Fox News is deliberately responsible for what happened today.

[Initech]

There is no mistaking this. Everyone in the GOP and on Fox News - Hannity, Carlson, Watters, Ingraham, Pirro or Boebert, Greene, Kirk, Owens.... the list goes on and on. My point is that they have been "joking" or winking and nudging their minions to assassinate, harass,stalk, or threaten to murder democratically elected representatives and officials for the last 7 years now 24 hours a day. What the fuck did they expect was going to happen? You can't egg people on like that and expect that no one is going to act.

Just look at the kind of mind that Trump attracts. He attracts people who are disconnected from regular society. People who are angry. People who have personality and social disorders. He's made worshipping himself into a religion and inspires hate and harassment all over the world. Trump brought out the worst in people, and Fox News is deliberately egging them on 24 hours a day. They are denying election results and sucking up to religious fascists. They really need to be treated as an enemy of the state. They do not have the best interests of the United States at hand. It's some absolutely sick and twisted behavior and it needs to stop now.

[Different Drummer]

1. K&R

[liberal N proud]

2. The hate that trump and fox hath bred is a cancer on American society

[iluvtennis]

6. Indeed. n/t

[Gore1FL]

3. Fox and many others.

The rhetoric for the last 3 decades has pushed a lot of vulnerable people into really scary places.

[Initech]

5. Especially the last 7 years.

This kind of hate emboldened Trump and others like Johnson and Bolsonaro into power.

[Gore1FL]

7. There is a sprinkling of Putin.

He's like pumpkin spice.

[republianmushroom]

4. LIKE

[LT Barclay]

8. It makes me wonder what happened after Germany was defeated in WW2. History focuses a lot on what

happened in the years before WW2 and how those people got whipped into a furor just like the MAGATs. So what happened to them after the war? Did they realize the whole thing was a feverish dream? Did they accept reality? Did they just suppress their thoughts and hope that the south I mean reich would rise again?
In other words are these people permanently deranged or will there eventually be some return to sanity.

[rubbersole]

11. These fuck ups are Rushbo babies.

Faux news is their brain. The most anti-American force this side of putin. Getting them back to sanity/decency probably is a pipe dream.

[LT Barclay]

13. It probably is. I'm just wondering what happened in other cases.

I think their source goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. They're royalists. They still want a fat wealthy backside to kiss.

[PurgedVoter]

9. Fox and the Republican Party are controlled by foreign agencies that want to destroy democracy.

Simple truth. They have been entirely bought and owned. I doubt they can go against the compromat held to keep them in order.
Look at the average Republican politician and try to imagine what would happen if they tried to get security clearance without their political position.

Time to tell it like it is. The Republicans are no longer a political party. They are a terrorist organization. Almost like the terrorist cells that find stupid people to strap explosives to themselves and blow up in a crowded place. Except they mass brainwash the fools and aim them at anyone who is trying to keep our country afloat. Don't fear Isis, fear Fox. Fear the Republicans. The party of selfish lies has transformed. It is now the party of mindless destruction and it is supported by the enemies of democracy.

[Alice Kramden]

15. This is true

Destruction is their aim

[tishaLA]

10. That's why they're working so hard to deflect

(and knowing our media, they have a good chance of succeeding). They've been doing the mental illness excuse which I suppose is fair for anyone into QAnon stuff, but also that it's about liberal district attorneys who don't prosecute crimes, or it's about cash bail, or it's about SF's violence or any number of things....just not the network.

[lambchopp59]

12. And they're still at it!!! I learned of this horrible crime today altogether the wrong way:

I've been on the road for 2 days jumping all the hoops for this new travel gig. While I was in eastern Arizona, after a short road break for me and the pup, I tuned the radio. Not a lot of choices there.
It was a Fox news radio station. They were lambasting all the hits: "those damn democrats defund the police, open borders, drugs and crime, crime, crime Joe Biden... that let this despicable thing happen"
Suddenly I was like "WTF thing happen" are they talking about?
I let the phone go to the news feed I tend to minimize while busy, to learn in hair raising horror of that despicable RW screwballl's attack.
I was madder than hell. This Fox mouth was trying his best to turn the blame onto "those Dem's" policies.
Damn. I gotta keep my blood pressure under control. Today didn't do that any favors. That radio will stay off while I'm at this job.

[flying_wahini]

14. Hate is the fire in their heart and terror is their MO and FAUX news should have been pulled

Decades ago.
The lousy press we have is also in part being owned lock, stock and barrel
by a half a dozen families.

[gordianot]

16. Unfortunately I was at a buffet that had Fox News on closed caption.

It was the first I heard of of it. Basic take away it was not political, no one knows the motive and since the attacker was in his under-ware he was obviously mentally ill. The points were repeated the were obviously following a pattern it reminded me of classes I had in hypnosis being on close captioning you could not catch the vocal intonation. What was really strange they kept asking “Where is Nancy Pelosi?” again and again. I found this really creepy. What do they want a repeat performance? I am certain there are more where this one came from.

[lees1975]

17. Fox news, along with Rush Limbaugh and the whole train of conservative media wannabees.

Has any Republican stepped forward and said that this madness and right wing violence has to stop?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. Hate radio, tee vee 'evangelists', and Fascist Oligarch eXtremists incite violence, continuously.