It clear that his purpose In Washington is messaging, not legislating is not only pushing the Big Lie, hes issuing a warning that would be better described as a threat while promoting false claims of Election Fraud at a local gop event, cawthorn raised the prospect that if republican candidates lose future elections, the answer might be for their supporters to get violent. He even suggested that if things dont work out at the Ballot Box the way republican voters want them to, even he might take up arms against his fellow americans. See for yourself. Ill tell you, anybody who tells you that Joe Biden was Dutyfully Elected is wrong. If our Election Systems continue to be rigged and continue to be stolen, its going to lead to one place, and its bloodshed, and i will tell you, as much as i am willing to defend our liberty at all costs, Theres Nothing that i would dread doing more than having to pick up arms against a fellow american. So cawthorn, who lets just reiterate is not just some gu
Capitols, and the proud boys and the extremists, and members of other groups, it s members of congress. this is almost al qaeda like. i have never seen anything like this, have you? joy, this is the remarkable thing, as we talk about the end of the war in afghanistan 20 years ago, what we were looking at was incitement to violence and the justification was always, you have to defend. it s defensive, right, that we have to defend against the americans. listen to the language of madison cawthorn, and some of these other congressmen and what they are saying. they talk about, we have to defend, we have to fight back. well, guess what, someone will. we saw this on january 6th and what tends to happen is when they storm these places, guess who s running for cover, and guess who s looking for law enforcement to help them. it s the capitol police that then have to protect them, and what ultimately ends up happening when these lies are revealed, guess who becomes the target of this incitement
Reiterate is not just some guy, he s a yes, embarrassing, creepy, tree punching but sitting member of congress, and here he is, clearly justifying violence, based on the false pretense of a rigged election. that s the central claim of the big lie, which led to the january 6th insurrection in the first place. and he s also suggesting that he condones the insurrection itself, portraying the perpetrators of the capitol siege who chanted hang mike pence and brought a noose and scaffolding with them in case they caught him, and charged with serious crimes, including assaulting police officers by beating them, and dousing them with bear spray, portraying them as political hostages, and busting them out. the big problem is we don t know where all the political prisoners are. if we were to go and try and
Guys that are doing all of this incitement to violence, they will ultimately fall victim to it if they continue to push these lies over and over. and it also creates a response, a parallel response. for every incitement that they push, there s an opposite party that feels like they need to push back. that competing rhetoric, that movement to violence of many different polls results in a very dangerous system in our country, and you saw it right there in that interview, joy, when you saw it. he asked, when do you want me to go, so many in the crowd, when are we going back. they re asking for instructions, when they re asking for instructions, they have the intent. they re waiting for a time and place to be pointed. to amplify your point, because you get to a point where you lose control of the mob, right. you have in texas, they went ahead and passed their voter suppression law. they have gone ahead and driven that through. what happens if they pass the most onerous voter suppression
Bust them out, and let me tell you, the reason they have taken political prisoners is they re trying to make an example because they don t want to see the mass protests going on in washington. and here is how cawthorn responded. when a member of the audience asked when s the next insurrection, and asked when he ll be summoned back to washington to get it on. when are you going to call us to washington again? we are actively working on that one. found that funny, did you, a spokesperson insisted to the washington post gnat congressman quote is clearly advocating for violence not to occur. really, was that supposed to be funny irony, madison, because by casting doubt on a legitimate election and chest pumping about possible bloodshed, you are encouraging political violence. in fact, the very kind of political violence that s normally associated with brown shirt fascism. all of this begs the question,