Someone with incoherent politics who is surrounded by libs constantly bleating about how dangerous Trump is, with some need for being important but is low status.
Hey Mods, could y'all make a few one true leftist badge Emojis. If y'all have time (I know I do but I'm not good at art and don't have a computer capable of doing such things 👉👈)
Radlib of some kind. It doesn't make sense to me as a leftist. I agree with SorosFootSoldier that qanon goober would be another likely bet, but the only two political shootings I can think of from the democratic base were both social democrats- the baseball field shooting and that one outside a bar in Ohio. Adventurism makes sense if you're a liberal drunk on Great Man Theory without any kind of actual sociopolitical theory that'd give you something beyond it.
Hogs are hogs. If someone feeds them slop they squeal for that person. Trumpism isn't unique at all from run of the mill fascism and a fascist just speaks to the crowd.
The "special sauce" is that he's seasoned television personality first, and a politician at distant second. He knows what looks good on stage. He's got the theatrical instinct (arguably the only real skill he has). He's willing to court an audience, there's an audience that wants to be courted.
We're a TV-brained people, us yankees. It's how we get our ideas of the world. But there's a contradiction that comes with it - we can't help but compare the television show to our actual lived experience. For a lot of people, Donald Trump gives them permission to do what they were going to do anyway. He sells them the dream that the disconnect between television and lived experience will go away if they just keep watching TV. Specifically watch him. And buy his merch.
Great Man Theory would see him authoring events. He's done no such thing. Events author him - he just happens to embody a pretty core contradiction in american society. If he never existed... someone else would fill the niche. Probably not in the same way, or to the same timetable. But the potential would still be there, would find someone to fill the void.
He is a WWE hall of fame wrestler. Just like Plato said. Wrestling is thr key to all philosophy.
Also, all the politicians go out of their way to be unlikeable. All they have to do is offer us anything and we go wild. It is a deliberate political strategy to keep us unenguaged. Any one of them could just break ranks and be cool and win. They are all just too dedicated to making money off thr system to do that
Thomas Matthew Crooks was a registered republican, apparently. He's from a village 40 miles south of the where the Rally was. thomas_crookspa shared a video on Instagram claiming in a video they acquired from their private social media and a few twitter accounts sharing it. This smells fishy.
Trump is now saying that DHS under Biden has denied him multiple security requests.
There is a stark difference between his photos and at the shooting; but it's plausible. Me? I doubt it, but this video is weird as it is rushing through social media like wildfire; combined with "instagram sources" claiming he was associated with Antifa. Other sources are saying he's libertarian...you get it. Absolute disinfo shitstorm to make the chuds grip their rifles and distrust all others. People are more scared in the dark.
I do believe this is one of the few confirmed things we have. He was also wearing this shirt.
Also, for some reason, his name searched on social medias appear on wayback machine on this day at 03:59 but all of it has been scrubbed.
Accelerationist? Or maybe just a whole slew of incoherent cherry picked vibes of how they feel the government should be run. Hope he was a true ally, wanted to take care of the mini boss with less mobs out first, but he forgot about the hidden luck stat, then he was gonna do the big boss that's frail but has insanely high dps and range due to the minions they have at their control. Maybe a maga posadist moncap and wanted to martyr his own guy or give him the aura needed to surpass the deepstate (of Ohio, skibititty )
Or maybe just a whole slew of incoherent cherry picked vibes of how they feel the government should be run.
My bet is this. Talk with rando people around the US and you will quickly understand that there is absolutely no coherent or cohesive ideology among the average American.