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Johnny2X2X
(23,537 posts)If you zoom in, that red t-shirt he's wearing says Team Trump.
intrepidity
(8,521 posts)Wuddles440
(1,901 posts)oasis
(53,107 posts)So many characters like HIM roaming our nation.
mention the vast right wing conspiracy, she meant that it was populated by these sort of foot soldiers. There are millions of them.
oasis
(53,107 posts)with narration by Morgan Freeman gives a eye opening accounting of what Hillary was referring to.
Title borrowed from the book by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons.
Nigrum Cattus
(1,058 posts)Where is our apology from tsf ?
Where are all the RWRE's saying they were wrong ?
RWRE = right wing religious extremists
radical left ?
democratsruletheday
(1,681 posts)means never having to say you're wrong. Just like Trump who had his tail between his legs this morning on Faux News
sop
(16,672 posts)Being MAGA means you're impervious to facts and reality.
H2O Man
(78,155 posts)Recommended, and thank you for this!
hardluck
(748 posts)Looks like these are the same pictures.
ffr
(23,298 posts)This is and always has been caused by RW rhetoric.
WestofDenver
(27 posts)a person trying to provoke a 'race-wa'r (a la Roof) there might be advantage in choosing to attack a prominently public figure, a person popular among the MAGA crowd (but of course no one critical to my own movement) as a target rather than the random slaughter done by Roof. Roof's revolting action didn't work against people schooled in resistance. If the point is to initiate open warfare within the American population, then perhaps Kirk's attacker just chose to go where the guns are; meaning among his own. This cowardly act has brought Kirk's adherents to fury ... so the temptation for vengeance is understandably high. If they lash out at sufficient scale, if the shooting seriously starts, the accelerationists might be able to claim success.
ForgedCrank
(2,932 posts)me try to get this straight:
Someone posted it on twitter, and now we believe MAGA is running around assassinating conservative Trump supporters.
Are we seriously going to fall for this stupid shit again?
txwhitedove
(4,258 posts)Feel Good Inc
(66 posts)His ideology isn't even clear at this point. He could be totally apolitical and just a troll - or something else.
The only thing we know for certain is that he's white, from Utah and raised LDS. He likely was raised by conservative parents and they probably were Republican. But he did not register as one and did not vote in the last presidential election, which would have been his first.
Skittles
(168,345 posts)let's put it this way: HE AIN'T NO FUCKING DEMOCRAT
Feel Good Inc
(66 posts)Torchlight
(6,022 posts)Good luck
Skittles
(168,345 posts)Feel Good Inc
(66 posts)And I think you probably do too because everyone here was up in arms over the right saying he was a leftists despite no proof of it.
dpibel
(3,705 posts)"we've" fallen for the proposition that MAGA is running around assassinating conservative Trump supporters.
Not remembering previous instances of this stupid shit.
Polybius
(21,061 posts)SergeStorms
(19,823 posts)of demanding Trump release all of the Epstein files. Trump decreed that it was all a "hoax," and Kirk had the audacity to disagree with him.
Tyler Robinson assassinated Kirk for not being 100% in line with "dear leader." It's also a warning to other MAGAts. "Thou shalt not question Dear Leader about anything!"
There are many more Tyler Robinsons in the MAGA fold.
Polybius
(21,061 posts)Let's wait this out before we jump to conclusions.
SergeStorms
(19,823 posts)There are different factions within the MAGAverse. Some are mere right-wing nut-jobs, and some are so far right they want to do the mere right-wing nut-jobs bodily harm. If you can't come to terms with that there's nothing more to discuss.
Polybius
(21,061 posts)I just don't think he's one of them, at this point at least.
underpants
(193,654 posts)Groypers call anyone who doesnt agree with them Nazis and claim to be Antifa. See, its ironic projection and groupthink at the same time.
Fuentes from time to time lashes out at Trump to get attention and test Groypers loyalty to him.
Fuentes and Kirk hated each other. Kirk basically humiliated him by taking away a lot of followers. Tucker Carlson initiated a reintroduction of Fuentes this summer. Kirk also backs Israel which is Nazi to the Groypers. This was a violent act between two camps of the same tribe.
Kirk did call for the Epstein files to be released but that seems to be more about keeping his flock close due to their already being over the edge on what they were already sure was in them. Kirk had taken to going spiritual in an attempt to both cleanse his record 🙄 and probably prepare for a run at office. MAGA X is absolutely certain now that hed have someday been President. Seriously.
Tyler sadly, look no one should be murdered, had an opportunity and took it. There was remarkably little police presence. Talk radio says 6 cops total for this event specifically. Kirk wouldve had to personally pay for more. There are 47,000 students at UVU.
rictofen
(256 posts)Phew!
Farmer-Rick
(12,241 posts)From the Mountain Meadows Massacre to the Daybell murders of their children because god to Ervil Morrell LeBaron. They murder people as much as other religions. I guess thinking there is a god has nothing to do with being moral.
Fiddlelady11
(95 posts)Religion.
Cherrycheeks
(263 posts)White on white crime?
onenote
(45,764 posts)rollin74
(2,236 posts)Was he really a registered Republican? I havent seen that reported anywhere.
Fiddlelady11
(95 posts)Are in the middle of a Millennium scare. They think the world is ending and Jesus is coming back. Its so sad what the Mormon Church and Mormon parents have done to their children. I am sure Mormon stories podcast will do several hours on this topic. That church is dangerous and radical and has always been that way. We really need to tax churches. Its all a scam.
Skittles
(168,345 posts)maybe THEY are the ones who should be "stopped and frisked"
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41m ago 16.05 EDT
Suspect's high school friend says Robinson was the only 'leftist' in a family of 'very hard' Republicans
Anna Betts
In a phone interview on Friday, one of Tyler Robinson's high school friends, who asked to remain anonymous, said that the suspect was "pretty left on everything" and was "the only member of his family that was really leftist".
"The rest of his family was very hard
Republican," the friend said.
Around sophomore year, the friend said, Robinson became more extreme in his political views and would "always just be ranting and arguing about them".
https://t.co/h3UoNZcmJG
travelingthrulife
(3,669 posts)Polybius
(21,061 posts)Maybe his friend wasn't lying. Let's all wait it out. I'm sick of jumping to conclusions every time.
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edbermac
(16,361 posts)Though I have to admire their discipline in making only two posts in 21 years
ms liberty
(10,750 posts)I've noticed. I don't have a high post count for my length of membership, but I'm doing better than that, lol.
edbermac
(16,361 posts)That anonymous high school friend didnt happen to be you, did it?
dpibel
(3,705 posts)From the linked article:
Why would someone rewrite a quote to leave out the bet-hedging part?
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Polybius
(21,061 posts)demmiblue
(38,847 posts)Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family?
— Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) (@iwriteok.bsky.social) 2025-09-13T05:13:30.976Z
It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
Are they eating CROW??????
They are so hot to point the finger at somebody else, and it was their own. These are damaged sick people or should I call them a cult!