They were not in ‘just their underwear’ or ‘having sex’ when police arrived
The right spreads vile conspiracy theories to distract from the fact that it incited a MAGA terrorist to try to assassinate the Speaker of the House #PelosiGate
Ask yourself what would make people spread such sickening defamatory nonsense and there’s only one answer: hate.
They hate Pelosi with the same rage and fervor that they do Hillary because their media ecochamber has deliberately engineered that hatred with lies and propaganda.
These people present themselves as “just asking questions” and “trying to uncover the truth” but that’s not at all what they’re doing
Because the facts are clear: Nick was a right-wing extremist who supported Trump and spread these same type of conspiracy theories online himself
So instead of facing that fact: they make up new conspiracy theories to distract from and undermine it.
Because if they can just get their idiotic cultists to believe that Pelosi’s 82-year-old husband (who is a grandfather) is a secret homo then he’ll have somehow ‘deserved’ it.
The right gaslights millions of Americans with propaganda and conspiracy theories rooted in the most bigoted tropes that exist knowing it will drive some of them to commit violence, which they then spread *new* hateful conspiracy theories to distract from. Utterly irredeemable.
Here’s @TuckerCarlson’s rhetoric that radicalized this MAGA terrorist. He was a Trump supporting Q-Anon member who posted antisemitic and racist conspiracy theories and tried to kill Nancy Pelosi, marking the second attempt on her life in 2 years #FoxNewsIsATerroristOrganization
*DAVID not Nick Depape. This is what happens when I tweet before making coffee. See how I issue a correction when I get something wrong, though? If only the right could try it.
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BREAKING: Federal agents have charged David Depape—the assailant who broke into the Pelosi’s San Francisco residence and assaulted Paul Pelosi with a hammer—with assault on the immediate family member of a federal official and attempted kidnapping of a federal official.
Warrant states that SFPD recovered zip ties in Pelosi’s bedroom and the hallway near the front door. In addition, law enforcement searched Depape’s backpack and found, among other things, a roll of tape, white rope, one hammer, one pair of rubber and cloth gloves, and a journal.
Pelosi was interviewed by SFPD Officer Ariane Starks. Pelosi stated he had never seen Depape before. Pelosi was asleep when Depape came into his bedroom and stated he wanted to talk to “Nancy.” When Pelosi told him Nancy wasn’t there, Depape stated that he “would sit and wait.”
This morning, the new CEO of Twitter used it to tell Hillary Clinton that Nancy Pelosi’s husband’s attacker—who was trying to kill the Speaker herself—was a man he had met “while drunk at a gay bar,” perpetuating a baseless bigoted conspiracy theory to his 112 Million followers.
Let me put a fine point on this. @elonmusk deliberately pushed out a hateful conspiracy theory to over 100 million people that the right invented with NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER and IS EXACTLY THE SAME TYPE OF FALSE INFLAMMATORY RHETORIC THAT LED TO THIS ATTACK IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Musk—the self-proclaimed ‘bot hater’ who wields the biggest army of bots and ‘free speech absolutist’ who doesn’t care about free speech but is a huge fan of hate speech despite knowing it will kill this platform if he turns it into Gab/Parler—is the abomination we thought he was
There’s a special place in hell for whatever RWNJ decided to spread the conspiracy theory that Paul Pelosi’s attacker was his “secret gay lover”; ushering in an entire fresh new batch of MAGA/Musk trolls saying he “staged the attack” to conceal his “illicit affair/lifestyle.”
And Musk himself joined in like clockwork because he’s an absolute abomination. I’ll work to rid this place of every advertiser until he’s gone.
Now I’m hearing it was @charliekirk11, which makes so much sense because he’s one of the worst propagators of bigoted disinformation on here.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson handing down one of the longest sentences to a J6 terrorist today: “People need to understand they can’t do this or anything like this again. They can’t try to force their will on the American people once the American people have spoken at the ballot box”
She cont’d: “There are still people disseminating this idea that the election was stolen. It’s an ongoing kinetic threat to our democracy that just so happens to be continuing in close proximity to a pivotal midterm election.” She sentenced Albuquerque Head to 90 months (7.5 yrs)
Head was the one who knocked down Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone and dragged him into a crowd of MAGA terrorists screaming “I got one!” They beat Fanone til he was barely conscious. All he could say was “I’ve got kids.” All of this underneath a ‘blue lives matter’ flag.
Since the right is in another frenzy over “the cancellation of Kanye,” a reminder:
The First Amendment says that the government cannot arrest you for what you say. It does not, nor has it ever, protected you from there being CONSEQUENCES to you choosing to spread hate speech.
I’ve done a lot of threads on this because the right never learns it even though they literally created cancel culture (and LOVE it):
.@RepMTG took part in the call-in show ‘Night Talk’ on GA’s UCTV on Monday. A caller criticized her abortion views. “My body is my body, and I don't want the government telling me what I can do with my body.” Greene replied she sounded too old to have kids and stormed off the set
When the program returned from commercials without the congresswoman, the Host said: “Well, we're back without Marjorie Taylor Greene... she's gone.”
.@RepMTG also told her this: “It's your body, but a baby inside a woman's womb is another person's body, not your body and not my body. And abortion is murder of another human being, whether that body is inside your uterus or not. That is murder. I do not support murder.” 🙄