politics

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?

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.

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

did the attenders draw their guns and stop the assasin?

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

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

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.

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

Worthless asshole just gave him the election.

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?

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

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

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.

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."

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

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

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.

There it is again, that funny feeling…

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.