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    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.

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      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? 🤔

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      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.

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        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.

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    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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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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      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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      If I’m not mistaken, it was a US Libertarian who attempted the assassination. It’s analytically pointless to group them in with the Republicans, even if they’re both horrible. Infighting is serious business. [redacted: see my reply]

      But yes, they’re still going to blame the Dems anyway lol.

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        Source he was a libertarian?

        US libertarians are republicans’ worst governing qualities on steroids, but they’re essentially republicans here despite the naming difference.

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          I’m going to redact my claim until I find evidence, because I may have just misinterpreted a flag they had up. Outlets are reporting the were a registered Republican.

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      Don’t you love it when the conservatives blame the Dems for what the conservatives are doing themselves?

      And then the Dems agree that Something Must Be Done, so you get the next iteration of the Mulford Act and a SWAT Team kicking down the door of the Socialist Rifle Association.

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      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.

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

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    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