Republicans Try to Blame Democrats, the Media, CRT for Shooting

Let's run down the list of the shooter's known traits and see how this fits the GOP agenda:
White
Male
Suburban
Privileged upbringing
Gun enthusiast
Registered Republican
YUP! Sure sounds like a CRT-lovin' Democrat operative to me! Can't wait to hear how these fascist psychos try to spin the web of Deep State bullshit into this one.
NEWSFLASH: There's only one side of this political climate that has been advocating violence from Day 1, dipshits, and it sure as fuck isn't coming from the Democrats.
- Sounds like a lone wolf, nothing can be done about such a thing
  As an aside: how can you be a lone wolf, yet have two wolves inside you? 🤔
  
  Well, that's 3 wolves, so you just need a moon and there we you go.
  
  Duowolf
  
  Its for the macrobiome.
- brain washing half the country with your sick violent rhetoric.”
  Greene in 2021 appeared in a campaign video holding a 50-caliber rifle and promising to “blow away the Democrats’ socialist agenda.” She then fired the rifle at a Toyota Prius with a “socialism” sign on its side. Footage showed the vehicle exploding with the words, “Target destroyed” displayed on screen. The video promoted a giveaway of the rifle “for Americans only.”
  When was the last time a Democrat appeared in a political ad with a firearm? More of the right’s projection and gaslighting.
  I don’t see political ads - do the ones Biden’s running say things like “Trump must be stopped at all costs?” I just worry that the dems will take the bait and turn down their messaging while the right keep the flames burning.
  
  I've also never seen a Democrat ad like this. It's pretty clearly what they want people to do, while they're too chicken shit to say it out loud.

Looks like it’s the consequences of their own actions circling around again. Time to blame liberals/trans/minorities/foreigners/anybody else!
- Looks like it’s dems and “critical race theory” this time, which makes zero sense on all fronts.

Anything But The Guns.
- Well it's obvious the gun wasn't what shot Mr. Trump.
  It was Critical Race Theory.
  
  "How dare you be so insensitive to our pain!"
  To Trump, the Paul Pelosi assault was the cause for yet another one-off joke, which should have landed with a chorus of boos at the California GOP convention. Nope. A laugh riot.

“Everyone except us!” -gop
- Well, the god of the Bible is a malevolent narcissist, and they do strive to be godly.
- "We are all domestic terrorists" - GOP

It's actually kinda funny watching them flail around blaming nothing and everything because one of their own tried to shoot Trump. They were NOT prepared to deal with this situation at all.
- Has more been confirmed other than last voter registration?
  
  If nothing gets released (like very little was released about the mini-arsenal, bump-stock Las Vegas mass shooter) he’s probably right wing. If there’s anything leftist about it you can bet they’ll dig for every possible way to exploit it.
  
  We may never be able to put him on so narrow a box, but he was registered, a gun nut, and he didn't donate to Dems - that was just someone with the same name in the same state.
  That's not confirmation, but thus far there isn't any reason to believe otherwise.
  But also he was 20. It's likely he didn't have a strong personal affiliation with any political party.
  
  Not in any way that will convince someone who doesn't want to believe it, but for reasonable folks...
  https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rally-gunman-thomas-crooks-was-definitely-conservative-classmate-recalls
  Smith shared an American history class with Crooks, and remembered a mock debate where their teacher made students stand on one side of the classroom or another to signal their allegiance. “The majority of the class were on the liberal side, but Tom, no matter what, always stood his ground on the conservative side,” Smith said. “That’s still the picture I have of him. Just standing alone on one side while the rest of the class was on the other.”
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/14/matthew-crooks-shooting-assasination-attempt-suspect/

As an aside, I've always found it hilarious when a Faux News host says 'the media', as if they're not one of the biggest media outlets in the world. It's an amazing disassociation and it seems to land somehow. The television screen tells you "the media doesn't want you to know the truth!", o fanged poet.
- Weird how the largest broadcaster is somehow telling everyone secret knowledge that is often like an out of context publicly available clip or note
  
  "I'm being silenced!" yells man to millions of people online.

CRT ? The shooter is white.
- But the CRT made him hate white people. /s
  
  Except that's exactly what they think.

Don’t you love it when the conservatives blame the Dems for what the conservatives are doing themselves? It’s like narcissism’s victim-blaming 101: shifting accountability, gaslighting, and projection.
Projection is all they do.
- Pretty sure that's literally one of Eco's 14 characteristics of fascism. Publicly accusing the opposition of doing the exact (awful) thing they're doing.
- If I'm not mistaken, it was a US Libertarian who attempted the assassination. It's analytically pointless to group them in with the Republicans, even if they're both horrible. Infighting is serious business. [redacted: see my reply]
  But yes, they're still going to blame the Dems anyway lol.
  
  Source he was a libertarian?
  US libertarians are republicans’ worst governing qualities on steroids, but they’re essentially republicans here despite the naming difference.
- Don’t you love it when the conservatives blame the Dems for what the conservatives are doing themselves?
  And then the Dems agree that Something Must Be Done, so you get the next iteration of the Mulford Act and a SWAT Team kicking down the door of the Socialist Rifle Association.

"A woke trans just shit in my pants just now!!!"
- That's what the Trump diapers are for.

LOL, all of these are dopey, but CRT?
- Put your hand in the bowl. Grab as much shit covered spaghetti as you can. Now throw it at the wall.
  Repeat this on multiple stations a day 24/7 and it won't matter how ludicrous it sounds, it'll stick. You'll be covered in it. It'll be fuckin everywhere.
- Black people:
  MAGA: CRT made us shoot each other!!!

The archive is blurred out for me, but highlighting everything makes it readable.
Saying we're too divided and in the same breath casting divisive blame is... Not even surprising anymore.
- saying we are too divided while casting blame is entirely self consistent, if one's actual implied position is "we think everything bad is your side's fault, we want it to stop existing, and then there wouldnt be a division anymore".
- Welcome to the definition of orwellianism.
- Glad that works and thanks for sharing the tip, getting webpages in a format where they'll load well for the most people is getting tougher everyday

Yeah, couldn't be all of that political violence they, the Republican party, have been preaching about and encouraging for decades now.

Guy had long hair, I'm surprised trans hasn't made it yet.
- Don’t speak it into existence, please let us just dodge this bullshit for once 😩
  
  What do you mean, that was making the rounds like 2 hours after the event

Man could have been hit by a meteorite and they'd say the same thing.
- Or space lasers. Oh, wait...that was the Jewish.
  
  Soros funded, deep state space lazors.

I do hope the daily show has the guts to do the mashup of trump's violent rhetoric paired with the fox news broadcasters tone policing democrats

Let's just call it an official act, then, shall we ? Then we can do whatever we want.

Well of course they are. Anybody with half a brand new they were going to do that the second that the news came out about the assassination. I sure did.
- It's their go to move

Definitely woke shit and not guns.

“Humans don’t kill people, CRT does.”
- Your only defense is lead.

Not those damn cathode ray tubes! I thought we got rid of em all!

The whole tone down the reterict thing makes me shake my head. Only one side has that reterict.
- You mean rhetoric? (Sorry if I'm out of the loop and this is an intentional misspelling. I'm even more sorry if this is actually spelled correctly somehow!)
  
  I have not looked it up yet but there is 10 billion percent chance I spelled it wrong.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
Not long after the attempt to assassinate former president Donald Trump, Republicans began to blame the Democrats; the media; diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts; and critical race theory as responsible for the shooting, even though law enforcement thus far has not shared information about the shooter’s motivations.
Twenty-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, a registered Republican who once gave $15 to a progressive anti-Trump political action committee, opened fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
“The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs,” the Ohio senator wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Another GOP politician on Trump’s shortlist for VP, Sen. Tim Scott, on Saturday baselessly claimed that the “radical left” and the media “aided and abetted” in the shooting.
“This was an assassination attempt aided and abetted by the radical Left and corporate media incessantly calling Trump a threat to democracy, fascists, or worse,” Scott wrote on X.
Johnson wrote on X that the House will “conduct a full investigation of the tragic events today,” including seeking testimony from Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle “and other appropriate officials from [the Department of Homeland Security] and the FBI.”
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Everyone's blaming the guns, but for the record, I'll also blame the politicians they're shooting at.
- And now we are ~~victim~~ ~~enabler~~ shithead blaming?

CRT? Did we convert him into a self hating white guy or something lol
- They have always said CRT apparently makes white people feel guilty or lesser, so yeah that fits their ‘logic’ (racism).
- Only in the peasantry
  Edit: this was meant to be a response to the tv guy

"shooting"
- Politically motivated violence. I wonder if we have a word for it.
- Trump wasn't clipped by a boomerang.

Yea it totally wasn't Republicans who have alluded to killing their opposition on multiple occasions. Totally not their fault that people have been more polarized, especially maga chuds, into committing violence.

Kids today are spending too much time learning woke pronouns and not enough time learning how to shoot an apple off a fence at 300'

FRJ

They have no one to blame but Trump and every attempt to blame someone else makes them look like a hypocrite.

Its fair to blame media but republicans need accept that they are also media

Democrats in Hollywood, DC and mainstream media has made the claims that Trump will destroy democracy. He will be a dictator. He's a fascist. He's going to kill anyone and everyone who opposes him... the left wholeheartedly created this environment. I'm not even surprised. Just look at the Lemmy posts about Trump. It's a no brainer.
- You don't get ride in on your high horse. This is the sentiment around Trump because of Trump. You don't get to run your campaign like half the country is the enemy and be surprised when the political temperature rises.
  
  Don't feed the trolls man
  
  To the point of assassination attempts? Okay.
- Trump openly said he'd be a dictator and talked about locking up his political opponents, it's not like anyone is putting words in his mouth. He IS a fascist piece of shit, and I don't understand how an assassination attempt now makes him any less of a fascist piece of shit.
- And which of those things is untrue? The Republicans have openly said that they don't want a democracy (Also, we already don't really have one.). Trump has tried to stay in power beyond his term. He is a fascist. He probably won't kill anyone who opposes him but only because he won't live long enough (he's old) to eliminate the government red tape to do it.
- Democrats in Hollywood, DC and mainstream media has made the claims that Trump will destroy democracy.
  Trump has also been making this claim, explicitly calling for State Secretaries to tamper with election results and state legislators to send up faithless EC delegates.
  He will be a dictator. He’s a fascist. He’s going to kill anyone and everyone who opposes him…
  My man has compared himself to Mussolini and called for the arrest/killing of political dissidents on a regular basis.
  Just look at the Lemmy posts about Trump.
  Are you suggesting that the guy who shot Trump was reading too many posts on a Reddit knock-off, rather than spending all his time down the YouTube gun nut rabbit hole?
- Maybe don't paraphrase from Mein Kampf if you don't want to be called a fascist.
- While there's some element of truth to what you've said- the DNC is using the "End of Democracy" meme as one of their primary themes in their campaign messaging- I don't think that had anything to do with this shooting.
  Statistically speaking the vast majority of domestic terrorism comes from far-right extremists. We don't know the motivations behind the shooter at this point in time, but the consensus seems to be so far that he was conservative.
  I think it's much more likely he was radicalized online and either
  a) wanted to kill Trump to further polarize the political tension in an accelerationist sense (sort of like how far-right organizations were shooting both protestors & police during Euromaidan. Just to increase the outrage, the violence, etc).
  Basically an attempt to weaken the regime
  Or
  b) he became a white supremacist and those tend to hate Trump. Go on stormfront forums and see what they say about Trump. They think he's a jewlover, fake messiah, etc. They hate Jews, Trump loves jews. Therefore, Trump is a potential target.
  Or
  c) was just nutty plain and simple. Ie killing Trump would unite him with some cartoon character from Nickelodean in the afterlife.
  All of those are vastly more likely than someone being radicalized by DNC messaging, I believe.