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.

Looks like it’s the consequences of their own actions circling around again. Time to blame liberals/trans/minorities/foreigners/anybody else!

Anything But The Guns.

“Everyone except us!” -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.

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.

CRT ? The shooter is white.

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.

"A woke trans just shit in my pants just now!!!"

LOL, all of these are dopey, but CRT?

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.

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.

Man could have been hit by a meteorite and they'd say the same thing.

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.

“Humans don’t kill people, CRT does.”

Definitely woke shit and not guns.

The whole tone down the reterict thing makes me shake my head. Only one side has that reterict.

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.

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

CRT? Did we convert him into a self hating white guy or something lol

"shooting"

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

Right wing conservative on right wing affluent conservative violence needs to stop!! Something good almost happened for the poors

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.