• @[email protected]
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    864 months ago

    it was an incredibly close shot. looks like he coincidentally moved his head the exact moment the shot rang, if he hadn’t he would be gone. factors like windage also play a role. idk which outcome is worse.

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      914 months ago

      I also don’t know which outcome would be worse but I do know which one I really wanted in that moment.

      • @[email protected]
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        444 months ago

        MAGA world would collapse from infighting to be the new figure head. So I know which outcome I’d have preferred.

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          54 months ago

          Both Trump and the Shooter surviving would have been best. If the kid was able to say exactly why he did it, then all the conspiracy would die. An Trump would have some uncomfortable questions about his involvement with Epstein. That second part might still happen. But likely won’t.

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      Definitely this one. This just killed my hope that he loses again, and you know the Gravy Seals are going to step up their harassment and violence towards people - and that would have been true either way. At least with the other outcome he doesn’t get in.

      He couldn’t have asked for a better gift for his campaign.

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        444 months ago

        As someone indicated below, he’s now a living martyr. I would place money that he uses this to galvanize his following and it actually benefits him in the polls.

        He needed to die in an embarrassing way (lethal dose of ex-lax?) for it to hurt his reputation.

        I don’t buy the ‘pave the way for someone worse’ argument. Who would that be? I can’t think of anyone right now, except for maybe De Santis in terms of actually being somewhat competent.

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        274 months ago

        him dying would’ve turned him into a martyr and basically solidified him as a saint, if not a god, to the maga crowd. I can imagine the repercussions of that. there’s also the possibility that someone worse replaces him, someone just as fascist and selfish but twice as competent, and that would be disastrous. y’know, the whole “guys I went back in time and killed Hitler” trope/joke.

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          334 months ago

          He’s already a god to his followers. People literally paint him as the second coming of Jesus Christ. There is no one worse in this moment than Donald Trump.

          • @[email protected]
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            34 months ago

            Sure there are people who are worse. There are people behind their movement that have not stuck their head up and are competent.

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              64 months ago

              Sure, yet none of them are able to do what Trump does. That’s why it’s taken 40+ years for them to get to this point. The Mitch McConnells and such might be politically saavy, but they don’t have the “charisma” of Donald Trump to actually pull off the end game. That’s why they all protect him so much, he’s a cult figure, which can be difficult to fabricate.

        • Kairos
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          274 months ago

          Yeah but then he couldnt be in the oval, which is what actually matters lol.

          • @[email protected]
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            44 months ago

            others have made a terrifying point that his death could incite another instruction like Jan 6.

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              224 months ago

              Which biden would be prepared to deal with. Keep in mind that Trump was in office for Jan 6. One might even consider that a good thing, as this time with a competent president there would be less victims, and more insurrectionists getting their voting rights taken away.

              • Venia Silente
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                14 months ago

                ¿Biden competent? He’s probably gonna die of old age by Jan 5, and if not, is going to be ordering who knows what crap with his dementia on Jan 6…

                  • @[email protected]
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                    24 months ago

                    Don’t engage, just mark him as a right wing troll with a user note so you can remember not to engage with him.

                  • Venia Silente
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                    14 months ago

                    I’ll give you one (1) pity point for jumping right to the low hanging tree category for personal attack.

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          134 months ago

          and basically solidified him as a saint, if not a god, to the maga crowd.

          I’m pretty sure that’s already true, but I see your point overall.

    • GladiusB
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      74 months ago

      No it wasn’t. He has zero injuries. It could even been a shard of glass on the stage. Stages are dirty fucking things that no one cleans once they are up.

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        194 months ago

        what the actual fuck are you talking about? a shard of glass, in the ear?

        there are two possibilities. this was a failed assassination attempt or this was an elaborately staged plot to boost his popularity.

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        34 months ago

        Some still survive injury to the head so if you want to kill someone instantly, try to aim for the heart. Security services know this that’s why persons of interest are advised to wear bulletproof vests. I am guessing Trump is wearing one so had the shooter tried to aim for the torso, that would have been more embarrassing than near-missing Trump to the head.