Aged like milk

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 in the armor and pretty much nothing else, otherwise this is nothing more than gained footing for MAGA.
- This is a great point. Commence the meme-off!
- They don't care about hypocrisy.
  
  make them
- 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

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"

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.
- Just because it wasn't them doesn't mean they don't want him dead. Trump's greedy blundering caused the deaths of a lot of US agents.

Remember: vote this fucker out
- Out?
  
  As in out of the picture
  
  Like a shut out.
  Or out of the possibility of being in office.

- His account was made in March of 2009, this is listed as January 2009, seems fake
  
  You're right I think. Probably should've checked that. My bad
- Who's Amercia?

- 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."
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- I can't tell you that because it wasn't.
  Things are way less organized than you think.
- Naw, he actually got injured. There's no way he'd risk something like that.

Lest anyone feel bad, remember they thought this was fine.
- Someone saw this and sent me a message saying they hope I die, lmao.
  
  I hope you live a nice long and fulfilled life, but die eventually. Let’s be honest, given the current timeline… immortality would suck.

“Fake news.”
I wonder if he saved any of that ketchup for his post performance hamberder.

- This is the dumbest shit and we need to fucking grow up a bit. These "questions" are asinine and not that hard to explain.
  Not denying the incident was reported, but there's a heavy insinuation here that this was set up or manufactured. If so... They needed an entire Secret Service detail, local event police and everyone standing by to be in on it. A couple hundred people are going to be involved and no one leaks it?
  "Supposed" gunman. I like how you pivot from "this is probably set up" to "ok even if it was real Trump is capable of worse"
  Again, the insinuation of an inside job here. We're going to involve a hundred or more people and no one thought it would be a problem to kill a bystander? Or the gunman was so good he killed a specific plant? And they had a 100% success rate... No one heard the plan and thought "oh this is a bad idea" and spoke out about it?
  Big difference between deleting text messages and MURDERING AN AMERICAN to further a political agenda.
  Yes. Things happen all the time. Trump people are saying this is to distract from Biden being inept. There's always a convenient time.
  Yes you dumbshit he was concerned about his hat because they already had the all clear. The shooter got taken out in seconds. They wouldn't have moved Trump. And they all were saying it was all clear. Also have you ever seen people in an absolute panic? Not the most rational state. Same thing with his shoes. That's ALSO why he took the photo op. They all dove on top of him. They figured out the shooter's location and took him down before Trump even got up.
  There's pictures of the fucking bullet in flight. So either that was ALSO manufactured (a member of the press willingly heard the plan ahead of time and doctored a photo or they actually shot a bullet inches away from Trumps head AND captured it). But no let's just get Trump, a bumbly ass fuck to orchestrate this perfectly. I'm sure he had it a planned to go down, and everyone covered him and he pulled out a razor blade, cut his ear, and put it away, all perfectly executed and no one caught anything on camera from any of the dozens of angles.
  This shit is so fucking stupid and I'm so sick of hearing about it. These points all rely on the most ass backwards way of thinking where dozens of people are in on this conspiracy and relies on all of them bring cool with killing someone to make it good for Trump.
  Get this shit outta here. This doesn't deserve the pixels on the screen used to illuminate this nonsense. Be a fucking grown up. We're going to have to figure out a real way to beat Trump, not pretend this was some false flag bullshit. Accept reality. Be a goddamn adult.
  I'm not even saying you're wrong for questioning, but I am saying you are wrong because the sheer volume of things that would need to occur for this theory to be even remotely possible is so ridiculous, I would consider aliens an equally plausible situation.
- Because they're hoping for a martyr?
- people died
  
  You're referencing January 6th?

Anyone got the video of when he said this???

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!)"

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)

Still slower than the queen Elizabeth memes

Oh those things are great! Keep them coming!

I weep for this man https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SexmfU6b1ik

- Jfc yall need to cut this bullshit out
- 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.
  https://x.com/The_Nomad_News/status/1812252572755144900?t=AJ3ZsQZ50WBWWh7pF0vnew&s=19
  
  Two bystanders kill themselves /s
  
  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.
  
  Fuck off with this. You sound like a right wing nutjob.
  
  Secret service said "shooter's down" before they picked him back up.
  
  He also was already in WrestleMania and has knowledge on how to fake it.
  
  Hydro line was spraying toward trump. I'm kind of curious if it was from the secret service.
- The microphone did pick up a typical "crack and thump" of an incoming supersonic bullet though.
  
  Magic bullet
- Might have been. But the deranged idiots go on school shootings too, completely unnecessary violence. We'll have to wait and see.

So what's going on here? I am 100% out of the loop.
- 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.
- 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".

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He probably will get over it. It's booming him in the polls
Edit: https://electionbettingodds.com/
- Ah yes, all those.... polls from the last three hours.
- Which polls?
- It's booming him in the polls
  You mean the fascists got a little excited

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.
- Rapist nest egg kid endorses bigger rapist nest egg kid
  No surprises there
- Trump and Elon both work for Putin who holds kompromat over both of them.
  Elon does what he’s told
  
  Or he's just a Nazi doing Nazi things.
  
  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.
- 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