Signs Demanding Violence Against Republicans Posted In DC
By: Breccan F. Thies
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The nation's capital is a crossroads where elected officials meet with their constituents or special interest groups, where hecklers and protesters are a fact of everyday life, and where visible efforts to maintain law and order contrast starkly with numerous signs calling for left-wing violence.
"Call the exterminator. The White House is full of vermin!" is a new sign that appeared to show up Monday morning, ostensibly calling for the extermination of not just President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, but every cabinet secretary on down to the lowest-level political staffer who works there. It seems to have been posted just days after the country witnessed the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, in the wake of years of similar left-wing rhetoric that has fueled such political violence.
With left-wing political violence at a fever pitch and their acts of domestic terrorism growing closer and closer together, it is time for the U.S. Capitol Police, the D.C. Metropolitan Police (MPD), and other authorities to take apparent threats more seriously.
If you work anywhere near Capitol Hill, you will notice that the street signs and lamps, trash cans, electrical boxes, and other public property are constantly plastered with political propaganda.
While the signs are essentially always radically left-wing, they are also occasionally violent and are frequently — at least weekly — changed out for new signs attacking a new conservative political opponent.
As Vance said Monday while guest-hosting The Charlie Kirk Show, left-wing political violence is much more prominent than anything going the other direction. Statistically, leftists are willing to justify the violence in numbers that aren't remotely comparable to the numbers on the right.
Another sticker, the style of which has been replicated across Capitol Hill, called for the assassination of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, saying, "a LUIGI for Steven [sic] Miller now." The sticker references alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione, whom the left has fawned over since the immediate aftermath of the killing. His charges were just lowered dramatically Tuesday.
Miller referenced the threat, and the organized nature of it, when Vance was hosting The Charlie Kirk Show, stating, "It is a vast domestic terror movement, and with God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people. It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie's name."
Most of the signs are concentrated in locations surrounding the U.S. Capitol Building, many of which are right outside congressional office buildings where members of Congress and their staffs go to work every day.
One location, however, might be the most concerning because the intersection is a zone that requires major security: The intersection of 1st Street SE and C Street SE.
To anyone who does not work on Capitol Hill, this location likely means nothing, so here are the key buildings located at that intersection:
- Cannon House Office Building: One of three primary House Office Buildings where hundreds of members of Congress — Democrat and Republican — have their offices, along with staff and interns. It also houses several major committee meeting rooms, and is where citizens can go to meet with their member of Congress in person.
- The Capitol Hill Club and Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters: Diagonally across the street from Cannon sit these two organizations. One is the national headquarters for the Republican Party, and the other is a members-only club for Republican senators and congressmen. Elected officials are therefore always present there.
- Across the street from those buildings sits Capitol South Metro Station, which is the primary public transportation access point for all House employees, meaning thousands of staffers walk through this intersection on a daily basis.
- Also at the intersection is the Madison Building of the Library of Congress.
Are those posting the signage trolls trying to think of antagonistic things to display in public, or are they a cell of potentially violent left-wingers with proximity to government officials? The answer seems like it would be easy for the police to find out because of the amount of surveillance that should be in that area.
When asked by The Federalist about the signs, a U.S. Capitol Police officer posted near the Capitol Building said that their presence is at the very least defacing property, which would give whichever D.C. authorities have jurisdiction the impetus to start investigating. The Capitol Police officer called in the presence of the "exterminator" sign upon being alerted to it.
How MPD, the Capitol Police, and other authorities decide to share jurisdiction (and responsibility) is up to them, but MPD did not respond to a request for comment asking if they were already looking into groups or individuals creating and posting the threats.
One thing is for sure: The individuals or groups appear to be organized and well-funded. Most of the signs have the same style, font, sticker paper, and rhetoric. They are also posted and updated constantly, across a multi-block radius.
It is well known that far-left organizations and people fundpublic discord and are at least indifferent, or more likely supportive, of political violence when their discord inspires it. That is the reason the Trump administration announced it would be seeking Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act charges against billionaire George Soros and others who have a history of funding the destruction of the United States.
While it is unclear who is behind the threats on Capitol Hill, right now, authorities are simply removing the stickers (on occasion — the "exterminator" sticker remains in its place) and repainting the posts, boxes, and other pieces of property.
Perhaps the Trump administration can, at the very least, make finding these defacers of property an enforcement mechanism of Trump's initiative to beautify Washington, D.C., but the enforcement effort could also be a way to uncover the apparently vast political activist, organized (and probably paid) protest apparatus that exists in the nation's capital.
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Did anybody actually expect the left to "cool the rhetoric"?
Nope. The cheese has slid completely off their cracker. Completely
That's assuming it was there in the first place.
DC is a big town and the Federalist apparently has only one photographer ... compelling stuff. /s
Can anyone say Reichstag Fire?
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They only people many on the left care about their fellow travelers. Calling for murder of their opponent doesn't bother them whatsoever, they'll either ignore it or claim it's some conspiracy. Attacking vigils and desecrating markers for a murder victim doesn't bother them, calls for political assassinations won't either, so long as it's the other side.
These are the very same people who want hate crime charges for those who desecrate their rainbow crosswalks, and refuse to use these fictional pronouns. And too ignorant or dumb to see the hypocrisy of their actions.
I don't support anyone's rhetoric ... age has gifted me.
Interesting comment considering your history here ..,,,
Well the J6 rioters erected a gallows calling for the hanging of Trump's own VP Mike Pence. Might be time to revisit all the video of the J6 riots with the Trump flags and MAGA hats to really grasp how much worse that was.
I don’t know why y’all are mad. The Right talks about “Second Amendment” remedies alllllll the fucking time. Y’all stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of the election, while assaulting cops, terrifying elected officials, and damaging that Capitol building along the way, and today you call it a “day of love.” Everyone involved was pardoned and called a patriot.
Now, some of that shit comes back at you in the form of rhetoric and signs, and you wet your pants and cry like babies. Too fucking bad.
And yeah, a nut bag shot Charlie Kirk, which is terrible, but ultimately unsurprising. Think bout it: the Right was certain what kind of person did the deed and why they did it even before he was caught. But to be that certain, you have to understand that the shit Kirk was saying, really hurt and scared people. You knew he was obnoxious enough that someone would be willing to shoot him. You already knew it, but now want to pretend you were shocked.
The whining is non-stop anymore. “Don’t call us fascists!” Ok, well maybe stop acting like one. “Don’t call us racist!” Ok, maybe stop being racist. “Don’t call us homophobic or islamophobic.” Ok, but you are, though, and you want to channel your fear of “the other” into public policy. Are we supposed to just ignore it?
You could have things so easy if you just worked on the real ordinary stuff that could improve the lives of regular people (p.s., this goes for the Left, too), but instead, you put way too much energy into scapegoating people on the margins, and then playing victim whenever someone complains.
I’m not talking radical change here. Just try being nicer.
What do you imagine you are doing? The lack of self awareness is staggering.
Just try being nicer.
The irony that you follow a depraved rant that is nothing but justification for a murder with that. He was shot, therefore he deserved it. Okay. Sure you'll apply that same logic when a left wing politician or pundit eventually get shot. Don't want to get murdered? Stop disagreeing with me.
Whining about Republicans being mean after you just witnessed progressives respond to the execution of a man in front of his family by spreading conspiracy theories , fabricating quotes to smear the deceased and going all westboro church on his memorials is a special level of delusion.
Another bad on top of a bad does not a good make.
Go melt somewhere else, and take your stawmen with you.
That’s a lot of lies in one comment.
The projection contained in the short comment is copious.
Good take.
A tale attempting to project the lefts ills on the right. Taking gaslighting to new level. Congrats on your deluded approval of same.
Nicer?... only have two cheeks
Two faced people have four, unless they have the emperors new suit, in which case they have six....
Ahh, how many do you have?
The vast domestic threat is a non-existent figment of Miller's imagination.
Is he on ketamine too?
A lot of mental illness on the left. Signs like this accomplish nothing positive or sane in a civil world. Of course now we have liberals trying to rationalize that assassination is the assassinateds fault.
Crazy