Michigan GOP chair calls top Democratic women 'witches', jokes about assassinating congressmen.

[RandySF]

LANSING, Mich. — The leader of Michigan’s Republican Party referred to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and two other top Democratic elected woman as “witches” and joked about assassination when asked how to remove two GOP congressman who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump.

Ron Weiser’s statements Thursday during a local Republican meeting, which are on video, were reported by The Detroit News on Friday.

A crowd member asked how to unseat Reps. Fred Upton and Peter Meijer. Weiser said the party was focused on defeating “three witches” — a misogynistic reference to Whitmer, state Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who are up for reelection in 2022.

Whitmer, whose coronavirus lockdown last year led armed demonstrators to protest, became the target of an alleged kidnapping plot by extremists who also talked about attacking the state Capitol and taking hostages.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michigan-gop-chair-calls-top-democratic-women-witches/2021/03/26/125aa490-8e51-11eb-a33e-da28941cb9ac_story.html

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1. That's an . . . odd . . . thing to joke about

Has January 6 really been that long ago that calling for assassinations of elected officials is now considered a joking matter?

[louis-t]

2. Republicans are truly evil.

Every, last one of them.

[crickets]

3. Because assassination jokes are always appropriate, especially

just six months after somebody actually planned to do it. Shame on WaPo for only mentioning kidnapping as a brief aside without making that point clear.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/08/michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer-kidnap-plot

“Snatch and grab, man,” Adam Fox told an FBI informant in July. “Grab the fuckin’ governor. Just grab the bitch. Because at that point, we do that, dude – it’s over.”

Fox, from Michigan, is now facing a potential life sentence, along with five other men, for an elaborate plan to kidnap the state’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, and put her on trial for “treason”, according to the FBI.

The chilling plot, revealed in an FBI affidavit released on Thursday, was a months-long effort that also saw members of a rightwing militia consider forgoing the kidnapping and instead executing Whitmer on her doorstep.

Yeah, Ron Weiser's 'joke' is just fucking hilarious.

[tanyev]

4. You know he only said the w-word because he suspected he'd catch flak if he said the b-word.