Looks like someone took some shots at prez candidate Donald Trump at a rally in PA. From the videos I’ve seen, it looks like he did get grazed.
Where was Nikki Haley? She was in charge of security!
It’s a real shame…
The crowing will begin soon
Trump after a shooting in Iowa that left one sixth-grader dead and six other staffers and students injured,
“So surprising to see it here. But, we have to get over it. We have to move forward…”
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how were the secret service not on the roofs or monitoring the roofs from aerial POV? Most obvious spot for a sniper.
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the dude interviewed by British journalist right after that says him and group saw man with gun climbing roof, told cops and secret service and neither did anything
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his first and only focus was his shoes?
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a man who is a documented coward and narcissist pushed against secret service to face cameras and have his head exposed for a long period of time?
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secret service ignores protocol to cover and remove him and let’s him vamp and pose
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straight lines of blood on his face, history with pro wrestling
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yes, the supposed gunman was killed, but on what day are there not thousands of trump cultists lined up and ready to die if someone tells them they are on a secret mission to help daddy?
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yes, some in crowd may have been injured, but when has trump shown any hesitation to have pale injured or killed for his personal benefit (January 6th, church protests, etc).
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his secret service were proven corrupt and involved in cover up measures for trump before (e.g. Deliberately erasing text messages relevant to January 6th)
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this all happens as project 2025 narrative was taking form hold, leaked video/audio by the day and days before the RNC.
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watch the footage, down the stairs, secret service is concerned with grabbing and carrying his special red hat? How the fuck would that ever be a concern in an actual emergency?
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C-span footage: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5123735/shots-fired-trump-rally
I’d rather have a successful attempt on the next go.
How can you wish a death on a human being? How much of a POS can you actually be?!
Not who you’re replying to but its very easy to wish death (or the sudden thanos-ing) of objectively evil people.
Don’t believe Trump is objectively evil? Here’s what the man stands for and its not even a comprehensive list.
Trump stole money from kids with cancer [1] [2] [3]. Trump wanted to kill people despite evidence they were innocent [4] [5] [6]. Trump raped his wife and E Jean Carroll [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]. Trump lied about not knowing E Jean Carroll yet confused her with his wife [9]. Trump sexually assaults women [13] [14] [15]. Trump walked in on half-naked underage children [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22]. Trump was good friends with known rapist and child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] . Trump is a 34 time convicted felon [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35]. Trump sowed distrust by refusing to release his taxes like every other recent president has done since the 70’s [36]. Trump betrayed the country when he subverted the 2020 election by falsely claiming victory [37], attempting to delay the certification process [38] and demanding Georgia officials to “find” votes for him [39]. Trump incited an insurrection in an attempt to stop the electoral vote count leaving five people dead [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45]. Trump appointed his unqualified family to top administration roles [46] [47]. Trump withheld aid to Ukraine unless they found dirt on Joe Biden and his son [48]. Trump was impeached for abusing his presidential power by using the office for personal political gain (pressuring Ukraine to dig dirt on the Biden’s) to the detriment of national security [48]. Trump sided with racists by calling them “very fine people” [49]. Trump imposed a “Muslim travel ban” [50] [51] [52]. Trump lied about his inauguration crowd size [53] [54] [55]. Trump doubled fees at his resort hotel after becoming president to profit from the presidency [56]. Trump has no respect for veterans and disrespected prisoner of war John McCain [57] [58] [59]. Trump appointed Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon, to secretary of housing and development [60]. Trump spread misinformation by suggesting vaccines cause autism [61] [62]. Trump lied by falsely accusing Obama of spying on the Trump campaign [63]. Trump cut pandemic early warning program which likely made the pandemic worse when it broke out 3 months later [64] [65]. Trump cut corporate taxes to lowest rate since 1939, giving the mega rich a break while continuing to take from the poor - like a reverse robin hood! [66] [67]. Trump had protestors sprayed with tear gas so he could attend a photo op and take a picture with an upside down bible. [68].
Sources
[5] https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jul/25/did-donald-trump-ever-apologize-central/
[6] https://apnews.com/article/trump-guilty-verdict-central-park-five-b59498a04d148a65ef33df36a61aa668
[7] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65502076
[8] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/
[9] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65486437
[10] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/nyregion/carroll-trump-trial-testimony.html
[14] https://www.vox.com/2016/10/7/13206364/vox-sentences-trump-sexual-assault
[15] https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-says-he-will-probably-attend-civil-rape-trial-2023-05-04/
[16] https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-walks-in-miss-teen-usa-contestants-changing/
[17] https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/03/26/trump-pageant-dressing-rooms/
[22] https://nypost.com/2016/10/12/former-teen-beauty-queens-say-trump-barged-into-their-dressing-room/
[24] https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a32836718/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-friendship/
[26] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/jeffrey-epstein-and-donald-trump-epic-bromance
[27] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/epstein-documents-trump.html
[28] https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-epstein-friendship-timeline-history-2019-7?op=1
[29] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/nyregion/trump-convicted-hush-money-trial.html
[30] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-is-convicted-felon-now-what-2024-05-30/
[31] https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/30/trump-guilty-verdict-whats-next-00160814
[32] https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-05-30/trump-trial-verdict-voter-reaction
[33] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/05/30/donald-trump-is-a-convicted-felon
[35] https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/donald-trump-tax-returns/index.html
[36] https://time.com/6243071/trump-tax-returns-history-house/
[37] https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/politics/donald-trump-election-2020/index.html
[38] https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/politics/gop-michigan-results-trump/index.html
[40] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55640437
[41] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/11/full-transcript-donald-trump-january-6-incendiary-speech
[42] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56004916
[43] https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-committee-final-report-trump-bcfea6162fe9cfa0d120e86d069af0e4
[44] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/01/us/trump-indictment-jan-6
[47] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Office_appointments_by_Donald_Trump?useskin=vector
[48] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39945744
[50] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769?useskin=vector
[51] https://immigrationhistory.org/item/muslim-travel-ban/
[52] https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/1084565893/five-years-after-trumps-muslim-ban
[54] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-photos-edited
[56] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/25/mar-a-lago-membership-fee-doubles-to-200000.html
[58] https://time.com/3963612/donald-trump-john-mccain-military-service/
[59] https://apnews.com/article/id-cde31d2fa3a244d29de77b31a59b799a
[60] https://archive.curbed.com/2020/8/17/21372168/ben-carson-hud-housing-trump
[63] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39167110
[65] https://www.livescience.com/first-case-coronavirus-found.html
[66] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/corporate-top-tax-rate-and-bracket
[67] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-43790895
[68] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/01/politics/cnntv-bishop-trump-photo-op/index.html
Username checks out… Damn…
You’re objectively evil. Not reading past your first paragraph as it already makes every source after that irrelevant.
You feel really smart adding references and sources to your deathwish right? I hope you realize how ironic that looks.
You’re objectively evil.
Typical Trump apologist mentality, projecting their own views and not backing up their claims.
Not reading past your first paragraph as it already makes every source after that irrelevant.
Cheers! 🍻 Stay ignorant.
You feel really smart adding references and sources to your deathwish right? I hope you realize how ironic that looks.
Just trying to help others educate themselves on the facts, but there’s only so much you can do when people are willing to stay ignorant 🤓
EDIT: I should add - please, at the very least, read up on the paradox of tolerance. Your ignorance only helps the enemy.
What are you even talking about? None of that is related to your deathwish. Why are you trying to educate people about facts? I already know all of that stuff. What are you trying to say? Trying to justify your deathwish? What’s your problem?
A pissed off POS, fuck Donald Trump.
Right. I’m also all for anarchy. Let’s storm the capitol and kill everyone we don’t like. Sounds familiar? Well. Maybe you’re not much better than him wantinf him dead.
He’s a rapist, a felon, and countless other things. I AM BETTER THAN HIM.
No you’re not. Because you wish him dead.
I am, because he very well might get the power to make changes that would cause my death. My wants are nothing compared to his deeds.
Jesus. Do you hear yourself speak? And for some reason, I bet that if somebody were to assasinate Biden you’d highly condemn that… Becausd you condone political violence but only if it’s convenient.
Your words are not less a testimony of the failing democracy in the US than Trump is as a person. And reading this thread and others, you’re not the only one. I’m glad I don’t live in that country. From an outside perspective, it’s easily the worst political landscape to live in and the worst democracy of every democracy on this planet right now. Man, just get your shit together and start talking about actual politics and less about killing your political opponents.
It’s a fucking joke at this point. It’s such a joke that me and my buddies made a screening of the presidential debate with some beer and watched it like a soccer match, laughing. No politics is more entertaining than the USA. And the sad part about it is that you guys actually seem to take this shit serious.
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Mr Trump could be seen ducking for cover behind the lectern.
I like attempted assassination victims that don’t duck for cover.
It’ll take more than that to stop a Bull Moose!
I wonder how much we’re going to hear about the poor person who got shot in the head right behind him, or if they’re just incidental margin notes in history, overshadowed by the big WWE media theater that is Trump. Reports are saying at least two crowd members have died.
I just hope they were crucial to Project 2025
Oh Trump will absolutely bring them up at every single rally to froth up the crowd. Because he may be the martyr they care about the most, but the martyrs who actually died will be great ammunition (I can’t think of a more appropriate word, sorry) to rile up the crowd.
That is assuming there is another rally, and today’s incident wasn’t just the catalyst for a Jan 6 sequel. Knowing his supporters, I’m not holding my breath, unfortunately.
Considering the number of people here claiming this was Trump staging a false flag, I am absolutely certain there are a similarly large number of people on the right saying this was Biden trying to assassinate Trump and something must be done. So I hope not.
Republicans have blamed Joe Biden for the attempted assassination tonight, accusing the president of whipping up opposition to Donald Trump.
JD Vance, who is one of the frontrunners to be Trump’s running mate, said: “Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.”
“That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination,” he added.
Mike Collins, a Republican congressman from Georgia, said: “The Republican District Attorney in Butler County, PA, should immediately file charges against Joseph R. Biden for inciting an assassination.”
He also tweeted that Mr Biden “sent the orders”.
Prosecuting the president for stochastic terrorism? That’s a precedent they really don’t want to set with Trump as their candidate.
That they are pushing it is evidence they don’t think they’ll have to follow the rule of law if they win.
That they are pushing it is evidence they don’t think they’ll have to follow the rule of law if they win.
They won’t. The Supreme Court already determined that.
All I’m hearing is that they think Biden told the truth and used the power the Heritage Foundation SCOTUS explicitly gave him, and now they’re inexplicably butthurt about it.
Unfortunately, the number is likely going to be a lot higher.
I’m pretty sure a lot of the people here are (or at least me) are being joking/sarcastic about the false flag conspiracy. For us Lemmings, there’s no emotional stake in these events, whereas his supporters will be angered over anyone even attempting to kill their fascist idol…
I’m pretty sure a lot of the people here are (or at least me) are being joking/sarcastic about the false flag conspiracy.
I’m not sure of that at all, especially when emotions are running high.
I’m not absolutely discounting the possibility they they somehow found some schlub to die in a fake assassination attempt, but I’m also not going to come up with conspiracy theories until there’s been some time to go over evidence and analyze the situation.
I’m also not going to come up with conspiracy theories until there’s been some time to go over evidence and analyze the situation.
Respect for that. It’s a reasonable and rational response to today’s series of events, despite the temptations of role-playing as a conspiracy theorist to escape from having to think about the hypothetical consequences of said events.
Thats fine, isn’t Biden permitted to assassinate people while in office with immunity?
Knowing his supporters, I’m not holding my breath, unfortunately.
When you’re huffing your own farts so much, that isn’t a good idea.
Fascists love their “martyrs for the cause”.
They chose to go to a rally to support a man who wants to be a “dictator on day one” they made their choice.
Wasn’t one an eight year old?
I say we elect that one guy behind him who barely reacts at all
Honestly, they’re all so dead inside up there that I’m amazed any of them even flinched.
One of the videos you can hear “shooter down” before he gets up. Elderly, near death experience, and monumental arrogance would help explain his reaction pretty well!
Shooting him isn’t the way - but I can see why someone was scared enough to think it was. Just remember kids, voting for Biden isn’t just voting against trumpler - it’s saying you would literally prefer someone who is probably senile overhim. It’s a solid insult, and you should go out there on polling day to make sure he hears it.
if bolsonaro is any indication, this is just turning him into a martyr.
really terrible job by whoever tried it.
This is what wins him the election.
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An antended at the rally and the shooter were killed per the AP
As much as I hate to admit this, it wasn’t a fake shooting. The ‘acting’ was way too good to be faked. The mid-word ‘stung in the ear’ confusion slowly followed by the realization of what happened and the clumsy collapse to the ground are just too believable to think it wasn’t real. That said, whether it was a false flag or not is another story.
Either that shooter had some shit accuracy, or had excellent accuracy and scraped off just the right amount of skin that he was paid to remove.
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Yup.
That image was after I heard security yell “shooter’s down”
I like candidates that don’t get shot at for being pieces of shit.
Won’t matter at this point. Even if it turns out to be faked. It won’t matter. His base is that fucking stupid. The idea has been planted and it doesn’t even have to be true.
This just got him elected.
There’s a lot of time, a lot can happen, but this just justified a lot of the nonsense narratives the right wing has been trying to push.
I really hope you’re wrong, but it certainly helps him.
a lot can happen
OK someone quick shoot at and near-miss Biden as well
I’ve never hoped to be wrong more I don’t think, but I fear now that the Cletus brigade is going to go on a fucking rampage.
Innocent lives are gong to be lost over this.
This is what wins him the
electioninsurrection.FTFY. He called on his rabid supporters to “fight.” I think we all know what that means.
Several secret service agents surrounded him as he put his hand up and appeared to shout “fight” to his supporters who began cheering.
Yep. Many innocent people will die because of this.
My gut tells me this is staged, but either way I’m scared as fuck that this is going to give him more power and make violence against others even worse.
My first instinct is staged as well, only because he stands to benefit so much from it. Unfortunately.
From the article:
Trump stood up and held his fist in the air with what appeared to be blood dripping down his face.
Several secret service agents surrounded him as he put his hand up and appeared to shout “fight” to his supporters who began cheering.
Undoubtedly, this will incite his violent insurrectionist fan base into a repeat of Jan 6.
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reap what you sow
Well, it was probably staged, so….
My worry is that some lunatic right winger is trying to push us to civil war.
We’re already there. They just haven’t started the American Violence™ phase yet. Right now we’re in the American Saber Rattling™ phase.
i keep thinking of that too…
The bullet is totally a crisis actor, you can also see it in that one Reagan clip. /s
What bullet?
Can be seen in the JFK “assassination” as well. Dude gets around. Was younger then and could do some crazy acrobatics back then though.
https://x.com/merylkornfield/status/1812263916497506711?s=46
According to a Washington Post reporter that talked with the district attorney, an audience member and the shooter are dead. Not a stunt.
Not a stunt.
Just want to point out that doesn’t prove it’s not a stunt at all.
Was the shooter alone? What’s his history? Did he have a family? Do they end up with money suddenly at some point in the near future?
Collateral damage is definitely something the Trump team wouldn’t give a single shit about. An innocent attendee dying wouldn’t stop them at all, if anything they’d likely think it adds credibility.
Dictators staging their own fake assassination attempts to garner sympathy isn’t anything new. And we know Trump views several of them as role models
It could be a legitimate attempted assassination,but it just as easily could have been staged, especially given it doesn’t seem the weapon itself was a real danger, at least not at that range. And it it really was something like a pellet or bb gun, not much of a danger at all unless literally next to Trump. Even a .22 needs to be pretty damned close to be deadly. Anything higher caliber doesn’t seem to match up with the witness reports or the audio we’ve seen.
Not to mention the weird Secret Service reaction immediately following. Why the fuck would they let him stand back up and fist pump the sky immediately after getting shot at? That’s literally the opposite of what they should be doing. Unless there wasn’t a real threat.
Absolutely. False flag for sure.
I dunno. I saw the footage. If the guy from Home Alone 2 was acting, he’d be a lot more blatant.
Plus, wouldn’t secret service be in on it? I bet you they can’t stand the guy either.
From my understanding, his service detail are all true believers. Remember, most LEOs and the like are very right wing.
Well, that may be true. According to AP, the gunman and an attendee are dead. So… not staged.
Just because it wasn’t fake doesn’t mean it wasn’t intentional. Hypothetically, his campaign pays off a gunman to take off a bit of his ear, and he gets the opportunity to motivate republicans and call his diehard supporters to violence.
A dead shooter also can’t tell his side of the story. Just sayin’
At least two confirmed dead:
Butler County District attorney told the Associated Press (AP) that a shooter was dead and that a rally attendee had also been killed.
Don’t stoop to that level. Assume it was real. Base your conclusions on evidence. Not conspiracies.
People might disagree with you here, so let me share a quote from the article:
Trump stood up and held his fist in the air with what appeared to be blood dripping down his face.
Several secret service agents surrounded him as he put his hand up and appeared to shout “fight” to his supporters who began cheering.
This is an overwhelming PR win for Donald Trump and likely to be an extremely successful catalyst for inciting more insurrectionist violence. It’s too perfect of a scenario to be coincidental, especially considering he’s a chickenshit coward that would demand a human shield in front of him if he thought he was in any actual danger.
The shooter and an audience member are dead. How Machiavellian do you think these people are that they’d kill two people for a PR stunt?
What? Are you fucking delusional? I understand brown people are not really people for you guys there, but do you realize how many people indirectly and directly “these” people have killed in Syria alone, counting only cases of being simply too lazy?
Killing two people for fucking presidency? You think it’s unrealistic?
Anyway, the answer to the question “how Machiavellian” is “fully” for everybody participating in politics, because we are still homo sapiens and our time is just as Machiavellian as Machiavelli’s time, there are no naive people there, and if there are no poisonings and assassinations left and right there, that’s for the same reason only there are no nukings left and right on the map, not because they are moral.
I understand brown people are not really people for you guys
What the fuck… ?
How am I delusional for not thinking this was staged? The moving parts required for it to be staged are an order of magnitude more complex and voluminous than it just being a lone nut with an AR-15. Unless you have some actual solid verifiable evidence that calls the boring reality of the situation into question, I’d maybe dial down the rhetoric a tad.
Yeah I too thought it was staged until bodies showed up. Anyone continuing to say this was staged at this point feels very Alex Jones.
I don’t think it was staged, but I also don’t think they would give a shit if other people died during a staged shooting.
I agree, but I don’t think Donny is brave enough to allow lethal ammo to stage anything.
Honestly: do you think they have regard for people’s lives? Not that I think this is staged.
They’d surely have regard for Trump’s life, no? I mean “they” shot him in the ear. An inch closer and he’d likely be dead.
I’m just sick at how much of a coup this is for the Trump campaign. That photo is going to do so much work
Yeah, SS would have stormed him out of the area and into a safe place within moments of that shit. There’s no way they’d have cleared the area. No one would have known if there were a second or third shooter.
Now they’re saying someone is dead and they got the shooter?
Supposedly, the shooter is dead. How awfully convenient that he won’t be able to tell his side of the story.
Again, I wouldn’t be surprised if they just shot a random person, claimed they were the shooter and wrapped this up.
He is an abhorrently cruel person. And those that follow him are as well. None of this is outlandish enough to not be true.
I had to do a double take on that abbreviation
Right? USSS is the proper abbreviation for the United States Secret Service.
Same meaning at this point.
Schutzstaffel, as in protective service would probably be a better description of what they actually do I guess
Secret service better fits sg like the CIA
Also right as steam was picking up about Project 2025.
Unless it was a blood capsule or something the guy is too much of a pussy to pull something like this off.
The New York Times is refusing to say any bullets were fired, just that there were “pops” that sounded like gunfire.
So it wouldn’t necessarily require any actual danger.
Plus an image of some blood on the bleacher from a live stream that kept running:
You recall that he wanted to rip off his suit and display a Superman logo after beating covid, right?
Id say it’s on brand.
Blood capsule or something similar.
“There was ketchup dripping down his cheeks”
—Cassidy Hutchinson
One of the attendees in the bleachers was hit:
https://imgur.com/a/V0SyhKENews is also saying that 2 are dead: https://news.sky.com/story/shots-fired-at-donald-trump-rally-as-former-president-rushed-off-stage-13177651
Butler County District attorney told the Associated Press (AP) that a shooter was dead and that a rally attendee had also been killed.
This doesn’t sound like it was staged.
that a shooter was dead
In other words he can’t be questioned
Why?
I mean it might have been, but with the modern insanity around politics and guns and violence, and the general unhinged nature of the population generally, it’s equally or more likely to be some deranged person with a gun. WHY for the love of god add to the chaos by speculating without any evidence yet? Does it help?
Because speculation is all we have with someone like Trump who seemingly failed upward with his every move. Do you think we’re going to ever know what really happened? This shit was clean. Despite the fact that he was allowed to stand and shake a defiant fist moments later, without knowing if there were more shooters. How did his secret service know the area was secure? In reality, he would have been rushed to safety within a minute of the shooting.
Yeah. Here’s what speculation allows for;
• Gets found guilty 34 times over? Gets more followers.
• Gets found guilty of sexual assault. Gets more followers
• Gets tied to Epstein. Gets more followers
• Gets shot at. Wins an election.
There is no stopping that fat fuck because theres no limit to American ignorance.
Well things are about to get a whole lot worse. That raised fist is going to be printed on all the right-wing crazy stuff and they will use this to justify violence against anyone opposing Trump.
Jan 6 is going to look like pleasant stroll compared to what’s coming after this…
It was going to happen anyways eventually
pretty much. electoralism has never stopped fascism.
With the supreme court ruling regarding official acts we have already reached the point where democracy is on its last breaths.
This is the time for escalation that people can’t ignore in favor of bickering over if the non fascist is old.
if only it was that easy
