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"The Secret Service came to my door today because of a tweet. No threats. No violence. Just words. That’s where we are now," she wrote on X in a thread about the ordeal.

She was asked about the comments she made online, and she made it clear, "I want to see their trials."

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just a reminder - I'm sure Kamala's admin would have been just as bad in every way. But at least under Taco, no one is getting killed in Gaza, right?

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sure bud.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/05/06/exclusive-secret-service-investigated-twitter-users-unusual-interest-in-biden-family

You weirdos are a cult. Losers who couldn't even win against one of the weakest threat if they had just sided with their base, are now trying to paint themselves as "different".

I hope kamala signs you an autograph someday, bro. You seem desperate.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Garbage article is garbage.

In July 2022, about 18 months after Biden became president, a regional Secret Service office requested that agents conduct a “preliminary protective intelligence investigation” targeting the Maine man, an Army veteran, for one or more posts on Twitter.

They then show the evidence sheet, and the guy was calling current or former phone numbers of Biden's family, and when he posted that response on Twitter, it was a reply to a post that said "what illegal things are you doing Friday night?"

Keep in mind, that this is all shortly after a bunch of armed maga chuds tried to overthrow the country. So all in, we have repetitive antagonism through different means, making a specific threat, and a history of this kind of activity in the past.

The whole article is based on documents that the Heritage foundation FOIA'd and released. I trust those guys even less that I trust the current government.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

LOL, it's a cult to point out how dumb it is/was to maintain that Donvict and Kamala are virtually the same?

[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

lmao Dunning-Kruger Award for Politics right here 🏆

[–] mika_mika@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No one was saying that they are the same. Every one you're referring to just wanted the Democrats to stand for something. Sorry being against genocide was too much to ask for. Now we are stuck in this and it's the fault of everyone behind the Harris campaign and those who supported it.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

We all wanted Democrats to stand for something, we just didn't burn the country to the ground when the candidate wasn't perfect

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Every one you’re referring to just wanted the Democrats to stand for something.

Yeah, nearly everyone that voted Democratic wanted that, too. But some others decided to sit out/vote for someone else.

That sure helped.

[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

Trying to explain anything to people with this mentality is a lost cause. Unprincipled people simply can not understand principled people.