. Why wear a pin, when we can now enter with the real thing! n/t

[LakeArenal]

10. Yes....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. He's quite the horse's ass

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

15. "a look of utter terror on his face", terrorized by rioting republicans

[calimary]

19. Uh HUH!!! Those weren't Democrats breaking through those doors and windows that day.

Those weren’t liberals. Those weren’t progressives. Those were goons who swear allegiance to the GOP. REPUBLICAN voters AND sympathizers.

Let me repeat (and I’ll keep it short to match your attention span):
Those were REPUBLICANS. Those were YOUR supporters and teammates. Hellbent on trashing our Capitol.

[bottomofthehill]

22. Hell bent on hanging mike pence

Hell bent on killing Nancy Pelosi. It’s a great understatement to go with trashing the Capitol. You are right, they did. But some had a much more sinister plan, the stopping of the count through the death of elected officials.

It is seared in my brain though. Mr Clyde, screaming like a little girl and running off to hide.

[calimary]

27. Trying to sound tough when he is anything but.

And he showed us his true self, cowering in fear as "friends and allies of like mind" on the other side of those doors were threatening to break, enter, destroy, and maybe kill.

[ZonkerHarris]

16. They better wear them after the next mass shooting as a badge of pride and policy.

[IcyPeas]

25. He said it's triggering his democrat colleagues on the house floor [Watch]

Link to tweet

[calimary]

28. And you're boastfully proud of it, too, aren't you, ASSHOLE.

I'm all outta curse words when a bastard like him comes to mind.

All those sweet little angels, and their beautiful teachers...


For God's Sake, WHEN DOES IT STOP?????????????

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. The names and faces should scroll on news screens every day until GOP dies.

[Torchlight]

34. Brave, brave Sir Robin

really did advertise the shallowness of his courage that day. It's pretty easy to let slip the content of our true character if we think the lights, cameras, and audience are done for the day.

I'd bet the pins are window dressing to help him feel as though he accomplished something of value that day.