That fuckin ear-rectangle 👂
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So I think we are in a post 2016 news cycle so even though an assassination attempt is kind of historic, it’s not that big of a deal in 2024 when I’m sure next week we will get another huge earth shattering news. Maybe this time Putin finally croaks.
I'm an insomniac and the news came through while most of my country would be asleep. There's been news I've woken my sleeping partner up for, because it's been historic or 'in the run '.
Jan 6 was one of those days.
This wasn't. And yeah it had just happened and then the event was over so, nothing really ongoing. But I literally read what I needed to about it and moved on.
On reflection, America has used up all my sense of surprise, and I'm ashamed to say, compassion for them.
I watched Sandy Hook unfold and cried. I remember that day. But the many, many that came after? Just another headline.
I'm not hyper focused on the news; there's plenty going on in my country of interest or more relevance to me.
But I think it's odd that the attempted assassination of an American President in my lifetime... Just isn't surprising or interesting to me. I just have a 'well that tracks for that place' attitude. Putin? Now that would be something.
But I think it's odd that the attempted assassination of an American President in my lifetime... Just isn't surprising or interesting to me.
Not here either.
I have heard one person who wasn’t some friend/family I was specifically talking to about it, even mention it. And she clearly didn’t give a shit. She referenced it for like 5 seconds talking about something else and then never returned to the topic.
It’s fucking wild. I think everyone has just tuned out of the crazy shit politics news machine… which of course brings its own brand of danger. ☹️
Literally nobody, except some pundits, has mentioned it at all. Biden said "feels bad man" and tried to call the family of the guy who died. That's it.
I think this may be the better timeline because he gets like 1% of the sympathy of a normal president and all of the PTSD. If he died, he doesn't get to lose the election.
Fucking vote.
The people that vote for trump don’t care.
Christ, they wear diapers and put fake ear bandages on. You think they give a damn about what’s actually right?
Trumpism is nothing less than a fascist cult.
Let's all hope that donnie's chances slump to zero.
So when he droned on about Hannibal lecter, was he trying to talked about Hannibal Barca?
(I don't want to listen to the speech)
No. He literally thought that Hannibal Lecter, the fictional murderer and cannibal from the film "The Silence of the Lambs", was both dead and also a great person. And no, the person who portrayed the character of Hannibal Lecter, Anthony Hopkins, isn't dead either. Also, that was a speech from a few weeks ago I think, and not the RNC speech, which was also unhinged and devolved into a Trump rally attacking Biden and prominent leftists rather than the "call for unity from a changed man" we were promised by bad faith right wing media outlets.
Trump's brain is just as much a pile of mush as Biden's is at this point, but at least I know in the moments of lucidity that Biden has, he's effective at the job and does the right thing. Can't say the same for the 34 time convicted felon running for re-election after he failed to steal the last one.
The Hannibal Lecter thing was back in May, unless he did it again.
He did do it again. He actually never quit. It's been part of his stump speech at several stops.
Trump Shouts Out ‘Late Great Hannibal Lecter’ in RNC Speech (Yes, Really)
Video Clip Very Short Excerpt, it's in the clips of the full 90+ minute speech too.
IMO the senility of either candidate is beside the point because they both have teams that will keep things running when they can't. Hell, those teams keep things running even when the president can because it's not a job one person can do alone.
The difference is Trump's team is openly planning fascism while Biden's team has to at least pretend to be opposed to that or risk more people accepting that neither party wants to oppose the ruler class.
The only time a president being lucid matters is when the president disagrees with their team, that disagreement matters for the people, and the president is on the good side of the disagreement.
And in this case, I can't see any disagreement a lucid Trump has with his team having a good option for the prime or any disagreement a lucid Biden has with his team having a worse outcome than Trump's team gaining power.
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