Gunman shot dead in Mar-a-Lago was ‘fixated on Epstein files’ and big Trump supporter

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Gunman shot dead in Mar-a-Lago was ‘fixated on Epstein files’ and big Trump supporter - Lemmy.World

Once again, political violence stems from Republican ideology.

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!

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

MAGA idiots definitely

Enter the people on twitter who draw green lines on people and practice phrenology

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.

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.
That phenomenon has definitely fnord been observed fnord for some time.
It’s called the Conservative Propaganda Machine.
Car had a _trans_mission. Bake em away toys
Come on q-anon, now is your time to shine!

“I must stop the pedos!” QAnon yelled.

“No QAnon, you are the pedos.”

And then QAnon was Epstein.

I’m beginning to think MAGA attracts mentally unsound people.
Beginning? I can read your sarcasm, maybe… but just to be certain, after little more than a decade, just now starting to think this?
That was definitely a joke.
I’m beginning to suspect it may have been
Well sure, but wanting to kill the pedo in chief is pretty sane in my bool.
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).
They make great kamikazis though, for those “one and done” situations.
“Right for the wrong reasons”
A broken clock can be kindle for gasoline, twice
No no, too early to decide that. Gonna need a couple dozen more extreme once in a lifetime violent events to be sure.
It definitely attracts Pedophiles.
Called it when it was first announced. That’s 4 out of 4 now.
Batting a thousand MAGA! They’re number one!
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.
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 could be adjusted to the reality of today.

Every news network: “Why are there so many violent threats against Trump and his allies from the left?”

Meanwhile Trump posts an AI generated video of himself punching Canadian hockey players.

Meanwhile Trump posts an AI generated video of himself punching Canadian hockey players.

I dare him to try that in real life.

Think that’d work out just fine for him because if a player attempted to retaliate, he has his secret service agents there to gun them down.

I meant a one-on-one fair fight.

And, yes I understand that Trump would never do anything that required it to be fair.

Wow. I’m not not even mad about that. Quite the self own. What a child.
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.

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…

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?

And there are a lot of those. Good thing is that only one needs to get lucky.
Honestly thought that was John Carmack at first.
“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
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.
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.
Strawmericans, if you will.
Oh no. Not whining about the openly fascist government of America, those damn euros how dare they complain!
Yeah I whine about it a lot too, the point is that there is literally no action am 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.
Maybe, just maybe that’s different people with different opinions and you’re lumping them all under one umbrella?
Hmmm, almost like that should be the approach with large, continental polities with a plethora of regional political subcultures in it.

I mean, it is. But when I’m getting threats, or when people say terrible things about Minnesota to punish me for not protesting the way they want… things are a bit different.

I simply don’t have the energy to deal with Euros trying to start fights with organizers and demoralize people in our ranks because we don’t do things exactly how that group wants us to act. Especially when we face this no matter how we attempt to solve the problem.

I’m glad I wasn’t the only person to notice.

What you both are noticing is a tactic of propaganda called FUD. It stands for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.

The goal of this propaganda is to promote a feeling of hopelessness, on a large scale this will decrease political participation (“why vote, it doesn’t matter anyway, laws don’t matter they’ll just ignore them, the idea in the OP is dumb and anyone who thinks this will work is too”).

It doesn’t take too much creativity (and now, with LLMs, absolutely none) to make posts that say some variation of ‘that won’t work and you are dumb’ on every topic. This is why you have this perception of a mass amount of criticism, it’s being fabricated at scale across all of social media (Fediverse spaces had a brief period of obscurity but are now part of the propaganda campaigns).

That isn’t to say that there are not legit criticisms, but they are being signal boosted significantly as part of these FUD campaigns.

I’ve been calling it the “Reddit Defeatist Brigade”. As your comment states it isn’t confined to reddit. I wondered if it was some sort of propaganda because it’s so prevalent. Now I know.
It’s your stupid monkey brain thinking that you are talking to ‘that one guy called internet’ instead of thousands of tens of thousands of different people.

“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
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.
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.
I don’t think we were talking about that?
No, it’s tangential to this, but still related.

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

More people need to do this, anybody calling for violence on social media is either a provocateur/non-US National or a dangerously naive American who will cause more harm than good.

There are many roads to a good outcome through peaceful means, once someone starts to resort to violence the options rapidly become limited. Anyone who thinks that we should move into that second world is actively dangerous to everyone that lives in the US.

Minnesota is the perfect example of this.
For anyone that doesn’t believe, I use articles from Waging Nonviolence. I also follow an expert on nonviolent resistance, Erica Chenoweth, on BlueSky.
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What gets me is that Americans are constantly going 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.

2025 Tesla vandalism - Wikipedia

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

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

Did he think they were kept in the bathroom?