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Ponietz

(2,904 posts)
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:24 AM May 2020

Cowboys for Trump leader calls for Democratic leaders to be executed

Source: Santa Fe New Mexican

Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin has again stirred an outcry over his fiery political rhetoric — this time for saying certain Democratic governors should be executed for treason.

Griffin, who founded the group Cowboys for Trump, also told the Daily Beast on Tuesday that anti-lockdown protesters might be justified in using violence.

During the interview, published Wednesday, Griffin said top Democrats, such as Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, are traitors who deserve the death penalty. Both governors have imposed restrictions to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.

“You get to pick your poison: You either go before a firing squad, or you get the end of the rope,” Griffin told the Daily Beast.

Read more: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/cowboys-for-trump-leader-calls-for-democratic-leaders-to-be-executed/article_017dba42-a066-11ea-bac0-efd8a4e0120e.html

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Cowboys for Trump leader calls for Democratic leaders to be executed (Original Post) Ponietz May 2020 OP
I used to watch the PBR LakeArenal May 2020 #1
"fiery political rhetoric" hibbing May 2020 #2
Like "Cut the tall trees" was rhetoric alphafemale May 2020 #23
Well now that he's outed himself- Historic NY May 2020 #3
... let's lock him up! nt pazzyanne May 2020 #4
Yeah, he's a real American PJMcK May 2020 #5
Cowboys for Trump leader Otero County, NM, Commissioner Couy Griffin left-of-center2012 May 2020 #6
Look at that hat..................a real ...........co boy..........💩.. turbinetree May 2020 #9
How is he still in office? lark May 2020 #7
Please don't google Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin because his home page an email comes up. Botany May 2020 #8
Help me understand something. Scarsdale May 2020 #12
If it's this easy to call for leaders to be executed how hard will it be to call for the followers jalan48 May 2020 #10
I think Russian sympathizers like Griffin should be tried for treason and executed. roamer65 May 2020 #11
These stories go together... keithbvadu2 May 2020 #13
Make your move, asshole. hadEnuf May 2020 #14
Pretty much what I was thinking. HotTeaBag May 2020 #30
Unfortunately people who are like that understand only one thing: hadEnuf May 2020 #31
WHOA, stop that dumbfuckery right now please! Brainfodder May 2020 #15
Got kicked in the head once too often Warpy May 2020 #16
this rhetoric cannot be tolerated coming from elected "leaders" RussBLib May 2020 #17
OK, now the WHORES FOR TRUMP need to step up and be counted. not_the_one May 2020 #18
Needs to be arrested for terroristic threats. sinkingfeeling May 2020 #19
This is not "fiery political rhetoric." CrispyQ May 2020 #20
+1 Tommymac May 2020 #26
"You either go before a firing squad, or you get the end of the rope" Grokenstein May 2020 #21
Such "very fine people".... lastlib May 2020 #22
His dad was also a County Commissioner from Catron County a truly MarcA May 2020 #24
Nice guy. marble falls May 2020 #25
The whole county has 67,000 people.. less than an average suburb in Chicago Area..or Stuart G May 2020 #27
Can he be charged for inciting? question everything May 2020 #28
Boy there's a demographic you really want in your corner... BlueIdaho May 2020 #29

LakeArenal

(28,729 posts)
1. I used to watch the PBR
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:27 AM
May 2020

Then they turned into a group of flag hugging assholes. We had to quit. We rooted for the bulls anyway.

hibbing

(10,076 posts)
2. "fiery political rhetoric"
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:28 AM
May 2020

Ahhh, gotta love the writer of this. Yeah, it is just fiery political rhetoric, not an incitement to violence. Yeah, okay.

Peace

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
9. Look at that hat..................a real ...........co boy..........💩..
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:52 AM
May 2020

I wonder if he knows about the Cow Boys during the John Henry Holliday time frame and the Otero NM, history............

lark

(23,003 posts)
7. How is he still in office?
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:38 AM
May 2020

Come on Santa Fe, remove him and lock him up for terrorist threats. Do the right thing and don''t allow this to fester another day.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
12. Help me understand something.
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:55 AM
May 2020

WHY do cowboys wear such large hats when their brains are so very small? What kind of a name is Couy? Is it pronounced Coo-ee? Coy? The horse has more "class" and intelligence than this clown does. Was he kicked in the head by a horse in his youth?

jalan48

(13,797 posts)
10. If it's this easy to call for leaders to be executed how hard will it be to call for the followers
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:54 AM
May 2020

of these leaders to be executed?

roamer65

(36,739 posts)
11. I think Russian sympathizers like Griffin should be tried for treason and executed.
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:54 AM
May 2020

So there, asshat Griffin.

keithbvadu2

(36,362 posts)
13. These stories go together...
Thu May 28, 2020, 12:06 PM
May 2020
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142502004
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213496159
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142502058

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These stories go together…
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Cowboys for Trump leader calls for Democratic leaders to be executed

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/cowboys-for-trump-leader-calls-for-democratic-leaders-to-be-executed/article_017dba42-a066-11ea-bac0-efd8a4e0120e.html

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Pa. GOP lawmaker says he tested positive for COVID-19; Democrats demand more information

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2020/05/27/pa-state-rep-andrew-lewis-r-dauphin-gop-lawmaker-tests-positive-covid-19/stories/202005270138

He spread this knowing he had tested positive.

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Pennsylvania congressman's righteous rant about GOP colleagues who hid a member's Covid 19 infection

The GOP house leadership knew this member had tested positive and was self-quarantining with the exception of committee work with unknowing democratic colleagues. What's more, the republican-controlled committee was responsible for pushing the "fake crisis, reopen now!" agenda of the state GOP.

The democrat in this video, Brian Sims, donated a kidney to a friend earlier this year, and has now served daily alongside a GOP congressman who knew he was positive and hid, with the assistance of GOP leadership, that fact from democratic co-workers. While taking precautions for their own well-being, of course.

Here's the rant:
https://www.facebook.com/brian.k.sims/videos/683102628927090
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hadEnuf

(2,150 posts)
14. Make your move, asshole.
Thu May 28, 2020, 12:09 PM
May 2020

Of course you won't because you are just another gutless jackwad, but if you do decide to get "tough" you may be making your own pick of poisons.

 

HotTeaBag

(1,206 posts)
30. Pretty much what I was thinking.
Fri May 29, 2020, 01:15 PM
May 2020

The problem is that there are some pretty damaged people out there for whom killing someone isn't particularly distasteful who may hear him and think 'Yeah, good idea - after I finish my Fruit Loops I'll go out and shoot Whitmer'.



hadEnuf

(2,150 posts)
31. Unfortunately people who are like that understand only one thing:
Fri May 29, 2020, 01:39 PM
May 2020

You can do to them what they want to do to you.


And no, I am not a gun enthusiast.

Warpy

(110,908 posts)
16. Got kicked in the head once too often
Thu May 28, 2020, 12:15 PM
May 2020

Otero County's claim to fame is the town of Alamogordo and a scar in the desert where the first nuke went off.

It's way down in the southern part of the state, bordering on Texas, which is where I figure this guy gets most of his ideas. In any case, he's pig ignorant enough to fit in there, better than NM.

He's also very typical of those "Cowboys," on the downhill side of middle age, paunchy, wears his hat indoors. He's probably going to run against Torres-Small in the next off year Congressional election. It's either that or he'll believe enough of his own bullshit to wind up in jail. He throws a lot of words around that he thinks make him look smart but has no clue what any of them means.

He's also scared because the virus is spreading there but his gunz and Jebus will pertect him and he's gonna plug any sissy librul who wears a mask.

(I notice he didn't make any threats against Gov. Lujan-Grisham. He knows that would have gotten him a lot more inconvenience than threatening governors in places he's never been did)


RussBLib

(8,984 posts)
17. this rhetoric cannot be tolerated coming from elected "leaders"
Thu May 28, 2020, 12:16 PM
May 2020

this guy should be sanctioned and removed from the County Commissioners position.

Nothing but authoritarians in the GOP these days.

 

not_the_one

(2,227 posts)
18. OK, now the WHORES FOR TRUMP need to step up and be counted.
Thu May 28, 2020, 12:21 PM
May 2020

That automatically includes every republican woman who is FINE with the turd grabbing their pussy.

CrispyQ

(36,226 posts)
20. This is not "fiery political rhetoric."
Thu May 28, 2020, 12:26 PM
May 2020

This is calling for the death of people who disagree with you, inciting violence against people you don't like. I'm so sick of this fucking shit. I have zero respect for anyone I know who still identifies as republican, and that includes some relatives and long time friends. Fuck 'em. Just GD fuck 'em.

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
21. "You either go before a firing squad, or you get the end of the rope"
Thu May 28, 2020, 12:36 PM
May 2020

Sooooooo....did Internet Tough Guy say which one he prefers?
Or is he just cowering in Mummy's basement yelling "Let's you and him fight!"?

MarcA

(2,195 posts)
24. His dad was also a County Commissioner from Catron County a truly
Thu May 28, 2020, 01:59 PM
May 2020

bizzaro world when it comes to such characters. County in the 1990s was going
to mandate that every household had to have a gun. Also home to infamous State
Rep Dan Foley although like Griffin he served in another county.

Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
27. The whole county has 67,000 people.. less than an average suburb in Chicago Area..or
Thu May 28, 2020, 09:28 PM
May 2020

any large city. Of course his comment is stupid, but then he is ..stupid beyond belief He, like Trump thinks he can get away with saying anything. And like Trump, this guy is so stupid that he doesn't know he is stupid..

question everything

(47,265 posts)
28. Can he be charged for inciting?
Thu May 28, 2020, 10:42 PM
May 2020

These are no jokes. Too many "morans" take them seriously.

Remember the pizza place in D.C. where Hillary was "trafficking kids" or something?

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