Once again, political violence stems from Republican ideology.

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      Well sure, but wanting to kill the pedo in chief is pretty sane in my book.

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        Unfortunately the crazies tend to be crazy because of their poor critical thought, logic, and reasoning skills; meaning they’re largely incompetent as resistance fighters or assassins, which require a great deal of skill, planning, and logistics (especially in a surveillance state, targeting the most protected people on earth).

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      Beginning? I can read your sarcasm, maybe… but just to be certain, after little more than a decade, just now starting to think this?

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      No no, too early to decide that. Gonna need a couple dozen more extreme once in a lifetime violent events to be sure.

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    But it’s still the Radical Left who’s at fault.

    He drove himself there in his own car, right? He “trans”-ported himself? Trump told us the trans community was dangerous!

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      He often complained that young people needed more than one job to survive and had tried to start a union at his workplace to push for better wages.

      Sounds like a radical lefty to me! Case closed boys.

      You could read off a socialist manifesto and 90% of republicans would completely agree as long as you didn’t say any buzzwords. The mental disconnect is astounding.

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        That’s actually the point. They’re trained with a Pavlovian reaction to specific words. Their pundits and influencers have trained them with this twisted, inverted “Evil Sesame Street” programming to react with unhinged rage to specific words and phrases. In many cases they largely want the same things, but actually describing those things is impossible because of this conditioning.

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          That phenomenon has definitely fnord been observed fnord for some time.

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      “Yup sure look like one of them girls that wanna be a boy to me… case. closed.”

      MAGA idiots definitely

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    “Why aren’t Americans doing anything?” then y’all shit on the Florida Man creeping into the presidential palace with a shotgun and gas can

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      “Why aren’t Americans doing anything?”

      Those are trolls trying to cause chaos. It’s obviously suicide if anyone does what the trolls are telling them to do.

      • Alex Pretti, did nothing wrong and was executed after they took his gun
      • This guy
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        It’s sort of why I’m vocal when I see those comments pop up. Remind them that it’s a stupid position to have to start with, anyone actually planning to do something knows what OPSEC is, and they know any action has to be extraordinarily precise, not just shooting at feds.

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          But it is a valid counter-argument to the validity of the second amendment. Even if you got a thousand or two of your well-armed friends together to topple the tyranny, you would likely only win the battle and not the war.

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        What gets me is that Americans are constantly doing stuff. I remember during March of last year people kept going on about how the French burned Tesla cars but Americans were “doing nothing.”

        They kept saying this while there was constant vandalism all across the country. Reddit wouldn’t allow posts on the topic, so many didn’t know it was happening.

        Even with the vandalism, that isn’t what took down DOGE. The biggest hit was simply the boycott and divestment from Tesla stocks.

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      Euro-Lemmings believe both that Americans are recklessly married to vigilante political violence and also that they don’t do anything ever, it just depends on whatever belief, at any given point in time, allows them to whine about the US.

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          Yeah I whine about it a lot too, the point is that there is literally no action an American can take that’s correct. Do something? Rash, juvenile, doomed to fail, too violent, they should have large protests and walkouts instead. Protest in the street? Too civil, pointless, also doomed to fail, why aren’t Americans taking up arms by the millions to kill the government. Every action is the wrong one.

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      He was just exercising his Second Amendment rights! And apparently the right to bear fuel as well. Maybe he just wanted to talk with his hero about the pizzagate evidence he’s sure must be in those files someplace. I’m pretty sure we only have the officers’ word he brandished the gun.

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      I’ve got more respect for this dipshit than I do for any American sitting at home picking their battles in 2026.

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      Seems to me they’re rapidly de-converted MAGAs that are completely lost and isolated (because they’ve been in a cult for 10 years) and full of vengeful rhetoric.

      I have another theory, but it’s admittedly pretty out there.

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          Reading more about this story I don’t think it applies in this case. It really does seem like someone who’s worldview was shattered by the Epstein files, or maybe not…

          For some of these shootings, like the kid who shot and killed one of Trump’s audience members, where Trump got a bloody ear and they lowered the flag behind him for the photo op, I think it was something like that episode of Black Mirror where they got the pedofiles to fight each other to the death. A team of hackers baits online sex offenders into blackmail and threatens to tell their families if they don’t accept their suicide mission (they may actually even promise protection). I believe that kid was told to shoot into the audience behind Trump, and they chose an “ex” (not actually, still current) Trump supporter that they could convince this was for the greater good, because a Trump hater might have actually made the shot on him. All attacks like this have done so far is get Trump a few sympathy points (though we’re seeing diminishing returns now with these things). I believe people like Eric Prince and even Epstein run/ran operations like this.

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            I’d buy that for a dollar.

            And add my own conspiracythat the photo and event, (an assassination attempt) was important for the religious nuts that are following this guy like puppies.

            It’s in their death cult plans that the anti-christ miraculously survives an assassination attempt. A lot of the weird preformative stuff he’s done ticks their boxes of the anti-christ.

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              Yeah, there’s literally something in there about the anti-christ surviving what appears to be a fatal head wound, but I don’t understand why Theil and the gang would simultaneously be hinting at people like Greta Thorberg (I think that’s her name? (and Ill loose my train of thought if I look it up)) being the antichrist while also putting together these theatrics to make Trump look like the anti-christ? Maybe one story is meant to convert non-believers and the other is meant to manipulate those that already believe, and he knows those two bubbles don’t intersect in the discourse?

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                I think the goal was to get the real loony religous people on board. Like rural south judges, and people like mike johnson and pence and the lady he put on the Supreme Court. Those people that have been planning for Armageddon for their entire lives.

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                  If the rumors about Johnson are true, he’s more like Theil when it comes it religion, it’s a tool, a thread to weave. I think it’s just a lot easier to move money around if enough of the general population thinks it’s in preparation for Armageddon, and defending god’s “holy” land while it’s really just imperialist expansionism by proxy. Huckabee this week said Israel has the right to most of the middle east. They’re planning more long term than for an apocalypse. Always remember, with Huckabee, Bibi, the Ayatollah, they don’t want to die, they want power. Even their apparent self-fulfilling prophecy is false. lol

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      Imagine you spent maybe a decade at this point carrying water for mr mango mussolini, and because of it family members and friends stopped talking with you…only for you to finally realise, in 2026, that you spent that whole time looking like an absolute loser braindead clown while you defended a treasonous criminal pedo.

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      Well, it’s quite obviously actually. Alot of MAGAs are farmers and those are known for getting up very early in the morning. I’m just saying the line is long and they were first in line.

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    As predicted, the gunman was a armed, dangerous and stupid right winger. Actually too stupid to check if his target was actually on location.

    One thing about a large supply of armed idiots is that this offers more chances. They only need to get lucky once…

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      As predicted, the gunman was a armed, dangerous and stupid right winger

      That’s the description of every person who has tried to take a shot at Trump, isn’t it?

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    Fucking sad. 21 year old kid just getting started in life. Disillusioned because our government isn’t doing anything to fight corruption or help the average person.

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      Run they said to a promised land Run and find us a helping hand Don’t come back till the sun is gone Don’t come back till the war is won

      We all set out with our hearts in hand A cold wind covered up a line in the sand All so young Nothing to lose Pieces of silver and a dead mans shoes

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    And all you’ll hear on Fox News and from various mouth-breathing right wing influencers is that it was a radical left woke Marxist gay trans Democrat.

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      Which is explicitly and purposefully what they accused Kimmel of and with which they attempted to remove him from tv. That air/cable is treated differently is very 1980s, and should be adjusted to the reality of today.

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    Gunman shot dead in Mar-a-Lago was ‘fixated on Epstein files’

    Did he think they were kept in the bathroom?

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    To me if I had to bet this sounds like a classic case of the smartest Trump supporter (now I know that isn’t saying much) in the family having the spell broken, and disillusioned, getting extremely upset at realizing he and his family have been duped.