Donny, are you ok?

[GoCubsGo]

I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrum ... 6045321247

Seriously?

[Vrede too]

Seriously?

Actually, that's way fewer lies per post than typical for him. Kudos, ex-PINO.

[O Really]

Such and act "incredible"? Really.
All too common.

[GoCubsGo]

Such and act "incredible"? Really.
All too common.

You'd think we don't lead first world countries in gun deaths or something.

[Vrede too]

Such an act "incredible"? Really.
All too common.

You'd think we don't lead first world countries in gun deaths or something.

You'd think that TRE45QN didn't incite the assassination of VP Q-tip or something.

[GoCubsGo]

There's going to be uncomfortable questions.



https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/13/politics ... ter-digvid

[Vrede too]

There's going to be uncomfortable questions.

https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1812341776549581195

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/13/politics ... ter-digvid

Here's what we know about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspected Trump rally shooter

The FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the suspect in Saturday's attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally. The suspect was shot and killed by the Secret Service seconds after he allegedly fired shots toward a stage where Trump and was speaking in Butler, Pennsylvania. The FBI said it was working to determine a motive for the attack, in which one rally attendee died and two other spectators were critically injured. Trump was shot in the ear.

State voter records show that Crooks was a registered Republican.

... When Crooks was 17 he made a $15 donation to ActBlue, a political action committee that raises money for left-leaning and Democratic politicians, according to a 2021 Federal Election Commission filing. The donation was earmarked for the Progressive Turnout Project, a national group that rallies Democrats to vote....

Trump rally shooting breeds social media lies and sick conspiracies. What's wrong with us?

... Trending topics took off with claims of everything from an assassination attempt to a staged event. Unfettered garbage. Cynical manipulations....

"assassination attempt" seems accurate and "staged event" occurred to me - real gunfire, but TRE45QN injuring his own ear


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[GoCubsGo]

Not watching a ton of the way oversaturated coverage, don't think my mental health could take it.

But it seems like the left is going through all the 'correct' motions and trying to say politically correct things.

The right is doing their Sybil imitation, some crying that we need to unite the country and some blaming Biden and Democrats rather emphatically and inflammatory.

There's no uniting going on.

[O Really]

All the talking heads are yammering about how Trump's base will be "even more" fired up, but is nobody looking at the more important question: will the botched shooting change anybody else's mind, either those who were on the fence (however that could be possible) or who were not going to vote for Trump.

If I were in charge of the billboards around there, I'd say "Getting shot at by a fellow Republican doesn't change who he is"

[GoCubsGo]

All the talking heads are yammering about how Trump's base will be "even more" fired up, but is nobody looking at the more important question: will the botched shooting change anybody else's mind, either those who were on the fence (however that could be possible) or who were not going to vote for Trump.

If I were in charge of the billboards around there, I'd say "Getting shot at by a fellow Republican doesn't change who he is"

Mayyyyyybe it'll get some softer trump (if there's still such a thing) supporters motivated to vote. Otherwise I don't see the dynamics changing.

[Whack9]

I think if anything, if Trump wins the election he's absolutely going to be out for blood and vengeance. Whatever that may entail. The thing trump holds most sacred and holy above all else was attacked: himself. He's going to make someone/some group pay.

[Vrede too]

There's going to be uncomfortable questions.

https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1812341776549581195

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/13/politics ... ter-digvid

Some theoretical discussion, but this still has to count as a Ford's Theatre-level failure.

Ex-Secret Service special agents explain why counter-sniper who saved Trump's life may have lost crucial seconds

TRE45QN was as lucky as Reagan and Carter. Heads will roll, whether or not we ever hear about it.

[GoCubsGo]

There's going to be uncomfortable questions.

https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1812341776549581195

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/13/politics ... ter-digvid

Some theoretical discussion, but this still has to count as a Ford's Theatre-level failure.

Ex-Secret Service special agents explain why counter-sniper who saved Trump's life may have lost crucial seconds

TRE45QN was as lucky as Reagan and Carter. Heads will roll, whether or not we ever hear about it.

Think I was wise to take a news blackout day yesterday.

There's all sorts of footage of the shooter on the roof before and during the shooting.

Gonna be uncomfortable questions.

[Vrede too]

Think I was wise to take a news blackout day yesterday.

There's all sorts of footage of the shooter on the roof before and during the shooting.

Gonna be uncomfortable questions.

No need. A neoplacebo-adjacent TN Rep has the answers:

GOP Lawmaker Finds A Way To Blame 'DEI' For Trump Shooting
Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee faced backlash for the "despicable misogynistic cheap shot."

... Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the Secret Service, served in the agency for 27 years in various roles — including on Joe Biden’s detail when he was vice president — before taking a role as senior director managing global security at PepsiCo North America....

Opps.

Political commentator Tara Setmayer, a former GOP communications director on Capitol Hill:

How dare this sexist MFer question the bona fides of the current Secret Service Director because she’s a woman.
Let’s set the record straight—Dir. Kim Cheatle was an experienced Secret Service agent who worked her ass off to climb up the ranks and earn her position.
@SecretService
How dare he diminish her 20+ years of service to this country.
The USSS is not beyond reproach but this is a despicable misogynistic cheap shot.
This is how Republicans view women in power. Remember that when you vote in November.

Blame the women, blame DEI. Classy move

Propaganda: demonize a concept then use it to blame groups of people you want to make subservient

It's extremely on-brand that after an incident in which there's going to be a genuine, bipartisan desire to look at the Secret Service's handling of an attempted assassination, the GOP cannot fucking help themselves and goes directly to DEI and women in the workplace. Insane.

[GoCubsGo]

LOL

Color me shocked.

[Vrede too]

LOL

Color me shocked.

This thread title was prescient thank to GoCubsGo and Nikki Heat

'Is He Okay?': Footage Shows 'Chaotic' Scenes as Trump Taken Off Stage After Shooting

Maybe I should start:
Donny, do you have a pulse?

[GoCubsGo]

Maybe I should start:
Donny, do you have a pulse?

[GoCubsGo]

Odds on trump entering the convention on Thursday and ripping the bandage off on stage?

[Vrede too]

Odds on trump entering the convention on Thursday and ripping the bandage off on stage?

https://x.com/AP/status/1813036215370748173

Everyone has dreams. Tenacious D birthday wish: "Don’t miss Trump next time."
https://deadline.com/2024/07/trump-tena ... 236010850/

... At the same time, in a comparison of apples and oranges, it is worth noting many a Republican, including Trump, mocked the brutal November 2022 attack on former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 82-year-old husband in the high profile couple’s gated San Francisco home. A security failure by those who were supposed to be protecting the person second in line to the Presidency, Pelosi was the intended target of the attack, the hammer-wielding David DePape admitted....

[GoCubsGo]

Odds on trump entering the convention on Thursday and ripping the bandage off on stage?

https://x.com/AP/status/1813036215370748173

Everyone has dreams. Tenacious D birthday wish: "Don’t miss Trump next time."

The sad part is I'm not kidding.