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White, Christian, Republican family, male with a gun... (Original Post) pbmus 14 hrs ago OP
Team trump Johnny2X2X 14 hrs ago #1
Isnt that Kirk? nt intrepidity 14 hrs ago #2
It is. Wuddles440 13 hrs ago #6
Just another rightwing whacko. oasis 14 hrs ago #3
When Hillary swong19104 8 hrs ago #39
"The Hunting of the President" a short documentary oasis 4 hrs ago #47
Play with fire & get burned ! Nigrum Cattus 14 hrs ago #4
LOL.....being a narcissistic, REPUKE democratsruletheday 13 hrs ago #5
Trump and his henchmen will continue spreading lies, and their MAGA imbeciles will believe them. sop 13 hrs ago #8
Not a surprise. H2O Man 13 hrs ago #7
So was it digitally altered as the Reader Added Context states? hardluck 13 hrs ago #9
Media talking heads should be aggressively seeking apologies from the right ffr 12 hrs ago #10
A possibility occured to me in that if I were an accelerationist, WestofDenver 12 hrs ago #11
Ok, let ForgedCrank 12 hrs ago #12
Read on and other posts cause this news is everywhere. txwhitedove 12 hrs ago #13
There is no evidence he was a Republican or Trump supporter. Feel Good Inc 12 hrs ago #14
LOL Skittles 11 hrs ago #24
Okay? The OP said he was a Republican. Feel Good Inc 10 hrs ago #26
Sounds really serious Torchlight 10 hrs ago #35
*SNORT* Skittles 10 hrs ago #36
I think it's serious to be accurate. Feel Good Inc 9 hrs ago #37
Remind me of the other times dpibel 10 hrs ago #29
Some fools are already falling for it Polybius 7 hrs ago #40
Kirk made the fatal mistake.... SergeStorms 12 hrs ago #15
And you think a 22 year old cares enough to not want the Epstein files released? Polybius 7 hrs ago #41
I do, yes. SergeStorms 4 hrs ago #45
Also not a Russian hitman who got on a plane that disappeared from radar rictofen 12 hrs ago #16
Those Mormons are really into killing Farmer-Rick 12 hrs ago #17
Scary Fiddlelady11 11 hrs ago #22
Is that called.. Cherrycheeks 12 hrs ago #18
What is the source of the assertion that he's a Republican? onenote 12 hrs ago #19
I thought his voter registration showed no affiliation with a party rollin74 12 hrs ago #20
The Mormons Fiddlelady11 11 hrs ago #21
since that's the profile of SO many shooters Skittles 11 hrs ago #23
This message was self-deleted by its author Beachnutt 11 hrs ago #25
😬 Lookingforthetruth 10 hrs ago #27
His friend is lying. Sad. travelingthrulife 10 hrs ago #28
From the artice: Polybius 7 hrs ago #42
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave 10 hrs ago #30
🚨 I think we got a live one here. 🚨 edbermac 10 hrs ago #33
There have been a number of "new" old members posting lately ms liberty 8 hrs ago #38
Really, Mr two-posts-in-twenty-one-years? edbermac 10 hrs ago #31
Interesting edit dpibel 10 hrs ago #32
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave 10 hrs ago #34
I'm curious what his first post was now n/t Polybius 7 hrs ago #43
Ha!!! bdamomma 7 hrs ago #44
One of their very OWN... again. I'm SHOCKED. B.See 4 hrs ago #46

swong19104

(517 posts)
39. When Hillary
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:00 PM
8 hrs ago

mention the vast right wing conspiracy, she meant that it was populated by these sort of foot soldiers. There are millions of them.

oasis

(52,858 posts)
47. "The Hunting of the President" a short documentary
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 11:39 PM
4 hrs ago

with narration by Morgan Freeman gives a eye opening accounting of what Hillary was referring to.

Title borrowed from the book by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons.

Nigrum Cattus

(993 posts)
4. Play with fire & get burned !
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 01:57 PM
14 hrs ago

Where is our apology from tsf ?
Where are all the RWRE's saying they were wrong ?
RWRE = right wing religious extremists
radical left ?

democratsruletheday

(1,542 posts)
5. LOL.....being a narcissistic, REPUKE
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 02:07 PM
13 hrs ago

means never having to say you're wrong. Just like Trump who had his tail between his legs this morning on Faux News

sop

(15,921 posts)
8. Trump and his henchmen will continue spreading lies, and their MAGA imbeciles will believe them.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 02:10 PM
13 hrs ago

Being MAGA means you're impervious to facts and reality.

ffr

(23,239 posts)
10. Media talking heads should be aggressively seeking apologies from the right
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:08 PM
12 hrs ago

This is and always has been caused by RW rhetoric.

WestofDenver

(27 posts)
11. A possibility occured to me in that if I were an accelerationist,
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:18 PM
12 hrs ago

a person trying to provoke a 'race-wa'r (a la Roof) there might be advantage in choosing to attack a prominently public figure, a person popular among the MAGA crowd (but of course no one critical to my own movement) as a target rather than the random slaughter done by Roof. Roof's revolting action didn't work against people schooled in resistance. If the point is to initiate open warfare within the American population, then perhaps Kirk's attacker just chose to go where the guns are; meaning among his own. This cowardly act has brought Kirk's adherents to fury ... so the temptation for vengeance is understandably high. If they lash out at sufficient scale, if the shooting seriously starts, the accelerationists might be able to claim success.

ForgedCrank

(2,870 posts)
12. Ok, let
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:28 PM
12 hrs ago

me try to get this straight:
Someone posted it on twitter, and now we believe MAGA is running around assassinating conservative Trump supporters.
Are we seriously going to fall for this stupid shit again?

Feel Good Inc

(57 posts)
14. There is no evidence he was a Republican or Trump supporter.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:39 PM
12 hrs ago

His ideology isn't even clear at this point. He could be totally apolitical and just a troll - or something else.

The only thing we know for certain is that he's white, from Utah and raised LDS. He likely was raised by conservative parents and they probably were Republican. But he did not register as one and did not vote in the last presidential election, which would have been his first.

Feel Good Inc

(57 posts)
37. I think it's serious to be accurate.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 06:28 PM
9 hrs ago

And I think you probably do too because everyone here was up in arms over the right saying he was a leftists despite no proof of it.

dpibel

(3,655 posts)
29. Remind me of the other times
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:35 PM
10 hrs ago

"we've" fallen for the proposition that MAGA is running around assassinating conservative Trump supporters.

Not remembering previous instances of this stupid shit.

SergeStorms

(19,736 posts)
15. Kirk made the fatal mistake....
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:42 PM
12 hrs ago

of demanding Trump release all of the Epstein files. Trump decreed that it was all a "hoax," and Kirk had the audacity to disagree with him.
Tyler Robinson assassinated Kirk for not being 100% in line with "dear leader." It's also a warning to other MAGAts. "Thou shalt not question Dear Leader about anything!"
There are many more Tyler Robinsons in the MAGA fold.

Polybius

(20,826 posts)
41. And you think a 22 year old cares enough to not want the Epstein files released?
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:53 PM
7 hrs ago

Let's wait this out before we jump to conclusions.

SergeStorms

(19,736 posts)
45. I do, yes.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 11:24 PM
4 hrs ago

There are different factions within the MAGAverse. Some are mere right-wing nut-jobs, and some are so far right they want to do the mere right-wing nut-jobs bodily harm. If you can't come to terms with that there's nothing more to discuss.

Farmer-Rick

(12,055 posts)
17. Those Mormons are really into killing
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:46 PM
12 hrs ago

From the Mountain Meadows Massacre to the Daybell murders of their children because god to Ervil Morrell LeBaron. They murder people as much as other religions. I guess thinking there is a god has nothing to do with being moral.

rollin74

(2,220 posts)
20. I thought his voter registration showed no affiliation with a party
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 03:57 PM
12 hrs ago

Was he really a registered Republican? I haven’t seen that reported anywhere.

Fiddlelady11

(92 posts)
21. The Mormons
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:14 PM
11 hrs ago

Are in the middle of a Millennium scare. They think the world is ending and Jesus is coming back. It’s so sad what the Mormon Church and Mormon parents have done to their children. I am sure Mormon stories podcast will do several hours on this topic. That church is dangerous and radical and has always been that way. We really need to tax churches. It’s all a scam.

Skittles

(167,241 posts)
23. since that's the profile of SO many shooters
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:39 PM
11 hrs ago

maybe THEY are the ones who should be "stopped and frisked"

Response to pbmus (Original post)

27. 😬
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:06 PM
10 hrs ago

41m ago 16.05 EDT
Suspect's high school friend says Robinson was the only 'leftist' in a family of 'very hard' Republicans
Anna Betts
In a phone interview on Friday, one of Tyler Robinson's high school friends, who asked to remain anonymous, said that the suspect was "pretty left on everything" and was "the only member of his family that was really leftist".
"The rest of his family was very hard
Republican," the friend said.
Around sophomore year, the friend said, Robinson became more extreme in his political views and would "always just be ranting and arguing about them".

https://t.co/h3UoNZcmJG

Polybius

(20,826 posts)
42. From the artice:
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:56 PM
7 hrs ago
A high-powered Mauser rifle found near the scene of the suspect’s initial escape route contained an unfired bullet that Cox said was marked with the message, “hey, fascist, catch!”.


Maybe his friend wasn't lying. Let's all wait it out. I'm sick of jumping to conclusions every time.

Response to Lookingforthetruth (Reply #27)

edbermac

(16,310 posts)
33. 🚨 I think we got a live one here. 🚨
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:50 PM
10 hrs ago

Though I have to admire their discipline in making only two posts in 21 years

ms liberty

(10,566 posts)
38. There have been a number of "new" old members posting lately
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 07:38 PM
8 hrs ago

I've noticed. I don't have a high post count for my length of membership, but I'm doing better than that, lol.

edbermac

(16,310 posts)
31. Really, Mr two-posts-in-twenty-one-years?
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:48 PM
10 hrs ago

That anonymous high school friend didn’t happen to be you, did it?

dpibel

(3,655 posts)
32. Interesting edit
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:49 PM
10 hrs ago

From the linked article:

In a phone interview on Friday, someone who said they were friends with Robinson in high school,who asked to remain anonymous, told the Guardian that Robinson was “pretty left on everything” and was “the only member of his family that was really leftist”.


Why would someone rewrite a quote to leave out the bet-hedging part?

Response to dpibel (Reply #32)

bdamomma

(69,016 posts)
44. Ha!!!
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:58 PM
7 hrs ago

Are they eating CROW??????
They are so hot to point the finger at somebody else, and it was their own. These are damaged sick people or should I call them a cult!

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