{"id":126481,"date":"2019-08-08T18:18:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T22:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=126481"},"modified":"2019-08-08T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T22:23:21","slug":"126481","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=126481","title":{"rendered":"Why doesn&#8217;t every Republican in Congress post this video on Twitter? A violent threat against the Senate Majority Leader must be taken seriously!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Protestors Shout Death Threats Outside McConnell&#039;s Home\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vCBPdt4iLrQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1>&#8220;Just Stab The Motherfu*ker&#8221;: Twitter Suspends McConnell Campaign For Posting Video Of Violent Threats<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has suspended the campaign account for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after his social media team\u00a0<strong>shared a video of left-wing protesters gathering outside the Senator&#8217;s Kentucky home &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>with one activist calling for someone to &#8220;just stab the motherfucker in the heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid840330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vCBPdt4iLrQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I just want him to have a stroke, that is all,&#8221; the woman added. &#8220;One of those heart attacks where they can\u2019t breathe, and they\u2019re holding their chest and they fall backwards&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>He\u2019s in there nursing his broken arm. He should have broken his raggedy, wrinkled-ass neck<\/strong>,\u201d she said at one point in the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody needs to show up wherever this ho is at and\u00a0<strong>make him just regret his fucking life, period<\/strong>,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>At one point in the protest, a male protester commenting on McConnell\u2019s recent injury said that he may have been the victim of a \u201cvoodoo doll\u201d curse. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/08\/06\/protester-mitch-mcconnell-violence\/\">Daily Caller<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<aside id=\"my_spring1\"><\/aside>\n<p>Kevin Golden, McConnell&#8217;s 2020 campaign manager noted that &#8220;Twitter will allow the words of \u2018Massacre Mitch\u2019 to trend nationally on their platform, but locks our account for posting actual threats against us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Golden says that they appealed to Twitter,\u00a0<strong>which stood by their decision,\u00a0<\/strong>saying that the\u00a0account will remain locked until they delete the video.<\/p>\n<p><em>Daily Wire<\/em>\u00a0reporter Ryan Saavedra was similarly locked out of his Twitter account for posting the video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twitter asked me yesterday to delete this tweet,&#8221; Saavedra recounted in a massive tweetstorm. &#8220;It showed a person allegedly calling for violence against Mitch McConnell.\u00a0The person appears to be a BLM activist who has met with Elizabeth Warren.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside id=\"in-content-dianomi\" class=\"placement placement-embedded placement-dianomi\"><\/aside>\n<p>Saavedra then pointed out several instances in which Twitter allowed content advocating violence against conservatives to trend:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They told me, in a private message, that they were going to remove the video contained in the tweet, which was embedded from someone else&#39;s account<\/p>\n<p>They also asked me to delete my tweet, which was separate <\/p>\n<p>My tweet was newsworthy and factually accurate<\/p>\n<p>I said no<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1159190249706160128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This pic is of Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann, who was falsely smeared by the media<\/p>\n<p>Sandmann and his school received death threats over what happened<\/p>\n<p>Twitter took no action against this tweet<\/p>\n<p>Sandmann is a minor<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FuPhmcH4Hq\">https:\/\/t.co\/FuPhmcH4Hq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/paUNr2Gl3t\">pic.twitter.com\/paUNr2Gl3t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1159198522303844353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-08-08\/just-stab-motherfuker-heart-twitter-suspends-mcconnell-campaign-posting-video\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-08-08\/just-stab-motherfuker-heart-twitter-suspends-mcconnell-campaign-posting-video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just Stab The Motherfu*ker&#8221;: Twitter Suspends McConnell Campaign For Posting Video Of Violent Threats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}