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usregimechange

(18,598 posts)
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 06:25 PM Sep 2025

Shooter had a Trump sign in his yard, no one mentions it

Even on here. WTH is going on?



Had the shooter had a Biden sign in his yard the whole country wouldn’t shut up about it for a week. What am I missing?

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sop

(19,319 posts)
2. "When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 06:30 PM
Sep 2025

- attributed to New York Sun editor John B. Bogart.

blm

(114,763 posts)
3. Just before 2016 election 2 cops were murdered in Iowa by a Trump supporter, but
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 06:45 PM
Sep 2025

Corporate media, for the most part, chose to downplay that connection.

Iowa 'cop killer' pictured as neighbours say he's had 'Vote Trump' sign outside his house for two weeks
Scott Michael Greene, 46, is suspected of shooting dead two police officers as they sat in their patrol cars

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/iowa-cop-killer-pictured-neighbours-9185003

The serial killer from Long Island was a Trump supporter - that, too, was barely noticed by media.

Mike Nelson

(10,943 posts)
6. Not to diminish...
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:08 PM
Sep 2025

... your point, but I have seen it mentioned on DU and Facebook. However, I think your point is still very strong. I imagine FOX "News" and their ilk if the situation were reversed. The would be reporting "DEMOCRAT SIGN ON KILLER'S LAWN!" with unimaginable ferocity.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,258 posts)
7. The downside of the asinine Make America Great Again bullshit, is it incites magacidal maniacs to maim and murder.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:34 PM
Sep 2025

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