A jury convicted former Republican candidate Solomon Peña of conspiracy, weapons and other charges in the shootings in 2022 and 2023 on the homes of four Democratic officials in Albuquerque, including the current state House speaker.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    A jury convicted former Republican candidate Solomon Peña earlier this year of conspiracy, weapons and other charges in the shootings in December 2022 and January 2023 on the homes of four Democratic officials in Albuquerque, including the current state House speaker.

    Prosecutors, who had sought a 90-year sentence, said Peña has shown no remorse and had hoped to cause political change by terrorizing people who held contrary views to him into being too afraid to take part in political life.

    Not “a failed political candidate” but a Republican terrorist who failed to get elected. The media will do anything to keep the R-word out of the headline, and to keep it and the T-word apart.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      8 hours ago

      Not a Republican terrorist, he was a MAGA terrorist, there’s a difference.

      The Republican Party is dead. Its core tenets were smaller government, lower taxes, economic responsibility, individual liberty, family values, etc… The MAGA Party espouses none of that. MAGAs openly support treason, racism, corruption, pedophilia, rape, hate, authoritarianism, Fascism, misogyny, ignorance, and much more, but none of it represents the foundation of Republicanism.

      Therefore, the Republican party must be declared to be as dead as the Whigs, only to be referred to in an historical context.

      That way, when this is over, and we are dealing with the aftermath of their treason, we can declare the MAGA Party to be an official Terrorist/ Hate group, and prohibit them from existing.