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I don't even know what else to add to this headline. This is so fucked up and tragic scary and infuriating and it will in no way slow the resistance.

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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

This dumb bitch seems to think outright lying - when video shows a completely different story - is the way to go.

It's all she's got, so she's going with it, carefully reading the statutes, so she can make sure she hits all her bullet points.

Bottom line: This a manufactured murder, meant to inflame the citizens, and become a rationalization for Martial Law, and suspension of the Midterm election. MAGA cannot lose the House majority, or else Democrats will have investigative powers, with full subpoena and arrest powers. They are unlikely to squander the opportunity this time, like they did under Biden.

So MAGA almost have to stop the election, and this is the start of it. We have never missed an election in this country, not even during the Civil War, so suspending this one, at this point in our history must be a BRIGHT RED LINE. If he invokes Martial Law, and suspends the election, it's the end of American Democracy, and it's Civil War.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

manufactured murder

~~Yes. That's one of the most striking things I got from the video, that the murderer went from getting out of his SUV to shooting his gun in just a few seconds, as though that was what he got out of his car to do.~~

~~Also, I have gun experience but not with automatics, so I don't know enough to say with certainty one way or another, but I did not see him disengage his safety, meaning that there is some non-zero chance he already had the safety disengaged when he got out of his vehicle.~~

All of your points are excellent, and you're right. We HAVE to avoid violent response -- for now -- if we do not want to speed up the destruction of what is left of our democracy.

EDITED to correct myself: I watched the video again and the shooter was already standing toward the hood of her car; the individual exiting the SUV I referred to above was not the actual shooter.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Democrats will have investigative powers, with full subpoena and arrest powers. They are unlikely to squander the opportunity this time, like they did under Biden.

Source?

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

For what? The fact that they'd have investigative powers? That's the Constitution.

That they are unlikely to squander the opportunity this time? That's personal speculation, but I doubt a Democratic House is going to sit still this time. They don't have a president in office to protect, for one thing.

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