Capitol riot defendant has history of intimidating lawmakers, made racist speech at public hearing

[groundloop]

Source: CNN

A man charged in connection to the January 6 Capitol riot made racist and xenophobic remarks during a public hearing before the Maine legislature in 2017.

Video obtained by CNN shows Kyle Fitzsimons referring to immigrants as "replacements," echoing White nationalist rhetoric that immigrants to America are coming to wipe out White people.

From the start of his almost three-and-a-half minute speech on May 10, 2017, Fitzsimons' bigotry and xenophobia were on full display.

"I'm from New York; I'm from Rhode Island," he said, holding two license plates up. "I did grow up in those states and I have to tell you that I think they are multicultural hell holes."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/07/us/capitol-riot-defendant-racist-public-hearing/index.html

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Fitzsimons is charged with assaulting a capitol police officer along with other crimes.

[Bluethroughu]

1. Prison time.

On the bright side, as these people do prison time our Country will go on without them, and be a bit safer while doing so.

[onetexan]

30. yup, prison will teach him to deal with multicultural environments

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Yes, they WILL replace the likes of you. You piece of shit.

And get this... he works in the hospitality industry. I'd hate to have him check me in.

[bottomofthehill]

4. Looks like a sane, well balanced person.

[UpInArms]

5. That was my first thought about him

[bottomofthehill]

7. Totally forgot to add the sarcasm thingy.

Crazy fucker that he is.

[UpInArms]

8. There was no need for yours

It was thick and rich

[COL Mustard]

29. Hospitality Industry?

More like hostility industry!

[msfiddlestix]

34. Is this really him? Is that blood photoshopped?

[JustAnotherGen]

3. When people

Write and Speak of a "New World Order" it always means this.

I work with people from all over the world - in an extremely diverse environment - Made in the USA manufacturer. My husband is a UNESCO certified metal restoration specialist, blacksmith (custom designed work), and sculptor -

From Italy.

He didn't take your stupid coal mining job.

My peers didn't want his stupid soldering job. Seriously - the immigrant woman from the middle east who is leading our date automation was never a threat to his job.

And for my role? I welcome anyone who wants to do my work.

It just so happens that my two team leads are the son of Guyanese Indian immigrants, and Colombia immigrants.

They were the only people to ace my reading and writing test. It's not their fault they were better than the white candidates.

[yardwork]

10. Exactly. And the irony of his position would be funny if it weren't so destructive.

With apparently no sense of irony he begs Maine officials to protect Maine culture from "outsiders." A state stolen from its previous occupants through genocide.

"I'll level this at all of you because you're sitting elected officials during the opioid crisis that is affecting Maine and killing us off," Fitzsimons said. "Killing off Yankee New England cultural; you're doing nothing to do nothing about it."

[JustAnotherGen]

12. I'm going to be sarcastic here

But yardwork -


(Sarcastically playing this assholes parents during the crack epidemic)

Those people look nothing like me.(I'm black)
I have no reason to go there.
It is not my problem.
Poor home training.
Where were the parents.
It is all these people know.


*****

See - when I turn the narrative around - how STUPID he sounds?

[yardwork]

13. He sounds stupid on every level and in every way.

He's stupid, he's never learned any facts, his life is intellectually impoverished, he has no prospects to make money and live the lifestyle he sees on TV, and all he's ever been taught is to blame other people rather than taking responsibility for his life.

He's the product of decades of cynical political and social brainwashing funded by billionaires who figure out how to get and stay in power.

[lookyhereyou]

16. this.

He's the product of decades of cynical political and social brainwashing funded by billionaires who figure out how to get and stay in power. education education education this needs to be
taught along with critical thinking

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. Plus one gazillion!

[Paladin]

25. No victimhood for that asshole. None whatsoever.

Fuck him, his family, and his fellow political morons. I hope he learns racial tolerance the hard way---a good long stretch in prison.

[CaptainTruth]

26. What part of Italy is your husband from? My wife grew up near Monza...

...NE of Milan.

I'm mainly into carpentry, but I've always admired good metalwork. I'll bet your husband has done some amazing things!

[JustAnotherGen]

32. Calabrese

We actually have a home in his hometown - Acri.

[CaptainTruth]

33. Thanks! Good for you! I haven't yet been that far south in Italy... yet.

With my lovely wife being from Lissone (adjacent to Monza) about 30-40 minutes NE of Milan, so far our excursions have extended south to Rome, but no further.

PLEASE don't be offended by me saying this, but so far my only exposure to Calabrese has been the "Salame Calabrese" we have in our refrigerator. I love how different regions in Italy have their own versions of foods, it makes it all more interesting & more delicious!

I'll tell you what... when this COVID nightmare is over & we can all travel again we would love to meet you in Italy.

A couple years ago we coordinated a trip with online friends from Washington state (we're in FL) & met them in Milan. It was wonderful! People we had only talked to online, & we got to meet them half a world away. We would love to do the same with you.

[JustAnotherGen]

35. Not offended at all

The food there is very different - like Milan - their food is regional.

The 'sunday pasta' of choice requires no 'sauce' in CalabriSalsiccia (the hot calabrese sausauge) - fresh, sun dried tomatos, fresh ricotta, and lots of calabrese pepper - little pasta water.


One of my SIL lives in genoa, one in Firenze - and my older brother in law is still in acri. Younger moved to Germany for work.

We are ALL over the place. Crossing fingers we can go this year for Christmas. Had to cancel this year. Especially in a few years -we will most likely be in Italy 6 months, home in NJ for a month or two each year. We'll see you there!

[Wednesdays]

6. Not a riot, but rather an insurrection. eom

[bottomofthehill]

9. An Armed insurrection

They came with all sorts of weapons.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. +1000

I've been sending messages to media outlets advising them that it was a Sedition Insurrection Coup Attempt.

I think WaPo is sick of me - but I'm an online subscriber. If they want my money every 3 months - they better get onboard.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. November 1917 was also called an insurrection

This fascist coup seems orchestrated to answer that one, from the opposite side of the political spectrum.

[DemUnleashed]

14. Hey, Kyle...

Hey, Kyle...I'd rather have an immigrant living next door to me than anyone with the likes of you!! What does that say??!

[infullview]

17. So he comes to Maine to give us a bad rap? thanks so much.

He must have felt right at home with Paul LePage as our then governor. Thank god he's gone. Unfortunately, Maine is almost two separate states in one. Draw a vertical line just below Lewiston/Auburn. Everything north of that line is pretty redneck, and trumpy. South of that line is actually reasonably enlightened multicultural.

[Maine-i-acs]

21. When Maine started taking in refugees from Somalia these people came out of the woodwork -Trump 2016

capitalized on this in his rally/campaigning in Maine, specifically race-baiting the influx of Somalis on our 'culture'. Many town hall meetings were echo chambers for this kind or overt racism and xenophobia, with white/Christian/European culture presumably at risk.

Governor Paul LeRage was as bad or worse.

We even had a concerned citizen calling foul when he saw a lot of people of color voting in his district. His voting fraud allegation centered around his knowledge that there were not that many people of color that existed in his town.

[usaf-vet]

19. Kyle I hate to have to give you this wake up, but prisons are multicultural hell holes and you will

.... get to make license plates. And the only number that will matter is the one on your orange prison attire.

One more message if you want to come out of prison someday you better temper your rhetoric.

In prison, you won't just get gaveled down you'll get hammered down repeatedly.

[turbinetree]

20. So get ready for your new bunk mates and explain to them why your in prison

tell them the story of you trying to overthrow the government and then tell them a bedtime story of bigotry...........and just for the record dipshit do you know anything about what whites did to natives........anything at all.......

[groundloop]

22. Nope, white supremacists tend to neglect the part about how Native Americans were treated

Or for that matter how ANYONE who doesn't look like them was treated.

In my most humble opinion (as an overweight white dude who, by appearances, could fit right in with that racist crowd) it's way past time that school history books quit glossing over the atrocities that were committed against Native Americans when they didn't want their land stolen, and against Africans who were brought here against their will and enslaved.

[turbinetree]

27. I had a very good teachers when I was growing up in South Dakota since we were fairly close to Pine

Ridge and also the fact of my mother's side being native.

Yeah they have "selective" reasoning when it comes to race, it's the blame "them" factor.

[Nitram]

23. WTF is he doing with two license plates?

[murielm99]

24. Multicultural hellholes?

Interesting.

[George II]

28. That headline can easily be said of trump, too.

[mainer]

31. He's NOT FROM MAINE. Don't tell us what to do.

Nothing pisses off us Mainers more than having people from away tell us how we should be living.