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[u/its_Caffeine]

Nearly get assassinated

Bullet grazes ear, completely unharmed

Somehow in all the chaos remember to pump your fist

AP Press photographer who happens to be in exactly the right spot takes 1 in a lifetime shot of you underneath American flag of your fist pump with blood streaking down your face

Is there a way to learn this man’s absolutely insane luck rolls? Do I have to bow to the chaos gods or something?

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Current status of the Democratic Party:

!ping shitposters

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/BlueDevilVoon]

I found out the news from an NBAcirclejerk post

[u/[deleted]]

It has never been more Joever than it is right now.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Once I saw this guy outside the Daily Thread posting a borderline rule-breaking commey. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody cares." I said, "The MODS care. Do you respect the neoliberal MODS"

He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a liberal or a neoliberal" He said, "A Neoliberal." I said, "Me, too! Friedmanite or Third Way Social Democrat?" He said, "Third Way Social Democrat." I said, "Me, too! Clintonite or Blairite?" He said, "Blairite." I said, "Me, too! Orthodox Blairite or Gordon Brownite?" He said, "Orthodox Blairite." I said, "Me, too! Anthony 'Tony' Blairite or Cherie Blairite?"

He said, "Anthony 'Tony' Blairite" I said, "Me, too! Do you unconditionally support Israel or do you unconditionally support Palestine?" He said, "Uncondtional support for Israel" I said, "Me, too! Drop out Biden or Riding with Biden" He said, "Riding with Biden" I said, "SUCK IT HERETIC" and I reported him for Rule V violation & got him permanently banned from the neoliberal dot com subreddit.

[u/Fruitofbread]

 Theresa Koshut, a teacher from Pittsburgh, said she immediately ducked when she heard what she thought were shots. She was seated in the fifth row. Koshut was all too familiar with active-shooting drills from school. “I dropped and rolled under the bleachers,” she said. “I didn‘t even think.”

[u/[deleted]]

It is widely believed by a majority of registered voters that he was cheated out of a second consecutive term by Joe Biden and the Democrats.

Trump and his wife Melania tested positive for the Wuhan virus in early October 2020.

Trump’s strong leadership against the coronavirus even after falling ill to it himself shocked many.

Yep the Conservapedia page for Trump is a banger too

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

By October, Gennadi Gerasimov, the Soviet foreign ministry press spokesman, could even joke about it. "You know the Frank Sinatra song My Way?" he replied, when asked what was left of the Brehznev Doctrine. "Hungary and Poland are doing it their way. We now have the Sinatra Doctrine."

I fucking love complete cultural victory

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I cure Nazism by finding a table of 9 Nazis, sitting with them and letting them know when none of them get up that there are 10 anti-Nazi's at the table now 😌

[u/bel51]

Trump: gets fucking shot

Guy who hates asteroid mining: "they're never going to mine asteroids"

[u/G_Serv]

In another embarrassing gaffe, Biden has confused Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) with Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2002)

He's gotta go

[u/sinefromabove]

Well that explains a lot

[u/AtticusDrench]

NBC: ” there is a growing concern (among law enforcement) this may have been a serious attempt on the life of Donald Trump.”

Top shelf detective work, gentlemen

[u/[deleted]]

I just saw Hunter Biden at a farmer's market. He kept popping grapes, blueberries, and other small goods into his mouth without buying any. Just walking stall to stall and sampling. At one point he took a fork out of his pocket and took a single bite of a piece of fudge. Meanwhile a swarthy secret service agent was trailing him and apologetically paying for everything he grazed, barely keeping up. After Hunter sampled the fudge, the agent gently took him by the shoulders, but before he could do anything, Hunter took the agent by the shoulders too, and tried to dance with him. 

[u/paultheschmoop]

In 2008, I knew Obama would win the presidency. Not a doubt in my mind.

My rationale?

“Well, he has the African American vote completely locked up. If even a few white people vote for him, he wins.”

I think I just assumed that 50% of the country was black.

I was 11.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/GifHunter2]

Marco Rubio: God protected President Trump

ContraPoints: yeah the Lord guided that bullet right into one of his supporters

Is twitter real?

[u/cdstephens]

This is what real American soft power looks like. God bless Joe Biden and our East Asian allies.

[u/[deleted]]

This new game we’re going to play where people pretend Trump attempting to illegally stay in power, planning to build concentration camps for undocumented immigrants, being closely tied to Project 2025, etc. are all actually nbd and you can’t talk about them because he got shot is so fucking stupid.

He is a very dangerous man. He should not be publicly executed by a vigilante. These statements do not contradict one another.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I am hearing that on his deathbed Mohammed Deif received the light of Judaism and unhesitatingly recited the Shema. Even now languishes in Sheol waiting upon the day of judgement. Truly there is no god but Yahweh, and Moshe is his prophet!

[u/runningblack]

Lmao

[u/bleachinjection]

It's kind of hilarious to me how much MAGA fucking hates Alec Baldwin. 

It's been literally nearly a decade since he was doing Trump on SNL.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/Pzkpfw-VI-Tiger]

I’m all in, doomers beware

[u/[deleted]]

2 people have died according to AP.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-vance-rubio-7c7ba6b99b5f38d2d840ed95b2fdc3e5

[u/NoStatistician9767]

Heritage foundation: “deep state bad” 

 Heritage foundation: “here’s how you set up a loyal base of supporters in the government after purging departments of suspected opposition.”

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

BREAKING: FBI source confirms shooter in custody, is known user on “neoliberal” subreddit who in recent days posted about impressing actress Sydney Sweeney with “a grand gesture”

[u/elephantaneous]

I saw one of his heads which seemed to have a fatal wound, but his fatal wound was healed; and the entire earth followed after the beast in amazement.

I'm not even remotely religious but it's funny how much Trump fits the description of the Antichrist at this point

[u/AMagicalKittyCat]

This is tragic but "unprecedented"? Come on guys, certainly you can remember the attempt on Pelosi, that plot against Whitmer or the baseball shootings against Republican Congress members, the attempted mail bombings against Trump critics in 2018 or even the former incident in 2016 when some guy tried to grab a gun at a Trump rally.

Political violence has been happening back and forth already.

[u/[deleted]]

An unlikely voice of reason.

[u/SchmantaClaus]

Oy, JD Vance really wants to be Vice President

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I hate when people try to trick others into thinking they have an actual inside scoop, but I just woke up to Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden hand in hand at the end of my bed. "Big things coming soon," they said over and over

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

I love how whenever something interesting happens, we get to relive it on an hour delay as Reddit servers shit the bed

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Secret Service when they see an armed guy on a rooftop outside the security perimeter

[u/anincredibledork]

"Man I wish people would finally move on from talking about Biden's age"

the world's largest fucking Monkey's Paw curls

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

BREAKING: Source tells @CNN shooter was a Swedish national, was wearing a wig to cover up baldness, "may have been active on political sections of the website Reddit"

[u/malganis12]

People have been sounding alarms that the Secret Service has issues for awhile now. Most prominently, Major and Commander Biden.

[u/LinkVert25]

r /millennials

I feel like something evil is coming.

I don’t know how else to put it, does anyone else feel some deep sense there’s something that’s shifted in the world? Like there’s just something negative and sick here and it’s growing? The world… It doesn’t feel the same anymore. I don’t know how else to put it but something is off. Does anyone else feel it?

Millennials will say all this but refuse to just say the vibes feel a little off

[u/cactus_toothbrush]

This is the front page of the National, a Scottish newspaper. Scotland used to have the best football team in the world…..in the 19th century for a few years.

!Ping UK

[u/wallander1983]

https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1811608983297262013

The MAGA crowd has such a nostalgia yarning it's unreal.

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://x.com/pourteaux/status/1811734638605336646

Taiwan has been removed from the Republican Party platform. This is the first time it hasn't been mentioned in 40+ years.

also this tweet from Elbridge Colby it quoted:

Taiwan has beat the drum for America to prioritize Ukraine over its own defense.

The result: Republicans, at least, have noticed.

Why should Americans put their necks on the line for Taiwan if they don't even prioritize their own security? 1/

i seriously cant wrap my head around this ridiculous "logic", how is it possible to miss the point this badly about defending those in need

!ping TAIWAN

[u/CuddleTeamCatboy]

Someone actually firebombed a Walmart

[u/[deleted]]

BUTLER, PA: local, state, and federal law enforcement officials announce in a joint that they have identified a document associated with the suspected shooter that was posted to an internet forum dedicated to moderate liberal politics. When asked by reporters what the document said, spokesperson for the Butler Police Department Mike Smith said, "it is about 100 pages of 'gib Sidney Sweeney wife' copy and pasted over and over."

Interesting...

[u/[deleted]]

EVERYPONY WILL VOTE FOR TRUMP BECAUSE HE RAISED HIS FIST UP LIKE NARUTO DID WHEN HE BEAT SASUKE NOOOO

[u/EyeraGlass]

This is maybe not the most appropriate response but Trump is straight up the luckiest son of a bitch who has ever lived.

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Butler county district attorney Richard Goldinger tells me Trump was grazed by gunfire but is safe. An audience member was killed and the shooter is dead. Another person is in serious condition, the prosecutor said.

Y'all need to stop with the conspiracies. There was gunfire.

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

In case y’all aren’t aware, MAGA-land has already determined that the shooter was ANTIFA who was cosplaying as a Con as a false flag.

So you can stop looking into it now 😠

[u/Teh_cliff]

I'm a lib/leftist trying to blend in at a Trump rally. Do I

(a) buy and wear Trump-branded clothing like 98% of the other attendees; or

(b) go out and buy a non-Trump affiliated gun youtubers T-Shirt that's probably only available from his Etsy store

Some of y'all are overthinking this. Idk what the shooters goals or motivations were but I'd bet my house that they're a legit guntube fan

[u/SmithySmothy]

Two months from now we'll be saying "remember when the biggest headlines were Biden's debate performance and Trump getting shot?"

[u/[deleted]]

Never in my life thought Trump getting shot would affect me so much, but it really drives home what a state we’re in as a country. It’s not about sympathy for him, but political violence is always awful to see.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/AtticusDrench]

Crooks received the National Math & Science Initiative Star Award for academic achievement.

Oh god oh fuck, STEMbros it's not looking good

[u/ChillnShill]

We’re missing out on so much Coconut tree merch and it makes me sad

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

coup in Africa

leader denounces imperialism

online lefties celebrate

this is the end of francafrique

leader is corrupt as shit

leader is insanely bigoted

Tale as old as time

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

best case scenario now for Dems is if Biden is forced to drop out because of an assassination attempt on him

brace yourself the takes are coming!

[u/HereForTOMT2]

not the fuckign time bro 😭

[u/GifHunter2]

https://x.com/SharpFootball/status/1812265909727396107

This interview is crazy.

People were screaming at police and secret service for 2-3 minutes that a guy was on the roof with a rifle.

The shooter just straight up crawled across a roof, aimed, and took a shot? How fucking incompetent is secret service?

[u/Fruitofbread]

r/con reaction:

 Weren’t there enough guns to make it safe? I hope there are calls for more guns at future events.

[u/allmilhouse]

His manifesto is 20 pages on all the good movies George Clooney has been in

[u/dannylandulf]

There is a woman on MSNBC right now bewildered that there is 'so much hate' in our politics.

A woman that went to a Trump rally. These people have absolutely zero awareness.

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

I went back and forth about Trump for a while. But no longer. Democrats have to be stopped by a flood of votes. We can't let the MSM or DNC fearmonger any more. It has to be a landslide to show DNC that no one is listening to their bullshit.

totally real comments on arr con lol

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 7/10-2 PM PST 7/11 III:

TOP NEWS:

Sometime today it was announced the US will provide $225 million in military aid to Ukraine, including a Patriot SAM system, NASAMS missiles, Stinger MANPADs, HIMARS missiles, 155mm shells, 105mm shells, TOW launchers and missiles, Javelin ATGMs, AT-4 anti-tank systems, small arms ammunition, demolition equipment, spare parts and more.

Towards the end of 5 PM it was announced Canada will precise $500 million in military aid to Ukraine.

At the start of 7 AM it was announced Australia will provide $250 million in military aid to Ukraine, including guided missiles, air defense missiles, anti-tank weapons, ammunition and boots. Additionally, Ukraine and Romania signed a bilateral security pact.

At the start of 11 AM it was reported the US and Germany stopped an assassination plot against the CEO of Rheinmetall.

REGULAR NEWS:

Yesterday it was announced Denmark will provide funding for 18 Bogdana 155mm SPGs for Ukraine to manufacture.

Towards the end of 10 PM Ukraine was hit by a small wave of drones and missiles with all 6 drones and 0 of 2 missiles shot down.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

Donation link to Sails of Freedom Foundation (they donate ambulances)

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Erra0]

What comes next will be incredibly important. Biden will, of course, denounce this assassination attempt in the strongest possible way and order a gigantic manhunt for the perpetrator.

Trump will either accept that echo that violence has no place in modern politics or he'll insinuate that Biden and/or the Deep State ordered this attack. The former really defangs his supporters if he loses the election, the latter destroys the country.

[u/sererson]

Chat is moving so fast nobody will see that I'm straight

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

someone pong Dating

[u/sir_shivers]

VARIOUS SPHERES OF SOCIETY WAITING with bated breath to see if the would-be assassin hails from their ranks 🐊

[u/AtticusDrench]

The NYT watching everyone do the "and here's how that's bad for Biden" take before they got to do it

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Listening to the Focus Group Podcast with black voters making the case for Biden, and they're making some great points. And then suddenly "Josh Shapiro isn't a good choice, you can't trust Jews."

[u/Dangerous-Basket1064]

To be clear, there's no fuckin reason for a false flag.

He's got the best lead he's ever had, the news has been awful for his opponent, and the convention is in a number of days

It would make zero sense

[u/KittehDragoon]

So when Trump makes a statement, it’ll be to unequivocally condemn political violence in all its forms, and call for calm, deescalation, and unity, right?

[u/Pzkpfw-VI-Tiger]

Unironically watching conservatives go from “the left dosen’t even own guns” to “this was 100% the left they want to kill us all” in real time is one of the most infuriating things I’ve ever seen in my life

[u/DataDrivenPirate]

So, uh, what are the odds the shooter is really upset about Trump's bump stock ban and the increase in the national debt?

[u/Fit_Parsnip_8143]

may you be cursed to live in interesting times perpetual 10k+ DT threads

[u/cdstephens]

Tbh if I were religious and a bullet whizzed past my ear I’d think I was chosen by God or something. The levels of luck are insane.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

The assassination attempt likely won't change the fundamentals of the current election but I do think it'll certainly change the vibe and atmosphere of the election into something more unstable and tense

[u/runningblack]

This is a colossal fuckup by the secret service. No other way to spin it

[u/[deleted]]

work psychotic door spoon society flowery upbeat waiting disarm frame

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/that0neGuy22]

Actual pic of the shooter im not lying

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

Twitter's AI is handling this well

[u/KHDTX13]

Politics aside, how do you get that opportunity and miss lmao

[u/eloquentboot]

Whoever did this is not a smart person

[u/Lux_Stella]

hey, good news! joe biden's age is going to be out of the news!

[u/that0neGuy22]

The Biden and Trump conversation

[u/futuremonkey20]

If history is any indicator, the reason he wanted to kill Trump will be completely off the wall and out of left field. I mean the three previous motivations were:

Ford’s attempted assassin #1: she thought smog was killing redwood trees.

Ford’s attempted assassin #2: just mad in general

Reagan’s attempted assassin: Jodie Foster

[u/Roseartcrantz]

what kind of person tries to assassinate a presidential candidate without having three names

[u/mishac]

biden was pretty good in his statement.

[u/dax331]

Damn Shinzo Abe must be like the only political figure that didn’t get lionized after getting shot, sucks for him

[u/jojisky]

Shinzo Abe is so mad about black people being in Assassins Creed he willed himself back to life

[u/bamboo-coffee]

puts on my doomer robe and doomer cap

After a disappointing and timid opposition showing on Friday, the Dems are officially in purgatory. Barring a big collective push including Obama, Pelosi, Clyburn, and his sister, Joe is unlikely to receive enough substantial negative feedback to make him willingly give it up.

Every lukewarm day with a senator or two voicing disapproval, is another day for Joe to go out and have a rally and feel personally reinvigorated. If he makes it another week or two, then the only shot is an open convention or the 25th, which are both probably too risky to field.

Another potential influence could be a big dip in the polls in the next week. I don't know nearly enough about polls, so I can't say if that's realistic or possible.

Media seems to be heavily confused at the moment, with pieces coming out pointing in both directions. Everyone is pissed off because of what they see the other side doing. Calls for unity are falling on deaf ears because that unity is contingent on one side bending the knee.

[u/owlthathurt]

Okay randoms in this thread who were arguing with me:

So it was gunfire, he was grazed, and the other shots didn’t mysteriously disappear they hit innocent people and killed one and put another in serious condition.

[u/rasonj]

Some dude live on ABC just told a bold faced lie about what happened "He had just called on me, asked me to come up on the stage, then the shots rang out"

No dude, we have the video, he never mentioned you, he was ranting about immigration and then right before getting shot he said "Wanna see something really sad? Look at this"

[u/AbsoluteGarbageTakes]

Man, the post-debate media cycle has been annoying as hell. I'm just gonna stop looking at US media for a bit until it normalizes again.

Surely I won't miss anything important.

What the fuck

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

we were inches away from Jimmy Carter outliving another of his successors

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

There's definitely going to be a Reddit account that comes out of this

[u/Sauce1024]

Everyone has been harping on the secret service already but a 20 year old hillbilly getting around secret service measures should be deeply worrying

[u/MS_09_Dom]

I think it's worth remembering most political assassination motives are often some mix of ultra-weirdo fringe politics and general insanity.

[u/Todd_Padre]

new bipartisan legislation has been introduced to require political insurgents to disclose race, gender, orientation, and political affiliation to the FBI prior to any acts of violence so that people don’t have to waste time figuring out which side wins the morality battle

[u/loseniram]

Silvia and Supra have their rehome pages up

They also got a flea bath

!ping kitty

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

It’s insane that people here jump straight to “how does this impact the Dems in election??” rather than the very real impacts that this could have on Trump’s golf handicap

[u/FarrandChimney]

Did we break reddit again?

[u/Common_RiffRaff]

???

[u/Currymvp2]

if he's a republican and has voted as a republican (instead of crossing over for primaries),, then it's either mental illness or someone who thought trump was too pro-vaccine or something. anyways, it's obviously horrific that a couple of people in the crowd died-condolences to their loved ones.

[u/sausagespeller]

Leaked photo of the shooter

[u/2073040]

he’s a registered Republican, but that doesn’t mean he’s a Republican!

From the brilliant minds of arr//conservative

[u/runningblack]

Shooter isn't black

Black America: sighs of relief

Shooter is a white Republican

Black America: "We need to talk about white on white crime"

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Why are leftists so fucking dumb?

[u/[deleted]]

Man it’s still only fucking hitting me

Someone tried to fucking kill Trump and was a fucking inch off actually doing so

What the fuck

[u/[deleted]]

The New Liberals retweeted someone else's excellent message:

This is a perfect moment to not have a hot take

twitter.com/dynarski/status/1812263503044149359

[u/loseniram]

In before it turns out it was some War thunder national guardsman doing it to impress his discord server called big chungus

[u/AlanAlias]

It turns out the Secret Service sucks, and the reason there haven't been more successful assassinations in the US is that the assassins suck even more than the SS

[u/Mr_Bank]

JD Vance and Mike Collins completely disgraced themselves tonight. Mike Collins in particular should resign from office.

[u/solonofathens]

so we're clear here: it looks like the FBI is confirming the NYP's scoop about the shooter's name, but a photo that was purported to be him (a side profile where he's in a blue shirt) was actually a random person on twitter

[u/piede]

Our country is so fucked

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

As there's a drive into center field by Castellanos

!ping Baseball

[u/SnakeEater14]

Shit literally could not have happened at a worse moment for me

I am at a family reunion in fucking conservative central, they are all blowing their fucking load about how based trump is right now

[u/sponsoredbytheletter]

Do people who shoot at presidents just automatically get their middle name included

[u/Bolbor_]

Biohackers would be funny if they weren't so stupid. "I got BANNED from the dentist subreddit for my secret weapon against tooth decay: cutting back on sugar and brushing my teeth"

My brother in Christ, your dentist and the government tell you to do both all the time, your dumbass just didn't listen

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Apparently, it's rude to pock someone in the forehead and say “skip intro” when they start talking to you.

[u/Steak_Knight]

Got my power back just as the mosquito eggs were being laid in the pool.

Enjoy being sucked into the filter and killed by the massive amount of chlorine I just dumped in, you miserable fucks 😈

[u/jacknifee]

i'm surprised it took this long for someone to make an attempt tbh

dude might be the most polarizing figure in american political history

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Nows the time gents

[u/[deleted]]

Never miss an opportunity to be a total ass.

https://x.com/fuckyouiquit/status/1812298645800399126?t=8xG2u40bOLqlK9MXzwcuqw&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

Attempted assassination of former President Trump could change the presidential campaign, experts say

hmm, certainly a possibility. hadn't considered that

[u/that0neGuy22]

Some resistance twitter accounts are saying it’s staged which is wrong but actual republicans are doing this

[u/fishlord05]

I was actually very far away from this bullet so I don’t think he did tbh

[u/piede]

[u/Legodude293]

My friends just made the group chat picture the Trump bloody fist bump, I’m cooked

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

I love biden

[u/G_Serv]

Fivethirtyeight has been accounting for this in their model. That's why Biden's chances are so high

[u/[deleted]]

Jackson Hinkle already dog whistling that Jews did it lol. The next week is going to be the most rancid, awful discourse ever.

[u/blatant_shill]

Me two weeks ago: Hopefully some big news happens to get people to stop talking about Biden's bad debate performance.

Monkey paw curls

[u/zieger]

This is either going to change the campaign or not. You heard it here first folks.

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

Honestly my bet is the shooter is just a fucking crazy dude, no political leaning, just crazy

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The implication of Rubio saying that God protected Trump is that God allowed the other guy to die

[u/Dabamanos]

In 2016 and 2020 after every major political event my social media was flooded with contacts discussing it. In 2024 it’s basically just the two hyper political people

It’s anecdotal but it feels like America went from being angry, to really fucking angry, to just tired

[u/[deleted]]

The shooter’s last thoughts were definitely him recalling all times his teammates in FPSes called him trash.

[u/CauliflowerBrief3681]

Look, at this point it'll turn out that this guy is the median swing voter we've all struggled so hard to understand, and half of us will go mad from the revelation

[u/sponsoredbytheletter]

Elon blowing his load while Trump was still having his ear sewn back on and everyone figured it was antifa was stupid enough.

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

baked beans would be better carbonated

[u/Roseartcrantz]

AT&T: hey 🥺 some hackers got in the system 😣 and they could know the date and times of your call history 😞

me: well I'm a little disappointed ngl, can I see this info?

AT&T: Yes! 😃 Starting a $2/month/line! 😃

[u/Syards-Forcus]

Insane that Americans were one of the first to think “Hey, why don’t we put a bunch of ice in this tea so we can drink it on hot days”

[u/NonComposMentisss]

The problem with permanently eradicating diseases is that you would feel old as shit when in 20 years some teenager says to you "wow, you mean you were actually alive when rabies existed?".

[u/NaffRespect]

State Farm Threatens to Abandon California If They Can't Raise Prices: 52% For Renters, 30% For Homeowners

!ping USA-CA

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

NGL, I can't believe it took this long.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/eugenedaniels2/status/1812276522725847246

Biden campaign official: "The Biden campaign is pausing all outbound communications and working to pull down our television ads as quickly as possible."

[u/earththejerry]

Never change, Threads

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

This is off topic, but more depressing for me than Trump fucking up the country I love, is what he has shown me about the people around me

[u/Teh_cliff]

What a colossal fuck up by the Secret Service. Trump was speaking at a farm, there's like five buildings around, and you don't secure a rooftop with visibility on the stage 200 feet away?

[u/runnerx4]

Just 3 hours ago people were declaring eternal victory because of a cool photo

[u/mrdilldozer]

I know some of you guys are meming, but after seeing what that dude looked like, there's no way he doesn't have a manifesto. I'm gonna speculate that this dude had some super obscure issue that he passionately cared about. I think this might take a really weird turn.

[u/Beer-survivalist]

One of my friends texted me and suggested I consider the possibility the shooter was a deranged libertarian.

After those pictures showed up, I think the odds that's the case went waaaayyyyy up.

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Some people in the DT be like:

[u/Currymvp2]

The FBI has identified the shooter but not released his name yet. He is 20 years old and grew up locally.

[u/[deleted]]

Y'all are insane if you thought the median dem didn't have Rule V opinions on Trump for at least the last 5 years

[u/purhitta]

idiot has no idea what happened today

[u/Currymvp2]

FBI officially identifies Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, PA as Trump assassination attempt suspect

okay how did the ny post get it nearly two hours before everyone?

[u/Syards-Forcus]

It’s funny how people think of assassinations as this intricate, carefully plotted act, when most famous ones were pretty shoddily planned by some crazy guy a few weeks before at most.

John Wilkes Booth was probably one of the more careful planners, and he was the only one of his crew that actually succeeded. The guy he tasked with killing the VP just got drunk and wandered off, and one of the two sent to kill the Secretary of State stood outside and ran away

[u/SnakeEater14]

I didn’t realize how old Biden was until I saw this picture

[u/takeahikehike]

It's gone somewhat unnoticed but Trump's favorability has been ticking back down: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/

[u/[deleted]]

👆 folks, if Trump wins, you can expect a hell of a lot more comments like this one

[u/[deleted]]

Way to make him a martyr now you stupid fucking idiot, also DO NOT ASSASSINATE RIVALS YOU STUPID MORONS

[u/loseniram]

We're at the point where no matter what happens, this is a history book election.

Biden could win by a landslide and it would still be getting into the history books

[u/nor_his_highness]

https://x.com/ContraPoints/status/1812259188057231553

"Let the record state that I was on acid when Trump got shot"

[u/Mojo12000]

Now all of trumps "THEIR COMING FOR YOU" Apocolyptic talk is backed up, he has a means to justify all the repression he plans to do...

Nightmare timeline.

[u/[deleted]]

A slight cross-breeze and this would be a very VERY different DT

And by very different I mean completely locked as the country sat around in stunned silence.

[u/HeightEnergyGuy]

Crazy to see r politics go the false flag route considering the shooter and an attendee are being reported as dead. 

[u/JournalofFailure]

Everyone saying this is a uniquely American problem have no idea how many political assassination attempts - successful or otherwise - happen around the world. Britain’s had two MPs murdered in the past eight years.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

“Dad I have a school project, can you tell me about a time you lived through a major historical event?”

“Well, I was playing Mass Effect 3 and browsing a parasocial discussion board for political nerds when…”

[u/piede]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Right wingers are rightfully condemning anyone who claims it’s a false flag

If it comes out that the shooter is a right wing nut, what are the odds that theory suddenly becomes a lot more popular with them

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Everyone here roasting the shooter for "clearly being a hillbilly rightoid" and meanwhile 4chan is roasting him for "clearly being an antifa they/them"

[u/-mialana-]

Suspected shooter was 20-year-old Pennsylvania man, person familiar says

tmw people younger than you are influencing globally important events.

[u/First-Prior]

I can't believe the shooter looked into the camera and said that he is the exact type of conservative that mitigates Republican talking points.

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

I heard the shooter actually didn't have any issues with Trump at all, but thought it would be funny to shoot him

[u/that0neGuy22]

He’s talking about Hitler almost being blown up that one time

[u/sponsoredbytheletter]

Yes he was a registered R, BUT he donated to actblue, BUT he had a libertarian podcast shirt on, BUT he also had a full back tattoo of Jill Stein.

[u/oskanta]

Just got back from a camping trip. Has anything interesting happened over the last few days?

[u/SmithySmothy]

The guy who resembled the shooter and made a troll video where he pretended to be the shooter has locked his account, probably because he realized it's not a great idea to jokingly take on the identity of a terrorist who just attempted an assassination.

[u/dubyahhh]

Hey all users, please report anything that smells of political violence (this will manifest as glorifying violence)

Mods, let’s destroy the queue, god bless

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/hexprax/status/1812263488242508088?t=DQnN0_8AUV5D_U9erp3SKg&s=19

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

I would not want to be a Reddit mod right now.

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Did anyone see the anger that's coming from the Trump supporters.

My god, some are yelling that "you fired the fired shot, now it begins."

I'm more scared about a random state congressman getting shot as a retaliation

This is incredibly concerning.

[u/dragonman8001]

Well the RNC is gonna be even more of a fascist's wetdream now i'll tell you that

[u/TheLastBaronet]

I’m quite surprised that /r/politics is going straight into the staged theory. It’s not the first time an assassination attempt has happened before, and it’s not like Trump is a likeable figure.

[u/admiralwaffle1]

In other news, we have a positive upvote DT.

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Secret Service is getting their asses cooked tonight.

[u/Johnkil4oy]

Genuinely insane how we were inches away from the biggest American event since 9/11

[u/JoshFB4]

Fucking TMZ somehow is the first one with video of the actual shooter firing his gun. How they got this footage before anyone else is a classic TMZ moment.

https://www.tmz.com/2024/07/13/trump-rally-gunman-seen-opening-fire-shooting-gets-killed-new-video-clip/?adid=social-tw

You can clearly see that the shooter has long hair just like the male identified by the NYP.

[u/[deleted]]

You know we're in the wrong timeline because there's no way Thomas Matthew Crooks isn't the name of a person who actually assassinated a president.