They Are Not Lone Gunmen

Vance Boelter, the assassin who shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their families, was taken into custody after a 48 hour manhunt.

As we try to piece together exactly what happened, we are reminded that the only thing that flies faster than a bullet is MAGA disinformation.

In the immediate hours after the attack in June, MAGA spread heinous and unfounded lies that the killer was a secret agent working for Tim Walz on a mission to impose woke transgender mice and their DEI globalist plans something something.

Let’s be clear. This man is a MAGA maniac, no different than the other 99% of domestic terrorists, who in recent years attempted to kidnap the Governor of Michigan, fire bombed the Governor of Pennsylvania, committed scores of mass shootings in state after state, and organized a violent a coup against the US Capitol in an attempt to subvert a democratic election.

The unsettling reality is that this man is a religious psycho and privileged pastor with a big white average family in a big white average house. A ho hum, podunk, anti-abortion male who resorted to violence to instill fear.

The terrorist’s wife appears to have aided her husband in the attack, or at least had foreknowledge, as she was pulled over by MN State Police with a bag of cash, passports, and other questionable material. As with any ongoing terror investigation, naturally she was let go without inquiry. Minnesota’s prisons aren’t filled with white people for a reason.

The term you must familiarize yourself with in this moment is ‘stochastic terrorism’ whereby white supremacist cult leaders like Trump inspire, beckon, and fuel his mentally unstable fans to commit acts of atrocity.

What the corporate media bend over backwards to convey as “lone gunmen” are in reality a rapid sequence of like-minded attacks, with patterned, predictable, overlapping motives, techniques, grievances, and nearly identical political beliefs. They share ideas, tips, and hatreds online. They aren’t isolated gunmen; they are an Army.

We must challenge the right-wing disinformation machine while we confront the realities of corporate media from FOX, NBC, and CBS, intent on delivering a tired and contrived script falsely claiming, “we don’t know his motive.”

Please. The man left a manifesto, just like all the others. This pastor is a right-wing religious terrorist. Mundane. One of many in recent months; one of many in recent years.

It’s time to dismantle their system of hatred and terror. The truth is the bloody legacy of these violent white men stretches back to El Paso, Columbine, Oklahoma City, Wounded Knee, and Mystic River.

MAGA told us for years but we didn’t want to listen: “We are at war against you.” Their terror cells stand ready for the clarion call from FOX NEWS and their multi-millionaire talking heads who spew venom a mile a minute. These violent MAGA operate with total impunity in our country while billions of our tax money is funneled to companies like Palantir to rip immigrant families apart.

Even in the rare case when MAGA terrorists are caught and prosecuted, like many January 6 insurrectionists, Trump hands them a blanket pardon and gives their families millions. The Pentagon, DHS, and FBI spend a trillion dollars on national security a year and haven’t stopped a single right-wing killer. Coincidence?

We all need to wake up.

MAGA was never solely a political party. It was always open about its character, motive, and vision—and what they would do to impose it. They even spelled it out in a 900 page document called Project 2025.

As Trump and his team scrub the accomplishments and history of Black and brown people, his fans commit to the grim task of eliminating them from earth, as we saw at a Black church in Charleston, or a predominantly Black grocery store in Buffalo, NY. And dozens of attacks in between.

As Stephen Miller erases thousands of immigrants from our communities, MAGA cells activate in El Paso and eliminate dozens of Latino lives in an instant. As Trump targets Democratic lawmakers for arrest, assault, and detention, his loyal fans commit to murdering them in cold blood in their own homes.

The task that lies ahead is to identify the structure of the MAGA terror organization, its billionaire backers, their enablers in Congress and the corporate media. We will hunker down and begin the grim but essential work of dismantling their system of hatred and terror.

MAGA, we are finally taking you for your word. We see you for who you are and we are not afraid.

Expect no mercy, expect no forgiveness.

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