Summary

Republican lawyer Mike Davis, a potential pick for Attorney General in Donald Trump’s incoming administration, made inflammatory posts on social media following Trump’s election victory, saying he wanted to drag Democrats’ “dead political bodies” through the streets and “burn them.”

Known for his extreme rhetoric, Davis has repeatedly advocated for aggressive action against Trump’s opponents, including threatening to “cage children” and throw rivals “in the gulag.”

Trump has publicly praised Davis, and his son, Donald Trump Jr., has expressed support for Davis’s potential role in the administration.

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    its really looks like they are literally begging for a revolution. i mean, such obviously inflammatory language serves no purpose other than to goad retribution. he cannot be so insanely threatening and not expect a reaction

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    “F*** unity… We have the votes. And they tried to kill Trump,” he said in another expletive-laden post, referring to Democrats.

    Is someone going to tell him?

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    We can’t fight this shit with ineffectual moderates like Joe Biden.

    The whole nation rallied and got him in office and a 50/50 Senate along with the House…

    He wasted that for 2 years, then got nothing else down the other 2 years because he lost the House.

    America was sold Biden as a way to defeat trump, and it just resulted in a brief pause.

    We need to let progressives run the party, they’re at least willing to fucking fight.

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      He wasted that for 2 years

      Willful ignorance of everything passed in 2021-22 (and despite incredibly narrow margins) does not mean it didn’t happen.

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        The person you’re responding to thinks they’re a political savant and know everything. Best to ignore. Even when they’ve been proven wrong they adjust and pretend they knew all along.

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        Biden’s mandate was to protect Democracy, not increase infrastructure spending. Yes that’s a good addition to protecting democracy but the things you’re referring to were the expendable part of the job at hand. We got the sides at the expense of the main course. And what reason was that for again? Oh yeah, they didn’t want to seem like they were litigating political issues. Do you think that bought them some reciprocation from the incoming administration? Read the quotes from this potential AG again if you’ve already forgotten the context in which we’re having this discussion.

        Playing nice with fascists does not fucking work and yet that’s all we’ve done since they tried to overthrow the government. Now our inaction means they don’t even need to overthrow the government. They can just walk in the front door.

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      Time to start electing straight up antifa politicians and appointing antifa judges who will not put up with any of this shit.

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      get out if you can.

      Got family out last year (inter-racial marriage), I’m mostly out myself.

      Last year made me truly appreciate the meaning of the word ‘privilege’.

      The south has never, and can NEVER forget we elected a black man over them. There is no greater crime in their conception.

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          Get a passport and leave. Figure the rest out while you’re not in a concentration camp. MILLIONS of Jewish people fled Germany this way.

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          Do you have family overseas? No matter how distant, now might be the time to make friends.

          If you have in-demand skills, you have a relatively good path to immigration. More so if you know multiple languages. If not, now is the time to learn.

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      My wife can apply for dual citizenship as the grand daughter of Irish immigrants. Her sister already moved to Ireland about five years ago. We’re making plans to protect our son.

      I may be called a coward, and part of me would agree, but I’ve watched this country descend into fascism for over thirty years. I no longer have hope that things will get better.

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        Problem is you can’t escape what’s been set in motion, only delay it. It’s creeping in everywhere, corrupting it all. Sooner or later we will have to face it collectively and it’s not going to be pretty.

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        I’m calling you an idiot for waiting until now to fill up on it , that’s for damn sure. Been watching the country dEsCeNd for 30y & only today decided you’d had enough huh? Passport office go hurrrr

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        We’re all simply traitors for being on this site.

        We’re traitors for having Signal installed.

        We’re traitors for voting against him.

        We’re traitors for deleting twitter, and Facebook.

        We’re traitors for being a registered Democrat.

        We’re traitors for supporting the rights of LGBTQ and minoties.

        We’re traitors because we dissent.

        If the above is what constitutes a traitor, I’d rather die a traitor than participate in any support of the harm they will do.

        I’d rather not die of course.