this attempted assassination could be one of the worst possible things to happen...we know that trump wont use this event to call for unity...he just doesnt have it in him, if he's shown us anything with his sociopathic behaviours over the last several yrs, it's that he doesnt have it in him to even try to unite people of differing opinions and political views...he'll double down on his vilification of all who seek to prevent him from returning to office and se and abuse whatever sympathy was generated by this numbnut with a gun
and while the use of the term 'bullseye' by biden was wrong and regrettable, i worry that it will cause him (and others) to back off on calling out trump as the threat to liberal democracy that he is...because trump is not going to stop being trump...he showed us that even before he was reluctantly dragged back to the limo, pumping his fist and shouting 'fight' as the SecServ was trying to stuff him into the car--man, you almost died from the use of a gun--a weapon of war, more precisely (AR assault rifle, NOT the weapon of choice of a trained sniper)--that you advocate be readily available to everyone...ya might want to at least attempt to get a dose of humility and to realise your mortality...but no, that isnt trump...he's going to have the superman complex after this, and be even more intolerable and unbearable than ever 🙄--he'll never stop to realise that the idiot novice attempted assassin didnt even bring the proper weapon for the job, and was more likely to miss him and hit bystanders (compare the goofball's AR rifle to the SecServ sniper rifles who killed him) ARs are not accurate, scope or no scope...they're meant to spray large doses of lead at high rates and speed, not for pinpoint targeting...for this and all that he is, trump is the luckiest p-o-s to ever walk this earth
oh, and 'more small arms than all the jurassic park movies combined'?...hilarious...comedy gold, i tells yas, COMEDY GOLD
Thanks, Mark! Lots of good points I could expound on here. It did occur to me to wonder why Crooks went with single shots rather than going as auto as a semi-auto would let him. As I write in today’s TFN, who knows. The point is, I was super-proud of the Jurassic Park line so I’m thrilled you liked it. Thanks for sharing your input!
There you go again, Mr. Larsen, asking us to do the hard work instead of hot takes. All while acknowledging the impact of a "hot take" culture. Okay, I guess I will undertake the difficult work of trying to prevent Trump riding the victim train back to the White House and not cede all to his heroic wounded victim (who was surprisingly concerned for his shoes) pose. What I know at this point is America is a violent place, and one of the promoters of violence (and known practitioner of sexual violence) had his ear slightly injured (maybe by a bullet, maybe by shrapnel) in an assassination attempt that killed one of his supporters and injured others.
P.S. I guess you can come out of lift shoes pretty easily.
Thank you, counterlife. I see a lot of substacks that strike me as just cheerleading and confirmation bias and tribalism and it really worries me. If only because they seem to be more successful than my constant lecturing is. Weird, right…?!? lol
Balanced. Fair. You do what no one else seems to be able to do Mr. Larsen. If only the broadcast media could take a step back and just shut up till the facts come out. Instant news. Instant ratings. Instant ups and down votes. Not a care about what's real, what's going on, or brave enough to report they just don't know YET. But they all jumped on, pre-empted all regular programming to go over... well, not much. Tons of idiotic speculation basically from people who don't know better than to just shut up. And social media... well, that is just what its always been. A shit show. Anyone with a keyboard, anonymously posting whatever is their agenda... and mostly nothing to do with reality. Fueling fear, stupidity and worse. Tower of Babel indeed, these are the times we live in. Turn it all off, wait a few weeks and the fear wheel will have turned on to something new and exciting no doubt.
MAGA Dog Whistles: Learn to recognize the coded calls to Political Violence.
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/07/15/maga-dog-whistles-to-political-violence/
great post
this attempted assassination could be one of the worst possible things to happen...we know that trump wont use this event to call for unity...he just doesnt have it in him, if he's shown us anything with his sociopathic behaviours over the last several yrs, it's that he doesnt have it in him to even try to unite people of differing opinions and political views...he'll double down on his vilification of all who seek to prevent him from returning to office and se and abuse whatever sympathy was generated by this numbnut with a gun
and while the use of the term 'bullseye' by biden was wrong and regrettable, i worry that it will cause him (and others) to back off on calling out trump as the threat to liberal democracy that he is...because trump is not going to stop being trump...he showed us that even before he was reluctantly dragged back to the limo, pumping his fist and shouting 'fight' as the SecServ was trying to stuff him into the car--man, you almost died from the use of a gun--a weapon of war, more precisely (AR assault rifle, NOT the weapon of choice of a trained sniper)--that you advocate be readily available to everyone...ya might want to at least attempt to get a dose of humility and to realise your mortality...but no, that isnt trump...he's going to have the superman complex after this, and be even more intolerable and unbearable than ever 🙄--he'll never stop to realise that the idiot novice attempted assassin didnt even bring the proper weapon for the job, and was more likely to miss him and hit bystanders (compare the goofball's AR rifle to the SecServ sniper rifles who killed him) ARs are not accurate, scope or no scope...they're meant to spray large doses of lead at high rates and speed, not for pinpoint targeting...for this and all that he is, trump is the luckiest p-o-s to ever walk this earth
oh, and 'more small arms than all the jurassic park movies combined'?...hilarious...comedy gold, i tells yas, COMEDY GOLD
Thanks, Mark! Lots of good points I could expound on here. It did occur to me to wonder why Crooks went with single shots rather than going as auto as a semi-auto would let him. As I write in today’s TFN, who knows. The point is, I was super-proud of the Jurassic Park line so I’m thrilled you liked it. Thanks for sharing your input!
There you go again, Mr. Larsen, asking us to do the hard work instead of hot takes. All while acknowledging the impact of a "hot take" culture. Okay, I guess I will undertake the difficult work of trying to prevent Trump riding the victim train back to the White House and not cede all to his heroic wounded victim (who was surprisingly concerned for his shoes) pose. What I know at this point is America is a violent place, and one of the promoters of violence (and known practitioner of sexual violence) had his ear slightly injured (maybe by a bullet, maybe by shrapnel) in an assassination attempt that killed one of his supporters and injured others.
P.S. I guess you can come out of lift shoes pretty easily.
Thank you, counterlife. I see a lot of substacks that strike me as just cheerleading and confirmation bias and tribalism and it really worries me. If only because they seem to be more successful than my constant lecturing is. Weird, right…?!? lol
Balanced. Fair. You do what no one else seems to be able to do Mr. Larsen. If only the broadcast media could take a step back and just shut up till the facts come out. Instant news. Instant ratings. Instant ups and down votes. Not a care about what's real, what's going on, or brave enough to report they just don't know YET. But they all jumped on, pre-empted all regular programming to go over... well, not much. Tons of idiotic speculation basically from people who don't know better than to just shut up. And social media... well, that is just what its always been. A shit show. Anyone with a keyboard, anonymously posting whatever is their agenda... and mostly nothing to do with reality. Fueling fear, stupidity and worse. Tower of Babel indeed, these are the times we live in. Turn it all off, wait a few weeks and the fear wheel will have turned on to something new and exciting no doubt.
Well said, Mike. And not just the nice parts about me. For which I thank you. And my friends call me Jonathan!