US Politics, July 2024 - "Will you just drop out, man?"

could you imagine risking your life for this piece of shit

“At least I died protecting a valuable, productive member of society who spread goodwill and was selfless.”

Trump and Bob Dole would’ve had impressive ED sword fights

how has beamish not been banned yet

Beamish could you shut the fuck up for a few?

Fuck off

this is not the time for this kinda of divisive speech we must come together as a message board

Send an appeal to heaven

heaven's paying attention

seriously, beamihs13 you're getting on my nerves, zip it dogg

looking around on the internet many people making pronouncements about how this will play out in the future didnt know there were so many psychics out there, impressive

― lag∞n, Saturday, July 13, 2024 8:17 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

bolsonaro got a pretty decent boost in the polls after he got stabbed, and i expect trump will too

https://www.ft.com/content/99d45bea-b547-11e8-bbc3-ccd7de085ffe

A BTG Pactual/FSB telephone poll showed support for Mr Bolsonaro had climbed from 26 per cent to 30 per cent following the knife attack, with his nearest rival, the veteran leftist Ciro Gomes, on 12 per cent and the other main contenders on 8 per cent. Datafolha poll released on Monday night also showed a rise in support for Mr Bolsonaro — from 22 per cent to 24 per cent — following the attack.

in bolsonaro's case that actually could've been pivotal for him, since it happened a month before the election and got him a ton of sympathetic media exposure. prob won't matter much for trump five months out, but in the short run it definitely shifts attention away from biden

dems needs to reclaim the narrative by shooting biden

it is funny watching everyone try to pattern match this tho just enjoy the movement soak it in well know whats gonna happen soon enough hard to imagine anyones interested in these predictions

I remember Newt Gingrich being interviewed in 2016. He was asked about how Trump was going to be effective in office, because he golfs too much or something.

Newt said that Trump had so much energy he'd be essentially on the clock at all times, getting things done at the manic pace of... Teddy Roosevelt.

Trump now gets to make another TR comparison. Maybe he should grow a bitchin' 'stache.

Might miss and hit him in the ass like the hapless rapper on The Sopranos.

jesus christ how hard could it be these people need to get it together

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Those were his kids

lol

Disgruntled Cybertruck owners

Disgruntled Cybertrucks owners

Fixed

lol Matt #2, well played

what a year June was

― perpetually awkward, perennially unhappy (Neanderthal), Monday, July 1, 2024

A Decade Of July

A good joke from Bluesky:

some thoughts for the real victim here:

whichever “moderate” Dem rep was waiting for tomorrow to tell the media they wanted Biden to drop out

R.I.P. their dream of national attention

RIP Alec Baldwin

Damn, Richard Pryor was reincarnated on Bluesky

What is the deal with “moderate” dems?

A good joke from Bluesky:

some thoughts for the real victim here:
whichever “moderate” Dem rep was waiting for tomorrow to tell the media they wanted Biden to drop out

R.I.P. their dream of national attention

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, July 13, 2024 7:28 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I’m honestly smiling at the different levels at your post here, that you thought this was a gut-buster to start, your perception of what “moderate” means, lots of alternate reality stuff. maybe you should stay on bsky? I’m not on there but it seems like a safer space

So 20 year old shooter wearing shirt from gun nut YouTube channel

It was meant to feel like a kiss

How does someone even get a line-of-sight? I thought they had that kind of thing covered. (Although almost nothing I ever hear about the Secret Service inspires much confidence.)

I was kinda surprised by that too

shooter was a registered Republican, voted in the 22 midterms

Nikki Haley dead ender?

still mad about Dr Oz losing

So weird how it was one of their own, Republicans aren't known to own guns

Good to see Biden winning over moderate Republicans

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSblOEjXUAATk_U?format=jpg&name=large

😢

i have to say i'm disappointed, i expected a thoughtful and restrained press response to this

"A good joke from Bluesky:"

There were 200 great jokes on twitter within half an hour of this happening. Please.

Tfw you understand politics

Liberals don't understand politics AT ALL. they're like "well hey this doesn't change Project 2025" bro millions of ppl vote on VIBES, every election is vibes, and the vibe is bulletproof giga-chad Trump vs. confused cuck Biden. There's your election right there.

— john teufel (@JohnTeufelNYC) July 14, 2024

I know the vibes 🤦‍♂️we are all in trouble now ! pic.twitter.com/Fzi6XqgatP

— 50cent (@50cent) July 13, 2024

Deny the vibes at your own peril

MANY SUCH MEN! SAD!

if there’s anyone who can blow this kind of good will, tho

Not if he says "folks, they're not sending their best"

So like, y'all seen the last few eps of the Boys? Because this is straight up juie from that show ISTG.

How does someone even get a line-of-sight? I thought they had that kind of thing covered. (Although almost nothing I ever hear about the Secret Service inspires much confidence.)

― Blitz Primary (tipsy mothra), Sunday, July 14, 2024 12:26 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Elsewhere I've seen claims 1) that the campaign cheaps out on security, and 2) more than one person reported seeing the shooter in position but security brushed them off. Also I've seen claims that Trump's injury is a standard pro wrestling stunt.

Good morning!

The shooter at last night’s Trump was a Republican. So why does it feel like he was a Democrat?

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) July 14, 2024

How does someone even get a line-of-sight? I thought they had that kind of thing covered. (Although almost nothing I ever hear about the Secret Service inspires much confidence.)
― Blitz Primary (tipsy mothra), Sunday, July 14, 2024 12:26 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think the reason we dont see more assassinations is because people dont try not because its so hard to do, politicians are constantly traveling around interacting with the public, tho tbf getting to the president or even the former president is prob pretty hard