You ever feel like you live in some sort of Murphy's Law parallel universe, where the worst possible outcome of every major event happens?
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2024
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If only Trump had a gun, this wouldn’t have happen-
Oh wait… he’s a felon, so he can’t have a gun- but can run for president. This is America now.
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Holy shit, he had blood on his ear? If that’s true, he was about a foot away from assassination. That’s wild.
Edit: saw a picture of him and he was def hit in the ear. We won’t hear the end of this for a long time. “Radical democrats are so scared that I’m going to win” etc
Edit 2: let’s do count of “how many push notifications does the news junkie get?” I’m at ~~3~~ ~~4~~ 7 so far. Edit: it’s a lot more than 7 but I’m done counting
He put his hand up to his ear before he went down and you can see blood on his face when Secret Service took him away. Whoever it was missed him by that much.
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did the attenders draw their guns and stop the assasin?
This is just going to further guarantee his victory. It's fucking over. This country is done.
Shit’s pretty unpredictable. What happens if a MAGAt retaliates and whacks Biden?
this is a terrible tragedy but we need to continue to work towards unity in the country so nothing will be done
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Damn this is worst case dude is going to be made a maytr for this bs.
If only he were a martyr from this, but he survived. You have to die to be a martyr.
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I wonder how Trump's public image will change after this event. Will the MAGA crowd radicalise even more? Or will he have to drop out of the presidential race for safety concerns?
Either way, the aftermath will be interesting.
Radicalize. Every time.
Trump's going to milk him being a victim and come out looking like he's super tough and cheated death. Nothing could have been better for the Trump campaign than a failed assassination attempt in which Trump was hit and survived practically fine. I think things are about to get pretty bad. This is terrible terrible news for the country.
This is worse than terrible. Now Trump gets to play martyr and it rallies up his base, even the ones who were in doubt after his conviction.
And as the chaos ensues, Putin is laughing at his throne.
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May you live in interesting times.
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I love how this is a "heinous act" even though the dipshit in charge of 25 basically said theyd kill the left if they were against them
Worthless asshole just gave him the election.
He should've practiced more
Grand.
I wonder what the shooter’s politics are.
Liberal: commie assassin
Conservative or other: oh, just mentally ill.
E: shot looked like it came from the left. I wonder if the shooter was outside the rally area at a distance. Anybody else hit?
A conservative shooting at Biden would end up giving the keynote at CPAC.
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Maybe having so many guns in this country is a bad thing.
Assassinating problematic politicians that want to be a king is sort of the point of the 2nd amendment.
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Looks like the bullet grazed his ear. He was about to get Kennedy'd.
(I hate the source, F this guy) but here’s him being ushered off the stage after… https://x.com/stillgray/status/1812250467071885730
Edit: his base is going to be insanely fired up now. I’m genuinely scared about what’s going to happen now. I can see it already “the deep state tried to stop him and God saved Trump!” ugh.
The potential for backfire is massive. Of course in our timeline, Trump gets grazed in the ear. Stop teasing us.
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Violence begets violence, and Trump is responsible for no shortage of violence. Is this for the violence of Jan 6, or the violence against the women in his life, or some other time? I want to find out.
Biden's official statement:
He's in a video conference now.
"I have been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania.
I’m grateful to hear that he’s safe and doing well. I’m praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information.
Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. There’s no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it."
You know what's sad about this?
If the roles were reversed, Trump would be offering the shooter a posthumous pardon and probably a medal. And no, I'm not joking. Trump would never be seen giving someone else the respect he demands from others.
I want Dark Brandon in the next debate "Let me say it again, in your good ear this time..."
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Ugh. Why can't we just get one win?
NYT photographer got the photo of the bullet, it seems that TMZ's reporting that it was glass from the teleprompter is not correct:
https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/1812293722832318726
Well that certainly blows up any argument it was staged. You don't fake shoot a real bullet past your fake targets head.
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When he yells "fight", what does he mean to fight for? Fight against freedom? I wonder the same thing when it comes to Qbert and Empty-G. Fight? What are they fighting for, exactly? More tax cuts for billionaires? More special privileges for xtians?
I was told today that someone we know is going to vote for donnie - because "economy". What. The. Actual. Fuck. They said that the economy was better under donnie. I just can't even. And this is someone that will be a target under fascist rule.
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Has me wondering if this was an attempt to start a race war, like a bunch of past mass shootings, attempts to knock out power by shooting transformers, etc.
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