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They'll be hard pressed to identify a liberal who has been assassinated by a conservative. However, I can think of plenty of conservatives and liberals whom liberals have killed or attempted to kill.
The homelessness crisis in Multnomah County, Oregon, is among the worst in the country. Home to deep-blue Portland, where the deaths of homeless people quadrupled between 2019 and 2023, according to data from the county health department, Multnomah has a per-capita homeless rate of 1.3 percent, and some shelters are closing due to budget problems.
That means that there is more demand than ever for the county's public housing resources. Multnomah allocates those resources using a points-based system, which refers those with the requisite number of points to public housing. The county considers factors such as how long a person has been homeless, whether he or she is survivor of domestic violence, and, if applicable, the age of his or her children.
It then weighs those factors against some less conventional criteria: whether the person is a minority, a non-native English speaker, or "LGBTQIA2S+."
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The rubric, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon through a public records request, is "designed to prioritize … BIPOC households, LGBTQIA2S+, [and] people with disabilities," according to a Frequently Asked Questions pamphlet. It awards 1 point for "interest in LGBTQ services," 2 points for "English as a second language," and another 2 points for "interest in culturally specific services," a catch-all term for Portland's race-based housing programs.
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The Free Beacon identified five states and dozens of cities that have incorporated racial preferences into their housing programs. The preferences operate through various mechanisms, including grant requirements and funding formulas, and could jeopardize the funding of any publicly financed projects subject to antidiscrimination laws. Several use points-based rubrics similar to Multnomah County's, giving race more weight than poverty or unemployment.
In at least two states, Maryland and Minnesota, race appears to be the single largest factor in allocating certain forms of rent relief.
Federal charging documents described Boelter as acting with "the intent to kill, injure, harass, and intimidate Minnesota legislators".[6] His anti-abortion views are a possible motive.[73] Boelter was registered to vote in Oklahoma as a Republican for the 2004 United States presidential election, although on a state document in 2019 he wrote that he had "no party preference".[8] A longtime Sleepy Eye, Minnesota resident who knew Boelter since he was a fourth-grade student in his childhood town in 1976 told reporters he was stunned to learn that Boelter was a suspect in the attacks. He described Boelter as "a conservative who voted for President Donald Trump and was strongly against abortion rights", and said Boelter was having financial problems and struggling to find work, adding that "he was looking around but immediately gave up and decided to go out in the blaze of glory" and saying that "there was darkness inside of him".[8][74] Boelter's wife told investigators their family "prepared for major or catastrophic incidents" and that, after the shootings, he warned her by text message that "they should prepare for war, they needed to get out of the house and people with guns may be showing up to the house".[75]
The trouble isn’t over for Karim Khan. He’s the International Criminal Court prosecutor who requested arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders in 2024, shortly after learning he had been accused of sexual assault. He took leave in May 2025, and this month the court’s governors voted to advance disciplinary proceedings.
This is what incitement of violence sounds like. These are not insults or ridicule. These are incitements of violence.
This type of rhetoric is meant to make people believe that Trump and his supporters are a direct threat to them, their families, and the country.
Democrats create imaginary threats and then promise to save people from said threats. Look no further than the No Kings rallies. A bunch of people protesting a king that does not exist.
When a political party is constantly preaching to the country that the other side is out to hurt them and to hurt the most vulnerable people in society, it shouldn't be a surprise when some people attempt to end the threats that they actually believe exist.
The trouble isn’t over for Karim Khan. He’s the International Criminal Court prosecutor who requested arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders in 2024, shortly after learning he had been accused of sexual assault. He took leave in May 2025, and this month the court’s governors voted to advance disciplinary proceedings. Now a witness statement says the Qatari government promised to “look after” Mr. Khan if he moved against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
This builds on the Guardian newspaper’s November report on a Qatar-linked private intelligence operation by at least two firms, Highgate and Elicius Intelligence, hoping to discredit Mr. Khan’s alleged assault victim. Elicius didn’t reply to requests for comment. Highgate said in a statement that it had worked on a file in defense of the ICC, but denied it was commissioned by a government entity or aimed at discrediting any individual.
The new witness statement is by a person familiar with that operation who requests anonymity. We’ve reviewed it along with supporting audio recordings. The statement was submitted to the FBI to request an inquiry and is known to several Members of Congress. It suggests the private intelligence operation also sought to target two Americans: Tom Lynch, the senior ICC official who first reported the assault allegation, and Sen. Lindsey Graham. Several ICC officials who became targets have been interviewed by the NCTV, the Dutch counterterror agency, two sources confirm.
In recordings, private investigators discuss their intelligence operation’s connection to what seems to be Qatar, which they call the “client country.” In writing, one investigator instructs others to say “client” to describe “Q country.” Two sources familiar with the intelligence operation tell us Qatar was ultimately the client.
The witness statement says that a source of Elicius’s had claimed—albeit without providing evidence—that Israel’s Mossad believed Mr. Khan to be a Qatari agent. This led the private intelligence team to discuss the ICC prosecutor.
“I spoke to the client about it,” the intelligence operation’s manager is heard saying in an Aug. 5 recording, “and they weren’t surprised that it had leaked that they were wrapping their arms around him.”
Around “KK”—Karim Khan—a researcher clarified.
“It’s not that long that they wrapped their arms around him,” the manager continued, per the recording and the witness statement. “It’s all in the context of issuing the warrant. That was basically the deal. He was like, ‘I want to issue the warrant, but I’m terrified to do it.’ And they said, ‘if you do it, then we’ll look after you.’”
The intelligence operation’s manager was asked whether the support came from an individual sheikh or from the Qatari state. He said, “No, it’s the state.”
Swede (39,858 posts)
Maga dude - Could you imagine what would happen if a Democrat were assassinated?
MAGA are living in a different world.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221206652
If it were just that, we might shrug our shoulders and acknowledge that’s just life in Washington. But DataRepublican touched on something more chilling that might remind you of how you first felt when you realized that in 2020 the people in the shadows actually pulled it off — they actually installed a dementia-ridden shell of a man in the White House in the most opaque of ways — ways in which we could never before have imagined.Quote"Within 72 hours of his (Hegseth’s) nomination, a color revolution planning document cited him as an insider threat,” she wrote. “They didn't go after him because of drinking. They didn't go after him because of women. They went after him because every color revolution manual ever written says the same thing: you cannot topple a government unless the security forces defect. And a loyal Secretary of Defense is the one person who makes sure they don't."
The first receipt came in the form of a post that puts sunlight on the roles Harvard's Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan have played in conceiving and implementing color war strategies. According to DataRepublican, these are “the two most cited scholars in the color revolution field (who) studied 323 regime change campaigns.”
According to them, “security force defections make non-violent campaigns forty-six times more likely to succeed.” In other words, applying this to Trump, if you want to take him down, you need to start with the military. You need to create divisiveness in the ranks. You need to kill morale. You need to create an environment of competing loyalties. You need to instill dissension in a system that can only function without dissension.
As DataRepublican points out, Stephan is now chief organizer of something called the Horizons Project. To describe itself, its website uses some of the most Orwellian language you’ll find. If you want to understand what it really says you have to think in terms of opposites. Up is down, black is white, and authoritarianism is democracy.
Once you understand this, then you can adequately see where they are coming from when they describe the organization this way: “In times of increasing political violence and rising authoritarianism, diverse movements have come together to block harms and injustice, bridge divides, and build a more inclusive democracy.”
