Right wing media has been hyping the possibility of “patriots” taking up arms and “defending themselves“ against protestors for weeks now, it was only a matter of time before people died and you can bet your ass they’ll blame everyone but the shooter.
Clockwork.
Republicans spent weeks teasing and glorifying the potential of dead protesters and now that it's happened they're working overtime to ensure the killer is portrayed as the victim.
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Kanye and Nick Fuentes are on the Alex Jones show and Kanye just said he sees "good things about Hitler" also. Because he invented highways and a microphone? "Every human being has value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler [...] also Hitler was born Christian." twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Kanye is doing a Netanyahu impression that is just an Elmo voice + antisemitic tropes
@RollingStone NY AG Letitia James announces lawsuit against Donald Trump and his children, Don Jr., Eric, and Ivanka. Suit alleges financial fraud in the operations of the Trump Organization.
James says Trump Organization made "over 200" false valuations of assets over a period of 10 years
BREAKING: Migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have filed a class action lawsuit against Florida officials seeking "compensatory, emotional distress, and punitive damages." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Suit argues that officials “intentionally conspired to confine the individual Plaintiffs to the aircraft that transported them to Martha’s Vineyard,” and impeded the migrants “participation in the federal immigration processes to which they are constitutionally entitled"
According to the suit, migrants did not learn they were going to Martha's Vineyard until shortly before the plane's landing.
Mini thread on a really good example of how Tucker twists news stories to suit his narratives. Here he claims that undocumented immigrants are responsible for an influx of automatic weapons into the US. Tucker plays a clip of a horrifying shootout in Houston as an example.
Here's the thing though. I can't find any evidence that the perpetrator, Deon Ledet, was an undocumented immigrant. abc13.com/deon-ledet-wil…
Furthermore, according to Houston police, the weapon Deon used was not an imported automatic weapon but a weapon illegally modified using an auto switch abc7.com/houston-police…