politics

Fucking vote

Democrats aren't just jumping ship over this bullshit. The actual voters, the people, not the talking heads, are pretty entrenched in Not Trump. Votes aren't changing over this, and the Democrats know what's at stake. At the end of the day there's more blue than red and it was an L for Trump as soon as he said he was running.

I always used to wonder how the Weimar Republic fumbled the ball so hard. Now I know.

Also, in Christian eschatology, isn't it a big deal that the Antichrist suffers a near fatal head injury before his ultimate victory?

Sonia Sotomayor's decision not to retire during Biden's term is looking like yet another D own goal

She’s 70. She can easily make it 5 more years.

All the other plausible Dems who could have stepped in to replace Biden

STOP with this stupid rhetoric. If Biden steps down, it will be game over for the Dems.

And no, Trump has no real chance to get back into the White House. Trump will lose. He already lost as a sitting president while trying to illegally stay in power. Why do people keep forgetting this is beyond stupid.

This incident will just encourage more people to vote. Good.

Conspiracy theories aside, I'd like to see people mocking the injury with little red ear clips, just like these assholes mocked John Kerry with purple heart band-aids:

I have a few ideas about that ranging from the boring to insane conspiracy bullshit.

1. A decent amount of people, myself included, have chosen to register as republican despite not really aligning themselves with the party. PA is a closed primary state so if you want a vote in the primaries you basically have to choose R or D, I personally went Republican on my registration because in general I can live with whoever the Democrats put up, they may not be my first, third, or 20th choice of candidate, but on the Republican side there are mostly only bad choices, and I'd rather try to head off the worst of them before they make it to the general election. In other cases it might just be down to a coin flip.

2. A lot of PA is pretty damn red, in some cases you may not have many or even any Democrat candidates in your local elections, and the ones you do have don't really have a snowballs chance in hell, so you might as well try to work with what you got on the Republican side.

3. Or maybe even you just registered as a Republican because that's what your parents told you to do when you got your driver's license and never bothered to change it. Maybe you just kind of figured that's what everyone did, or maybe you've had a change of heart since registering.

4. There are still some never-trump type Republicans out there, some of them even have their heads screwed on mostly correctly. Someone who sees trump as damaging to their party, or maybe even democracy while holding other Republican values may want him and his ilk taken out.

5. Again, some Republicans do have their heads screwed on mostly right, and maybe they feel very strongly about one of the many things Trump will obviously make worse.

6. Starting with the conspiracy bullshit - someone wanted to make trump a martyr to galvanize the Republican base. Maybe they only intended to wound him, maybe they did want to kill him. Maybe it's a publicity stunt orchestrated by Trump himself or other high ranking Republicans, maybe it's a lone actor who decided that it would really get Republicans motivated.

7. They know Trump is overall pretty incompetent, and felt he has already served the role he was needed for and wanted him out of the picture so that someone just as evil but actually good at his job could step into his shoes.

8. Even more radical Republicans who think that trump doesn't go far enough in advancing their race war, or christofascist, or whatever insane bullshit they want to bring about.

9. Putin is sick of his shit, or some other foreign actor helped bring this about.

10. Just plain ol' mental illness and trying to understand the motivation here isn't going to get you very far because it's not based on anything approaching logic.

Why would Trump losing incite civil war? Who is going to take any weapons from anyone? Who is going to enforce the law? They aren't going to fight themselves. They want a civil war and they want the Dems to just make one mistake to cause it.

There is no way to say that there will be that many of them. There will be a few. But nothing on a scale of civil war. That's some dumb neck beard fantasy. If the Dems win it will be ok. Until the next 4 years.

You will find that civil wars in a digitalized surveillance state are very short lived and that the masses don‘t actually hold all that much power apart from the few things they‘re legally allowed to do. So unless tens of millions just stop showing up to work across the country, I don‘t see how the citizens have any leverage whatsoever once the election is over.

Black Mexican illegal immigrant liberal trans.

Early reports are that he was a registered Republican. But early reports are often wrong.

CNN is speaking to Evan Perez, Senior US Justice Department Correspondant, confirming the information first reported by the New York Post.

Also on Reuters:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-identifies-thomas-matthew-crooks-subject-involved-trump-rally-shooting-2024-07-14

NBC:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-rally-shooter-identified-rcna161757

This is actually a scrum about yesterday's failed deployment. I'll add your suggestion to the Miro board.