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White, Christian, Republican family, male with a gun... (Original Post) pbmus Sep 12 OP
Team trump Johnny2X2X Sep 12 #1
Isnt that Kirk? nt intrepidity Sep 12 #2
It is. Wuddles440 Sep 12 #6
Just another rightwing whacko. oasis Sep 12 #3
When Hillary swong19104 Sep 12 #39
"The Hunting of the President" a short documentary oasis Sep 12 #47
Play with fire & get burned ! Nigrum Cattus Sep 12 #4
LOL.....being a narcissistic, REPUKE democratsruletheday Sep 12 #5
Trump and his henchmen will continue spreading lies, and their MAGA imbeciles will believe them. sop Sep 12 #8
Not a surprise. H2O Man Sep 12 #7
So was it digitally altered as the Reader Added Context states? hardluck Sep 12 #9
Media talking heads should be aggressively seeking apologies from the right ffr Sep 12 #10
A possibility occured to me in that if I were an accelerationist, WestofDenver Sep 12 #11
Ok, let ForgedCrank Sep 12 #12
Read on and other posts cause this news is everywhere. txwhitedove Sep 12 #13
There is no evidence he was a Republican or Trump supporter. Feel Good Inc Sep 12 #14
LOL Skittles Sep 12 #24
Okay? The OP said he was a Republican. Feel Good Inc Sep 12 #26
Sounds really serious Torchlight Sep 12 #35
*SNORT* Skittles Sep 12 #36
I think it's serious to be accurate. Feel Good Inc Sep 12 #37
Remind me of the other times dpibel Sep 12 #29
Some fools are already falling for it Polybius Sep 12 #40
Kirk made the fatal mistake.... SergeStorms Sep 12 #15
And you think a 22 year old cares enough to not want the Epstein files released? Polybius Sep 12 #41
I do, yes. SergeStorms Sep 12 #45
There are, I agree with you on that Polybius Sep 13 #49
This was tribal warfare. He's a Groyper - follower of Nick Fuentes underpants Sep 13 #51
Also not a Russian hitman who got on a plane that disappeared from radar rictofen Sep 12 #16
Those Mormons are really into killing Farmer-Rick Sep 12 #17
Scary Fiddlelady11 Sep 12 #22
Is that called.. Cherrycheeks Sep 12 #18
What is the source of the assertion that he's a Republican? onenote Sep 12 #19
I thought his voter registration showed no affiliation with a party rollin74 Sep 12 #20
The Mormons Fiddlelady11 Sep 12 #21
since that's the profile of SO many shooters Skittles Sep 12 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author Beachnutt Sep 12 #25
😬 Lookingforthetruth Sep 12 #27
His friend is lying. Sad. travelingthrulife Sep 12 #28
From the artice: Polybius Sep 12 #42
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Sep 12 #30
🚨 I think we got a live one here. 🚨 edbermac Sep 12 #33
There have been a number of "new" old members posting lately ms liberty Sep 12 #38
Really, Mr two-posts-in-twenty-one-years? edbermac Sep 12 #31
Interesting edit dpibel Sep 12 #32
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Sep 12 #34
I'm curious what his first post was now n/t Polybius Sep 12 #43
Editor's note: this article was updated.... demmiblue Sep 13 #48
Ha!!! bdamomma Sep 12 #44
One of their very OWN... again. I'm SHOCKED. B.See Sep 12 #46
We reap what is sown. republianmushroom Sep 13 #50

swong19104

(548 posts)
39. When Hillary
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:00 PM
Sep 12

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)
47. "The Hunting of the President" a short documentary
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 11:39 PM
Sep 12

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)
4. Play with fire & get burned !
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 01:57 PM
Sep 12

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)
5. LOL.....being a narcissistic, REPUKE
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 02:07 PM
Sep 12

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)
8. Trump and his henchmen will continue spreading lies, and their MAGA imbeciles will believe them.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 02:10 PM
Sep 12

Being MAGA means you're impervious to facts and reality.

ffr

(23,298 posts)
10. Media talking heads should be aggressively seeking apologies from the right
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:08 PM
Sep 12

This is and always has been caused by RW rhetoric.

WestofDenver

(27 posts)
11. A possibility occured to me in that if I were an accelerationist,
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:18 PM
Sep 12

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)
12. Ok, let
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:28 PM
Sep 12

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?

 

Feel Good Inc

(66 posts)
14. There is no evidence he was a Republican or Trump supporter.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:39 PM
Sep 12

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.

 

Feel Good Inc

(66 posts)
37. I think it's serious to be accurate.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 06:28 PM
Sep 12

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)
29. Remind me of the other times
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:35 PM
Sep 12

"we've" fallen for the proposition that MAGA is running around assassinating conservative Trump supporters.

Not remembering previous instances of this stupid shit.

SergeStorms

(19,823 posts)
15. Kirk made the fatal mistake....
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:42 PM
Sep 12

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)
41. And you think a 22 year old cares enough to not want the Epstein files released?
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:53 PM
Sep 12

Let's wait this out before we jump to conclusions.

SergeStorms

(19,823 posts)
45. I do, yes.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 11:24 PM
Sep 12

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)
49. There are, I agree with you on that
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 12:55 PM
Sep 13

I just don't think he's one of them, at this point at least.

underpants

(193,654 posts)
51. This was tribal warfare. He's a Groyper - follower of Nick Fuentes
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 01:34 PM
Sep 13
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20634209

Groypers call anyone who doesn’t agree with them “Nazis” and claim to be “Antifa”. See, it’s 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 he’d 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 would’ve had to personally pay for more. There are 47,000 students at UVU.

Farmer-Rick

(12,241 posts)
17. Those Mormons are really into killing
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:46 PM
Sep 12

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.

rollin74

(2,236 posts)
20. I thought his voter registration showed no affiliation with a party
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:57 PM
Sep 12

Was he really a registered Republican? I haven’t seen that reported anywhere.

Fiddlelady11

(95 posts)
21. The Mormons
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:14 PM
Sep 12

Are in the middle of a Millennium scare. They think the world is ending and Jesus is coming back. It’s 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. It’s all a scam.

Skittles

(168,345 posts)
23. since that's the profile of SO many shooters
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:39 PM
Sep 12

maybe THEY are the ones who should be "stopped and frisked"

Response to pbmus (Original post)

 
27. 😬
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:06 PM
Sep 12

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

Polybius

(21,061 posts)
42. From the artice:
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:56 PM
Sep 12
A high-powered Mauser rifle found near the scene of the suspect’s initial escape route contained an unfired bullet that Cox said was marked with the message, “hey, fascist, catch!”.


Maybe his friend wasn't lying. Let's all wait it out. I'm sick of jumping to conclusions every time.

Response to Lookingforthetruth (Reply #27)

edbermac

(16,361 posts)
33. 🚨 I think we got a live one here. 🚨
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:50 PM
Sep 12

Though I have to admire their discipline in making only two posts in 21 years

ms liberty

(10,750 posts)
38. There have been a number of "new" old members posting lately
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 07:38 PM
Sep 12

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)
31. Really, Mr two-posts-in-twenty-one-years?
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:48 PM
Sep 12

That anonymous high school friend didn’t happen to be you, did it?

dpibel

(3,705 posts)
32. Interesting edit
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:49 PM
Sep 12

From the linked article:

In a phone interview on Friday, someone who said they were friends with Robinson in high school,who asked to remain anonymous, told the Guardian that Robinson was “pretty left on everything” and was “the only member of his family that was really leftist”.


Why would someone rewrite a quote to leave out the bet-hedging part?

Response to dpibel (Reply #32)

demmiblue

(38,847 posts)
48. Editor's note: this article was updated....
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 05:39 AM
Sep 13

Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family?

It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) (@iwriteok.bsky.social) 2025-09-13T05:13:30.976Z

bdamomma

(69,090 posts)
44. Ha!!!
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:58 PM
Sep 12

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!

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