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It feels like the novelty of an attempted XPOTUS assassination wore off in less than 48 hours. That’s crazy.
Nobody around me is even talking about this anymore - not at work, not on social, not at the grocery store, nowhere.
Idk if that’s due to everyone being super jaded or because it’s Trump. If it’s because it’s him, then I wonder if it’s because nobody gives a shit about him or if it’s just not surprising someone would take a shot at him or just because it’s irrelevant to his candidacy or what else.
Especially the right. If this kid had a little more left in him they’d never stop. Introspection about the normalization of political violence among conservatives is not something they’re interested in.
I mean, they’re not going to stop regardless – they’ll be blatantly lying about the assassination’s motivations to smear the left until the election and beyond. Still, from an election strategy point of view, that’s definitely better than them being able to make “both sides” claims that are true.
I actually have a different perspective on it, I think people stopped caring because it was a shooting where “only” 1 person was killed. Gun violence is so normalized that the only 2 reasons it got any coverage at all is because of the timing and the target.
This is potentially the grimmest perspective I’ve ever read. I don’t think you’re wrong, either.
Yea, it’s a pretty dark realization. I don’t feel bad for Trump. I feel bad for every single gun death that has occurred leading to this incident being a minor footnote.
The same week that Jamar Clark, there was a mass shooting at the warehouse district blue line stop. 3-4 people died with a few more shot.
Jamar was shot by cops. The others were shot in a gang dispute (the victims were not associated, but mostly black, the shooter was black, iirc,)
You won’t find the names of the victims anywhere online.
Also, before Sound Bar closed down, there were weekly gang fights spilling out of the joint, into the streets/lot out back.
People were shot monthly with a string of deaths for about 2-3 years.
Then a C-tier Vikings player got winged and suddenly they yeeted the liquor license.
We’re absolutely desensitized and the only time we know about a stranger getting shot is because there was something about the case- killed by cops, the shooter was famous, the victim was famous, or it was some kid, or it was in the context of a mass murder and nothing else was going on.
Mannnnn flashback to me working valet at sound bar the night of their last shooting. Heard them pops inside the joint and we all book. Ladies spilling out the door tripping over each other. Goofy fucking night
Frankly, the most shocking part to me is that it took this long for someone to try, with how unendingly controversial he is
This wasn’t the first attempt there’s been a good number. This is just the most successful.
It’s like a lottery ticket off by one number. Sure, it was almost a reason to throw a party, but almost doesn’t really get people talking.
You’d think the writers of the last couple Game of Thrones seasons shot him!
I feel like this is just the state of America now. When everyone was freaking out that this was the downfall of the election yadda yadda… I was just thinking to myself “this is the country where kids get slaughtered in school and we’re sad for like 2 days… I give this a week at most”
Really? I was at the gym yesterday and they couldn’t stop framing things with the assassination attempt. “Two days after assassination attempt, day two of the RNC.”
Like, that was literally the chyron on CNN. Yesterday evening.
https://lemmy.ca/post/25179438
Yes, really! I thought you might find the post I’m linking above interesting. It was at the top of my feed this morning and may be relevant here.
I am curious if maybe you were witnessing people of the Boomer generation (or older GenX) discussing this because they are more likely to be consuming mainstream broadcast news?
Teddy Roosevelt was shot point blank in the chest at a campaign stop. The bullet penetrated his chest after passing through a steal eyeglass case and his 50 page speech. Teddy noted he wasn’t coughing blood and knew he would survive. He calmed the lynch mod down that were going to murder the assassin and then did his speech.
He lost the election despite being a total badass.
Later, Teddy reluctantly ran as VP with McKinley who won the election and was quickly assassinated. Teddy became president and won a second term.
Anyway, attempted assassination isn’t the boost people think it is - even for awesome badasses like Teddy Roosevelt.
The idea was probably rather that the right would spin this as some sort of attack on their existence and go full on Reichstagsbrand.
Playing the victim is the entire Spiel of the far right, it’s not implausible that actually being a victim would create a boost from undecided voters.
Turns out, he’s still a POS convicted felon and racist.
Too funny, I typed rapist and it autocorrected to racist yet that’s even more accurate.
Sometimes when we know there will be a Trump argument with family Trumpers. My wife will yell out at some point of the conversation “He’s a racist!” they then spend a bunch of time loading up their talking points. Only for me to go “Honey, didn’t you mean rapist” and then she will chime in “Oh yeah, he raped his wife and that 13 year old girl… But he is also racist”.
Ends all Trump talk in my experience
Did you mean to censor the word rapist, or is this some new weird censor thing?
After the upside down Bible stunt, nobody trusts this incident wasn’t just theater.
The “Wait Wait Wait!” and then subsequent fist pumping looked like he had momentarily forgotten the WWE script
Maybe it’s because everybody is already so used to his drama.
Yeah, the dude does so much stupid stuff that it’s hard to maintain a level of giving a shit.
Yesterday, I saw a clip of Stephen Colbert’s monologue from Monday night where he was doing his monologue sitting down at his desk, which is his custom when there’s a major tragedy. It made me realize how desensitized I’ve become, because I was thinking, “wtf is he still going on about this for, that happened on Saturday, aren’t we all passed it already?”
