Why Are Publications Sugar-Coating Livilsberger's Political Minifestos?

Saturday, January 04, 2025

Josh Marshall: Over the last four days the bizarre Cybertruck fire outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas has run from comical interlude to possible terrorist incident to tragic suicide of another veteran of America's forever wars.

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At least for the moment national publications are radically understating the contents of Matthew Livelsberger's political minifestos which call for a violent, militia-backed "culling" of Dems from and national rebirth of masculinity under the rule of Trump ... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-a ...

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-- Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) January 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM

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But at least for the moment there is a pretty striking lack of attention to the political motives he expressed in at least two documents or what I guess we might call minifestos that investigators found on his iphone. They denounce Democrats and demand they be "culled" from Washington, by violence if necessary, and hopes his death will serve as a kind of bell clap for a national rebirth of masculinity under the leadership of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Bobby Kennedy Jr.

MAGA is a mental disease.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-04 11:02 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Robert Kennedy Jr"

Three of the biggest preening poof in history.

Liberace seems straight in comparison.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-04 02:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

A hero in his own novel. I wonder if he heard... for a split second... his fat head sizzling... before things went dark... and he stunk up someone's day.

He underestimated the explosives and overestimated the impact of his political statement... I think he was counting on the truck being more explosive than it is.

The cl0wns really really really wanted those two wars. Bushturd 2 said it would take decades and insisted we had to commit.

pigs

#3 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-01-04 03:47 PM | Reply

This guy wished to death on people like me, so i'm glad he did himself in. Good riddance MAGA trash.

#4 | Posted by HeeHaw at 2025-01-04 04:09 PM | Reply

wow....look at all the concern and angst towards this guys' political views..

from same a wholes who DON'T GIVE A F/K when it's the other way around.

---2 faced liars.

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-04 04:17 PM | Reply

from same a wholes who DON'T GIVE A F/K when it's the other way around.

It's never the other way around.

Liberals tend to be intellectuals and pacifists.

Conservatives tend to be ignorant domestic terrorists.

You're an idiot.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-04 05:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#1 ... But at least for the moment there is a pretty striking lack of attention to the political motives he expressed in at least two documents or what I guess we might call minifestos that investigators found on his iphone. ...

Would a larger amount of media attention given to the political motives and manifestos encourage others to self-radicalize?

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-04 06:03 PM | Reply

The reason they sugarcoat it is simple- because it goes against their owner's agendas. In fact, this Las Vegas attack was very unexpected and very unwelcome. Empire managers want the sole focus to be on the New Orleans attack.

#8 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2025-01-04 10:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Empire managers want the sole focus to be on the New Orleans attack.

It was really getting xenophobes talking.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-04 10:08 PM | Reply

For the same reason commemorating the OKC Bombing became so controversial - lots of people hold the same cretinish views, but they really don't think they belong in the same garbage can as nihilists and nutters.

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-05 06:39 AM | Reply

This is an easy one.

In America, brown people who do this kinda stuff are Islamic fanatics. Period.

But when a white dude does it, we have to understand why, because it can't be that he's a Christian fanatic. Which, more often than not, that's exactly what they are.

"White" washing any paranoid, deluded writings is a big part of that.

#11 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-01-05 01:25 PM | Reply

The brown dude drove through a crowd specifically to carry out a terror attack.

The white dude killed himself and lightly injured some bystanders. Despite calls the Cull The Left, he only culled himself.

It's different.

#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-06 10:48 AM | Reply

Sitzbath calls the ruptured eardrums, irreversible middle ear and cochlear damage and permanent deafening of the closest bystander "lightly injured", LOL.

Why don't you talk to some of the Boston Marathon bombing survivors in order to gauge how completely debilitating that sort of traumatic injury is?

#13 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2025-01-06 12:10 PM | Reply

All balls, no brains.
Typical MAGAt.

#14 | Posted by morris at 2025-01-06 02:02 PM | Reply

Despite calls the Cull The Left, he only culled himself.

It's different.

#12 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Both are terrorists.

Because a fanatical suicide number failed to take anyone with him doesn't mean he is not a fanatical suicide bomber.

His ideology is just like ISIS.

Their hateful ideologies are very similar. Just a different religious foundation. But really not all that different.

Except the MAGA terrorist just wasn't very good at it.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-06 02:25 PM | Reply