We’ve missed the exit for the third-best timeline that still involves That Guy: the one where Donnie bites the dust before the elections. Unless someone fills the guy’s plane with Anthrax or something like that, we’re still on track for locking in the USA as a failed state.
(the second best timeline with That Guy would be the one where he simply loses the election. The very best would be where the DOJ makes something stick against him & he’s disqualified before the elections.)
Let’s also face it, if there’s a candidate that’s so divisive that someone looks at the massive security apparatus for people like him and still think it’s worth trying to assassinate him, that would be grounds - at least for me - to re-evaluate whether the candidate is the right guy.
Having your own team trying to kill you says a lot too.
No mixed feelings.
I wish there was more wind.
I like wind.
Don’t you mean less wind?
not sure if information is reliable but someone who knew him talked about he is a bad shot, so more wind for the assist would help
Depends on direction
I’d say I have no mixed feelings…
My feelings weren’t mixed on Trump. I hope the next person has better aim.
I was just plain old dad about Richard Simmons, Dr Ruth, and Shannen Doherty. They all deserve better.
Today was a bad day
What happened? Did we discover another exo-planet?
Some guy tried to shoot Trump. Tried. However, bystander died and FBI killed the shooter.
FBI or secret service?
FBI
Secret service proved itself once again to be the most useless.
“What the fuck do you fucks even do?”
“It’s a secret”
Nearly.
No signs of intelligent life?
I have thoughts and prayers for the bullet that couldn’t do it’s job
No mixed feelings at all. I am unequivocally sad that we lost Richard Simmons today 😢😢😢
And Dr. Ruth! 😪
Damn this is how I found out. Extra sad now, thanks.
And Dr Ruth. That lady was such a charming little horn dog.
If your feelings weren’t mixed you either don’t value human life or you don’t value democracy.
Sorry but most politicians don’t care about democracy either, just enriching themselves and close friends
Paradox of tolerance: Trump will end democracy and even more lives.
No, the person most likely to end democracy will advocate rolling back freedoms to ‘preserve’ it, or to punish the wicked people that are considered their political enemies. The most likely person won’t be a Democrat, but will almost certainly be a leftist that starts their own populist political party
Fascism has always been a right wing ideology. While leftists have made some terrible mistakes, you shouldn’t pretend they are the only or main threat to democracy.
Leftists don’t believe America can be saved, they wouldn’t “roll back freedoms,” whatever the heck that means, they would dismantle the state and build up a new one.
There is no way to know if he wouldnt have just turned into martyr and help elect someone even worse
is Democracy really just a choice between an evil and a good? the USA needs way more politcal parties than just two.
The USA needs ranked choice voting
What? The current events are an attempt on someone’s life with the goal of saving what semblance of democracy we have left.
I don’t even agree with him, but did y’all seriously miss the memo? It’s pretty obvious what he meant if you haven’t been under a rock for the last 24hrs.
It’s pretty wishful thinking to think Proj 2025 and all the other MAGAs are going to fade away after the orange man is gone. Did you not see De Santis’ support before Trump entered the race?
There’s a lot of bullets in the country, Republicans made dire of that. Shame if it backfired on them.
Edit: a
bystanderTrump supporter was killedFTFY. They were attending a Trump rally. They weren’t just a bystander. They were complicit.
You are truly the epitome of an evil person. God help us if someone like you ever gains any real political power
Trump has frequently called for the violent death of his enemies. Everyone at that rally supported this position.
I don’t feel bad at all for the thing they want to happen to others happening to them.
So, for all your haunted ideals, at the end of the day, you are no better than him. You are a narcissistic person that gets a perverse pleasure from the suffering of your perceived political enemies
Would you kill Hitler, or throw aside your gun for the sake of “civility?”
Would killing Hitler make you “no better than Hitler?”
No, it means the next guy to commit atrocities will have a different last name. Your cartoonish views on morality is tiring
Gotcha, you would in fact let Hitler be.
I’ve been called worse by better people.
You don’t have to convince me. I believe you
I don’t even know the news how can I feel mixed
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I see. Thanks
We aren’t running out of humans, and we don’t live in a democracy…
Turns out you don’t have to be running out of humans to value human life.
If I have a bowl of rice, and one of the grains is actively trying to end my way of life, I don’t mind when someone shoots at it with an assault rifle.
First of all: rice doesn’t have that kind of agency
Second of all: shooting at a grain of rice in your bowl with an assault rifle is many times more likely to hit you than that specific grain of rice
Third, if that’s REALLY the best analogy you could think of, you should just stop the whole “communicating your thoughts to other people” thing. Evidently it’s not something you’re ever going to get the hang of.
Fourth and finally: a propos of nothing except the fact that I just listened to an episode of My Brother, My Brother, and Me, horses are overrated, and not just by the McElroy brothers.
Define ‘Human’
Absolutely not. My feeling of disappointment was completely unequivocal.
Nothing mixed. Fully sad he didn’t die and this will cement his win in the coming months. We’re fucked.
There’s still time for the DNC to swap Biden out for a more electable candidate and energize their own base again, for what it’s worth, though at this point I think the DNC wants to lose so they can secure more funding.
Roughly my thoughts today: https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/451/084/544/739/972/original/47d31a58ddc70f80.png
I don’t have mixed feelings. No-one should ever, attempt, to assasinate a would be dictator.
Do or do not, there is no try
- YodaYep, we all know Yoda would be disappointed.
I’ve not looked at the news yet, Lemmy was my first stop. I’m thinking… earthquake in the Kremlin?
There’s a lot of really nice architecture there, it’d be a shame for it to be lost in rubble.
That, or we got disqualified from the Euros final xD
Trump got shot at. Trump fine (hence the meme), shooter dead, couple bystanders dead.
Trump got shot at. Trump fine (hence the meme), shooter dead, couple
bystandersTrump supporters dead.they’re still people
i wouldn’t know, according to them and their folks, my friends and family and I are not people, so I guess my definition of that must differ. moreover, I don’t dispense sympathy for people who would cheer and support the news that me and mine have been hunted down and shot in the street. I don’t sympathize with the aggressors. I’ve just been trying to mind my own business and live my life as best I can, but these people (in sudden newfound need of sympathy and feelings of safety, lmao) have been talking for years of purges of non-Whites and gays, and civil wars, and rounding up the undesirables (that’s me, apparently, by virtue of birth) to clean up the country. might as well be asking me to sympathize with a school shooter over his hearing damage from not wearing earplugs while he mowed down a classroom.
We’re getting into paradox of tolerance territory, tbh. I’m not upset that supporters of fascism were killed.
I am upset that the guy with the rifle didn’t have better aim (if indeed that was actually how everything went down, and it wasn’t staged in one way or another, because there are several fishy things about this).
They are, indeed, people. My point was only that they are not “bystanders”. They are actively involved, and much more so than the average voter.
Yeah, bad people who try to establish fascism in america, so nothing to be sad about.
Yea americans forget that sometimes
The kind of “people” that are ok with killing most of the others.
True, but they’re still people. Dehumanizing them because they dehumanized you is another path that I don’t care to see. It’s good to be intolerant of intolerance, but nothing ever gives anyone the privilege to do anything intolerable.
The Nazis sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials were people, but they still deserved what they got
Yep, given the number of places currently ‘technically’ invaded by the country. I guess i guess everyone’s desensitised
But that’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make
