No good will come of this.
This will energize his base and he will win the election. It will also mean Republican domination of the House and Senate. The next two years will be a clusterfuck as normal and barriers are demolished and regular people begin to realize they’ve elected fascism. The midterms will begin to look like a blue wave, but then they will point back to moments like this to declare the Democratic party “illegitimate” and remove them from ballot access, if midterm elections happen at all.
This is the end of any semblance of democracy in the US for at least a generation.
Oh look. Face-eating leopards.
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Yeah: gotta be crisis actors, if Alex Jones taught us anything, right?
When it comes to the Republican party, every accusation has been an admission. It would be ridiculously on-brand to stage an assassination attempt. Just watch the response and tell me it isn’t for show.
You mean the response in the video? No, it doesn’t look like it’s for show to me.
The way they stood him up at the top of the ramp and waited for the photo op? Puh-lease!
Looks like you’re lost. Here you go:
What kind of monster sends a Lemmy user back to reddit.
Sad that we’re so quick to censor a very valid opinion of what someone witnessed. Our “tolerance” will only help the fascists manipulate us and win.
https://x.com/thiefkingix/status/1812263018681827338?s=42
No visible wound.
This photo may have (unfortunately) won him the race.
Nah, fuck that. Vote.
It’s incredible people are down voting you because they don’t like this thought. Y’all know how America is right? If this is all real, his approval numbers likely grow and his base gets fired up. Reagan got a bump back in the day.
You don’t have to like that, but it’s not misinformation to speculate on how this plays out. These images will be used for the rest of this race.
No, it’s just a bullshit argument in this election. The electorate is viscerally polarized, and very few people are in the fence about who to vote for - maybe some undecided about whether they’ll vote at all. I can’t imagine there are many people who are going to switch from Biden to Trump because of this, or who will even go from undecided to Trump. It makes no sense.
On the other hand, Trump is going to fundraise the crap out of that picture, and it will squeeze lots more money out of his base.
the argument isn’t that people will switch sides, it’s that more right-leaning people will vote who would have otherwise just skipped
Do you remember 9/11? The war in Iraq? Are you aware of what happened with the assassination attempt against Reagan? Do you remember how those affected the approval ratings of politicians?
You don’t even necessarily have to flip people. You just have to get them to come out and mobilize.
It’s not a sure thing, but a lot of y’all are coming across as coping. Political violence has often united this country around figures and policies.
Isn’t Biden already polling poorly?
I do remember those times, but we weren’t nearly as polarized then, and the assassination attempt made Reagan more sympathetic and somewhat more heroic. I didn’t think this will do that for Trump.
Fuck.
I viscerally hate the guy, but:
- Murder is just wrong, and political violence isn’t better when liberals do it than conservatives
- We don’t need him to become a martyr
- If he’s dead, we’ll never get a court ruling on his crimes
Never? You wouldn’t take a shot at Hitler? I mean, Hitler did.
The shooter was a registered Republican
Yeah, but also some reports that he donated to a liberal organization.
Yeah… Pretty weird.
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Christ, his poll numbers were already daunting, but now this?
$10 says staged. Perfect location, perfect timing, perfect day of the week.
Here comes the sympathy vote begging
Orange Man Gogh
Looks fake
“Donald Trump has the runs as shots fired at Pennsylvania rally” Fixed it.
Coward! Real man keep standing!
This is the correct way to report on the story.
