I prefer candidates who didn't get shot.
What was in it for him? What a sucker. What a loser.
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Try harder next time Donny. Just stand still.
The attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed, but I assure you my resolve has never been stronger. I took a bullet for democracy.
I am democracy!
That's the kind of thing people who want to be king say.
It's not like there's not an abundance of proof available you anybody. You can listen to his calls on YouTube. The man is horrific.
Called it.
I said to my co-workers as soon as I heard he got shot at, he was going to claim that he took a bullet for America and Democracy.
But it wasn't exactly hard to call it....the guy is a major narcissist.
He let that bullet slide right past him and into that young family man he fooled.
He fooled him into wanting an king, and then his king passed a bullet onto him.
Isn't it true that trump didn't even call his widow and biden did!? And she refused the call...
And then his king immediately stood triumphant with a fist in the air.
Incorrect actually. He lay on the ground for around 30/40 seconds under a secret service shield... And then, when told to leave by secret service he screamed about his shoes.. not wanting to be seen without his shoes. He whined n screamed at them for what.. 10 seconds.
And then he got his photo op.
Yeah, this is what seems the most sus about it all. Not, "What the fuck just happened?" Instead, "Where's my shoes?"
Clearly he didn't take enough of it.
Watch it! Jack Black will disown you.
Yeah, buddy. That's why the guy tried to shoot you. Sure.
The bullet miss him...
"BuT wE'rE a CoNsTiTuTiOnAl RePuBlIC"
Pretty sure that retired firefighter that Biden had to shame you into acknowledging took that bullet, Don.
You mean the one who took his children to a convention filled with hate fueled maniacs? That retired firefighter?
I thought Republicans HATED Democracy and were Actively calling to Eradicate it like it was a Trans Child?
*took a dump on democracy
"I took a bullet for the thing I'm trying to destroy."
Sure buddy.
You're missing the part where "democracy" means what he wants it to mean and he hopes that everyone else thinks he means what they want it to mean, regardless of whether those meanings intersect.
For example, Russia, China, and at least two of the countries with "Democratic" in their official name are democracies. Technically.
Ankh-Morporkian democracy. He’s the man and he has the vote
This act that the Republicans are putting on right now, to make themselves seem more moderate than they really are, to appeal to centrists, is so unbelievably transparent. It's obviously bullshit, but what's terrifying is that it might actually work. Democrats appear unsettled, Republicans are unified. Trump's assassination attempt makes him seem sympathetic to many. The only thing left for the Republicans to do is convince voters that they've totally changed and that things are going to be different this time, and that it's not going to be like before, they promise. Unfortunately, like an abused spouse, many American voters might give Trump and Republicans that second chance. God help us all.
All they have to do is convince everyone they will be opposite of their recent actions. Yeah sounds easy.
No, that's not true. They don't have to convince everyone, they only have to convince enough people. They know very well that many millions of Americans would never vote for them no matter what, but they also know that many millions of Americans will vote for them and millions more might, if properly persuaded.
The voting population has a collective memory of only a few months.
Where I live, we had some of the strictest and stupidest pandemic lockdowns in the western world. People protested the lockdowns, blamed the wrong level of government for implementing them, and then re-elected the party that DID implement the lockdowns with a very low voter turnout.
The restrictions had been lifted maybe months before the election, so the lockdowns were a distant memory for the fraction of the population that showed up to vote.
But what you are talking about here is quite a lot different. People who have an opinion on trump aren't going to forget it. But if you really want to cling to that's doom don't let me stop you, I just take issue with pointlessly spreading it
They don't need to change many people's minds on Trump. They just need to get the ones that like Trump to go out and vote, and the ones that don't like Trump to stay home or not vote for Biden.
Unfortunately he didn't.
That's it we are breaking up.
Jack Black? Is that you?!
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