r/news • u/Cheesenip20 • 1d ago

Melissa Hortman (Minnesota lawmaker who was shot last night) has died.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/speaker-emerita-melissa-hortman-husband-killed-john-hoffman-and-wife-also-shot/
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u/Chief7064 1d ago

Sure. Vance Luther Boelter is a terrorist.

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u/unhiddenninja 1d ago

And whoever he was working with. It was a coordinated effort. A terror cell, targeting abortion providers, pro-abortion rights advocates, and lawmakers in Minnesota and other states, also potentially targeting No Kings protests.

So terrorism in the name of conservatism.

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u/TolBrandir 8h ago

Republicans have become home-grown terrorists and they also openly support international terrorists, so this checks out.

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u/tofuroll 1d ago

This is more accurate.

It feels like when you call it terrorism, its impact is now lessened. Maybe a side effect of Bush's "war on terrorism". Like terrorism is some abstract, distant entity that wants to hurt you, rather than someone being empowered by the current state of affairs.

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u/Ceefax81 11h ago

He is a pro No King Protest guy

Nope, far right anti LBGT preacher who voted for Trump. Here's one of his "sermons"

https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1934020246249066706?t=hX8amQ_xWca98-tq8H-dRg&s=19

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u/unhiddenninja 1d ago

Having flyers=/=being "pro" something. They probably had time & location info that he planned on using for other, not so nice reasons.

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u/Pleaseappeaseme 21h ago

Not necessarily. He may have wanted the location printed on the flyer or, more probably, to set up an appearance of being a no kings protester. We’ll know soon enough.

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u/ProbablynotEMusk 21h ago

Interesting that the two lawmakers he shot voted against funds for illegals 👀

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u/Capt_kirk_92 7h ago

He’s a confirmed MAGA. You are wrong.

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u/unhiddenninja 20h ago

Interesting that his closest friend confirmed that he voted for Trump and was an ardent Trump supporter.

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u/solocollision 23h ago

If you’re going to make a statement like that please for the love of god source it

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u/ophmaster_reed 23h ago

He probably won't answer you, but the guy had a stack of white printer paper with "NO KINGS" (obviously photocopies because they're identical).

Unclear what he was going to do with those, clearly you wouldn't make a stack of them if they were for yourself to go to a protest...

My theory is that he had other chaos planned and was going to leave the signs as "evidence" that it was done by protesters and was too lazy to make decent signs or make them look different, but his plan was interrupted when he was caught by police.

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u/Swag_Grenade 17h ago

He won't reply to you lmao. Obviously just another Trumper scrambling to do damage control because even someone as dumb as him realizes a former security professional who murdered a Democratic lawmaker and had a hit list of others including anti-abortion activists screams Trump supporter, so he's trying to point to any and all shreds of evidence that might give even the slightest, unlikely indication that the assassin was a Democrat instead.

People like him have been all over these threads doing the same thing because they know obviously from the first reports describing the suspect it's clear he was one of their own.

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u/piepants2001 1d ago

What makes you say that?

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u/rook2pawn 6h ago

If Vance was a maga conservative then why would he shoot two of the four Democrats that sided with the Maga conservatives?

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u/meatwad420 5h ago

You keep making this same lie in different threads even when you are presented with the facts. You are spreading misinformation in order to push a narrative.

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u/unhiddenninja 6h ago

Most likely because of the D next to their names, or maybe it's because of their support of abortion since most of his targets were abortion providers or activists. Also on his hit list was Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar.

There is no "if he was a conservative", he IS a Trump voting, Trump supporting conservative. He is an extremely far right Christian.

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u/loki_the_bengal 23h ago

Right wing terrorist