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

Whole lotta people in this thread convinced that everyone else — not them, surely, but, you know, those other people — have the memories of goldfish. "Ooh, he made a fist like a Big Strong Daddy!" *eyeballs turn to pumping red cartoon hearts*

no, its true. we all love trump now.

Bet the RNC will be pandemonium as 6000 MAGAs shout for the head of Joe Biden on a pike, which I hope will mitigate the effect of this oleaginous sympathy porn.

i did think about what would have happened if he actually had been shot to death...i just thought of The Purge. the pick-up trucks revving up and going to town on "enemies". maybe i'm wrong. but i could see a lot of pro-Trump militias popping up if someone were to actually kill him. the ultimate dumb-ass martyr. so, in a way, i'm glad he didn't die.

today, we are all donald trump

it's funny like that even in the growing toxic, volatile politic environment of 2004, this might have lead to events being cancelled last night, televised Presidential address, dramatic calls for unity that last for two days like 9/11, but it happens last night and other than the firestorm o internet commentary, the world just kinda glides along as normal, my friends and I just went about watching our soccer game and lamenting the dude's poor aim, and everybody still hates each other.

i'm kinda glad we're not doing the performative unity anymore, like politicians are calling for it but nobody's complying. that shit was faker than fake and just papered over the real divisions that exist.

*televised Presidential address on every channel

Whole lotta people in this thread convinced that everyone else — not them, surely, but, you know, those other people — have the memories of goldfish. "Ooh, he made a fist like a Big Strong Daddy!" *eyeballs turn to pumping red cartoon hearts*

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, July 14, 2024 11:30 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

dude all your posts are about how everyone is a moron, has your opinion of the average undecided voter suddenly improved?

Bolsonaro got injured much worse than Trump and it was probably a very painful stabbing, from what I've read there was a brief polling surge for him and then there wasn't. Trump looks quite pathetic and vulnerable in the pics where he isn't *defiantly* holding up his fist (which is fine for a normal human being but not for someone like him). He has barely been touched in this incident, after the dust settles people will realise he's just a very lucky sissy who's milking it!

I’ve been too busy/distracted to read this thread since Saturday morning, so probably have some catching up to do

“i'm kinda glad we're not doing the performative unity anymore, like politicians are calling for it but nobody's complying. that shit was faker than fake and just papered over the real divisions that exist.”

A lot of fake statements for sure. I haven’t seen all of them but Obama’s is the only one I’ve seen with a little arched eyebrow curve embedded in it

mostly a lot of premature panic. we can panic more reasonably when the dust settles some

the dust from the panic could be farts

Now reading that a cop climbed a ladder but the shooter pointed his gun at him and the cop noped back down

Trump farted and redirected the bullet.

BREAKING: The gunman at Trump's rally pointed a rifle at an officer who found him on a rooftop shortly before he opened fire, two law enforcement officials told AP. https://t.co/6WMl6cuZn9

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 14, 2024

I was at the grocery store this morning, in blood-red rural Montana, and absolutely no one was talking about this. Off the internet, no one cares.

lol I too spend my time trying to overhear stranger's convos in grocery stores

Lol

What else is there to do in rural Montana?

I was at the grocery store this morning...Off the internet, no one cares.

Really? After putting so much energy into debunking the accuracy of Biden's poll numbers, this is your sample size?

I just left a redneck grocery story. It was packed with conservatives whisper amongst each other about what a pussy Donald Trump looked like getting shot and not killing the guy himself.

Now reading that a cop climbed a ladder but the shooter pointed his gun at him and the cop noped back down

Not risking his life in service of Trump was probably the first correct call that cop has made in his entire life.

I was in a redneck coffee shop and everyone was just talking about BRAT

in blood-red rural Montana

so much makes so much more sense now

at the redneck donut shop this morning it was nothing but people talking about how katy perry is raising the price of gasoline.

It's only mid-July, we're going to see some hall of fame posting by late October.

I think it's nice that Biden has his own H. A. Goodman

https://imgur.com/a/MO4Qob6

no one around me is even talking about trump

The only people around me talking about Trump are friends (and my mom) wishing that he got capped, the only conclusion I can draw is that Joe Biden will win the Electoral College unanimously.

i actually think the image of the fist bump is going to redefine his legacy and all but erase his decades of criminalty, misogyny, racism, and self-serving mendacity in the minds of a huge swath of the public. i am not a cynic but images are powerful.

― treeship., Sunday, July 14, 2024 1:06 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think all the negative trump stuff is going to be memory-holed. even on the nytimes and washington post they will be critical but not in the way they were before.

― treeship., Sunday, July 14, 2024 1:12 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

These posts are so deluded it makes me wonder if this is what you actually *want* to happen

Hi, deej!

I think it's insane to believe that this will erase the vileness of Trump from anyone's mind. Maybe it gives him a boost, sure. But it's erasing nothing.

Would-be Trump assassin tried to join high school shooting club, was rejected for being ‘comically bad’ shot

"high school shooting club"

jfc

fwiw, my grandpa was a co-founder of Veterans for Peace Connecticut— and was also the Rifle Club faculty advisor at the prep school where he taught for 25+ years.

I was kicked out of my high school serial killer club for being too sloppy with DNA

I got kicked out of my high school sex club for the same reason

Don't like hearing that, obviously--I will say that that clip is really funny. I was hoping Letterman would pull Streisand out from behind a tree right at the end.

Wrong thread!

That would certainly be a surprising thing to happen right after Trump got shot.

Streisand Effect!

No, wait...

It was Babs on the grassy knoll.

People Who Shoot People...

Don't Rain Bullets On My Parade.

Why can't Joe Biden be like this man it sucks

Mick Jagger performing last night at his concert in California with The Rolling Stones.

This man is super human. In a week he's going to be 81 years old and still as active as ever.

What a Rock N' Roll legend. pic.twitter.com/jCjb6gWlpy

— 🎸 Rock History 🎸 (@historyrock_) July 14, 2024

No More Ears

"We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency." –– a senior House Democrat https://t.co/OO06KCAoVA pic.twitter.com/OdDjPmRRGj

— austerity is theft 🇿🇦 (@wideofthepost) July 14, 2024

The last election huh?

Biden's speaking tonight from the White House. Not sure what he'd add to what he's already said--I guess it'll be an update on the investigation.