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Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspectin Saturday’s shooting, was registered as a Republican voter, according to Pennsylvania records.

Already the republicans are dismissing his voter registration as meaningless. Here comes the “mental illness” angle.

Edit: apparently it’s not uncommon to register with the party you oppose in PA. This is going to be a fun ride.

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[–] Today@lemmy.world 232 points 3 months ago (4 children)

My biggest hope now is that he legally purchased the gun with no background check from a maga at a gun show.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 183 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You really think that any of the cultists are going to care about what actually happened?

Their story will be that he's a transwoman high on legal weed who listened to woke podcasts about Gaza.

[–] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 98 points 3 months ago (3 children)

A brave and true republican boy, who got corrupted away from his family by the antifa deep state complex, he would have been such a great person, if only his parents had homeschooled him without interference from the communist atheists, and were allowed to hit him more as a child 😢

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 36 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I should have saved it but I didn't. Someone else posted an actual MAGoo fiction about how a good kid goes to college and instantly gets a hot Black girlfriend who corrupts him with sex and Antifa ideology...

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

a hot Black girlfriend who corrupts him with sex

You son of a bitch! I'm in.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think I saw a documentary about that on Elon's new video site, Xvideos.com.

(/s, NSFW)

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why is it asking for my driver's license?

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Are ya in an anti-porn state right now by any chance?

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You live in a red state that requires a government ID to watch porn online.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago
[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

I love educational videos.

[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

hot black girlfriend who corrupts him

Go on…

[–] TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They met in a coffee shop and she bought him a drink spiked with an afrodisiac (yes correct spelling). Then while he couldn't think straight, she tricked him and brought him home where she literally f'd his brains out. During this time she was whispering deep state woke ideology in his ear. After cumming back to earth, he was fully corrupted and became a deep state sleeper agent.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Where do I sign up?

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I need to read this. What was the title?

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Like I said, I wish I remembered. I vaguely recall the GF's name was Shondra, but that's iffy.

I'm usre you could come up with a better version if you put your mind to it.

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Someone mentioned the story on Lemme. They gave a description.

[–] TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Then he got the covid vaxx and the 5g nano microchips got implanted in his brain and made him a deep state sleeper agent.

[–] Ioughttamow@kbin.run 5 points 3 months ago

It’s those damn FEMA reeducation camps

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You really think that any of the cultists are going to care about what actually happened?

No, but it might be enough to convince independents not to feel sympathy for him.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Up until 2016 I could pretend to myself that, when the chips were down, most Americans could tell chicken salad from chicken shit.

[–] APassenger@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Too many people assumed Clinton would win.

Ergo, she didn't. Even so, never should have been close in the states that carried it over the line.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I sadly knew people who attended "Clinton Won!" parties, these same people didn't vote. Complacency is a killer.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anyone independent at this point is a moron.

Facts won't matter. Facebook posts about deep state false flag operations will.

Anyone independent at this point is a moron.

This doesn't change the fact that Biden still needs those votes in order to be president.

[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Holy shit AND tried to assassinate a fascist? Why do they keep making up such fucking cool people

The cultists are gonna cultist no matter what. Truth still matters even in a political and media landscape that looks to be 'post-truth'. Don't get me wrong, I wish it mattered a whole lot more still.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When it was discovered Rittenhouse beat up a little girl, the story the Right made up was that the "Girl was a transgender who was spying on his sister in the bathroom!" when there's no evidence for that claim.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know Rittenhouse had attacked a child; I'm not in the least surprised.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 65 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trump's already not pro-gun. He passed some of the most significant "anti" gun legislation during his term. Thing is, he's a pathological liar, so it doesn't matter what comes out of his mouth. He'll stay on the "pro-gun" rhetoric, and when he's elected will enact more anti-gun legislation, especially now that he's been on the receiving end.

And it won't matter, because MAGA's gonna MAGA. He'll lose maybe a few truly 2A-focused people, but it won't matter because after 2024 there will be no more free elections in the US.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 77 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trump's already not pro-gun.

Point of order: Trump's not anything except Pro-Trump. THAT'S IT. That is the sum total of his actual identifiable personal beliefs.

He's a demented narcissist and a sociopath. He's a rapist, a fraud, a money launderer for human traffickers, he's a traitor, a colluder, and a piece of shit.

But he is absolutely NOT "not pro-gun". He does not give a single solitary shit-in-a-vacuum. This has been proven. It Is Known.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Once he has secured power the gun confiscations will begin. Classic power grab move.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that’s not going to happen.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

That was Feb 28, 2018. March 2nd, 2018, Trump met at the white house with the NRA, where

President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have reassured gun owners that they remain committed to “strong due process” and they “don’t want gun control.”

He’s a chattering, demented, adderall-swilling dipshit who will not shut the fuck up and is literally unable to not lie every few sentences. It meant nothing, and even if they did try anything, that would be the fastest way to destroy the MAGA base.

Not. Happening.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

He was a responsible gun owner. They’re all responsible gun owners.

Until they’re not.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Close, got it from his dad.