Following last week’s massive blue wave in the midterm elections, the Republican Party took some time to tuck their tails, lick their wounds, and point their fingers at everyone but themselves. But we knew that their dejected attitudes would ultimately be short-lived, and it was only a matter of time before they geared back into their unhinged insanity.
It seems that time has now come.
Appearing on a segment with Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade, Trump-era Attorney General Todd Blanche all but threatened to criminally prosecute and attempt to jail any opposition who continues to say mean things about his boss and his party.
Kilmeade opened the segment by questioning Blanche regarding his role in protecting the current presidential administration. Todd wasted no time in eating that line up, warning the host and viewers that the US Justice Department is aware of, deeply concerned about, and intends to address what he describes as “threats” coming from the opposing party in the wake of our election victory.
“That’s exactly my role is to defend the administration,” Blanche said with a puffed-up chest. “There’s been so much vile rhetoric coming out of the incoming congressmen and senators, and also from organizations that are outside.”
“You can disagree with this administration, you can want to legislate your way with new policies, but you cannot threaten, and that’s what we are seeing, and that’s what we’re very concerned about at the Department of Justice.”
Blanche went on to make note of “all the threats around Charlie’s death,” speaking, of course, about Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated during a debate last year, and warned Americans against engaging in rhetoric that, in his opinion, turns “from just honest debate to actual criminal conduct.”
The AG told the Fox host that he wishes Democrats would fall in line with the president’s Tuesday night call to work with his administration, but claimed they “have so far chosen not to even start that conversation.”
“All they’re talking about is impeachments and investigations and going after companies that want to build jobs in this country, and that’s unfortunate,” Blanche whined.
AG says he will be monitoring the opposition’s speech and trying to jail those he deems go too far.
“There’s been so much vile rhetoric coming out the incoming congressmen and senators… You cannot threaten… We cannot let the rhetoric turn from just honest debate to actual criminal conduct.”
— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Blanche seems to have been prompted by California Democratic House Rep. Robert Garcia’s viral “lawyer up” response to Republicans after they lost their congressional majority in both branches.
Garcia doubled down on his feelings in an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union over the weekend, where he made it clear that, after the last decade of hell we’ve lived through, Democrats are done taking the high road and turning the other cheek.
“When Republicans go low, what we’re not going to do anymore is just take that, take the high road and turn the other cheek,” Garcia told CNN. “The days of us not fighting back are over.”
Countless people on the left have been warning Americans not to trust the temporary, whipped-up puppy attitudes we were seeing from the right. We knew it was only a matter of time before the other shoe dropped and they were right back at it with unhinged, criminal actions.
I would say that threatening to jail people who say mean things about the president constitutes the other shoe.
