This is MAGA country!

[DBTrek]

MAGA bro: Holy fuck, Todd, it's negative fifty degrees wind chill outside. What are we supposed to do all night?

Todd: Hey, I know. Let's put on ski masks, bring a noose and some bleach and attack a random homosexual actor who is walking around.

You have to consider what the target audience wants to believe.

Sure, we’re all reasonably skeptical whenever the random “Trump villains” explicitly announce their allegiance to the president before violently attacking someone. It’s fucking cartoonish. As if criminals have some movie-script requirement to identify themselves as the bad guys and provide a motivation for their crime before acting out. To reasonable people the entire premise is suspect.

... but our whole world view doesn’t depend on Trump-racist-villains existing. We don’t justify our every waking moment to ourselves by saying “someone has to fight the Trump racism and white Nazis running America”. If we were stupid like that, we wouldn’t even question these highly unlikely stories. We’d be like “YEP, I knew it!! Retweet, retweet, retweet!”

[TheReal_ND]

One news site doubles down:

The attackers were white men wearing MAGA caps, sources later told TMZ.

https://newsone.com/3844883/jussie-smol ... ttack/amp/

One hesitates:

'Empire' cast member alleges he was attacked

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Entertainmen ... o-60700814

The attackers were white men wearing MAGA caps, sources later told TMZ.

sources later added he was a good boy he dindu nuffin he was just tryna get a foot long Subway sandwich and get his life back on track

[DrYouth]

The subway was right across from the gay bar that is "cash only" according to their Google ad. He was probably cased after leaving the bar at 2am. Probably cased in the bar. Probably mugged outside of the bar. It was like -50 with wind chill and they probably figured no cops would be around.

Muggers don't usually bother with nooses and bleach...
It seems up a notch from a vanilla mugging.
Organized crime likes to humiliate to discourage defaulting on debt... my MHF bucks are on that.
Not that we'll ever know. The nice actor is unlikely to cop to his drug/gambling habit.
Much better for business to be the victim of a hate crime.
He'll get more sympathy gigs and be able to pay his debt.

[TheReal_ND]

[DBTrek]

May be another story where we have to rely on CAMERA NATION USA to support/deny the claims. If there’s no footage, then the outraged left will forever believe that an elite squad of arctic-combat-ready Trump racists waited till the early morning hours to jump this guy.

They’ll call you stupid for believing in God without evidence, then turn around and stake their lives upon the truth of a story like this.

.... oh wait, I said I wasn’t going to elaborate on the hypocrisy of the left lest I lose months of my life to a project with no payoff.
Oops.

[pineapplemike]

"since when is chicago considered maga country" was my first reaction to this story

[DBTrek]

You want to catch these guys ... round up everyone who knows how to tie a noose in 2019.
All half dozen of them.

[DrYouth]

"since when is chicago considered maga country" was my first reaction to this story

Mine as well

[DrYouth]

You want to catch these guys ... round up everyone who knows how to tie a noose in 2019.
All half dozen of them.

Bunch of suicidal goths prolly did it...

[TheReal_ND]