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Minnesota politician shot and killed, another injured in "targeted political violence"
(www.nbcnews.com)
targeted political violence.
Terrorism. Call it what it is.
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So...terrorism.
It is wild right-wingers are trying to paint the killer as left wing. Trump cultist prove they can't comprehend anything. RIP to both of the victims.
I mean...according to this, both primary suspect shooter & his wife were directly appointed by Tim Walz. You don't get too much further left than Tim Walz.
I want to know how they were working for Tim Walz, deeply associated with left wing, but not left wing themselves. It does happen, sometimes, I'm open to discussion.
Ah yes. The “liberal hivemind” Youtube channel. A reputable source of information and news.
And it starts...
Who got killed? Are they behind any legislation one way or the other that would make them targets?
Why does he look like Ryan Gosling wearing that mask in Drive?
Can't seem to find the 'reply' button on any comments in any threads anymore, they musta changed something... so I gotta create a top level comment now to reply.
"So, just like the 9/11 hijacking changes everything about how people respond to a hijacking event, this changes everything about answering your door. You see someone dressed as a cop at your door, you don’t answer the door. You call 911, then have then identify the name and badge number of the cop at your door and you don’t answer the door until 911 acknowledges its a real cop at the door."
IDK about you but after you don't answer the door, I wouldn't be calling 911, I'd be playing possum with a fucking loaded gun waiting to go off if the front door opens or waiting for them to leave. The guy didn't say he had a warrant, and if the police have a warrant just one cop isn't going to be there, it'll be a Pride of LEOs.
This is big news. Google it.
More info on him: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/minnesota-shootings-gunman-suspect.html
Mr. Boelter and his wife run a private security company in Minnesota, according to its website. The company, Praetorian Guard Security Services...
...the gunman had a list that included her name and the names of other lawmakers, all of whom were Democrats. The list included about 70 potential targets, a federal law enforcement official said, including doctors, community and business leaders, and locations for Planned Parenthood and other health care centers. Some of the targets were in neighboring states.
Mr. Boelter, the site said, had traveled previously to violent areas “in the Gaza Strip and West Bank,” the site said, and had “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn’t the answer.”
Praetorian Guard. A notorious unit of body guard troop who are mostly known for extorting and killing the people they were supposed to be protecting.
What a great name for a body guard company.
Oh the irony
Do we need to mention that they were both democratic politicians? Many of us would love to see the list of the others he was going to kill. I'm sort of thinking they were all Democrats.
The article said his hit list included about 70 targets, ALL Democrats.
This morning's update identified him as a part-time pastor and a part-time military contractor. Sure sounds like a raging conservative to me.
if they were a Republican it would be screamed everywhere about how liberals are using violence
I think it was the Pro Left that had a recent podcast about how the Democrats are set up as the balancing force that is always put into the position of an abused housewife that must mollify the crazy alcoholic husband, which is the Republicans.
Pretty apt metaphor, and I'm not doing it justice, but it's pretty much considered "normal" for Republicans to do and say nearly anything, and then everyone blames the Democrats for making the Republicans do what they do...it's all DARVO.
Apparently, they're still screaming about how liberals are using violence. Nucking futz.
"LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!"
Yeah, the tone I am seeing in conservative spaces about this has shifting to the gunman being a CIA operative to smeer conservatives.
it was, there was a list being mentioned on a subreddit, it includes tim walz, and others, plus abortion workers.
…the gunman had a list that included her name and the names of other lawmakers, all of whom were Democrats. The list included about 70 potential targets, a federal law enforcement official said, including doctors, community and business leaders, and locations for Planned Parenthood and other health care centers. Some of the targets were in neighboring states.
Convenient for the Trump administration that the (non-Fox) news is going to talk about this all day instead of the millions of people protesting him all across the country.
Meanwhile, Fox News and CNN are creaming themselves over Israel and Iran.
Fox "Israel under attack"
CNN "Israel reels from deadly Iranian missile strikes"
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How convenient. House is a 67-67 D and R. State Senate 34 D 33 R. Not political at all this assassination......
Are there actually no safeguards against this? It seems like a pretty big fucking flaw in a democratic system if you can kill the opposing elected officials in order to gain control of the state. Like their votes should temporarily go to someone else in the party or something, not just be wiped out completely.
Even the article explicitly says this is politically motivated, this isn’t being presented as random
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I'd bet anything the police and media response to this is and will be orders of magnitude less than when that healthcare guy got clapped.
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You know what’s fucked up is that I don’t even have to look. I can tell you right now that the victims in this crime are part of the Democratic party. You know how I know? Because the FBI director and the president are talking about prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law and how violence in America will never be acceptable.
But if it was the other way around and a Democrat went nuts and killed a Republican senator Donald Trump would be on truth social calling for that person to be hung or stretched or quartered or whatever it is they did to people in the middle ages.

But if it was the other way around ... Donald Trump would be on truth social calling for that person to be hung...
Not just that, but he would be demonizing the whole Democrat party, saying how their dangerous rhetoric caused this and the party needs to be outlawed and its leaders arrested.
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Sure sounds like MAGA is trying to start a hot civil war.
Going to be interesting when these people find out liberals are well armed and trained.
It’s been funny when they’ve come up to me calling me the f word because I’m clearly queer and then I flash my piece at them and they get white in the face and back the fuck off me real quick
Best be careful doing that. Flashing your gun is called brandishing and is illegal in most cases. You only show your gun when you are ready to fire it.
Yeah, flashing your piece at them does indeed strike me as a tad gay ;-)
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/us/video/florida-sheriff-warns-protesters-we-will-kill-you-digvid
Tell me why I shouldn't think it was an actual police officer that assassinated them ?
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Time for real Americans to start dealing with the traitors in and out of our government.
This isn't just assassination, it's terrorism designed to scare opponents of Trump from speaking out. The media won't say that, of course, because it's likely the shooter is white.
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"They will be prosecuting anyone involved to the fullest extent of the law," Trump said in a statement. "Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America."
Ah, like they did with the violent perpetrators of the January 6th insurrection, until you pardoned them all and set them free.
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