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i'm starting to think this incident is going to blow up in the GOP's face. 1. The political/propaganda wing of the GOP was so quick to blame Democrats for the shooting. So far we're seeing that the shooter had no ideology, and the same motivations as a school shooter. And we all know the GOP's attit...

Suranis wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 2:08 pm It could be that the crowd goes into a stupor when the Turnip is speaking, as he really is crushingly boring for 2 hours.

Or they're in some kind of Jonestown trance.

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:13 pm I also think the crowd behaved weirdly.

Yeah, the crowd was weirdly subdued for a shooting. They didn't even scatter when it was clear something bad was going on. Or take defensive positions, like the one fatality reportedly did. You'd think this crowd would know what "incoming" means.

If it's true that a piece of the teleprompter hit him, that would explain why Trump suffered few ill effects from having a gunshot so near his head. It also fits the assertion that the shooter wasn't a very good shot; he actually failed to hit Trump at all. And the small amount of blood always seeme...

He was such a bad shot in high school that they wouldn't let him join the rifle club. He got off a hell of a shot at Trump then. Maybe this info is still coming in, but the last few days haven't been the flurry of information you'd expect in 2024. I remember the Reagan shooting unfolding faster. I ...

I'm not a mathematician, but I don't see any way that the path runs from the top of his ear to horizontal in just a few inches. Any ideas of why or how this is an optical illusion? I'm thinking it's something like the JFK "magic bullet" theories, which ignore the fact that the people hit ...

I think there's a shocking lack of curiosity about all this. 1. Trump gets shot by a random 20-year-old Dylan Kliebold clone who has no friends, no family, no job, no school, no internet footprint, and so far, no apparent motivation beyond "got bullied in high school." 2. Shooter manages t...

I have always been unhappy at the unfair asymmetry between decent folk who decry violence and those who are happy to use weapons against the decent folk. After this incident I'm expecting a barrage of "we need more civility" from the people who gave us January 6, its apologists, election ...

Biden: You have been wrong about everything so far. You were wrong about 2020. You were wrong about 2022. Remember the red wave? This is the Joe Biden I want to see more of. The smug dick who tells Fox News where to get off and what bus to take. He'd probably shoot up 3 points in the polls if he st...

We are now approaching the stage where the flaws in the republican form of government are coming home to roost. The current republican system seems to lead inevitably to massive swings from one edge of the political spectrum to another and bi-partisanship is a fond and fading memory. It was a good ...

Portia, that's simultaneously encouraging and discouraging. Encouraging, because we as Americans are conditioned to believe living in a "non-free country" is unthinkable, when it can be manageable sometimes. Discouraging because Trumpism undermines long-running democratic norms, in ways th...

I am seriously scared if dotard wins or steals the election I don't know what I will do :crying: :cantlook: I'm getting a plan together, and it involves becoming a digital nomad. Lots of countries have this kind of visa now (thank you COVID). Fortunately i have a stable job that lets me do that.

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2024 3:49 am Since when were tweets out of the WH to solve a pre-presidency problem suddenly to become an "official act"

Since July 1, 2024.

But it does not matter, because he isn't going to fukken win. After yesterday, I don't think it matters anymore. Trump and his enablers will cook up some scheme to get himself declared president. Either by winning the election, by "winning" the election, or going tO the SCOTUS with all hi...

I think the lesson of the two recent SCOTUS rulings is: we didn't realize how deeply embedded this man's hooks were in this country. At least, I didn't. I never the Supreme Court would be so nakedly partisan to help a single man like this, and with such a ludicrous claim. They'd be partisan for a ca...

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 1:31 pm

1776 @TheWakeninq wrote:

That's his ride to prison? The bastard child of a Range Rover and an Escalade? It's on-brand, I'll give him that...

Luke wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2024 12:27 am Joy Reid said it's "Statler and Waldorf and no other Muppets are coming".

Except Statler and Waldorf were funny.

:think: Did I miss something in US economics, the Biden Empire :?: Which rank among the true billionaires :?: The gap between the benign human being Joe Biden is, and the Satanic mastermind Fox News spends all day trying to convince us he is,would be downright comical if so many people didn't belie...

“Hunter Biden guilty. Yawn,” (Charlie) Kirk wrote. “The true crimes of the Biden Crime Family remain untouched.

Well, Charlie, whose fault is that? The GOP has been looking for them for years!

The GOP weaponizing the government to go after Hunter Biden, and getting a pointless conviction on the only thing they could ever prove, is somehow proof that the government is weaponized against THEM. Good God, will the victim complex never end?

Volkonski wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2024 11:55 am Now the authorities must go after all those drug-using RWNJs. Lock them up!

No, no, that would be "weaponizing the government."

Oh, the irony of it. The GOP's big win is busting someone for violating a gun possession law.

basically Trump wants a Pence VP without a Pence backbone. Unfortunately, the Republican party is filled with them. Seven of the eight candidates are obnoxious sycophants who've been auditioning for months to be Trump's mini-me. I think that points to the opposite conclusion: he wants an anti-Pence...

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 1:13 pm (Pence) didn't compete with Trump, he didn't grab the spotlight, he just supported every single thing Trump said.

Well, except for that one thing at the end.

I'm going with Doug Burgum. Nobody's heard of him so he won't steal any limelight from trump. Nah, I think that's exactly Burgum's problem. TFG wants a junior version of himself: someone with their own notoriety, who will parrot his shtick, and knows their place in the hierarchy. Pretty much anyone...