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keithbvadu2

(36,778 posts)
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 01:08 AM Sep 2022

Right Wing/Trumpster prank calls to flood/block veterans suicide crisis hotline

Right Wing prank calls to flood/block veterans suicide crisis hotline

https://www.coffeeordie.com/activists-flood-veterans-suicide-line-for-stunt

September 19, 2022

ACTIVIST GROUP FLOODS VETERANS CRISIS LINE WITH PROTEST CALLS

As a Jan. 6 activist group encouraged its followers to flood the national Veterans Crisis Line — or 988 — to “let them know” the group’s political views, one veteran on the other side of the country came within minutes of completing suicide when she was unable to reach help in a desperate moment.

The call for prank phone calls came from a group calling itself the 1776 Restoration Movement, during a live webstream of the group’s Monday, Sept. 19, protest in Washington, DC. The group refers to those facing Jan. 6-related charges as “political prisoners” and to the jails some are in as the “DC Gulag.”

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Right Wing/Trumpster prank calls to flood/block veterans suicide crisis hotline (Original Post) keithbvadu2 Sep 2022 OP
Today these Anti-American extremist, organized a call-In action to clog the VA Suicide crisis line a keithbvadu2 Sep 2022 #1
firest they scream they are patriotic , and now they do this to a vets crisis line AllaN01Bear Sep 2022 #19
Well, look what they do after claiming to be Christians William Seger Sep 2022 #26
What kind of utter low life piece of dog shit do you have to be... Initech Sep 2022 #2
Lower than low. calimary Sep 2022 #9
There's no Abigail_Adams Sep 2022 #18
A very good question gratuitous Sep 2022 #23
You're much braver than I am! Initech Sep 2022 #24
Awful.. Demovictory9 Sep 2022 #3
Twisted dick moves, they just seem to know them all? Brainfodder Sep 2022 #4
There is no low too low for these scumbags. RockRaven Sep 2022 #5
Totally agree. What kind of asshole would think this is ok? LoisB Sep 2022 #28
How many times do we have to show the People sakabatou Sep 2022 #6
Were they able to trace any of these phone numbers? slightlv Sep 2022 #7
Despicable AmBlue Sep 2022 #8
Another one for my "Only one Party does this" file. Grins Sep 2022 #10
Give them the Nazi treatment vercetti2021 Sep 2022 #11
This barrel truly has no bottom AZLD4Candidate Sep 2022 #12
Bottom of the barrel Phrogme Nov 2022 #29
welcome to DU gopiscrap Nov 2022 #30
Can they possibly get more evil?! Rhiannon12866 Sep 2022 #13
WTF is wrong with these people? IronLionZion Sep 2022 #14
The Peoples convoys truckers were part of the 1776 Restoration Movement IcyPeas Sep 2022 #15
We need a stupid/dangerous jail. lindysalsagal Sep 2022 #20
Time spent on prank calls is less time for crisis calls. Irish_Dem Sep 2022 #16
Hate filled racists snd would be murderers, I hate them all. lark Sep 2022 #17
If there is no law that was broken here, it's past time to enact one. BadgerMom Sep 2022 #21
How 'patriotic' of them spanone Sep 2022 #22
Deplorable purr-rat beauty Sep 2022 #25
May all involved receive everything they deserve. niyad Sep 2022 #27

keithbvadu2

(36,778 posts)
1. Today these Anti-American extremist, organized a call-In action to clog the VA Suicide crisis line a
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 01:09 AM
Sep 2022

Jan 6 Activist Group Tells Followers To Flood VA Suicide Prevention Line; Veteran nearing Suicide attempt can't get through.




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Today these Anti-American extremist, organized a call-In action to clog the VA Suicide crisis line as a sick politician stunt.

We have over 20 veterans commit suicide a day, 1 call to that line can save a life, and these folk cared about that 0%.

Not on this Vets watch!

AllaN01Bear

(18,170 posts)
19. firest they scream they are patriotic , and now they do this to a vets crisis line
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 09:36 AM
Sep 2022

? how un american.

Initech

(100,065 posts)
2. What kind of utter low life piece of dog shit do you have to be...
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 01:14 AM
Sep 2022

To intentionally clog the suicide prevention hotline? I just can't even fathom. There's no low these fucking dipshits won't stoop to.

Abigail_Adams

(303 posts)
18. There's no
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 09:23 AM
Sep 2022

gallows too high for those shitbags. I hope they were too stupid to use burner phones and can therefore be tracked down and charged.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
23. A very good question
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 11:18 AM
Sep 2022

One I plan to pose in various forums to the asshole supporters of the former guy.

slightlv

(2,787 posts)
7. Were they able to trace any of these phone numbers?
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 01:37 AM
Sep 2022

And then arrest any of these magats? I sure hope so... as someone who is desperately fighting a very bad case of depression at the moment, I can imagine being someone at the other end of a busy signal of a lifeline call. I hate these people. I want them to get what's coming to them in every possible way.

I'm a veteran. Before retiring, I worked Army DoD at one of the Army colleges. I've had students commit suicide in the restrooms. We even had a commander commit suicide in his office - not more than 10 steps away from our desks. This is an epidemic, and has been for years.

So has women being assaulted and raped in the military by their cohorts. I've been advocating for decades to take it away from military hierarchy and put it into civilian law enforcement. It's been fought every step of the way. For truth, I was one of those who was assaulted, back in 1974, when I was one of the first flights of female law enforcement to hit the Air Force. It's never been easy for women in the military, but still we commit to protecting our country.

This stunt, beats it all, though. Surely we have reverse lookup available on phone lines.

AmBlue

(3,110 posts)
8. Despicable
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 01:49 AM
Sep 2022

These people don't deserve to live in this great country of ours, being that they obviously don't understand what we Americans are all about. I can't even.

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
11. Give them the Nazi treatment
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 03:37 AM
Sep 2022

Beat the unholy shit outta em like Indiana Jones did. They deserve nothing but the best beat down of a lifetime.

IronLionZion

(45,432 posts)
14. WTF is wrong with these people?
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 03:48 AM
Sep 2022

Veterans should turn against them. I doubt they are "owning the libs" or whatever they think they are doing.

IcyPeas

(21,859 posts)
15. The Peoples convoys truckers were part of the 1776 Restoration Movement
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 03:51 AM
Sep 2022

Seems they like to clog things up.

Irish_Dem

(46,946 posts)
16. Time spent on prank calls is less time for crisis calls.
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 07:54 AM
Sep 2022

Working on a crisis hotline is hard enough, they don't need prank calls too.

lark

(23,094 posts)
17. Hate filled racists snd would be murderers, I hate them all.
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 09:08 AM
Sep 2022

Hoping they get a huge fat whooping dose of karma.

BadgerMom

(2,771 posts)
21. If there is no law that was broken here, it's past time to enact one.
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 11:07 AM
Sep 2022

If there is a law that applies, throw the book at these despicable wastes of space.

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