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“I’ve been briefed on the terrible shooting that took place in Minnesota, which appears to be a targeted attack against State Lawmakers,” the president wrote in a statement. “Our Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and the FBI, are investigating the situation, and they will be prosecuting anyone involved to the fullest extent of the law. Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America. God Bless the great people of Minnesota, a truly great place!”

Donald Trump.
 
Username Required said:
“I’ve been briefed on the terrible shooting that took place in Minnesota, which appears to be a targeted attack against State Lawmakers,” the president wrote in a statement. “Our Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and the FBI, are investigating the situation, and they will be prosecuting anyone involved to the fullest extent of the law. Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America. God Bless the great people of Minnesota, a truly great place!”

Donald Trump.
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Just pardon him Don.
Get it over with.
You know you want to.
 
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Username Required said:
“I’ve been briefed on the terrible shooting that took place in Minnesota, which appears to be a targeted attack against State Lawmakers,” the president wrote in a statement. “Our Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and the FBI, are investigating the situation, and they will be prosecuting anyone involved to the fullest extent of the law. Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America. God Bless the great people of Minnesota, a truly great place!”

Donald Trump.
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What a statesman.
 
Police officials said they recovered a “manifesto,”

"But I will tell you, when we did a search of the vehicle, there was in it a manifesto that identified many lawmakers and other officials."

As Chief Bruley noted, there was a list of individuals. And the individuals that were targeted in this situation were on that list.

And so when we’re looking at that, as Chief Bruley said, it’s far too early in the investigation to be able to provide information, but I do think we’ll be in a position where we’ll able to develop the motivation behind these attacks,


www.mediaite.com

Reporter: Were MN Shootings 'Because They're Democrats?'

The reporter asked officials if Minnesota lawmakers State Sen. John Hoffman and State Rep. Melissa Hortman. were targeted "because they were Democrats?"
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Username Required said:
“I’ve been briefed on the terrible shooting that took place in Minnesota, which appears to be a targeted attack against State Lawmakers,” the president wrote in a statement. “Our Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and the FBI, are investigating the situation, and they will be prosecuting anyone involved to the fullest extent of the law. Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America. God Bless the great people of Minnesota, a truly great place!”

Donald Trump.
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You can always tell when the post has been written for him. No random capitalisation or grammar/spelling errors.

Anyway, I've just learned that in Minnesota the Democrats have (had) a one vote majority in the Senate, and the House of Reps was tied. Which leads to obvious speculation that this attack could have been carried out with the intention of giving both Chambers to the GOP.
 
This is what you get when the President, the Speaker of the House and others use intemperate speech to attack opponents verbally.
What is USA coming to?
These are just the tip of the iceberg, many others have been moved out of harms way when threats were made.
 
Username Required said:
“I’ve been briefed on the terrible shooting that took place in Minnesota, which appears to be a targeted attack against State Lawmakers,” the president wrote in a statement. “Our Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and the FBI, are investigating the situation, and they will be prosecuting anyone involved to the fullest extent of the law. Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America. God Bless the great people of Minnesota, a truly great place!”

Donald Trump.
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Hypocrite.
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
You can always tell when the post has been written for him. No random capitalisation or grammar/spelling errors.

Anyway, I've just learned that in Minnesota the Democrats have (had) a one vote majority in the Senate, and the House of Reps was tied. Which leads to obvious speculation that this attack could have been carried out with the intention of giving both Chambers to the GOP.
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The police have already said they have a manifesto with a list of targets, some elected, some not. It's fine to speculate, but I'd hope this theory has been tested against the procedure in MN for special elections in cases were an elected rep suddenly dies? Does the governor in MN have the power to appoint a replacement until a special election?

I found these but it doesn't say. Not to worry we'll have the whole story soon.

Office of the State Of Minnesota Secretary of State

Office of the State Of Minnesota Secretary of State
sos.mn.gov sos.mn.gov


204D.17 STATE SENATOR; STATE REPRESENTATIVE; VACANCY IN OFFICE; SPECIAL ELECTION.​

Subdivision 1.​

A vacancy in the office of state senator or state representative shall be filled for the unexpired term by special election upon the writ of the governor as provided in sections 204D.17 to 204D.27; except that if the legislature will not be in session before the expiration of the vacant term no special election is required.

Subd. 2.​


Two or more vacancies may be filled at the same special election and the candidates may be nominated at the same special primary. Any special primary or special election held pursuant to sections 204D.17 to 204D.27 may be held on the same day as any other election.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
Is that a gaffe or is it just thick? A gaffe is Keir Starmer saying sausages instead of hostages. Stupid would be if he didn't correct himself afterwards.
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Its a gaffe. It happens. But lets assume he is just thick. Does that mean he is lying? Which is the argument Vic was making.

I mean we can just engage our common sense and see things for what they are. In a long rattling off of things he said moon rather than space. Its the kind of mistake people make all the time and not recognize it.

Its like when a commentator is talking about 2 boxers and in trying to say what boxer A was should have done, he says boxer B's name.

Then the next person corrects him and say you meant boxer A should have done that. And the first guy goes, wait? What did I say? And the other guy points out he said boxer B. Then he goes, "my fault, yes I meant boxer A."

This type of exchange is so common place that it borders on silliness, when people pretend it's some Big Lie that they've just unearthed.

Its a bit tiring
 
Dax777 said:
Its a gaffe. It happens. But lets assume he is just thick. Does that mean he is lying? Which is the argument Vic was making.

I mean we can just engage our common sense and see things for what they are. In a long rattling off of things he said moon rather than space. Its the kind of mistake people make all the time and not recognize it.

Its like when a commentator is talking about 2 boxers and in trying to say what boxer A was should have done, he says boxer B's name.

Then the next person corrects him and say you meant boxer A should have done that. And the first guy goes, wait? What did I say? And the other guy points out he said boxer B. Then he goes, "my fault, yes I meant boxer A."

This type of exchange is so common place that it borders on silliness, when people pretend it's some Big Lie that they've just unearthed.

Its a bit tiring
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Well yeah, in the grand scheme of lies, incompetence and fascist rhetoric by the current regime, I don't see how it even registers.
 
Perspective.

Google "A history of social and political violence in the United Kingdom since Pitt The Younger."
Google "A history of social and political violence in the United States since the Boston Massacre of 1770."

Of course people are making things worse by their language, and that is also literally NOTHING NEW either. Just like Trump and his weird insistence that everything is either the best ever if he likes it, or the worst ever if he doesn't, this obsessive anti-historical insistence that EVERYTHING is worse than it has ever been sounds like a script right out of the Kremlin.

And when some leftist 60's throwbacks bomb a meeting of "Smith County Republicans" next week killing 20 because they are all Nazis and Fascists we'll all know where to look to assign blame, right?
 
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