Trump Asks for Cash Hours After Second Assassination Bid
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“I will NEVER SURRENDER!” the former president wrote in an email solicitation Sunday.
  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 months ago

    After a school shooting in Iowa last January:

    “So surprising to see it here. But, we have to get over it. We have to move forward.” -Trump

    So he should take his own advice and get over it.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    Other presidential candidates in the past had topics like “society”, “taxes”, “peace”, “employment”, etc.

    Trump obviously only has the topics “immigrants bad” and “I’ve been shot at”.

  • d00ery@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    What are these endless calls for funding? Do people only vote if they are saturated with adverts?

    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I wouldn’t be shocked, if most of the money disappears to “consulting fees”, “administrative fees”, and other such methods to siphon cash off.

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
      41·
      2 months ago

      Also remember we, the people, don’t actually elect the president. We merely suggest we would like person X or person Y. Our vote is meaningless for the actual picking.

      Regardless of how we vote. Each state picks “electors” who then “elect” our president for us. We don’t get to vote for who the electors are either. So like we have zero voice.

      If we could somehow control the electors’s brain to force them to go republican or democrat, then there’s no need for electors. Thus we must assume that the electors do not vote like we would like. Instead, they have their own mind and agenda and vote preference.

      But we cannot change this process. So I will keep voting as I do, but I will know that it is mostly bullshit. I would much prefer it if the actual electors could be identified by name and location so ads can get shoved up their ass constantly on their preferred method of communication.

      • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Most states have laws restricting faithless electors in some way, including voiding such votes (which has happened). Though, some lack enforcement mechanisms. The Supreme Court has upheld penalties for faithless electors within the past five years. As a result, it’s vanishingly rare.

        It’s still a dumb system that is unrepresentative and relies too much on people just doing the right thing, but this characterization isn’t totally accurate.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Theoretically. In reality there’s been very few faithless electors and they’ve never been a deciding factor.

          • portuga@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 months ago

            Well I don’t know if you’re trying to provoke me or something, but confusing portuguese and spanish is a big no no around the iberian peninsula

            • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 months ago

              In “Mi planta de naranja-lima,” Portuga, whose real name is Manuel Valadares, is a significant character who becomes a father figure to the protagonist, Zezé. Zezé, a young boy dealing with poverty and family issues, meets Portuga when he is caught trying to play with his car. Despite the rough start, they develop a deep friendship. Portuga is deeply moved by Zezé’s sensitivity and imagination, and he becomes a source of kindness and support for the boy

              • portuga@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 months ago

                It’s called “o meu pé de laranja lima” and it’s from a Brazilian author, and I suspected you were trolling but now I know for sure. Or else you’re just dumb. Either way bye

                • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  I don’t understand how? I literally just saw your handle and remembered that book because it’s usually part of the advanced Spanish classes in highschool. That’s all. I don’t even know who you are or where you’re from. Sorry if you 🤕 hurt.

  • Blackout@fedia.io
    3·
    2 months ago

    I can see the future… In the next 48 hours Trump (or Vance) will do/say something incredibly stupid and everyone will forget about this assassination attempt.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    If there’s a third one with a conservative background can we start making theories about him hiring them?

  • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Has it even been confirmed as an assination attempt?

    Everything I’ve read points at it being a Florida man hanging out in the bushes by the golf course with an AK. I don’t think they’ve confirmed he was even on the course.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Let’s hope “Storm the Capital II: Electric Boogaloo” falls short of the original, too.

      • Furbag@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 months ago

        Oh, it will. If they march on the capitol again, Biden will call in the national guard.

        Trump didn’t do that when he was at the helm because he wanted them to succeed.

        I almost want them to try again so this time an example can be made of them, since our legal system refuses to hold extremists accountable for their own actions.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          Well they’ll probably have a better police presence to start. But I wouldn’t be surprised to find the NG military police battalion in northern Virginia in a ready state too. I would be doubly unsurprised to find the 101st alert brigade restricted to base on January 6th.

          There’s an entire force continuum of Find Out that most people aren’t even aware exists.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        If I was a Capitol Police officer, it sure as fuck would go differently, if you know how I mean.

        Bring it, Jethro. This one’s going to be short.

  • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I don’t want him to be killed because I don’t want him to become a martyr, but I wish one of these chucklefucks had done some serious, permanent damage.

    • Doom@ttrpg.network
      2·
      2 months ago

      Not in front of a camera, no blood, no good picture, not even an interesting story.

      Total fuckin dud. If the last conspiracy ridden one did nothing this one will too

      • Vanon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Nobody even shot at him. He was not in danger. But maybe he will still fake an injury, we’ll have to wait and see.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      The first one set off an orgy of corporate news garment-rending for almost a full week which goosed the RNC views as well.

      Don’t think it was nothing. (Even though it was, technically, nothing.) Your Favorite Teacher From Elementary School’s Fascist Racist Elect-A-Rapist Movement benefitted handsomely from that one.