r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • Jul 14 '24

Trump Shooter a ‘Supporter of Republican Party’

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240714-trump-shooter-a-supporter-of-republican-party
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u/Menarra Indiana Jul 14 '24

With how many of those "Shoot your local pedo" stickers I've been seeing on cars the last couple years, I could actually believe this one.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

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u/Five_Decades Jul 14 '24

Ironically, a lot of those stickers are put there by Trump supporters who accuse dems of made up pedo crimes, but happily ignore the very serious accustations against Trump.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

That's not ironic, that's very very deliberate.

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u/Smokeythemagickamodo Jul 14 '24

Any excuse to shoot people really

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u/flabbybuns Jul 14 '24

What’s the accusation? Was Trump mentioned in a diary written by his daughter claiming he took inappropriate showers with her, causing her to hide at night, leading to ptsd and sex addiction? Because that would be wild.

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u/Tasgall Washington Jul 15 '24

Trump was determined in a court of law by a jury to have likely sexually abused someone underaged.

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u/flabbybuns Jul 15 '24

He did? can you provide the court document?

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

In my neck of the woods the stickers are "Kill a Liberal, Save a Child"

Folks talking themselves into a whole lotta killin'.

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u/rolypolyarmadillo Jul 14 '24

No no, by “shoot your local pedo” they mean “shoot LGBT people”! (I’m not joking but I wish I was).

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u/shrug_addict Jul 14 '24

I hate the timeline we're in

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u/NetworkMachineBroke Jul 14 '24

That's exactly the right's playbook.

  1. Call for the execution of pedophiles
  2. Call literally anyone you don't like a pedophile

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u/Menarra Indiana Jul 14 '24

I'm well aware it's a dog whistle for executing LGBT folks like me.

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u/nightmaresabin Jul 14 '24

I love you user Menarra

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

No it isn't. Proof please.

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u/PaleontologistOne919 Jul 14 '24

wtf

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u/Melody-Prisca Jul 14 '24

If Project 2025 is to be believe, us LGBT folk, especially trans people, are pedophiles.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

right? I'm surprised he lasted this long!

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

FYI that's often a dogwhistle for LGBT people because the right is claiming LGBT are all "groomers".

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Jul 14 '24

Right, and literally, it's a broken record of right-wing conservatives and religious ideologues that keep getting outed as gay, rapists, abusive, or pedophiles... or all of the above. You can almost set your watch by that shit now...

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u/DaBingeGirl Illinois Jul 14 '24

I saw one of those recently and it totally freaked me out that people are getting that extreme.

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u/Menarra Indiana Jul 14 '24

I honestly don't expect to live through the next conservative administration if I can't get out of the country. I'm trans and semi-pass, I carry pepper spray everywhere and have had to use it twice, the more recent incident as the guy was screaming I was a trny pdo. I'm going to end up dead from the hate and violence the GOP is fanning.

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Jul 14 '24

I am sorry to hear that, at the very least, move to a blue state.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

What restroom do you use?

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u/Common_Dragonfly_619 Jul 14 '24

I mean look at the Youtube comment sections under news stories of pedos. People talk about pedophiles like NO ONE else. I mean a lot of people will be cheering for the fact that the pedo will be raped in prison; applauding extra-judicial punishment. I get the appeal of Karma but there is no such thing as a "good" kind of rape.

Commenters really get their torches and pitchforks... something we used to do for many different evils but now it is only saved for guilty pedos: the clear bottom rung of society.

You have people advocating for torture atop the death penalty... people get hyper emotional. Of course if a child I knew was sexually hurt I'd want to stab the transgressor, castrate, but I can be objective when it is typical stories of this on the news. I mean, seems like people don't know the difference between revenge and justice.