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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.

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.



Anyone want to bets that it was a Nazi who did the shooting?

This isn't just assassination, it's terrorism designed to scare opponents of Trump from speaking out. The media won't say that, of course, because it's likely the shooter is white.

"They will be prosecuting anyone involved to the fullest extent of the law," Trump said in a statement. "Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America."

Ah, like they did with the violent perpetrators of the January 6th insurrection, until you pardoned them all and set them free.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/us/video/florida-sheriff-warns-protesters-we-will-kill-you-digvid

Tell me why I shouldn't think it was an actual police officer that assassinated them ?

Sure sounds like MAGA is trying to start a hot civil war.

Going to be interesting when these people find out liberals are well armed and trained.

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

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.

How is this not bigger news?

1. https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/speaker-emerita-melissa-hortman-husband-killed-rep-john-hoffman-and-wife-also-shot/
2. https://abcnews.go.com/US/2-minnesota-lawmakers-shot-targeted-incident-officials/story?id=122840751
3. https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/06/14/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-targeted-attacks
4. https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/leaked-trump-dhs-memo-warned-of-attacks-like-minnesota-shootings-just-months-ago/
5. https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-d7983e1e4f1a7573a487cab1a98cd172
6. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-06-14/minnesota-gov-tim-walz-former-house-speaker-melissa-hortman-and-husband-killed-in-politically-motivated-shooting

Reporting in from Minnesota: State law enforcement is now telling everybody "Do not show up to No Kings Day Events"

the slain lawmaker as State Rep. Melissa Hortman of Brooklyn Park and her husband, Mark, while state Sen. John Hoffman of Champlin and his wife, Yvette, were injured. Both lawmakers were members of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party. [...] The assailant, who is still at large, allegedly impersonated a police officer.

My support and sympathy to the families. Absolutely no surprise at any of that news.

"impersonating" a police officer. Yup, on the largest protest day ever. No need to think more about it. Surely it wouldn't be an actual cop using a scapegoat, nope .

"We have to remain non-violent"

Meanwhile, the far right nutjobs

It's on the news in Belgium.

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.

Time for real Americans to start dealing with the traitors in and out of our government.

Also, since the article doesn't mention it, deliberately of course, they were both Democrats. One was the speaker of the house.

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.”

targeted political violence.

Terrorism. Call it what it is.

Impersonating a police officer or a disgruntled police officer. Irregardless, the uniform alone will get one close to the target. The USA is a sick country and the fucks in MAGA will make it worse.