Whoever just tried to assassinate Trump pretty much just guaranteed his election victory.
@GossiTheDog Probably should blur that.
@GossiTheDog If Trump dies, the conservatives/fascists will probably make him a martyr. This isn't good.
EDIT: Well, the claims now are that he's fine. Regardless, this is bad, very bad, I'm hoping the US Dems are up at trying to do 'damage control', if they want a chance at winning the election anymore.
@GossiTheDog or it's ketchup
@GossiTheDog what's the source of these photos?
The Beeb are doing a good job factual reporting. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1d31jeyzlo
@GossiTheDog ouch. Bolsonaro won like that, it was a knife, but that’s how he won…
ABC's live reporting has been pretty good, you can scroll back and forth through the timeline
Here:https://www.youtube.com/live/szm4fJLaQUU?si=KjlXnqnMkptk0a54
@GossiTheDog maybe, i hope you are wrong…
@GossiTheDog It will make him more popular without doubt. There is also a high chance that this may be staged, but I don't expect republicans to be that clever.
@GossiTheDog how do you figure this guarantees his victory? 🙄
@GossiTheDog victory for Trump is assured now. This shit is so perfect for him. I guess we do live in a simulation after all.
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Oh bullshit
I smell a Reichtags fire ;-)
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Didn’t someone try this on a Trump stage before? in 2016?
ISTR some kind of kerfuffle from back then. Right out of a WWE playbook.
@GossiTheDog Implying it wasn't someone within the Trump camp.
too bad they can't be questioned...
@GossiTheDog you mean the guy playing the sniper?
@GossiTheDog I hope you're wrong, but fear you're correct.
Too many people only look at politics superficially & won't remember Trump stoking & celebrating violence upon his opponents.
The media should remind voters of his doing so, because that normalisation of violence is what encourages violence including this and worse.
@GossiTheDog I sincerely Doubt That!. More likely, like me, all Reasonable American hope for a better shot next time!
everybody is saying that, but why? it's not like someone taking a shot at him makes him less despicable. that would work if he were like, a good person.
@GossiTheDog Fuck off with your nonsense. My vote still counts.
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I'll just leave it here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings#Prevented_bombings_in_Ryazan
Familiar handwriting.
@GossiTheDog looks fake to me he is a coward no way he is just fine
@GossiTheDog That doesn't look like the image of someone in danger
No. "awe someone shot trump, I'm going to go vote for him now" ... nobody thinks that way.
@GossiTheDog Yep. It worked with Bolsonaro should work with him too, even though the shooter was a Republican, most people's critical thinking is gone. The hordes of bots that spread misinformation for this bafoon will use this extensively for his advantage.
@GossiTheDog Rumors are telling the story about a republican Member who tried to shoot him...
Just read that on german newspage of zdf.
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/ausland/donald-trump-schuesse-usa-wahl-liveticker-100.html#feed-item-137868
@GossiTheDog Wonder who was sitting this one out until they saw this and went "yup, I'm voting for this guy!" I don't doubt that at least one person went through that thought process but I need to know who that someone is.
@GossiTheDog, Grauniad reporting two dead (one in audience and the gun…person). https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jul/13/trump-rally-gun-shots-pennsylvania-latest-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-66930aac8f08c5bdd9f25f29#block-66930aac8f08c5bdd9f25f29
A security failure allowed a man with a rifle onto the building next to the stage. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cljy6yz1j6gt?post=asset%3A59e57ed7-c028-4616-9b54-92c855d42644#post
A security failure allowed too many guns in America.
Guns that have enabled countless murders and mass murders,
including many school kids.
Even toddlers have been killing people every week.
In 2021, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 48,830 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S.
Collection of photos from last night’s Trump rally. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-ea3d3134-da3d-4a3b-8da0-e3be6537c04a
@GossiTheDog My advice: Strap in. We are in for a really rough ride.
@GossiTheDog It's been done before many times, it's been a whole theme of his followers which he encouraged since he was in office. Undoubtedly he'll be passing around more Christ-themed memes and goofy fan videos, engaging in "laying on of hands" rituals as he did in office, etc.
@GossiTheDog I'm pretty sure he already puts himself up there with Gods and angels, which is also a great way to turn the more genuine religious followers against him...well, let's see how that one works out!
@GossiTheDog Why am I expecting "Missed me, ner ner" and blowing a raspberry ?
@GossiTheDog he already has, but bitch ain't nothing more than a felon and a Nazi until we get to nail him to a crucifix.
@GossiTheDog I keep thinking the world is looking more and more like that depicted in #Millennium but where's Frank Black when we need him to expose the Millennium Group, "grew out of a millenniallist Christian sect, which eventually fused with a secret group founded within the Federal Bureau of Investigation"?
@GossiTheDog he’s been doing that all along.
@GossiTheDog he's supposed to be dead, but for reasons entirely unrelated to the shooting and entirely related to who he has been as a person his entire fucking life.
BBC have a break down of the security failings at the Trump rally. There’s a lot to unpack but there’s a series of major security failings documented.
@GossiTheDog Makes you wonder if these kinds of security details ever have red team tests against their set-ups.
Btw I’ve seen lots of people post that the shooting wasn’t real, was a crisis actor, was staged, conspiracy theories from 4chan etc.
That kinda thing has no basis in reality. Somebody died. Multiple people were injured. The local police left the shooter on the roof for two minutes while running around trying to work out what to do - they didn’t have a communication plan. Nobody had secured the roof before the event.
What happened is simple: a series of security failings, and a shooter.
@GossiTheDog What’s wild is this is the party of law and order, and sounds like they are bad at law and were very disorderly.
@GossiTheDog and people from the left that cry conspiracy are really not helping :/
@GossiTheDog What actually happened to Trump's ear? Some fragment of something cutting is seems much more plausible than a bullet grazing it so finely & near harmlessly.
There’s a good write up here on the law enforcement body cam videos of the Trump assassination attempt.
Long story short = security failure. Local police thought Secret Service were supposed to have secured the roof, Secret Service thought police had it, comms terrible, people didn’t know what to do etc.