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Republicans Try to Blame Democrats, the Media, CRT for Shooting (www.rollingstone.com)

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[–] [email protected] 230 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Let's run down the list of the shooter's known traits and see how this fits the GOP agenda:

White
Male
Suburban
Privileged upbringing
Gun enthusiast
Registered Republican

YUP! Sure sounds like a CRT-lovin' Democrat operative to me! Can't wait to hear how these fascist psychos try to spin the web of Deep State bullshit into this one.

NEWSFLASH: There's only one side of this political climate that has been advocating violence from Day 1, dipshits, and it sure as fuck isn't coming from the Democrats.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sounds like a lone wolf, nothing can be done about such a thing

As an aside: how can you be a lone wolf, yet have two wolves inside you? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well, that's 3 wolves, so you just need a moon and there we you go.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Duowolf

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

brain washing half the country with your sick violent rhetoric.”

Greene in 2021 appeared in a campaign video holding a 50-caliber rifle and promising to “blow away the Democrats’ socialist agenda.” She then fired the rifle at a Toyota Prius with a “socialism” sign on its side. Footage showed the vehicle exploding with the words, “Target destroyed” displayed on screen. The video promoted a giveaway of the rifle “for Americans only.”

When was the last time a Democrat appeared in a political ad with a firearm? More of the right’s projection and gaslighting.

I don’t see political ads - do the ones Biden’s running say things like “Trump must be stopped at all costs?” I just worry that the dems will take the bait and turn down their messaging while the right keep the flames burning.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I've also never seen a Democrat ad like this. It's pretty clearly what they want people to do, while they're too chicken shit to say it out loud.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Looks like it’s the consequences of their own actions circling around again. Time to blame liberals/trans/minorities/foreigners/anybody else!

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anything But The Guns.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well it's obvious the gun wasn't what shot Mr. Trump.

It was Critical Race Theory.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

"How dare you be so insensitive to our pain!"

To Trump, the Paul Pelosi assault was the cause for yet another one-off joke, which should have landed with a chorus of boos at the California GOP convention. Nope. A laugh riot.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“Everyone except us!” -gop

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The party of personal responsibility can never seem to accept responsibility for anything

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, the god of the Bible is a malevolent narcissist, and they do strive to be godly.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

"We are all domestic terrorists" - GOP

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's actually kinda funny watching them flail around blaming nothing and everything because one of their own tried to shoot Trump. They were NOT prepared to deal with this situation at all.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Has more been confirmed other than last voter registration?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What additional evidence do you need? He was asked directly by the state what party he considers himself a supporter of, and he said Republican.

Conservatives are going to try to disown him no matter what. Don't let their endless bad faith requests for additional proof convince you that the facts here aren't straightforward.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

If nothing gets released (like very little was released about the mini-arsenal, bump-stock Las Vegas mass shooter) he’s probably right wing. If there’s anything leftist about it you can bet they’ll dig for every possible way to exploit it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We may never be able to put him on so narrow a box, but he was registered, a gun nut, and he didn't donate to Dems - that was just someone with the same name in the same state.

That's not confirmation, but thus far there isn't any reason to believe otherwise.

But also he was 20. It's likely he didn't have a strong personal affiliation with any political party.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not in any way that will convince someone who doesn't want to believe it, but for reasonable folks...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rally-gunman-thomas-crooks-was-definitely-conservative-classmate-recalls

Smith shared an American history class with Crooks, and remembered a mock debate where their teacher made students stand on one side of the classroom or another to signal their allegiance. “The majority of the class were on the liberal side, but Tom, no matter what, always stood his ground on the conservative side,” Smith said. “That’s still the picture I have of him. Just standing alone on one side while the rest of the class was on the other.”

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As an aside, I've always found it hilarious when a Faux News host says 'the media', as if they're not one of the biggest media outlets in the world. It's an amazing disassociation and it seems to land somehow. The television screen tells you "the media doesn't want you to know the truth!", o fanged poet.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Weird how the largest broadcaster is somehow telling everyone secret knowledge that is often like an out of context publicly available clip or note

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

"I'm being silenced!" yells man to millions of people online.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

CRT ? The shooter is white.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But the CRT made him hate white people. /s

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Except that's exactly what they think.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"A woke trans just shit in my pants just now!!!"

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Don’t you love it when the conservatives blame the Dems for what the conservatives are doing themselves? It’s like narcissism’s victim-blaming 101: shifting accountability, gaslighting, and projection.

Projection is all they do.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure that's literally one of Eco's 14 characteristics of fascism. Publicly accusing the opposition of doing the exact (awful) thing they're doing.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

LOL, all of these are dopey, but CRT?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Put your hand in the bowl. Grab as much shit covered spaghetti as you can. Now throw it at the wall.

Repeat this on multiple stations a day 24/7 and it won't matter how ludicrous it sounds, it'll stick. You'll be covered in it. It'll be fuckin everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Black people:

MAGA: CRT made us shoot each other!!!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

The archive is blurred out for me, but highlighting everything makes it readable.

Saying we're too divided and in the same breath casting divisive blame is... Not even surprising anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Yeah, couldn't be all of that political violence they, the Republican party, have been preaching about and encouraging for decades now.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Guy had long hair, I'm surprised trans hasn't made it yet.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don’t speak it into existence, please let us just dodge this bullshit for once 😩

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Man could have been hit by a meteorite and they'd say the same thing.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

I do hope the daily show has the guts to do the mashup of trump's violent rhetoric paired with the fox news broadcasters tone policing democrats

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Let's just call it an official act, then, shall we ? Then we can do whatever we want.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Definitely woke shit and not guns.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well of course they are. Anybody with half a brand new they were going to do that the second that the news came out about the assassination. I sure did.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyone's blaming the guns, but for the record, I'll also blame the politicians they're shooting at.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Not long after the attempt to assassinate former president Donald Trump, Republicans began to blame the Democrats; the media; diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts; and critical race theory as responsible for the shooting, even though law enforcement thus far has not shared information about the shooter’s motivations.

Twenty-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, a registered Republican who once gave $15 to a progressive anti-Trump political action committee, opened fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

“The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs,” the Ohio senator wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Another GOP politician on Trump’s shortlist for VP, Sen. Tim Scott, on Saturday baselessly claimed that the “radical left” and the media “aided and abetted” in the shooting.

“This was an assassination attempt aided and abetted by the radical Left and corporate media incessantly calling Trump a threat to democracy, fascists, or worse,” Scott wrote on X.

Johnson wrote on X that the House will “conduct a full investigation of the tragic events today,” including seeking testimony from Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle “and other appropriate officials from [the Department of Homeland Security] and the FBI.”

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The whole tone down the reterict thing makes me shake my head. Only one side has that reterict.