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59 points

This is just going to further guarantee his victory. It’s fucking over. This country is done.

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Ah yes, I wanted to vote blue, but now that the felon’s ear got shot, I’ll vote for the fashists.

This is US politics and it makes sense.

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No, it’s more like:

“I wasn’t going to vote because I don’t care about or follow politics. Now I see they are trying to kill this guy so I am going to vote for him because clearly the powers that be want him gone. So, he must be doing something to fight the system like JFK.”

Nobody who was going to vote Dem is changing their vote. It’s all the people who weren’t going to vote that now will because they either think he is badass for surviving an assassination attempt, or because of the web of new conspiracy narratives that are sure to be born from this that further serve to frame Trump as the savior of the common man from the clutches of the evil deep state.

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I am going to vote for him because clearly the powers that be want him gone.

A 20 year old kid is “the powers that be”? LOL. Maybe they will think instead “Wow Trump must be a huge dick if people hate him so much they are trying to kill him”.

he is badass for surviving an assassination attempt

He didn’t look like a badass at all. He looked like someone who had been bloodied because he was so deeply hated.

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5 points

From abroad, for the love of everything please go vote. Everything in the US seems to leak out and global warming is well, global.

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My vote is irrelevant. I live in a deep blue stronghold. Nothing I can personally do is going to change what is coming, and the path that we are on. It is time to prepare for the worst.

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Never irrelevant! Don’t find out the hard way that you may be wrong about that. Keep the stronghold strong

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That’s my gut reaction too. It’s done. That fucking photo where Trump stood up and did the fist pump with the blood on his face and the American flag in the background:

https://i.headtopics.com/images/2024/7/14/timescolonist/trump-rally-shooting-is-being-investigated-as-an-trump-rally-shooting-is-being-investigated-as-an-56235AE0556FFDA67127295A88A54C8B.webp

There’s no beating that. That’s literally like a movie poster. Whether Biden stays or goes, I really don’t think it matters now.

Also as an aside, I don’t mean this as a compliment to Trump. I think he’s a raging piece of shit and I hope he loses. But it’s elections are all about perception and I really don’t see Biden doing anything to top this.

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You said it better than I could have done myself. It is time to start preparing the resistance now. Civil disobedience is the only way forward.

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It’s horrifying that our best hope is that a MAGA nutter kills Biden in retaliation and Harris wins in a landslide because of it.

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3 points

I don’t see it, the lines have been firmly drawn for years. The maga crowd will vote for him regardless of anything and the rest of us wouldn’t piss on him to put out a fire.

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4 points

Sounds pretty dramatic. With the new cycle the way it is, it will be forgotten in a month.

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5 points

You know these are the people who still claim he won in 2020, right?

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7 points

[X] DOUBT

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Shit’s pretty unpredictable. What happens if a MAGAt retaliates and whacks Biden?

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4 points

For the Covid vaccine. Or being a “RINO” for some minor perceived infraction, whatever “RINO” even means any more these days…

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5 points

As you say, fuck knows.

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35 points

this is a terrible tragedy but we need to continue to work towards unity in the country so nothing will be done

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8 points

I think that is word for word what Johnson said. And he hated Kennedy.

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11 points

Civil war!

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1 point

I’m down

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10 points

Absolutely it will. Fuck.

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3 points

C’mon dude, just post your demoralizing articles and give it a rest - there is no need to further betray your intent with additional words.

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-7 points

American politics is all theater.

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