ChudFusk wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:40 pm

Curry Pervert wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:28 pm This could be the point at which the crazies take to the streets. Stay vigilant people.

Nah they're gonna stay home, this shit gets them horny so 9 months from now we'll see a Trump-baby boom

Are we talking about the same thing here? I was referring to the shooting.

jfv wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 10:57 pm I don’t disagree it’s bad.

Until more details come out, I’m not so sure it was a democrat who did it. There are plenty of old school military-type republicans that hate him too.

I'm seeing reports it was a 20 yr old pensylvanian. He was a registered republican.

Curry Pervert wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2024 1:40 am

jfv wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2024 10:57 pm I don’t disagree it’s bad.

Until more details come out, I’m not so sure it was a democrat who did it. There are plenty of old school military-type republicans that hate him too.

I'm seeing reports it was a 20 yr old pensylvanian. He was a registered republican.

Well. Fuck.

The most expensive miss since Melinda Gates.

If this doesn't play into his persecution complex, and the Teflon Don narrative, then I don't know what will.

The shooter gifted the GOP the ultimate photo op here, short of Trump grabbing a Secret Serviceman's rifle while at the podium and then firing back. T-shirts and bumper stickers are being rushed through manufacturing plants as we speak.

However . . . None of this changes the fact that Trump is baldly a terrible choice for president.

A fair amount could happen in between now and Election Day, with the optics sliding even further in the Republicans' favor; people can declare the election "over" now all they want; but he's still unfit to run the country--more so than he was in 2016--and no reshuffling of the narrative will alter that.

DaveA wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2024 3:18 amHowever . . . None of this changes the fact that Trump is baldly a terrible choice for president.

Yeah, I don't think it'll alter the election results much. People were back to their bubbles after the shock wore off.

It will make life even crazier for the next few months, including this week in Milwaukee. Ugh.

penningtron wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2024 6:16 am

DaveA wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2024 3:18 amHowever . . . None of this changes the fact that Trump is baldly a terrible choice for president.

Yeah, I don't think it'll alter the election results much. People were back to their bubbles after the shock wore off.

It will make life even crazier for the next few months, including this week in Milwaukee. Ugh.

Agreed. The media have been using language like 'The rally that changed everything', but who is out there that had been thinking they wouldn't like another Trump term but now that someone tried to shoot him they would? It's extraordinary, memorable, historic, but changed nothing.

losthighway wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2024 7:27 am

penningtron wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2024 6:16 am

DaveA wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2024 3:18 amHowever . . . None of this changes the fact that Trump is baldly a terrible choice for president.

Yeah, I don't think it'll alter the election results much. People were back to their bubbles after the shock wore off.

It will make life even crazier for the next few months, including this week in Milwaukee. Ugh.

Agreed. The media have been using language like 'The rally that changed everything', but who is out there that had been thinking they wouldn't like another Trump term but now that someone tried to shoot him they would? It's extraordinary, memorable, historic, but changed nothing.

Precisely. Trump and the GOP will see an uptick in donations. His self-image as a resilient leader will be bolstered among his base. He can play the martyr and the voice of reason, and maybe some undecideds will be won over now. The polling might reflect this.

But the attempt on his life isn't going to wipe clean all of the asinine things he's said and done, or would do if elected again. He can assume a more "presidential" tone now, in his missives and public appearances, but he'll still be a mentally ill despot suffering from malignant narcissism, an unstable old man ill suited to lead the country. A tiger ain't gonna change its stripes, most people know this.

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I think you guys underestimate the plebs love of high theatrics. Don looks lile a fucking superhero. Full credit to the guy for seizing the moment and being defiantly dragged off the stage like James Brown. Just the right amount of blood to make him look cool, not gross. Beatiful stuff. On top of that all of his old enemies have to crocodile tear their way back to showing their affection for him and how happy they are he’s safe. Also Biden temporarily had to pull his negstive campaign ads. It’s not “game over”, but it’s significant.

I'm sure Jim Caviezel is studying the scene closely to reenact in a movie that'll be crapped out in the next few years.