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In the run up to vote on the tax reform legislation last night, there were many who seem to identify with the so-called left side of the aisle in action and words who became very expressive about the bill and those voting for it.

One such person was a writer for the Sports Illustrated Magazine. Jay Jaffe, a prolific contributer for the magazine, has repeatedly tweeted his desire for Republican Senators to be killed.

In the most recent tweet that Sparta Report found on the author’s Twitter account, he was demanding that the entire Republican caucus in the Senate be buried in a ditch and launched into the sun.

bury these thieves in a ditch and fire the ditch into the fucking sun. https://t.co/NN72msDFul — Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) December 20, 2017



Jay Jaffe is wishing public harm against public officials, which is against the Twitter terms of service in multiple areas. In addition to making these statements, this is coming from a verified account with Twitter.

As Twitter has been unverifying accounts in recent days due to the new terms of service going into effect, accounts that have been deemed to be breaking those new rules have either lost their verified status or been suspended from the service.

This behavior by this Sports Illustrated writer has not happened in isolation from the rest of his comments on Twitter. We found very similar comments to his most recent wish for harm against public officials interspersed throughout his Twitter stream.

Although most of this anger was directed solely at elected Republican officials, he also took aim at one individual who asked him to stop this behavior:

Les Vegetables on Twitter @jay_jaffe Stay in your lane

Jay Jaffe responded that he was going to hunt them for sport on his account.

“stick to sports” guy gets hunted for sport on this account. — Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) December 3, 2017

After saying he was going to “hunt” people like the user who asked him to stop, he again harassed the user:

Launch yourself into the sun, dipshit. This is the lane of everyone who pays taxes https://t.co/HD5ghlZjU0 — Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) December 2, 2017

Jay Jaffe, with near 30,000 followers decided to publicly attack and tell a Twitter user with less than 100 followers, who dared to ask a sports commenter to stick to sports, to kill himself.

Does Sports Illustrated condone the behavior of this writer?

He tells Roy Moore and near 700,000 people to kill themselves:

Ride a rocket into the fucking sun, Roy Moore, and take all of your enablers with you — Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) December 13, 2017

He calls President Trump’s family a bunch of cockroaches inhabiting the White House:

and that’s just the Trump family. https://t.co/hyUhKXohcp — Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) December 1, 2017

He calls again for every Senator who votes for the tax reform bill to be killed:

Launch every single senator who voted for that abomination of a tax bill into the fucking sun. None of them will ever redeem themselves. — Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) December 2, 2017

Sports Illustrated’s Twitter account is here, since their contact page is unavailable on their website, if any Sparta Report readers want to sound off against their writers making/wishing death upon public officials, voters, and other Twitter users.

Sparta Report would like to ask Jay Jaffe if he wants or would like to quit his current job at Sports Illustrated so that he can apply at Politico, since it clearly appears that he does not like “his lane” as a sports commenter.

UPDATE: Sparta Report’s Twitter Account Has Been Blocked by Jay Jaffe

The writer for Sports Illustrated has blocked our account on Twitter. Apparently Jay Jaffe did not like our expose on his behavior. The tweets calling for violence against public officials are still online for anyone looking to confirm that this individual is in fact wishing death on whole groups of people.