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

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

Also I've seen claims that Trump's injury is a standard pro wrestling stunt.

By online dipshits. Who cares.

its funny the wingnut conspiracy machine revving up at this one, its ok this time you can just play it straight, tho the shooter being a republican needs work i guess, but still theres no need for this to be a false flag

The Biden Campaign sent a memo out explaining their path to 270.

They have all but written off GA, NC, AZ, & NV.

The Biden camp claims their path is PA, WI, AND MI which gives Biden 271.

RCP Average of battlegrounds.

PA: Trump +5.3
MI: Trump +0.6
WI: Trump +2.6

— David D. Chapman (@davidchapman141) July 13, 2024

What fools we were to think an attempted assassination might upset this calculation.

I guess my hope in this moment is that the people who are excited to rev up an age of vigilantism/stochastic terrorism will start to realize it's going to come for them too in the end or even pretty near the beginning, and is horrible for everyone, and we should not go that way.

i hope all the people whose entire lived reality has been stochastic terrorism take a good look at themselves

Really sums up the state of so-called democracy when the media establishment and politicians spend more effort and airtime sympathizing with a fascist like Trump than on sympathizing with 190,000 murdered Palestinians and their families.

Sympathy would seem a strange response given that Trump will be delighted with this turn of events, not just for the campaign boost, but on a personal level the validation will be high, and at minimal personal cost

idk getting shot at cant be pleasant

It's definitely not for most people! I think in his case though, provided there was no real physical harm, he'd take it if offered

i mean thats not really how it works

I guess my hope in this moment is that the people who are excited to rev up an age of vigilantism/stochastic terrorism will start to realize it's going to come for them too in the end or even pretty near the beginning, and is horrible for everyone, and we should not go that way.

― Guayaquil (eephus!)

not happening

i've already seen peeps bringing out that stupid fucking thomas jefferson quote about the "tree of liberty"

the fuck did that goddamn slave-owner know about the "tree of liberty"?

i mean thats not really how it works

True, but lets just say I think its unlikely he will be changed as a person by the event, and will refer to it frequently as proof of his importance and centrality

its funny the wingnut conspiracy machine revving up at this one, its ok this time you can just play it straight, tho the shooter being a republican needs work i guess, but still theres no need for this to be a false flag

Was surprised to be exchanging messages last night with a good friend proposing some of this. Above and beyond that I find the idea in and of itself preposterous, even if you grant the possibility, the calculation then that someone who, by most measures, is headed for a win while the opposition has spent two weeks floundering around would want to scramble all that up in unknown ways--on the eve of his convention no less--all that makes the idea doubly preposterous.

i wouldnt underestimate the positive effects of a failed assassination attempt

i mean consider what it wouldve done for jfk

We're forgetting that Trump is a coward and he wouldn't trust anyone (with good reason) to aim at his head for the sake of a fake hit job

yeah that crazy bullet photo put to rest any idle "did he pull a bob roberts?" thoughts I had

Journalism is broken. pic.twitter.com/eatpQr1JwU

— Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) (@cbouzy) July 14, 2024

People other than Trump got shot, this was a real shooter really trying to kill him. The conspiracy stuff is mostly going to be about why, "who was behind it," etc.

It's so gross to hear Republican talking heads somberly blaming the "state of American politics" for this, as if the shooter was radicalized by hearing Biden say that Trump slept with a porn star and no bad things can ever be said about trump ever again.

We're forgetting that Trump is a coward and he wouldn't trust anyone (with good reason) to aim at his head for the sake of a fake hit job

I'm not suggesting he was "in on it", or that there was an "it" to be in on, just that I think he won't be negatively affected, and that on balance he'll be he'll be happy with what transpired (as long as he's not physically hurt in some way)

Where were you when Trump got nicked on the ear?

if i have to fall into speculation here an already very paranoid person having an attempt on their life is prob not going to be the best for their mental wellbeing, prob be the only thing he talks about the rest of the way which ultimately is not that good of a campaign issue, he already does a lot of whining about his various travails, if the democrats werent running a senile genocider hed prob be down big due to that sort of thing and you know the other things too

Next attempt just drop an anvil on his head

...as he handles a vibrator, ala that Katy Perry video.

Its too early to tell but I think surviving an assassination attempt can't be a campaign negative (though there are probably examples to the contrary I can't think of any offhand)

When he's rolling tanks down our streets, I'll enjoy listening to libs saying that though this is bad, it would have been worse if the shooter had killed him because violence is always wrong

Maybe it causes him PTSD and finally wears out his diseased heart

I'm fine with liberal pundits saying violence bad. It's spin, it gets people on their side, even if it's stupid.

does it get people on their side, they seem like beggin ass weenies to me

Its too early to tell but I think surviving an assassination attempt can't be a campaign negative (though there are probably examples to the contrary I can't think of any offhand)

― anvil, Sunday, July 14, 2024 10:29 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if it makes Trump get increasingly fashy it might be but who knows, feels like we're pretty fucked

He probably shit himself last night, if someone gets those pants to TMZ, it's over

there are going to be huge banners at that convention that are just pictures of his bloody fist-pumping melon head. they're going to try and make it a stamp and put it on the hundred dollar bill when he's president next year.

i thought the official MAGA stance was that pedos deserve to get shot

Its too early to tell but I think surviving an assassination attempt can't be a campaign negative (though there are probably examples to the contrary I can't think of any offhand)

The two attempts on Ford were September 5 and 22, 1975. He lost, but I don't know how that figured into the timeline of the election--he did mount a comeback towards the end.

Here, no idea, there are so many things to factor in, and it's right between two bizarre weeks and the RNC. Makes me think of Andy Warhol's reaction to the JFK assassination as described in the PBS documentary: he returns home, sits on a couch, and keeps repeating "What does this mean?"

No no no, that's only their definition of pedos, which means anyone who isn't straight or cis

they're going to try and make it a stamp and put it on the hundred dollar bill when he's president next year.

It's gonna be a statue installed next to the Washington Monument.

400 feet high!

stuff like this is really helpful:

Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) posted to X that “Joe Biden sent the orders,” garnering over 4 million views, and later called for Biden to face charges for “inciting an assassination.”

Maybe this finally gets RFK Jr to drop out

It sure is funny that this happens a week after everyone jokes that Biden should use his newfound unlimited powers for good.

Obv he didn't but y'know