Assassination attempt on Donald Trump - threadbans in OP

A couple in the UK in the last few years.

Japanese former PM Abe in Japan couple years ago.

Apparently 17% of all US politicians have been shot. Nearly a 1 in 5 chance which would mean on average once ever 20-30 years.

And Reagan was shot just over 40 years ago so in a less obvious way than the rhetoric of recent years, this is overdue.

Conversations such as this about.. Biden not being able to dodge bullets? Seriously?

The righteous indignation out of your posts in this thread would make British red top newspapers editors blush.

Two UK MP's murdered in the last 8 years.

Earlier you were claiming to be concerned about the innocent victim, then you just used it as a platform to attack 'the left' with insulting language. Hardly the actions of someone whose main concern is those killed or wounded. Is your post directed at yourself then?

You obviously haven't been paying attention then.

Trump incited a mob to storm the Capitol which led to bloodshed. He tried to steal the last election.

He uses inflammatory language about immigrants "poisoning the blood" of the nation, whipping up hatred towards minorities.

When racist far right mobs rioted, Trump told them they were fine people.
He told similar far right groups such as the Proud Boys to 'stand by'.

When the families of other politicians are viciously attacked, Trump makes a joke of it, dog whistling his approval.

A far right group tried to kidnap the Democrat Governor of Michigan.

That doesn't 'scare' you but you get worked up about 'cancel culture'?

Nope, utterly unconvincing as the pretence of anyone remotely in the political 'centre'.

Ooookla-homa oklahoma oklahoma oklahoma.

How conspiracy theories and hate dominated social feeds after assassination attempt on Trump. ~ BBC

Like clockwork, some of the theories from social media where also mentioned on the boards threads?

This was a test for Elon Musk’s new Twitter - and it’s hard to say the site passed with flying colours.
The other social media sites haven’t been inundated in the same way, perhaps because of their target audience and X’s reputation as a home of political discourse. ~~ Typical of the BBC to get a dig in about 'X'!?

Its a massive security failure that a shooter could simply climb on a roof and shoot at trump from about 200 yards away, normally theres secret service staff on buildings near or overlooking a public event where trump or biden is appearing at or making a public speech .there was also a problem in that the shooter was partly hidden by a large tree making it hard for some of the secret service to shoot him .

if trump or biden are going to a public place to make a speech theres normally a survey of the surrounding buildings and the arena for potential threats .a building that is in clear sight of the stage where trump is going to appear at is obviously a security threat. There,s of people hate trump due to his past behavior and support of right wing extremist groups /

Hate seems a pretty minor optional extra.

Mass shootings are a pretty popular passtime in the US.

No one can possibly have the time to actually interview those they want to kill to see how they feel toward them.

The entire country is loopy. They love their flags even more than the lot up in the North, yet none seem to realise that a country is it's people.

Anyone who scoffs at the idea of a similarity between Trump (not just Trump as a person BTW but the organisation around him) and Hitler and the Nazis clearly don't understand history or don't care. In fact the rise of this extremism in America is an indictment of the lack of historical education in the West over the last few generations.

1. Use clearly targeted propaganda to spread misinformation (out of the Joseph Goebbels playbook) - Check
2. Create an enemy within to "rise up against" - Check
3. Use violence as opposed to the ballot box on order to attempt to cease control (The Beer Hall Putsch/Attack on the Capitol) - Check
4. Dehumanise opponents, migrants, and anyone deemed to not fit into your idea of the perfect country - Check
5. Also very important to accuse the "other side" of exactly what you are doing.

Once you appeal to the low brow masses and self interested power brokers and billionaires the rest is plain sailing. Erosion of rights comes next and conformity is then law. Outspoken critics are silenced and one party law follows.

Also remember as I stated above, none of this happens over night. Hitler became "Führer of the Nazi Party" in 1921. It was a further 12 years before he became Chancellor, a year and a half later he became Führer of the Germany and then 5 years after that he invaded Poland. So from his rise up the ranks it took 18 years before he started WW2.

Just because the MAGA Cult hasn't gone that far yet is no indication of future sanity. They are in their infancy in comparison to other Authoritarian regimes. And make no mistake about it. They want Authoritarian rule. Also, before anyone cherry picks one point made, no, I'm not necessarily saying that Trump will start WW3, what I'm saying is he will lead the US down a dangerous Authoritarian route and weaken International cooperation which in turn will destabilise international cooperation. He even promised as much publicly.

The point is that it'll never happen. Same way it didn't happen during Trump's first term despite the GOP having control of all 3 branches of government plus the Supreme Court being majority Conservative.

The hysteria over Trump's impending dictatorship is beyond ridiculous.

the Uvalde officers arent the only cowardly force it seems.

We now know partly how the shooter wasn’t stopped - an officer DID encounter Crooks right before the shooting, but then RETREATED, granting him the opportunity to make the shots.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/trump-shooting-assassination-attempt-biden-speaks/amp/

I don’t think that officer will ever live this down nor should he.

They say not long before shots rang out, rallygoers noticed a man climbing to the roof of a nearby building and warned local police. When an officer climbed to the roof, Crooks pointed his rifle at the officer. The sources say the officer retreated down the ladder and Crooks quickly took a shot toward Trump, and that’s when the U.S. Secret Service counter snipers shot him. Trump was injured in the shooting but is “fine.

I'll remember that when I get my ballot.

Nope, still voting for the non-rapist.