Sorry for the short notice on this one, it was announced this morning but I just found out now.
8 PM Eastern / 5 PM Pacific, from the Oval Office. Biden speaking, presumably about the Trump assassination attempt.
Video here of the earlier conference, still looking for the Oval Office speech.
https://www.youtube.com/live/zhQ2SshESqA#t=42m25s
Oval Office speech here:
Huh. Crazy how all the violence has been perpetrated by Republicans. Almost as if there is hatefilled media driven messaging they are constantly exposed to and consume.
Doubtful he was a republican, I’m pretty convinced he was libertarian. Just saying
Edit: Jesus, the mindless hatred. FWIW, I’m very anti Republican, but if you actually keep up with the information that has come out this dude was most likely libertarian.
Edit 2: based on news that came out today looks like he was conservative / republican
It wasn’t much of anything being said, but I’m glad he ran the list of the more prominent acts of violence coming from the right before mentioning Trump.
“The attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed, but I assure you my resolve has never been stronger.”
Supreme Chancellor
Trump on next speech
Good to see megathreads again
I personally hate mega threads. It fucks with front page algorithms. Sometimes I’m not even aware of large events because I didn’t know there was a mega thread on a specific community that you might not see if you’re just looking at your front page, depending on how late the mega thread gets to the scene. Or newer articles with additional detail revitalizing the discussion under a new post.
I would rather comb through a couple threads, which tend to have some subtly different angles on the overall discussion.
But I think I’m in the minority.
Lemmy’s “active” sort involves recent comments AFAIK, so if you’re sorting by that you should see megathreads.
I don’t know if the algorithm has been tuned better, but I have totally missed big events until someone has directly mentioned it to me, because of mega threads. I suspect it may because the initial burst of community participation may happen in the first couple threads, and by the time a mod comes in and either uses an existing one as a mega thread, or starts a new thread, the participation has waned, so minor stories rise above.
I heard, by mouth, that Trump had been shot about an hour after it happened. It was no where on my front page, either “Active” or “Top Six Hours”. I had to go to the News community directly to find it.
He should have fucking LAID INTO Republicans. They’ve been publicly inciting political violence for nearly a decade now and THIS is the result. It’s their fault and the only redeeming feature was that this was an own goal. We’re all lucky they haven’t attacked Democratic politicians yet.
Violent Republican rhetoric is not acceptable. If they don’t stop NOW this is only the beginning. Let out Dark Brandon and let them hear the fucking truth instead of this weak “violence isn’t acceptable” shit. Of course violence isn’t acceptable, we’re the party of “violence isn’t acceptable”. Republicans should stop inciting political violence and maybe this would stop. Trump has even promised a secretary of retribution and half of the list is OTHER Republicans. It’s no surprise the people attacking him are other Republicans.
