Feel like I'm gonna be posting this a lot today. Pennsylvania uses a closed party primary voting system. If you're a liberal voting in the primaries, it made the most sense to register Republican in Pennsylvania to vote for someone like Nikki Haley if you despise Trump. Don't want to say this is what happened, just that we shouldn't jump to false flag conspiracy conclusions right now.
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I remember canvassing for Bernie back in 2016 and I knocked on a few doors of people who said “oh sorry, I switched to Republican to try to block Trump”. This is completely anecdotal evidence but it does happen. It’s rare though.
Edit: did a touch of cyber stalking… dad is a registered libertarian, mom is a democrat
Yeah, just one of those stupid games we have to play until we get with the times and implement a ranked choice voting system...
He was registered back in 2021. Not sure this has much bearing on the 2024 primaries. He could have been a right leaning person who didn't like Trump. Those people exist. Basically, most libertarians.
Those people exist
can confirm; am a small government fiscal conservative who thinks gays are people.
Hey you. I like you.
This is important to know, but at the same time, the majority of registered members in both parties in Pennsylvania voted for the front-runner, and given his youth (20), the primary was his first election involving presidential candidates.
We need to wait until the facts about him come out. Very little is currently known beyond the party registration and the YouTube gun channel.
This is the right answer. It is entirely possible and feasible to register as a party you don't agree with for strategic reasons such as voting in primaries for important state offices etc. Millions of people do this across various states.
And just because he was registered as Republican, doesn't mean he was necessarily a Trump supporter. After all, those Lincoln Project guys had to come from somewhere.
He appears to be more of a libertarian.
Sauce?
He was wearing a t-shirt of a far-right militia group and owned an AR rifle. Does that sound like a Democrat?
Demolition Ranch doesn't really mention their politics. And there are plenty of Democrats that like guns.
far-right militia group
LMFAO! Somehow every word in that phrase is wrong.
I vote straight D, and among a shitload of other guns, I have an AR-15. Now what?
far-right militia group
Source?
Last I heard it was a completely apolitical YouTube channel merch
Turns out the only good republican was a dead republican.
I am interested to see how the unanimously in favor of this voting pattern that I’m currently seeing will change, as the Americans wake up.
He was a registered Republican but he also gave $15 to The Progressive Turnout Project which is a Democratic run group.
Honestly, it kind of seems like if he didn't do this, he would be a mass shooter. He was constantly bullied and was a quiet loner.
this is speculation but
disillusioned youth, no prospects, small hope in progressive cause (probably Bernie), gets screwed by the party, gets further disillusioned, sees TFG, thinks it's good to have an outsider to show these establishment politicians what's what, registers republican, gets easily reeled in to the far right pipeline, becomes interested in Q stuff, gets obsessed with pedophilia and Epstein, sees recent Epstein revelations about TFG, ends up where too many people end up in the US: full of anger and hate with easy access to guns.
could be far off, but i wouldn't be surprised.
What's TFG?
the former guy. the orange turd. the fascist orangutan. the bitch baby.
Cheeto-Benito Mango-Mussolini.
Honestly that is an extremely common path. Mussolini took that route. He was a socialist that was pissed about the lack of progress so he went far right in the other direction.
Different Thomas Crooks.
Same zip code and age. Do you have evidence that it is a different person?
Different zip and city it seems
Pittsburgh vs New Bethel
And no middle names, just Thomas Crooks
So, this is 100% speculative rambling at this point, but as a gut feeling on my part that can be proven wrong: I get the feeling it might have been someone from a Republican family, possibly shitty family psychology-wise, registered as Republican for his families sake but got f'd up by the pressure within his personal relationships and the state of the world, who radicalised himself on the internet.
“Damn Ashley didn’t want to date me after I told her I believed in Trump… I’ll show him”
Something like that?
Thank goodness Republicans have made it so anyone can get a gun at any time for any reason. /s
20yr old 'man', he was a kid. Say it like it is.