Republicans Try to Blame Democrats, the Media, CRT for Shooting

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-blame-democrats-media-crt-trump-shooting-1235059966/

48 comments

  1. We don’t have a gun problem

    It was just a nutter white male Republican

  2. Getting kinda hard when the kid registered Republican

    Died wearing merchandise from a pro second YouTube channel that up to 2022 had a let’s go Brandon merch selling on their channel store …

    Idk about you, but to me, the more I look at it. the more this looks like the self-inflicted wound of the hate rhetoric they have been brewing since ~~2015~~ 1980 *

    Edit

  3. I was sure this time everyone would remain calm wait a day or two and let all the facts come before assigning blame

  5. “The greatest threat to our nation right now is that we are horribly divided. Why are we so divided? … I would argue that’s what identity politics is about. That’s what critical race theory is about”

    Idk man, painting American citizens as “vermin” claiming BLM supporters were “coming for your suburbs” republicans suggesting that lgbtq people are bound for hell. Republicans stealing the right to abortion from women.

    None of this could have been the reason there is so much division right? It’s gotta be “critical race theory”. Something majority of people in this country never even took in school or read in a book.

  6. Ted Cruz blamed Texas power outages in winter on the Green New Deal….which wasn’t even law or in effect.

    When he said (or was it Abbott? 🤔) that wind turbines couldn’t work in cold weather, I pulled up a live stream of wind turbines in Vermont turning and working during a blizzard.

    Republicans don’t need their conspiracy theories to make sense or be true for then to be useful.

  7. It’s insane to watch THE violent and divisive political party pretend to be shocked and appalled by political violence when it happens to them. The pearl clutching is beyond anything I’ve ever seen. They excused Jan 6. They excused Pelosi Attacker. They Excused Charlottesville. Etc. Etc. Etc. There’s a long Fucking list.

    But this is a bridge too far? Yeah right

  8. of course they want to talk about both sides when this dumbass was a registered republican wearing far right merch, this was a self own

  9. Remember this is the same party that blamed 1/6 on Antifa.

  10. Those “Shoot Your Local Pedophile” bumper stickers seem problematic, now.

  12. Breaking: The Party of Violence shocked and appalled by violence after 8 years of building policy around hatred for the sake of hatred

  13. Of course they do. It’s never them and always everyone else.

  14. Bear in mind, ladies and gentlemen, that every time you propose to use violence against someone else you, in potentia, you’re making a rod for your own back

  15. So…the kid is a registered Republican, owns/uses an AR-15, wears pro-gun merchandise from a vendor with connections to other right-wing content, and his father is a conservative. However, the kid apparently did make a donation to some liberal thing one time in 2021.

    Clearly, the evidence shows this kid is a liberal!

    *If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, but ate cat food one time, it’s clearly a cat.*

  16. So nothing about the gun, access to the gun, or access to mental health that they vote against at every turn?

  17. Stop people from bringing up the donation. He was only 17 years old when he made that, which means he registered republican AFTER the donation. Do not let conservatives try to gaslight you into thinking the donation means more than him being registered as a republican. He loved guns and was a teenage boy, and they are easily radicalized to the right, it makes complete sense that he changed to a conservative after his donation.

    Ask conservatives this. Do liberals want to ban guns, or do they love them, buy AR-15’s, join a gun group and watch 2a gun videos online? They are pathetically stretching and we can’t let them get away with their propaganda like Americans usually do.

  18. Headline Translation: Dr. Frankenstein blames villagers for Monster rage.

  19. It’s gross of the GOP to use the actions of an almost certainly mentally ill lone wolf for political gain.

    Further, the last thing the democrats want to do is elevate Trump to “sainthood” by making him a martyr. There’s much villainy left for him to commit that will become a mirror the US will have to hold up to itself to see how far we’ve fallen.

  21. The shooters instagram shows he hated Epstein, I wonder if he found out Trump was in the Epstein files and thought he was a pedophile?

  22. Ron Johnson is one of the biggest dickheads in the GQP senate, right up there with Rubio, Cruz, Lee, Graham, Scott, (Tim & Rick), etc. Their only concern is PARTY OVER COUNTRY…ALWAYS!

  23. Remember when Trump, the draft dodger, shat all over John McCain’s war record saying “he’s only a hero because he got captured. I like heroes who weren’t captured”?

    If we lived in a truly united America, his political career would’ve ended right there. But instead Republicans chose to embrace him. They chose division that day.

  24. this is why I don’t think Trump will get much a boost or sympathy because the right immediately go to conspiracy town and blaming things and people that nothing to do with it the guy was a registered Republican and supposively a supporter of an extreme pro gun group guy was just a fucking nut but hey we don’t know everything about Thomas Matthew Crooks

  25. CRT?

    We are back to beating this dead horse?

    Very unoriginal, they need to talking points.

  26. I plan to handle this with the same amount of empathy, grace, and goodwill that Trump handled the attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi and assault of Paul Pelosi did. That is, make jokes and spread conspiracy theories about it.

    What do democrats and Melania have in common? They’ve both been disappointed by just a few inches.

  27. >“The greatest threat to our nation right now is that we are horribly divided,” Republican Sen. Ron Johnson told Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday. “But again, in general, we share the same goals. Why are we so divided? Well, there are political figures, there are political groups. I would argue that’s what identity politics is about. That’s what critical race theory is about.

    Ron Johnson said something idiotic. That’s super surprising.

  28. These lying SOB don’t care about anything but money and themselves. They are to blame. Period.

  29. Can’t speak for others, but the shooter is barely even a factor for my conservative family atm. Their anger is focused on the Secret Service, which I’m sure will get extended to Biden by the end of the day.

  30. Wow. If only these same people were worried about easy access to guns BEFORE this.

    Or worried about mental health access/affordability.

    Crickets or worse “get over it” when school children have been gunned down.

  31. If democrats were responsible he wouldn’t have missed!

  33. Once again and again republicans trying to turn what they are responsible for into the democrats fault. The violence is all republican.

  35. This type of rhetoric is why it’s so hard for me to understand the “undecided” voters perspective. You see one side clearly and unanimously agree that what happened was wrong and we shouldn’t behave this way and then the other side is just pointing fingers trying to start a rage war. Jesus Christ people wake up

  36. Why do the Dems not all them out?

    Just repeat the fact that it was a 20 year old registered Republican with an AR-15. That isn’t a Democrat.

  37. Republicans are incapable of self reflection. They will always look for someone to blame.

  38. The man peddles fear and violence, culminating on January 6th. Anyone who is surprised by this event hasn’t been paying attention.

  39. As soon as they found out the shooter was a registered Republican, they tried to blame someone else. If the shooter was a registered Democrat, Republicans would be screaming that Biden hired him to assassinate Trump.

  40. Shooter was a white, rural, registered Republican. How does that have anything to do with Democrats, Critical Race theory, or The Media?

  41. The Trump campaign should do a focus group to try to figure out why a registered republican tried to kill him.

  42. Of course they do. They suddenly forgot all the division and hate they’ve been spewing the last 9 years.

    Any sympathy and pity they gain from this terrible act will disappear in weeks at this rate. They’ll go back to their usual hateful selves by Monday’s convention

  43. THIS is going to hurt them in the general. This is NOT how to make political use of an assassination attempt. 

  45. “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks.  Although the 2nd Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”

    – Donald Trump referring to Hillary Clinton at a rally during the 2016 presidential campaign.

  46. Do we actually need more evidence that MAGAts are fucking stupid?

  47. Well, Republicans bought it on themselves after we warned them.

    Within the next 60 to 30 seconds, Biden is going to add some more information about the shooting in Pennsylvania.

    Because the shooter is identified as a registered Republican.

  48. These assholes in the crowd were flipping off the media. WTF??

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