YOU HAD ONE RULE

People aren’t seeing this for the real precursor it is. People are getting emboldened now. There will be more events like this.

I’m honestly worried about tonight. Saturday night, plenty of places where people gather, and a lot of extremists are just waiting for a moment for escalation that they can exploit.

Attempting to take the life of the party leader during an election is going to push some people over the edge.

I honestly give it a 50% chance that there’s some sort of mass casualty event in the next 12 hours related to this. I fucking hope I’m wrong, or that the odds are somehow in our favor, but I’ve run out of optimism.

I don’t. They might commit more hate crimes, but mass shooters usually do it because they’re demoralized and feel powerless. Trump supporters are the opposite rn. The shooter rolled a natural 1 for agility and Trump rolled a critical success for luck. It couldn’t have gone better for him.

The DC for the shot was much higher than you think. He rolled a combined 24 when the DC was 25.

If he rolled a 1 he would have been shot dead before getting a shot off at all. Instead, he grazed the target’s ear from over 100 feet away. That took skill.

I’m far less concerned about emboldened supporters than I am about the likely backlash by the state. Events like this are always taken as justification for more harsh oppression of the people. Also, Biden now has to make statements sympathetic to Trump. This couldn’t have gone worse - we get the blowback from an attempt, and he’s able to ride this to more popularity.

Assassination isn’t the way, folks. I know you’re hurting, I know you’re disempowered by the electoral system, but Trump and Biden aren’t the core of the problem. You can’t cut the head off because it’s not a snake, it’s a hydra. The way to beat this system is to build alternatives and wean people off of their dependence on it, and deprive it of victims. You have to starve the beast.

Taking out the fascist figureheads does nothing about the ideology and forces behind the fascism. Make being a Nazi something to be ashamed of again.

The way to beat this system is to build alternatives and wean people off of their dependence on it, and deprive it of victims.

And how do you propose we do this considering the only way the system can have alternatives is if the system allows for alternatives which (spoiler) >!it won’t!<.

Biden doesn’t have to do shit. He can just ignore it all together.

I honestly give it a 50% chance that there’s some sort of mass casualty event in the next 12 hours related to this.

Given that there is more mass shootings in USA than days in a year, I think this ship has already sailed…

There’s a difference between a mass casualty event and the technical definition of a mass shooting. One is easily met by gangs doing a drive by. The other requires multiple emergency rooms, triaging people, and calling up neighboring counties for more resources.

I’ll leave you to figure out which one is a loaded political term and which one is the thing that gets 48 hours of close coverage on the news.

It will be more than 12 hours before it happens. But that’s small consolation. Once political violence is in the mix it can very quickly spiral out of control

I think years of pushing for laws to make it legal to run over protesters in their pavement princesses is going to lead to a lot more road rage incidents. Idiots are already emboldened by putting on that red cap, now they have a vehicle too.

I hope this is quickly exposed as a poorly planned inside job, but even then it won’t matter to the Base. Y’all Qaeda has moved into full on terrorist demagogue territory.

Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. Also the SS did not do their job. Before the attempt on Trump, people in the crowd were pointing out that guy in camouflage on the roof of that building, yet the secret service/law enforcement did not respond. And the counter sniper waited until the perp took numerous shots to respond.

I forgot that SS also stood for Secret Service…

Maybe the terms will merge when fascism takes the presidency in the US

USSS.

The acronym is USSS.

Some of his detail might wish they were SS but we’re not there… Yet.

Was just talking to my Dad about this, he was saying from what he heard (he watches more news than I do) the local law enforcement basically said, “Well, he was outside the perimeter, so there wasn’t really anything we could do,” as their explanation for how it happened.

It’s going to be interesting to see this whole investigation play out and what comes up for motives and such.

I love how liberal news outlets are baffled why a registered republican would shoot Trump. Don’t care what the more conservative outlets think, I’ll hear about it later

Yeah, weird how a registered Republican sniper was given all the time in the world to get into a sniper nest with eyewitnesses but was then shot to death immediately after firing.

I wonder how the narrative will change if it turns out it was a victim/relative of his (rape or fraud/failure to pay)

I think you’re right. I think this is going to cause an increase on events like this for sure. Trumps base is going to want to send a message.

Even assassins are enshittified these days smh my head. Back in the day, JFK got shot in a moving car.

That was the CIA, this was a grassroots effort

By a registered Republican, smh. Real leftists don’t skip range day.

I thought JFK was grassy effort…

I can’t come up with any retort to that

Idk man, I have it on good authority that JFK’s head just did that all on its own.

Back, and to the left.
Back, and to the left.

Yeah, but they had multiple people, magic bullets, and CIA backing.

Actually I’m pretty sure this is what happened.

Two bullets hit JFK. Definitely different bullets. First one went through his neck and into the guy in front of him.

Second bullet demolished his skull.

What I think happened, or the theory I heard that makes sense. Was a 50 cal mounted to the car in front of him. In the chaos it lurched and the person had poor finger discipline and blasted JFK almost point blank