there was a guy who turned himself in because he wanted to assassinate brett kavanaugh. so there is not like there is some ideological monopoly on this, and yet, it also feels like the differences on that side, because of donald trump, there is more excuses for apologies, exhortation s two threats, and minutes. what do you think? you know, what we want to avoid is the situation where people are afraid to go into politics. because of threats to themselves, or their families, their friends, their neighbors. and you know, as alex says, it is especially dire at the local level with school board, and city council, and town council. and then, generally, all of this has a climate of fear, which is not conducive to us engaging in the kind of political thinking and imagination about how to move america forward on everything
arrest him for a minor shot showing up not showing up, put him in leg irons, and put o keefe out in his underwear, take a phone from a a representative in fronts of his family, get a s.w.a.t. a team to rodger stone s house. send a message we re capable. we create a climate of fear, message you to, mr. bureaucrat mr. elected official, mr. citizen, do you want to go against this or join us? if you join us, you sort of you know, if you do something wrong like hillary clinton use allege sledgehammer, we won t do anything to you, but if you alter a federal document we ll take your license
prolific and virtual sick at wiping out what was left of the opposition. it has happened within the last year. it happened when the russian opposition leader returned from germany in mid january of last year, he had been recuperating in germany after having been poisoned by a military grade nerve agent by the fsb on putin s orders. he dared to come home. people came out and protested, and the kremlin hit back, and everybody is basically now in jail, and exiled abroad, or very quietly trying not to end up on either of those places. this is a country where people go to jail for liking things on facebook, for sharing other peoples posts on facebook, for sharing music videos that they themselves did not make. so what happens is when you establish that climate of fear, there is no pushback. there is nobody that he has to
protested, and the kremlin hit back, and everybody is basically now in jail, and exiled abroad, or very quietly trying not to end up on either of those places. this is a country where people go to jail for liking things on facebook, for sharing other peoples posts on facebook, for sharing music videos that they themselves did not make. so what happens is when you establish that climate of fear, there is no pushback. there is nobody that he has to deal with, not the opposition, and not even anybody in his own government. i can 2014, there were still liberals and western oriented people in his government. now, as we saw with the security council meeting yesterday which looked like a deleted scene from death of stalin, you just had the people around him bowing and scraping to say whatever he needed him to say, getting scolded when they stumbled and did not quite get the formulation right, and he is just surrounded by yes men. i remember one of my trips to moscow back in 2018, meeting with
qanon has with democrats and pedophilia. and i think that was really the agenda that senator holley had that had really almost nothing to do with the nomination. i want to play of what he said. it really bothers me in every child porn case you ve had you ve sentenced below the guidelines and below the government s recommendation. and saying that sex offenders are truly shunned in our society, is it your view that society is too hard on sex offenders? you say they truly are shunned in society. you wrote that many of these laws are products of a climate of fear, hatred and revenge. is that still your view? do you think that these laws are too tough, that we re too tough on sex offenders? explain what you meant? in this case in 2013, and it seems to be the same thing you said many years ago. senator, it s not the same