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Sly reply guy from the Chi. Old enough to know better, too cantankerous to care.
We don't yet know shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks' motivation, but it is truly fascinating to watch the party running on the platform of violently rounding up immigrants, pardoning the violent and deadly Jan 6 insurrectionists, praising the genocide in Palestine, and celebrating the SCOTUS ruling expanding Presidential immunity to include killing a political opponent as an official act, suddenly clutch pearls at political violence and feign outrage at how we got here. smh
Every Republican who talks about the attempt on Trump’s life should be asked about photos like this.

Reminder: Trump's "Freedom Caucus" all abandoned the American flag in order to wear AR-15 pins on their suits.

The same gun the shooter reportedly used.

This picture is even more violent and explicit than the noose that #Trump #MAGA hung for Mike #Pence

Picture from essay linked by @JuliusGoat https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/112784909688667873

The Trump shooter was a registered Republican, and that’s all you need to know

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Palmer Report

Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame.

Full Essay: https://www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-casablanca/

Gambling In Casablanca

Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

The Reframe
I don't recall any Republicans being upset last week when the GOP candidate for governor of NC said "Some folks need killin'."
#GOPviolence
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