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Whatever damn fool did this has just made the situation about a million times worse. I don’t give a shit who did this, it was the worst move you could have made at the worst time you could have made it.

And those of you jumping to immediate conspiracy theories need to stop and think about how much we tend to make fun of Republicans for doing literally the exact same thing. Us spending the next 3 days circlejerking each other off our own bullshit conspiracy theories isn’t gonna help the situation, its just gonna make us all look like a bunch of hypocrites. Wait a few days, get whatever info they are willing to give us, and then try to figure out what happened. If it still looks fake or like a false flag or whatever the fuck after that point, whatever. but for gods sake use some critical thinking to get there instead of jumping to conclusions with no info.

For what its worth, I am extremely anti-trump, I am scared shitless of what will happen should he win a second term. But dear god, please think about the way you all are acting, when you act like the same kind of psychopaths you claim to stand against it is not a good look. please consider that before you post.

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The Boogaloo crowd just got handed exactly what they needed to, in their minds, justify basically anything.

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If insurrections are no big deal I don’t see how assassination attempts are something to get upset about.

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Why are people screaming and afraid? Guns are a part of society in America. Unless… they’re dangerous…

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The secret service didn’t let anyone but the shooter have a gun, so everyone’s feeling awkward

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They just witnessed a 2A activist have his rights trampled by the secret service!

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Literally the point of 2A. At least according to them.

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If it were biden the supreme court would rule that assassination attempts are speech and protected by the 1A.

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The secret service, authorized to use lethal force, no less.

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Plus I thought they were all the shall not be infringed people

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Guns are fine unless they’re aimed at me.

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Maybe it was an official act of Biden, then it’s not a crime. Nothing to see here, just as wanted by SCOTUS.

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CBS is suggesting that the shooter is dead

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Secret Service doesn’t play. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least.

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The supreme Court has found any act Biden does is unofficial

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I wish I could upvote this twice lol

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Funny and apropos, but too soon

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I mean, it’s legal if it’s an official act.

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Except he can’t be part of a crime family. If the president does it, it’s not illegal.

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You can’t be a crime family if all of your actions are automatically legal

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Antifa shooting a fascist is very on brand.

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hey it’s not our guys that declared that anything a president does is automatically legal, even something like this. you folks fought for and pushed that ruling through. you’d have to be a special kind of dumb to get upset that you’re getting shot at when you’ve expressly legalized the act of shooting at people. great “law and order” move guys, you legalized all the so-called “biden crime family” actions to make sure your guy can do whatever he wants when he becomes king. i guess they’re just the normal biden family now thanks to y’all.

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Could history please have the decency not to re-enact how Hitler survived dozens of assassination attempts?

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This is exactly what I’m afraid of.

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I’m afraid he is going to ride this into the White House or it ignites open political shootings. Not a good time.

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Oh, he is definitely getting reelected. That is an absolute certainty at this point.

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Haha that was my second thought (my first one was shock that something like that can happen - it means dangerous times are coming for democracy)

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I don’t think vote to obscurity can apply here. Trump will always have a platform because he is a living engagement machine and that drives the Internet mad. He wins he’s the top story, he loses he’s the top story, he gets convicted he’s the top story. The man is immortal in the worst way possible and the world is basically f*cked.

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I miss the short years where we heard nothing from the piece of shit right after the 2020 election.

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Nah, this is just want Trumpers want you to believe. He gets attention because he’s genuinely trying to foment a fascist overthrow of the government, not because he’s some media mastermind.

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Trump will always have a platform because…

Yeah, but for how many more years? There’s absolutely no way he’d run again if he loses, so it’s really just a short ticking clock.

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There’s no way he doesn’t win, even if he loses.

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Damn. I wish you weren’t exactly right, but you are.

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This is the one possible scenario that could make things even worse. They can’t replace the head of the snake, but they can sure as fuck pump that the head was shot and injured. They did the same with Hitler.

History is repeating itself far to close for this to be comfortable.

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He is a martyr now. And alive. That assassin just killed the country

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People that vote for trump after this were going to vote for him anyways

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Some might have stayed home.

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so it’s just an attendance issue that he won one and lost one, or fraud?

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In the short term, I am expecting right-wing nutjobs to do their own sort of retaliatory shootings, targeting whomever their personal info bubble blames as a group.

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I hate to say it but that might be the best case scenario. At least in that case biden is in office when the violence starts

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Yeah, gotta be ready for that.

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My thoughts exactly, the right will eat this up and use this the rest of the race. Anyone who was on the edge for voting for him probably just made up their minds. They’ll blame the left for this.

Update: annnd it begins…

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https://kansascitydefender.com/national/trump-shooting-antifa-conspiracies/

Right-Wing Accounts Launch Mark Violets Antifa Conspiracy in Light of Trump “Assassination Attempt”

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This is my thought exactly. I have never felt such a somber feeling.

He’s god now. It’s over.

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Nobody is changing their vote over this shit. Democrats are pretty entrenched in not Trump. They knew what was at stake this election as soon as Trump stepped back up.

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Its more than just the election. Trump is not going to go away if he loses in November.

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That was my first thought too, but then it looks pretty realistic, and he’s a terrible actor…

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if we get a video showing something changing on his face before he touches it or falls to the ground, I think that would rule out false flag, or at least they would have had to actually shoot something at him to do that.

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Can’t say that’s necessarily true (that last bit). They are sworn in to duty to protect current or past president’s with their life, regardless of personal belief.

My perspective is that the secret service guys are bound to life.

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I recalled hearing a couple things over the course of the Jan 6th impeachment hearings, which is the President has some say in who his personal detail is, and that there was some info pertaining to them being supportive of him personally. I’d have to review to be certain though.

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I know a couple current and former USSS agents, they’re hardcore trump supporters. That’s not to say they all are as I don’t know them all, but they are law enforcement after all.

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