Thomas Matthew Crooks: The registered Republican and gun lover who shot Trump

Facebook or Instagram and had an almost negligible internet footprint, which is highly unusual for a 20-year-old. Instead, analysts said that Crooks corresponded with friends and associates on a Discord server that they were now trying to access.

The kids aren't using facebook, and a lot of them also aren't using Instagram. A 20 year old man using primarily discord is the most normal thing.

I feel like it’s not that weird for a 20 year old not to have a Facebook and only use Discord.

I'm revising my guess at motivations to being more like a school shooter but against a cool target.

The bit about Discord is weird, it's not like it's some decentralized service, the company has access to everything on their servers if they want to.

he was The One Never-Trump Republican democrats are always trying to convince

the "Chinese shooter" revealed to be...

white guy in demolition ranch merch

cool, thanks for that NYPost

First it was the nefarious CCP using TikTok to indoctrinate the naive youth into not liking genocide.

Now it's the dangerous shady Discord servers allowing extremists (from both sides) to plot against Our Democracy™.

I would not be surprised to see some sort of police state crackdown on Discord and other non-public parts of the internet resulting from this.

It's super cool how the US is so depoliticized that this guy is just some random 20 year old groyper who yelled "hold my beer" and thnere's no revolutionary cells or organized falandrists or anything.

“Open source intelligence analysts”

who was relentlessly teased about his appearance

Well now he's being relentlessly teased for his aim, some might call that progress.

Of course the photo of him is from his school yearbook. He's white after all

Crook’s father told CNN he was trying to find out “what the hell” was going on but that he would talk to law enforcement before speaking about his son.

Mr Carriker reposted the photo of members of the US security forces standing over Crooks’ dead body, wearing the grey Demolition Ranch t-shirt.

“What the hell?” he wrote underneath the photo.

Rabidly pro-Ukraine?

Wanted to kickstart helterskelter?

Trump was too left for his tastes?

Trump was too right for this Romneyite?

Gamer just wanted to get a Wikipedia page?

The FBI says it has not yet identified a motive for the shooting

I suggest checking the last ~6-12 months of his 4chan history. Key word searches to try: "Trump Zionist" "Kushner" "Fuentes"

I suppose on the positive side, probably some of the clammiest, palest groypers in existence will be getting some door knocks in coming weeks and months.

On the extremely negative side, if the guy is 100% confirmed a groyper and his motive is anything in the realm of "Trump supports Israel" or whatever... ain't gonna be good for future anti-Zionist movements.

Not that the future was ever bright considering how they've reacted to peaceful sit-ins. But yeah, anything groyper related and against Israel (for explicitly antisemitic reasons) will be lumped with anti-imperialism/anti-genocide related resistance to Israel. Very convenient packaging to barrel right past the unavoidable truth of the peaceful nature thus far of anti-Zionist moments. Yes it's totally nonsensical, but if it aids Zionist narratives that both parties share, it's too tempting.

Discord servers are restricted ring-fenced sections of the internet. They are often used by gaming groups and communities as secure chat rooms but are also used by fringe organisations to push their ideologies and discuss wild conspiracy theories and plots.

Fuck, they know about our discord where we push for a Protracted People's War in the United SStates of AmeriKKKa.

On one side I am totally unsurprised, but on the other side I was hoping this was going to be the worlds first instance of a lib with a spine. I don't know why I got my hopes up

where's the archive link

The Republican party is full of, and run by, crazies. Trying to find a coherent motive for this assassination attempt might not be possible.

and absolutely horrible shot, from that distance you shouldn't even need optics

Basically the telegraph and all other rags have been trying to use his Facebook profile or other social media for free stories and photos they can use, but came up with fuck all. Excellent

New video on r/crazyfuckingvideos purportedly shows him screaming about killing fascists. It does kinda look like him, but the video has about 7 pixels so who fuckin knows. Doesn't matter either way, they're never gonna get it pinned on anyone but libs, whether he was a registered Republican or not

Maybe he was trying to restore the Habsburg throne

He was a G*mer.

T-shirt says "Kollege Kidd"

Confirmed Maoist?

inb4 they wojak that photo of him

I still think he was definitely some kind of corporate neo-liberal "centrist" Democrat. He could have just registered Republican to vote for nuclear warmonger Nikki Haley against Trump in the primaries.

Here's an interesting snip from the Wikipedia article on him:

"On January 20, 2021, at the age of 17, he donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal voter turnout group, through the Democratic Party donation platform ActBlue."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Matthew_Crooks

Apparently a former friend also described him as "right-leaning," but that could easily describe any neo-liberal, Clintonite DNC hack.

Otherwise known as Tom Crooks or Thomas Crooks

Fucking paywalled lmao It's the end of the world but you have to pay us to find out the deets