Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:41:35 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

On 9/23/24 18:38, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 9/23/2024 8:39 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:10:07 +1000, Mad Hamish
<newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:
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On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:41:34 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Paul S Person wrote:
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On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:15:08 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Sun, 15 Sep 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
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On 9/15/2024 9:02 PM, Don wrote:

The Horny Goat wrote:

Paul S Person wrote:
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I don't recall Trump holding a whip in his fist after being shot.

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I don't recall much being made of the assassination attempt in the
debate at all frankly especially not by the heavily Dem leaning
ABC
crew.

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Another assassination attempt?!?!
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The State, Deep in the bowels of hell, acts as though Trump can
singlehandedly reverse centuries of sociological ratcheting.
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ObSF:
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"Flow my Tears" the Francis "Shakespeare" Bacon said.
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Danke,

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“Ban democrats from owning guns. Why would they object?”
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Brilliant! Everyone wins. Nr of guns go down, democrats don't like
them
anyway, and the republicans get to keep theirs! Lynn for president!

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Of course, this presupposes that any attempts on Trump are by
Democrats.
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AFAIK, that has not be demonstrated yet. The Donald has pissed off a
lot of his former followers by waffling on abortion in an attempt to
avoid a Kamalaslide. And a lot of those are armed and have very short
fuses.
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From
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https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/nx-s1-5113801/trump-shooting-assassination-attempt-suspect-ryan-wesley-routh
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"He once supported Trump, but recently donated to Democrats"
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Sounds democrat to me.

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There's been differing stories
The latest information I've seen is that he was registered democrat
before he lost voting rights for a felony convinction around 2002
He regained voting rights in 2012 and has been unaffiliated since
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He posted in 2020 that he'd voted for Trump in 2016 but wanted him out
and he made contributions to various Democrats in the primaries, his
only political donations (total about $140 so hardly huge amounts)
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This year he tagged Nikki Haley into a post suggesting she could form
a combined ticket with Vivek Ramaswamy to make a ticket "we could all
get behind"
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So "he's a democrat" seems a dubious interpretation

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It's a Republican interpretation.
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Anything to avoid the possibility that Trump's dissing everyone but
his base and then betraying his base on the topic of abortion could be
coming back to haunt him.
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And, to blame Democrats for /daring/ to follow Trump's lead ("how dare
they! only /we/ can do that!" -- a cry echoed recently by Hezbollah
upon receiving a dose of their own medicine) and so provoking the
attempts.
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But, in this case, I think he's just a nutter. And /that/ is assuming
he meant to shoot at Trump; since he didn't shoot, who can say what
(if anything) he had in mind?
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He didn't shoot because he never got a line of sight on Trump.
 

He left a note saying that he was going to attempt to kill
Trump and apologizing for failing to do so.
He was using the wrong sort of gun so his planning was
defective. The gun he was using was not very accurate at over
100 yards and the closest he  could have gotten was at least
3 times further.

He was using an SKS style rifle, designed by the Russian Military
after WWII and with an effective firing range of about 400m

He was around 300m from Trump (without line of sight) when agents who
were checking holes Trump would reach saw his rifle barrel and fired
at him
So the odds are that Trump would have been significantly closer if he
had waited until Trump reached that hole before sticking the rifle
through the hedge

Assasins this year are not a good crop. ;^)
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bliss-wanted to be a gun nut but was not financially capable.