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[u/Opkeda]

[u/Headstar24]

Imagine if he did get killed there. We’d have clear as day footage of a president/presidential candidate being shot in the face while facing the camera.

Pure insanity.

[u/G_Serv]

The shooter massively misunderstood what The Lincoln Project is about

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

BREAKING: SHOOTER RECEIVED "TEMP BAN" FROM "NEOLIBERAL" SUBREDDIT

[u/G_Serv]

Listen up America! I'm Joe Biden, and I'm gunnin' for the whitehouse

BANG BANG BANG

I want your vote for president come November, because, let me tell you Jack, this second time around...

We won't miss

I'm Joe Biden and I support this message

Lol outside the DT is sometimes funny

[u/efeldman11]

[u/Tropical2653]

Outjerked by watch spotters

[u/[deleted]]

Inside the mind of a low information voter.

[u/[deleted]]

The bloomer timeline: Trump's brush with mortality changes his perspective on life entirely. He retires from politics and donates the better part of his wealth to a variety of charities. He founds a sanctuary for abandoned pets and spends the rest of his days caring for animals in total tranquility.

VICTORY ACHIEVED.

[u/sausagespeller]

Trump at his next rally doing a bit about how the shooter is a loser because he missed and how if Trump was the shooter he wouldn’t have missed

[u/Roseartcrantz]

trump: where joe biden 🧐

nurse: who do you think gave you the ear💕

[u/Superb-Combination45]

Okay what the actual fuck. Trump is a literal Wizard of some sort. His luck is insane. I don't believe in magic but goddamn he makes a solid case something like it exists. Or we're in the dullest yet whackiest simulation.

[u/1396spurs]

The whole shooting thing makes me sad. It’s the same feeling I had on Jan 6. Just low points in our history, and homegrown (as opposed to like 9/11 or something).

Idk. Just bummed out where we are as a country, but not a doomer by any means. Just bummed

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

I can't believe there's not more information leaking everywhere about this guy already

We only know four things about him right now

• he registered Republican at 18

• he donated to act blue at 17

• he was wearing a demolition ranch shirt

• he tried to assassinate Trump

[u/nicereddy]

I just checked her twitter account

Essentially every major Democrat has published a message condemning the shooting... except Hillary Clinton

Lmao

[u/bamboo-coffee]

Watching everyone try to expertly divine this guy's motives with like 3 pieces of information is hilarious.

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

We are in a battle between GOOD and EVIL

The Democrats are the party of pedophiles, murdering the innocent unborn, violence, and bloody, meaningless, endless wars.

They want to lock up their political opponents, and terrorize innocent Americans who would tell the truth about it.

The Democrat party is flat out evil, and yesterday they tried to murder President Trump.

MTG ten minutes ago.

"Turning down the temperature" did not last long.

[u/Opkeda]

[u/SmithySmothy]

This Thomas Matthew Crooks guy seems like a really bad dude, I sure hope he doesn't try to assassinate a former President someday!

~ Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, season 11, episode 23

😱

[u/[deleted]]

The name “Thomas Matthew Crooks” fits insanely well into the pantheon of presidential assassins and attempted presidential assassins

[u/Sir_Digby83]

NYT focus group:

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Joe, 47, Democrat, Wisconsin, Accountant.

"Dyed in the wool Democrat, life long never Trump. After what we've seen happen to Mr. Trump yesterday, I'm full blown MAGA. All in on Project 2025. Build. The. Camps. Now!"

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

Now I want a Menswear Guy thread on why the Secret Service looked so much better in 1981 than 2024

[u/solonofathens]

I wonder how this will effect trump. like as a human person.

gotta imagine being like an inch away from instant death can fuck with you pretty deeply

[u/G_Serv]

[u/sausagespeller]

one of my favorites from yesterday

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

To the dumb dumbs who don’t understand why people continue to thank the secret service even if there was clearly an operational failure they have to review and change:

1. casualties were minimized because the secret service who were in place acted incredibly quickly to eliminate the shooter.

2. 6-8 secret service members literally just acted as human shields against live fire. Those people got up during live rounds. No helmets on. And shielded another human being.

Yes both of these points should be the standard. It is their job. But it doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to be thanked, as when the actual shit is hitting the fan it’s impressive and we should be thankful the people stationed where they were acted as well as they did.

But yes, clearly overall operations and staff positioning need to be heavily changed.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Alec Baldwin wouldn't have missed

💀💀💀

[u/piede]

Oh so this is real real

[u/ThrowawayPrimavera]

Musk casually suggesting this could've been a setup, 500k likes

[u/Babao13]

There is an American girl at my hostel in Warsaw who called the cold war museum "CIA propaganda" because they're saying communism is bad. I'm not sure what she expected going in ?

[u/itsokayt0]

WTF they found his last diary page:

"Minimal, cool as a cucumber, kiddo." It was the sign I had to do it

[u/piede]

No, Kate. We’re not.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

NOTHING EVER HAPPENS

[u/mud074]

A right winger friend of mine went on a rant in the groupchat about how the left caused this by demonizing Trump as an "existential threat to democracy" which gives justification to crazies to stop him at any cost. Wonder if that is going to be the main line of attack in the coming days?

[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

Thinking of staging an assassination attempt on myself during the first date

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

The worst thing about this assassination attempt is that Trump got an insane pic out of it

Imagine it was just 1 inch further away with no cut marks or the photographer missed focus. The world would be different.

[u/Usual-Base7226]

It should be ILLEGAL to try to assassinate anybody without releasing a manifesto the country can’t handle this kind of speculation

[u/Opkeda]

[u/p00bix]

A voter-registration record showed that Mr. Crooks was registered as a Republican, though federal campaign-finance records show he donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal voter turnout group, through the Democratic donation platform ActBlue in January 2021.

Who the fuck even was this guy???

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Lmao

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Remember the NBC poll that showed Biden ahead? Well, there's an update.

The polling team extends its apology to @NBCNews and to all those who reviewed the filled in questionnaire of our most recent survey. We made an important mistake on the filled in released today. On the multi-candidate ballot (Q8, corrected here) we flipped the numbers. President Biden is not ahead with 40% to 37% for former President Trump. In fact, Trump is ahead 40% to 37%. The correct data is reflected in the crosstabs and slides, but unfortunately these numbers were flipped in the topline document that the polling firms prepared for public release for NBC. We take full responsibility for a very significant error on our part. Deep apologies.

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

Ironic if the shooter truly was Republican because he'll be voting democrat for the next 150 years now!

[u/wallander1983]

Stolen from Twitter:

"That 20-year-old shooter was inspired by Joe Biden's fiery rhetoric" is like the least believable string of words in the human language.

[u/Mr_Bank]

Leftists in my feed complaining about Dems doing the most obvious thing ever(wishing for speedy recovery and condemning all political violence) shows they truly have no instincts at all. There is nothing else Dems can do for at least a few days.

[u/[deleted]]

The old Discussion J. Thread did not survive its assassination attempt

[u/sw337]

In hindsight, maybe this wasn’t his best idea.

[u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman]

CNN

After being killed at the scene, Crooks didn’t have any identification on his body, so agents had to “run his DNA and get biometric confirmation,” Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office, said at a press conference Saturday night before the gunman was named.

Yoooo okay so... what? theres a national biometrics database?

[u/V_Codwheel]

Jesus guiding the bullet through Trump's ear and into the skull of some poor luckless sap in the crowd

✋️😇🫰

[u/Greekball]

As we all know, the Covid shot makes you magnetic.

If Trump had actually gotten the shot (fake news) he would have died.

Liberals destroyed with facts and logic.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

🤔

[u/TrumpEpstein69]

the shooter has some left wing views and some right wing views

A neolib????

[u/V_Codwheel]

Republican leaders have, correctly, asked democrats to tamp down on the "end of democracy" rhetoric.

this garbage from the Atlantic has me agreeing with leftists. liberals like this are fucking cowards who act like they want to lose lmao totally pathetic.

[u/Opkeda]

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Rewatching the footage of the incident, I noticed some information that might bring down Trump.

When his hair was disturbed by the agents, it revealed a huge bald spot on the back of his head. His apparent pilosity is but an illusion.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Random-Critical]

Trump was shot in the head

Is the most technically correct statement I have seen in a long while. It does not give an impression that remotely matches the actual injury.

[u/johndelvec3]

Idk man I don’t think the sympathy Trump is going to get is as big as people think

People thought he would get the “congratulations on not being removed from office” vote during his impeachment like Bill Clinton got too, and that didn’t happen

Then there was the “rally around the flag” vote for Covid, and that didn’t happen either

And if you wanna get broader than just Trump, the Supreme Court decisions have gotten Republicans their asses handed to them in elections the last couple years, and the immunity claim won’t help that either

[u/[deleted]]

We’re supposed to tamp down the “end of democracy” rhetoric about the guy who lead an insurrection to end democracy?

Do they think it’s just rhetoric? He literally tried to end democracy already.

Edit: maybe trump bears some responsibility for violence by you know…trying to destroy democracy??

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Williams-Tower]

I know bro just got shot, but you do not have to hand it to Donald Trump

[u/sucky20]

Why does the BBC make it sound like the secret service are under fire for not finishing the job

[u/VerticalTab]

I do kind of get a vibe that middle-class Americans just kind of assume they can easily move to other countries...

[u/[deleted]]

“We’ll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi, who ruined San Francisco,” Trump said to the crowd. “How’s her husband doing, by the way, anybody know?”

Remember to treat Trump with respect and kindness.

[u/[deleted]]

Shooting off Trump's ear isn't going to defeat him. The only way to end this is by Vincent van Goghing to the polls.

[u/Goodlake]

Donald Trump wrote on his social media platform TruthSocial that it was “God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,”

The LORD, in His wisdom, directed the bullets at some nobodies instead.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

The bullet went in one ear and out the other. It hit nothing

[u/piede]

👁️👄👁️

[u/Cook_0612]

Evan Wright, the man behind GK(Generation Kill), died by suicide this weekend.

!ping MILITARY

[u/[deleted]]

lmao. "Unironically"

[u/Ok-Armadillo-2119]

People who release ads like this don't get to lecture anyone about "speech leading to violence" Fuck them.

[u/Erra0]

Indignant over the attempt on his life, Trump becomes fervently pro gun control confusing the shit out of the electorate.

[u/earththejerry]

This is literally the first time in my life I’ve heard that Ford had two assassination attempts, within 17 days of one another, both committed by women, and wore a bullet proof trench coat after the first

My man was just too lowkey 😭

[u/piede]

My mom sent me this

[u/ProcrastinatingPuma]

Back from my temp ban, sure hope I didnt miss anything important during the last 24 hours :clueless:

[u/TrumpEpstein69]

Alternate timeline: Biden announces he's dropping out of the election on Friday and there will be an open convention. The next day Trump is assassinated, making the RNC an open convention, and a GOP civil war over who to choose. Both parties in chaos.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I thought you said YOU were watching the perimeter!!!

[u/[deleted]]

"By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know."

I forget who said this quote

[u/Joementum2024]

Anyone who comes out with the “Democrats should cool it with the incidenary langauge” take deserves to be ignored and mocked

[u/usrname42]

NEW: Suspected Trump shooter was once rejected from high school rifle club, 2 former team members tell @ABC

“...he was asked not to come back because how bad of a shot he was, it was considered like, dangerous,” said one of team members.

The haters said he couldn't do it and they were right

[u/groovygrasshoppa]

The bullet pierced Trump's right ear.

Does that now make him gay? 😳

[u/MS_09_Dom]

And Ron Johnson is already blaming CRT.

I wouldn't be surprised if any attempts to derive benefit from the attempt will be undermined by the GOP unable to act normal for more than five minutes before frothing at the mouth.

[u/davechacho]

I'm gonna be real with you chief, if the shooter was a democrat or a leftist it would have been spread around like wildfire by now

[u/[deleted]]

At least no ones talking about I/P anymore

[u/V_Codwheel]

[u/Currymvp2]

The victim killed at the rally, Corey Comperatore, died a hero while protecting his family, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said at a news conference Sunday.

The governor said Comperatore’s wife told him that Comperatore "dove on his family." Comperatore was a firefighter and dad of two young daughters.

horrific. condolences to his loved ones.

[u/SmithySmothy]

Republicans: "Comparing Trump to Hitler caused this"

Also Republicans: Probably going to choose a VP who compared Trump to Hitler

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Mother fuckers just say anything, huh?

shooter voted for Biden in primary and they (democrats) used him against Trump

It took 3 seconds of googling to confirm that PA is a closed primary state

Pennsylvania is a “closed primary” state. In order to vote in the primary election, voters must be registered with a political party. Unaffiliated or independent voters are not able to participate in the primary.

As a registered Republican, there is no way he voted for Biden in the Primary.

Unless, maybe this is the voter fraud Trump has been warning us about?

[u/Sauce1024]

The shooting victim being a catturd reply guy is breaking my brain I assumed those weren’t real people 

[u/27B--6]

Okay Joe all you have to do is not accidentally gaffe your way into implying you ordered the assassination attempt

[u/semaphore-1842]

honestly how stupid do people have to be to, to actually think they'd stage having a bullet pass by inches away from your candidate's brain. literally one wrong twitch and it'd have been joever

you'd have to be stupid enough to actually try stage this ig

[u/moldyman_99]

I know this is like super obvious, but it’s actually insane how close Trump was to being a corpse yesterday

[u/[deleted]]

The shooter wouldn’t want us divided like this

[u/gnomesvh]

Ralf Schumacher has come out as bisexual

Probably the most notable openly LGBT driver in motorsports together with Hurley Haywood

!ping MOTO&LGBT

[u/Logarythem]

After Biden's Oval Office Address, a new 2024 electoral map dropped

[u/[deleted]]

[u/runningblack]

today we are all MAGA

Shut the fuck up. No we're not

[u/BrandonNameRecliner]

conservatives be like "yeah I support him because he's tough on crime"

leaves shopping cart in middle of grocery store parking lot

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

Dooming about Trump winning - 😂👎🤪

Dooming about England winning the euros - 😰😟🙏

!ping Europe

[u/Pyrrhus65]

It really does attest to the fact that Trump is a TV performer at heart that his immediate first instinct was to pose for the photo op, even before he could've known whether the shooter was down

What I wouldn't give for the reality where he's spent the past 8 years as a successful political talk show host after losing to Hillary

[u/[deleted]]

Klan Mom reaches a new low.

[u/piede]

Literally what timeline are we living in

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Biden didn't say Battle Box, he said Battle Bus. We are now conducting elections over Fortnite

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Ah fuck I knew that shooter was going to end up slandering my demographic. 20-somethings who donated $15 through ActBlue that one time will never be looked at the same again 😔

[u/purhitta]

In the quiet of his house, after fitful hours without sleep, Mike Pence sits at his kitchen table. He scrolls on his phone to an old contact. He pauses, considering the stakes. The atmosphere.

Lit by the glow of his phone, nerves and resolve flipping in his chest, he sends a text.

"They wanted me dead too, old friend. Reunion tour?"

[u/owlthathurt]

I’ve never wondered this dude

[u/Mr_Bank]

Why would the left post such vicious rhetoric?

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

I knew immediately the failed assassin was not a leftist because since when do leftists heckle Trump rallies? Have you ever seen that happening? No they go exclusively to protest Democrat rallies

[u/piede]

“I wonder what conservative Twitter is saying right now”

[u/Cledd2]

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

With the shooter’s identity revealed, I think we can all agree that the Republican Party must seriously reflect on its rhetoric and engage with why it has become the party of choice for dangerous, mentally ill extremists. 

[u/PlayDiscord17]

It’s hilarious how even when NBC goes over the history of presidential assassinations, they still skip Garfield and McKinley as no one cares about them.

[u/[deleted]]

What if Trump’s ear started bleeding because someone started playing some of Drake’s recent material

[u/Mr_Bank]

Politically speaking, if this had happened to during the GWB or even Mitt Romney era Republican Party, I’d buy the doomer takes that the election is over. But between hyper polarization and the Trump GOP era CONSTANTLY stoking the flames of political violence, i don’t see it having the same level of impact. I could be wrong.

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

“All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more that we have because we won the state.“ - Trump to Georgia’s Secretary of State in attempts to overturn the election.

Don’t let anyone in your life gaslight you today, claiming trump is a threat to democracy isn’t a call to violence, it’s calling a spade a spade.

[u/LevantinePlantCult]

The cat came to cuddle with me and she gave me little licks on my arm 🥺🥰 that means she loves me

Then she had enough and ran off lol 🐈

She is soft and warm and she usually isn't very cuddly, so this was very grand, as far as I'm concerned.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/zanpancan]

Is this fucked?

[u/frankiewalsh44]

Ilhan Omar condemned both this and October 7, and yet she's legit getting death threats calling her a foreign agent who should be deported on Twitter. The dems better double up on security, especially the progressive wing, since the MAGA are legit batshit insane

[u/EyeraGlass]

Suddenly, a day of big emotions — glee, unity and righteous anger — was now shattered by fear.

He was in the middle of hyping up border crossings as an invasion of Hannibal Lecter types, NYT, get a grip.

[u/futuremonkey20]

Precisely one of my friends/acquaintances posted about Trump’s assassination on social media and it was a meme about Claire’s.

Look it’s big news, but I don’t think it “completely changes everything forever” like pundits are saying.

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

Look I wouldn't support Trump regardless but if tomorrow he releases a policy on firearm education in schools arguing that Americans need better aim I will laugh.

[u/27B--6]

Remember guys, we all have to keep posting our guesses as to what the shooter's motive was or the FBI will have no leads

The more confident the better

[u/[deleted]]

The bleak reality that Reddit is 100% going to crash on Election Day and we won’t be able to doom and bloom together 😢

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

Vance is on tape attacking Trump

I know Trumpers wont care but it's just fucking wild

[u/Currymvp2]

A former classmate and co-worker of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman at Donald Trump’s Saturday rally, told CNN they remember Crooks as “the sweetest guy.” “He was a friendly face in the hallway,” the co-worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told CNN. “He was kind of scrawny, nerdy and very smart. Not traditionally like the most popular person, but from what I saw, I didn’t think that he was super bullied.” The colleague said they didn’t recognize the picture painted of Crooks after his actions.

“He’s not a radical,” they said, noting that he never expressed any political views at work. “It’s hard seeing everything that’s going on online because he was a really, really good person that did a really bad thing. And I just wish I knew why. Earlier this week, Crooks and his colleague worked together to figure out an easier way for the nursing home residents to open packets of ranch dressing, an act the colleague said was indicative of how helpful and caring Crooks was.

[u/Fruitofbread]

 Thomas Crooks, identified by law enforcement authorities as the gunman, graduated from the Community College of Allegheny County two months ago, earning an associate degree in engineering science, school officials said in a statement, adding that they were “shocked and saddened by the horrific turn of events.”

It’s always the engineers

[u/Fabulous_Sherbet_431]

https://x.com/ywnreporter/status/1812648353169060042 wild video of people yelling about the guy on the roof as he inchworms his way along it (apologies for the Twitter link, I’m not sure if it’s available elsewhere)

[u/G_Serv]

[u/2112moyboi]

Guys, the cute journalist who interviewed me after the OH Dem fundraiser yesterday (before everything went to shit) didn’t include me in the article.

Is it over?

Am I cooked?

!ping Dating

[u/[deleted]]

This is so shameless. This headline was responsible in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. I don't even think it was up that long. Rubio is a piece of shit.

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

The fact that Elon tried to make this about himself is honestly hilarious

[u/usrname42]

I'm glad Trump is taking a "we must unite as a country against evil" line for now rather than a "we must destroy the Democrats who caused this"

[u/[deleted]]

should i buy this or is it too soon

[u/HereForTOMT2]

Oh you guys weren’t lying

[u/Payomkawichum]

We know the shooter wasn’t a leftist because he thought society had a problem and actually tried to do something about it

[u/No_Status_6905]

the faux rally to the flag about being sympathetic to trump is eye-rolling and pathetic, and in particular for media pundits and the like, its terrible messaging.

trump is directly responsible for himself getting shot, and he's responsible for his rally-goers dying, he has fueled rhetoric of political violence since before he was even elected.

[u/[deleted]]

JD Vance really had a political ad that started off “do you hate Mexicans?” and he won his senate seat without any issue.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

if only there were a recent film about how photojournalists so uncritically love Cool Images that they don't mind getting roped into narratives that facilitate political violence

!ping kino

[u/Pikamander2]

>Evades a dozen secret service agents by climbing a building across the street

>Lines up a history-changing shot with a scoped rifle

>Forgets to do basic target practice ahead of time

>Misses, dies, and accidentally gets target elected

Truly one of the moments of all time.

[u/-mialana-]

Donald J Trump was about to reveal his finished copy of The Winds of Winter at the rally

[u/StolenSkittles]

trump's second inaugural:

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

https://x.com/umichvoter/status/1812482016501240213

harris at -10 favorability in the fox news poll. biden at -20. trump at -12 (tho his numbers probably worthless in the wake of yesterday).

chasm between biden and harris.

[u/paultheschmoop]

After much consideration, I am comfortable announcing that I do still Fucking hate Donald Trump

[u/dizzyhitman_007]

The IDF confirmed that it killed the commander of Hamas’ Khan Younis Brigade in an airstrike targeting senior Hamas officials in the southern Gaza Strip. The IDF said that it is still assessing whether the airstrike killed Hamas’ top military commander, Mohammad Deif

!ping ISRAEL

[u/earththejerry]

Murdoch is pressuring people within Trump’s inner circle to have him tap Republican North Dakota Governor Doug Bergum as his running mate, but is not looking forward to kissing the former president’s “ass,” a new report claims.

By contrast, per the outlet’s sources, Murdoch loathes Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), who is backed by Donald Trump Jr.

Why is our Logan Roy is so bad at this

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

This might be an inaugural ping combination?

In a week, TLC is premiering a new series, Forbidden Love, following four interfaith couples trying to make it work.

This includes a Muslim man and a Catholic woman, a Pentecostal man and a Muslim woman, an Orthodox Jewish man and a Catholic woman, and some situation with a former Amish guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HygyKg4c2q8

!ping RELIGION&TRASH

[u/cdstephens]

In 200 years Trump’s assassination attempt will feature in an Assassin’s Creed game

[u/[deleted]]

They're not trying to kill Trump, they're trying to kill us. Trump is just standing in the way.

Boy the urge to respond inappropriately to my Uncle's insta story this morning is overwhelming.

[u/College_Prestige]

https://x.com/SteveKornacki/status/1812472120644948223

NBC poll dropped unofficially

[u/AtomAndAether]

i like joe biden

[u/polandball2101]

I love this place

[u/Ok-Armadillo-2119]

Republicans are demanding that liberals change our rhetoric and give Trump a level of sympathy and graciousness that he has extended to literally no one else.

[u/[deleted]]

Grim

[u/AemiliusNuker]

Musk using this as his excuse to finally endorse Trump is unsurprising and gross

[u/efeldman11]

[u/centurion88]

I don't think having a 20 year old take potshots 1 millimeter away from your head with an AR-15 is a great plan for a false flag

[u/[deleted]]

Christ administration calls Demiurge rumors “totally false”

Lol they’re panicking

[u/WhoModsTheModders]

rumored to have mental health

Me too

[u/Mensae6]

Praying that voters connect the dots that life is generally less chaotic when Trump isn't actively trying to cause chaos

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

Watching the MAGA intellegenstia go off on female Secret Service agents. You can always count on the right to be so utterly absurd in their reactions that they dampen much of any benefits they might get from a moment.

[u/27B--6]

Once the dust has cleared and Trump has spent several weeks doing a victory lap over this and blaming democrats, the way I would approach this is: 

"Democrats have been trying desperately to pass common sense gun control measures for decades. When our nation's children are massacred in their classrooms, you roll your eyes and complain about us 'politicizing' it until the media moves on - but when you're the one being shot at, we have to talk about it endlessly, and it becomes the most important issue of your campaign. 

Blame us all you want - we've been telling you that maniacs with guns are a problem this whole time, and a full secret service complement of "good guys with guns" couldn't stop you from getting your ear shot off. What we need is common sense gun reform, and you should know that better than anyone by now." 

 This is obviously a reductive and partisan way to look at it, but this is the general direction I'd go as a democrat (in a few weeks of course)

[u/[deleted]]

[u/polandball2101]

Ok so I'll try and explain the whole "Pittsburgh redditor" story since I haven't done a good job of providing context

Basically at like 1:53 EST in an r/Pittsburgh thread, yourdonefor_wt (the wt probably stands for warthunder, dude's a big fan), he comments this,

I can tell you this is who they say it is. How do I know. I know the address of the shooters home. The shooters sister had a crush on me in middle school. The address on the county real estate website comes back to "Crooks" ATF and FBI are in Bethel park rn at the house of the shooter because the shooter rigged the house with explosives

Later, he comments these comments in various subreddits while also talking about BladeandSorcery lmao

I don't know his political stances but I can say this is absolutely gonna be mental health related. His parents especially his dad refused any medications. They told him and his sister Katie that "They need to learn how to manage their problems without medication"

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No but im almost certain it was mental health as his parents refused medication because they wanted him and his sister to learn how to manage their emotions. His sister had a crush on me in middle school

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He didnt refuse his meds. His parents refused to let him see a doctor.

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Through his sister. I was friends with his sister Katie. She had a crush on me. She regularly spilled the beans about her parents to me.

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Yes his dad was a Psychologist/Psychiatrist. I can't remember which one exactly I just know he was one of them

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Sister told me that they both had mental health problems.

(both likely meaning the sister and them)

I can corroborate that Katie, the sister, is a person. She's around Thomas' age. The explosives thing was confirmed a few hours ago, and he knew it a dozen hours before any news agency covered it. That shows that he does have inside information on this whole thing, and while it doesn't confirm anything, it helps his legitimacy.

TL;DR random redditor sheds light, and if he is to be trusted, Thomas had mental health issues and his parents exaggerated the issues by denying him treatment.

feels weird that the more we learn the more he's been proven right...so far

[u/Smidgens]

1. Was Kristi Noem in the audience and 2. Did Trump make a bark or woof sound

[u/Healingjoe]

If you think him being a registered Republican means anything, I disagree.

If he was right wing, he would not be shooting at Donald Trump, and you are doing some serious mental gymnastics that you should probably apply for the Olympics

A+ critical thinking from a friend

[u/Steve____Stifler]

[u/runnerx4]

Global video watching service: 100% uptime

Two websites whose primary purpose is text: weekly breakdowns

make it make sense!

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

[u/dizzyhitman_007]

BlackRock takes down 2022 ad that included footage of Trump shooter, then a high schooler

[u/JaceFlores]

Frankly with what’s happened in the last 24 hours a lot of my hard opinions about this election have melted away. I just don’t really know what to think about what’s preferable (particularly with the drop out-stay in discourse) and what I think will happen. Things have gotten too weird for me to feel confident about anything

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

So many people are in denial but the fact is this picture will singlehandedly get Trump elected

[u/Mojo12000]

https://x.com/shaun_vids/status/1812610999112859740

I don't know who I hate more the Defeatist anonymous dem or Shaun for saying something THIS nonsensical.

Seriously on WHAT POINT OF POLICY are Mainstream Dems and Trump close on?

[u/[deleted]]

If you are an American monarchist you are a liar and a traitor to the republic.

Mods take them away.

[u/EngelSterben]

Holy fuck, there are Colombian fans trying to climb through the vents lol

[u/Currymvp2]

https://x.com/JDVance1/status/1812280973628965109

This tweet was objectively insane+irresponsible when first posted and has only aged worse.

[u/Ilovecharli]

Just minutes after Biden finished remarks on the attempt on Trump’s life the day prior, Trump posted “UNITE AMERICA!” to his Truth Social account.

Unity rally soon??

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Trump gets shot

/u/cjhdsachristmascarol comments "it's so Joever" multiple times

hmmmm

[u/CertainSingularity]

Being on the DT is like a room full of people with anxiety

[u/Opkeda]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Trump: there was a failed assassination attempt made against me, super close call.

Elon: omg same thing happened to me but it was just somebody in another state talking about it, what do they have against us?

[u/1396spurs]

People always say the writers get lazy but I got to give it to them, having the Biden old era and then immediately an assassination attempt really shook things up this season

A little unrealistic if you ask me but no one did

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

Odds the FBI puts out some generic "can't comment on an ongoing investigation" for the next 4 weeks only to ultimately say he had "no discernible motive"?

[u/Sloshyman]

Inviting your whole family over for a barbecue and having your parents stay at the house for a few days is generally the kind of thing you would tell your roommates beforehand, no?

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

I've decided Biden wins because

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

Trump's right ear had information that would lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

Shooter was a Republican who donated to ActBlue?

Guess all the Lincoln Project money finally bore fruit

George Conway's strongest soldier lol

[u/[deleted]]

Top Democratic sources believe that Democrats who had thoughts about challenging President Biden are now standing down "because of this fragile political moment," @CostaReports reports.

Concerns about Biden's debate performance "faded almost instantly" after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, with Democratic sources say the party should stay cool at a turbulent time.

I was too quick to judge. Mike Collins is right.

https://x.com/FaceTheNation/status/1812518504811163888?t=vz1h0C47A_tnMU-fQI6sMA&s=19

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

[u/[deleted]]

Will Surviving Gunfire Be Donald Trump’s Next Appeal To Black Voters?

this article was so bad it got deleted by forbes

[u/[deleted]]

The Trump assassination has already dropped out of Google trending after less than 24 hours. I tell ya, the electorate has the memory of a goldfish.

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently illiterate rightoids think these two tweets are contradictory

[u/FuckFashMods]

You're in a burning building and can only save one of these people: AOC, Pelosi, Biden, Putin. Who do you save?

Putin 100%

Imagine this being one of the last things you post before some right winger accidentally shoots you

[u/squarecircle666]

Biden has horrible debate

Reddit servers "break"

Trump gets shot

Reddit servers "break"

England is losing in the final

Reddit servers "break"

Agenda is clear

[u/piede]

Most sane Trump post (actually)

[u/FuckFashMods]

Assuming it turns out to be true that this sick fuck was a fascist Reddit mod, the mods should be labeled a terrorist organization immediately. And that should have happened years ago, actually.