Someone took a shot at DJT
 

During his usual ranting and raving on stage someone took a couple of pot shots at Donny. It appears he got nicked on the right ear.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sounds-mu...ycsrp_catchall

Thoughts & prayers. Of course the MAGA's will blame Biden, Democrats, deep state, etc.-etc.

Too bad there was no nearby baby for him to grab and use as a human shield.

You know he would have.

This is f****d up - https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-...40ed95b2fdc3e5

I hope whoever took the shots is caught.

Alive!

Now they're saying the shooter is dead. In a conspiracy the first thing they do is assassinate the assassin.

Oh-oh. There's a bit in Revelations about the Beast getting a deadly head wound that immediately heals.

Who-da thunk a rabble rousing demagogue could attract retribution?
Thoughts and prayers notwithstanding, more guns is always the answer.

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
Clarence Darrow

Not sure which way it will go but this will have a significant effect and I don't feel good about it.

The magamob will dig in, otherwise it doesn't change the facts of the contrast between the candidates.

Honestly,
I can only wish the same fate for the guy who pardoned the man responsible for my cousin being tortured to death in custody that he suffered.
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news...ul-death-suit/

https://www.abc15.com/news/region-ph...paio-s-victims

Except we know that one of the candidates loves to play the martyr and will milk this for all it's worth, quite possibly tilting things a little further in his favor.

He is, imo, still the weakest serious opponent to the present potus due to the baggage that comes with him.

One spectator died.

Two injured. Trump was really lucky and his response was spirited.

Biden's gracious response won't hurt his prospects, one has to wonder what fat Hitler's response would have been if the shoe was on the other foot.

He has been given far better consideration in this than he gave his own vice-president on Jan 6 2021, fuck him, fuck his supporters, and fuck their hypocracy. I feel nothing for them.

^^^ Yes.

This image activates my spidey sense. Seems too perfect. Way too perfect.
Posted on CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/possibl...-pennsylvania/
Photo credit to Evan Vucci / AP

https://www.politicalchat.org/attach...1&d=1720931638

What he said ^^^^

So, lemme get this straight ... Trump hired a guy to shoot his ear off (who must have known he would subsequently have his own head blown off by the Secret Service), all for a PHOTO OPP??

Wow, talk about commitment to a premise!

Having lived through 1968 and it's election cycle. Seeking of any parallels with current events before this happened. Hoping that this year would not get bloody.

This shooting has more then likely just given the presidency to Trump.

Well, the SCOTUS has given the POTUS authority to have him seized and renditioned as an "official act", but he won't set such an extreme precedent as he respects the office, the process, and his responsibilities far too much. TFG, otoh, would have no such qualms if it serves his hunger for revenge.
Speaking of precedents;
BTW, if you've read Project 2025 you should recognise similarities to 1933, 91 years past, with the Nazis being totally prepared to take over Germany instead of the poorly though out previous beer hall putsch vs 2016 when the Maga Lardo Moussoli and his magamob wasn't either.
Scared yet? You should be.

Trump wins by his immediate reactions to being shot.
Defiance and the ensuing response of his supporters (USA, USA, USA) are priceless.

Trumps cult already claiming Biden and the left portrayal of him being a fascists dictator wanna be caused this. The Democrat's rhetoric, now that rich coming for the cult right!

Shooter was a white, 20 year old registered Republican. So much for the conspiracy theories...

I never said I believed it. But I have to fight the urge to believe it on seeing that photo.... It compares to the flag raising on Iwo Jima shot. Which was 'fake,' after all....

And not 'just' for the photo, for the effect of the event entire, photo just one facet.

Priceless!? To his moronic base, perhaps. Certainly not to rational people.

You know, I begin to see how conspiracy rabbit holes work. To the objections you raise, I can imagine answers. Perhaps not good answers, or likely answers, but not impossible ones....

Donated $15 to a Democratic origination Progressive Turnout Project in January 2021.

Cult will say see! Lefties were behind this shooting....


Registered as a Rep just to vote against Trump in the primary or something like that...



https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/14/u...hnk/index.html

... This.

Oh yes, and like any good conspiracy theory, the fact of its unlikeliness just adds to the certainty that it happened ... because that's what they want you to think!

It is Hollywood and has appeal beyond his base.

Right you are.

Much as I try I can't shake thinking along 'they faked it' lines. No actual wound, blood capsule on Trump's ear broken when he slaps it. Shooter had non-lethal rounds, they are just staging an 'attempt,' just aim to miss. Assured a clean escape is arranged. Etc, etc.

How? It really changes nothing. He's still the same self-victimizing asshole.

That would assume a large swath of the electorate currently behind Biden would believe Biden organized a hit.

Maybe he wasn't supposed to wing him?

The perception has shifted and in politics that's everything.

It's hard for me to believe this election is about a choice when the contrast of objectives is so blatant. A constitutional republic vs an authoratarian autocracy led by a vindictive narcissistic dictator granted unlimited powers by his hand picked SCOTUS toadies.
"A Republic, if you can keep it".

I think any "shifting" that might occur would only occur if TFG became somehow humble after this. But being humble just isn't in his DNA. Any time now he'll come out against "his enemies out to get him" and start pitching for donations.

He can really play the "victim" on this.