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    9 months ago

    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?

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      9 months ago

      You’re only allowed to be violent if you’re a right winger. If you’re a leftie, the voting booths and protest signs are over there.

      Good luck.

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    CNN is confirming gunfire.

    Edit CNN is quoting local authorities confirming the shooter + 1 attendee are both dead.

    2nd attendee severely injured.

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        Yup. CNN interviewed a witness who stated one man was shot in the head and killed instantly while a woman hit in the forearm and hand.

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    9 months ago

    Turns out, calling out for violence over and over again or continuously calling for the blood of your opponents, threatening with imprisonment and a literal dictatorship, will be answered with violence. I am sooooooo shocked!

    Get fucked. Hope the next marksman is luckier.

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    9 months ago

    Lots of people seem keen to jump to this being staged. That makes zero sense: Trump was already winning before this, especially with Biden (his preferred opponent) looking to hang on to the nomination.

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      Trump was already winning before this

      Do you just not understand how elections work? You don’t “win” before votes are cast.

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      9 months ago

      conspiracy theorist in me sees several venues where it is Very beneficial to POTUS45 to stage this:

      • finally come out as victim
      • frame Biden/CIA/FBI as villains
      • come out as “defiant” hero and rally support to the point where it’s a landslide win, where he would be able to go after anybody and anything he doesn’t like.

      more wicked stuff comes to mind but I think above is sufficient . Fact that bullet grazed him and nobody around him in a tight setting is kind of strange, with his bravado on display with fist shaking. One can only dream for this election campaign video to be run on repe 24/7 on fox and other outlets, giving him more air time, and now that Biden asked everyone to read project2025 entire nation will be watching nothing but POTUS45. Still could be some morron that didn’t get his signature at the rally pulling out his Beretta…

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        Witness statement was that another attendee was shot in the head and killed and a 2nd in the forearm and hand.

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          sounds like, indeed bystanders been hit according to latest information. I still believe that POTUS45 would be OK sacrificing any number of people as long as it gets him power. No evidence of his involvement but entire story “smells”

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        There is no scenario where this helps Treason Trump. Now the entire world knows that Convicted Criminal and Sex Offender Treason Trump is so widely hated that people literally want to kill him. And now Treason Trump knows it too.

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    9 months ago

    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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      Their potato chips and beer have gone up a lot in the past few years, therefore we were in the economic golden age under Trump. Life is pretty simple for some people.

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        Yeah, I see that all the time for people that don’t even have to think about being targets - read: xtian white cishet males that are cons…this was someone that would definitely be in the crosshairs of the Project 2025 types. Repeating Bullshit Mountain style propaganda about “the economy”.

        The economy won’t mean shit if you are a political prisoner or made a second class citizen…or even worse.

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    Okay, this settles it: Biden is gonna be the nominee. Nobody else on the Dem side is gonna want to be the sacrificial lamb going up against Trump after today.

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      Would you stop with this shit. There is no scenario where the fact that you are so hated that somebody wants to kill you is a good thing.

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    A lot of deep haters here in the comments. Trump derangement syndrome is live and well in many coddled minds. I was a Trump fan back then but I realized that Trump was not getting anything done as president that Trump campaigned on during 2016 and ever since then, was no longer a fan and was quite dissapointed. Came to realize Trump was an egomaniac at best.

    However I do not wish for voilence. I do not see him as a good option as president in 2024 due to his track record of getting nothing done during his first term. However for lefties to hate Trump because “The TV told me so” and being spoon fed with the opinion that “Trump is the next Hitler” is such mental gymastics. Look lefties, Trump is not a threat to your woke agenda, he did not drain the swamp in 2017, he hired the swamp. I am sure if he wins in 2024, he will hire the swamp in 2025 again and it will just be four years of fuck all nothing.

    Chill the fuck out.

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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

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        just saw the news at it was kinda wierd. did not seem like anyone behind him got hit and he was hit in the ear and pumped his fist after ward. They said metal detectors are used so sounds like a sniper type thing. I sorta think they likely would figure out the origin. I wonder if they have him or are after them but don’t want to update yet.

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          Did you see the cherry picker gush fluid and fall. I think a hydraulic line popped hit someone and police started shooting in that general direction as is usual.

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          It seems odd that a bullet might have grazed his ear yet not shot anyone or anything behind him. Also, the picture of his bloodied ear and the splatter make it look like the shot came from behind him.

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        His base will embrace it. The question is will the center. I know I am not, as a centrist. But I only speak for myself.

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      Stop saying “he’ll be a martyr.”

      This gets touted any time any consequence could come to him. Saying this makes it a lose lose situation. Either we let him get away and do whatever or “he’s a martyr.” No. He reaps whatever consequences come to him for his actions. It shouldn’t come as an assassination, but he has to have some consequence for what he does.

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      If only he were a martyr from this, but he survived. You have to die to be a martyr.