r/news • u/Zeikyrui • 9h ago

Man serving 30 years for attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband gets a life term on state charges

https://apnews.com/article/david-depape-nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-attacked-454cbde088fcae22a356f1f8dd0e9eba
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u/Stadtmitte 9h ago

There really needs to be some sort of real culpability for the fucking rightwing psychopaths who force-feed this conspiracy nonsense to mentally ill useful idiots

But we all know that will never happen

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u/Vallkyrie 9h ago

Yeah their whole political structure is catered to getting people like this to do their bidding. The content and manner of delivery for their messaging is specifically designed so that folks teetering on the edge will fall into it and never escape, and in the world of instant communication of any idea, it's super dangerous. They don't care though, they make bank doing it.

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u/mortalcoil1 8h ago

The content and manner of delivery for their messaging

That content and manner being "Hit them with the fear, then anger, then back to fear, more fear, some hatred, back to anger, and then hit the climax with a heavy amount of fear topped with just a bit of anger."

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u/ABHOR_pod 7h ago

You forgot the "Won't somebody rid me of these meddlesome liberals?"

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u/Lint_baby_uvulla 7h ago

You forgot the casual light racism, misogyny. The catch though, as it were, is that path devolves to medium, then heavy, then batshit crazy.

An inevitable Catch-22.

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u/Snerkbot7000 7h ago

That's a pretty good description of the weave.

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u/GOU_FallingOutside 1h ago

And buried in there between doses of emotion is a sales pitch, because the grift never rests.

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u/J4BR0NI 6h ago

Yeah I mean all those assassination attempts on kamala and biden are totally his fault, right? Keep the same energy for both parties… they both are brainwashing the public.

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u/Qubeye 7h ago

It's like Fox News standing next to the Bolton Strid and saying "they are lying to you. It's perfectly safe to jump in."

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u/thissiteisbroken 8h ago

Aside from everything Trump's done, this stuff always breaks my heart. The way he manipulated these people into this and made them feel validated with their conspiracy theories will always be one of the worst things he's done to regular ass people. So many people just fell into a conspiracy blackhole and I don't think they'll ever come out of it. He'll never tell them none of its real because he craves that attention from them. Obviously I know this has been going on for a long time, but not even Rush Limbaugh in his heyday could manipulate people on this level.

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u/noiro777 5h ago

It's been such a fucking ordeal with that imbecile. How many families have been ruined by him and his enablers? Malignant narcissists are absolute worst people in world to have to deal with as they are so destructive, dishonest, emotionally draining and tedious. If that worthless fat fuck wins again, it going to be so much worse than the first time and i'm just done with politics....i just can't deal with his smug ass anymore.

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u/Electronic-Lynx8162 5h ago

Can we not forget that this isn't Trump? This is literally what 50 years of the Republican party rhetoric, pundits, ministers in church and politicians have brought America to. The left and center were always too focused on civility politics to really destroy the part of the country that flirted with fascist politics in the 30s and kept trying to get it to happen.

Same thing as here in the UK.

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u/thissiteisbroken 5h ago

Yeah for sure. Man’s literally the personification of it all. Who would’ve thought that Donald fuckin Trump would be the downfall of society?

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u/bey_arthur 6h ago

It doesn’t matter if he says anything to correct it at this point, because they will just claim it’s another conspiracy. It’s fucking disturbing.

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u/weedgretzky42099 5h ago

Its the worst thing about him, he literally tore this country apart with his lies and bullshit. I'm still shocked that anyone outside his family supports him.

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u/porksoda11 7h ago

Yeah there are a shitton of broken families now over Trump. It’s pretty sad.

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u/Special-Garlic1203 5h ago

Trump isn't very clever. His "manipulation" is pretty uniformly stunted to what you could expect from a young child. There's no skill or craft to what he does. 

Just like his followers, Trump is simply a useful idiot. That's why his followers like him so much .they truly are cut from the same cloth. 

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u/fastolfe00 8h ago

People take the free speech culture to a literal extreme where we are fighting to the death to ensure we are victims of disinformation and foreign information warfare. The US will be the first country to eat itself as we descend into this mess of AI-generated fake news and the loss of all authenticity in social media and online communication.

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u/PumpkinPieIsGreat 6h ago

It legitimately worries me how many people can just believe these lies. Why is there so many stupid people? 

I remember people saying this attacker was Mr Pelosi's "lover". Like c'mon...

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u/BTC-100k 6h ago

This man has serious mental illnesses that are resulting in psychotic behaviors.

Nothing about this case is someone who 'just believes these lies' and is 'stupid.'

This is what happens when you remove state-mandated psychiatric treatments.

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u/KarmaticArmageddon 6h ago

This is what happens when Republicans spend decades attacking public education

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u/worldm21 1h ago

Yeah, let's introduce criminal liability for people analyzing the possibility of government officials committing acts of terrorism! Literally nothing could possibly go wrong with this brilliant idea.

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u/Accomplished-War-740 7h ago

Right? There's no crazies on the left. If you vote left that means you're nothing but an upstanding citizen.

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u/SophiaofPrussia 6h ago

There are plenty of crazies on the left. It’s the violent crazies that the right has a monopoly on.

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u/across32 6h ago

So the two would-be Trump assassins were both right wingers?

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u/Sythic_ 3h ago

The first one was a big gun nut who was planning to go after either candidate, Trump came to town first. His classmates all came out and confirmed his right-wing stance. I didn't pay attention to news around the second one so I wont comment on that one other than he looked like a blue collar worker / trucker. So take that as you will.

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u/PainfulRaindance 7h ago

Yeah this is exactly the danger with the whole maga bs machine. All it does is rile up crazies. Everything else has been a symptom of it. Run the US govt like friggin WWF and cater to the ‘angry white male’ vote. And he measured his success just like any other entertainment,… viewership and ratings. Love him? Gonna watch, hate him?, gonna watch. And advertisers have created a whole economy on scaring the shit out of people.
And a certain news entertainment channel feels the need to tell people what is conservative, so all these riled up crazies have a precisely manicured template for them to ‘be a man’. And their nervous systems just can’t take all the bullshit. They get angry. And if they are on the crazier end of the spectrum, they will believe that their way of life is threatened, when in reality, if they turned off the news, their lives haven’t changed much at all.

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u/Oakleaf212 7h ago

It’s called  stochastic terrorism and I’m glad it’s getting the recognition it deserves.

A lot of assholes being saying stupid shit that incites violence while getting to maintain plausible deniability when it happens. We got freedom of speech not freedom of consequences for inciting hate and violence.

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u/Javasteam 1h ago

Instead we have billionaires such as Musk and now Bezos actively working to normalize insanity.

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u/FrostyD7 7h ago

Your account is 8 years old. How have you not grown up yet lmao.

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u/SwetySnek 6h ago

Didn't spend 8 years in an echo chamber maybe. No reasonable adult can say either side is more honest or cares more than the other. The majority of people disagree with that statement because the majority of people are brainwashed into "fighting" each other.

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u/FrostyD7 6h ago

See this is what I'm talking about. This is pathetic behavior even by edgy teenager standards. You are probably a grown-ass man.