Violent Rhetoric and Worse Have Disturbingly Become Routine Both Here and Overseas

It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Even then it’s still funny if the person harmed happens to be a Conservative, or so it seems in today’s society. Just ask Jo Brand.

The left-wing British comedian said that she fantasized pouring battery acid on Brexit-supporting politicians. Brand, 61, made the comment Tuesday night on Radio 4, a BBC-owned-and-operated station.

During the pre-recorded broadcast, host Victoria Mitchell asked the comedian if the country (Great Britain) was united in feeling that they are “living through a terrible time” over the unresolved Brexit matter. It seemed that Brand agreed with Mitchell’s assessment, but then said, “certain unpleasant characters are being thrown to the fore.”

Possible Incitement to Violence

She continued: “And they are very very easy to hate. I am kind of thinking, why bother with a milkshake, when you could get some battery acid?”

““I’m not gonna do it, it’s purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do. Sorry,” she added.

Her brand, as it were, of humor was met with laughter from the studio audience.

Conservative-leaning politicians along with ordinary Trump supporters have routinely faced threats.

Haters Toss Milkshakes at Candidates

Brand’s milkshake allusion was likely in reference to a Brexit champion (and Trump backer) Nigel Farage being doused with one back in May during the EU parliamentary elections. The incident happened as Farage was campaigning for the Brexit Party in the town of Newcastle. Farage isn’t the only British politician hit with a milkshake. There have been other such incidents in the UK.

The full context, moreover, is that actual acid attacks on ordinary citizens have also occurred in London and elsewhere in the UK, so it’s hardly something to joke about.

Farage responded to Brand’s remarks on his LBC radio show:

I am sick to death of overpaid, left wing, so-called comedians on the BBC who think their view is morally superior. Can you imagine the reaction if I had said the same thing as Jo Brand? pic.twitter.com/hCEFSCqMGI — Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) June 13, 2019

Outgoing UK Prime Minister Theresa May has called upon the BBC to explain why the public service network considered Brand’s pre-taped remarks “appropriate content for broadcast,” especially since “editors took the decision to broadcast the segment,” the Guido Fawkes political blog reported.

Police are supposedly looking into the Jo Brand self-described fantasy.

Threats Have Become Routine

Here in the United States, Conservative-leaning officials along with ordinary Trump supporters have routinely faced threats. Some of the threats/attacks in public at restaurants and at home have almost been deadly.

A 2017 article in the Washington Free Beacon detailed how 30 GOP congressman have been attacked or threatened. Republicans receiving threats also include former Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao. The threats have likely only increased since the Beacon compilation.

Of a more serious nature, recall that a Kentucky neighbor physically assaulted Senator Rand Paul outside his home, and a gunman nearly killed House Minority Whip Steve Scalise at a Virginia baseball practice.

Let’s not forget the numerous assaults perpetrated against peaceful Trump voters merely for wearing a MAGA hat.

Most of these incidents get minimal attention by liberal news outlets. Even if reported, the liberal mainstream media attempts to justify or downplay them.

Democrats are almost complicit in the attacks, seldom coming forward to denounce them. If anything, some on the Left, like California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, have gone on television to seemingly encourage confrontations.

Left-Wing Terrorism: Conservatives Are Fair Game

One would be hard pressed not to conclude that particularly since the emergence of the MAGA movement, it seems to be open season on Conservatives or those perceived as harboring right-of-center beliefs.

This is horrible; each of us have a right to hold our own independent political views, regardless of what they are, without the fear of being put in danger.

While Brand claims she would not actually pour battery acid on anyone as it was just her fantasy, she has yet to apologize. Words matter, however; one day, unfortunately, some lunatic could take these words seriously.

To my fellow Conservatives in America and across the pond: Be safe out there.