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Trump be like: someone shoot me in the arse so I can get more ratings. Watch.
What about in polls done after the incident?
You could say trump was shot down in the polls.
Was he?
Well he wasn’t shot up, that’s for sure.
We all wish he would shut up, though.
Maybe it’s because everybody is already so used to his drama.
Yeah, the dude does so much stupid stuff that it’s hard to maintain a level of giving a shit.
Yesterday, I saw a clip of Stephen Colbert’s monologue from Monday night where he was doing his monologue sitting down at his desk, which is his custom when there’s a major tragedy. It made me realize how desensitized I’ve become, because I was thinking, “wtf is he still going on about this for, that happened on Saturday, aren’t we all passed it already?”
i lived in new york, i know what a baggel is.
Eurgh, you’re the worst.
I think you mean “wurst”
He’s all tapped out and headed for his third big loss in a row.
The poll ran friday-sunday and got most of their responses before the shooting even happened…
One theory is that the incumbent benefits more from uncertainty like an assassination attempt because they’re more of a known quantity. That might be offering the increased support for Trump.
I’d argue they’re both incumbents though. Trump, shitty as he is, is a known quantity as much as Biden is. More so, maybe.
That’s interesting, good point. I guess it’s a bit of a strange situation where Trump is also kind of incumbent.
Turns out, he’s still a POS convicted felon and racist.
Don’t forget convicted r***st and suspected pedophile! ;)
Did you mean to censor the word rapist, or is this some new weird censor thing?
Too funny, I typed rapist and it autocorrected to racist yet that’s even more accurate.
Sometimes when we know there will be a Trump argument with family Trumpers. My wife will yell out at some point of the conversation “He’s a racist!” they then spend a bunch of time loading up their talking points. Only for me to go “Honey, didn’t you mean rapist” and then she will chime in “Oh yeah, he raped his wife and that 13 year old girl… But he is also racist”.
Ends all Trump talk in my experience
/ra[cp]ist/
A single poll? Well, that proves it! One out of 100 polls shows the loss is only a single percentage point. Biden is clearly the best candidate now.
Well…yeah. He is when you compare him to a 34 time convicted felon, rapist, fascist traitor.
If Trump is a fascist, then do you want a winning candidate that can prevent that or to have a candidate that is so ignorant that he lets fascism win?
How about a cheeseburger? Because I’d vote for one over Trump.
I’d vote for a literal tub of shit over that figurative tub of shit.
I don’t know if I’d be able to tell the difference well enough to know which one to vote for.
Well, if it helps, one of these things is vile, disgusting, and inhuman, and the other is not Donald Trump.
That does help, although both smell about the same I hear.
I’ve never been so happy to be wrong in my life. I thought this would have been the ultimate booster for him, virtually guaranteeing him a huge victory. I’m so relieved people aren’t quite as cattle-like as I feared.
I’m right there with you.
It may be, but don’t rest easy yet. The war is not over! There is still work to be done. Get out there and vote, get your friends to vote.
Cuz he’s a piece of shit.
Teddy Roosevelt was shot point blank in the chest at a campaign stop. The bullet penetrated his chest after passing through a steal eyeglass case and his 50 page speech. Teddy noted he wasn’t coughing blood and knew he would survive. He calmed the lynch mod down that were going to murder the assassin and then did his speech.
He lost the election despite being a total badass.
Later, Teddy reluctantly ran as VP with McKinley who won the election and was quickly assassinated. Teddy became president and won a second term.
Anyway, attempted assassination isn’t the boost people think it is - even for awesome badasses like Teddy Roosevelt.
He famously started that speech with the line “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!”
The idea was probably rather that the right would spin this as some sort of attack on their existence and go full on Reichstagsbrand.
Playing the victim is the entire Spiel of the far right, it’s not implausible that actually being a victim would create a boost from undecided voters.
Donald Trump could shit himself and they’d try to spin it as a leftist attack on their existence.
Repeat after me:
Polls are bullshit. Polls have always been bullshit. Polls only real impact is to allow people to manipulate statistics to lull voters in a false sense of confidence or security in order to stop them from voting.
Ignore the polls, especially the polls that say your side is winning or the other side is losing. Polls are a very, very effective way to convince voters to stay home without ever asking them or telling them to stay home.
THANK YOU.
The best possible news.
After the upside down Bible stunt, nobody trusts this incident wasn’t just theater.
The “Wait Wait Wait!” and then subsequent fist pumping looked like he had momentarily forgotten the WWE script
I don’t even think it’s that. I think it’s that no one really cares since it changed nothing. His supporters don’t care because he survived and it’s the same reason why the people who are against him don’t care.
I haven’t heard of that, what’s the upside down Bible stunt?