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This photo may have (unfortunately) won him the race.

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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.

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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.

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the argument isn’t that people will switch sides, it’s that more right-leaning people will vote who would have otherwise just skipped

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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?

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Fuck.

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Nah, fuck that. Vote.

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They will…

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Looks like you’re lost. Here you go:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/

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What kind of monster sends a Lemmy user back to reddit.

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He does have WWE experience

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Yeah: gotta be crisis actors, if Alex Jones taught us anything, right?

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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.

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You mean the response in the video? No, it doesn’t look like it’s for show to me.

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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.

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Christ, his poll numbers were already daunting, but now this?

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$10 says staged. Perfect location, perfect timing, perfect day of the week.

Here comes the sympathy vote begging

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Apparently the DA of that county confirmed 2 deaths. So, two people died.

Still think it was staged?

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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
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political violence isn’t better when liberals do it than conservatives

Who pulls the trigger doesn’t matter. What matters is what the target plans to do if they survive.

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The shooter was a registered Republican

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Yeah, but also some reports that he donated to a liberal organization.

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Yeah… Pretty weird.

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Never? You wouldn’t take a shot at Hitler? I mean, Hitler did.

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