You’re funny.
It will be attacks against elected officials like AOC, Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi, even though the Trump shooter was a registered republican loner.
Knee-jerk reactions typically end up targeting the wrong people. We’ll see this play out in coming weeks.
They’ve been winding them up for longer than a generation. It is a point of faith for vast swathes of the country that Democrats are pedophiles.
Not a bad guess. People have been saying that eventually Trump was going to get somebody killed. If you think about it, that’s already happened, and more than once. He doesn’t have to pull the trigger on Fifth Avenue himself.
BTW, what’s happened to those firearms he’s supposed to relinquish as a felon? Not that he knows how to use one.
Yep. That they’ll seize on the incident as a pretext for and justification of violence.
CNN —
Donald Trump is running for president. But according to a new Quinnipiac University national poll, a whole lot of people wish he wasn’t.
Nearly 6 in 10 Americans (57%) said it is a bad thing that Trump is running again, while just 34% said it is a good thing.
Trump’s numbers among Democrats on that question are, not surprisingly, awful, with 88% saying it is a bad thing that he launched a 2024 White House campaign.
But that’s not what should worry Trump. It’s his numbers among independents (58% said him running is a bad thing) and even among Republicans (27% said it is a bad thing) that should be of concern to the former president.
The simple fact made plain by Quinnipiac’s poll is that there is a sizable chunk of the public – and not just Democrats – who believe that another Trump presidential bid is a bad idea for the country.
And that’s far from the only negative takeaway from Trump in the poll. There are several data points suggesting that Republicans are not only open to a White House run from Ron DeSantis, but that the Florida governor poses a real threat to Trump.
Six in 10 Republicans said they would like to see DeSantis run for president, while roughly one-quarter said they didn’t.
When asked who they prefer win the 2024 GOP nomination, 44% of Republicans picked DeSantis – the same percentage who chose Trump.
Now, this is one poll. But the data is the data. And what the data suggests is that Trump would not only be a weakened general election candidate (those numbers among independents are, um, not good), but also that there is room in the Republican field for someone other than the former president.
As CNN’s Harry Enten wrote recently of Trump:
“He does remain a force to be reckoned with in GOP circles, and the news that the Justice Department has appointed a special counsel to oversee investigations related to the former president could elicit a rally-around-Trump effect among Republicans. Nevertheless, it’s clear his power within the party has diminished following the 2022 midterm elections.”
All true! And all concerning for the Trump loyalists who want to see him as their party’s 2024 nominee.
This is the beauty, and danger, of personality cults. The person to whom they devote themselves is elevated to infallibility and unassailability, and threats that the object of devotion presents to the cultists are ignored or even glorified.
Sure – show me where, in the CNN article, he says anything about not making AR-15 type weapons available to kids, or their non-law-enforcement parents, uncles, granddads, neighbors, etc…? Of course he’s against terrorists, even “domestic terrorists” (which is a new thing for them). But if they are so goddamn against domestic shooters, why don’t they try to get fatal WEAPONS off the streets. And out of the hands of people who, out of the blue, want to start shooting someone, for seemingly no good reason?
Oh, never mind, “right to bear arms” bullshit. And it is bullshit.
Trump could end this, or slow it down, by telling his followers to stand down.
The press, including TPM, needs to be reporting how MAGA is talking to itself about
the benefits of Trump being assassinated.
(I tried embedding the links but broke TPM (“draft error” / “drafts offline”) when I’d insert the HTML code).
https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1812460546236518607
https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1812600429718409661
https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1813239671767343545
Trump: “Stand back and stand by.” September 29, 2020.
He would never say that – he likes stochastic violence. Remember he never said “Stand down” to the Proud Boys – He said “Stand back and stand by” – a big difference.
Yes, KOTEX is trending…
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The guy that is not being asked to step aside in the race of two is sleeping through his party’s convention, with a kotex on his ear. Lord save us.
Video: x.com
I have never seen him picking his nose. However, I have never been close enough to be concerned about this.
Conjecture:
That damned kid knew the type of disorder and outrage his violent attack would kick up. The little bastard knew.
Oy. That’s that Ivan Raiklin guy. The one who’s got his enemies list so he can be the secretary of retribution. These people are visibly excited by the idea of another civil war.
Two of those links refer to comments by Alex Jones, who is certifiable and should have his Internet taken away. So I’m not sure if that’s a widely held position among even the right-wing audience.
As long as a putative dictator who incites crowds to violence is running for office, there will be a danger of actual violent incidents. That much seems obvious. Beyond that, what can one do? Avoid crowds? Avoid public places?
See…You are thinking logically, when the problem is that thanks to JDVance and
Donnie Jr, the MAGGOTS are primed to blame it on Democrats…ANY Democrat.
Logic is not their forte.
More often than not I dislike my mind. It tends not to shut up.
He is so girly that it looks like a maxi pad