https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-rally-shooting-live-updates.html
He appears to have been struck in the ear, but a spokesperson says he is “fine” and being treated at a local medical facility.
For the literal definition of a martyr, yes. For the political concept of a martyr, definitely not.
Just ask Steve Scalise.
Straight from the dictionary:
a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause:
Wouldn't be the first time.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/11/us/colorado-officer-not-charged/index.html
God damn it... Get some better fuckin' aim!
Joe sent the orders
Please. If he had, he would have used a professional who wouldn't have missed.
lmao
Don't worry, Musk will doubtlessly jump in to protect his fellow fascist and ban the tag.
This isn't helping though. We've actually been very fortunate so far that the pro-fascism candidate has been such an incoherent idiot.
Trump is a symptom, not the cause. Attacking him physically like this only makes our problems worse.
Then again, would they find a successor as easily? After all, trump has a personality cult around him. Sure, the rational people don't like him, but do they have to?
Yeah I know, you're not the type to advocate for violence. It was just a good comment for me to post under.
The universe might have imploded from the sudden imbalance between mass and un-mass (the opposing axis of the "dark matter" posit). We might count ourselves lucky ¹.
Oh, barely. An ear is basically a pull tab for the human face. One good yank'll do.
It would either need Trump to have impeccable timing, despite being barely able to walk down a ramp unassisted, or rely on the shooter being able to just barely clip Trump.
This doesn't look like him acting to me, I doubt the old man would be able to pull it off.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5123735/shots-fired-trump-rally
Also, there's two confirmed dead so far:
Butler County District attorney told the Associated Press (AP) that a shooter was dead and that a rally attendee had also been killed.
Well, this event will definitely be exploited by Trump's team and he will be strengthened. Just like happened with Bolsonaro and the stab.
Unfortunately I think Trump will be reelected.
TMZ has reported that he was struck by glass from the teleprompter and not directly shot/grazed: https://www.tmz.com/2024/07/13/donald-trump-appear-shot-pennsylvania-rally-president-election/
Finally a true patriot tried to do what needs to be done
I've been expecting this for years
A shame they missed
how bad does it have to get before violence is acceptable? Before or after one is in the concentration camp?
Popular vote doesn't count in the presidential election in case you forgot.
The ballot box is one of the four boxes, yes.
This assumes that the upcoming election will be in any way fair.
There is an organized effort to undermine the elections using the lessons learned from 2020, all based on getting this orange jackass back in office so he can use the immunity granted by him and his party's SCOTUS hacks.
I look forward to you opinion when states start to refuse to accept the results of their votes when they don't go Republicans.
Ask WW2 vets about how they treated white supremacist fascists. We've softened on them as a society.
Seems like this is the kind of lesson that needs to be re-learned every few generations, and the last time was a few generations ago.
You mean aside from the WWII vets that were white supremacists?
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183045605/black-army-soldiers-england-wwii-battle
My prefered candidate isn't a fascist.
Find a way that works to eliminate fascism, then we'll talk. Until then, stop enabling them.
Wait, are you saying I'm enabling fascism by not advocating political assassination?
Uh, okay, are you saying I'm supporting fascism because I'm disparaging political assassination?
Fascists work to undermine the social contracts of tolerance and nonviolence and are therefore not protected by them.
Republicans have stacked the courts and SCOTUS recently ruled that presidents can freely commit whatever atrocities they want in office.
Since that ruling Trump is organizing a plan for retaliation similar to all of the worst authoritarian regimes.
This way is fine.
Mod removed my comment again
For saying the same thing that all his favorite people here are saying
We've got an activist mod with an agenda and a list
All the mods are going to have a fun time justifying removing all the calls for killing Trump after allowing all the "let's do guillotines" comments since forever.
To those wishing the shooter had better aim - imagine what that might unleash from the right? They already did Jan 6. Just think about what they'd feel justified in doing if someone killed Trump.
To others on the fence - stop to think for a moment that those wishing for his death might be well aware of the above and in calling for the death of Trump, they know exactly what the response from the right would be and that may be their point in making such comments.