Trump Just Tied Gerald Ford

No need to shoot the guy.  Dude is going to self-implode soon anyway. 

If I was going to get taken out,  I'd appreciate it if my assassin had a colorful name and background,  like Squeaky Fromme.

OK, whatever.

It seems to me that the worst case scenario is that he goes on to win the election and we enter a new age never before seen in this country.

But IMO the real question is, is it better for him to lose the election and then cry to the rafters that again it was a cheat, coming across as an old, pathetic two-time (how many times?) loser but with his legion of troglodytes continuing to rage fervently (and dangerously) with him, or for him to actually be put down by a deranged clod before the election, thus making The Mighty Orange Man a powerful martyr?

Personally, I think even with his troglodyte hoards, if he loses the election he will slowly fade away and the Republican Party will slowly come back to sanity and have a much better candidate four years from now, but if he's assassinated before the election his image will live on and the party will stay in the cesspool Trump has created.

I say don't shoot him, just beat him.

Lol , Joe. The other one Sara Moore is not a colorful name and who the fuck knows her background. 

Just need to vote his ass down, and make all his cult worshipers deal with it. He'll fade away into courtroom land once we outvote his base. But it is indeed scary what he's willing to do to stay in the headlines. People need to see through that. Because if he squeaks out a win, we are SO fucked. What we're seeing now is just a preview to a re-elected Trump who feels he has a "mandate" to rule. 

It must be sad to be Trump when your only way to try appealing to voters is to hate Taylor Swift and to have people who want to kill you.

None of this bullshit will gain him any new voters, only rile up his base, which is not enough for him to win. And his team knows that. That's why this desperation is happening.

We're on the right track, he's on the ropes, gotta keep our foot on the gas. VOTE HARRIS. 

I think it's probable that Harris will get more votes than T. Rump, but will she be able to win the EC?

And even if she does, will she be able to overcome Rump's  House of Reps. or his SCOTUS?

All the Maggots need to do is tie up the election in baseless claims of fraud - they're already doing that. If neither candidate gets enough EC votes to win, the election gets thrown to the House, where each state gets ONE vote.

Or, they'll sue and appeal up to the SCOTUS, where they have a 6-3 advantage thanks to li'l Bitch McConnel..

It ain't over even when it's over.

All we can do on our side is VOTE. 

Unless it's better for us to just roll over and say, "Fuck it. Crown our new King." Certainly this would be the easier route than to actually try and vote against him. 

> I'd appreciate it if my assassin had a colorful name and background

Trump probably won't appreciate it, but the name Ryan Wesley Routh has some style to it. As for his background, Routh voted for Trump in 2016, is a Covid denier, and in 2002 was charged with possession of a weapon of mass destruction.

It's interesting that virtually no one is talking about gun control. Not surprising, just interesting.  That being said, killings by bazookas seem to be way down.

>>>It's interesting that virtually no one is talking about gun control.

The NYTimes had an article today where they dug up an old article that mentioned him. The article back then was about civilians who were getting involved with supporting Ukraine militarily. This guy had no military background but was trying to round up mercenaries to go fight for Ukraine. He had no resources just a bunch of nonsensical ideas.  He said he was trying to convince Congresspeople to support him.

>>>He sure fits the profile of a patsy. 

Yep.  Maybe Russian FSB agents posed as Ukrainian secret service and hired the guy as sort of an unwitting agent provocateur knowing he would fuck it up to generate sympathy for Putin's BFF.  

Wait, why aren't MAGA talking about the guy's 2nd Amendment rights? He was just camping outside the golf course with his AR15, and secret service shot at him.

>Law enforcement officials confirmed that members of Trump's U.S. Secret Service detail opened fire at the armed suspect after spotting him on the edge of the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, a few holes ahead of where the president was golfing. Secret Service officials said it was not clear if the suspect fired any shots.

And Elon asking for Harris to be targeted..

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/us/politics/musk-deleted-tweet-biden-...

Ken, that's certainly a possibility.

I'm surprised though that secret service didn't kill the guy or he didn't kill himself  

Trump: 'These are people who want to destroy our country' 

no irony here:

"He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it," Trump said of the gunman in an interview with Fox News Digital. "Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out." 

Trump pointed to Biden and Harris’ past comments casting Trump as a "threat to democracy," while telling Americans they are "unity" leaders. 

"They are the opposite," Trump said. "These are people that want to destroy our country." 

Whatever they say about me bounces off of me like rubber, and sticks to them like glue.

Also, I was not the puppet; Hilary was the puppet.

"I'm not a fascist; the radical evil left wing marxist communist socialist democrats are the real fascists!"

"Respect ma authoratay!"

did trump take a mulligan after being shot at?

Um, nobody actually shot at him this time

from AP

>New details on what unfolded: The man suspected in the incident, Ryan Wesley Routh, camped outside the golf courses in West Palm Beach with food and a rifle for nearly 12 hours, according to court documents. He did not have a line of sight on Trump and never fired his weapon, according to the Secret Service.

pretty weak sauce "assassination attempt"...

if no sight picture was ever taken up

and also no shot ever fired 

then an attempt it was not

A concept of an assassination attempt

'Soviet style weapon'  

hmmm..

Soviet's name is Mikhail Kalishnikov

Avtomat Kalishnikova

...AK - 47

>Firearms experts pointed out some of the features in the grainy photo, suggesting that the rifle is actually a Soviet cousin of the AK, the SKS. It was designed in the 1940s by another famous Russian weapons designer, Sergey Simonov.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/15/soviet...

weird  to see "Soviet Style Weapon" terminology in the news coverage, don't recall that when reading about other assault weapons being used. 

I say don't shoot him, just beat him.

I couldn't agree more. Trump will have a full time job fighting lawsuits when he loses he election. On top of everything already out there, his media company DJT will fail and go to zero and give birth to one of the biggest securities fraud suits ever. It'll be "yuge!" ;)

Man hanging out on the public side of the fence in an open carry state and he gets shot at. Hmmmm. 

Beat him by 10 points. Then proceed with fair and just trials and sentences. At that point I suspect he'll wish the shooters were better shots than they were.