Yeah but their aim was even worse than the other idiot. These nutjobs need to get their shit together; I’ve been successfully assassinated in political video games for a fraction of what the Orange Idiot’s done to real people.
Did the guy even fire shots? From what I heard he was just in the area and carrying a firearm.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/nx-s1-5113917/trump-apparent-assassination-attempt-shooting-suspect
It seems like the only shots that were fired were from the secret service.
Calm down guys! He’s not a Kennedy!
please name the game.
Second! Sounds like fun
Ya can do it in Kenshi, assassins creed, and Crusader Kings. Actually in Kenshi and CK ya can go far far worse than simple assassinations, I am the Cuck King all thine babies are mine!
I might be misremembering but Old Wolrd has something similar too, you can piss off the wrong child and they assassinate you
Crusader Kings recently finally got its claws into me. Fun fact: the game DOES have a moral compass of sorts, because eventually, your incestuous off-spring can be too mentally handicapped to have further children with.
So it’s not all bad.
Thats why you make a caset branch or four you can pull from.
Look up how many attempts Hitler survived, ridiculous.
The 42 attempts at assassinating Hitler ain’t nothing to sneeze at but Fidel Castro would like a word. The CIA attempted to assassinate him 638 times.
How can this NOT mean that all CIA agents are like Mr. Magoo?
How do you fail at a singular task more than 600 times and still have the world think you’re some fearsome spy force?
“Well, sure, he was knocked out 638 times, but those 2 decision victories sure were something… Greatest boxer of all-time!”
To be fair, most of the CIA was on an awful lot of LSD around that time.
It makes sense if you think of them as extremely well-funded frat boys with a free pass to break laws.
They just kind of do shit, and if it doesn’t work they keep trying until something sticks or they run out of steam. They get killed all the time.
It’s still scary, but just a lot less cool.
The reason we think of them as hypercompetent masters of espionage is because that makes better movies, and also because the US government funds movies that make them look good.
Third time’s the charm?
I’m just glad this fucker is old. Could you imagine if we had to put up with this shit for 20 more years?
He’s done regardless after this run.
Hopefully. I said the same thing back in 2020, figured he’d be dead by now
And hopefully this Vance guy doesn’t stick around, either, because he would be a pain in the ass for 20 years.
I’m at a point where I think he’s more useful alive than dead. I feel like he’s ALREADY going to lose 2024. I’m a little baffled that it’s even a close race at all, but I’m still confident that between the debate, and the Taylor Swift endorsement he’s dug his own grave. And with that, it means he lost 2020 election, and the 2024 election. Would the GOP really endorse a 2X loser in 2028?
I think him being alive forces them to support their own self made loser. And now even fox news is calling him a loser.
He likes to say things like “they’re laughing at us!”
No. They’re laughing at YOU trump. You are a laughing stock. Not the country. Not the democrats. Not anybody else but you. You are a loser, soon to be a two time loser, with two impeachments and 34 convictions. Nobody in American history loses bigger than you donald trump.
If he’s alive they will endorse him. There’s someone pulling the strings in the Republican party, I’d guess Putin. Republicans used to be the regular kind of horrible, now they’re just repugnant and evil. Trump is the perfect figurehead.
And he keeps losing. That’s my point. If he were dead, they might find someone who would/could actually win. Because let’s face it, Harris isn’t exactly everybodies first choice. She was kind of the only thing left once it became blatantly clear that Biden wasn’t going to be the 2024 nominee.
So, if trump is alive, trump runs, democrats win. That makes trump more useful alive than dead.
But I don’t think putin/GOP would be stupid enough to run him a 4th time.
I’m pretty certain he’ll be dead in four years, especially if he loses the election.
Dead or fully brain dead. So many Alzheimer’s symptoms and he’s about to turn 80. It goes fast once it starts (and it probably started 10 years ago).
Do you mean, “would they do something incredibly stupid because Donny insisted?” Yes, yes they would.
Alive he can go down in ignominy and we can move past him. Dead, he would be a martyr and would never leave America’s conscience.
I was a toddler when Nixon went down, but I heard what my parents had to say and combined that with what I’ve learned of history. Nixon was very popular, but once he went down he was like Voldemort, the one who shall not be named.
No. They’re laughing at YOU trump. You are a laughing stock. Not the country.
The country is also a laughing stock but yes Trump is a big part of it
Yeah, Trump has already been president once. There is no escaping being a laughing stock country after that one.
So fucking crazy that anyone will repeat something when the only source is “According to the Trump campaign”
If Satan’s asshole had a face
i hate this image
Imagine urinals in this shape.
I’d rather not.
This post is how I found out about this 2nd attempt.
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Man, Taylor Swift responded with bullets!
Just proves your everyday john doe doesnt know how to use that shiny new ak47 he just bought. Strike two as of now
Second attempt just doesn’t hit the same
No no, the attempt was to hit theother ear. Symmetry.
no fkn way… he got shot at again???
Have you met the dude? I’m not at all that the sexist, racist buffoon that repeated a dumb story about pets being eaten rather than asking a question is being shot at. He is a failure in every way.
Nah somebody nearby had a gun and the FBI I think shot at that guy. AFAIK nobody actually got shot and they arrested gun dude on the highway later.
Edit - sorry for bad link, still don’t think i can do relative post links. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27862700
Secret service shot at guy, guy had scoped AK and a GoPro when they shot at him apparently. Now I’m wondering if there was a 4chan post recently.
A Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrel sticking out of fence and “engaged” with the suspect, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said at a news conference late Sunday afternoon. The gunman was 300 to 500 yards away from Trump, a Secret Service official said. Law enforcement found an AK-47 style rifle, GoPro and backpacks where the suspect was positioned, Bradshaw said.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-harris-election-09-15-24/index.html
Yes, I had already edited that information in and linked to a lemmy post that itself contained a link to the AP story before you responded. Thanks though I guess?
It sounds like the shots fired were the secret service?
OK, seriously.
AK47s and AR15s are not what you’re looking for here. A nice Sako or Weatherby in 6.5 Creedmoor or .300WSM is a much better choice. And make sure your optics are matching the quality of the gun; we’re looking for .5MOA or better.
Get your shit together, guys.
FFS
Thats a 300-500m shot.
You could hit him with an off the shelf scoped .22(effective range140 yd). I’d personally go for a .270 but wonder if he’s worth the extra cost… imagine the headline, killed by one of the smallest calibers in common use.And why the fuck would you stick the barrel through the fence??
There isn’t a chance that a .22LR would even leave a bruise at 300m, if you managed to deal with the 15 or 20’ of drop at that range. You might as well throw a shoe at him.
Cmon, let’s get these people using the right equipment for the job. Telling people that .22 is going to do the job is just making sure the job doesn’t get done.
The best kill is overkill.
Aren’t these people supposed to be gun nutz? What the actual fuck you 🤡 get your shit together.
You might as well throw a shoe at him.
You would have to be a incredible shot but a 22 lr will still fuck you up or kill you at that range. It’s always foolish to act like a 22 is a toy round not to be taken seriously.
Look, I like to shit on the 22 as much as the next guy but at 500 yards it absolutely could kill. It’s not the most effective at that range but it will do more than bruise.
Grand Thumb did a video on .22LR, and it definitely can still do damage at that range. Granted, you’d have to be an incredibly good shot, but could still be deadly
Oh crap, you’re right. Effective range 140 yard.
.270 or 30-06 it is then.
Edit: one of our politicians had a dido thrown at him. Ill keep my shoe.
I’m just saying .30/06 is a classic in both deer and Nazi hunting for a reason
I love my 6.5, but I still really want a 30/06
Somewhere Howard Dean is wondering how the fuck he was too unhinged to be electable in the face of daily insanity from the orange.
Don’t. Fuck. With. Swift.
That was just a warning.
J/K, IDK 😛
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement, “There is no place in this country for political violence of any kind.”
Unless it is against the people, minorities, poor countries, or whistleblowers.
I guess there is a place for violence in Gaza then.
Democrats: “We don’t count that as political violence, because political violence is between people, and we don’t count Gazans as people”
How do you think Republicans feel about Palestinians?
I think it’s not relevant.
I don’t think Republicans feel. They approximate the social rituals that allow them access to society (and its benefits) in the same way high functioning sociopaths do, more or less.
No, no, no, it only counts as violence when it’s punching up! Bombing children and beating the people who say you shouldn’t do that is a totally different thing!
All violence is political violence.
And religion is politics or a form of control also.
Heck, in the US I’d almost say all politics is political violence. It seems that anytime you advocate for nonviolence here you’re called naive at best, murdered at worst. Plus, our whole society was built in blood.
Or natives
But inciting violence politically is, judging by recent events, absolutely fine.
*As long as it’s Donald Trump inciting aforementioned violence
*And as long as it’s violence on his former VP and the members of the Senate who will bend a knee to him no matter what
I mean, if you have participated in the plane discourse, you’ve probably learned that Swifties stop at nothing.
Swifties don’t play.
How convenient when he’s slipping in the polls and had a pretty bad week last week…
How. Convenient.
I refuse to believe a person who otherwise wouldn’t vote for Trump will vote for Trump because he was shot at.
I think someone who has been on the verge of converting to Trumpism would vote for him because he was shot at, but nobody that disliked him is gonna start liking him more
I think it’s to rule the news cycle, like that conspiracy loony etc. Anything to make forget about the crazily bad debate he did.
Not saying he invented this “heard gunshots” himself, but that is how it’s useful.
You’d be surprised, I know I was. Just like how there are still undecided voters
I don’t think the campaigns are about converting people, but more about getting people to care about voting for their candidate. At this point there is just no way people still don’t prefer one candidate over the other
