Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asked Vice President Kamala Harris in a rare joint statement to tone down her rhetoric in the lead-up to Election Day, days after Harris said she considered Donald Trump a fascist. The two top Republicans accused Harris of fanning “the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus” and said her words in recent days “seem to dare it to boil over.” “She must abandon the base and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions,” Johnson and McConnell said in their statement. “We call on the Vice President to take these threats seriously, stop escalating the threat environment, and help ensure President Trump has the necessary resources to be protected from those threats.” Their statement does not mention Trump’s recent rhetoric, in which he’s referred to Harris as a “fascist,” “marxist,” “communist” and “comrade.” The former president has also railed against “enemies within” and called for using government resources to prosecute domestic political opponents — such as California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Johnson downplayed Trump’s comments on Sunday shows, insisting he was not talking about specific politicians and adding he “did not hear President Trump say he’s going to sic the military on Adam Schiff.” Meanwhile, recently published excerpts of a biography of McConnell says that he bashed Trump as “stupid as well as being ill-tempered,” and a “despicable human being” in private following the events of Jan. 6. McConnell has since embraced Trump as the GOP nominee after the two had an icy relationship for years. The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment. At a CNN town hall this week, Harris was asked if she considered Trump a fascist and responded: “Yes, I do.” That comment came after Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, told The New York Times that the former president met the definition of a fascist. Harris also slammed Trump in remarks this week for, according to Kelly, reportedly saying in private that Adolf “Hitler did some good things.” “It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews, and hundreds of thousands of Americans,” she said. The vice president has made Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and his role in stoking the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol a key focus of her campaign message in the final weeks. She’s due to deliver her “closing argument” for the election during Tuesday remarks at the Ellipse, the location where Trump called on his supporters to march on Congress ahead of the violent attempted insurrection.
LOL
Reactionaries will tell you what is effective; any time they tell you to stop, you should so it more.
Johnson and McConnell are both Russian assets
Their statement does not mention Trump’s recent rhetoric, in which he’s referred to Harris as a “fascist,” “marxist,” “communist” and “comrade.”
“Rules for thee but not for me” strikes again.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Quit telling people what we said and did, it’s really evil and inappropriate
I wish McConnell would just have that final catastrophic stroke already
Turtles have an exceptionally long lifespan. Add in a bunch of piss and vinegar and he might live forever.
“He is simply dashing around the country spewing hate rhetoric and saying immigrants and leftists are the enemies of the state, your comments made people try to shoot him!”
These fuckers wouldn’t see a dick pissing on their forehead.
Oh, boo hoo. “I created a monster that I can’t control!” Eat shit, you goblins. You made this bed, and you had every opportunity to stop it from being made, but you were opportunistic little shits, and now you must lie in that bed.
Don’t just go away. Go away mad.
McConnell isn’t mad. He’s gloating because he won the long game he’d been playing at least 2016: packing the Supreme Court and as many federal circuits as possible. At this point, he’s just trying to muddy the waters and lend a tiny bit of credence to the “both sides” arguments that confuse casual voters.
2008
Instead Harris should use their own words (and Tump’s and his surrogate’s) right back at them.
Did you read the post? She called him a fascist that admires Nazis. Those are his own words.
Fuck tone policing, and fuck fascists.
Stop being nationalist bigots.
Stop threatening immigrants through blood libel about eating people’s dogs.
Stop being so sexually weird about everything.
If you want people to stop identifying what you do as fascism - step one is, stop doing textbook fascism.
Oh yeah, and stop banning textbooks!
How about they convince their own supporters to stop trying to assassinate their own candidate?
Meanwhile, thier Orange Hitler:
Trump’s rhetoric has been described as using “Argumentum ad baculum,” or an appeal to force and intimidation to coerce behavior.[59] Trump has been noted to use either direct or veiled comments with plausible deniability suggesting the possibility of violence by his supporters.[60][61][62][63][64] In Politico, Michael Schaffer wrote, “In the 45th and possibly 47th president, America has a leading political figure of unprecedented rhetorical violence.”[65]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric_of_Donald_Trump?origin=serp_auto
I’ll tell you what Mitch, ask your Shitler to eat shit and drop out of race. Let’s stop this nonsense at its source.
She should just come out and tell them to fuck themselves and double down.
Start making their persecution fantasies reality.
