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“Mastermind” isn’t a compliment to his intelligence. It just means someone who organizes a criminal activity without taking part in the acts. It’s usually tongue in cheek.
Republicans used the CPAC to outright tell their fellow Americans: "We Are all Domestic Terrorists".
We should believe them and act accordingly. >

I still can’t believe how blatant that was. They’re embracing the domestic terrorist ideology. >

The militia movement embraced the Tea Party, and the Republican Party then embraced the Tea Party to win in 2016, and here we are. >

Not political shootings, DOMESTIC TERRORISM. >

I'm going to borrow a phrase from the Ukraine war.
We're lucky they're all so stupid. >

But unfortunately that does not stop them from shooting nor does it raise from the dead those they shoot.
It is good that an incompetent enemy is less of a threat than a competitive one, but do not dismiss the real threat they still represent.   Doing that would also qualify as an act of stupidity. >

If the US took these threats seriously, they'd have to round up a good chunk of a political party for terrorism.
Unfortunately, the US is going to continue being reactionary to these things. >

Especially with Large Marge Greene on the Homeland Security Council.
Totally not going to tip off her terry friends. >

England has the tories; we have the terries. >

What a stupid jackass. No wonder he won a Republican primary. >

Your post made me wonder, so I looked it up on Ballotpedia.
It turns out that district is so non-competitive that both the Democratic and Republican primaries were uncontested.  Pena got 100% of the 383 Republican votes cast in the primary. >


Peña left a digital trail that offers a window into his mindset. Yet his posts were not unusual for a right-wing social-media user, blending into an online discourse often punctuated by violent threats. >

It's fascinating watching the reporting get filled out and expanded, sometimes depending on how much space the article can take up.
I read that one of the shooters was stopped by police about 40 minutes after the shooting at Sen. Lopez's home, and that he was driving a car registered to Pena.   The articles haven't said if that was an important part of the investigation or if it was figured out later.
The TIME article says that the guy was arrested, found with two guns and 800 fentanyl pills, and that his arrest "led police to Pena".
Your average street level drug dealer doesn't have much to give prosecutors to get a plea deal on their narcotics and gun charges.
I wonder how long it took that guy to give up the story. >

The whole anti-government thing that started with Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan is just compounded by the election denial crap. They're coming to take your guns, they're gonna force you to get vaccines that shrink your gonads, etc. The GOP just can't stop pandering to paranoiacs and gullible idiots. "All politicians are corrupt, but I'm not a politician! Vote for me!" Must be easier than having actual ideas. But then they wave a hand at the ones who take it to extremes like this guy did, as if they had nothing to do with creating the monster. >


His campaign website railed against “coastal elites,” “welfare deadbeats,” “illegal aliens,” and “the demonic theories of the Globalist Elites.” It also linked to a 261-page document on alleged voter fraud in New Mexico in the 2020 election, and a manifesto from noted conspiracist and right-wing activist Lyndon LaRouche that declares “our Republic faces the greatest threat to its existence since the Civil War.”

This is standard issue Republican rhetoric these days. >

I'm not worried about this guy because he lost and we caught him. I'm worried about the fact that there's dozens more of him out there at least and a lot of those people DIDN'T lose their elections. >

Why is Fox News not covering this?  I guess the folks watching that channel prefer to remain ignorant of what it is they are supporting. >

Why is anyone shocked at this?  He is a man whose leader bragged about his ability to shoot a man on 5th Avenue in NYC and not lose any supporters. >

How long before he's turned into a martyr by the far-right? >

What an idiot. He got walloped in his election too by 48 points so it definitely was “fixed”. He followed his idiot Trump with that dumb claim >

What makes him a "mastermind"? He paid some people to take pot shots at some houses...and got caught.