• El_guapazo@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’d rather him be voted to obscurity and irrelevance than become a martyr.

    He seems too excited considering he’s usually a coward. Maybe it’s the false flag operation that far right personalities keep saying about mass shootings?

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      4 months ago

      That was my first thought too, but then it looks pretty realistic, and he’s a terrible actor…

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      Yeah, he’s a living martyr now. Which is highly problematic because it doesn’t have any of the numerous upsides of him having actually been killed.

      The roll was a critical failure.

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      I don’t think vote to obscurity can apply here. Trump will always have a platform because he is a living engagement machine and that drives the Internet mad. He wins he’s the top story, he loses he’s the top story, he gets convicted he’s the top story. The man is immortal in the worst way possible and the world is basically f*cked.

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        Nah, this is just want Trumpers want you to believe. He gets attention because he’s genuinely to foment a fascist overthrow of the government, not because he’s some media mastermind.

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        Trump will always have a platform because…

        Yeah, but for how many more years? There’s absolutely no way he’d run again if he loses, so it’s really just a short ticking clock.

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      This is the one possible scenario that could make things even worse. They can’t replace the head of the snake, but they can sure as fuck pump that the head was shot and injured. They did the same with Hitler.

      History is repeating itself far to close for this to be comfortable.

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        Nobody is changing their vote over this shit. Democrats are pretty entrenched in not Trump. They knew what was at stake this election as soon as Trump stepped back up.

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            4 months ago

            like vote by mail? Because the snowflakes that I know do exactly that after being so against it.

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            4 months ago

            I don’t think this is going to energize anyone four months from now. Attention spans are too short.

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            Those that were going to stay home because he’s a rapist with 34 felonies will still stay home. This means nothing unless it comes out that it was a planned stunt, then he loses whatever credibility he had. Wait, never mind, he has zero credibility so his cult won’t give two shits and will continue to do and think whatever fox “news” tells them to do.

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          so it’s just an attendance issue that he won one and lost one, or fraud?

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            Trump lost the popular vote to Clinton by 2.9 million votes. He lost to Biden by 8.8 million votes. The last Republican president to win the popular vote was George W. Bush.

            It’s a Republican’s best friend, the Electoral college. More people want progressive candidates, not regressive backwards criminals.

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              He was elected by the minority of the population, and with the help of a Senate that represents a minority of the population, appointed a third of the Supreme Court.

              Minority rule is here.

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        In the short term, I am expecting right-wing nutjobs to do their own sort of retaliatory shootings, targeting whomever their personal info bubble blames as a group.

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            Further violence and a mild Civil War are not best case scenario. Queer people dying for your cause is not best case scenario.

            Best case scenario (and what seems to be the alt theory on literally every social I have, and on some I don’t have), is that everyone believes this was a false flag (and/or there’s evidence it was a false flag). That fact that so many people IMMEDIATELY questioned the shooting is a really good sign. People just don’t trust him at all. Boy Who Cried Wolf etc

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        My thoughts exactly, the right will eat this up and use this the rest of the race. Anyone who was on the edge for voting for him probably just made up their minds. They’ll blame the left for this.

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      Any info on the assailant?

      This looks so fucking fake I have to say. I’ve watched combat videos from Ukraine and Israel since the beginning and this whole thing just seemed so odd. I wouldn’t be the list be surprised if a Trump burst a ketchup packet (or movie equivalent) by his ear. This timing is so…so convenient.

      Friendly reminder: all these secret service guys assigned to Trump are, themselves, Trumpers.

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        if we get a video showing something changing on his face before he touches it or falls to the ground, I think that would rule out false flag, or at least they would have had to actually shoot something at him to do that.

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        Can’t say that’s necessarily true (that last bit). They are sworn in to duty to protect current or past president’s with their life, regardless of personal belief.

        My perspective is that the secret service guys are bound to life.

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          I know a couple current and former USSS agents, they’re hardcore trump supporters. That’s not to say they all are as I don’t know them all, but they are law enforcement after all.

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          I recalled hearing a couple things over the course of the Jan 6th impeachment hearings, which is the President has some say in who his personal detail is, and that there was some info pertaining to them being supportive of him personally. I’d have to review to be certain though.