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Why Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate Donald Trump is a mystery (www.inquirer.com)
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rightoids: "leftist people, inmigrants and brown people are promoting violence by illegal means!!"

shooter was white

shooter was american citizen

shooter was conservative

shooter used a legal weapon

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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 56 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Dems spend 8 years doing nothing but screeching about how singularly evil this one individual is to the exclusion of all other messaging

Dems nominate the only person in the world loathed enough to lose to this bozo twice by completely dismantling the democratic process, the second time by nominating someone who 70% of voters have been saying is too fucking old for the last 12 months

Aforementioned fossil who is badly losing to Trump refuses to step aside because he's the same megalomaniacal dickhead he has been all his life, removing all democratic means of preventing the ascent of the aforementioned singularly evil individual

Truly we will never understand the motive

who-did-this

[–] Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 4 months ago

Hillary is also loathed tbh. Second choice gone.

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Downvoters fail to explain as always

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I don't see down votes on hexbear dot net 😎

So I can have bad takes with impunity

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 months ago

Actually, I think I get where the downvoters are coming from. If it were a regular lib, sure, but we've seen the gulag level takes this person had. Why would such a conservative person believe the Dems in just this case?

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 months ago

The score is +39/-4 but yeah I know y'all can't see them

[–] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Idk but my running theory is that he didn't like him very much

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

tries to kill trump, refused to leave explanations

stalin chad

joking aside, it's better that they try this instead of shooting schools

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 months ago

i fully agree

[–] ksdhf@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The most shocking thing is the lack of any social media/online accounts.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

idk, I think the most shocking thing was that he tried to shoot Donald Trump

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not only that but as a registered republican out of all people! Scummy chuds are going crazy about this saying "he was not a real republican". Love seeing how the fash are infighting after this.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 months ago

In all seriousness, I don't think just because you're registered republican at the age of 20, that its some sort of massive ideological commitment. At that age, a lot of the time people just register for whatever most of their family is registered as.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

nah, the shocking thing is that more people havent tried

[–] ComradePlatypus@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

Intrusive thoughts.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Did he kill himself? Or was he killed by the cops?

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Secret service got him, he was only at 100 yards

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't he a rank amateur? I really hoped they would try to get him alive.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He was shooting into a crowd of people, at least one person was killed. Shooting back at him was pretty much the only option

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In the same breath, libs will thank the Secret Service for immediately killing the shooter and also say "violence is never an acceptable response."

That's probably the most succinct way to state the contradiction. You're OK with taking out an active shooter, but not with taking out someone who (as libs love to tell you) is about to hurt or kill people all over the world?

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 months ago

they literally did say that in the interviews 10 minutes after it happened

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

From what I've heard on Lemmy, he was killed by the Secret Service after he made his shot.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Shooter was real shit aim.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Trump was insanely lucky actually

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah except if you had any sort of training you'd be aiming for center mass. Lot more meat instead went for the xXx420NoScopexXx.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure he had a vest, which is standard practice.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

M855A1 can be found in the secondary market. Ain't cheap, but he isn't wearing plate.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The goal posts are moving.

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 months ago

He was probably wearing bulletproof stuff

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 months ago

My theory is that he wanted to kill that cop and Trump was just in the way.

[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 months ago

There's no way he just didn't exist before today but that seems to be the result of all the searches for his information. I'm seeing theories that he was a government plant, but I doubt the CIA/FBI would botch an operation like this. What I do believe is that the truth is being obfuscated.