Rep. Brian Sims is accusing a fellow Pennsylvania lawmaker of endangering his life on social media.
Doug Mastriano is a retired U.S. Army colonel and a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Last week, he helped organize buses to Washington, D.C. for what would become a deadly insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.
Days earlier, Mastriano, an avid anti-masker, spoke openly about his plans to help overturn November’s election, telling ring-wing radio host Eric Metaxas that Republicans are “basically … in this death match with the Democrat Party.”
“This is an essential fight here,” Mastriano said, adding later, “I do believe that enough of us have been stirred to action–at least 75 million, maybe 80 million of us–have been stirred to action.”
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Sims was quick to condemn Mastriano’s rhetoric and behavior, telling local media last week, “I believe Doug Mastriano’s actions meet the elements required for seditious conspiracy. He should be indicted, tried, and convicted.”
After calling on him to resign, Sims is now accusing Mastriano of endangering his life. This morning, he shared a screenshot of a comment made by one of Mastriano’s top fans on Facebook, who threatened to “pay [Sims] a visit” for speaking out against the Republican lawmaker.
“MY LIFE: Trying to get me killed, @SenMastriano?!?” Sims tweeted. “You’re a retired @USArmy colonel who already got people killed on the 6th. This is criminal and you should be court marshaled and prosecuted.”
MY LIFE: Trying to get me killed, @SenMastriano?!? You’re a retired @USArmy colonel who already got people killed on the 6th. This is criminal and you should be court marshaled and prosecuted. pic.twitter.com/Rum4d1IfnB
— Brian Sims (@BrianSimsPA) January 12, 2021
In a followup tweet, Sims added, “Hey @Facebook, Senator & retired Colonel, @DougMastriano helped to promote & coordinate the attack on the Capitol & is STILL USING YOUR PLATFORM to put lives in direct danger! PLEASE shut this account down & save the next life that this monster and his followers will try to take.”
Hey @Facebook, Senator & retired Colonel, @DougMastriano helped to promote & coordinate the attack on the Capitol & is STILL USING YOUR PLATFORM to put lives in direct danger! PLEASE shut this account down & save the next life that this monster and his followers will try to take.
— Brian Sims (@BrianSimsPA) January 12, 2021
Following last week’s failed coup, Mastriano issued a statement condemning violence, adding that he “went to Washington, DC, today to support President Trump” but that he didn’t “enter the Capitol building, walk on the Capitol steps or go beyond police lines.”
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Roy Ajax
OMG. Brian is acting up a little too much. This man did nothing to him and he’s freaking out like a school girl.
Heywood Jablowme
If someone sent you a tweet threatening to OUT you – never mind threaten to kill you – you’d scream and go hide in your closet!
RFD
He did nothing? He incited his followers and does not seem to be trying to reign them in and now at least one has threatened Sims and all you have to say is he is acting up too much? Get real!
Jon in Canada
Ok, first off, everyone here knows you’re a Homocon troll, so this apologist tripe of yours really doesn’t come as a surprise. As for the threat, it is a threat pursuant to 18 U.S. Code § 115; what this disgraced Colonel did was a crime and is cause for indictment and prosecution. Now, we get it, you live to wind people up with your less than erudite quips and comments, but we’re not fools. We see you, clearly and without obstruction, such is your transparency. Now, I know nothing I just wrote will get through that 4-6 cm thick skull of yours, for like Trump facts are as a cancer to you, but know that you are wrong, both on this and the side history itself.
Roy Ajax
Heywood
I’m out and everyone knows it and I have a male partner of 14 years…. maybe 15?
RFD and Jon
There’s a schism in this country and there are dangerous actors on both sides. What Mastriano said was no worse than what BLM and Antifa were saying last summer. This was a call to rise and be strong and make yourself known, and you can read into it if you want, but the BLM chanting was very openly a call to violence but I guess it didn’t matter back then because they only torched stores and cars and homes and attacked people… but that was a protest for peace? Don’t be a hypocrite, either call out both or call out neither.
ShiningSex
CAUSING SOMEONE TO RECEIVE THREATS IS A PROBLEM YOU IDIOT
Cam
@Roy Ajax
Hey right wing troll account. We get it, you will ALWAYS attack the LGBTQ person and defend the bigot attacking them.
In this situation, you’re also defending people that committed treason and attacked the U.S. Capitol. Again, you’re not only a bigot, you’re also an anti-American traitor.
innocentgay
“Roy Ajax” – You are a traitor to the American people and an embarrassment to your family. If you really are gay, then you are also a traitor to us. Never vote or speak publicly again, and you may be able to live out your life in relative peace.
KyleMichelSullivan
You don’t get to minimize this, honey. The RWNJs are out killing people, including cops, so there is every reason to think this “retired Colonel” is hinting he’d like that done to legislators he doesn’t like, including Brian.
My one question is, why are you dissing Brian for being concerned after the 6th? Seriously. There were people in that mob with zip-ties out to take hostages and execute them on a gallows built on the Capitol Grounds! They beat a Capitol Cop to death. Put a DC cop in critical condition by attacking him and holding him down as they beat him with flagpoles holding the American flag!
Get over your nonsense and accept reality — the RWNJs are out to hurt and kill people. And if you’re fool enough to think they won’t go after you, a gay man with a longterm partner, you’d deserve whatever happened.
Franky100
@ Roy Ajax
We get it you have nothing going on in your life and you feel small and invisible, that’s why you crave all of this negative attention. No matter the article you are always one of the first to post a gutter trash take that you know will enrage and insight others on this site. Get a real hobby and do some soul searching because honestly there’s not much there.
barryaksarben
AJAX you are a coward. You come here pretending not to be a huge republican troll. WHY? because you are a coward just like trump and all the other cowards on the right. Lok at the cowardly ted cruz and that closet case Mike Pence. Trump has sicced his nazi brownshirt on these guys families and they are so cowardly they still support him. WHy are you lying about your beliefs? we here all know you are a troll. We are not the inbred deplorable trolls on the right who easily believe lies and all you do is lie starting with your fake poster here
davegun2
OMG there’s a traitor to our country named Roy A not understanding the hate trump and the Republican party has fomented. People are dying, and Brian is justified in his concern.
Roy Ajax
Just like AOC and her “We came close to half the house DYING”.
Queerty ridiculed Senator Josh Hawley for overreacting to a group of people outside his house but this is acceptable?
Cam
@Roy Ajax
LOL! Look how desperate the right wing troll is. First, it tries to ramble and somehow mention AOC as if that is a deflection for Trump and Republicans attacking the U.S. Capitol, and then, it tries to restate the lie that Josh Hawley told. Police stated that there was nothing violent or shifty going on at Hawley’s house and the troll is STILL trying to push out the lie.
Republicans are the party of treason and nothing you say deflects from that. Give it up troll.
Roy Ajax
Cam
You really are stupid. Where did I state that I believed Josh was in any danger? He wasn’t. The point i’m making is that HE wasn’t in danger and Queerty called him out on it… but when a Democrat gets a nasty email, the entire EVIL RIGHT is out to get them.
Cam
@Roy Ajax
Waaaaaaaa!! Bigots and anti-American traitors are actually being held accountable for their actions!
That song is called “Trolls Lament”.
Openminded
Roy, please reword your last reply to Cam. I honestly cannot figure out what your point is with that statement.
Roy Ajax
Openminded
You know how to read and comprehend, so I know you understood it.
barryaksarben
I know you are 100% right. Ajax is a deranged republican who actually thinks he can compare the treason that happened in DC with the protests against racism. Those are truly patriotic while this was a coup attempt. Totally different. By the way AOC is the very voice of reason who DOES TELL IT LIKE IT IS the thing they swear trumps does when he is lying
Roy Ajax
Barry
AOC is the “voice of reason”?? LOL LOL LOL I would post a link here if it was allowed but google BLM riots damage and you will SEE the aftermath of the “protests” from last summer. It really is frightening.
Kangol2
The GOP and its reps appear to be deeply confused about who got the most votes.
Biden and Harris received more that 81 million votes across the US.
Don the Con and Pence received a little more than 74 million votes across the US.
81 million > 74 million (which is not “75 million”–do the lies never cease?)
Math may be hard but basic arithmetic isn’t. Please, stop pushing lies and accept reality.
Openminded
Kangol, very good point, but in fairness, it has been stated in this section that a “cop was beaten to death” in DC. That is a lie too. The only cop that has died said he had been hit in the head with a fire extinguisher. As sad as his death is, that is not being “beat to death”. Both sides are telling lies to embellish their story. Obviously, NOBODY should be dead after what should have been a peaceful protest, even if it was a protest very few people believe was worthy to be called rightful.
barryaksarben
HE WAS BEATEN TO DEATH. IF YOU ARE BEATEN AND DIE THAT IS WHAT IT IS. ONE BLOW OR A THOUSAND. NO DIFFERENCE
fraziercole
Mr. Sims, I appreciate you and do not think you are overreacting. I am also proud that you stand tall and are a supreme example for the LGBT youth of our nation. I for one sir, am behind you, Be strong.
RFD
I agree and I am and would be glad to be behind him.
Thad
How the heck did COVID get so politicized anyway?
Oh, I forgot. HIV got politicized too.
Cam
It is amazing how much faster a vaccine shows up when straight people are getting sick.
KyleMichelSullivan
And because it got politicized, we wound up with treatment. Would you rather it not have been?
Openminded
Cam, you have already had this explained to you by other posters. HIV is a totally different type of virus than Covid. HIV is transmitted thru avoidable actions of those who get infected. Covid only requires breathing to get infected. We all have to breath, MM sex and IV drugs may be enjoyable to many, but one can live without both. I believe you fall under the definition of a TROLL with this repeated statement apparently meant to stir people up. You have made it clear that you don’t care for my posts, but I believe you will find I only state that which is true.
Cam
@Openminded
Whether or not HIV is caused by avoidable actions is irrelevant to the fact that it’s been around over 40 years and no vaccine. Covid was effecting wealthy straight people and there was a vaccine in under a year. You can’t tell me if they’d put some more money into HIV that there wouldn’t have been a vaccine by now.
More than double the number of people have died from it than Covid so far. I’m not sure what your argument is with my simple comment.
Straight people got Covid in high numbers and we had a vaccine in a few months. That is a fact.
ShiningSex
ALL REPUBLICANS ARE VILE.
KyleMichelSullivan
Totally agree.
Openminded
Shining, that statement is no better than what Trump said to start the riot in DC. Nobody here would appreciate a comment such as “ALL GAYS ARE VILE”. Some Repubs are vile, some gays are vile. I believe very few of either group are vile. Of any group that should know the harm in blanket statements condemning a group, the LGBT community should know better. I’m actually Republican. Trump has not made a statement I agree with since he lost the election. Many he made before then I didn’t agree with either. I don’t agree much at all with what Roy Ajax says here but he did make one of the truest comments here when he stated that this country has had a schism with bad actors on both sides. If this country is to survive, we all better get our acts together and work together. Truth is, neither side can survive without the other and the world is sitting in watch like vultures just waiting to come feed on the carcasses.
dhmonarch89
well- open- 77% of Republicans STILL support Trump, so it’s fair to say, yes- they are vile!
barryaksarben
BUt our bad actors dont try a coup. BIG difference. They are vile – I am sick to death of republican voters telling me things like “i dont like what he does about this issue but really like what he says about that issue , because it is a package deal and although you may want the tax breaks you will also give us all the horrible human rights violations so yes they are vile
Cam
@Openminded
This is where you expose yourself as a troll. Comparing a statement that doesn’t call for violence to a statement that does is trying to equate the two. Calling for violence is different from an insult.
But let’s look at the truth. You have so called anti-Trump “Moderate” Republicans like Meghan McCain who endorsed terror instigator Josh Hawley for President on the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
That is from a MODERATE Republican.
dhmonarch89
I wish Queerty has a way to report posts. We all know they never read them- do we really need to here a poster CONSTANTLY supporting terrorist and terrorism?
dhmonarch89
and before you start- F off and die!
Roy Ajax
You want an echo-chamber or do you want to hear different opinions? I don’t think anyone here, that i’ve read so far, has supported the violence and breaking into the Capitol. The issue is the hypocricy of being offended by one violent act, but forgiving another.
Cam
@Roy Ajax
You can always tell when the right wing trolls are out of any rational thought because they fall back on trying to call things like murder, bigotry, treason, hate, etc. “Different opinions”.
Hey traitor, you and I not agreeing on whether electric companies should be subsidized or not is a difference of opinion. You supporting people attacking the U.S. Capitol building and people who want to take away LGBTQ civil rights, makes you a traitor and a bigot.
Roy Ajax
Cam
Please copy/paste where I stated I supported the people who broke into the Capitol. You’re lying.
AmberLeMay
Brian will be on my show this Sunday, 8:00ET. You can watch it on amberlive.tv
BGreen1963
Since we have established there are no Administrators of the Fascist Seditionists on this site it clearly supports their anti-gay Treason. I am cancelling my subscription to this homophobic RepubliKKKan site.