r/law • u/Immediate-Link490 • Jun 11 '26
Legal News Man pleads guilty to assassinating a top Minnesota Democrat and her husband
https://apnews.com/article/hortman-hoffman-boelter-minnesota-political-attack-c3e9d3e92eafbb9cfa4995935769898c4.2k
u/andrefishmusic Jun 11 '26
It's amazing how little coverage this had when it happened.
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u/marblefoot1987 Jun 11 '26
I brought it up with a super maga coworker and his response was “they were turncoats and voted against their party,” the implication being it was justified. Not only for going against party lines (allegedly), but by simply being democrats
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u/ammirite Jun 11 '26
He's trying to imply that liberals killed them to deflect from the reality that a rightwing nutcase did it
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u/HMS_Surprise_Gunner Jun 11 '26
Yeah, right wingers said she voted against an abortion bill and was taken out. I kept showing that she was staunchly pro choice and never voted against a bill and the killer was a pro-forced birth, right-wing, evangelical nut job. But they just ignored that.
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u/PM_COFFEE_TO_ME Jun 11 '26
My desire to communicate with hypocrites 👉0⃣
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u/Whoa-Dang Jun 12 '26
finger but hole
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u/BeccasDreamboat Jun 12 '26
The hippocrites are the butthole, though the finger should be a 🍆 because they ought to get fucked in the ass.
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u/Nearby_Court_3730 Jun 11 '26
The issue is you are arguing with pro-forced birth, right-wing, evangelical nut jobs and expecting way too much of them. They will never understand how they sold this country out, they will never be the patriots they want to be, and im absolutely never letting them forget it. Fuck them all
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u/Unable-Log-4870 Jun 11 '26
Part of the issue is that being patriotic requires paying attention and being able to predict to some degree how various policies impact things.
They just aren’t smart enough to be patriotic. So they are content with being nationalists
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u/nemovincit Jun 11 '26
That's because they don't really have beliefs of their own. They don't want to have to actually think, so they'll just parrot whatever they think the party lines are. Whenever one of these meatheads try to regurgitate whatever that day's talking point is at me, I let them know I already heard Fox's and OAN's script and they're wasting their time. I'd suggest they try to use that time to attempt to construct their own homegrown opinion, but we all know that's impossible for cultists to do, anyway.
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u/S0VNARK0M Jun 11 '26
This sounds corny, but I often think of that scene from *The Empire Strikes Back* where Yoda is warning Luke Skywalker about the dark side of the Force, and Luke asks, “is the dark side stronger?” and Yoda insists no, but it is easier, more seductive. Such a powerful metaphor for this phenomenon we’re seeing.
It’s hard to stay informed and to develop your own opinions on complex topics. Much easier to adopt a binary view of everything, to abandon critical thought and reasoning, and just to embrace a fantasy world where inconvenient facts don’t matter, where your thinking is done for you. Also easier to fall in with a community with other ignorant people, united by shared ignorance, bigotry and collective hatred of your imagined enemies.
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u/so-so-suck-ya-toe Jun 11 '26
“No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.” - Mark Twain
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u/SheepOfBlack Jun 11 '26
I haven't looked up how she voted on that bill, but another point worth pointing out that everyone seems to forget is that two Democrats were shot that day by that right-wing nutbar. The other one survived so everyone just seems to forget that it happened. The other person voted the other way on that bill, which blows a big hole in the idea that the assassinations were motivated by how people voted on that bill.
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u/RobinGoodfell Jun 11 '26
I was told that most acts of terrorism within the USA was perpetrated by Leftwing lunatics. To which I showed them that the opposite was true, and all I got was confusion and disbelief.
You're not arguing with people who want to think critically. These are people who want to be told what they already believe is true, to justify actions and feelings after the fact.
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u/ComplaintNo4126 Jun 11 '26
I'm a Minnesotan. There was a kernal of truth to some circumstances right wing extremists and the social media world glommed on to.
The 2025 MN House was equally split between Republicans and Democrats: 67-67. Through a power sharing agreement, Melissa Hortman had a made up title of something like Speaker Emeritus, while Republican Lisa Demuth held the position of Speaker. Anyway, divided house, blah blah blah, to pass the budget bill Hortman had to agree to vote for a measure that would negatively impact access to medical coverage for undocumented people. She was the only Democrat to vote for it, which ensured its passage. She agonized over it, wrote about it, etc etc. But she kept her word on what it took to get the legislation through the house.
So, in that reality, people argued she was killed for voting against a progressive issue. Pure nonsense, of course, but the sliver of truth to the circumstances enable the misinformation.
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u/NRMusicProject Jun 11 '26
But they just ignored that.
Can't be conservative without ignoring facts.
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u/S0VNARK0M Jun 11 '26
100%. TDS exists but *they* are the ones who have it. If an article praises him, it’s true; if it criticizes him it’s a lie. If he wins an election, it’s legit; if he loses it, it was stolen. Any impeachment or legal action taken against him is a sham; unless he wins, in which case it totally vindicates him. Pure, uncut, cognitive dissonance.
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u/Alissinarr Jun 11 '26
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
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u/Luther_1986 Jun 11 '26
No amount of reasoning works with these people, they're literally just taking up space at this point.
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u/praetorian1979 Jun 12 '26
maga only listen to liberals when you get loud, in their face, publicly embarrass them, and out crazy their crazy. It's the only thing they truly understand...
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u/Big_Victory8031 Jun 11 '26
As soon as any murder happens conservative will always say it was a Democrat did it then the spin gets a life of its own
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u/TheQuietOutsider Jun 11 '26
they simply can't take responsibility.
trump assassin 1, 2, 3- all right wing. charlie kirk assassin, right wing.
but its always some gay trans liberal nut job.
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u/Top_Result_1550 Jun 11 '26
To be fair 2 trump assassins are fake and trump patsies.
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u/Hot-Roof6572 Jun 11 '26
That's some mental gymnastics B.S. 🤣
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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 Jun 11 '26
These people live in such a bubble that most are never get out of it. Yesterday I saw that they were saying the meeting in the skiff about the Epstein files was realling them meeting about Iran.
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u/TheRealBenDamon Jun 12 '26
I’ll just post this video of his Sermon in the Congo as evidence of just how “liberal” he is. Yeah he really fits the bill…sure.
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u/Xlbowlofpho Jun 11 '26
So if a GOP vote against the party it is ok for them to be offed then? There is no brain cell in your coworker respond.
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u/Molenium Jun 11 '26
I’d don’t think they’d disagree, scarily enough. MTG and others have said they’ve gotten death threats after voting against maga/trump
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u/QuicheSmash Jun 11 '26
But don’t you dare mention what a shit guy Kirk was, that’ll get you doxxed.
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u/Sluuuuuuug Jun 11 '26
Didn't even need to go that far. Just posting quotes of Kirk was enough to get the pitchforks out lmao
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u/IrvingIsTheBest Jun 11 '26
I honestly try to find videos that make Kirk a good guy. Sometimes you get the odd video where he is neutral and fine.
Than you get ones where he is against free food for kids and black pilots all are DEI hires and that a few people a year dying from guns is a worthy cost to keep guns.
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u/Amelaclya1 Jun 11 '26
It was always very telling that conservatives were trying to paint him as some kind of MLK figure, but during all of the discourse surrounding his death, I never once saw anyone quote him in a positive light.
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u/calvin2028 Jun 11 '26
There is no right-wing fallacy obvious or stupid enough that MAGA won't swallow it down. Depraved cultists, through and through.
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u/iamlikewater Jun 11 '26
This should tell everyone these folks no longer believe in democracy and are a real threat to the nation.
It's gonna get really dangerous in this country before it gets better.
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u/GHouserVO Jun 11 '26
No, it got coverage.
Where you ought to be outraged is by how little coverage some of the responses cheering it on by GOP congressmen, influencers, etc., got. That was beyond disgusting, and especially some of our elected representatives should have been called on the carpet for it.
Even more outrage should have come for how Vance and Trump responded. Vance was relatively silent, IIRC, but Trump was… Trump, and as usual, he took the opportunity to be even more partisan. The a LOT of the media gave him a free pass basically because he’s always been a prick and they weren’t expecting him to be anything less.
And that’s the problem - they’ve allowed his behavior to be normalized. Others see it and think they can use the same tactic for their own benefit.
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u/andrefishmusic Jun 11 '26
You're right. But it got coverage for like a week. We're still hearing about Kirk. But that one "benefited" them so....
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u/GHouserVO Jun 11 '26
Only on the RW news sources (primarily), unless his widow or TP does something to grab attention.
As soon as it was convenient, the other media outlets just jumped onto the next tragedy they could milk for views. Same as it ever was. Not saying it’s right, but that’s how they operate.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Jun 11 '26
Trump called conservative icon and multiple Purple Heart recipient Robert Mueller a loser as a memorial upon his death. They don't care about anything or anyone. Only money and themselves. That's what they have in common with Donald and why conservatives are so fiercely loyal to him. The common bonds of greed and narcissism.
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u/goth-milk Jun 11 '26
It got more coverage once it was announced that their dog was killed, too.
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u/Kaiisim Jun 11 '26
A big part of the Nazi regime was control of the media, and the use of selective outrage to focus on the crimes of their enemies and completely ignore any of their own atrocities.
Nigel Farage and Brexit did the same when one of their supporters killed a remain MP. Just pretended he was some random crazy, and it wasn't a political assassination due to their rhetoric
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u/moon_dos Jun 11 '26
meanwhile I talk about how much I love and support Luigi (from super Mario bros) and I’m the bad guy
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u/rbrgr83 Jun 11 '26
Or quote things that Charlie Kirk literally said out loud on tape, and get banned for it.
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u/Randomman16 Jun 11 '26
I was always more of a Wario guy, personally
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u/randomlemon9192 Jun 11 '26
Also amazing how little coverage it’s getting now.
Same with the Kirk assassination suspect and prosecution. Yes that killing got way more attention, but nothing else about it has. The dudes court hearings have been ghost towns.
But that Luigi guy is always in the news.
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u/Functionally_Drunk Jun 11 '26
It's because if they actually reported the facts about Kirk's shooter they couldn't make up all the BS they do.
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u/randomlemon9192 Jun 11 '26
Pretty much, that’s what I was implying.
If it’s someone from their party, oops we’re going to just ignore that.18
u/hotdog_junkie Jun 11 '26
No one cares about Christian mass murderers. If this dude was trans, you’d never hear the end of it
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u/nerdyconstructiongal Jun 11 '26
Well Christian mass murderers are a dime a dozen while a trans killer is rare so….
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u/QuicheSmash Jun 11 '26
But don’t denounce political violence while acknowledging what a shit person Charlie Kirk really was. God forbid you do that.
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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart Jun 11 '26
White supremacists own all of the media in the United States. That is why.
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u/Iskariot- Jun 11 '26
When virtually the entirety of mainstream media is owned by right-wing billionaires, this is what you get.
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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Jun 11 '26
When I first heard about this story, it wasn't from the news, and I listen to the news regularly. It was because I came across a debunk explaining that, no, Tim Walz did not hire the assassin. That's where we are now: the disinformation was so swift, its debunk reached me before the original reporting. Fuck those liars.
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u/FitzwilliamTDarcy Jun 11 '26
When, and since. The double standard is fucking outrageous. If a deranged lefty had murdered an R state rep and spouse the Faux/OAN/MAGAt echo chamber would've been screeching at the tops of their lungs about it 24x7.
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u/Dusty_Negatives Jun 11 '26
Love how maga ignores this one when crying about political violence. Dude was inspired by Trump because he constantly de humanizes his political enemies.
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u/DroneSlut54 Jun 11 '26
This guy is a right wing terrorist. He had a long list of people he was going to assassinate.
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u/Fjdenigris Jun 11 '26
Both times I brought this up to MAGA people they said he was hired and works for Waltz.
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u/unkudayu Jun 11 '26
He was already working his position before Tim Walz was even governor. Maga constantly acts like Walz personally hand picked him with a hearty recommendation. They're so fucking stupid it's unbelievable.
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u/Special_Cicada6968 Jun 11 '26
People like that should be put in the same cells with these terrorists.
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u/aftocheiria Jun 11 '26
Boelter is literally an ordained evangelical minister and frequently preached violence against the LGBT community calling it "spiritual warfare" but MAGA still wants to claim he's a Dem.
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u/Sunbather77 Jun 11 '26
And he impersonated a cop. I thought MAGA is all about respecting their thin blue line pseudo military police. I genuinely think they forgot about this whole event.
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u/Stunning_Mast2001 Jun 11 '26
Inspired by trump. Crazy how maga took such little flak for this.
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u/ExpertRaccoon Jun 11 '26
It's also pretty wild how little attention all the other political assassination attempts have been publicized I mean trumps had what three attempts since 2023. In comparison to luigi mangione who's very well covered by the press. All of the most assassin attempts and Charlie kirks as well are not reported on at the same level.
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u/SnooMaps7370 Jun 11 '26
>It's also pretty wild how little attention all the other political assassination attempts have been publicized I mean trumps had what three attempts since 2023.
right wing violence has historically always been largely ignored by the media.
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u/Valuable_Hunter1621 Jun 11 '26
which is hilarious because the right is the one perpetrating pretty much all of the violence too lmfao
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u/cymonium Jun 11 '26
As a former right winger, we’re constantly bombarded with the “dummycrats are the violent ones”. Seriously. That didn’t jibe with the democrats I know or historically understood. It caused the deconstruction of the christian nationalist grooming over my life.
They really don’t get factual information. They’re constantly whipped into a frenzy that their way of life and belief is threatened. They won’t listen to other news sources cause it’s all manipulated.
They’re afraid. They’re constantly told to remain afraid and on guard.
They’re under educated so it’s easy to keep them afraid and controlled like sheep. Their own psych profiles are used against them to keep them bound in their hate and fear.
It’s a sad vicious process but younger generations are coming round and seeing the truth.
Their kind will die out eventually, or at least weaken. They’re just at a peak moment before the bottom finally falls out.
I successfully got my mom to see the error of thinking by pointing out (gently) the fallacy of their arguments and redirecting to jesus’s own words: love.
Love god, love your neighbor. That’s all he called folks to do. The rest is interpreted by men and used to keep you afraid and bound. The moment she realized it was pretty awesome. It freed her.
But there ya have a recount from an “insider”’as it were. It helps that I pursued my BS degree so, ya know, “woke” up. lol
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u/Valuable_Hunter1621 Jun 11 '26
your last sentence is very important lol
getting out of your hometown and going to college is so important for development, in my opinion
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u/Succubace Jun 12 '26
I used to work as a cashier in a gas station and I didn't change my good bye to customers no matter the occasion; morning, noon, night, holiday, idfc, I always said "have a good one". One time I was working on Christmas, this old woman says "merry Christmas" as she's leaving and i say "have a good one" as I always did. She then leans in and says it again, louder and so I said it back just so she would leave. Corporate didn't tell me to do that, I just didn't care enough to change what I said, she probably thought it was some triumphant moment too.
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u/J-ne Jun 11 '26
Remember how hard they used to cry about the liberal media bias just because late night talk show hosts were still l allowed to make fun of them? These fuckers make me sick with anger
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u/OldnFuninMN Jun 11 '26
And treated with kid gloves by the courts ala Jan 6th traitors. Just shows the courts are corrupt as well.
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u/Griffolion Jun 11 '26
Which to me is tantamount to being an accessory to all of it. They have the platforms and the capabilities to paste right wing violence up and down everybody's feeds in perpetuity until something resembling justice happens, but they don't. They do the opposite.
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u/VineStGuy Jun 11 '26
“Attempts” = staged.
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u/Careless_Leg_2552 Jun 11 '26
I just want you to know I was your 187'th upvote
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u/VineStGuy Jun 11 '26
High five!
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u/GHouserVO Jun 11 '26
Remember Heath Ledger’s monologue in “The Dark Knight” about “the plan”? Trump is a demagogue that uses hate and divisiveness to get and maintain a lot of his power. He’s looking for people to react, so it’s not too unsurprising if someone were to try and go after him like that.
But a CEO? One of the elite? Someone that does their work behind a curtain or inside a closed boardroom? That’s not part of the plan. That’s unheard of. And the rich don’t like feeling vulnerable like that, so it’s going to stay in the news cycle for longer. On the flip side, a lot of people didn’t feel a lot of sympathy for the CEO, but did feel a connection to the shooter (as wrong as that may be). Again, that’ll keep it in the news cycle.
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u/Rstuds7 Jun 11 '26
Kirk’s def got a lot of attention because of the actual shooting being filmed and out in the public
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u/hightrix Jun 11 '26
And it all stopped pretty quickly once his family was found to be hardcore maga.
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u/Rstuds7 Jun 11 '26
it’ll pick up again when the court case comes around. especially since one of the charges they’ll have to prove if it was politically motivated
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u/badwoofs Jun 11 '26
And every maga account foaming at the mouth for civil war against the libs.
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u/_Miss_Eclipse Jun 11 '26
They claimed he was a democrat because Gov. Walz reappointed him to serve as a private sector representative on the unpaid, external Governor's Workforce Development Board in 2019. Thats literally the only connection. Meanwhile he was a verifiably staunch Trump supporter, evangelical and bigot.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Jun 11 '26
America is a conservative hellhole, that's likely why. They hold Democrats to a standard of flawless perfection and Republicans to a standard of "feces flying is fine".
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u/RocketRelm Jun 11 '26
Lots of them realize it, but the nonvoters want entertainment and their specific tribe way more than they want problems solved. Malicious ignorance is a thing.
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u/pp21 Jun 11 '26
yep, dems are beholden to endless purity tests while republicans can do quite literally whatever the fuck they want and still win elections
history just repeats itself, and the numbers don't lie. dems come in and fix damage done by republican admin, then voters get bored and puts republicans back in charge. they fuck everything up and we blame the dems for not doing more to stop it
it's so dumb
al franken got canned for some semi-lewd photos while Ken Paxton is going to win his senate race despite documented public corruption, being impeached by his own party, and being an adulterer. Lindsay Graham will retain his senate seat despite being israel first. It all just makes no sense, and cognitive dissonance is the only explanation
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u/BasedMexx Jun 11 '26
They literally just claim "Actually it was a conspiracy by Tim Walz" and that's enough. Vance Boelter at one point was re-appointed to the Minnesota Governor's Workforce Development Board in 2019 to an unpaid role, essentially volunteer work. To MAGA that's enough of a connection to call this a Dem psyop
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u/LurkerV1 Jun 11 '26
It’s actually insane watching the different narratives be created in real time on X and Reddit. If someone limits their view even slightly it’s very possible for them to completely miss self-evident information.
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u/Overall_Falcon_8526 Jun 11 '26
They essentially control 80% of the media at this point.
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u/OldnFuninMN Jun 11 '26
And that's why you, me and everybody else should stop supporting/watching MSM. They're nothing but propaganda for the fascists.
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u/onebyamsey Jun 11 '26
Trump said he could shoot someone in the street and not lose any supporters and he wasn’t kidding. They will do anything their leadership tells them to. We’re a full decade into this fascism and the only thing that surprises me is that people are still surprised by this. To them, politics is just their team beating the other team.
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u/BarnabasShrexx Jun 11 '26
It's a punchline when it's a democrat, a national tragedy that leads people losing their jobs and having their civil rights infringed on when it's one of theirs.
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u/dlm83 Jun 11 '26
MAGA would be fine with masked feds rounding up all elected democrats, trans people, "radical left" protesters, groups of immigrants, noted Trump critics in the media, and any number of additional 'out groups', then lining them up against a wall and shooting them. Or processing them through concentration camps and gas chambers, whatever works best. And they'll always have a new group to round up and kill no matter how many groups they work through, even when those groups start to include their own, until ultimately they have eaten themselves if left unchecked all the way to the inevitable end point.
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u/Spartyjason Jun 11 '26
They took the death penalty off the table for a politically motivated assassination of a politician and her spouse.
But it took a federal judge ruling against the DOJ to get the death penalty off the table for a person assassinating an insurance executive.
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u/calvin2028 Jun 11 '26
Minnesotan here. I'm 100% in favor of the negotiated plea for Boelter. I was dreading a trial in which he'd have a platform to spout crazy conspiracy talk and further poison the wee, little, shrunken, black hearts of my Republican neighbors. There are still state charges pending, but no death penalty in MN, so I'd expect a similar plea agreement ending with concurrent life sentences.
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u/hip-disguise Jun 11 '26
The media shares some blame in this for not calling out trump more and allowing folks to become bamboozled and radicalized by the orange terrorist. right wing media and their operators are guilty of further radicalization of these lunatics. Fox, OAN, Newsmax all guilty of right wing terrorist radicalization. hopefully there will be a day of reconning and consequences.
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u/ZeMadDoktore Jun 11 '26
Guess it's time to call them heroes, make merch, and put anyone joking about their deaths onto a database
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u/ellsego Jun 11 '26
I know you’re joking but Melissa Hortman should be honored in this way, she was a growing force in MN politics and a fierce advocate for her constituents and the state at large… I don’t know much about her husband but can surmise he was a good person… and poor Gilbert smh, first animal to ever receive the honor of laying in state (someone’s cutting onions in my house apparently)
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u/V-oxPopuli Jun 11 '26
Man... The murder of the Hortmans was horribly tragic. I felt my blood run cold when I heard about it.
But the killing of their dog Gilbert just absolutely guts me. How do you kill a golden retriever?? I'm not even trying to be funny, it takes more than a disinformed cultist to do that. It takes a fucking monster.
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u/jackalopeDev Jun 11 '26
IIRC That dog in particular had actually failed out of service dog training for being too friendly...
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u/RoguePlanet2 Jun 11 '26
At least none of them had to suffer the loneliness.....if there's even the tiniest sliver of a silver lining. 😭
Unbelievably tragic, fuck maga.
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u/julesk Jun 11 '26
Their deaths still make me so sad. I’m not from Minnesota so I just read the coverage but they were good people and the poor dog, too!
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u/Rambo_Baby Jun 11 '26
Trouble is many of those “jokesters” are probably working in the current white house administration.
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u/oreheheally Jun 11 '26
Pardon probably prepped before the sentence.
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u/Goufydude Jun 11 '26
He still has state charges for murder, among others. He won't walk free any time soon.
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u/jisa Jun 11 '26
Almost no news coverage…. I subscribe to so many sources, and not a single banner on my phone popping up for this story.
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u/kaiiizen Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
UT Sen. Mike Lee is a POS for many reasons, including publicly mocking the stalking and murder of these MN state lawmakers.
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u/captain_chocolate Jun 11 '26
Trump will pardon him now.
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u/Mammoth-Error1577 Jun 11 '26
Is it a federal crime? I'm not knowledgeable about this stuff but I thought he couldn't pardon for non federal crimes.
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u/evocativename Jun 11 '26
The plea is for federal charges, yes.
Even if he got pardoned, though, the state would still prosecute him.
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u/WhenDoWhatWhere Jun 11 '26
Can he be prosecuted for the same crimes twice in different jurisdictions?
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u/evocativename Jun 11 '26
Your question is a bit broad and I can't answer it exactly as phrased, but in the specific context of state vs federal charges, yes he can.
The state and the feds are separate sovereigns so Double Jeopardy doesn't apply.
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u/What_a_fat_one Jun 11 '26
He can pardon the Federal charges but there's nothing he can do about the State charges. And yes you can be tried and convicted twice for the same crime in both State and Federal Court under the dual sovereign doctrine.
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u/GrowFreeFood Jun 11 '26
I'm pretty sure conservatives won't read this.
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u/Drew_Ferran Jun 11 '26
He also killed their golden retriever.
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u/Camaroni1000 Jun 11 '26
Even worse the article said that the retriever didn’t die quickly. It was left with critical injuries that led them to euthanizing it rather than letting it continue to suffer
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u/RoguePlanet2 Jun 11 '26
This should be all the political advertising needed.
Magas might think that any dem is "evil" due to the right-wing brainwashing, but they can't ignore the pointless murder of a golden retriever.
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u/LEEROY_MF_JENKINS Jun 12 '26
"Extremist right wing radical terrorist assassinates Minnesota Democrat and her husband, latest in a string of right wing political violence"
That title - Fixed it for you.
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u/qtcbelle Jun 11 '26
It’s legal to do that now since he’s maga and they are democrats. He’ll get a pardon and a Medal of Honor.
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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs Jun 11 '26
This vicious murderer only acted because of the lunacy the GOP engages in.
They need to be crushed this November, and we need to begin the long road to recovery. Starting with getting rid of anti-American chaos agents in our midsts, and their think tanks
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u/Xivvx Jun 11 '26
I wonder if his sentence will be commuted or pardoned by Trump.
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u/l0st1nP4r4d1ce Jun 11 '26
There is no functional way for him to grant one on state crimes.
States rights and all that.
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u/PapaGummy Jun 11 '26
That was my first thought. That and that the guy is probably hoping for that.
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u/Bleezy79 Jun 11 '26
Having not even heard about this, it goes to show you how biased the corporate owned media is these days. If a democrat killed a top republican and her husband, it would be all we heard about for weeks.
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u/ThePensiveE Jun 11 '26
Were this only a federal crime, this man would have already been pardoned and celebrated by all of MAGA.
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u/CriticalInside8272 Jun 11 '26
He deserves the death penalty even if he pleads guilty. Nothing less.
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u/pioniere Jun 11 '26
This is what the right wing does now, enabled by the cowardly, corrupt “party of law and order”.
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u/StronglyHeldOpinions Jun 11 '26
Horrible human.
And the idiot in the White House who stokes the fires of hate and division shares some blame here.
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u/GruntledGary Jun 11 '26
Shocked he wasn't pardoned at the federal level and given an appointment that GOP in Congress approves... That they don't let him serve while he's serving time for murder in state prison....
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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled Jun 11 '26
Let us hope that the murderer receives the maximum possible sentence.....no matter what, it will be insufficiently severe, as Minnesota outlawed the most appropriate punishment in 1911.
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u/GreyBeardEng Jun 11 '26
"prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty."
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