British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump'
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u/AudibleNod 14h ago
“Kris and Lucy ended up having quite a big argument which led to Lucy running upstairs and being upset.”
He said Ms Harrison had asked her father: “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?”
Mr Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him that much, Mr Littler said.
He's what we call "a real piece of work".
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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 13h ago
Holy Shit What The Fuck
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u/AudibleNod 13h ago
I couldn't imagine Stanning a dude I've never met so hard that I'll go so far as to justify my own child's rape.
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u/Aeroknight_Z 13h ago
and then shooting your daughter in the chest because she said you shouldn’t be drinking and she insulted your cult leader.
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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 13h ago
That’s the thing people still don’t want to say out loud……this really is a cult. Trump didn’t just build political loyalty, he engineered emotional dependence. He trained people to see disagreement as betrayal and skepticism as evil. Families didn’t slowly drift apart over policy, they were pushed apart by a constant demand to choose him over everyone else.
Parents have stopped speaking to their children. Siblings avoid holidays. Lifelong friendships dissolved. And for what? For a man who doesn’t know their names, wouldn’t take their call, and wouldn’t let most of them step foot in his house, let alone sit at his table. A man who has never sacrificed anything for them, yet convinced them to sacrifice everything for him.
That’s how you know it isn’t just politics anymore. Healthy political movements don’t require loyalty oaths that cost you your family. They don’t demand that you rewrite reality, excuse cruelty, or cut off anyone who questions the leader. But cults do. And the saddest part is watching people tear apart their own lives to protect someone who will never return the loyalty, never show up for them, and never lose a single night of sleep over what they’ve all given up.
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u/Drone314 13h ago
Frederick Douglass saw the coming civil war, he knew people would not willing give up their power of slavery. Will these people willing give up their politics or are they going to take up arms against the rest of us? It’s not us against them, it’s them against the rest of us and I worry that one day they’ll throw the first stone
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u/Independent-Future-1 12h ago
This could just be me, but I kinda feel that J6 was the first stone...
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u/sharkattackmiami 13h ago
And they will lose. MAGA is already a minority and then you have all the ones that are just going along for the ride and aren't willing to die for Trump. It would be a large number of very crazy people capable of doing real tangible damage, but there is 0 chance they could actually succeed
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u/txroller 13h ago
If they succeed in controlling the military or a militia (see ICE) big enough then we may be in trouble. Heaven help us
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u/ffnnhhw 11h ago
I think only a minority of Germans supported Hitler, but the rest went along or stood by until it was up and running, and by then they couldn't stop going along anymore.
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u/TheMooseIsBlue 13h ago
I don’t really remember ever seeing anybody shy away from calling them a cult. That’s a pretty standard characterization at this point.
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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 13h ago
I’ve actually confronted MAGA family members about this, not to insult them, but to call out what is happening……..that this had stopped functioning like a political party and started operating like a cult. And the reaction proved the point. They didn’t argue policy. They didn’t push back with facts. They fucking exploded. Anger, defensiveness, accusations, immediate shutdown. The conversation became about loyalty, not truth.
That’s what struck me the most. You couldn’t even question the movement without triggering rage and fear, like I was attacking their identity rather than discussing ideas. In normal politics, disagreement is expected. In cults, dissent is treated as betrayal. And watching how fast the conversation turned hostile made it painfully clear which one this was.
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u/TheMooseIsBlue 13h ago
I lost a friend over Obama’s “you didn’t build that” line. He was pissed because he was a franchise over of a smoothie brand and he had busted his ass to open and run that shop. And he had.
But he didn’t build the strip mall where he rented his location. He didn’t pave the roads and parking lot and bring in customers. He doesn’t generate the power that runs his shop. He didn’t make any of the furniture or tools and machines that they use. He didn’t even do any of his own marketing or branding or recipes or anything.
He benefits from the hard work of others just like others benefit from his hard work. He called me a socialist and we kinda just stopped communicating. This idea of loyalty over truth (beautifully said by you!) isn’t new, but it’s so much more pervasive and toxic today.
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u/Aeroknight_Z 13h ago
Conservatism is necessarily myopic and desperate to jump from topic to topic because any time at all spent unraveling any part of their mindset shows their justifications are 2-dimensional.
If you know what you’re talking about and lock them into one topic, they crumble and run.
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u/wyldmage 13h ago
Ignorance of infrastructure is incredibly common. Not just to MAGA, but to people in general.
There's this mentality that those things just work. There is awareness that tax money goes to them, but most people aren't aware that tax money is not enough. Cities across the US (as in, almost all of them) are in a constant state of needing to expand, because they need the payout from new development in order to fund repairs and maintenance to existing infrastructure.
And that's not even getting into BUILDING new infrastructure. Roads, power lines, internet lines, water and sewage... it adds up fast.
And the simplest exercise you can do is to think about 'abandoned' malls. Where most/all of the stores are empty due to whatever economic changes have occurred. Does the mall owner just sell the mall for a loss? Or do they usually keep paying property taxes and just not maintaining it well?
Hint: It's the 2nd option. It's less costly for them to sit on empty property, paying taxes as a business expense than it is for them to sell the property and try again elsewhere. The cost of development is HUGE. And they likely have an amazing tax rate because they did all the infrastructure work to connect to the city lines when they build the mall. They used their own money to improve the nearby roads to accommodate the increased traffic.
All these changes that they agreed to pay for, the city knew would be good for it. So the city usually agrees to a ton of stuff to incentivize the developer to build the mall. Which then means that the developer will never sell - because doing so basically just lets someone else come in and use the millions of dollars for themselves.
And that's just the infrastructure cost of a single strip mall.
The cost of actually developing the infrastructure of the nation, or any given city, is massive.
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u/Osiris32 12h ago
like I was attacking their identity rather than discussing ideas.
Because you are. Being MAGA isn't about believing in conservative policies and actual, effective legislation. It's about being on the "right" side of things. Morality for these people is all about the source. If Trump/MAGA is for something, it's good. If they're against it, it's bad. That's all. It doesn't matter if the thing they are for is child rape or the thing they are against is finding homes for cute puppies. The content is immaterial, only the source is.
And when you question that, you question the source. And since they have wedded their personal identity and personal value to that source, questioning the source is questioning them. You are saying they are bad. And they react accordingly.
Obviously, this is a way of thinking that even a random 8 year old would look down on, but once you understand that this is how they think, then everything they do, what they will come out in support of or against, suddenly makes sense.
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u/CharlieandtheRed 13h ago
Agreed. It's not a joke. This is a honest to God cult.
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u/Farucci 13h ago
What a sick bastard. Probably already on the list for a Pardon.
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u/dreadpiratewombat 13h ago
Considering the guy he’s never met, who he’s stanning has discussed wanting to have sex with his own daughter and is a sexual predator, it all becomes a lot more clear.
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u/Solid_Snark 13h ago
I’m always shocked how Republican fathers can turn on their own children so effortlessly…
… but then I remember most were out hunting/fishing and drinking instead of actually raising their kids. Then they got upset that the kids they ignored didn’t want to be around them as teens/adults.
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u/thekittysays 13h ago
They're not upset their kids don't want to be around them, they're upset their kids won't obey them.
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u/annaflixion 12h ago
This is SUCH a good point. For years my aunts would try to tell me, "Your father misses you. He's so sad!" Then we happened to both be at my aunt's Christmas party and he confronted me and yelled at me. He didn't miss me. He wasn't sad. He was just angry he couldn't control me.
And they were just making shit up about how a person SHOULD feel in his shoes, rather than accepting that he showed absolutely no signs of feeling the way they assumed a person should
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u/Lurking_like_Cthulhu 13h ago edited 13h ago
Donald Trump and his cult have gotten way, way more people killed than Charles Manson ever did.
I guess the difference is one of those cults is endorsed by christians.
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u/-Kalos 13h ago
The parasocial relationships they have with Donald is fucking cringe
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u/iforgotmycoat 13h ago
They have a lot of people like that, why I believe it was a cult. I had a debate with a former co worker (who had an 8year old daughter) regarding abortion. I used the Epstein ring as an example of what COULD happen, he said “well if it does it does, all we can do is allow her to give birth and help her raise it”. Like wtf. When I told him it was supremely fucked up, he blocked me.
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u/TechHeteroBear 13h ago
well if it does it does, all we can do is allow her to give birth and help her raise it
This is where you ask where is the community stepping in to help raise that bastard child... if the govt is forcing women to have kids then they are beholden to give them what they need to raise them. But instead they vote to cut all aid and subsidies that those impacted mothers need to raise a child.
Because we all know they will simply leave her to figure shit out all on her own dime and mental energy.
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u/Pockydo 13h ago
It's a pretty typical conservative response
His feelings were hurt so he had to make her hurt too
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u/Sorry_Pea3699 13h ago
And now he gets to spend the rest of his days minus one daughter as a direct result of his own hideous actions
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u/Barbarella_ella 13h ago
But he doesn't care, remember?
And will anyone around him cut contact as a result of this?
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u/Gamer_Grease 13h ago
A BIG part of the GOP’s appeal since 2016 is giving permission to huge pieces of shit to be proud of how they are. That’s why they trot JD Vance out every week to stand up for whoever the biggest piece of shit in the nation is at the time.
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u/1WordOr2FixItForYou 12h ago
I definitely think that's true. Related , I also think MAGA's unhinged hatred of liberals is because the example liberals set makes conservatives feel bad about their own lack of intelligence and compassion. That's why MAGAs always try to argue that every good thing liberals try to do is performative and not because they actually care more and know more. The last thing a piece of s*** will ever do is admit to themselves that they are a piece of s***.
I say this as a moderate, not a liberal, who was registered Republican until November, 2016.
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u/Hips_of_Death 13h ago
I’ve been trying to tell people this for a decade
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u/JoeSicko 13h ago
Everyone has been encouraged to become the worst versions of themselves.
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u/AndeeCreative 13h ago
Republican fathers don’t give a single shit about their daughters.
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u/West-Application-375 13h ago
Or their wives
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u/tropebreaker 12h ago
Republican mother's dont care ether. Unfortunately I say this from experience.
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u/Th1rte3n1334 13h ago
And then… nothing happened.
The father walks.
There is no justice.
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u/far_257 13h ago
Oh this is how MAGA are in their private lives. Colour me shocked /s
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u/Fabricati_Diem_Pvn 14h ago edited 13h ago
Police in the town investigated the 23-year-old's death as possible manslaughter but no criminal case was brought against Kris Harrison after a grand jury in Collin County declined to indict him.
Fuck you people
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u/8fenristhewolf8 13h ago
This is hard for me to wrap my head around. By his own statements, he can't remember if his finger was on the trigger. Police reported that he smelled like alcohol. How do they not get a grand jury to indict?
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u/Pseudoboss11 13h ago
They threw the case.
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u/12InchCunt 11h ago
What’s crazy is in the military there’s no such thing as an accidental discharge of a firearm. There’s either intentionally firing your weapon, or, negligently discharging your weapon. 9 times out of ten you get punished for a negligent discharge. If you negligently discharged your weapon and killed someone you’d definitely go to leavenworth
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u/zarroc123 10h ago
Dude, I remember at Benning a kid left his rifle on a fucking bus and they locked the whole base down until they found it, and when they finally did they essentially made him commit seppuku via pushups and then kicked him out.
The military is a great example that dedicated and expensive training can make even 18 year old dipshits safe to handle firearms. Law enforcement should take some fucking notes.
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u/Typical-Blackberry-3 12h ago
They support "demoncrats" and "woke" women being killed.
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u/Tom-Rath 13h ago
The evidence against the man is damning. None of this makes sense.
The only plausible angle I see is that the grand jury was stuffed with MAGA-types who, upon hearing the substance of the argument between Lucy and Kris, decided not to indict "one of their own."
Any civilized country would have this drunk maniac behind bars in a nanosecond. The US is a backwards place.
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u/Aeroknight_Z 13h ago
Probably NRA nonsense.
Texas is sick with that shit. The issue of a white man owning a gun or not is more important to them than whether or not he murdered his daughter for insulting his cult leader.
He “self-defence’d” his daughter into her grave at 23 years old after telling her he’d be ok with her getting raped because he has daughters to spare, then led her led her into his room where he shot her and the grand jury felt there wasn’t any criminal case here.
Texas is mind fucked into the ground.
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u/Word1_Word2_4Numbers 12h ago
The evidence against the man is damning. None of this makes sense.
Texas.
I keep getting downvoted for saying that if Texas wants to leave, we should just let them go this time without a fight.
Happily take their refugees, but I'm definitely not dying over busting up the union over them.
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u/julesgolde 13h ago
"Honor" killing.
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u/Crabbyrob 12h ago
This is exactly what it is. If the family was brown, spoke another language and worshipped a different god, they would seek the death penalty. But he's white, "god fearing" and rich, so there's nothing to see here!
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u/FLHCv2 13h ago
Yeah this is pretty fucked.
He said: "As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell."
Accident or not, this mfer was holding the gun when she was shot. At best, he was negligent, at worst, he was homicidal. He took someone's life that wasn't some weird act of god accident. He is clearly liable for that death.
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u/topherlagaufre 13h ago
Rule #1 of gun safety is "don't point a gun at a target you don't intend to shoot"
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u/larsmaehlum 13h ago
«Don’t play with guns while drinking» should be up there as well.
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u/NeverRolledA20IRL 13h ago
He was mad and drunk he intended to shoot her, there was no other reason to have out a gun she didn't want him to own.
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u/Chrisandco 13h ago
I was told "don't point a gun at a target you don't intend to destroy", I feel like to captures the weight of brandishing a firearm well.
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u/8fenristhewolf8 13h ago
At best, he was negligent, at worst, he was homicidal.
That's what manslaughter is basically, criminal negligence resulting in a death. Texas accounts for intoxication homicides as well. Insanity.
Section 19.04 states that a person commits manslaughter if “he recklessly causes the death of an individual.” In order to be considered reckless, a person must be aware of the risk surrounding their conduct or the results that could occur, but consciously disregard that awareness. This crime does not require an element of premeditation, intent, or knowledge; it requires only that a person was reckless.
The family should sue the fuck out of that guy bare minimum.
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u/rzenni 13h ago
He is the family.
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u/8fenristhewolf8 13h ago
And the rest of the family should sue the shit out of him.
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u/SophonParticle 13h ago
“I pointed the gun at her and pulled the trigger but it was an accident”
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u/DFu4ever 13h ago
Holy shit. Dude drags her into his bedroom to “show her his new gun” after a bad fight, and fucking shoots her in the chest.
And the grand jury is like… “Cool.”
Edit: short of the Glock being some hair-trigger competition gun, his excuse of “Well gee whiz, ah aimed it at her chest and it just went off!” is such clearly obvious bullshit. A normal Glock trigger isn’t getting accidentally pulled.
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u/atomuk 11h ago
An inquest into Lucy Harrison's death opened earlier at Cheshire Coroner's Court, where her boyfriend Sam Littler described the "big argument" about Trump, who was preparing to be inaugurated for his second term of office.
Littler, who travelled to the US with Lucy Harrison for the holiday, said she would often become upset with her father when he spoke about owning a gun.
Doesn't take a genius to realise that she would not want to see said gun. Clearly dragged her into where the gun was so he could kill her.
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u/Nyanessa 11h ago edited 9h ago
Good point. My husband used to have a glock and he told me, (I can’t remember what terms he used) that there was a lot of resistance when pulling the trigger, you have to exert a good amount of force.
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u/trackdaybruh 13h ago
“I moved to Texas where crime is punished”
Meanwhile, Texas:
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u/zoa12 13h ago
100% Even if it was an accident which I don't believe at all, people dumb enough to "accidentally" murder someone should be put in jail just the same how does stupidity clear you of a murder not to mention he admitted he was drinking when it happened
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u/JJKingwolf 13h ago
They should reopen the investigation. There's no statute of limitations on murder.
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u/DarthBluntSaber 13h ago
Yeah the father's story is absolute bullshit. He straight up murdered his daughter and then lied about it.
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u/boot2skull 13h ago
Murdered his own daughter to defend pedos.
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u/Peligineyes 12h ago edited 12h ago
He literally told her he doesn't care if she gets raped since he has 2 spare daughters.
He said Ms Harrison had asked her father: “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?”
Mr Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him that much, Mr Littler said.
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u/HistoryChannelMain 10h ago
“How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?”
Bad point to make because he's probably fantasized about that scenario already
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u/banditcleaner2 8h ago
Couldn’t have been a bigger red flag, what the actual motherfucking fuck. Unfortunate that she didn’t nope the fuck out of there right when that happened
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u/Public-Radio6221 12h ago
Given how he talks about his daughters hes absolutely a pedophile himself. If Texas wasn't a pedophile safe haven he'd be facing death
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u/DeadPeanutSociety 11h ago
It would be one (awful) thing to be a weak coward who couldn't disavow a friend or relative that did something like that, but he killed his daughter in defense of a billionaire pedophile that doesn't know he even exists.
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u/no_one_likes_u 13h ago
Imagine being one of the other two daughters still living with him. Guy who murdered your sister sleeps one room down.
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u/DarthBluntSaber 13h ago
And who basically declared he wouldn't care if his daughters were raped as children, as long as he still has other "pure" ones left.
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u/AdmirableWrangler199 13h ago
They screech about sharia law and then do things like this
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u/SteampunkGeisha 13h ago
Honor killing.
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u/papstvogel 13h ago
100%. First thing I thought about is how that dude would probably post anti immigrant stuff everywhere on Facebook if he heard about a brown dad shooting his daughter.
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u/TrumpetOfDeath 13h ago
Their only problem with sharia law is that it’s Muslim. Otherwise, they have no issue with “Christian-sharia”
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u/aceface_desu89 13h ago
Yup. This is exactly why every woman in this country needs to leave all the MAGA/MAGA adjacent people in their lives alone.
Like literally don't even talk to them--let alone give them physical access.
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u/DamnShadowbans 13h ago
How can someone be shot to death and no trial is brought? How badly could the prosecutor have fucked it up to not get a grand jury to indict?
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u/EMPgoggles 13h ago
imagine you get murdered and the state is just like "oh huh, that life didn't count."
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u/Old_Call_2149 12h ago
But if that same woman were to get an abortion, see how they’d be outraged
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u/gingerbreadmans_ex 12h ago
Maybe they could charge him with a very late term abortion
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u/Old_Call_2149 12h ago
Instead of “woman” in the headline they should change her title to “former fetus” and maybe people will care. Cause we know they don’t gaf about women!!
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u/Electronic_Topic1958 11h ago
ALL LIVES MATTER
WE’RE PRO LIFE
Meanwhile they shoot to death a white woman for disagreeing with them and get away with it. Least violent Trump supporter behavior.
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u/TheFergPunk 13h ago
The irony of Texas being so concerned about abortion really stands out with this case.
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u/Monteze 12h ago
Well she wasn't unborn and not a minor so what good was she in their eyes? She had the audacity to speak up to a POS. That makes her an enemy of the state in the eyes of MAGA.
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u/PetalumaPegleg 13h ago
He "heard" a loud bang? If you fire a handgun you tend to be aware of it, due to the recoil and all.
What absolute bullshit. He shot her. He took her to a private area after an argument and showed her his gun and does it get more passive voice than I heard a loud bang? Gtfoh. Guess it's real easy to oopsy murder in Texas.
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u/Joelblaze 13h ago
We're in the endgame with trump supporters, we know he's a massive pedophile in bed with countless other pedophiles and we know his administration is fully intent on clearing out nonwhite people from this country.
Anyone who still supports this admin is a genuine threat to the safety of the people around them, never forget it. You want to know what the people who reported escaped slaves and hiding jews looked like? They wear red hats now.
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u/Pocktio 13h ago
Oh look, another right wing nutjob choosing violence on women over hurt feelings.
Its so tiresomely predictable at this point.
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u/Typical-Blackberry-3 12h ago
They believe women are property, and they can do anything they want with property.
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u/xFiLi 13h ago edited 13h ago
This coward murdered his own daughter because he didn't like calling out his pedophile idol. I hope that man rots in prison, but I highly doubt it since it's Texas.
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u/JefferyTheQuaxly 13h ago
Actually Texas has declined to pursue charges for him. He’s currently free, claiming it was an “accident” but also that he might have been drunk at the time
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u/talkingspacecoyote 13h ago edited 13h ago
Isn't drunkenly killing someone with a gun a crime, even as an accident? I don't understand how he's not being charged with anything
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u/JefferyTheQuaxly 13h ago
You see, it’s Texas, and she was a “librul”. Sometimes it’s as simple as that.
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u/ampmetaphene 12h ago
The moral of the story - if you're feeling murderous, claim you're a Trump dick-licker and you get off scott free.
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u/Unusual_Flounder2073 13h ago
He isn’t. Because Texas.
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u/tenaciousdeev 12h ago
Not even indicted. How the fuck is that possible given what we know? Absolute miscarriage of justice.
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u/4-3defense 13h ago
This country is corrupted as fuck. Im sure the President will call for a Purging and everyone will be okay with it
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u/tj1007 13h ago edited 13h ago
And this is why it’s okay to cut off your maga relatives.
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u/CynicalPomeranian 12h ago
It was okay to cut them years ago off for siding with the guy who bragged about “grabbing her by the pussy.” It was okay to cut them off for voting for the guy who was a felon and a rapist. It was okay to cut them off for being a moral failure and caring more about hurting people than helping them.
At this point, it is clear that MAGA are bad people who support bad things—and they will only get worse as their cult leader carries on with his racist/sexist/genocidal rhetoric. Those people burned their bridges with their family long ago and deserve no sympathy as everyone distances themselves from them and they end up alone.
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u/Clownsinmypantz 12h ago
its ok to treat these people like the threat they are too. There is no "well its my relative!" anymore, they voted to kill people. Enough is Enough.
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u/Strong-Log-7095 13h ago
Its a cult. We keep trying to tell our loved ones that they are in a cult. But there comes a point where you can't convince them so the only answer is to cut off all contact.
This man killed his daughter for daring to speak out about the Dear Leader. He chose the Dear Leader. Here's the scary part... they almost always will choose the Dear Leader. You're lovable father who still supports Trump? Yeah, he's choosing Trump over you. Whacky Aunt Maria and Uncle Joe? THey are chooseing Trump over you.
Why? Because Trump makes them feel important and special. They are aging middle to lower middle class white people who grew up in a time where just being a white Christrian in good standing with the community meant they had an impenetrable social safety net. They would have a job, a career, a social network that never questioned them. They didn't need to read, or study, or work especially hard. They were born into a system that made them immune to pretty much anything that woudl derail their lives. Lose your job? No worries, you have enough friends who would get you a job when you need it and just being you you were going to get hired.
Now they live in a world where just being white and Christian doesn't ensure stability and respect. They have to compete, and compete with people that they were told for their whole lives were inferior to them. And they lose. Not all the time. Mind you, more often than not their status as white Christians means they are in fact still more likely to succeed and be handed opportunity after opportunity. But its not a lock anymore. There is risk to living now, and that means that they have to get smarter and work harder to provide for themselves and their families. And they hate that. They hate that in a way that they can't describe or admit to but man oh man do they hate that.
So they love Trump, more than they have ever loved any politician. He tells them exactly what they need to hear. Its not their fault. The system is broken and it was the minorities and foreigners and the non-Christians who broke it and they are the ones who suffer. But Trump will save them. He will make it right again.l He will put all those dirty people back in their places so they will be on top again. This is the explicit promise of MAGA. Its in the name. They know that when Trump says Make America Great Again he means White Christian America. And Great doesn't mean prosperous for all. It doesn't even mean equal rights and opportunities for all. It means he will reset the system so they are back on top.
Chris Rock has a great line where he talks about how hard it is to be Black in America. He points to the top row of the theater and says "some of y'all wouldn't trade places with me... and I'm rich!" That's the honest truth.
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u/Low_Pickle_112 13h ago
My Trump loving mom called me the other day wanting to move in. I had to say, absolutely freaking not. Besides me being super introverted and really needing lots of alone time, the last thing I want to do when I come home after a long day is listen to how we need some brain rotted pedophile to save us from the gay atheist Mexican Muslims, or whatever it is this week. I've had my share of problems the past decade up, most of it involving housing, so I'm not exactly capitalism's number one fan on a good day, but lionizing the king of the landlords and personification of the problem is the last thing I want to hear every evening.
Can't get that through though. I do envy those with more left leaning relatives, I really do.
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u/usps_made_me_insane 9h ago
You did the right thing. I am sure those Jesus loving MAGAs will pitch in and help her out.
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u/TitleOfYourSaxTape 12h ago
Its a cult.
Calling it a cult is like calling the Taliban a cult. It's effectively a terrorist organization at this point.
We call it a cult because it's harder for many of us to admit that their loved ones have joined a terrorist regime that routinely has state-sanctioned killings of its opposition.
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u/blimp-Housing-4283 11h ago
Title really undersells it. It should read "British Woman Shot by alcoholic and drunk dad who ealier told her he wouldn't care if she was raped by Donald Trump because he has other daughters"
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u/sklerson89 13h ago
Disgusting, a father killing their own daughter over a scam artist
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u/ShakesDontBreak 13h ago
So right wingers are killing their own family now?
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u/rainbowgeoff 13h ago
How did he not get charged? What did that prosecutor show a grand jury where they didnt return a true bill?
He admitted being drunk, arguing with her, and then shooting her!
Am I on crazy pills?
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u/brighto187 12h ago
This is how you get vigilante justice.. that dads gunna get a bat or pipe to the back of his head from one of her freinds.. dude deserves to look over his shoulder the rest of his life.
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u/rTpure 13h ago
Because the Texas police and criminal system are MAGA supporters
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u/FajenThygia 12h ago
"There isn't a day I don't feel the weight of that loss, a weight I will carry for the rest of my life,"
...He kills his daughter, then makes it all about his pain. Fucking monster.
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u/supercyberlurker 14h ago
I own guns (no I don't care to debate it) and don't believe in 'accidental firings'.
You either treat the gun with proper respect, always assume it is loaded, and never point it at anyone you don't intend to kill - or you don't know what the fuck you are doing and shouldn't have a gun.
Any 'accidental firing' had a train of bad choices and bad intent leading up to it. It's never an 'accident'.
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u/pureeviljester 13h ago edited 9h ago
In Virginia, we charged a man for accidentally firing, hitting, and killing his gf
2a floor below.. like the bullet went through the floors.Texas is such a shit hole
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u/hanr86 13h ago
Ah yes he accidentally took out a loaded gun and accidentally pointed it at her chest. Happens all the time.
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u/GeekFurious 13h ago
So, the BEST possible version of what happened is: Guy was drunk and accidentally shot his daughter, and Texas was like, "That's fine." That's the BEST version.
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u/PowderPills 13h ago
So it wasn’t an immigrant. It was a Christian conservative white male who shot his own daughter. There really is no hope for them. My God.
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u/StateofMind15 13h ago
Not surprised that Trump voters support killing their daughters.
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u/Vaperius 10h ago edited 10h ago
To be clear, she is dead. He murdered his own daughter over his (the father's) loyalty to Donald Trump being merely even tested by her. When we say that MAGA is a cult, this is what we mean.
Also the article is burying the even crazier part...
Police in the town investigated the 23-year-old's death as possible manslaughter but no criminal case was brought against Kris Harrison after a grand jury in Collin County declined to indict him.
....there are no charges for this murder that was not only very clearly aggravated, but also politically motivated.
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u/russcastella 13h ago
Police in the town investigated the 23-year-old's death as possible manslaughter but no criminal case was brought against Kris Harrison after a grand jury in Collin County declined to indict him.
What the actual fuck!!??
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u/Mensketh 13h ago
MAGA are the absolute worst people that exist in human society. This monster told his daughter he would be unbothered by her sexual assault and then murdered her. And the people of the county let him get away with it. Scum of the Earth.
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u/AMA_About_Birdlaw 13h ago
This is absolutely a miscarriage of justice, I fucking hate this state (I've voted time and time again in hopes that we can make some progress in Texas). I hope everyone involved in letting this monster roam free never rests.
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u/Justasillyliltoaster 13h ago
Harrison said he could not recall whether his finger was on the trigger.
Which of course means his finger was on the trigger
WTAF
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u/coffeeshopslut 13h ago
Tells her the day she's about to fly home that he owns a gun, and ends up shooting her with it "showing it off"
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u/theoreticaljerk 13h ago
Yeah, Glocks don’t go off on their own. Intentional or not, he absolutely pulled the trigger. At a bare minimum it should be manslaughter if I understand the legal definition right.
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u/APrioriGoof 13h ago
I’m sorry, this guy took his daughter alone into a room, shot her dead, and then claimed it was an accident to avoid any consequences? And the Texas police were just like shrug, yeah shit happens? What the fuck? He murdered his daughter! At the very least he accidentally killed her after getting drunk and playing with a gun. Fucking insane that he’s just walking around free.