But as photos and social media posts surfaced showing Sanford in a camouflage Trump 2020 shirt that read “Make Liberals Cry Again,” and a Trump-Pence sign still visible on his front lawn just months ago, the political implications became harder to ignore.
So far, Republican leaders have said nothing.
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BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 158 pts · 330d
Thank GOD he was a MAGA! Otherwise this Attack on a Church would have been TERRORISM!
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 329d
Surely trump will now issue Executive Orders labeling MAGA a "Terrorist Organization" just as he did with the made-up group "antifa", right? /s
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 149 pts · 330d
Not silent, I had someone freaking out in my office today saying "dammit! Hes one of us!" with the most disdained look on his face. People died and dude is only talking about how its once again his team that did it.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 86 pts · 330d
Translation: "Dammit, we can't use this as an excuse to start our Maga Civil War. I hope we have better luck with the next mass shooting."
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 329d
5433rd time might be the charm!
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 56 pts · 330d
Talking about how it impacted him personally. Very conservative.
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com · 49 pts · 330d
Damn it's one of us. Always has been.
I just now noticed the insensitivity of using a meme with a gun to make this point.
fluxion@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 330d
Did he question his life decisions or worldview afterward, or immediately go back to not giving a single fuck about the people who died because it made his cult look bad?
TheBenCommandments@infosec.pub · 23 pts · 330d
I think we can all assume the answer to this. I’ve given up on being hopeful for positive change.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 329d
Hahahahahaha good one
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 329d
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 5 pts · 329d
Politics in america are treated like a sport and it's weird.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 329d
That's all discussion I've seen about this attack, on Reddit and on Lemmy
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 86 pts · 330d
That's surprising. Usually when conservatives intend to do jack shit about any situation, they offer a prayer with a contrived air of empathy on their gormless faces.
If they're not praying for something or other, it would indicate that they might want to do something useful instead for a change... But I'm not holding my breath.
kofe@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 330d
Trump has. He posted about how "they" are attacking Christians iirc (at first it was radical leftists, then he posted again with more ambiguous language, I think). Interesting, most Christians don't consider Mormons part of Christianity- and Kirks murderer was raised Mormon. Trump helped amplify fear mongering with that, too, so. Gee, I wonder why a Mormon church was targeted by a Trump supporter?
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 330d
Won’t be long till there is Christian denomination infighting going on in the MAGA world. A good chunk of them are all ready blaming Israel for Kirk’s death as well as Mormons. I always knew this is what would happen eventually since Christians hate other Christians almost as much as they hate gays.
leadore@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 329d
Yep. I've always said if/when they finally get their beloved Theocracy, there will immediately be massive sectarian violence.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 329d
All the Jesus will be white.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 329d
The minute they squelch trans and gay rights, and bring back Jim Crow, they will be right back at each others' throats, casting the other groups out as heretics and "pagans" and "cult members", etc....there are approximately 45,000 denominations of xtianity - which one is the One True Xtianity?
Triumph@fedia.io · 24 pts · 330d
I like that word.
gormless /ˈɡôrmləs/ adjectiveinformal•British English lacking sense or initiative; foolish. "a constantly grinning, rather gormless boy"
Eldritch@piefed.world · 13 pts · 330d
Gornless and gobsmacked nonce enablers
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 330d
Gornless in Seattle.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 11 pts · 330d
Wallace and Gormless
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 330d
You know, there's probably a universe with a "Wallace and Gorm" show.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 3 pts · 330d
Next episode of Interdimensional cable
Late2TheParty@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 330d
LMMFAO! I wanna party with you
Late2TheParty@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 330d
Hahahahahah! 🤣
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 329d
Why isn't "gormful" a word
chilldrivenspade@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 330d
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 330d
They are not praying for members of the LDS. They might pray for the shooter, though. After all, he is one of them.
Red0ctober@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 330d
Their deafening silence is all the more damning, they support this shit.
don@lemmy.ca · 50 pts · 330d
The Right is the party of murder.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 39 pts · 330d
Is that one of that antifa terrorists?
SoloCritical@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 330d
No it’s just a republican
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 329d
So normal terrorist, nothing to see here.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 329d
Maybe the real antifa were they maga who kept killing each other along the way
merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 39 pts · 329d
When is MAGA getting designated as a domestic terrorist organization?
Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 329d
When the victors write history...
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 329d
They designated it themselves at CPAC several years ago
brendansimms@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 329d
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 329d
That's the one.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 329d
When USA owns up to its disgusting history, disavows the fascists, and provides reparations for the millions of victims.
AKA never. That's literally what USA is.
kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 329d
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 329d
Incredible that the trans liberal mind virus is now so powerful it infects even true patriots like this man. SAD!
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 329d
At least he took out those extreme Mormons. Out there, riding bikes, talking to.people, being violently polite, dangerously normal. Endangering the childrens by their being made up of atoms.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 18 pts · 330d
MLCA?
I can see why they went with Make America Great Again instead.
madjo@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 329d
it's not fun to stay at the MLCA...
lack@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 329d
These libs are crazy the way they go deep undercover as lifelong conservatives
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 328d
That shows you just how deep the conspiracy goes!
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 330d
So MAGA is a terrorist group. I'm sure the EO is coming any day now.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 329d
Gosh, that's so weird. If this was someone they could claim was trans, they'd be crying about how xtianity is "under attack" from the "radical left".
collapse_already@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 328d
I am pretty sure they only tolerate Mormons as "xtians" to the extent that they're useful idiots and donors. I imagine they'll eventually purge them too.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d
Oh yes, if they get their stupid theocracy, they'll fall on each other in short order. I'm thinking most Southern Baptists are quite certain they are the only "true" xtians. Not sure if they have the numbers and firepower to prove it.
buttnugget@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 329d
The traitor lunatics on Twitter certainly aren’t silent! Lol
They immediately started in with the “that’s not the truck of a right winger” and all this other stuff. They are absolutely insane.
radio@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 330d
Incoming "it was one mentally ill dude, he doesn't represent us" defense. If they bother to cover it all.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 329d
Whose broadcast license is the MAGA FCC secretary going to threaten over this one?
ghosthacked@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 329d
S'ok it's one of their own.
Malsocialized whiteboi pass.
When enough of them grow up awkward because they've been tweaked out the ass on 4chan, social media outrage algos, and pedo-adjacent anime, their mothers think something is wrong with society.
Nope. Society works fine for lots of people. No one told you to raise an awkward fucking basement predator.
But then white guy pass comes along and it's "muh raaaaycee" must save "muh raaaaycee"
When you were cranking your 3 incher to anime porn for decades you weren't thinking about your race then
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 330d
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 330d
at one point i thought that it was decided to focus on the victims because fuck giving free press to the terrorist.
that seems to have been completely abandoned.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 330d
I wholeheartedly agree, bar one fact. If that was still the case, conservatives and conservative media would continue to focus on any non conservative perp or conservative victims.
Neither one is good. And both have consequences.
Which one do we prefer? I don’t fucking know dude…
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 329d
I willing to bet a six pack of craft beer he was Charlie Kirk and that's the reason.
Kurious84@lemmings.world · 6 pts · 329d
The good news is when Trump tries to remain in power he will have both sides against him. He doesn't have the support he thinks he does. Even the morons who were fooled by him will wake up
bizzle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 329d
Hilarious
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 330d
So Republicans are now labeled terrorists?!?
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 329d
Yeah... I mean they're fascists not "objective" journalists. Totally normal in fascist society.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 329d
Of course they are. Idiots won't badmouth their own no matter how heinous the act
F_State@midwest.social · 4 pts · 328d
Mormans consider themselves Christians, but Conservatives Christians frequently don't. Unless you're protestant or charismatic, they look down on you. Hell, their nickname for the Catholic Church is "the whore of Babylon".
Dionysus@leminal.space · 1 pts · 317d
Let's see if this gets Kimmel cancelled again.
AshCircuit@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 329d