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

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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.

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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 😢

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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…

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

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It’s those damn FEMA reeducation camps

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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.

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31 points

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

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Anyone independent at this point is a moron.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

Until they’re not.

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Close, got it from his dad.

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