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[–] 153 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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?

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    [–] 134 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 88 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (22 children)

    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

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    [–] 82 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    did the attenders draw their guns and stop the assasin?

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (32 children)

    This is just going to further guarantee his victory. It's fucking over. This country is done.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    Shit’s pretty unpredictable. What happens if a MAGAt retaliates and whacks Biden?

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    [–] 49 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Damn this is worst case dude is going to be made a maytr for this bs.

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Is it bad that... Given everything going on with 25 and the SCOTUS ruling I consider this attempted assassination patriotic?

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Worthless asshole just gave him the election.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

    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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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Maybe having so many guns in this country is a bad thing.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Looks like the bullet grazed his ear. He was about to get Kennedy'd.

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  • [–] [S] 42 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    (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.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Biden's official statement:

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/07/13/statement-from-president-joe-biden-6/

    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."

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    Ugh. Why can't we just get one win?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    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

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    The shooter was a Republican

    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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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There it is again, that funny feeling…

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