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It feels like the novelty of an attempted XPOTUS assassination wore off in less than 48 hours. That’s crazy.
Nobody around me is even talking about this anymore - not at work, not on social, not at the grocery store, nowhere.
Idk if that’s due to everyone being super jaded or because it’s Trump. If it’s because it’s him, then I wonder if it’s because nobody gives a shit about him or if it’s just not surprising someone would take a shot at him or just because it’s irrelevant to his candidacy or what else.
It’s just right-on-right violence; nobody cares.
If the kid had been a hair left of THEIR perceived center MAGAs would had declared civil war.
I actually have a different perspective on it, I think people stopped caring because it was a shooting where “only” 1 person was killed. Gun violence is so normalized that the only 2 reasons it got any coverage at all is because of the timing and the target.
This is potentially the grimmest perspective I’ve ever read. I don’t think you’re wrong, either.
Yea, it’s a pretty dark realization. I don’t feel bad for Trump. I feel bad for every single gun death that has occurred leading to this incident being a minor footnote.
The same week that Jamar Clark, there was a mass shooting at the warehouse district blue line stop. 3-4 people died with a few more shot.
Jamar was shot by cops. The others were shot in a gang dispute (the victims were not associated, but mostly black, the shooter was black, iirc,)
You won’t find the names of the victims anywhere online.
Also, before Sound Bar closed down, there were weekly gang fights spilling out of the joint, into the streets/lot out back.
People were shot monthly with a string of deaths for about 2-3 years.
Then a C-tier Vikings player got winged and suddenly they yeeted the liquor license.
We’re absolutely desensitized and the only time we know about a stranger getting shot is because there was something about the case- killed by cops, the shooter was famous, the victim was famous, or it was some kid, or it was in the context of a mass murder and nothing else was going on.
It makes sense to me, like, it does not make me want to vote for him.
You’d think the writers of the last couple Game of Thrones seasons shot him!
It’s like a lottery ticket off by one number. Sure, it was almost a reason to throw a party, but almost doesn’t really get people talking.
I get your point, but damn I’d love to have a Powerball ticket that was off by one number. That’s more than enough money to retire on. Not that I need it, it’d just be nice to retire at 43 rather than 49.
Really? I was at the gym yesterday and they couldn’t stop framing things with the assassination attempt. “Two days after assassination attempt, day two of the RNC.”
Like, that was literally the chyron on CNN. Yesterday evening.
https://lemmy.ca/post/25179438
Yes, really! I thought you might find the post I’m linking above interesting. It was at the top of my feed this morning and may be relevant here.
I am curious if maybe you were witnessing people of the Boomer generation (or older GenX) discussing this because they are more likely to be consuming mainstream broadcast news?
Turns out, he’s still a POS convicted felon and racist.
Don’t forget convicted r***st and suspected pedophile! ;)
Too funny, I typed rapist and it autocorrected to racist yet that’s even more accurate.
Did you mean to censor the word rapist, or is this some new weird censor thing?
It was intentional out of courtesy for those who may have experienced past trauma or stigma associated with such.
After the upside down Bible stunt, nobody trusts this incident wasn’t just theater.
The “Wait Wait Wait!” and then subsequent fist pumping looked like he had momentarily forgotten the WWE script
I don’t even think it’s that. I think it’s that no one really cares since it changed nothing. His supporters don’t care because he survived and it’s the same reason why the people who are against him don’t care.
Maybe it’s because everybody is already so used to his drama.
Repeat after me:
Polls are bullshit. Polls have always been bullshit. Polls only real impact is to allow people to manipulate statistics to lull voters in a false sense of confidence or security in order to stop them from voting.
Ignore the polls, especially the polls that say your side is winning or the other side is losing. Polls are a very, very effective way to convince voters to stay home without ever asking them or telling them to stay home.
THANK YOU.
The best possible news.
I’ve never been so happy to be wrong in my life. I thought this would have been the ultimate booster for him, virtually guaranteeing him a huge victory. I’m so relieved people aren’t quite as cattle-like as I feared.
I’m right there with you.
He’s all tapped out and headed for his third big loss in a row.
The poll ran friday-sunday and got most of their responses before the shooting even happened…
Trump be like: someone shoot me in the arse so I can get more ratings. Watch.
Cuz he’s a piece of shit.
A single poll? Well, that proves it! One out of 100 polls shows the loss is only a single percentage point. Biden is clearly the best candidate now.
Well…yeah. He is when you compare him to a 34 time convicted felon, rapist, fascist traitor.
If Trump is a fascist, then do you want a winning candidate that can prevent that or to have a candidate that is so ignorant that he lets fascism win?
How about a cheeseburger? Because I’d vote for one over Trump.
I’d vote for a literal tub of shit over that figurative tub of shit.
I don’t know if I’d be able to tell the difference well enough to know which one to vote for.
Well, if it helps, one of these things is vile, disgusting, and inhuman, and the other is not Donald Trump.
That does help, although both smell about the same I hear.
