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angrychair

(11,107 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 07:43 PM 8 hrs ago

Gov Spencer Cox

“For 33 hours, I was praying that if this had to happen here that it wouldn't be one of us — that somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country… Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for… But it did happen here, and it was one of us,”


Those were the words on Utah Governor Spencer Cox.
The middle-aged, white, bald, male, Christian, stood at a podium, in front of cameras and uttered those words with not a thought to their implications.
These people are fucking stunningly incompetent and shamelessly racist and xenophobic.
Apparently living up to CK's memory without having to even try hard.
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Ocelot II

(127,044 posts)
2. FFS, it's almost always "one of us." When was the last time a shooting was committed by an immigrant
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 07:50 PM
8 hrs ago

or a racial minority? I know they keep hoping for an "other" who can make an entire not-white, not-like-us group a scapegoat for the conservative movement and give Stephen Miller a woody, but it's almost always one of us, not one of them. Sorry, not sorry you didn't get your scapegoat this time, again.

intrepidity

(8,440 posts)
3. Aside from the horrific subtext (lol, not really sub)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 07:50 PM
8 hrs ago

he truly seems to be the only one on that side who actually understands who did this.

RockRaven

(17,943 posts)
5. He is an incredible piece of shit.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 07:55 PM
8 hrs ago

From a Politico article, his thought/words continued:

He said he thought it would “make it easier” to be able to say, “We don’t do that here.”


What horseshit. YOU fucking do too do that here. YOU DO. You Republicans. You conservatives. You MAGAts. You Christians. You white people. You right wingers.

WE HAVE DATA. Radical political violence in this country is overwhelmingly from the right.

John1956PA

(4,437 posts)
6. My reason for resenting this morning's press conference.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:41 PM
7 hrs ago

The Governor of Utah is not an honest man. At the press conference, he spoke of the sacredness of Christianity, and he praised the virtues of Charlie Kirk. He said Thursday's act was one of political hate.

In answer to a question, the Governor referred to the bullet casing inscription which reads, "Fascist Catch," which he suggested means, "Hey fascist, catch this bullet." To me, the Governor was implying that the actor was from the left and killed Charlie Kirk because he resented the fact that Kirk stood with the political conservatives who have been criticized by liberals for having fascist inclinations.

The truth seems to me, at this point at least, to be that the actor was from the extreme far right (think Nick Fuentes and the Groypers). The actor was fascinated by the video game culture in which players in some games refer to their opponents by the catch-all term "fascists."

At the end of the press conference, the Governor left hanging in the the air the implication that Thursday's shooter was a liberal.

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