alllllllllllrighty then.

Seemed like he was riding a mini goblin Trump or something. Not sure what it means.

I know..........same-same. 😉.

Of the Halloween Costume.

Link to tweet

God-fearing, gun toting, Trumpublican family. What could possibly have gone wrong there? 🤔

I'm not familiar with their gear enough to say it is for sure or not.

Another putrid, service-averse gun nut.

We called it the "Ma Deuce". IYKYK.

It's just more pieces of the puzzle.

DU members post not infrequently about "my maga brother" or "my maga father".

99.9% sure the family is Mormon, too, but nothing says that's relevant to the kid's motivation, either. He could easily be rejecting his upbringing, just like Stephen Miller rejects his.

women, with malicious intent, but calling males over 18 "kids", or "boys", to excuse their heinous acts, the menendez boys being but one example.

Language and framing are important.

Thanks for the notes.

just make shit up, as usual.
And don't expect any sort of apology from Krasnov and his cult for pre-blaming everything on Democrats. Apologizing is a sign of weakness......or is it good breeding? 🤔 I can't remember which.

Be careful of anything they report.

What do you find suspicious?

But I'm highly suspicious of the Daily Mail as a source.

They're pretty good with true crime, although they sometimes get their US facts wrong.

It may put a slight spin on things to make the story more right wing friendly.

There is a lot of misinformation being spread for right wing advantages.

But then, "conservative" has been the polite term for Right Winger for at least a century.

Bomb threats, etc to dnc and HBCU's , calls for libs to be rounded up and worse, announcing antifa and trans etchings on ammo...

And In the end it's a white kid from affluent, republican, religious/Christian family who posed with guns like Christmas boebert and dressed like trump for Halloween.

They already stirred up the hate and kicked it up a notch and will likely continue even worse despite who the shooter was.

And btw the kid who shot up the school was radicalized by a white supremacy group, which I'm sure also supports trump and his thugs. A 16 year old kid, very sad.

Every day the right does more wrong and harm than one can even grasp. And they get away with it. 42% trump approval with 9/10 repub approval.
W.t.f.

His costume was him riding something that looks like Trump. It was very similar to this costume:

He burned about $50 on that thing...

And In the end it's a white kid from affluent, republican, religious/Christian family who posed with guns like Christmas boebert and dressed like trump for Halloween.

That is a bit of a surprise to me, TBH.

What does "he secured his son" mean? He locked him up in the house?

He probably also called the local police and the Bishop to keep things low-key so there wouldn't be a press mob or over-excited Federal police and officials during the taking into custody.

To prevent them coming in and mandhandling or even shooting him.

when I read it I imagined a father who didn't want the kid heading off to the woods and requiring a search to track down. Good way to get your kid killed.

Did the house sell for that or is it just worth that now? Housing prices have skyrocketed in recent years. Maybe they bought it for much less? Maybe they had the down payment from an inheritance?

you might be surprised at what cops and fire are paid, especially counting Over time......and their benefits also........

Professional (paid) Firefighters, working basically two 24 hour shifts a week, and many times have a separate career on the side on their days off......
(obviously not true of Volunteer Fire and medical first responders)

Of course I would not want to go into burning buildings so all the power to them.

is 100 times more dangerous, in my opinion........And both the cops and fire are paid the same........????????????????????

And they are a very different personality from police officers.

and the only thing I'd comment on at this point. It's soooooooo early in the investigation. So much we still don't know.

The shooter was a great shot, but he had a lot of luck.
And he was a rank amateur.
Left the gun with prints and video evidence.

... working for the VA as a civilian (transferred 3 years ago). He said that prices on apartments and homes skyrocketed just before he got there (probably red refugees from Oregon and Cali brought prices up). He and his partner pay far too much for an apartment compared to other places and hope to transfer to a northern state where prices would be about half what he and she are paying now.

but is Progressive.

My younger son was raised in a Progressive home but is a MAGA Conservative. My older son is a Liberal.

Things like that happen.

Don't want to be like them. It's pretty much common teen psychology.

The common ground in that case was he grew up in a gun-culture religious family...

figure.

Or facing the death penalty.

At young age with guns, the smiling was creepy knowing what he did with his gun skills.

it’s THE GUNS coupled with benign neglect?

as much as living in their dream world and imposing incorrect usage of words on the other 70% of the population.

They make up terms that are grandiose for the situation and think the rest of us are going to buy into it.

Meanwhile, just a wet dream for them because most of us see it for what it is.

“He also posed with guns in his childhood, which included a M2 Browning 50. caliber gun.”

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I am still waiting for Trump to call in the National Guard and ICE agents to Utah to stop, arrest,
and take into custody Utah’s white republicans who own guns and send them to El Salvador and
or Rwanda or Sudan or Ghana without a trial.

Because it looks like he's gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of liberalism.

Not sure if this is accurate but I guess there has got to be a way to verify it

link is an image of what appears to be a contribution from Tyler Robinson to Trump's 2020 campaign

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:xy5et7tjp2m5vcse6ky23v2x/bafkreihue5slcfxfdwnymmwr3v322i2ramqwk3zw3eqelbuvoqrnrl6efy@jpeg

That's a pretty sizeable donation for a 17-year-old.

This may not be a popular view, but as the parent of a child who ended his life (at 25), I hear of these mass shooters, and I can't help but feel a big part of this is our toxic world today.

This world has become one where the number of "followers" you have is regarded more highly than simply being a good person who lives a simple life.

My son was an overly empathetic, kind soul who had no armour against this toxicity. He absorbed it all and turned it inward. On the outside, he made people laugh and loved to laugh himself, but on the inside, he felt inadequate, a failure, and a burden to the world. My son turned all the anger in this world inward; some of these mass shooters are turning it outward.

I'm not making excuses for any of the mass shooters, I just feel our current society exacerbates this.

I agree with you. The kind, caring, loving people are those we need the most to be able to build a civilized society.

in 2016 my nephew said on Halloween he wanted to go as the scariest costume he could think of - Donald Trump as president! Granted, this was before the 2016 election ... after the reality of the first year of the first Trump admin, I'm not sure if he would have been as interested in the costume. But going as Trump for Halloween doesn't necessarily mean anything.

The Sheriff's dept issued a statement clarifying that their long term deputy is not the same Matt Robinson who is father of Tyler and that it is misinformation that has been spread.

What To Know

Matt Robinson is a registered Republican, according to public records reviewed by Newsweek. Early reports indicated that he was a veteran of the Washington County Sheriff's Office, but the Washington County Attorney's office said that reporting was not accurate and that Robinson does not have ties to local law enforcement.

"The individual arrested is NOT related to Washington County law enforcement! There are multiple people with the same names," the attorney's office said in a statement posted to Facebook.