GOP Silent as Mormon Church Gunman Identified as ‘Ultra MAGA’ Trump Supporter
GOP Silent as Mormon Church Gunman Identified as ‘Ultra MAGA’ Trump Supporter
I'm sure they'll make up a way to blame transgender people.
Inb4 "He was brainwashed by his trans GF!!!!1!1"
We hit some new lows over the week with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this UltraMAGAt who murdered 4 Church goers as anything other than one of them
Let's see if this gets Kimmel cancelled again.
He's got immunity for a few months at least; fasch don't like to remember how bad they got theit asses kicked.
Mormons need to declare war on Trump, or vice versa. That will be a wrench that MAGA will not be able to unlodge gracefully.
Mormons used to hate Trump, they even voted strongly third party during the first election.
And then they fell in line, like good little conservative sheep. I was extremely disappointed.
Disappointed by mormons? How could that even happen?
I don't think you're going to see a split. The Mormon Church has far too much invested structurally within the Republican Party. And the opposition party isn't offering them anything they actually want (theocracy, white nationalism, rapid imperial expansion).
The odd mass shooting is simply the price you pay for power in a country that puts so little value on a human life.
Mormons are a Business Cult who cross pollinate their money across members' businesses and strongly encourage use of exclusively Mormon owned businesses. Trump somehow convinced those same conservative business leaders that he is Good At Business so the entire cult fell in line.
And they are also believers who are slow to change so this recent recession will not shake their faith. He can only be distrusted if they personally feel the downturn of the market.
It's a bit more entrenched than that. Mormons theology is elitist, racist, sexist, and hierarchical. The entire religion is built upon fear and a superiority complex.
Under the leadership of Benson, a staunch John Birch society member, and others like him the cult converted from a theocratic communist organization to an extreme rightwing corrupt corporate behemoth.
https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=50349153&itype=cmsid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
Today the Mormon church is one of the wealthiest organizations on the planet. They have a massive ownership of agricultural land, real estate, mega-corporations, and over a hundred billion in stocks and bonds. Billions of dollars of tax free money donated from members has that effect over 50 years. They give almost nothing of their take to humanitarian causes.
Mormons voted against Trump because Romney (long time Mormon elite family) was running. From 1951-1988 Marion Romney (a relation of Mitch) was part of the elite church leadership. It was not because they were against Trump.
It makes a lot of sense to hear you describe it that way. In my limited experience they have this aspect to their culture where you are not the best version of yourself and perhaps not even a real man if you aren't an entrepreneur. If you just have a job you'd better be raking it in.
They're awful, no doubt, but damn if the Mormon Tabernacle Choir isn't amazing.
Mormon church is a den of pedophiles.
Obligatory shocked Pikachu
Has Nancy mace demanded the death penalty?
Was his motive political? His being a Trump supporter could be related to the shooting, but it doesn't have to be.
I think the point is that whether or not the shooting was politically motivated, it's rarely rabid democrats carrying out these shootings. The right seems more prone to gun violence.
Historically I agree, but there has definitely been more shooters lately who can only be from the left. Regardless, most of the shooters are disturbed people foremost, and political motivation doesn't seem to be the main reason for their actions. Charlie Kirk was probably the most political, and after that it gets less so.
Their argument is that the left is inciting and commiting all the violence. The act doesnt have to be political. Thats not the current state of affairs
Fair question, but that only matters for a terrorism charge. The administration has been trying to make the left out to be violent terrorists. They removed the DOJ webpage that showed right-wing violence was the worst, by a long shot. This is not helping their case.
The FBI is treating the case as “an act of targeted violence,”
Not an act of terrorism, because Trump supporters could never be terrorists with the current head of the FBI.
gotta love doublespeak. like how when the news reports on Gaza, they reference Israeli families and Palestinians
"Terrorist" literally means "violence the state doesn't like".
Was the shooting politically motivated?
The Catholic shooting had the shooter writing tons of political messaging on weapons and such. That's why it was both "targeted violence" and "terrorism".
Seems the Mormon shooter just didn't like Mormons, in general or some specific ones.
That requirement never bothers them when it suits their narrative.