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TRumpty and Just Dopey are like magnets to creepy and weird white boys. Because. They. Are. Creepy. And. Weird.

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BREAKING- Trump requests military support in place of SS. He wants parade like formations traveling on foot to rallies accompanied by tanks & missile transports. Air coverage should include jet fighters buzzing the rally followers streaming red white and blue as he takes stage.

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

"...to live your life so that someone could clearly point out how the world suffered because I was alive."

You'd think that would be a low bar to clear, but here we are!

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A concept of an attempt, in my opinion.

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_"Daddy,?"

_"Yes, beloved issue of my loins?"

_"Daddy, if radical leftists kill Grampaw, how much money will we each get?"

_"A question that denotes wisdom beyond your tender years! New Mommy and I have taken positive steps to address that unfortunate eventuality. For the present, we can't disclose those steps to you or your siblings. And I must insist that you keep this little chat on a need-to-know basis. If anyone hears about this, especially your Old Mommy, there will be repercussions. Do you know what repercussions are?"

_"Something bad!"

_"Perfect! Tomorrow, one of the helpers will bring a paper for you to sign. In the meantime you'll have to pinky-swear. Can you do do that for Daddy?"

_"I swear, Daddy!"

_"Excellent, my little exemption! Now run along and give our secret word to one of the helpers. They'll get you a treat. Does ice cream sound good?"

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Honestly! If a person with 24/7 secret service security detail isn’t safe from being shot at, maybe “security” isn’t the problem that needs correcting for our kids in schools.

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Enough with the ‘weird’!😒 just call’em all, wakkko!now!😒🙄😒🤪🤡👻💩💀

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

“ the rigged and highly partisan ABC Debate”

But he won that debate, right? Quite the feat for it rigged, as usual.

The projection just keeps ramping up. I cannot wait until he dies and goes away.

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

Dems want to keep guns out of the hands of people who have mental health issues, like Routh. Dems also would like for people with mental health issues, like Routh, to be able to get the help that they need. It's the repubs, including trump, who don't care if people like Routh get guns or not, and get health care or not.

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

IF there was a waiting period and background check it could have been prevented. Gosh I wonder who put the kibosh on that?!

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

1. School shootings are only a fact of life because of our abysmal gun laws. The worst I had to deal with in school was drop and cover in case of a nuclear attack, which in retrospect was hardly close to reality.

2. WE WANT PEOPLE TO COME INTO OUR COUNTRY, BUT THEY MUST be white!! Fixed it for him 🙄

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

[the FBI has still not determined an actual motive]

Is "angry disaffected American man with a gun" too long to write in on the paperwork? Because I would have thought they'd have ordered new paperwork that would have accommodated that reason by now... you know... thirty years after Columbine.

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

Sometimes they never really discover a motive. Lee Harvey Oswald, all these years later---what was his motive? Seemed just delusions of grandeur.

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

The rumor, of course, was that Cuba was behind it. So yeah if it is known it’s never been revealed.

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

"...we should ignore these ridiculous psychopaths who are threatening violence on a small Ohio town ..." We're trying, JD, we're trying, but you keep opening your yap.

Interesting too that JD describes school shooters as psychopaths wanting attention; describes both Trump and his would be assassins.

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

Gun Club Estates is apparently another crime hotspot in Palm Beach County, reputedly.

I'm just numb to the chaos that swirls around President Klan Robe...and it feels like others are too. I think I'm just laser-focused on the out and out ethnic cleansing that he and Shady Vance are peddling. That bullshit all caps rant is the kind of shit that spins up stochastic terrorists.

When you encourage people to have these arsenals of weapons of war, well some among them recognize that these instruments of death need using.

SER, you really just said it all to be honest. It's a fantastic article.

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Thanks!

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

The story is very simple--Trump has fired up his most extreme right wing elements in the country, and naturally some of these right wingers--already a gun-crazy and excitable group--have taken it to the point of trying to kill him. That's what Trump and his allies don't want to reckon with.

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

I don't buy the theory that Trump staged the first shooting because if he staged it I don't think he'd have let the shooter use live ammo or shoot anywhere close to him. But it does seem very weird that something hit his ear to cause all the blood, and his ear is magically better a week later without a scar, and the Secret Service decided to let him stand and do a fist pump before taking him off stage, while an active shooter was still out there. (To see the normal way Secret Service does things, watch footage of Reagan's shooting--they don't fuck around, they cover the target and whisk away quickly).

It'd be nice to have a real investigation of what went on there.

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

I remember that too.

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

Under normal circumstances, you'd think there WOULD be a real investigation—a step-by-step analysis of what happened before, during, and after, including a detailed blow-by-blow of TFG at a hospital under high security and actual doctors speaking to the press as much as they would be allowed. But it was...nothing. If it weren't for the unfortunate rally-goer who was shot and died, it would seem like the whole thing was staged. And, in my cynical mind, it still may have been and the poor retired firefighter who took a bullet was the collateral damage needed to make the whole thing believable. Goddamnit, now I'm just like them with their conspiracy theories they pull out of their butts...

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

Yeah--it's all very weird. Granted, weird things do happen all the time--the JFK assassination had all sorts of weird elements (from Oswald being quite a crack shot besides having nothing more than normal Marine riflery training, and used an old bolt action rifle to boot)--but we're getting no real explanation for them. The hospital visit was just a few hours for someone who was supposedly shot, and Trump--a guy who scurried away quickly back in 2016 when a random guy charged his stage--takes the time in middle of gunfire to do a fist pump for the cameras???? And Secret Service is all "ok, let him do the pose, then take him off the stage"??? Sets off the "WTF" bells.

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Actual WTF gongs!

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

I cannot express relief at his safety because this man has already caused a lot of needless deaths, and his safety means we are exposing countless others to death in the event he takes power again. It'd be like expressing relief that a serial killer is still alive.

The only appropriate response after finding out someone tried to kill Trump is "thoughts and prayers, fact of life" and move on to literally any other subject. Callous? Don't give a shit. I'm thinking about the million dead Americans from COVID.

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When Trump had COVID, many liberals made a show of expressing concern and relief when he survived. However, he later attempted to overturn the election and people are dead now who wouldn’t have been if COVID had claimed him. Again, I don’t personally wish him ill or well. I do know I never want to live my life so that someone could clearly point out how the world suffered because I was alive.

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

And the worst part was that he GOT the vaccine and treatment while proclaiming them bad for you leading his followers to die.

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

I believe in Karma so always thought "what will be will be" with regard to his covid.

In hindsight though, I kind of wish it had taken him out.

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If it had, there's a decent chance a lot more Americans would have taken the pandemic more seriously and saved a lot more lives.

Instead, in our government's infinite wisdom, they pulled out every stop to save him so everyone could go on not taking the pandemic seriously.

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THIS exactly but chances are they’d claim that he was intentionally killed.

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Sep 17Liked by Stephen Robinson

Yep, pretty much. It just seems dishonest for people to say "this guy has killed others and will kill again" but also "oh I'm so glad he is alive....to kill again."

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