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Why Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate Donald Trump is a mystery (www.inquirer.com)
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rightoids: "leftist people, inmigrants and brown people are promoting violence by illegal means!!"

shooter was white

shooter was american citizen

shooter was conservative

shooter used a legal weapon

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Dems spend 8 years doing nothing but screeching about how singularly evil this one individual is to the exclusion of all other messaging

Dems nominate the only person in the world loathed enough to lose to this bozo twice by completely dismantling the democratic process, the second time by nominating someone who 70% of voters have been saying is too fucking old for the last 12 months

Aforementioned fossil who is badly losing to Trump refuses to step aside because he's the same megalomaniacal dickhead he has been all his life, removing all democratic means of preventing the ascent of the aforementioned singularly evil individual

Truly we will never understand the motive

who-did-this

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

Hillary is also loathed tbh. Second choice gone.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Downvoters fail to explain as always

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I don't see down votes on hexbear dot net 😎

So I can have bad takes with impunity

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The score is +39/-4 but yeah I know y'all can't see them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Actually, I think I get where the downvoters are coming from. If it were a regular lib, sure, but we've seen the gulag level takes this person had. Why would such a conservative person believe the Dems in just this case?

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

Idk but my running theory is that he didn't like him very much

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Many such cases.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The most shocking thing is the lack of any social media/online accounts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

idk, I think the most shocking thing was that he tried to shoot Donald Trump

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

Not only that but as a registered republican out of all people! Scummy chuds are going crazy about this saying "he was not a real republican". Love seeing how the fash are infighting after this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

In all seriousness, I don't think just because you're registered republican at the age of 20, that its some sort of massive ideological commitment. At that age, a lot of the time people just register for whatever most of their family is registered as.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

nah, the shocking thing is that more people havent tried

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

tries to kill trump, refused to leave explanations

stalin chad

joking aside, it's better that they try this instead of shooting schools

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

i fully agree

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did he kill himself? Or was he killed by the cops?

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

Secret service got him, he was only at 100 yards

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasn't he a rank amateur? I really hoped they would try to get him alive.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He was shooting into a crowd of people, at least one person was killed. Shooting back at him was pretty much the only option

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the same breath, libs will thank the Secret Service for immediately killing the shooter and also say "violence is never an acceptable response."

That's probably the most succinct way to state the contradiction. You're OK with taking out an active shooter, but not with taking out someone who (as libs love to tell you) is about to hurt or kill people all over the world?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

they literally did say that in the interviews 10 minutes after it happened

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

From what I've heard on Lemmy, he was killed by the Secret Service after he made his shot.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Intrusive thoughts.

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

Shooter was real shit aim.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump was insanely lucky actually

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah except if you had any sort of training you'd be aiming for center mass. Lot more meat instead went for the xXx420NoScopexXx.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty sure he had a vest, which is standard practice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

M855A1 can be found in the secondary market. Ain't cheap, but he isn't wearing plate.

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

The goal posts are moving.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

He was probably wearing bulletproof stuff

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

My theory is that he wanted to kill that cop and Trump was just in the way.

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

There's no way he just didn't exist before today but that seems to be the result of all the searches for his information. I'm seeing theories that he was a government plant, but I doubt the CIA/FBI would botch an operation like this. What I do believe is that the truth is being obfuscated.