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Cheryl Jones-Head's avatar

Trump is a Russian asset. These “assassination attempts” are staged. Trump is making BILLIONS of dollars in schemes and scams in his second term due to CORRUPTION. And he will NOT give this gig up without a FIGHT!

https://youtu.be/lNfzRshsDjY?si=kHmOR5klg4HG6llT

Old Man Shadow's avatar

This year to date, there have been 4,041 deaths by gun violence and 7,006 injuries by gun violence.

Yesterday, there was a mass shooting. One person killed, five more injured.

Day before that, there were four. One killed, 18 injured.

Don't see much in the way of conservative media talking about that. Those are the little people. Unimportant to them. People who can't give them anything and are thus cogs. Disposable.

Those folks didn't have security. Didn't have multiple officers sworn to take a bullet for them. They were parents, kids, grandparents, grandkids, siblings, spouses. National media hasn't spent three days now talking about them. They'd run out of air time if they did. Most pastors don't speak of them either. Don't talk about the blasphemy of people destroying the image of God with guns.

I haven't talked much about it lately either because I'm numb. When you scream and no one responds, you shut down. You realize you can't change things. Voting doesn't seem to help, but I keep doing it.

But honestly, WHAT DID YOU FUCKING EXPECT? WHAT DID YOU IN THE MEDIA AND YOU CONSERVATIVES BELIEVE WAS GOING TO HAPPEN? Your economics of cruel capitalism without dignity has alienated people. Your media complex has made people angry. Your unregulated social media allies manipulate people to be angry with constant feeding by the algorithm of their base emotions that override reason. You take away joy, hope, love, and leave only greed and anger and WHAT DID YOU THINK WOULD HAPPEN? That you would be immune from the violence that plagues everyone else? That it was okay that other children be terrorized with mass shooter drills and yours would somehow maintain their innocence? That you would never "win" the gun lottery and be on the wrong side of an angry man with a gun?

You are delusional. And you still do nothing to address the root causes.

belfryo's avatar

" He must survive to see a world where we’re finally free of him."

THIS!

Bruce's avatar

"Ideally, it’s after a debilitating stroke that leaves his face misshapen and sagging and reduces his speech to random nonsense phrases."

Isn't his speech already a series of random phrases? Isn't his vocabulary about 200 words?

(It would be interesting compare an analysis of this, comparing his prepared speeches versus his endless 'weaving' and late night ranting on his third-rate blog, I mean 'social media site'.

belfryo's avatar

My objection to political violence is 100% an objection to its 'practicality'. I have no moral objection to it at this point. If it ever became a viable means of righting the ship, I would have to condone it...As it stands, I can't imagine a scenario currently where it would do anything but make matters worse

Lucius's avatar
1mEdited

Yup. This. At this point morally objecting to it is equivalent to morally objecting to the use of force in WWII

SethTriggs's avatar

What we're seeing here is the audacity that is part of the base model package of being a champion of the unreconstructed. And as America's Pilonidal Cyst himself is the most tenacious forced meme in history, so too must anything seeded into the media by his acolytes.

Of course we saw Democratic figures plied with the usual Murc's Law-steeped bullshit, blaming all of this on Democrats correctly calling out the putrefying fascist. And of course we know how this permission structure works...the unreconstructed party is of course free to "haw haw" about a violent crank bludgeoning the 80-year old husband of a leader they hate.

Oh yeah and of course there's how funny it was to have a pickup truck decal of Joe Biden hogtied in the rear.

I'm sick of these people and I'm sick of the 77 million + Americans who wanted these creatures to rule us...all so they can enshrine their personal bigotries into law.

Cateck's avatar

It definitely was the 2011 WHCA roast that made trump run. You can almost see steam coming out of that man's ears the whole time.

As for him dying, I don't care how it happens but I would really like to still be on this earth when it happens. With stage 4 cancer (stable for now, fingers crossed it stays that way) it's not a forgone conclusion.

SethTriggs's avatar

I am wishing for you to still be here!

Cateck's avatar

Thank you! I found out that it was stage 4 June 2024, nobody wanted Kamala to win more than me. Dammit!

Late Blooming's avatar

I'm glad people like Stephen are documenting these hypocrisies and inconsistencies for posterity's sake, because it really doesn't matter in the now times. If it did, Trump would have washed out in 2015 and MAGA a footnote.

belfryo's avatar

Yeah. great observation. I think about this dynamic a lot myself. We're still reeling from the metaphorical blow to the head...We're still deer in the headlights. We don't currently live in the political or psychological space to do ANYTHING about this nightmare. My HOPE is that once we can get the faintest glimmer of a future worth living in, all of the record keeping from these years (which SER is part of) will become the springboard for action...We're keeping a tally. boy fucking howdy are we ever. I want to be here when that moment to strike becomes clear and inevitable...

Linda1961 is proudly woke's avatar

JFK, a Democratic president, was assassinated. It happened in my lifetime, although I don't remember it, as I was only 2 at the time. Mama was horrified - she remembered FDR's death, but he died of natural causes. She wasn't eligible to vote until 1960, because 21 was the earliest voting age then, and JFK got her first vote. She was 24 and pregnant with me. Does this make JFK my first vote? I still say Jimmy Carter got my first vote in 1980, because I was registered to vote and actually cast the vote. By then, of course, the voting age had been lowered to 18.

As for trump deciding to run for president because of Obama's roast in 2011, OK, fine, it decided him to do it. But notice that he didn't run against Obama in 2012. trump was, is, and always has been a coward.

Late Blooming's avatar

I was three months old in November of 1963. My mother (now 92) always said she put me in my playpen in front of the news reporting the tragedy just so I could say I saw it, lol.

belfryo's avatar
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I was in utero! So when anyone askes me where I was when JFK was assassinated I can give an honest answer

Belfryo: 02/28/1964