There was a terrible mass shooting in Michigan — the killer drove a truck into a Mormon church, set it on fire, and killed four. What I mainly heard in the aftermath of the tragedy was that the killer hated Mormons, thought they were an anti-Christian cult, etc., etc., etc., and Fox News was practically drooling at being able to pin this event on a leftist god-hating atheist fanatic. That’s what we do, after all.
PRAY for the victims, and their families. THIS EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE IN OUR COUNTRY MUST END, IMMEDIATELY!
That hope that the bad guy was on the correct side of the political spectrum has been fading away as we learned more about the guy. He was a Marine who served in Iraq. He drove a pickup truck with two American flags flapping above the bed.
Sanford’s political beliefs were reportedly conservative, and he was seen wearing a T-shirt endorsing Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election bid in a photo shared on Facebook, according to the Daily Mail.
The suspected shooter’s T-shirt also featured a graphic reading “Make liberals cry again.”
A Google Street view of Sanford’s home taken in June showed a “Trump-Pence” sign affixed to a back fence, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Meanwhile, the motive for the attack is unclear, just as you might expect from a sneaky liberal commie.
Of course, the right will squawk about liberal terrorist until it becomes patently clear he was one of their own at which point they’ll go dark, muttering oaths about liberals, jews,and blood oaths, making threats about payback. Trump, naturally, will send troops to occupy other blue cities and dream of mass casualties. Congress will continue to do nothing.
Nowadays, every time a shooting happens, there’s a 100% chance that the shooter is a MAGA nut who’s 100% Christian fundie who’s all “God, guns, and freedumb” and 1000% Trump worshiper.
Just your usual Christian on “not the right kind of Christian” violence.
I guess this means that Trumpists come in all flavors. There’s the liberal hating kind, the Mexican hating kind, the Jew haters, the trans haters, and then there’s the Mormon hating kind. I’m sure there are more MAGA hatreds out there that I can’t even imagine. But, the one thing that seems to unite all MAGAts is hatred.
He once lived in Utah for a while.
He is on record as being a fundie xian who didn’t like Mormons, considering them to be non-xians and the antichrist.
You can already see how this shooting is disappearing from the Mainstream Media.
Since it was one of their own, the right wingnuts will just forget about this shooting. They will move on to War Ravaged Portland and how the brave National Guard troops, many of which actually live in Portland to begin with, are surviving the bars and coffee houses.
I’m surprised they haven’t hit on the sleeper agent angle: he was just a liberal mole infiltrating God’s MAGA army, pretending to be a conservative to do something horrible like this that would be blamed on Taco.
What do you think? Maybe I could get a job on Fox or even at the White House.
There is a good chance that this is revenge for the killing of Charlie Kirk in Utah.
mormonism is its own special flavor of crappy protestant religion, but the prejudice against mormons has always creeped my shit out more than the mormons themselves.
It’s a cult, and an exceedingly wealthy one at that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints
they practice social control that could be characterized as cult-like, but if we’re going to live in a world that tolerates any religions at all, i don’t see how they’re less worthy of tolerance than motherfuckin pentecostals. singling out a religion as being worse than others is how nu atheism ended up helping spread global fascism with islamophobia.
a cult is a small unpopular religion.
a religion is a large popular cult.