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The man behind Project 2025, the rightwing policy manifesto that includes calls for a sharp increase in immigrant deportations if Donald Trump is elected, told university colleagues about two decades ago that he had killed a neighborhood dog with a shovel because it was barking and disturbing his family, according to** **former colleagues who spoke to the Guardian.

Kevin Roberts, now the president of the Heritage Foundation, is alleged to have told colleagues and dinner guests that he killed a neighbor’s pit bull around 2004 while he was working as a still relatively unknown history professor at New Mexico State University.

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What's with this people and killing dogs??

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago

They want to take lives, and that was an outlet for them.

This guy seems to be moving on to bigger kills...

[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To quote a poet

Why are we calling these guys masterminds? They're not masterminds!

[–] Heikki@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Mastermind can be a noun or a verb

Noun: A person of outstanding intelect an eminent musical mastermind

Verb: to plan a difficult activity, often a crime, in detail and mak certain that if happens successfully he is believed to be the mastermind of the attacks

Another verb definition: plan and direct, an ingenious or complex scheme or enterprise he was accused of masterminding a vote stealing racket

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Republicans: “Immigrants are eating pets!”

Also republicans: “I killed a pet dog with a shovel because it was barking”

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

"Kill as many dogs as you like however you like... but eating them afterward? That goes beyond the pale!"

[–] Coach@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago

...like a true psychopath.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 17 points 5 days ago

So? Killing Dogs is as Republican as School Shootings! I mean as Republican as Dead Women! I mean as American as Apple Pie that's what I mean!

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

We should swap weird out for creepy on this one

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Dog-killer" is something that still evokes bipartisan horror.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Need to start selling T-shirts of him holding a shovel.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

He is ruining the Kevin Roberts name.