Assassination attempt on Trump, 13th July 2024

[Gromit]

The bullet didn’t hit him! It was broken glass apparently.

Amazing how long he paused on stage to do his fist pump. That’s quite ballsy. Do you think they had been told the shooter was dead? Almost impressed at the know how to soak up that moment and get the iconic photo.

A piece of glass he'd been calmly holding in his hand waiting for his cue?

Gun pops.
Pretend something stung my ear whilst cutting myself.

Get ready to pose for election winning money shot.

 

[The39thStep]

Regrets, I've had a few .

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Oops

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Turns out that Aaronovitch is the real victim in all of this after all….

 

[danny la rouge]

Wrt to conspiracy nonsense this is s sensible take worth reading:

Cool heads needed as political fringe dwellers spread disinformation after Trump shooting

Partisans on the left and the right are weaponizing the attack and spreading lies faster than journalists can offer facts to counter them

amp.theguardian.com

I’m not sure how sensible it is, to be honest. This in itself sounds like conspiracy theory:

“Accelerationists are those on the political fringes – right and left – who want a civil war to burn the country to ash so they can start anew from the rubble.”

They exist, but they are not a majority on social media or anywhere else. Yes, the algorithms boost them, but most people speculating are not “accelerationists”. They’re just people looking to make sense of it. That’s what people do. Often really quite badly.

 

[tim]

It will.

I'd go so far as to say that it was all staged to make sure he wins.

Why bother conspiralooning when we all know that there are thousands of Americans who would like to kill either Trump or Biden? Four sitting presidents have already been assassinated, others, including Reagan have been shot and wounded. Robert Kennedy was the last presidential candidate to be murdered on the campaign trail.

 

[Dystopiary]

appears to be a straight white republican shooter

going to be interesting how they blame the left for this

BIB - Not seen anything about his sexuality.

 

[8ball]

BIB - Not seen anything about his sexuality.

Maybe wearing one of those t-shirts with a wolf on it.

 

[Artaxerxes]

A piece of glass he'd been calmly holding in his hand waiting for his cue?

Gun pops.
Pretend something stung my ear whilst cutting myself.

Get ready to pose for election winning money shot.

Ok now imagine trump having the mental capacity to do that

 

[tim]

BIB - Not seen anything about his sexuality.

Straight shooting.

 

[Karl Masks]

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Said as though US Congress isn't packed with conspiracy theory laden loons.

This is inception levels of crazy. Biden can officially assassinate trump and claim immunity, trump, if he makes it to the whitehouse, can then officially assassinate Biden.

What a world

 

[Everything Goes]

Farage on the Beeb blaming lefty media.

I'm sure the BBC is rigorously calling him out on his sources and reasoning, as always.

I thought Farage was boycotting the BBC. Lying toad keeps on lying.

 

[Karl Masks]

Saying Biden is senile while Trump shits out a word salad that makes less and less sense by the day is certainly a brave choice

Both things can be true. They could both be past it. Trump is certainly an angry incoherent narcissist and fascist. Biden is certainly cooked.

 

[8ball]

Biden is certainly cooked.

Did you mean “crooked”?

 

[Karl Masks]

Oops

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Our media pretending not to understand satire when it suits them.

 

[Karl Masks]

Turns out that Aaronovitch is the real victim in all of this after all….

I don't like him, but he's not wrong. He wrote the tweet days ago and it was obviously satirical.

 

[Karl Masks]

Did you mean “crooked”?

No.

 

[maomao]

BBC being very mawkish about this. If you can't assassinate a hate-spewing populist demagogue who can you assassinate? Fucking woke nonsense.

 

[pinkmonkey]

Only thing to salvage the Democrats now is if George Clooney stepped up to the plate and went for the presidency. Been done before.

They need a more popular popularist and the guns need guns to protect the people from the guns.

 

[Gromit]

Ok now imagine trump having the mental capacity to do that

He might have needed a few months of coaching and practice because of the added difficulty of having to speak at the same time.

 

[ska invita]

I’m not sure how sensible it is, to be honest. This in itself sounds like conspiracy theory:

“Accelerationists are those on the political fringes – right and left – who want a civil war to burn the country to ash so they can start anew from the rubble.”

They exist, but they are not a majority on social media or anywhere else. Yes, the algorithms boost them, but most people speculating are not “accelerationists”. They’re just people looking to make sense of it. That’s what people do. Often really quite badly.

of course there are people who wish to bring things to a crisis point, for example

Boogaloo movement - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"adherents say they are preparing for, or seek to incite, a second American Civil War or second American Revolution which they call "the boogaloo" or "the boog"

 

[The39thStep]

But then again too few to mention

 

[danny la rouge]

of course there are people who wish to bring things to a crisis point, for example

Boogaloo movement - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"adherents say they are preparing for, or seek to incite, a second American Civil War or second American Revolution which they call "the boogaloo" or "the boog"

Yes there are. But how many of them are there? Very, very few. Nothing like even the numbers we are told support violence against Trump or Biden.

 

[keybored]

Who is was that?

Nikki Swango

 

[8ball]

No.

Fair dos.

 

[Larry O'Hara]

I don't like him, but he's not wrong. He wrote the tweet days ago and it was obviously satirical.

What did the original tweet say?

 

[Aladdin]

Trump with his fist in the air shouting "fight fight fight"... what a fucking moron.
I mean... he could have taken a moment to think about how to maintain peace.... but no. His immediate reaction is a motivation towards aggression.
Says it all.

 

[The39thStep]

What did the original tweet say?

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Trump with his fist in the air shouting "fight fight fight"... what a fucking moron.
I mean... he could have taken a moment to think about how to maintain peace.... but no. His immediate reaction is a motivation towards aggression.
Says it all.

I suppose, having just been shot, it didn’t occur to him to ‘take a moment’ to think about peace…

 

[Karl Masks]

What did the original tweet say?

Assassination attempt on Trump, 13th July 2024

"Yeah i did and i'm immune so fuck you!"

www.urban75.net

IIRC the quote is accurate. It was obvious satire, made to point out the consequences of the SCOTUS decision in the context of Trump's open desire to vindictively pursue those he perceices as enemies.

 

[Orang Utan]

Trump with his fist in the air shouting "fight fight fight"... what a fucking moron.
I mean... he could have taken a moment to think about how to maintain peace.... but no. His immediate reaction is a motivation towards aggression.
Says it all.

How does that make him a moron? Looks like an astute move to me, judging by the photos of him that will now be on all tomorrow’s front pages