US Politics, September 2024 -- “I’m Not Going to Apologize For Posting a Joke”

wonder if this guy saw what the other guy did and was all i could make that shot

Tied with Gerald Ford now.

mans at home golfing instead of campaigning and people are still trying to shoot him, rude

Probably one of Loomer’s exes.

btw people getting awful close to trump with big guns

The best way for him to avoid this would be for him to leave the US and never come back. Just a suggestion...

interesting point, almost has to be that theres widespread belief amongst the maga set that loomer and trump are having an affair

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social‬
Ok. I’m starting to wonder if there is something bigger under the surface going on with Laura Loomer.

Republicans did not react this way to Pizzagate, or Chris Rufo, or S Miller. They love racism and conspiracy theories.
So why are craven GOP pols like Tillis reacting like this?

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Twitter rumor is the shooter is a Vivek/haley voter lmao

damn i didnt know it was that serious

She's been invisible this entire time because the media is designed to render people like her invisible

no doubt that is true to some extent, but it is also true that the Biden administration failed to elevate her profile and give her opportunities to succeed (as Ron Klain himself admitted), and Harris herself also deliberately avoided the spotlight for a while after her disastrous interview with Lester Holt in 2021.

Thom Tillis knows he has a clear path to criticize Loomer, who's peripheral and expendable, as long as he doesn't breathe a word directly criticizing Trump. This is a politically expedient way for him to distance himself from the less popular kinds of lunacy Trump has welcomed into the party.

It’s just that she’s an electoral hazard, nothing more.

little did we know that all the time that kamala was out of the public eye as vp she was secretly working out with karate masters deep in the camp david woods with a constant soundtrack of Survivor and TLC to inspire her. waiting for her chance to strike...

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If Loomer had a sinecure at a right-wing think tank she’d be hailed as a genius.

because for real and no joking she was READY. i have rarely seen someone SO ready to take over. pretty amazing.

many xxp

but she hasn't been invisible for people who cared to follow her. there are lots of stories and personal accounts and clips of her meeting with foreign leaders, women's groups, college students etc. over the last few years, with people clearly enthusiastic about her. but the videos of her occasional gaffes were eagerly accepted by mainstream media

It’s just that she’s an electoral hazard, nothing more.

― O 'Tis Redding (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, September 15, 2024 6:19 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

why is she, indistinguishable from any other maga freak pulling on trumps hem, pushing the same conspiracy as vance, an electoral hazard, why is the team turning on her so hard

Gotta be the 9/11 stuff

trump has been around people whove said far wilder shit than she has, he was meeting with nick fuentes, none of them made any sort of big deal out of it

was thinking maybe they just really dislike her on a personal level but cmon these people gotta all hate each other guts theyre a bunch of nasty psychos

maybe theyre all trying to get him to campaign and shes telling him its cool to stay home and play golf

I mean we can’t rule out misogyny.

the golf course sniper...

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Also Trump wasn’t fucking Nick Fuentes.

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@NikkiHaley Please join Vivek Ramaswamy as a team of pres and vp; we must do this now to create a winning ticket now that we all can get behind. Please do not be selfish and arrogant; partner now to change the course of this election. Break norms and give us an option.

— Ryan Routh 🇺🇸 (@RyanRouth) January 9, 2024

Also voted for trump in 2016

dont think theres been any official confirmation that thats the guy fwiw, everyone on twitter does seem to be running with it tho

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that's him getting taken in.

case closed i guess

he's on the way to gitmo as we speak.

oh man those secret service people are REALLY in hot water this time. holy toledo. they almost did it again! buncha dodos. or they are just totally sick of trump and are not worrying about him too much.

I don’t know, if a Secret Service agent was a hole ahead of Trump, saw a rifle barrel sticking out of the bushes from however far away, and took action before Trump got closer than 300-500 yards, it sounds like they did their job.

Seems like these people think their AR/AK rifles automatically become sniper rifles when they put a scope on them

he didnt even get a shot off he blew it

If he were a plant like I initially suspected, he would definitely have gotten shot and killed like the other guy; this makes me less suspicious of Trump’s SS detail as parties to some Trump-attention-getting conspiracy.

imagine if he lost the election and then got assassinated?

He has the worst luck!

<SAD TROMBONE>

I can't believe a day goes by when someone doesn't take a shot at Trump. Or fly a drone at his face. Or give him exploding cigars like they tried with Castro. Poison the snack bar at Mar-a-Lago. Anything.

Trump’s SS detail

Um

"I don’t know, if a Secret Service agent was a hole ahead of Trump, saw a rifle barrel sticking out of the bushes from however far away, and took action before Trump got closer than 300-500 yards, it sounds like they did their job."

I think people are going to say how did he even get that close and all set up with his backpacks and his bulletproof vest, and a rifle, etc. he was very close to project dumbo. which is what i wish the secret service name for trump was.

kind of wild how much of an online presence this would-be assassin has compared to the first one.

I didn't listen closely but there was someone on npr talking about how the Secret Service detail for an ex president or a candidate is different/less-than the one for the sitting president. There are limits to what they can do.

I've been around these premises long enough that you hopefully won't mistake me for woke, but the Haitian immigrant stuff is profoundly racist and you should substantially lower your esteem for anybody engaging in it.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 15, 2024

heaven forbid

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you should substantially lower your esteem for anybody engaging in it

e.g. Trump/Vance, Nate?

i couldn't tell what was going on in that excerpt. it was written really poorly. a black mental hole could have been lots of things.

and this just made it more confusing to me:

"This is not confined to women’s issues. It happens with issues of racism and colonialism."

so i read further. and someone was saying that kamala harris wasn't seen as a replacement for joe biden. which isn't true.

also this is totally vague.

"Similarly... Harris outlined her plan to defeat Trump in the debate ahead of time, but a great many didn’t notice."

None of this is inscrutable or hard to understand

Josh Shapiro is otm about Vance here obviously, but mostly posting this for where he calls JD "the pick-me guy at that sports bar"

Josh Shapiro on Vance's latest CNN disasterclass: "That was bonkers ... the US senator from Ohio just came on your show and blamed his own constituents for his own lies. This guy is so pathetic ... JD Vance should be ashamed of himself." pic.twitter.com/yGqLQoGKWU

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 15, 2024

Also I totally think Harris has been underestimated by just about everybody, for a lot of reasons but especially and overarchingly because of gender/race. I underestimated her for sure. There are times where you can use being underestimated to your advantage, and I think she's done that very well.