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The guy’s a waste of the air we breathe, why waste our brass on him too? He should be held accountable for his crimes and left to rot in a prison cell, fully aware of his failure as a human being. I’d wish worse, but he’s just not worth the effort.
MOST VIRAL EDIT: Don’t get me wrong, I 100% wish him death, and I hope it comes soon. However, violence begets more violence, and firing the first shots only gives the Maggats more of a leg to stand on in their “fight against evil”.
ToonamiT0M
Best case scenario is he is shot in the head and survived, but suffers obvious mental damage from it. So long as he's alive he'd never be removed as the Relublikkkan candidate, but he'd be too obviously unfit for undecided voters to vote for.
CrumpetsWithHoneyAreCrumpetsWithBeeVomit
Disagree. The world doesn't deserve Trump.
Folsee
He isn't worth the manpower to keep down while alive. He will literally fight and role up his followers till the day he drops dead even from behind bars. Any attempts to stop him from speaking will just make his argument louder. Put the cur down.
pennypoohbear
Yeah in the beginning I didn't want him to become a martyr. I didn't want anybody killed. But after his presidency I realized that some eggs need to be broken. And buried. And then salt the Earth.
Munchman347
'Only suckers and losers get cut by flying glass!'...
derekjohn
I feel this is the correct attitude.Killing your opponents only solidifies their supporters' views and creates the myth of the 'lost leader'
CarpathionWargasm
tRump won the election when he held up his fist and said "Fight". I hate it, and it truly scares me
christophersouthworth
He's not worth anyone's life or death. I want to see him die in prison, like other rapists and pedophiles.
Nooneinfamous
He deserves a rope, and then some bullets.
EroticZombiePants
This was worse than making him a martyr.
FoxxoniusAugustus
Yeah, at least if he was a martyr then he would be dead.
Shapster
If he was shot. Then. I am looking forward to his decent into INSANITY from the PTSD.
Jinxies
No, but the rest of us deserve to have him gone
GrosseChung
But he’s not going to jail…
TheMeatIncident
The assassin desynced
DukeDarkwood
"That's right. I hit him so hard, he fell off the Internet." J. Gabriel
RyanH42
If he was made a martyr Biden would be running unopposed. Now he looks strong for surviving an assassination attempt and will get the sympathy vote.
Lassannn
You just used words his worshippers don't understand.
righteousbookworm
He would have made a better martyr than president. Never been so pissed about 2 in in my life.
lildude52ca
NKato
The problem is that our justice system has failed, and SCOTUS has just handed him a pass; this, along with the revelations of Project 2025 alongside other things, has put a LOT of people in a bad mental space. At this point, it is not entirely unreasonable to believe that an armed response is the only reasonable response left to the sane.
FoxxoniusAugustus
Better a dead martyr than a living threat.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
Kalbi
As rational as you are, what happened today will only bolster his base. Now if anyone talks shit about him, they will look like the ahole. It's a done deal. He will win in November.
meowingintensifies
why the actual hell is it donald trump of all people? this scummy rat bastard gets more screentime in history than more deserving people.
scarabrae
Right fucking here.
discostewsm
Supposedly there is surveillance footage of the shooter wearing right-wing militia merch. Whether this is true, I don't know.
richardfan
Regan landslide incoming
Fuck
BayazTheBenevolent
At best, this was an amateur job. At worst this was a false flag. Whatever the case, fucker is still alive and milk this for every drop.
NKato
Not a false flag given that the shooter had literal seconds to set up and shoot before the USSS responded to his presence; the NYT photo showing the bullet whizzing past his head shows that it was a genuine effort to kill Trump.
SophieClockwise
Trump's cultists love Trump, not Republicans, and they've already collectively and repeatedly shown their derision for the other Republican candidates. Trump's death (from any cause) leaves the current red side unable to function for the better part of the next *decade* (and certainly loses them the upcoming election) while they try to figure out what to do next, because the entire Republican identity and plan right now is 100% "sit back and coast to victory on Trump's cult of personality".
EroticZombiePants
Well the thought is, if Trump gets elected, they won't have to worry about elections after that point because there won't be any.
RadasNoir
It wouldn't instantly fix everything that's wrong with the country right now, but it would be a MASSIVE step in the right direction.
Lycanthian
People need to understand that this will galvanize his base. Sycophants who were content to rest on laurels will be spurred to actually vote rather than assume they will get what they want. He will use this moment whip his base into a fervor. Sensible people need to recognize now dangerous this “martyrdom” is for his campaign and commit to actually voting. I personally feel dems best chance is to find a replacement for Biden, but I recognize it’s also very late in the game for that.
ExecutiveProducerWolfDyck
Oh no, the people actively working to destroy democracy and enstill a theocracy will be galvanized into... actively working to destroy democracy and enstill a theocracy? Him dying is the opposite of dangerous, you dumb fuck.
nachosyndicate
So trump is getting what he paid for: a successful stage play.
Hurch
I believe Biden has the best chance to beat him, but those who love Trump have had hundreds of reasons to dump him already. At this point, I fear nothing he can say or do will change their opinions. Having his ear pierced isn't going to help. (Especially since according to Trumpers, Biden is behind it.) His followers aren't exactly likely to watch news from any source other than Fox. Hopefully, independents and a large democratic turnout will turn the tide for democracy.
Lycanthian
Honestly I’m holding out hope that as days go by this assassination attempt puts a real fear in trump. I mean really i wouldn’t blame anyone for backing out after nearly being killed.
NKato
Trump knows that there will be even more people gunning for him the closer we get to Election Day - because what he's proposing is a fundamental and permanent change for the worse in America. And there are people in the country who will not sit on their hands and watch that happen. UNLIKE BIDEN AND HIS ENTIRE NAIVE ADMINISTRATION. Naivete doesn't win a cryptowar.
extraordinaryagility
How convenient that the shooter was killed during the fracas, this whole thing stinks of a setup. It's 100% bullshit. Probably used a squib.
TossABabyYodaToYourWitcher
Let's not go down the same batshit conspiracy route that led to the Republican party we have today...
kozzillakilla
If we’re going with this I can speak from experience, and I have pictures, I had a piercing in essentially the same area (forward helix) get accidentally pulled out. I was bleeding to my neck in about a minute.
Orein
I thought that might be a possibility at first, but someone did actually die. One of the shots hit a bystander right in the head.
Marsupialmessiah
Standard procedure. Its not a ubisoft game where you capture the vartel leader and maybe squeeze him for info. Has a gun, gets ded. You pull a gun, you ded as well. Automatic response. Ever tried to negotiate with a carjacker? Said no one ever
CleverGroom
Yeah. The Jack Ruby thing was weird and obviously not by the book. But nowadays--shit, man...you see how many counterassault officers with carbines they had on the grandstand alone within the first few seconds? This isn't your granddad's Secret Service.
The way FBI talked around IDing the shooter and running his DNA to be sure, I'm guessing homeboy doesn't have a face anymore. That's what happens when you're prone and dozens of rifles return fire on your position at once.
airen
Uncle Ben did :(
wantfastcars
I heard somebody call it "BlueAnon" as a play on QAnon talking about these conspiracy theories - someone died, the shooter just fucking missed their mark. We'll learn more about the motives in the coming days probably but immediately leaping to this "false flag" stuff is not the right idea.
TossABabyYodaToYourWitcher
If Trump hadn't turned when he did this would be a much different conversation
mercyPandaRunner
BlueAnon is spot on.
CoarseAndSalty
But likewise calling it an assassination is just as much of a conspiracy.
Cap2000
No it isn't, that's like the baseline here guy
mercyPandaRunner
"Let's assume it's a conspiracy until we have proof otherwise"
Arbitrarynamehere
No the fuck it isn't lmao people died what else could it be
CoarseAndSalty
A shooting of a man who threatened the safety of others. If I wander into a town and start talking garbage to locals and one of them shoots me, it doesn't make him an assassin.
Arbitrarynamehere
Going to a political rally with a rifle, posting up on a rooftop, and missing the head of the speaker by literally an inch or two, taking another shot or two and killing and injuring two of the audience members behind the speaker DEFINITELY IS AN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION YOU FUCKIN MORON