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CW: U.S. Politics, Minnesota, political assassinations
The time line on the murders of Melissa and Mark Hortman, the attacks on John and Yvette Hoffman, the police response, and the manhunt for Vance L Boelter, contains this gem:
#USPolitics #Minnesota #PoliticalAssassinations #MelissaHortman #JohnHoffman #VanceBoelter
https://www.startribune.com/vance-boelter-captured-sibley-county-mn/601373799
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Carlson, who has known #VanceBoelter since fourth grade, said Boelter worked for an eye donation center & stayed at the house because it was close to his job. Carlson said he feels betrayed by Boelter & heartbroken for the victims, adding: "His family has got to suffer through this."
#MelissaHortman #JohnHoffman #Minnesota #criminal #law #PoliticalViolence #extremism
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"So eager were critics and pundits to find an apologist for the White working class who was not blatantly racist that they overlooked #Vance’s fatuousness, his willingness to play up his hokeyness for the benefit of his liberal audience and the ultimate banality of his message."
#BeccaRothfeld on how #JDVance gulled liberals about #Appalachia with #HillbillyElegy, and on his Faustian bargain with Trumpism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/23/hillbilly-elegy-jd-vance-vice-president-nominee-review/
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Vance besucht Nationalgarde - Protest gegen Einsatz in Washington D.C.
US-Vizepräsident Vance hat die Nationalgarde in Washington besucht. Die Soldaten sollen dort gegen die angeblich massive Kriminalität vorgehen. Doch gegen den Einsatz gibt es auch Protest.
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Trump Set to Meet With Top Aides to Decide TikTok’s Fate - They are expected to convene on Wednesday to discuss a potential sale of the app, which f... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/technology/trump-tiktok-sale-meeting.html #mergersacquisitionsanddivestitures #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #beijingbytedancetechnologycoltd #presidentialelectionof2024 #mobileapplications #tiktok(bytedance) #privateequity #trumpdonaldj #socialmedia #vancejd
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Vance says pro-Ukraine protestors confronted him while he was with his daughter https://bit.ly/4kAH6gx
#news #Press #theHILL #anythinggoesnews #shoesmithlc -
Vance Gilbert on JoCo Cruise 2024 opening night!
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It couldn't be about astonishing privilege, could it? Being permitted leeway to commit violence, to use and abuse others, and enjoy impunity — while one is treated as more complex and deeper than the common lot….
Could it?
Burke:
"Brown and Black men, in contrast, are relentlessly typified when they are associated with political violence. Their individual lives rarely matter, it is rare for them to be profiled."
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"They aren’t taken ever as representing movements or institutions or social categories, and their causality is never attributed to other people except family members who might have hurt them or ignored them or offered them their first gun."
We all know, of course, that straight white men are the most persecuted people on the planet. So maybe their experience of marginalization makes them uncommonly complex, people of great depth?
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"There are frequently heroic efforts by their profilers to make them out to be 'lone nuts', serial killers whose ideology is seen as just being a schtick like sending cryptograms and letters to the police, whose only motives are personal, in their madness and sadness and failure, in the circumstances of their lives."
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Burke says,
"I’m not against individuating Vance Boelter, against understanding the distinctive human life he has led. But it is impossible to miss that people like Boelter, like Dylann Roof, like Timothy McVeigh, like Brenton Tarrant, like Anders Breivik, so often seem to warrant being written about in this way."
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When white men in the US commit mass murder in service of right-wing ideology, it's never because of the category or group to which they belong:
It's never because they're Black.
It's not ever because they're Muslim.
Never due to their being gay or trans.
Straight white men are complex. They have depth. They're individuals. We just don't know why they do what they do when they kill people due to their right-wing ideological commitments.
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"a far-right white man who engages in political violence that could fairly be called “terrorist” always warrants individuation after they have committed their crimes. They are never abstracted, never made to stand in for a category of persons whose ideologies and identities are seen as a general danger. The explanation of their violence is always located in the particular and peculiar, in the specifics of their biographies."
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Like every other (straight) white man committing right-wing mass murder in the U.S., his motives, his formation, his commitments are murky: we just can't quite understand why white men do this kind of thing persistently, the New York Times wants us to imagine.
Burke writes,
"I offer this summary of a detailed New York Times profile of Vance Boelter to demonstrate one major point:"
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Timothy Burke takes an incisive, illuminating look at how mainstream media ALWAYS treat stories of white men in the US — typically heterosexual ones — committing mass murder in the name of right-wing ideology.
His lens for the analysis is New York Times' report on Vance Boelter written by Dan Barry, Ernesto Londoño, and Ruth Graham.
Boelter, à la New York Times, is, it turns out, complex, mysterious, an individual.
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"He would have been exposed to versions of courses currently offered, such as one that explains how 'the World is in an era of serious warfare' and how 'the body of Christ must remember that Jesus has already won this war.' He may have heard the founder’s slogan that 'every Christian should pray at least one violent prayer a day.'”
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"During his time at the school, Boelter would have been … taught to see the world as a great spiritual battleground between God and Satan, and to consider himself a kind of spiritual warrior. He would have been told that actual demonic forces can take hold of culture, political leaders, and entire territories, and thwart God’s kingdom."
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"To some degree, the roots of Boelter’s beliefs can be traced to a Bible college he attended in Dallas called Christ for the Nations Institute. A school official confirmed to me that Boelter graduated in 1990 with a diploma in practical theology."
~ Stephanie McCrummen
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
/20https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/vance-boelter-minnesota-shooting/683209/
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"Our work ahead doesn’t just comprise seizing back the reins of government and reestablishing the rule of law and accountability. As Judge William Young, Sen. Tina Smith and Ed Shelleby bravely demonstrated, we must also make the moral case to the public and win back the soul of America from those who have us all accept monsters in our midst.
Wrong is wrong."
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"We have already reached the stage where they will mock rather than condemn a political assassination, all in pursuit of online clout and bragging rights among an increasingly desensitized and amoral base of voters. We were well on this road when Paul Pelosi was attacked by a hammer-wielding maniac, and all the right came back with was laughter and more false conspiracies."
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"There’s been intense focus these past months on how the White House has exceeded its constitutional authority, and how Republicans have permitted a dangerous erosion of the rule of law.
There’s been less attention, however, on a more overarching question: Do we still want to live in a moral society, governed by good people?
~ Jay Kuo
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"The Reformer obtained a screenshot of Boelter’s voter profile in the GOP Data Center — a national database with voter registration information used to target voters — from a source with access to it, which confirms other reporting about Boelter’s support for President Donald Trump."
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"Vance Boelter, the man accused of killing DFL House leader Melissa Hortman and her husband and shooting and injuring DFL Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, voted in the March 2024 Minnesota Republican presidential primary, belying online disinformation that has sought to paint Boelter as a leftist with ties to Gov. Tim Walz."
~ Michelle Griffith
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"In direct violation of the teachings and life of Jesus, the Hateful Faithful are cheering a vicious politician and regime.
People see the rotten presidency and dysfunctional democracy. They know that Hateful Faithful religionists are blessing it. They know how badly the divine imperatives of love and justice are being violated by agents of U.S. imperialism."
~ Wendell Griffen
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
/14https://wendellgriffen.substack.com/p/hateful-faith-a-rotten-presidency
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"And we're seeing that in real time with them now associating with Donald Trump the most godless, like I would call him, if he was a biblical figure, I would say the pharaoh, the modern pharaoh, that they have attached their hopes and dreams to this man."
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"Then it becomes very easy to rationalize the use of violence to repel this evil demonic force in order to save your country. And also you have been chosen by God to purge and purify this land, this chosen land of America from this demonic force, right?"
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"Caravan, invaders, rapists, criminals, Haitians eating dogs and pets. Once you dehumanize them and call them, you know, and then you promote conspiracy theories like QAnon. Where you say they're led by a cabal of international sex traffickers. I'm not making this up, folks. That groom children and prey on them and sexualize them."
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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#Vance speech at #farright #christianfundamentalist event probably violated tax and election laws
@ProPublica
#uspol #lancewallnau
https://www.propublica.org/article/vance-ziklag-courage-tour-christian-right-tax-election-laws -
Vance appears at event hosted by hard-right Christian nationalist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/09/28/jd-vance-christian-nationalism-lance-wallnau/#LanceWallnau #JDVance #NapoleonBonacouch #Ohio #GOPExtremist #GOPTraitor #GOPLiar #GOP #VoteBlue #WhiteCollarElegy #PutinsVP #Project2025 #CouchFucker #JVCouch
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Vice President and recently converted Catholic J.D. Vance was rebuked by the pope himself for using Catholic theology to justify mass deportations and isolationism.
#Vance started the fire when he recently went on Fox News and presented his own bastardized version of “#ordo #amoris,” Latin for “the order of love.”
“There is … a very Christian concept that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world,”
Vance said at the end of January.
“A lot of the far left has completely inverted that; they seem to hate the citizens of their own country and care more about people outside of their own borders.… The British prime minister should care about Brits, and the French should care about the French.”#Pope #Francis sent a message on Tuesday to clear up Vance’s comments.
Without mentioning the vice president by name, he attacked Vance’s entire logic for the Trump administration’s cruel policies.
⭐️“Christians know very well that it is only by affirming the infinite dignity of all that our own identity as persons and as communities reaches its maturity.
Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups.
In other words:
The human person is not a mere individual, relatively expansive, with some philanthropic feelings!
The human person is a subject with dignity who,
through the constitutive relationship with all,
especially with the poorest,
can gradually mature in his identity and vocation,”
Pope Francis wrote.
“The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of
the ‘Good Samaritan’ (cf. Lk 10:25-37),
that is, by meditating on 🔥the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”
The Good Samaritan parable tells of a Jewish man left beaten and bloodied, barely alive, on the side of a road.
While a Jewish priest walks past him, a Samaritan — an enemy of the Jews — comes to his aid.
Vance couldn’t be further off from the Bible’s original message.
“This misses the point of Jesus’s Parable of the Good Samaritan,” Jesuit priest and editor
James Martin wrote shortly after Vance’s Fox interview.
“Jesus’s fundamental message is that *everyone* is your neighbor,
and that it is not about helping just your family or those closest to you.
It’s specifically about helping those who seem different, foreign, other.
They are all our ‘neighbors.’
But Jesus’s deeper point can only be understood from the point of view of the beaten man:
our ultimate salvation depends, as it did for that man, upon those whom we often consider to be the ‘stranger.’”This rhetoric comes as the Trump administration undergoes its ambitious and cruel mass deportation program,
detaining immigrants in Guantánamo Bay and potentially soon Salvadoran mega-jails.
They’ve also pushed for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza so that they can make their homeland prime real estate.
So much for the party of God.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191401/pope-trump-mass-deportations-jd-vance-fake-christianity