I weep for this man https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SexmfU6b1ik
Wake up babe mods swept through and you can’t post opinions on Lemmy either
“Oh you can post opinions on Lemmy, just not THIS lemmy. Also whatever instances you are allowed to post your spicy opinions on are already defederated. huzzah for free speech (that’s not in my back yard!)”
Well now we know a three letter agency doesn’t want him dead. They at least hit their shots.
Malcolm X: Dead Martin Luther King: Dead John Kennedy: Dead Bob Kennedy: Dead Ronald Reagan: Lived Donald Trump: Lived
I see a pattern.
Teddy Roosevelt: Shot. Told the crowd not to kill his assassin. Delivered his entire 50 minute speech, from start to finish.
Schrank’s bullet lodged in Roosevelt’s chest after penetrating Roosevelt’s steel eyeglass case and passing through a 50 page thick (single-folded) copy of his speech titled “Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual”, which he was carrying in his jacket pocket.
Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he was not coughing blood, the bullet had not reached his lung, and he declined suggestions to go to the hospital immediately. Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with blood seeping into his shirt. He spoke for 50 minutes before completing his speech and accepting medical attention. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Theodore_Roosevelt
Trump: Injured by teleprompter. Claimed victory. Carried off stage.
“It takes more than that to kill a bull moose,” the wounded candidate assured them. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a bullet-riddled, 50-page speech. Holding up his prepared remarks, which had two big holes blown through each page, Roosevelt continued. “Fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet—there is where the bullet went through—and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.”
Imagine how long of a speech he’d have given if he hadn’t been shot.
Just because it wasn’t them doesn’t me they don’t want him dead. Trump’s greedy blundering caused the deaths of a lot of US agents.
Still slower than the queen Elizabeth memes
He’ll claim to be over it (he seems to be fine), but still implicitly prod his more eccentric followers to exact retribution.
Implicitly? I got a bridge in brooklyn to sell you if you think he isn’t going to instantly spin this into “we need to go to war”
Faked shooting
All looks staged to me.
Hit in the ear that’s away from the camera.
Falls to the ground obscured from view so someone can do up his makeup.
Bullet just happened to ricochet and hit a hose line for the hydraulic system of some lift to show it’s a “real” bullet.
Then Trump gets up raising his first triumphantly.
You couldn’t write a better scene for Trump if you tried.
He also was already in WrestleMania and has knowledge on how to fake it.
Wrestle mania did shootings?
Yup!!
Well… Big show did get shot with a tranquilizer dart once.
the result is the same even if it was staged. if it got revealed on mass media right now that it was a staged plot to boost Trump ratings it wouldn’t change a thing. maga crowd has proven time and time again they put more weight towards the shit they want to hear than the actual truth.
I look forward to Trump shitting on whoever dies in the crowd because he didn’t and the MAGA idiots being completely fine with it.
Exactly.
Secret service said “shooter’s down” before they picked him back up.
Two bystanders kill themselves /s
What are bystander deaths supposed to prove? You think Trump and company are above killing some nobodies to make it look convincing?
I’m gonna hold off on that until we hear from relatives. Also, two you say? Numbers vary.
Best I heard was one bystander and the shooter.
I heard 1 dead, 1 injured, plus Trump.
So yeah, real bullets.
Fuck off with this. You sound like a right wing nutjob.
We are all right wing nutjobs on this blessed day.
Speak for yourself! My wife makes right wing nutjobs with a rolling pin
Might have been. But the deranged idiots go on school shootings too, completely unnecessary violence. We’ll have to wait and see.
Jfc yall need to cut this bullshit out
The microphone did pick up a typical “crack and thump” of an incoming supersonic bullet though.
Magic bullet
Anyone got the video of when he said this???
So important that the memes get on top of this story and double down on this specific hypocrisy. Optically, this tragedy is perfect for the RNC to the point it could almost be staged except for the glaring weak spot that Republicans believe that the person who did this had every right to own a firearm. The memes need to absolutely rail at that chink im the armor and pretty much nothing else, otherwise this is nothing more than gained footing for MAGA.
They don’t care about hypocrisy.
make them
Hypocrisy is a tool of the GQP.
lol, should we make them care about women and minorities as well while we’re at it?
they’re demons. you can’t “make them” care about anything but holding power and abusing it.
This is a great point. Commence the meme-off!
But haven’t you heard? It was a group of illegal Mexicans. They shot then planned to rape Melina however unfortunately those dirty illegals missed and Melina remains un-raped, well by illegals anyways. /s obviously
Well, this event will definitely be exploited by Trump’s team and he will be strengthened. Just like happened with Bolsonaro and the stab.
Unfortunately I think Trump will be reelected.
Or we get a bunch of copycats.
Biden gets shot. Trump gets shot.
Future debate, Trump brags about how he got assassination attempts and Biden goes “No way Jose, I got assassination attempts too, bucko.”
What a timeline.
That would certainly be the quickest route to nationwide gun control
We really should ignore all the election politics and make this all about gun control. Paint Trump as a victim of the Second Amendment. Make it a whole sob story about how our democracy is under attack by guns.
This would be incredible.
Trump enacted some of the first gun control since the assault weapons ban. I’m pretty sure he said something like take their guns first then justify it latter during the summer of unrest.
He’ll do whatever, he’s got the morals of an alley cat
So what’s going on here? I am 100% out of the loop.
Sounds like he actually got hit by glass from the teleprompter, which was shot.
Edit: Turnip is now claiming a bullet hit him. Not sure which story is true
He just got shot
At. Shot at.
We don’t know if the bullet did actual damage, or if it’s was from the teleprompter.
He just got “shot”.
Oh those things are great! Keep them coming!
Wasn’t there something about Trump bringing in more gun control measures than Obama? Something something bump stocks idk
Obama passed a lot of smaller things. Trump just kinda saw that people were angry after the las vegas shooting and banned bump stops using an executive order (which was later overturned)
Elon Musk endorses Trump following Butler incident
From CNN’s Isabelle D’Antonio and Allison Gordon
Billionaire tech investor Elon Musk has announced he is endorsing former President Donald Trump following Saturday’s incident in Butler, Pennsylvania.
As if Elon was not on his side before. The haste with which Elon Twitted/Xitted that endorsement out confirms that this is all staged to get people’s mind away from his name in Epstein files
*Xcreted
Trump and Elon both work for Putin who holds kompromat over both of them.
Elon does what he’s told
Not to sound like a Russian bot, but sometimes I wonder if Putin actually is the most powerful mf on this planet. The US is too big for him to fight head on, but he’s really found a way to cut us deeply and repeatedly to the point where it’s a real possibility that he will destroy and own this country.
Or he’s just a Nazi doing Nazi things.
Probably.
Probably, but he also had meetings with both Epstein and Maxwell.
Rapist nest egg kid endorses bigger rapist nest egg kid
No surprises there
Worthless personal opinion, but you can’t tell me this wasn’t an inside job to boost optics/ratings.
I’m honestly convinced in a very defeatist way that this will cement any uncertainty of his canadicty on the right and win him the election this year because of it.
I can picture it now “Nobody ever tries to kill the bad guy, look at history MLK jr, Kennedy, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Hitl- history all looks upon the vile left and shames them for trying to engineer such things.”
With how good he is at keeping secrets, I wouldn’t be surprised if in like 6 years it comes out that this was all planned.
I will give it 6 weeks
I can’t tell you that because it wasn’t.
Things are way less organized than you think.
In Brazil, during the 2018 election, Bolsonaro’s team got advice from Steve Bannon. Bolsonaro was stabbed during his campaign which many say hugely bolstered his numbers.
Now this? I know Bannon is in prison but the whole Cambridge Analytica thing and the manipulation of public & individual opinion… the connections with Roger Stone… the whole QAnon crap… project 2025… it’s just all so fucking weird.
The truth is more like it looks. No need for a conspiracy. Vile orange man who spews hatred and violence and preaches senseless retribution is shot at in a fascist rally in a country where guns are sacred.
As I said, no need for a conspiracy, all the necessary ingredients are at hand.
Naw, he actually got injured. There’s no way he’d risk something like that.
Why? Because someone shooting at him for everything he’s done is less realistic?
More because the right loves calling things false flags and projection in equal measure
Remember: vote this fucker out
Out?
Like a shut out.
Or out of the possibility of being in office.
As in out of the picture
Personally I would prefer out of the backdoor of a van going 90 in the Mojave.
