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“We’ll be announcing,” Trump added. “They’re already under major investigation. A lot of the people that you would traditionally say are on the left [are] already under investigation.”

And yet again, the assassin is a CIS, White, Mormon, Maga Family Male.

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[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Murdered by a MAGAt. Murderer was from a MAGAt family. Left a note saying what he was going to do.

Dumbass-in-Chief: the violence of the left won't stand! How dare they not think I'm the bestest and brightest snowflake! WaaAAAAaaaa 🚼🧷

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES PEDONALD

[–] ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 34 points 21 hours ago

WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

By Friday hes gonna be like “Charlie who?”

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, it's going to be "Donate to keep Charlie's WS mission alive!" for the next few years.

Grifters gotta keep grifting.

I do imagine his wife will be moving on soon though.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

BREAKING NEWS KIRKS WIDOW NOW DATING NICK FUENTES, WINNER TAKES ALL SHE COMMENTS

[–] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

Genuinely that would be fucking funny

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 142 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I've seen too many people take it for granted that the suspect not being a leftist means we're out of the woods. Facts have no bearing on who MAGA will blame. They still act like the attempts on Trump's life are the left's fault too, even after it was confirmed both would-be assassins were on the right.

There's nothing we can do to make facts penetrate the MAGA bubble. All we can do is use the facts to keep more people from getting captured by the MAGA bubble.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 49 points 1 day ago (4 children)

UT Gov Spencer Cox talking about how he was "radicalized by Reddit and dark dark places on the internet" and then concluding that he's a "leftist."

lol no.

[–] AndiHutch@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile, Reddit: How many subs can we ban for not moderating for Kirk hard enough?

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's what we have on r/conservative and my local community forums right now.

They don't let facts get in the way of the outrage.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If facts and critical thinking stopped fascism world war 1 would still be called "the last great war" instead...

Hell, even if just appeasing fascists worked, there wouldn't have been a world war 2.

But the only way to stop fascism is violence. In a good government, the government does it.

In a fascist government...

It's usually another country's military who steps it. And that's a worse result for everyone involved.

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[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Can confirm. My MAGA relative did not get the memo that the shooter was on the right. Just like they didn't get the memo about all the other shooters in the past year and some change. They were and are all radical left lunatics. That's what Fox News and Facebook is spoon-feeding them.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

They have always wanted everyone who disagrees with them dead. This is just one of many excuses they may use for it. We're not out of the woods until/unless they're out of power.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep, they say it's the let's fault because everyone is calling them Nazis and facists. Well....if it quacks, it's a duck.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Make no mistake, a civil war is coming, trump is building his own private army (ICE) and now he's getting his intelligence services ramped up. this can't be good.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago

There are masked armed thugs in the streets disappearing people with no legal basis. The war already started a while ago.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 104 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The only crime "the left" is guilty of is failure to prosecute "the right" for their crimes when they had the chance

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Probe what? Who is “the left”?

“Make shit up about people I don’t like” is the real answer.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 5 points 21 hours ago

Kind of the same thing with antifa. Who is in charge of antifa to be labeled a terrorist leader? At the end of the day, they don’t care and keep pushing towards totally facism while protecting child rapists.

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's in Project 25. This would have happened even without Kirk's murder, they are only using it as an excuse.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this is exactly why I am not really concerned about his murder

he was a shit person, the world is better off without him

the method of his death shouldn't have happened - he should have died crossing the street, like the rest of us, or something

his murder is being used by the fascists, but only because it is convenient - if not that, it would have been something else

the one upside to this is that the Nazis and dumb fucks are showing themselves on my Facebook and LinkedIn with posts of support for him

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 14 hours ago

There are many people who don't know his rhetoric and are posting their support because they are going off what their media is saying

[–] PigsInClover@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is “The Left” in the room with us?

Yes. Mormons are far left extremist apparently.

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[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago
[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is gonna be like when we went to war with Iraq because of 9/11, isn’t it

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Mormons have yellow cake? The should send the military to Mormon headquarters then.

But in all seriousness, yeah, it's going to be like that I think.

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’ve only known a few mormons and they always had cake

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[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 day ago

Trump is a child rapist

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

investigate the left

Because this guy was so far to the right. Makes sense. 🥴

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (5 children)

“If you look at the problem, the problem is on the left. It’s not on the right,”

ORLY?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Charlie_Kirk

"Robinson's grandmother said the entire family are Republicans and Trump supporters.[86] Robinson was registered to vote but not affiliated with any party, and there is no record of him voting in Washington County (of which St. George is the county seat).[1] Robinson had no criminal record prior to his arrest.[87]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_shootings_of_Minnesota_legislators

"Federal charging documents described Boelter as acting with "the intent to kill, injure, harass, and intimidate Minnesota legislators".[6] His anti-abortion views are considered a possible motive.[50] Boelter was registered to vote in Oklahoma as a Republican for the 2004 United States presidential election, though on a state document in 2019, Boelter wrote that he had "no party preference".[8] A longtime Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, resident who knew Boelter as a fourth-grade student in his childhood town since 1976, told reporters he was stunned to learn that Boelter is a suspect in the attacks. He described Boelter as "a conservative who voted for President Donald Trump and was strongly against abortion rights""

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Donald_Trump_in_Florida

"Routh had a history of political activity online and offline, with his political engagement dating back to at least 1989.[34] Voting records showed that he did not vote in the 2016 elections,[35] but in a 2020 Twitter post, he claimed to have voted for Trump in 2016 and later regretted it.[36] In a self-published ebook in 2023, he wrote about his supposed previous support for Trump, saying, "I am man enough to say that I misjudged and made a terrible mistake."[37]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Donald_Trump_in_Pennsylvania

"FBI deputy director Paul Abbate described Crooks's activity on social networking services as antisemitic, anti-immigrant, extreme, and espousing political violence.[138] Crooks's Internet activity before the attack included searches related to the 2021 Oxford High School shooting and for other politicians and their events.[139]

He was a registered Republican;[129][140][141] his voter registration had been active since September 2021, the month he turned 18.[142][129]"

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 21 hours ago

They don't care.

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[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

Lol, this reminds me of being a kid and my dipshit aunt telling me the cops would come looking for me if I didn't eat my dinner.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Like a lot of people are saying about all this stupidity

EPSTEIN FILES

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

So you think this is all just a distraction? And you think that releasing files that confirm what we already know about Trump's past is the real thing?

Did I get that right?

At this point, they'll be carting your family off to a prison in Africa and you'll still be shouting at their captors to stop distracting from Epstein.

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[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

More rambling from the pedophile. He is blowing hot air, cause anytime MAGA goes to court and has to prove their claims, they lose immediately during discovery. Unless it's with a media corporation, they just bend over and do whatever their king tells them.

He hasn’t said a damn thing about Nick Fuentes

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Hitler threatens major probe of "the Jews"...

[–] Part4 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He threatened war on Chicago the other day, before retreating and threatening St Louis (or whichever city it was) like the whiney pedophile bitch that he is.

Stand up to him and he runs away scared. He absolutely defines the term pathological bully.

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