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Possible attempt on Nancy Pelosi's life

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The newswires are reporting someone attacked her husband and tried to kill him and wanted to know where she was.
 
I know I'm being a stickler but.. shouldn't the thread title be about the man who almost got killed and his wife mentioned as a side note? For example

"Paul Pelosi Husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi attacked". There is no reports of Nancy herself being in danger. The title made me think there was an assassination attempt on the speaker of the house which would be a really big damn deal. Yeah Paul getting attacked sucks, but the speaker of the house is another story.
 
Meanwhile, over in the MAGAt bubble: This is a completely random attack. See, these liberal hellholes are a cesspool of crime and violence!
 
"Possible" attempt on her life?

I might just be spitballing here, but when a deranged wacko breaks into someone's house looking for someone, ties up their spouse, and tries to bash in their head with a hammer while shouting "Where is she?", I'm going to assume that he's not looking to challenge her to a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament...

Can we call this a definite attempt on her life? An idiotic one, but is there really any question regarding his motives?
 
Here are two sources of information about the guy.

First, here is heavy.com which has a lot of info:
heavy.com

David Depape, Paul Pelosi Suspect: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

David Depape was identified by the San Francisco Chronicle as the suspect accused of attacking Paul Pelosi.
heavy.com heavy.com

Second, here is crazy town, where you can enter the Reich-wing bubble of propaganda and conspiracy:
 
Gospel said:
I know I'm being a stickler but.. shouldn't the thread title be about the man who almost got killed and his wife mentioned as a side note? For example

"Paul Pelosi Husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi attacked". There is no reports of Nancy herself being in danger. The title made me think there was an assassination attempt on the speaker of the house which would be a really big damn deal. Yeah Paul getting attacked sucks, but the speaker of the house is another story.
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It was an assassination attempt against the speaker of the house. That they selected a secondary victim instead of their primary when their primary was not available and it was clear they never would be just shows flexibility in the assassin's goals.
 
Don2 (Don1 Revised) said:
Here are two sources of information about the guy.


Second, here is crazy town, where you can enter the Reich-wing bubble of propaganda and conspiracy:
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Dude’s been breathing too much cat dander. See, this is what happens to cat people as they slowly go insane. They try to find rational answers for the actions of the lunatic fringe.
Guy breaks into the Speaker of the House private residence looking for same and you’re asking why this and why that. Like any of it should pass the smell test.
 
Gospel said:
This is a really big deal.
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It should be (imo), but the news cycle must move on!
I can’t help wondering what would happen if “the left” was to adopt violence as the MAGAts have done. What would the FOX talking heads say if someone started picking off “poll watchers” with a 30-06?
 
Gospel said:
I know I'm being a stickler but.. shouldn't the thread title be about the man who almost got killed and his wife mentioned as a side note? For example

"Paul Pelosi Husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi attacked". There is no reports of Nancy herself being in danger. The title made me think there was an assassination attempt on the speaker of the house which would be a really big damn deal. Yeah Paul getting attacked sucks, but the speaker of the house is another story.
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Well I mean, he was screaming "Where is she? Where is she?" So presumably, she was only saved from harm by the bad planning of the attacker. But I do agree that poor Paul Pelosi has been somewhat sidelined in the media coverage and social discussion.
 
This attacker is nuts but somewhat polite. According to the news report of the attack that I read, Mr. Pelosi told the intruder he had to go to the bathroom. The intruder did not stop Mr. Pelosi from going to the bathroom where Mr. Pelosi picked up his charging cellphone was and called the police. When the police arrived and entered the house, they found the two struggling over a hammer.
 
I think everyone is missing the big picture here: the attacker was born in Canada abd indulged in a nudist lifestyle. This could have been so much worse.

I really don’t mean to make light of this attack, either on Mr. Pelosi himself which is quite horrific enough on its own but amplified many times over because the actual Speaker of the House was the target.

Abd can we all just acknowledge the wits and actual stones possessed by Mr. Pelosi?

I hope that he recovers quickly and very well.
 
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) wrote on Twitter that the Facebook page of the suspect in Paul Pelosi's attack "looks identical" to those of Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).

Republicans are weighing on the attack against the Pelosis. A minority have condemned the violence unequivocally. Trump is silent on the matter, presumably waiting for one of his mentors — Sean Hannity, Alex Jones, or Vlad Putin — to tell him what he should think.

But main-stream GOPsters remind us how despicable they are:

On CBS's "Face the Nation," host Margaret Brennan questioned Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) about his Twitter post last week of a video of him firing a gun at a shooting range with the hashtag #FirePelosi. Emmer, who is chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, defended the imagery, saying he was touting the Second Amendment rather than promoting violence.

He also returned to arguing about both sides when asked about armed people in Arizona staking out ballot drop boxes. "Again, no one should feel intimidated when they're exercising their right to vote," Emmer said. "You've got stories on both sides of the aisle. You get stories in many different states about how people have felt as though their right was infringed on."
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Don2 (Don1 Revised) said:
In before, this was Antifa/Democrat/false flag/deep state.
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Oh yeah, the false-flag allegations started at Stephen Bannon's Lies'R'Us site, were spread to Telegram by Roger Stone and then . . .

. . . the trillionaire who has proudly sacrificed his own wealth to promote free speech on the Internet chimed in and tweeted the Stone-Bannon lies to his 112 million Followers. Elon Musk deleted his disgusting Tweet several hours later. Did this automatically also delete the hundreds of thousands of retweets?

A forum devoted to former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon's right-wing radio show alerted its 78,000 subscribers to "very strange new details on Paul Pelosi attack." Roger Stone, a longtime political consigliere to former president Donald Trump, took to the fast-growing messaging app Telegram to call the assault on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband an "alleged attack," telling his followers that a "stench" surrounded mainstream reporting about the Friday break-in that left Pelosi, 82, hospitalized with a skull fracture and other serious injuries.

The skepticism didn't stay in right-wing echo chambers but seeped also into the feeds of popular online personalities, including Musk, Twitter's new owner.

"There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye," he wrote Sunday morning, pointing his 112 million followers to a sensationalist account of the episode published by a site known for spreading right-wing misinformation before deleting the tweet several hours later.

The rush to sow doubt about the assault on Pelosi's husband illustrates how aggressively influential figures on the right are seeking to dissuade the public from believing facts about the violence, seizing on the event to promote conspiracy theories and provoke distrust. The House speaker has long been a bugbear for the right, which has intensified its rhetorical blitz on her in recent years even as extreme threats against members of Congress have increased.
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I'm adding a gifted article from WaPo, that goes into details regarding how those on the idiotic right are making conspiracy theories out of this awful attack. Read the entire linked article, It should be available for about two weeks. Some are even claiming that Paul Pelosi had a male prostitute in his home and the attack was a total fake. How did people become so cruel and stupid to believe this shit?

https://wapo.st/3zwNBLv

Elon Musk and a wide range of right-wing personalities cobbled together misreporting, innuendo and outright falsehoods to amplify misinformation about last week’s violent assault on Paul Pelosi to their millions of online followers.

A forum devoted to former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon’s right-wing radio show alerted its 78,000 subscribers to “very strange new details on Paul Pelosi attack.” Roger Stone, a longtime political consigliere to former president Donald Trump, took to the fast-growing messaging app Telegram to call the assault on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband an “alleged attack,” telling his followers that a “stench” surrounded mainstream reporting about the Friday break-in that left Pelosi, 82, hospitalized with a skull fracture and other serious injuries.

The skepticism didn’t stay in right-wing echo chambers but seeped also into the feeds of popular online personalities, including Musk, Twitter’s new owner.
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Interesting the Alt-right swing to CT. I was driving way too much on Friday (in not much NPR territory) and the right-wing radio was calling him nuts and this doesn't represent the right-wing. So the initial work was to just play him as unrelated to their movement. And from what I've seen, it seems a bit random and not political, but definitely influenced by the alt-right / right wing obsession with Nancy Pelosi. But then they swapped over to this didn't happen at all, in a Russia social media sort of feel.
 
Was listening to NPR today and they made reference to how the reaction to the attack had several parallels to the school shooting script they have out these days.

1) Say it was a wacko.
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2) Why weren't they protected better
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3) Did it really happen?
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Was listening to NPR today and they made reference to how the reaction to the attack had several parallels to the school shooting script they have out these days.

1) Say it was a wacko.
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2) Why weren't they protected better
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3) Did it really happen?
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The guy is a wacko. Here’s the fed charge with alleged incident facts. https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1548106/download

He’s classic psychopath. He openly admits to everything.
 
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