So I guess you could say the response was… swift
Man, Taylor Swift responded with bullets!
Second attempt just doesn’t hit the same
No no, the attempt was to hit theother ear. Symmetry.
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!
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
This post is how I found out about this 2nd attempt.
That’s two legitimate assassination attempts in a very short period of time, I wonder what effect that would have on someone’s state of mind?
Right after his first assasination, there was a thread where someone said “If that happened to someone else, they’d probably have PTSD”.
And I said “What makes you think he DOESN’T have PTSD after a bullet that was 100% intentionally fired at him, with the intention to kill him, narrowly missed because he just so happened to turn his head inches away from the path by total accident?”
The general consensus was that trump can’t have ptsd because he’s a bad person who ruins others lives.
And thats total bullshit. Not the part about him being a bad person, and ruining others lives. Thats still true. He IS a piece of shit who seperated families from their children, leaving them to bake, and sometimes die in metal boxes without water.
The part thats bullshit is the idea that bad people can’t get ptsd because they’re bad people. I fully believe trump had/has ptsd, and this will only reignite it further.
I hope he doesn’t become president. Harris is the best case scenario in every case except one. I fully believe that if trump becomes president, he’s going to make a much harder push for gun reform simply because for him personally it’s literally a life or death situation.
If he becomes president, I would not be surprised if he tries to end gun ownership being legal.
That being said, I don’t expect that plan to come to fruition. I fully expect it to fail because it would be a legal and logistical nightmare. But my point is on this one issue he would actually try. Whereas it’s not going to be a major issue for Harris.
Harris will have many issues she’s trying to address, while trump, once again, will only thinking of himself. It just so happens that his one issue just so happens to benefit everyone. Not by design, but as a biproduct.
That being said, it’s FAR more important for Harris to win. Many issues are more important than one.
The general consensus was that trump can’t have ptsd because he’s a bad person who ruins others lives.
There’s a lot of people on Lemmy, particularly in the politics and world news communities, that I would go out of my way to avoid in real life. They seem to forget that people they don’t like are human, and say some absolutely vile things as a result.
A particularly bad example was when the Titan submersible was lost, there were some downright ghoulish comments made after that happened.
Better people have wanted worse things to happen to the ruling class.
Most of the people on that sub weren’t the ruling class though. Petit borgeoise at best, apart from Rush himself.
Some were, some weren’t just trying to explain the sentiment.
Unclear how legit they are. Don’t rush judgment, especially when the victim and his associates are narcissistic liars.
Or rather, define “legitimate”. It matters in a situation like this.
He ain’t gonna have a Saul/Paul moment, I can tell you that.
I don’t get the reference. He doesn’t seem like a particularly introspective person though.
New testament fascist who killed and arrested Christians, who on his way to Damascus to arrest more christians, god temporarily blinds. After this he becomes a super Christian and wrote much of the approved catholic new testament books. These books mostly comprise letters to certain groups of very early Christians.
(I say approved Catholic new testament books because, boy howdy, there were so many more that the catholic church found heretical and banned - they loved to maintain their fictional narrative)
12 years of catholic school gurgled that out. Time to talk to my therapist.
I thought that was a breaking bad reference when you made the first comment.
Yeah, at his age it’s pretty unlikely someone is going to change in a meaningful way.
Gosh, honestly I wish I had first thought of a Saul Goodman reference. Would have put my mind in a much better space!
Hopefully he has a massive stroke.
I’m worried it would fuck his mind so bad he’d start making sense /s
Just proves your everyday john doe doesnt know how to use that shiny new ak47 he just bought. Strike two as of now
Third time’s the charm?
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.
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.
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.
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.
