William Lindsey :toad:
"MAGA Republicans are working hard to identify Boelter with what Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) called 'Marxism' and Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) called 'the extreme left,' but as investigative journalist Phil Williams of NewsChannel 5 Nashville notes, public databases show Boelter was in the past a registered Republican."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/1
William Lindsey :toad:
"His evangelical religion and his anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion stances reflect MAGA positions. Boelter’s roommate told reporters that Boelter was a 'strong' supporter of President Trump."
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/2
William Lindsey :toad:
As Heather notes, last night, with the White House man sulking and enraged that his birthday party gift to himself of a big military parade turned out to be big dud while Americans celebrated everywhere at our freedom from kings, a post on Trump's Truth Social account "declared war on Democrats."
This on the heels of Boelter's murder of a Minnesota representative and her husband and his shooting of a senator and his wife….
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/3
William Lindsey :toad:
The violence is a feature, not a bug. The GOP incites it and suffers no consequences for its actions. We know who is to blame here. The same right-wing politicians and influencers who continually engage in incitement disguised as political rhetoric. It’s been an ongoing problem for years, and it’s gotten worse.
~ Melissa Ryan
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/4
William Lindsey :toad:
Mainstream media are bending over backwards to minimize the Boelter story and to give cover to Republicans who are lying boldly about who Boelter is and what he has done. The facts are clear:
1. He has registered as a Republican voter.
2. He is not just a Trump voter but an ardent supporter of Trump, according to his lifelong best friend.
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/6
William Lindsey :toad:
Oliver Markus Malloy shares a video of Lance Boelter, now in custody on charges of murdering Minneota representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark — a video in which Boelter is shouting and dancing as he proclaims he's "excited about Jesus and what he did for me."
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/5
https://www.fascism.link/p/murderer-trump-voter-christian-fanatic
William Lindsey :toad:
3. He's a right-wing anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion evangelical Christian, ordained to ministry.
4. He is clearly connected to streams within right-wing evangelicalism that advocate violence against evangelicals' "enemies."
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/7
William Lindsey :toad:
5. He chose to commit his murders on No Kings day, had a list of Democrats he was targeting in Minnesota and Wisconsin in his car, and had No Kings fliers in his car.
The truth is, if this man happened to be Islamic and committed political murder as an Islamist believer, the media would be screaming about that.
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/8
William Lindsey :toad:
When it comes to a white right-wing evangelical Christian committing murder for political reasons, crickets.
We're being gaslighted by Republicans and their media lapdogs.
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/9
William Lindsey :toad:
"While political violence has been a recurring feature of American political life, what marks the Trump era and makes it so different is that the president of the United States has immersed himself with almost gleeful fascination in violent threats, themes, urges, and impulses. Trump mythologizes violence."
~ David Kurtz
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #violence #bullying #thuggery
/16
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/a-searing-weekend-of-political-violence
William Lindsey :toad:
"For a decade now, Trump has feds his supporters with ever more lavish displays of violence – ugly threats and smears, mass deportations, harsh reprisals against foes, an attack on the Capitol. The episodic violence serve as totems of their tribalism. Over time, it takes ever greater shows of violence to feed the hunger for it. The next performative violence must out-do what came before."
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #violence #bullying #thuggery
/17
William Lindsey :toad:
"Trump has made clear over and over that he approves of violence done in his name, and that he believes that his enemies — whether protestors, Democratic leaders, or his own vice president — deserve to be physically harmed. That creates a permission structure in which MAGA supporters may feel that they can aid the cause, or advance Trump’s agenda, through threats and violence."
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #violence #bullying #thuggery
/15
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/hortman-hoffman-maga-political-violence
William Lindsey :toad:
“'What this kind of theology says is that if you commit violence in the name of whatever movement you’re a part of, then you’re going to be rewarded,' Denker said."
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/14
William Lindsey :toad:
"Vance Boelter was an anti-transgender Christian Nationalist who delivered anti-queer sermons in the DRC, in case anyone was confused as to his political slant."
~ Erin Reed
Erin Reed offers two videos of Boelter preaching sermons in which he makes ugly homophobic statements.
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/12
https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3lrnlgmyiic2q
William Lindsey :toad:
"The reporting on Boelter’s religious life suggests that his beliefs were rooted in fundamentalism, though he doesn’t appear to have been ordained in any particular denomination, said Rev. Angela Denker, a Minnesota-based Lutheran minister, journalist and author of books on Christianity, right-wing politics and masculinity."
~ Madison McVan
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/13
William Lindsey :toad:
"Facts about the Minnesota assassin: He is a registered Republican, Trump voter, anti-abortion, Christian. His target list is Democrats. His community board appointment from Walz was nonpartisan. MAGA doesn't want these facts out there."
~ Allison Berman
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/11
William Lindsey :toad:
“Friends and former colleagues interviewed by AP described Boelter as a devout Christian who attended an evangelical church and went to campaign rallies for President Donald Trump. Records show Boelter registered to vote as a Republican while living in Oklahoma in 2004 before moving to Minnesota where voters don’t list party affiliation.”
~ Jim Mustian and Michael Biesecker
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #evangelical #abortion #LGBTQ
/10
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-shootings-lawmakers-suspect-21b2165404bc66f77dd5e0e36efeb065
William Lindsey :toad:
"I had to laugh darkly Saturday evening as I saw many conservatives on social media, prominent and not, try to locate an aha! moment in the fact that Vance Boelter, the Minnesota suspect, was appointed to a state advisory board by two Democratic governors. Please. He was targeting abortion providers. His neighbor said he was a Trump voter."
~ Michael Tomasky
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #violence #bullying #thuggery
/18
https://newrepublic.com/article/196851/america-political-violence-terrifying-turning-point
William Lindsey :toad:
"It will be some time before we learn whether Vance Boelter, the Trump supporter charged with assassinating Melissa Hortman, could have been stopped if Trump hadn’t dismantled efforts to fight terrorists like Boelter.
But we do know that Trump has done real damage to those efforts."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #violence #bullying #thuggery
/19
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