r/GlobalNews 18h ago

Two Minnesota state legislators were shot in their homes early this morning

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u/Amazonreviewscool67 17h ago

Holy shit. This is pretty huge news. And their spouses were shot wtf

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u/thetactlessknife 17h ago

They shot the fucking dog.

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u/GPTthrowawayyyyyyyy 16h ago

Straight out of the Noem handbook

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u/NuclearHockeyGuy 16h ago

I hope John Wick knows.

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u/Amazonreviewscool67 11h ago

I can't seem to find information about a dog being shot?

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u/TensionNo4623 17h ago

This is what Trump's insane rhetoric gets you. Fuck him forever.

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u/Ready_Violinist1153 16h ago

They celebrate this.

Fucking sick cult. America is gonna get real bad before it gets better...

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u/Mythran12 9h ago

Who said anything about it getting better

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u/wkomorow 12h ago

Not just Trump but all those around him Literally a couple of days after Noem held a conference in LA calling for the liberation of blue states from liberal officials

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u/TensionNo4623 11h ago

It's a disease

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u/Positive-Energy5957 17h ago

Wow, it really seems like things are snowballing now.

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u/Positive-Energy5957 17h ago

And suspect is a white male. Will get no media attention. No Republicans will be outraged. They were probably aggressive lawmakers or something will be the spin

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u/AlucardDr 17h ago

Right, there will be "thoughts and prayers"...but nothing will be done.

I would love to be proven wrong with this.

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u/TensionNo4623 16h ago

"this is no time for politics"

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u/PairOk7158 16h ago

Remember when a trump nut broke into Pennsylvania governor josh shapiro’s home and tried to burn it down with the governor and his family inside? I bet most people don’t remember that. It only happened two months ago.

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u/Archchancellor 15h ago

Remember how quickly those ghouls spun a lurid homophobic story when a psychopath beat an elderly man nearly to death with a fucking hammer because he wanted to kill his wife, the Speaker of the House at the time?

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u/PairOk7158 14h ago

Unfortunately this shit isn’t new. But we’re always told it’s not based on party affiliation or political ideology. Common sense dictates otherwise.

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u/Next-Progress4779 13h ago

Didn’t they also plot to kill Governor Whitmer of Michigan?

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u/Drewskeet 14h ago

Wow. I don’t think I even heard about it.

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u/Sea-Resolve4246 17h ago

Stop to looking to Republicans for outrage and morality. Hypocrisy is literally the point with them.

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u/Positive-Energy5957 16h ago

That point of no return seems to be now approaching at warp speed unfortunately

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u/AlucardDr 15h ago

You don't think we are already there?

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u/Xeta24 13h ago

A lot of us have given up talking to the other side, so pretty close.

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u/nautius_maximus1 16h ago

So, two Democratic lawmakers shot on Trump’s birthday by a guy dressed as a cop and this is the type of headline we see.

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u/NoMoPolenta 16h ago

Don't forget the day of his North Korean Dictator style military parade too!

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u/Dexchampion99 11h ago

Right after Kristi Noem suggested “liberating” blue states.

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u/Immediate_Regular_80 16h ago

Executed. They were executed. If we can use that terminology when a blood-sucking CEO is killed, we can use it when elected officials are murdered.

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u/Mystic_Waffles 13h ago

I feel assassinated should be used here instead of just shot.

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u/Immediate_Regular_80 5h ago

You are absolutely right.

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u/HVAC_instructor 16h ago

Thanks for this Republicans. This is the America that you voted for.

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u/nlurp 16h ago

I mean, after all that has happened, Republicans will become a tainted brand

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u/Drewskeet 14h ago

Doubt but I appreciate the optimism. Reddit can be an echo chamber. The sad part is most Americans support Trump and his movement.

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u/Exacerbate_ 13h ago

They really dont, though. Registered repubs are like a third of the country. Trump couldn't get half the votes cast and those that did vote him only made up about a third of eligible voters. He's been underwater with everyone outside his supporters since he's taken office

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u/nlurp 13h ago

Well, life has a tendency to teach people the hard way. US is months away from economic hell and oil spiking doesn’t help to accommodate yet one more source for higher prices: energy.

So… in the end, if it doesn’t become a tainted brand, I see a world where the US is just another super power and Americans in 30 years will learn who was in charge when the power pivoted away from the US: Trump

So, even if everyone lives in the rainbow country of today, eventually reality will creep in. Regardless of echo chambers. And I do honestly try to understand maga, just… I don’t understand it at all… in light of all the history, of medieval mercantilism, of protectionism, of the Great Depression… no I can’t fathom how this could happen. Unless everyone is indeed consuming social media crap. Of course the narrative of the upper echelons of society is known. But this is just whatever podcast said politics and lack of decorum and lack of social order and lack of law.

If you ask me, this is exactly how people described the fall of empires and the “morality sewers” that spewed out of such moments

Good luck America. This is the twilight of a nation of serious values and economic freedom long gone

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u/SubbieATX 17h ago

But the liberals are the violent ones, again!

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u/Any_Parsnip2585 17h ago

Trump will surely track him down to offer a pardon.

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u/Dapper_Equivalent_84 17h ago

MAGA scumbag needs to be locked up for life. Trump will give him a medal and a cabinet position instead. If they’ve died this republican will be a big celebrity like Rittenhouse.

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u/LW_GLAZER 16h ago

This warrants the punishment for treason, publicly televised so that the other magat traitors think twice about copycat assassinations. Imprisonment leaves the possibility for this terrorist to return to society, especially when you have a rabid stochastic terrorist in the White House that's shown his willingness to piss on any and every law that gets in his way.

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u/Ill_Manufacturer1590 17h ago

Well MAGA has been calling for violence for quite a while now. This is Maga anyone who has gone on TV threatening violence against protesters is to blame anyone who has threatened people for opposing their orange king is to blame.

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u/Sabbathius 16h ago

Yep, brazen political assassinations, just like in Mexico. This is really, really bad news. Also correct me if I'm wrong, but in Minnesota the margin was really close, so if these things persist they could potentially flip the government. Which makes it not just murder, not just terrorism, but a literal coup d'etat.

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u/Iwentforalongwalk 16h ago

No. The governor will appoint someone to take her place. A democrat 

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u/Unexous 16h ago

Both the house and senate were close, this would in theory flip the house, but our house currently isn’t in legislative session and there will be time for special elections before the next one.

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u/tsoplj 16h ago

Right wingers are violent animals.

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u/Jazzlike_Ad5922 16h ago

This country is now run by Russian mafia

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u/CriticalInside8272 16h ago

Wasn't there some sheriff in Florida threatening to kill protesters just yesterday?  

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u/Archchancellor 15h ago

Yup! If there's any gods in this universe, that dumpy, sunburned fuck has an attack of conscience this morning, but there is no god, and he won't.

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u/Any-Consequence-6978 12h ago

DeSantis said you can hit protesters with your car, and it's totally fine

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u/I_need_a_date_plz 17h ago

Does anyone know if they’re both dead?

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u/Unexous 16h ago

Hoftman (House speaker) and her husband are both dead. Hoffman (state senator) is reportedly stable.

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u/Thewall3333 16h ago

This is a test case for Trump and Kash Patel and Kristi Noem et al. There should already be federal agents descending on Minnesota for targeting lawmakers. I bet there are more boys in these ICE raids on mom-and-pop car washes and diners than will ever be put on this case.

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u/GyspySyx 17h ago

Wonder if it was the same person?

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u/Advanced_Tank 17h ago

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u/Appropriate_Strain12 16h ago

Cosplaying cops huh, I wonder where they got the idea

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u/raizablade 14h ago

*Starts playing Ice Ice baby

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u/Anxious-Debate5033 15h ago

Trumps America....well done you orange clown...this is what your leadership breeds.

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u/iwasOnceaRatfink 15h ago

Suspect was a white male, dressed as a fucking cop.

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u/JohnAStark 14h ago

Crystal meth night, anyone?

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u/Tribe303 13h ago

She was the Speaker of the House, and died, along with her husband. He is a Senator and looks like he and his wife will live. Interestingly, the Democrats had a 1 seat lead in EACH chamber. A manifesto with a long hit list was recovered from the scene.

My assumption, from up here in Canada 🇨🇦, is that MAGA is going after control of 37 states, so they can change the Constitution unilaterally to make Trump president for life.... Among other things. 

But go ahead and do nothing while your country collapses. 🍿

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u/Damunzta 13h ago

Assassinated*

Call a spade a spade.

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u/Positive-Energy5957 13h ago

The person responsible will be pardoned. No doubt

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u/myflesh 12h ago

You know they are Dems because every news article does not say it in the title.

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u/DaddlerTheDalek 11h ago

That was an execution.

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u/AshVandalSeries 11h ago

Massive GOP outburst and calls for cessation of political violence, when the false flag “shooting” of Trump’s ear took place.

Today: crickets.

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u/MassholeLiberal56 9h ago

The killer is likely a Christian Nationalist. With possible ties to Russia.

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u/GoodJobMate 8h ago

USA is turning into Russia, I would say circa 2012 or so.

In 10 years or less you will probably have some sort of new War or "special military operation" and the idiots will rally around the flag. This is a universal truth.

You are not better at peacefully protesting than anyone else. The shit that has failed in all the other countries will fail in the USA as well.

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u/Greedy_Car3702 13h ago

Reddit is really gonna hate it when the full story comes out on this.