Fuck USA, split yourself already to something more democratic and stable.
It’s one for the history books.
I’m sure the kids in Vault 101 will love it.
oh well if it comes to that I wanna be in the vault with the laughing gas
Gaaaarryyyyy!
Please take target practice beforehand next time
You mock the ever living shit out of the photo. Fascists love to look strong and mocking the photo dispels the myth of appearing strong.
*Edit: As Robert Evans said “blood is cool, milkshakes aren’t” when talking about Richard Spencer getting humiliated with getting a milk shake thrown at him.
Water balloons filled with Miracle Whip?
Make sure those water balloons have been sitting in the sun a bit. Gotta make sure that they had a chance to develop a nice smell. Bonus points, if you can get your target to puke everywhere.
I like presidents who haven’t been shot.
My opinion has not changed at all
Yeah this occupied like 5 minutes of my family’s time last night. Our daughter heard about it first. She ran upstairs and told my wife about the same time I saw a news article pop up. My wife and I just kind of shrugged and went about our business.
I’m just surprised it took this long for someone to give it a go. These violent delights have violent ends.
Robert Evans is so great.
This photo looks like propaganda from a fabricated event, not a real candid from an actual attempt on a political figurehead’s life.
Why is the flag upside down?
Why is it perfectly in frame to fill the space that would otherwise be blank sky?
Why was Trump allowed by his security detail to stand back up?
It’s all extremely suspicious and screams “preplanned” to me
It’s just a good photo.
I agree. It’s an incredible photo and the details that I didn’t know when making the parent comment all support that it’s real.
It’s not upside down, that’s just the angle. It’s just hanging vertically. Even if it were hanging upside down, though, that wouldn’t be unusual for this lot. A lot of Maga fucks fly it that way around here, almost as a way of saying how fucked they see this country. It plays into their victim complex.
I remember when you’d go check on someone if you saw their flag flying upside-down. These idiots have turned it into a political statement instead.
How could a Pulitzer prize winning photographer manage to take a very good photo? Surely it must be staged. I bet Trump paid that guy the secret service killed to shoot him and kill an attendee!
/s just in case. I’m not sure everyone here would catch the sarcasm in this comment
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In the photo he is standing in the same spot as he was when he was speaking. So it would make sense that an astute photographer would have already lined up this shot on a tripod from when he was speaking. That’s what I would have done
I understand why Trump would be in frame, but not why the flag would be in the same spot AND upside-down.
If the flagpole fell in the confusion, that could explain it being upside-down but not in frame.
If the flag were already there, that would explain it being in frame but not upside-down.
It all seems too coincidental.
this reads like conspiratorial thinking tbh. Its easy to grab at the idea that this is somehow Trump’s doing, but things like this do sometimes happen
I so desperately want it to be revealed to be a conspiracy because it would further discredit Trump. But I know it isn’t, which is so utterly terrifying for our democracy.
I think the better answer is: it’s currently unknown.
It’s not upside down, but I agree that it sure looks planned. Somehow every fucking situation that could sink trump always happens to help him.
Not upside down, when hung vertically that is the correct way. There’s A LOT of frankly unnecessary ‘rules’.
If you watch the video you can see how it all fits together. It’s just a very good photographer doing their job.
I agree. I don’t actually think it’s staged having seen the footage for myself and reading statements made by the secret service. My other comments are my first reactions to seeing this image
You see, it’s that sort of conspiracy bullshit that will erode everything.
Could it be the work of a professional photographer bringing their A game? No, it must be staged.
Why are all these random things like that? It must be “preplanned” …or… Maybe you would have found similar things in any photograph from a political rally.
Thing is, you sound like a classic MAGA when you say daft stuff.
The flag is likely quite comically large (as in a hundred or more feet long), decently far away, and is being ‘hung’ by basically small construction cranes, which are holding it such that if there was no wind, it would be hanging vertically.
There is significant wind, so its going with the direction.
Zoom in on the connector point and you can see basically a jerry rigged, oversized winch. Theres a similar winch at the other point on the right side of the image, and the crane is presumably out of frame.
Its perfectly in frame because some photographers are quite good at their jobs.
Trump was allowed to stand up because he could, under his own power, and the shooter had already been declared down at that point.
Eh, I don’t think you can take a shot at a Trump really that doesn’t have an American flag somewhere on it.
It was taken by Pulitzer prize winner photographer Evan Vucci
The man better win another Pulitzer. This photo will have a substantial effect on the world.
I hate Trump but this photo is historic. They’re saying it’s like the Iwo Jima photo.
Except trump is a criminal rapist surrounded by the best security in the world, not a soldier fighting a battle on a hillside. Lets not glorify him.
You’re absolutely right, but that unfortunately doesn’t matter for almost half of America considering how many people still keep lapping him up.
No, it isn’t, the Iwo Jima photo is staged.
(Seriously, not really staged, but it’s actually the second flag. Interesting story btw.)
Why is it perfectly in frame to fill the space that would otherwise be blank sky?
It could have been cropped.
Or just go out in November, and vote for Biden.
Biden? Why not someone else? I don’t like either of them but holy shit please not Biden again…
Because I don’t want trump to win and that’s the only option… are you for real right now is this a serious question?
You’re making it the only option… like seriously, Biden is not good (a lot of democrats are embarrassed and admitting this too) and if we don’t pick someone else, Trump is 100% going to win this year. You guys need to understand, that debate was god awful for Biden, and now with Trump being nearly assassinated people are going to see him as some sort of martyr. For crying out loud, pick someone else!
You realize I don’t have the power to do shit by myself. You are a moron man, I’m not the one calling the shots.
Bro, you can vote for someone else… what do you mean you don’t have power to do shit yourself? Encourage others to do the same. Have fun watching Trump win the election, I guess.
Don’t listen to this idiot
“Don’t listen to this idiot”
Yep there’s a lot of dramatic panic, and it needs to be translated into action not apathy.
Assassination attempts don’t translate to election wins.
Stick to the plan, GET OUT AND VOTE!
My memory tells me that they usually do translate into wins. Do you have any stats?
Teddy Roosevelt would like to have a word with you.
I’m afraid I wasn’t alive when that happen. Did he lose that election? And is that the mist recent example?
Bud, use Google and figure it out. I don’t agree with these guys you’re arguing with, but Jesus Christ, just use the internet.
Not even arguing, just asking. Not interested enough to really Google it.
Let me know how that works for you.
Worked great last election! Happy to see the pedophile lose again.
Nah, just vote for someone other than Trump. If you’re in a swing state, sure. But if you’re in a state that is extremely likely to vote one way or another (as most are), vote your conscience.
I’m in a deep red state where Biden has almost no chance, so I’m voting for Chase Oliver. He has the widest possible reach of the firmly anti-war candidates we have.
Voting for anyone other than Biden is dumb beyond belief if you want trump to lose.
Brace for the “librul conpisracee” and how the white christian god saved trump by deflecting the bullet for maga
I say this as someone who saw a very similar play with jair bolsonaro in Brazil 2018, though it was a knife attack instead of a gunshot
An knife attack is easier to fake and make sure it’s not lethal.
Sure seems awfully convenient…
If only that camera had a bullet.
Why is he not ducking and covered by the secret service? They should be hauling his ass the moment they heard gunshots.
They more or less did. Watch the full video if you want to see.
The perspective here is a little weird, but he was pretty much immediately dogpiled by ~10 agents who all then guided him from the scene. He made them stop so he could fist pump for the crowd before leaving.
That said, the secret service apparently wasn’t keeping a close eye on nearby rooftops. They dropped the ball hard on this one.
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This was after they had confirmed the shooter was dead.
He dropped before the secret service got there.
Doesn’t make sense, you never assume there’s only one. It would be quite stupid to do so.
There could’ve been another one. No reason to assume he was the only one.
No reason to assume he was the only one.
Unless you already knew.
They did. You should watch the video
I feel like it’s at least possible that this will work like that trick of if you can’t decide between two things, toss a coin and call it and then notice how you feel. Like a coin was tossed here and maybe some of these dead inside non-voters will feel something, maybe an anxiety, the absence of relief, wistful. You can act on that. It’s not too late.
Why does trump have secret service if he is not the president? Sorry dumb canadian moment
The Secret Service protects not just the president, but their family, major runners for the race, and their families. Due to the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968, the Secret Service was made to protect all major runners for the presidency, as his assassination could have been stopped if he had more protection than the event’s guards.
That’s actually really cool, surprised I didn’t know this
I reckon this will come to Canada soon too. Trudeau used to go to metro stations and just say good morning to people on their way to work after he won first term. He doesn’t do this anymore for obvious reasons
Not only do all former presidents get a detail, all frontrunners with a credible shot at winning get secret service protection. I’m not sure what the exact requirements for that are, but Trump would almost certainly meet them.
When the nomination becomes official, they get a secret service detail.
US presidents get SS protections for life after their term is over
I understand that the abbreviation is understood different in the US, but SS is understood as the Schutzstaffel founded as a paramilitary arm of Hitlers NSDAP later to become among the worst criminals in WWII and the Holocaust.
We’ll all understand it as schutzstaffel soon enough, I guess
Well, if Trump wins he’ll eventually get original SS to cover his ass…
or Neo-SS :-p
All former presidents get secret service until they die.
Thx
If you really believe this will end the country, then see if you can do what didn’t happen then.
This came out so perfect part of me wonders if there is a god and I am some poor sinner getting punished.
Like, fuck man. This assassin missed and hit all of us. This is everything they want and you can pick out a number of other photos a lot like it that where incredible. These last two months basically lined up perfectly for Trump.
This came out so perfect part of me wonders if there is a god and
I am some poor sinner getting punishedhe is an evil, petty, piece of shit.Seriously, go read the Old Testament.
It arguably could have been worse if they’d killed him. Opening space for someone just as vile but actually intelligent, who could easily just roll through to president on the back of “Saint Trumpf the Martyr”…
The problem with this line of thinking is that the GOP doesn’t have anyone else. They’re a cult of personality for Trump and only Trump. We saw all the alternatives get paraded around in the GOP “primary,” none of them are anywhere close to taking the reins. There’s a very good chance that without Trump, the cult begins to fall apart.
That depends on if the person in question is has the same sort of charisma.
After hearing the fireworks going off in my Maga-heavy area last night, I’m really not sure that the gunman missing was the better outcome. Trump has a special following in the republican party that gathers followers from those outside the party that wouldn’t ordinarily vote.
Naw they’d start eating each other for the chance to be the nominee
Who? Who would be capable of gathering the trump support and getting enough votes? Part of the right wing powerful 1 guy thingy is this: 1 guy. Take the guy away, and you have no idea what would happen and if someone else would manage to keep the gathered power going and maybe gather even more. Would be very different if trump were president when it happened, then the power is formalised and the takeover by another supervillain easier, but during campaign that would be quite the feat and I’m really wondering who would have been capable of it.
I agree with your take. The power vacuum would be incredible. In my country, I’ve seen a political party completely collapse from infighting after its charismatic leader was assassinated.
Yeah, one of the redeeming qualities of Trump is that he’s incredibly stupid, and refuses to let advisors correct him. Makes him super ineffective. They had control of white house and both chambers and they did just limited damage.
As someone outside of the US, I would say that the fallout to other countries is substantial. Not due to policies, but rather rhetoric.
Where I live, neo-nazis used to hide-- but now all the bigots, emboldened by Trump, are organizing. The right-wing opposition party leader walks among them and isn’t immediately shunned/removed. This is echoed around the globe.
It’s hard to say if Trump is the cause or the effect of that sentiment…
Both. Real life is complicated.
I do concur. I am astounded at the incompetence of the ones pulling the strings of the Republican party. Sure they got some Supreme Court justices in place, but man, they really, really messed up in 2020 letting the Democrats gain control of the Whitehouse. All they had to do was strong arm Trump into making the COVID stuff a patriotic war against an invisible virus, and he would have sweeped the election. Nope they shortsightedly let him retard it up, thinking it would kill more people in cities, ie Democratic voters. Lulz
He could have even taken credit for the vaccine and call it the Maga vaccine or something, but no, it’s better to promote horse paste. Alas.
“This assassin missed and hit all of us.”
This is such an elegant and iconic line. History will view that as the truth.
They didn’t miss. The US government will think twice about appointing a president half of the country wants dead. Power fear chaos and unrest among people, they want to have everything in control under their eye.
Presidents aren’t appointed by the US Government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
They are.
The government spend billions on propaganda and all the most popular media are private owned. They are able to spin the narrative and manipulate public opinion as much as they want.
George Dubya Bush and Trump were.
Trump is about to implement Project 2025, which will make the rich people in the USA so goddamn wealthy it will make your head spin. The middle class will be gone and all that money transferred up. Why would they not want Trump?
Trump is about to implement Project 2025, which will make the rich people in the USA so goddamn wealthy it will make your head spin.
Billionares are so rich already that trying to visualize their wealth will indeed make your head spin. The middle class died decades ago. They may not want Trump because the majority of people already live in poverty and they are just waiting to turn into an angry mob
Wtf are you talking about
This is gonna make him a fucking martyr.
I get what you mean but Martyrs defining factor is that they’re dead.
The republicans aren’t big on reals, having a living martyr will suit their narrative just fine.
it’s not a conversation about “reals”, he’s making a comment about the English language and how that word means something else. He’s their living prophet or saint. That’s word to use in its place. No-one is questioning their narrative.
