My thought exactly. This is why they are making-up stoopid stuff and not mentioning the “illegal” aspect of the case. If only he were non-white, and not from Canada, there’d really be some red meat here.
Fox News is, literally, reporting it right now: “Pelosi attack suspect David DePape the latest high-profile crime involving an illegal immigrant”
The fact that he’s white isn’t going to stop them. They will latch on to narrative to take away from the fact that he is obviously one of them. See fox story
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Thursday that DePape entered the U.S. legally across the U.S.-Mexican border on a visitors visa in 2008 via the U.S.-Mexican border. He had come in across on a B2 visa, which typically allows Canadian visitors to stay for six months. He then overstayed that visa.
I like how they mention the “US-Mexican” border twice, in the same sentence just to male sure you caught it. By the time the disinformation machine gets through with it he’ll be a brown Muslim from Mexico with calves the size of cantaloupes.
Well there ya go. There had to be some hook for Mexico in there.
He was actually running from the excellent mental healthcare available in Canada. He is a political refugee fleeing to a country that will allow him to be as crazy and free as a man rightfully can be! Freedumb!
And handing out fentanyl by the fist full.
J.D. Vance (the D is for Dipshit) brought up his legal status in a town hall meeting a few nights ago, in the very same breath in which he condemned those who were making the attack “political”.
Should we point out that many Democrats immediately declared him to be a ‘Maga Republican’, and even tried to tie him to Jan 6? That was pretty despicable. Both sides leapt to use this tragic act by a crazy person to smear their political opponents. The times we live in, I guess.
His views certainly seem to align with MAGA Republicans, and he’s definitely anti-Democrat. Is there some reason to think he isn’t allied with the Republicans? Non-citizens can’t vote, but that doesn’t preclude them from political opinions and activities.
He apparently had a blog full of maga talking points? I think it’s been taken down, but it was up for a few days, and several people i know looked at it.
He is crazy. His neighbors described him as far left - until very recently. He was a member of the SF ‘Radical Nudists’, and lived in a home (or a bus in the driveway - not clear) covered in left-wing slogans, a Pride flag with marijuana leaves on it, etc. He’s not even American - he’s a Canadian from BC.
I wouldn’t blame left or right. The guy is a flake. He thought he was Jesus. His common-law wife says that he just vanished for a year, and when he came back he was ‘in very bad shape’. When she met him, he was very much aligned with her views - which were ‘very progressive’. In the last few months he became paranoid, conspiratorial, and unhinged.
I was never under the impression Trump supporters were particularly hinged.
Is “Rightwashing” a term yet? Really seems to apply here.
Absolutely not. He was acting as a MAGA Republican. His stated reasoning was from MAGA talking points. He was convinced by MAGA rhetoric, which specifically targets people with mental issues, using outrage and ignoring fact. That’s why it’s so dangerous.
All of us talk about the older people who used to be more liberal but switched to MAGA, and we tend to blame senility. It doesn’t make them any less MAGA.
This is how radicalization works. They always prey on the vulnerable. That’s what happened on January 6. The only difference is that they also relied on mob mentality to create that weakness. But there’s a reason why so many of the people there seemed like they weren’t entirely sane.
Pelosi didn’t become a target for attack out of nowhere. She’s a target because of all the political rhetoric about shooting her. Of course someone is going to take them up on it. Of course as it become more acceptable, the likelihood is going to increase. It’s not like “crazy” people aren’t part of society, and aren’t influenced by society.
Radicalizers rely on exploiting those people. Democrats are right to continue to blame the Republicans as long as they won’t kick MAGA out.
Soo, MAGA Republican, then?
It’s not progressive Democrats or BLM or antifa that are intimidating voters at ballot drop offs, or storming the Capitol, or threatening violence to school board members and poll workers, or plotting to kidnap and kill the governor of Michigan, or getting caught in a Uhaul before attempting to disrupt a parade in Idaho, or continuing to demonize Nancy Pelosi such that someone feels justified in carrying out an attack at her home. No, only MAGA Republicans are doing all those crazy things. The guy who did this is very much behaving like a MAGA Republican, so it’s not too much a stretch to consider him aligned with that pilosophy.
Yes. The guy is clearly missing a few screws. But the reason he attacked Pelosi is because he (during and for some time before the attack) embraced maga rhetoric. Rhetoric that is intentionally designed to be attractive to violent people who are missing a few screws.
Sure, but this happened not fairly recently but now, when he was full on MAGA.
But he didn’t do this to advance radical nudism, he did to advance Qanon.
Trump doesn’t play nudist theme songs at his rallies, he plays Qanon theme songs.
Let’s see the most despicable quote. Put it out there rather than expecting us to take your word for it.
Kari Lake, in just a very short period of time, has been (in chronological order) a Republican, an Independent, a Democrat, and now a MAGA Republican.
The ‘political trajectory’ of this particular whack-job – the one who attacked Paul Pelosi – is interesting, but it’s also interesting what seems to have taken him to the brink.
And it doesn’t seem to be the rhetoric of Greta Thunberg or Bernie Sanders.
“He used to believe left wing stuff,” is not the slam dunk argument @Sam_Stone thinks it is.
When he believed left wing stuff, he didn’t hold people against their will and plot to kneecap octogenarians. He did that shit once MAGA got hold of him.