Yeah, how dare this mayor try to save this man’s life.
Courtesy of Kansas.com:
A Wichita man has been arrested on suspicion of threatening to kidnap and kill Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple over frustrations with the city’s mask ordinance, the mayor and police said Friday afternoon.
Meredith Dowty, 59, was booked into Sedgwick County Jail at 6:05 p.m., Friday, booking reports show. Police confirmed he is the suspect and said he could face a charge of criminal threat.
Whipple said he had been read a series of text messages received by another city official that asked about Whipple’s address and contained a detailed threat against his life.
The apparent motive was the suspect’s opposition to “masks and tyranny,” Whipple said.
“He said he was going to kidnap me and slash my throat and he needed my address because I needed to see the hangman — me and everyone who, something about tyranny,” Whipple said.
“It sounded like the person was very upset about pretty much mask mandates and he said something about not being able to see his mother because of COVID restrictions on elderly homes.”
Wichita police spokesman Charley Davidson confirmed that the department is investigating the threats and that so far, no other local officials are believed to have been targeted.
Look I get that wearing a mask is frustrating, my glasses fog up every single time I walk into a building with a mask on and I hate it.
I am also going to visit my daughter today and I have to wear a mask during all of that except when we walk outside and maintain social distancing.
I don’t like it, I don’t.
But dammit, I understand that it is for my own protection, as well as the protection of my loved ones.
Is that really so hard for these people to understand?
psssssssssssst, Gryph. Wanna no-glasses-fog-mask? Contact me at the usual number, don’t come to the house. Fredo’ll leave it on a glacier for ya.
His loss of power comes from the church., where all power is held by a gaseous vertebrate found elsewhere, and that, in the interim, everything and everyone else are hostile objects.
See: his hostility.
Upset about tyranny as he checks his ballot for Trump.
Alrighty then.
@7:08, I don’t understand the disconnect these right-wingers have. As you correctly point out, so called anti-tyranny people vote for someone who promotes tyranny. A few days ago there was a pro-trump rally a couple blocks from my house. (They hold these rallies weekly. Of the 150 or so attendees, only a couple wear masks. Also, sadly, maybe 25-30 were kids 14-18 years old.) While I was observing about 100 feet away along with another Biden supporter, one of the trump supporters approached us and started blabbering about the “brown shirt democrats,” “rapist democrats,” “anti-freedom democrats,” “pedophile democrats,” “anti-gun democrats,” and on and on with her Qanon and Fox talking points. I attempted to engage her in a civil conversation, but she was more interested in letting us know how evil democrats are and how trump will save the U.S. from Russia and China. Yes, she really said that. I gave up since I know that you can’t use logic with illogical people.
The sheer ignorance of these rabid right-wingers just boggles the mind. The frustrating thing is that you cannot reason with any of them.
They are beyond help. We can only hope that the number of sane voters will have outnumbered the Trump cultists when all the
ballots have been counted.
Wow, that Trump supporter went for the most extreme false allegations. Trump and Fox create fictional villains of others and a fiction super hero of Trump who will save their lives from the falsely accused evil villains.
The man plotting to slash the mayor’s throat deluded of tyranny is an example of convincing a person of absurdities you can get them to commit atrocities (Voltaire).
I wonder if Maria Athens will get charged with anything regarding the things she said about out almost former mayor and his wife.
you what a pain a mask is. it can become even more painful and deadly without one. we are not entitled rich powerful people who will be given every treatment possible . we will die alone-alone at home. get the idea?? WEAR THE FUCKING MASK!!! i don’t want to die alone at home because some trump following shit head thinks trump is right about EVERY THING. trump has NEVER been right. yes, i am angry. early voting starts on Tuesday in Wisconsin. i’m planning on being first in line. around 6 or7. no matter how cold and wet it is. there is a cardinal outside my window. best thing all day.
Its the template of Jesus. Replicated with trump.
“We are right and imperial and entitled. We have Jesus, a literal separate savior, the only one, for us only, and everyone else is wrong and fucked and must comply with us.”
“My kids aren’t in school,” she complained. “She has locked us down. Open it up.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/rnc-head-mcdaniel-defends-trumps-lock-them-all-up-threat-by-whining-her-kids-are-locked-out-of-school/
Tired of watching your precious brats 24/7, McDaniel?
Imagine teachers 6-8 hours with them and being paid a pittance for it.
Boo freaking HOO.
How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest
… After weeks of missed work, his stint in the hospital and a return visit to the ER over a blood clot concern, he’s come to deeply regret his decision.
“I was naive,” he said. “I was dumb, you know? I shouldn’t have went. I did; I can’t change that, so I just got to move forward. But sitting here just the past few days, that’s all I keep thinking about. I’m like, Jesus, look at the hell I’m going through, the hell I put everybody through. It ain’t worth it. It wasn’t. It really wasn’t.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/10/17/sturgis-rally-spread/
What’s Coming This Winter? Here’s How Many More Could Die In The Pandemic
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/16/924240204/how-bad-will-coronavirus-be-this-winter-model-projects-170-000-more-u-s-deaths
I don’t understand why people think responsible behavior shouldn’t be legislated, particularly when being irresponsible costs lives. At its heigh, drunk driving killed under 20,000 a year. I don’t recall any protests over DUI laws. I can’t imagine any president voicing approval of driving drunk.
trump would be delighted to approve of drunk driving if Vice President Biden spoke out against it. you know, Democrats are just so dumb! would be dicktator trumpt.