CBS News: Trump team warns "Vote against the president, and your head will be on a pike."

[LessAspin]

Link to tweet

[coti]

1. That's an awfully strong argument to remove a President, unto itself.

Cuz, once you remove him, it starts getting much more difficult to put heads on pikes, eh?

[crickets]

3. +1

[Demovictory9]

31. +2

[Varaddem]

2. And they know

Barr would not prosecute.

[LessAspin]

6. Not to mention anything Trump has to blackmail them with...

As soon as scumbag Gaetz went against Trump on War Powers the 'Sex Games' story got leaked.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Twitter reply:

Link to tweet

[2naSalit]

13. What it sounds like to me....nt

[Rhiannon12866]

18. Adam Schiff has been unbelievably impressive

How anyone can't be persuaded by his powerful words is a total mystery to me.

[2naSalit]

20. I don't know but

there seem t be several who can be like that in the R party.

[Rhiannon12866]

21. Either they're totally brainwashed or living in overwhelming fear

That's the only way I can explain it.

[2naSalit]

23. Agreed.

Something is keeping them from being rational.

[Rhiannon12866]

24. They makes moves about this kind of historic event

But nothing could be more powerful than what's actually happening. The real story is what's happening on "the other side." There has to be something unbelievably malevolent that we have yet to know.

[2naSalit]

25. Oh I'm certain

there's a worldwide cabal of unknown size that will need to be defeated or they will kill any of us.

[Rhiannon12866]

28. I believe these are the most dangerous times that we've ever lived through

And too many people are totally unaware of it.

[2naSalit]

32. That's what bothers me...

so many people who are not even paying attention and can't see how it will impact them and soon.

[Rhiannon12866]

35. I have the same experience

When I even mention what's going on now, most people who aren't paying attention think I'm boring - or unreasonably obsessed.

[2naSalit]

39. I am at the point

where I wait to let people identify that they are not in favor of the proceedings or that they're chumpers and when they look to me for a response I tell them that they don't want to argue with me and let's leave it at that. There's a small group of flat earthers in town too so we have diversity!

I just don't have the energy to argue about it anymore, and I like my safety where I am right now in a red place. And I'm kind of tweaked today after seeing a big farm truck with a dead wolf laid out on the back on top of all the hunting gear. Ruined my afternoon. I stay home a lot.

[Rhiannon12866]

41. I only bring it up with people I'm friendly with and if they ask what I've been doing

And I often ask if they're registered to vote. Last time around I encouraged a friend to register and vote for the first time - at 41! And I didn't have to tell her much for her to register as a Democrat. But too many people I'm acquainted with just aren't paying attention or have little interest. They think I have some kind of uninteresting hobby. I am lucky with my long-time friends, though. My friends I grew up with all seem to have turned out to be liberals.

As for what you saw this afternoon, I totally sympathize. That wouldn't just have bothered me for a long time, I'd also be pretty damn angry! I don't get that mindset at all.

[KentuckyWoman]

59. There is nothing wrong with their ability to be rational

We just have remember these so called people have an entirely different set of priorities. Billions of dollars are involved here. The US Constitution can go fuck itself as far as they are concerned.

And yes I mean it that strongly.

[onetexan]

51. Exactly, threats &witness intimidation - classic mob tacticsa

[Rhiannon12866]

52. It's unbelievable that otherwise functioning adults can't seem to grasp this - or won't...

[Jamastiene]

60. That reply should be an OP itself.

It's true. It is an outright threat. Comedians have been excoriated for much less, for just jokes.

[renate]

5. Emboldened much?

That is dictatorship on speed.

[blm]

7. King Mob Boss

[renate]

8. The comments on Twitter are great, btw

Trump and his henchmen must be wetting themselves. This threat sounds scary but they only made it because they’re obviously terrified.

[Hulk Logan]

9. That's a threat

Criminal.

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

[elleng]

11. No news is bad news,

USE IT!!!!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. IF we still had a Dept. of Justice, Trump would be behind bars now.

Instead, we have Billy Barr's Dirt Services -- digging or burying as needed.

[PSPS]

14. Uh oh. This might cause Collins to become "concerned." Watch out!

[EndlessWire]

22. LOL! n/t

[czarjak]

43. Susan or Doug?

[struggle4progress]

15. "You too can be a gutless wonder with your head up your ass!"

[KPN]

16. Witnesses? No courageous patriots among them?

Pathetically sad.

[dewsgirl]

17. Are we sure he doesn't mean it literally?

[ailsagirl]

19. A pike??

I always thought a pike was a fish.

[2naSalit]

26. I always thought it was a path or roadway.

[LessAspin]

30. J Cofer Black of the Bush Team liked to use that term too ..

Seems to be a favorite of Mob Bosses and right-wing Mob Boss wannabes in the government ...

Gary Schroen alleges that shortly after 9/11, his CIA superior, J. Cofer Black, ordered fellow CIA agents to behead Osama bin Laden, and deliver his head in a box of dry ice to George W. Bush. Black allegedly also ordered the delivery of the heads of other al-Qaeda lieutenants to Bush, on “pikes”...

[Hekate]

36. A pike is a medieval weapon of war on a long pole. When you behead an enemy, you can stick said head

...on the sharp pointy end of the long pole and jam it upright in the dirt as a warning to any other bastard who wants to mess with you.

[wnylib]

45. Your description is good. This was a common

practice in Medieval England, right up to early modern times (1600's). Early New England colonists beheaded Native American war captives and put their heads on pikes as an intimidation tactic.

[Hekate]

46. I'm just a bit surprised that so many people didn't get the reference, as it is a common one...

Or so I thought.

[wnylib]

50. It's one of those sayings that people repeat

without knowing where it comes from or what it means.

[Patterson]

37. It is a pike, not a spike.

[jberryhill]

62. Yes, that's the point

[lapfog_1]

27. A difficult thing to accomplish

what with having to pry their heads out of their assholes first and everything.

[Buns_of_Fire]

29. Maybe they're floating a new campaign slogan.

It's too long for a bumpersticker, though. Maybe they should stick with "TRUMP/2020: OR ELSE".

[C_U_L8R]

33. Caesar versus the Senators.

March is coming.

[Tumbulu]

40. Wow- that is a great one!

[Captain Zero]

44. Et tu, Susan.

Collins.

[FakeNoose]

34. It's a federal crime to threaten a Senator, also jury tampering right out in the open

Let's add these to his long (and growing) list of abuses.

[DeminPennswoods]

38. Trump's threats are as empty as his head

nt

[dchill]

42. If it walks like a death threat and quacks like a death threat...

... it's a death threat.

[KelleyKramer]

47. Well well, sounds like Trump and the WH are VERY worried

There might be some defections brewing because that threat has the smell of desperation

[arthritisR_US]

48. Wittiness intimidation, aka obstruction

of justice. The very thing he’s under “inditement” for. OMFG, you Democracy is in such peril, I’m truly afraid.

[malaise]

49. Where is the outrage from everyone?

Stop these lunatics. Remove the Con!

[The Genealogist]

53. Said no innocent person ever

[duforsure]

54. Threatening a juror

A Senator is illegal. They don't understand trump , because no matter what they do his threats and demands of illegal stuff for him will only escalate , and he will eventually claim they can be done away with leaving him in charge, just like putin has done in russia. He's going to attack them no matter what they do now, just after he gets his votes the way he wants,, then lookout , he'll go crazy with his tactics against us all. He's not a republican at all , he's just a russian agent for putin, and I think putin is bribing trump and the republicans for their re-elections if they vote to keep trump .

[arthritisR_US]

55. In any other trial the judge would have

the defendant charged or at least admonished with obstruction of justice but with Roberts there... wonder if Susan sucks a dick will send another note to him to address this? Dumb question...no fecking way.

[samnsara]

56. what is a pike?

[Wounded Bear]

57. A Medieval weapon like a spear or poleax...

basically a long pole with a spear head or possibly an ax blade on the end.

?

The expression comes from the old habit of beheading defeated enemies and placing their heads on the pikes and parading around with them.

[BumRushDaShow]

58. In order to minimize the graphic nature of it - here is an 1854 historic illustration

of the Duke of York's head "on a pike"

[jberryhill]

63. A long freshwater fish

This is what it looks like when someone’s head is on a pike:

[dweller]

61. seriously...

can you imagine how much work it would be for fatnixon to erect 53 pikes
on the White House lawn ?

🤔

✌🏼

[Iliyah]

64. It is against the law to threaten jurors . . .

period. And t-rump will do it over and over and no only to jurors but to anyone who opposes him.

[RussBLib]

65. So, the GOP seems unanimous in claiming this never happened

I somehow missed the story on how the GOP Senators all knew that this quote was not true. Anyone?

I mean, it doesn't sound like Trump at all, does it? /