MAGA Madman Also Shot Slain Democrat’s Rescue Dog
Children of the victims had to take Gilbert, their beloved golden retriever, to be put down, the chair of the DNC claimed.
Children of the victims had to take Gilbert, their beloved golden retriever, to be put down, the chair of the DNC claimed.
Republicans sure love shooting dogs. I thought Trump would just pardon the guy. Now I think he'll nominated him to a cabinet position too.
ICE Ken.
They actually love dogs a lot. They adore simple minds that give unconditional love. They're not mindless monsters with different axioms, they're just dumb as fuck. And we could absolutely use this to change narratives in this country if we understood it better.
Cops in the US murder around 10,000 dogs a year one study estimates, but the figure might be much higher, because it's not surprisingly hard to get data on something that police turn off their body cameras for or deny releasing to any outside agency.
Basically, if you own a dog, and you let a cop into your house, if they bark at the cop the cop will likely shoot the dog in front of you and carry on like nothing happened and you have no right to do anything, as the threat stands pretty strong in the air over the sounds of your dog's last breaths. If more people released videos of this happening, I think we could push police overhaul with far, far more success than we had with BLM.
And if you're reading between the lines and saying "wow he's saying that the right cares more about the lives of dogs than black kids" yeah that is what I'm saying. No, we can't change it. But I think if we worked with those primitive feelings at front and center, we could make a lot more progress in turning them little by little.
edit: as you predictably recoil at this and feel dismissive and offended at the idea that conservatives love dogs and we need to leverage that as another tool to change how they feel, try to ask yourself if you're reflexively angry here because you think they're incapable of love and human feelings. If they've been dehumanized for you, congratulations, you're sliding down the same path you've seen and condemned in others countless times before. Your enemy is human, they have human feelings. The difference is how they manage those feelings and the stories they tell themselves to explain those feelings. If you think understanding someone is the same as defending their actions and choices, you're flat out stupid and deserve whatever misery you're likely swimming in.
I'm afraid I must disagree. The right, in general, don't care for dogs any more than they care for any other livestock. There are exceptions, of course, but in general they care about them as tools. Guard dogs, hunting dogs, great, but if that hunting dog misbehaves, they have no problem taking it straight to the gravel pit like Kristi Noem did. You even point out in your post that cops in the US shoot dogs at a mind boggling rate. Well, those cops are predominantly aligned with the right, are they not?
They actually love dogs a lot.
Despite all evidence to the contrary, you have quite the conviction. Quite the dedication to defending a terrorist
Boelton shot their family dog after murdering both parents. Kristi Noem murdered her family dog because she didn't want to train it and was promoted to a high level cabinet position
Police, by your own admission, kill many family dogs. Police also heavily skew conservative
In spite of all that you think this administration and its followers love dogs?
Guess he was really leaning into the whole "impersonating a police officer" thing.
Has the white house made any statements about the murder yet?
That it's Walz's fault
It's so fucking infuriating...
The guy apparently had some no kings fliers so they're sticking to that and saying he was a "Marxist that was mad the Democrats aren't voting the way he wants"
...so... Democrats are simultaneously Marxist leftist all the time, and not Marxists so this guy needs to kill them... Right...
There was an initial one by his staff that was typical political platitudes condemning violence. Then as soon as Trump opened his mouth, he blamed Walz and showed zero empathy.
That's the onion though.
Hella dark, yo...
I will be surprised if they address it in anything but the most hands-off, distant references. "We heard something about the story, really tragic, we hate to see it."
Even acknowledging it at all is a political minefield. The good news (for them) is they don't have to! The vast majority of conservatives in this country, even the "tame" ones who are just scared of different people but have no political passion, they're getting a deeply cultivated perspective of the world, one that mentions this murder as a strange side-incident that nobody is really talking about, a feed that shows them hundreds of thousands of people cheering at Trump's parade, of sparse turnouts and cringe leftists at the "no kings" rallies that a few antifa agents organized, of the entire city of LA burning and the tariff's crushing the economic stability of every other country but the USA, and waves of migrant "criminals" crying in anguish as they are being deported by Daddy Trump every day.
We don't see how solid and happy the right is because we also have our own algorithmic bubbles that feed us false hope and dopamine hits of manufactured successes in the face of digital tyranny.
This is all very bad.
that feed us false hope
Boy do we have different bubbles....
"Tots and pears"
Here's a guy who killed two prominent people, shot two more, and a rescue dog.
I hope they at least give him the Luigi treatment.
I hope they at least give him the Luigi treatment.
Luigi, or whoever actually did it, had the decency not to harm anyone's family or pets. This motherfucker deserves far worse.
Luigi actually saved lives though. The assassination of Brian Thompson was a stated symbolic protest against insurance practices that deny life‑saving care intended to spotlight and stop those denials. His act sparked intense public outrage media attention regulatory scrutiny and investor backlash which pressured UnitedHealth to soften its claim‑denial practices and approve more life‑saving care. That shift led to higher costs. Lower profits triggered the largest one‑day stock drop in 25 years and prompted a class‑action lawsuit by investors.
Luigi set out to right actual wrong and literally saved lives in the process
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unitedhealth-investors-lawsuit-brian-thompson-luigi-mangione/
Trump will pardon him 100% if he gets a federal charge.
I fully expect the GOP to give make him a talk show host on Fox.
I read this story hours ago and it's stuck with me all day. It's one thing to be mad at those you feel wronged you; harming an innocent (human or animal) is so despicable it's inexcusable. I bet that Golden was among the purest best boys on Earth (they all are).
It's a good thing I'm not in charge of this pos' confinement, otherwise he might accidentally find me busy tying my shoe while he's breaking his neck and dying a slow, excrutiiatingly painful death.
Send him to Mississippi and execute him with CO2. He deserves that terror for shooting a golden.
Toe first into a scream-activated meat grider, IMO
MAGAts attack all that is good in the world.
What an asshole.
Just trying yo sell the cop disguise.
Republicans are the pro-murdering-dogs party.
Madman? He knew exactly what he was doing. He's a maga murderer.
Of course he did, he's a Republican psychopath. They don't understand why people have pets.
What a stupid, reactionary comment. Literally Hitler loved dogs. Compassion for animals doesn't mean you aren't a massive peace of shit that deserves death.
Pretty sure this has more to do with the fact that the current GOP has one Kristi Noem that killed her dog because it annoyed her. Try to keep up.
Hitler loved his dogs. Not so much for everyone else's.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_in_Nazi_Germany
I’ve heard he was a big Trump fan and now I see he’s a maga madman, at what point was his political alignment ascertained? Does someone have an article they could point me to? Particularly one from a source that couldn’t be easily construed as biased if I were to share with a right winger?
https://www.fox9.com/news/minnesota-lawmaker-bca-shooting-suspects-list-lawmakers-not-manifesto
Fox News link that shows he only targeted democrats and quotes a Trump appointee calling it a political assassination
Normally I don't advocate the death penalty.
Barbie dog killer at it again.
Arm yourselves nerds these psychos want you dead.
Only a madman shoots a dog. I don't think that this guy has even been charged yet?
It's fucked up, but there will be people more upset that he shot a dog than that he shot four people, killing two of them.
Edit: are you downvoting me because you think I'm wrong or because you think I'm right?
It just depends on what perspective you choose. Obviously human life is more significant than dog lives, but a lot of people see dogs similar to children. A life of love and innocence that does not deserve to know violence. It's not so much comparing the value of lives but the value of innocence.
You're getting downvoted because you're being a huge downer without evidence
Sorry, I didn't mean to bring negative vibes to this party.
You brought no proof that people care more for the dog. It’s just a nonsense post looking to talk shit about people.
It's not about talking shit. It's about feeling morally superior to some imagined adversary.
Personally, I'm not sure what the point of this statement is. It's not about whether or not it's right or wrong. Let's just for the sake of argument, assume that it's objectively correct. So what? How is saying this, or identifying generically that some people inevitably have their priorities mixed up, a meaningful contribution to the topic?
At best it comes across as cynical. And then you're thinking "it's not cynical if it's true"... But we're all thinking that it's cynical because it lacks pointed meaning.
It's like a teenager got on the Internet, read something, missed the point entirely and instead says "but what about this indirect incorrectness thing that is otherwise unrelated" for no reason other than to be edgy or sound smart.
So what?
So it's fucked up. Four people were shot by a terrorist, two of them have died, and there are a significant number of people who didn't care until they learned a dog was also killed. That's fucked up, not because people care about a dog, but that they didn't care about the people.
Frankly I didn't expect saying so to be met with such hostility. That bothers me almost as much as the lack of respect for human life.
Edit: are you downvoting me because you think I'm wrong or because you think I'm right?
Yes.
I appreciate the clarification.
Animals don't understand our language, they don't understand our actions and they don't know the consequences... So the US citizens have had so damn much time to defend democracy... but they only started when fascism was enforced and it was really already foreseeable where it would end...
With flowers against batons, tear gas, weapons in general.
As soon as the Republicans start the large-scale purge it will.
With flowers against assault rifles, tanks, etc.
So my sympathy is very limited.