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A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 other people for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

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[–] [email protected] 242 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Soon: Trump supporters who posted names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online have names and addresses posted in arrest warrants.

I hope. Hey "patriots", maybe don't try to interfere with the justice system when it's acting in accordance with state/ federal laws and American principles.

[–] [email protected] 140 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The problem is, not doing so is tantamount to treason to them. The election was stolen, this isn't the USA anymore. This is some deep state globalist conspiracy. They're so far gone that the only path forward is to threaten war and physical harm to others.

Imagine. Some deep state conspiracy and the best person they could put in power was Joe fuckin Biden...lmao

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's some powerful malarkey they're on. Almost enough to make me think the Union lost the civil war when the Confederates were brought back in. Stuff like this is how it's been coming back to bite us.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Malarkey is a hell of a thing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah almost like a drug even, and they are raging, tweaking freaks for it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (16 children)

The inability of the good to do seemingly "evil" things for the sake of good will be the downfall of humanity.

Example: imprisoning a psycopathic narcissist who thinks they can literally murder someone and get away with it. Good people should be OK with such a person losing freedoms!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

As is tradition. The Union won the war but lost the peace.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t believe any of this… but IF it were true, I think Biden would just be the Lacky so that the true leader could remain in the shadows.

Again I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS… just saying

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Stochastic terror 101: feed intel to useful idiots, hoping to have them do your dirty work while pleading plausible deniability. The minute someone buys it from this nonsense the hammer needs to come down HARD.

[–] [email protected] 194 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those grand jurors almost certainly knew this would happen, and they voted to indict anyway. That kind of courage to defend the rule of law is the best of America.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're almost certainly fake names, give them rope they'll hang themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I don't know, man. I'm kinda worried about this coming up elections. This man has no problem starting a full on civil war for his own fucking ego, and his followers genuinely believe that he cares about them and that they're actually "serving/saving the country".

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This man has no problem starting a full on civil war for ~~his own fucking ego~~ his partners in the Kremlin.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This man has no problem starting a full on civil war for ~~his own fucking ego~~ ~~his partners in the Kremlin~~ whatever they're offering to pay him.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We should invite the United Nations to inspect or run the elections.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I get your point is to have a neutral 3rd party help oversee the elections, but having the UN do it would be one of the fastest ways to spark a civil war. A lot of Trump supporters very much believe the UN is one of the key players trying to bring the new world order.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canadians then, you can't be mad at Canadians

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

A lot of Trump supporters believe a lot of things.

If they can get their way by intimidation and threats of war, there may as well be war.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

maybe we should just kick their asses and tell them to shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down.. they're all cowards and traitors.. they got nuthin..

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Hope they catch and prosecute the doxxers.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

You don’t have to catch all the rats, just make a ‘example’ of the ones you can catch. Ranchers spread the bones and skins of wolves and coyotes around their herds grazing areas to give pause any who would think they would get a meal scott free

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"The indictment issued Monday lists the names of the grand jury members but not their addresses or other personal information."

Maybe including their names isn't such a great idea? Can't they seal them so that only legal parties are aware? This precedent is jury tampering for all future cases

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not to mention, if you post legal name and the juror has voted, then their address is already public record. Shedding a light on it like this is purely malicious.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is terroristic behavior, no? What's the plan now? Approach those properties? Then what? Threaten or harass? Ffs man, lock Trump up and these loonies. Restore civil order

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They honestly never think it through. Every single one of their thoughts is literally one step ahead but then they never think about the next step.

As a result they walk themselves to the end of a logical path and then find there's a big cliff with fires and spikes at the bottom, and can't figure out what to do about it and then get angry. Most normal people are capable of thinking through implications and work out what's a bad idea ahead of time and then don't do it.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’d be a real shame if the doxxers had their names and addresses leaked. There’d be no telling who’d show up to their residences to say hello.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who, even on the full-left, would cause an issue in person?

There's not a lot of credibility to the idea something could happen. Physically, at least.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m done asking wtf is wrong with these people.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

And if anything happens to the jury members, get those Trump "supporters" as "aiding and abetting" in whatever case develops.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They want a war, and won't stop until they get to live out their fantasy of being able to use all the guns they love so much.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I'll be sure to send them a lovely fruit basket for their patriotism!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Their names were on the indictment published in national news unfortunately, so this was a foregone conclusion. Idiot trump supporters likely also don't know grand juries are supermajority vote, not unaimous.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is the secret service required to defend the courthouse/jail if these idiots try anything?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I think everyone involved in the prosecution should have federal protection. That tells you a lot about the defendant and their supporters.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


ATLANTA — The purported names and addresses of members of the grand jury that indicted Donald Trump and 18 of his co-defendants on state racketeering charges this week have been posted on a fringe website that often features violent rhetoric, NBC News has learned.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis faced racist threats ahead of the return of the indictment and additional security measures were put in place, with some employees being allowed to work from home.

The grand juror's purported addresses were spotted by Advance Democracy, Inc., a non-partisan research group founded by Daniel J. Jones, a former FBI investigator and staffer for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

“It’s becoming all too commonplace to see everyday citizens performing necessary functions for our democracy being targeted with violent threats by Trump-supporting extremists," Jones said.

Advance Democracy also noted that users were posting on other social media sites the names and images of people believed to have been grand jurors.

— Advance Democracy noted that Trump supporters were "using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur" in posts online.


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