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According to court documents filed in the Southern District of Texas court, Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, called Chutkan's chambers on the evening of August 5 and left "a threatening voicemail message." Federal investigators with the Department of Homeland Security said that Shry started her call by saying, "Hey you stupid slave," followed by a racial slur.
During the call, investigators said, Shry "threatened to kill anyone who went after former President Trump." She also specifically threatened to kill Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat representing Texas' 18th Congressional District, as well as "all Democrats in Washington, D.C., and all people of the LGBTQ community," read the filing from Friday.
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although threat didn't come directly from tfg, it is his rhetoric that caused this. He needs to be put in jail pending his trial. I know it won't happen, but I can wish for it.
hatrack
(65,022 posts)ShazzieB
(22,771 posts)What kind of blithering idiot thinks they can leave a highly threatening, viciously racist, and easily traceable and identifiable voice-mail for a federal judge, and NOT face serious repercussions?
I know the stupidity of 45's followers is directly proportional to the degree of their devotion to him, but this is an extra EXTRA special level of stupidity.
ZonkerHarris
(25,577 posts)ShazzieB
(22,771 posts)COL Mustard
(8,328 posts)Answer:

3Hotdogs
(15,473 posts)conjugial conhuman jovial --- don't know how to spell it but you know what I mean.
I loves me blond, blue eyed babes.
Probatim
(3,292 posts)It's a combination of "yeah I did it", "I can't believe I did it", "I can't believe I got caught", and "I'd do it all over again" - and maybe a bit of "I'll be out by morning".
Kennah
(14,578 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(16,225 posts)alcohol was involved!
Delphinus
(12,534 posts)Put her in jail and keep her there.
Maeve
(43,484 posts)sakabatou
(46,218 posts)ALBliberal
(3,370 posts)dem4decades
(14,222 posts)actually harm some one.
wnylib
(26,312 posts)There will be many more threats. There will be some actual plans and attempts. Hopefully, they will be caught in time and prevented from acting.
We cannot back down. But we must be prepared for the backlash.
PortTack
(35,822 posts)HariSeldon
(541 posts)This woman exists in a community where the culture supports saying these horrible things to Judge Chutkan (or her voicemail, at least). Dig into the people around her, find out if any have purchased tickets to the DC area. If a group is discovered which is taking concrete steps to commit violent acts against anyone just living their life and doing their legal job, sweep up anyone who helped...make an example.
Johnny2X2X
(24,352 posts)Lock her up! Lock her up!
This garbage is just starting.
TomSlick
(13,061 posts)NowISeetheLight
(4,002 posts)Imagine the level of stupidity that would cause someone to do this. They interviewed her so she obviously the figured out who she was, so she used her own phone (stupid), then she admitted it (stupid), it's just a stupid-fest. Brought to you by another Trump supporter cult member. I won't see these guys at the monthly Mensa meeting that's for sure.
I enjoy watching FBI on Tuesday nights. I'm always entertained by the tech stuff, cameras, street cams, facial recognition, stuff like that. Being tech savvy I'm also a fan of the IT stuff. I always think "why would anyone do any crime nowadays when everything is so monitored and watched?". I mean cameras are everywhere.
Still it happens. Some people are just PLAIN STUPID. I know they say people should watch less TV. Maybe the Magats need to watch more to see the capabilities of the watchers?
ProfessorGAC
(77,065 posts)...I was on the board of directors of a couple hundred million dollar credit union.
A fellow board member was a police captain. (Coincidentally, he was tye brother of my wife's college roommate. )
Anyway, he told me on multiple occasions that the vast majority of crimes are solved because the perpetrator(s) was/were stupid.
He used to say "We're very glad most smart people don't commit crimes."
So, getting caught for a crime because of stupidity has been SOP for a long time.
NowISeetheLight
(4,002 posts)My late Dad was a cop over 36 years. He retired a chief in 91 but had about ten years of patrol and Sgt first starting in the 50s after Korea. One of his favorite stories was about a couple of burglars he arrested and had in the back seat. On the drive to the station they were speaking in Finnish and talking about all their crimes and the dumb cop. They admitted where they stashed stuff too.
When they got to the police station my Dad turned around and said "Thank you very much" in perfect Finn.
His parents (my grandparents) emigrated to northern Minnesota via Ellis Island as children in the late 1890s. Every weekend we'd run up to our lake lot (cabin) and visit Grandma over on the farm my Dad was born on. I remember my Dad always talking Finn to Grandma (she could speak English too).
ProfessorGAC
(77,065 posts)Assuming nobody else speaks the language is pretty stupid!
Good on your dad!
iluvtennis
(21,514 posts)msfiddlestix
(8,181 posts)Lot's of stories indicating the stupidity of the perp. but that one is especially funny.
I have a neighbor that had her car stolen from the apartment complex parking lot, by some idiot who was dumb enough to
leave paperwork of his with his id and address on the envelopes in the back seat of the car.
After my neighbor reported her car stolen, she got the call the next day the thief was charged and arrested, and come to pick up her vehicle. They related the story to her... there are other similar theft stories like this involving stolen vehicles.
They know how to steal a car but one wonders if they even know to drive, they're so stupid.
mnhtnbb
(33,455 posts)Quite a few years ago my next door neighbor found her car--a manual transmission Jetta--one morning in the middle of our dead end lane stopped at the speed bump that was located on the curve in the lane. Apparently, her car had been stolen during the night by someone who didn't know how to drive a manual transmission and had stalled the car at the speed bump!
msfiddlestix
(8,181 posts)Danascot
(5,258 posts)has become an anti-theft measure in many cases.
AllyCat
(18,942 posts)PortTack
(35,822 posts)ShazzieB
(22,771 posts)
Even dumber than that.
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)Her joke is that, sure, you do run across the occasional smart criminal who knows how not to get caught.
But that's not the norm. In her view, smart people don't need to resort to crime to get by. You resort to crime when you're to stupid to cut it with a real job.
rsdsharp
(12,064 posts)And then she got rude!
Idiot. Judges dont take that lightly (not that Judge Chutkan will handle her case).
Aristus
(72,379 posts)Silly me for thinking they could learn anything
Brainfodder
(7,781 posts)ProfessorGAC
(77,065 posts)...shows her as being born in 1980. That would make her 42 or 43. She sure doesn't look 20 in that mugshot.
AllyCat
(18,942 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,453 posts)Abigail_Adams
(333 posts)Trump's been dog whistling to people like this for a long time now.
TexasBushwhacker
(21,260 posts)spooky3
(38,771 posts)eggplant
(4,221 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(21,260 posts)What a dim bulb.
kimbutgar
(27,433 posts)lonely bird
(2,997 posts)iluvtennis
(21,514 posts)Maru Kitteh
(31,894 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(21,260 posts)Looks like it's mom that's going to the pokey.
Maru Kitteh
(31,894 posts)Both of them at home.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,669 posts)brother-grampa?
Not sure how that works.
ShazzieB
(22,771 posts)Except one is obviously older, although that didn't register with me at first glance.
The rotten apple sure didn't fall far from that tree!
Ace Rothstein
(3,373 posts)That's all I have to say about that.
AZLD4Candidate
(6,853 posts)Response to iluvtennis (Original post)
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MLAA
(19,779 posts)Cha
(319,966 posts)triron
(22,240 posts)soldierant
(9,365 posts)I realize she said "we," but even if she were an army she would not be able to identify and locate every Democrat in Washington (DC or state), let alone the entire LGBTQ+ community, too many of whom still need to be closeted. Even if she had a superpower.*
*(White skin is not a superpower. Heck, white skin isn't even white.)
Mopar151
(10,349 posts)It's a common delusion among losers, especially racists, to believe that the vast majority is "with them", but are waiting for some grand act to kick off the mighty holy war. McVeigh, Manson, even Hitler bought the lie. "The Turner Diaries" (Mc Veigh's inspiration) is this very delusion, played out as some kind of awakening.
soldierant
(9,365 posts)MontanaMama
(24,736 posts)Then all the protective orders in the world are nonsense. Lock her UP!
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Good grief, did she think that she wouldn't face consequences? Well I guess she'll get to contemplate in prison if her 3 minute vitriolic rant was worth it. Stupid stupid stupid.
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)But stupid enough to leave a vile threatening message from a traceable phone. I wonder if her besties are circulating those numbers among themselves gathered by others interested in instigating terroristic threats but not wanting them traceable to them. Me - I wouldn't know how to get through to a specific federal judge to leave a message.
But the hate is getting worse. I remember when I was shocked by those memes depicting watermelon patches on the White House lawn back in 2009.
KentuckyWoman
(7,411 posts)Yes he emboldens them but the crazy was already out there. He told the militia groups, hate orgs and garden variety whacks that it is OK to go for it.
My whole life has been one group after the next on the front pages for being willing to hurt people out of hate. If he goes away, we still have the millions he brought out into the light.
SleeplessinSoCal
(10,430 posts)I believe we need a call to reform the FCC. Public airwaves have been permitted to abuse the first amendment. It ought to be a clarion call to fix our broken 4th estate.
ShazzieB
(22,771 posts)These people are like cockroaches. They run and hide when the lights come on, but they're still there, waiting until it's dark again to come back out.
pecosbob
(8,452 posts)Now in the age social media she is pointed rather like a gun.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,669 posts)a lot of American societal ills can be traced back to that scumbaggy show, and its many copycats.
Elessar Zappa
(16,385 posts)America isnt anymore fucked up now than it was in the 50s and 60s. Segregation, women couldnt get loans or credit cards, pretty much all lgbtq had to stay in the closet. This is who weve always been, Jerry Springer has nothing to do with it, video games have nothing to do with it, violent movies have nothing to do with it.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,619 posts)The magat education system had completely eluded me - thanks for reminding me it was the Jerry Springer show.
spanone
(141,942 posts)Blue Owl
(59,422 posts)Any MAGAts trying this shit will receive maximum punishment with extreme prejudice
MagickMuffin
(18,355 posts)Dimwit going to jail.

Wednesdays
(22,917 posts)Yeesh!
phylny
(8,818 posts)she's a nasty piece of work.
William Gustafson
(555 posts)Enjoy you stay at the cell block, Moron!!!
Jarqui
(10,922 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(14,710 posts)
Catherine Vincent
(34,611 posts)She should remain locked up the full 5 years.
Lonestarblue
(13,536 posts)murder innocent people. They are like programmed robots. When Trump speaks, their response is to threaten violence and murder. At some point that violence is likely to happen.
3Hotdogs
(15,473 posts)SouthernDem4ever
(6,619 posts)so they can plot a new coup together. Maybe take over the laundry?
SKKY
(12,806 posts)thatcrowwoman
(1,230 posts)Insert picture here of Jack Smith with a folding chair under his arm here.
thatcrowwoman
flying_wahini
(8,281 posts)Kennah
(14,578 posts)Kennah
(14,578 posts)iluvtennis
(21,514 posts)IronLionZion
(51,468 posts)Can't use the mental illness excuse on this one. This is terrorism.
iluvtennis
(21,514 posts)white supremacist terrorism.
JPPaverage
(639 posts)He's outraged. You know, doesn't want Texans threatening judges like someone did to Kavanaugh (allegedly.) And I imagine that Graham and the rest of them are horrified too.
I know that DUers are normally smart enough to know this, but the above is