Republican senator floats using violence against journalists who report ‘fake news’

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1. I guess most of Fox reporters and anchors are in trouble.

2. Hmm….what about doing this to lying politicians, instead? /s

3. There goes newsmax Hopefully they’ll arrest the Marjorie Taylor Green boyfriend immediately

4. Well that’s one way around the First Amendment. Don’t make laws restricting freedom of speech, just act lawlessly to repress it.

   Also, how does an example of a reporter shooting a politician in self-defence assist an (apparently jocular) argument that reporters can themselves be shot for what they report? It seems possible to support the first but not the second.

   This guy should sign up to some anger management courses.

5. Fake news meaning accurate reporting that offends trump.

6. So again, tell me just how freedom of expression and freedom of the press works, oh mighty originalist.

7. Can we suggest violence against Republican senators inviting violence on journalists for exposing the dirty truth behind this fetid carcass of an administration or is Reddit still sucking fascist dick?

8. Breitbart, Fox, Newsmax and OANN in serious trouble then.

9. What the fuck is with the name MarkWayne?

   Edit – all I can think about now is “Tell ‘em Steve-Dave”…

10. So what does he want to do to Trump for spreading all the fake news about the 2020 election?

11. Does this anecdote make sense?

    The reporter shot and killed the former congressman. Not the other way around. How is that a way to deal with fake news reporters?

    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Taulbee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Taulbee)

12. I think it’s funny that he uses a story of a journalist shooting a politician to make his point. He’s kind of asking for it.

13. This was a study of fascism. Some think rich people didn’t know what it meant.

14. Talking mad shit for a man who just saw *five-million* Americans turn out to protest Trump’s incompetence yesterday…

15. Fox newscasters better watch out since they are the biggest liars in journalism.

16. Mark Wayne is a coward masquerading as a tough guy. He knows there is an imbalance of power here. He knows there are laws protecting him as a senator. He knows he can make threats and imply violence from a place of safety, knowing no one can make the same threats in return.

17. This guy is the most redneck MAGA trash in Congress.

18. This isn’t so strange; specially given that MarkWayne is a politician from a state, and generally from that part of the country, where they still believe beating children with sticks and belts is a good idea. That’s not an exaggeration.

19. How about we use violence against senators destroying our livelihoods and retirement accounts?

20. These so-called Christians are amazing! American exceptionalism at its darkest!

21. Suppressing the free press. Check.

    How is everyone’s faschist bingo card going?
    I think we’re going to have a winner really soon!

22. Isn’t this like his third time inciting violence? Isn’t he the one that wanted to fight some General on the senate floor? Why is he still in office?

23. This is the guy that wanted to fight the Teamsters president on the senate floor.

    Feels like you should have to pass an emotional intelligence exam before holding federal office. Grow up you man-baby.

24. It will always be wild to me that so any elected officials can say things like this and we will just move on to tomorrows news day.

    If any mid level or under corporate employee said this they’d be escorted out of the building before the day was over.

    The stuff politicians get away with is absurd.

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