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Man who said he'd 'pluck out' VP Harris' eyes was baffled when feds appeared at door: Complaint (lawandcrime.com)

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[–] [email protected] 306 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

“[F]or a comment. This is ridiculous, for a comment,” he allegedly said. “I guess I’m gonna need a lawyer.”

The comment:

Carillo in one post said Harris doesn’t “have a snowballs chance in hell which is exactly where you’re going and soon. I will cut your eyes out of your FUCKING head” and “will make sure you suffer a slow agonizing death."

He said he would “personally” set Harris on fire “if no one else does."

Carillo said Harris is “going to regret ever trying to become president because if that ever happened I will personally pluck out her eyes with a pair of pliers but first I will shoot and kill everyone that gets in my way that is a fucking promise.”

[–] [email protected] 228 points 2 months ago (11 children)

What is it that this person believes she has done that deserves such a horrible death? It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around why someone thinks like this

[–] [email protected] 201 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There's been a coordinated campaign of dehumanization in the right-wing media for decades. This guy has been indoctrinated to see her as the enemy and to not see her as a person

[–] WhatAmLemmy 59 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Even the most evil people I can think of. The most I'd want them to "suffer" is the realization of how terrible they are, before they enter the void. I don't want them tortured. I don't want to hurt them. I just want them to not exist.

The "comments" this guy made are psychotic. I don't mean that in a hyperbolic kind of way. I mean in a "danger to society" kind of way.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Yep. I've written my fair share of angry opinionated comments. I managed to do it without threatening death on any elected officials though, or of anyone at all, and I especially did not do so while also claiming to be a member of the "law and order" party. Somehow, no matter how angry I got, I was able to recognize that assassination was probably not a good line to cross, even in rhetoric.

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[–] PriorityMotif 68 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I used to hear this kind of shit all the time when I had a trumper as a supervisor. I almost did call the feds once when he and several other people were talking about shooting people for living in a city. One of them had just bought a gun and was in the waiting period. It's obviously just shit talk, but I should have burned them for being pieces of shit.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

She's a symbolic scapegoat for everything wrong in americans lives and thus the source of everything wrong with this guys life.

[–] Illuminostro 18 points 2 months ago

Because "Muh Teem No Mattur Wut!" Stupidity, which is pitiable, and Hatefulness, which isn't.

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[–] Fedizen 50 points 2 months ago

"Its just a comment, bro, I was just postin"

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

Didn't finish with a "in Minecraft" at the end. Rookie mistake.

[–] debil 37 points 2 months ago

What a twat.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How stupid of him. If only had just said "haha sike naw jk lol lol lol" after every sentence.

[–] thesohoriots 19 points 2 months ago

“Oh I’m sorry, I thought this was America”

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[–] veni_vedi_veni 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

will shoot and kill everyone that gets in my way that is a fucking promise.”

Real small dick energy

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Like who would have thought that writing shit like this UNDER YOUR OFFICIAL NAME would have consequences?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

”For a comment.”

In this day and age, who hasn’t made incredibly specific ultraviolent threats against an elected official while constantly reassuring others that they are serious/making a promise to enact these threats? Did this upstanding citizen simply forget to cite his first amendment rights to the agents?

[–] paddirn 16 points 2 months ago

"I thought this was America where we have FREEDOM OF SPEECH to just comment on how we're going to torture, mutilate, and kill presidential candidates, not some communist fascist dictatorship. Except if you talk bad about Trump, you'll get killed for that." –Somebody somewhere

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[–] givesomefucks 214 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They've really normalized this shit to the point they don't understand why it's wrong...

It's just like 1/6, there's a few that are serious and dangerous, and they're hiding among a large group of fucking idiots and using them as human shields.

Normalizing violence is something fascists always do before the actual violence, they're getting people desensitized to the idea of it.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago

they've never understood it to BE wrong, much less why. all they know is the fear mongering rhetoric of "they're coming to take your guns, turn your kids gay, and forcibly terminate your pregnancies" along with the whole "you're not a real man if you're not violent" ideal, since the GOP stance can't win on policy

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[–] qx128 144 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Turns out violent threats are not protected speech under the first amendment. Who knew?!

Fuck around and find out.

[–] Zombiepirate 65 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Good people of the jury, my client is guilty of nothing more than merely forgetting to append 'in Minecraft,' to his statement."

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They are if you're in Congress

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Imagine the level of training to attain such a perspective:

Hoist with his own Google review:

Ouch, the stupid:

approximately 4,359 posts/replies

Give or take

Good job FBI, who knows whether he was serious but there’s a reason there’s an exact statute for this and he actually had weapons - not a good look buddy.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago

I feel like after one threat like this you shouldn't legally be allowed to own weapons.

If found with an illegal weapon after these statements should be recited in front of a judge/jury during trial so they know why the person shouldn't be allowed to have it. These kinds of threats are not things that normal, rational people make.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

"Based on training and experience" is "because fucking obviously" but will hold up in court.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Ahaha yeah and they gotta start out with “I ain’t no chump neither”:

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Lucky that the investigator had that tech training or the suspect could have slipped away

[–] Mirshe 18 points 2 months ago

I imagine they cranked into high gear after someone took a shot at Trump. Assassination attempts tend to beget more.

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Imagine living in a country, proclaiming yourself as rabidly patriotic, and not even knowing some of its most basic laws.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"What are you gonna do, arrest me?"

gets arrested

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago

Tangential but also relevant; I worked in a larger construction company until a year ago and it was multi state. Imagine my surprise when word spread that the FBI was looking for an employee in another department regarding 1/6. Before Jan 6 he had been filmed jumping up on a table at the local Costco with a megaphone and spewing filth.

There are always signs.

[–] Allonzee 71 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

This is why you only threaten politicians that are already dead.

For example, pissing on Ronald Reagan's grave, the deceased shitty actor just to be clear, is still on my bucket list.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

When I was a teenager I made an email address, [email protected], inspired by the suicidal tendencies song. Years later in my late 20s or early 30s the secret service showed up at my door to ask about it. I had nearly forgotten I even made it by then. I don't remember if Reagan was dead yet but he was on his llast legs. I guess they're super thorough when it comes to anything other than that one roof near Trump's rally

No word on whether they investigated Mike Muir in the 80s when the song was written and Reagan was still alive/relevant

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[–] niktemadur 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For these mouth-breathers, "'Murica! Freeeedum!" means:
Whatever lazy, angry, ignorant, all-viscera-no-brains image I cooked up while living alone and bitter in a neglected and crumbling old house with a few "KEEP OUT!"/"TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT" signs around the goddamned perimeter.

Their tiny little minds live in a tiny, narrow and flat, miserable little world. And here's the kicker - that's the way they want it, out of sheer lazy inertia.

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[–] kromem 31 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Ah, yes Shabriri, I know thee well.

Guided by the three fingers to be Lord of Frenzy.

Just a poor soul looking for some grapes to help see the faded light of the guiding grace.

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[–] DrownedRats 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fucker sneezed during his booking photo and they didnt let him re-take it lol

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

What a dumb ass.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

iT wAs JuSt A pRaNk BrO

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Heh, try that in a small town.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I don't think the nickname Crapler Harris is going to stick.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At least this guy will no longer have access to guns after this.

[–] ganksy 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As long as he: a) doesn't get a trump judge and b) trump doesn't get in office.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Looks like we have another fuck around and found out.

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