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Related: About this forumSteve Bannon Issues Dangerous 'Call To Arms' To MAGA Freaks - Ring of Fire
As most political leaders are calling to tone down violent rhetoric following the attack on Paul Pelosi, Steve Bannon is ramping up his violent words, telling his MAGA audience that they are "the cavalry" in what he called a "call to arms." This is some of the most obviously violent rhetoric that the country has seen in recent weeks, and it comes on the heels of Bannon saying that they'll hold Democrats accountable "by bayonet." This language is going to get people hurt, or worse, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.
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Even as many political leaders, almost all of them, of course, on the left, are telling each other. Please tone down the violent rhetoric. After what happened to Paul Pelosi last week, there is one individual in this country who has done the exact opposite. He has ramped up his violent rhetoric against Democrats. In that individual, of course, is Steve Bannon. On Friday, on the episode of his War Room podcast, Steve Bannon issued what he called a call to arms for his fellow Republicans telling them that they are the cavalry, that nobody is coming to save them, and that they're the ones who are going to have to take up the issue of election integrity into their own hands. Here's what he said. There's nobody coming to save us. You are the cavalry. Think back to the old John Ford Westerns. You're the cavalry right now in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A call to arms. You've got to get Frank Ryan, you've got to get into these counties. He then on the right wing site getter, doubled down on it and posted this, No one is coming to save America. You are the cavalry. Now what he's talking about is a letter from Pennsylvania State representative Frank Ryan, claiming that he knows that 240,000 ballots were sent to people who did not qualify for ballots in the state of Pennsylvania. Now, this is a claim that has not been verified by anyone, and even Frank Ryan's own Republican colleagues have come out and said, this is simply not true. So Frank Ryan goes out there and lies says there's gonna be a quarter million people voting who aren't legally allowed to vote. Steve Bannon, of course, doesn't need verification as to whether or not it's true or false. He goes out there, repeats it, and then issues a call to arms.
Now y'all know what a call to arms is, right? It is a call to take up arms. That's what that phrase means. And that is the phrase Bannon used to put it another way. It basically means go get your weapon and fight, okay? In case there's any, anything unclear about that. And I don't wanna put words into Steve Bannon's mouth, but that is what that phrase he used means. Whether he meant it to mean that or not, I can't say again because I cannot put words in his mouth, but that is what the phrase means. And I think if we add a little more context here, we get a better idea of what Steve Bannon's talking about. Because just a couple days before he issued his call to arms in an interview, he said that Democrats after the midterms are going to learn a lesson quote by bayonet, which, you know, bayonet is the
Long swordlike structure, uh, structure that you would put on the end of a rifle. And that is what he says. Democrats are going to learn by I, I guess by what? By stabbing us, by killing us, by physically attacking us. I, again, legally cannot put words into Steve Bannon's mouth, and I do not intend to do that. But I know violent rhetoric when I see it, and that is all we are seeing coming out of Steve Bannon. Now, whether he means to or not, again, that would be an issue for the courts, but we know how crazy the Republican base is, right? We got a firsthand view of that last week with Paul Pelosi. Language like this could easily get somebody killed. That's the bottom line. And it's not gonna stop. It's not gonna ease up. It's not gonna get slightly better.
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Steve Bannon Issues Dangerous 'Call To Arms' To MAGA Freaks - Ring of Fire (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Oct 2022
OP
Traitor, calling up on others to take up arms against the rest of us. Why does he get away w/ this
SWBTATTReg
Oct 2022
#1
Lock his ass up and take away his megaphone FCS. Sedition, conspiracy charges?? ENOUGH
Evolve Dammit
Oct 2022
#4
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)1. Traitor, calling up on others to take up arms against the rest of us. Why does he get away w/ this
crap?
Hassler
(3,390 posts)2. How long until the asshole start his jail time? Can't happen soon enough
reymega life
(675 posts)3. hes doing state time too next year for defrauding the wall fund
in new york
Evolve Dammit
(16,773 posts)4. Lock his ass up and take away his megaphone FCS. Sedition, conspiracy charges?? ENOUGH
Blue Owl
(50,507 posts)5. The sound of one leper clapping
Oops, there goes an arm...
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)6. Is inciting a riot
A chargeable crime?
He is basically yelling fire in a crowded theater.
Yelling the country is on fire and claims the democrats started it,so magas react like the country is on fire.
bluestarone
(17,051 posts)7. At the very least
The judge SHOULD GAG order this scum to STOP all internet, social media contact!
republianmushroom
(13,702 posts)8. Copied post, not mine but oh so true
If David DePape is mentally ill, then that means that every Red Hatted Magat is mentally ill. They all believe the same unbelievable bullshit.
Prairie_Seagull
(3,339 posts)9. Maybe he wants to turn things up-side down
before he goes to prison.