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Video posted by @Yancy10005; the full (sideways) video of Cawthorn's remarks is at the Macon GOP facebook page here (Cawthorn starts at 35:30) https://www.facebook.com/MaconCountyRepublicanPartyNC/videos/815249052506176 …
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At Macon County GOP event yesterday, Madison Cawthorn called January 6 rioters “political hostages,” and spoke of trying to “bust them out.” Then- Attendee: “When are you gonna call us to Washington again?" Cawthorn: “We are actively working on that one.”pic.twitter.com/hN96kswnNt
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Republican Congressman Madisan Cawthorn (at 50:16): "I will remove Joe Biden from office, and then when Kamala Harris inevitably screws up we will take them down one at a time."https://www.facebook.com/MaconCountyRepublicanPartyNC/videos/815249052506176 …pic.twitter.com/QQLBgwztJV
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Madison Cawthorn says (at 50:55) "we all know it was a stolen election," of the 2020 presidential election. He goes on to say (at 51:42) that he believes Dan Forest defeated Governor Roy Cooper. Forest lost by 250,000 votes. His concession speech is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXRIYZtrbQg …pic.twitter.com/mLGYNLnSbC
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At 1:04:00 he gets a question about vaccine passports and calls for boycotts of businesses that require vaccines. He shares a quote he finds inspiring: "When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes your duty." He then encourages onlookers to engage in "a little civil disobedience"
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During a long riff at 1:11:10 about covid Cawthorn says wearing masks is "anti-science" because if you eat at a Mexican restaurant you can smell the food through the mask which proves that particles pass through them so they don't work
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The exchange about January 6 "political prisoners" begins at 1:14:13; Cawthorn says of his attempts to help people facing trial for attacking the U.S. Capitol, "we are actively working on this, we have a few plans in motion that we can't make public right now."pic.twitter.com/ydshJN7tq2
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At 1:17:30 Cawthorn goes on a rant about how "experimental" Covid vaccines are dangerous to children, telling attendees to "defend their children" from Covid vaccines
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While holding a gun Madison Cawthorn says (1:21:45) Democrats want to arm the Taliban with automatic weapons and tells onlookers "these people [Democrats] do not have your best interests at heart... we all need to be storing up some ammunition"pic.twitter.com/8yra6d7XTA
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Cawthorn at 1:22:27: "if our election systems continue to be rigged, continue to be stolen, it's going to lead to one place and that's bloodshed." Says he is "willing to defend liberty at all costs" but would "dread" "having to take up arms against a fellow American"pic.twitter.com/RadkYfG3hU
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Note: the Cawthorn event was part of a series hosted by the Polk, Buncombe, and Macon county GOP committees featuring a conspiracy theorist named "Major Dave" Goetze, who travels NC holding "election integrity workshops" arguing that the few Dem statewide wins in 2020 were stolenpic.twitter.com/51BQu4W9ie
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The Kraken people are famous, but state and local GOP committees across the US have their local Lindell types whose stuff gets circulated on Facebook and YouTube. The Republicans promote these lying charlatans in events where violence is routinely invoked, encouraged, and incited
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I mentioned earlier but the video was clipped by
@Yancy10005 (and flagged for me by friends in Hendersonville, thank you!!). They’ve got the full video if it gets taken downhttps://twitter.com/Yancy10005/status/1432476159200174087 …Show this thread -
Please give this the ratio it deserves.https://twitter.com/RepCawthorn/status/1433150820648988678 …
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