How is this not bigger news?

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    “Evangelical Terrorist targets minnisota politicians for assassination, 2 dead, 2 wounded”

    They should revoke the church’s tax exemption for radicalizing this guy

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    It is wild right-wingers are trying to paint the killer as left wing. Trump cultist prove they can’t comprehend anything. RIP to both of the victims.

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    Can’t seem to find the ‘reply’ button on any comments in any threads anymore, they musta changed something… so I gotta create a top level comment now to reply.

    “So, just like the 9/11 hijacking changes everything about how people respond to a hijacking event, this changes everything about answering your door. You see someone dressed as a cop at your door, you don’t answer the door. You call 911, then have then identify the name and badge number of the cop at your door and you don’t answer the door until 911 acknowledges its a real cop at the door.

    IDK about you but after you don’t answer the door, I wouldn’t be calling 911, I’d be playing possum with a fucking loaded gun waiting to go off if the front door opens or waiting for them to leave. The guy didn’t say he had a warrant, and if the police have a warrant just one cop isn’t going to be there, it’ll be a Pride of LEOs.

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    This is big news. Google it.

    More info on him: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/minnesota-shootings-gunman-suspect.html

    Mr. Boelter and his wife run a private security company in Minnesota, according to its website. The company, Praetorian Guard Security Services…

    …the gunman had a list that included her name and the names of other lawmakers, all of whom were Democrats. The list included about 70 potential targets, a federal law enforcement official said, including doctors, community and business leaders, and locations for Planned Parenthood and other health care centers. Some of the targets were in neighboring states.

    Mr. Boelter, the site said, had traveled previously to violent areas “in the Gaza Strip and West Bank,” the site said, and had “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn’t the answer.”

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      Praetorian Guard. A notorious unit of body guard troop who are mostly known for extorting and killing the people they were supposed to be protecting.

      What a great name for a body guard company.

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    Do we need to mention that they were both democratic politicians? Many of us would love to see the list of the others he was going to kill. I’m sort of thinking they were all Democrats.

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        This morning’s update identified him as a part-time pastor and a part-time military contractor. Sure sounds like a raging conservative to me.

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        I think it was the Pro Left that had a recent podcast about how the Democrats are set up as the balancing force that is always put into the position of an abused housewife that must mollify the crazy alcoholic husband, which is the Republicans.

        Pretty apt metaphor, and I’m not doing it justice, but it’s pretty much considered “normal” for Republicans to do and say nearly anything, and then everyone blames the Democrats for making the Republicans do what they do…it’s all DARVO.

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        Apparently, they’re still screaming about how liberals are using violence. Nucking futz.

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      it was, there was a list being mentioned on a subreddit, it includes tim walz, and others, plus abortion workers.

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        …the gunman had a list that included her name and the names of other lawmakers, all of whom were Democrats. The list included about 70 potential targets, a federal law enforcement official said, including doctors, community and business leaders, and locations for Planned Parenthood and other health care centers. Some of the targets were in neighboring states.

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    The details of this story are horrifying. The assassin went to the houses of two different lawmakers in the middle of the night (2am). Dressed as a cop.

    In the dark, the people in each house had no reasonable way to know that the person ringing their doorbell at 2am was not a cop. Presumably he shot whoever came to the door then entered the house and shot the other spouse.

    There’s no way the people who were shot could have reasonably prevented being killed

    So, just like the 9/11 hijacking changes everything about how people respond to a hijacking event, this changes everything about answering your door. You see someone dressed as a cop at your door, you don’t answer the door. You call 911, then have then identify the name and badge number of the cop at your door and you don’t answer the door until 911 acknowledges its a real cop at the door.

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    Convenient for the Trump administration that the (non-Fox) news is going to talk about this all day instead of the millions of people protesting him all across the country.

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      Meanwhile, Fox News and CNN are creaming themselves over Israel and Iran.

      Fox “Israel under attack”

      CNN “Israel reels from deadly Iranian missile strikes”

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      With the news cycles being 24/7 these days, there’s no reason they can’t talk about both. Blame them for being shit.

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        its on purpose, because the owners of all the MSMs are conservatives, just look who owns it

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      and his failure of a birthday parade too. plus trying to make the public forget about the BBB and tariffs sitll.

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    How convenient. House is a 67-67 D and R. State Senate 34 D 33 R. Not political at all this assassination…

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      Are there actually no safeguards against this? It seems like a pretty big fucking flaw in a democratic system if you can kill the opposing elected officials in order to gain control of the state. Like their votes should temporarily go to someone else in the party or something, not just be wiped out completely.

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      Even the article explicitly says this is politically motivated, this isn’t being presented as random

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        it was kinda obvious since it was targeting democrats only, and abortion providers.

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      someone mentioned that in subreddit, yea they want to break that tie, but it would be whoever is control that appoints a special interim though.

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      When a legislator dies, their votes should automatically count as a “no” vote to prevent shenanigans.

      Wtf, this is a dystopian movie.

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    I’d bet anything the police and media response to this is and will be orders of magnitude less than when that healthcare guy got clapped.

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    You know what’s fucked up is that I don’t even have to look. I can tell you right now that the victims in this crime are part of the Democratic party. You know how I know? Because the FBI director and the president are talking about prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law and how violence in America will never be acceptable.

    But if it was the other way around and a Democrat went nuts and killed a Republican senator Donald Trump would be on truth social calling for that person to be hung or stretched or quartered or whatever it is they did to people in the middle ages.

    

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      But if it was the other way around … Donald Trump would be on truth social calling for that person to be hung…

      Not just that, but he would be demonizing the whole Democrat party, saying how their dangerous rhetoric caused this and the party needs to be outlawed and its leaders arrested.

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          My assumption is that if Luigi is getting charged at the federal level for killing one random, rich white guy, this person who has killed two politicians and has a hit list for others, would be charged at the federal level for terrorism. At least I’d expect that in a normal, functional society, which we’re not.