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[–] YoBuckStopsHere 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just beat me to it. I'm so happy this community is getting good at posting! That's the community goal!

[–] jeffw 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I try to do a couple each day!

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[–] chakan2 130 points 1 year ago (45 children)

Fox News: Brave patriot shot down by Biden's secret police

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't even find that they are covering it at all, there is nothing on their front page about it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“But why did the FBI shoot down this antifa Soros plant?”

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[–] jeffw 69 points 1 year ago (11 children)

We often hear reports about right-wing terrorism in the USA. But how many other incidents like this happen, where the person is caught beforehand? This wouldn’t be a top headline if he hadn’t died, it would be just another story relegated to the bottom of a news site.

[–] OttoVonBizmarkie 47 points 1 year ago

I would bet given how many crazy MAGA assholes are out there, and with Trump instigating shit, this is probably happening very regularly right now.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] GuyDudeman 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Here's the document from the arrest warrant with what he was writing. Dude was a fucking moron.

Also - Truth.social actually tipped off the FBI. Very interesting. I love that it's a honeypot.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This guy actually posted "Merrick Garland u demented weasel send your FBI swat, you won't because I'm a MAGA trumper and I'll fight back" ??? Phew boy, major case of finding out.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, that's amazing that it came from truth.social.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

LOL, just finished reading the whole document. Its wild, and there's really nothing we can do about stupid. Guy is a perfect caricature of crazy.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guess they pried it from his cold dead hands.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

he was still fairly warm

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

This is republicans and Trump's fault. They lie to people and get them angry about democrats eating babies or letting men rape children in restrooms. They know that there are mentally unstable people out there and that they will believe them. Trump KNOWS this. And now these brainwashed and programmed people are going out and attacking Trump's enemies. Remember when Trump got Ashli Babbitt killed?

OR maybe this guy was a fascist. Guess we'll find out.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Anyone who hasn't learned about Stochastic Terrorism should expect to hear it more and more going forward.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

75 year old nutjob got gunned down on his doorstep.. went out in a HAIL OF BULLETS YEEEHAAAWWW

this is what our corpse actually posted:

“I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghillie suit and cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle,”

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And nothing of value was lost.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Sterile_Technique 21 points 1 year ago

What a fucking stupid way to die.

Idiot found out, I guess.

[–] Octavio 14 points 1 year ago

This is why I have to laugh when my firearms enthusiast friends tell me they need assault weapons in case they need to overthrow the government. This guy had a lot of assault weapons. Like tons of them. This is how it turned out. This is how it will always turn out.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 9 points 1 year ago
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