So now that it appears that the gunman was not a flaming liberal, how long before this dies out as a main stream topic? My guess is two days.
A little tidbit about the shooter from the New York Times:
The 22-year-old man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk was listed in Utah voting records as unaffiliated with a political party. The records noted that he was considered “inactive,” suggesting that he did not vote in the November presidential election, the first since he turned 18.
Constant, 24 hour coverage, by any and all news outlets that agree to cooperate and coordinate whenever and wherever there is a mass shooting. Even the most hardened 2nd Amendment flag-wearing, gun-toting ‘Murican would wither under that media storm.
I apologize for the delay-inundated by a doubling of the workload (not a good time to be working for a public school system, I’m afraid). Liberal spokesperson and Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were brutally gunned down in their home by right-wing nutcase Vance Luther Boelter, in January of this year. Earlier that day he put State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette in the hospital while trying to kill them in their own home.
By the way, she didn’t get any medals and Trump didn’t even suggest that flags be lowered on her behalf.
That’s been my experience with MAGA here in the United States. They’ll either claim to have never heard about something or they’ll just say it’s fake news.
I think it was 2024, sometime before the election, one of the Democratic representatives in the House said to her Republican colleagues something like, “You guys are so distrustful of the government that you don’t even trust each other.” She was referring to the Republican’s inability to govern in a functioning manner because of all the infighting. These days I tend to think of the Republicans as willing to tear anyone apart who doesn’t toe the line exactly and that includes eating themselves.
Not fun - best of luck with that.
Yes, I am aware - it’s extremely disgusting, and the way that Trump left them off his list of victims of political violence is the height of hypocrisy.
If that’s who you meant, why did you respond to @HMS_Irruncible asking which liberal commentators you were talking about by saying that you didn’t say that a liberal commentator had already been killed?
I apologize because at first I thought that that they were looking for a person that was primarily a left-wing commentator, and she was a elected official first and a commentator second, although it was her popularity as a commentator on the issues that might have made her a target. This was the first chance I had to clarify what I meant.
Gotcha, that makes sense! Thanks for the clarification.
On the bullet casings, per the press conference:
Fired bullet: “Notices bulges owo whats this?”
Other unfired cases: “hey fascist! Catch! Uparrow, right arrow, three down arrow” “O bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao” “If you read this you are gay lmao”
These mostly seem to be online/gaming memes.
A lot of pictures of the kid with his family, no surprises; lots of guns, Trump support, and an aunt who posted “protestors should be shot.”
Well the antifascist one is enough to blame the libs. Certainly no evidence that he was trans.
Oh sure, they’ll find a way. Though if it’s the bella ciao, apparently the Nick Fuentes/groyper brigade has been adopting it facetiously, which might explain some unstable kid latching onto it while killing Kirk…but who knows.
Honestly, my first reaction was simply ‘thank god it wasn’t actually a trans kid’.
In bad faith, but what are you going to do? Helldivers is satirical.
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@ekedolphin, I’ve removed most of your post quoting “A Mighty Girl,” as it violates the fair use provision in copyright. If you’d like, I can edit in a direct link to the original source if you can provide one.
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the groypers sure seem to think Charlie Kirk was killed by a groyper
(link to a post from Robert Evans on BlueSky showing shared screenshots of groypers discussing the shooter)
ETA: This doesn’t prove anything about his identity, but it’s an interesting facet of the story.
“The call is coming from inside the house.”
Similarly, my first thought was, “thank god it was a white Christian man”.
Exactly my sentiments when we learned that the 22 July terrorist was a white, homegrown dude. But the racists had already beaten up a few browns, because of course it was a brown moosleem who had murdered a bunch of kids.
A true MAGAt will tell you that Mormons aren’t real Christians.
Look at the section on “Groyper War”.
I wound love it if this turns out to be a case of the alt right eating its own.