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Trump pointed to Biden and Harris’ past comments casting Trump as a “threat to democracy,” while telling Americans they are “unity” leaders.

“They are the opposite,” Trump said. “These are people that want to destroy our country.”

The lack of self-awareness is amazing.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

If you look at his press release he also quotes their words in like over 100 instances.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Come on who would want to do him harm other than them. Not the thousands of people he has scammed. Not the thousands of people he has refused to pay for services rendered. Not the people he has raped. Just the latest focus of concern. /s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

"I lied and was wrong but I'm not to blame. It's the person who tells on me who is to blame. If they didn't tell on me, non of this would have happened as people wouldn't have known I lied".

It's a typical sociopathic way of thinking you aren't to blame but instead the person who punishes you / calls you out is. Like, when you robbed a bank, you blame the police for being locked up, not yourself for committing the crime.

Remember: A former president, a current presidential candidate, is unable to take responsibility and accountability for any of his actions. Do you really want someone like that to have control over one of the biggest countries, controlling thousands of nuclear weapons and the mightiest military, while constantly acting in favor of Putin, a dictator and enemy of NATO? Like, the stupidity of this all makes everyone in the movie Idiocracy look smart.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

And the lies he and JD are telling about Haitians has no impact on them?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Someone should mention jan 6 to him....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

"Its all Biden and Harris' fault! If they would stop telling the people what my plans are and what I want to do, none of this would have happened! They are making me a target by telling the world what I am and how I want to bring about the Fourth Reich in honor of my great Hero, Hitler!"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

It’s so funny that the Republicans are suddenly very concerned about stochastic terrorism. Do they really want to open that can of worms?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

remember when racist and delusional republicans had a wbush poster / meme with "miss me yet?" written on it during the obama administration?

they could do one with the orange turd except this time it can be answered with "yes, twice".

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

He didn't get shot at. Some doofus brought a gun within the no-no zone on him. He's trying to fundraise because of it. Apparently he's most popular when he's getting shot at...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh to be so fucking stoopid. Can turds be feckless?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's got to be driving him absolutely nuts that the second shooter is also a presumably christian, straight, white, man. Anything else and he could work with it. White woman? Women are too emotional and shouldn't be trusted to make important decisions. Black man? Go-go all out on the racism. Brown skinned? Anti immigration fear mongering. Trans or gay? Groomer nonsense. Anything other than Christian and he could fearmonger about their foreign religions.

Literally the only identity he can't exploit is christian, straight, white men and they're the ones who keep trying to kill him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Well unfortunately for him they’re the ones that he kept radicalizing to violence.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

He’s desperate and is now trying to get them killed. There is no end to what he will do to stay out of prison.

And it’s disgusting that America is allowing him to continue on with this shit. He is ABSOLUTELY above the law.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You mean rhetoric like “I hate Taylor Swift” from less than 24 hours ago?

Every accusation is a confession. Trump is just pissed that no one will rid him of the meddlesome Kamala.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Was the shooter a Swifty? Have we ruled that out as the motive?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm waiting for that one next. "Taylor Swift is getting people to try to assassinate me!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Listen, we already have a reality tv star running for President as a fascist. I’m not discounting Chairwoman Comrade Swift from being a possibility.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago

Shooter 1: Republican

Shooter 2: Former MAGA

Hmmm

These democrats sure are playing long cons...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What Trump needs is a Good Guy With A Gun.

Has he tried hiring a security guard? Did he try Duck & Cover? An armed school teacher maybe?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Why hasn't the billionaire properly secured himself? We all know the public option is de minimus, so why hasn't he gone deep into the private mercenary world to hire the best?

/s if it wasn't obvious

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

His looney ass maggot followers believe this shit. Many are so delusional it's rattling. I think it comes from lots of practice believing things that aren't real. The Great Satan is religion.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

“It’s just horrible – so surprising to see it here. But we have to get over it. We have to move forward.”

-Trump in response to a school shooting in Iowa, the day after the shooting, back in January 2024.

Trump needs to get over being shot at, that's the America that him and the GOP have created. If he doesn't like it... maybe consider some sort of way to control access to guns so that unhinged individuals can't get them... something like... I don't know, gun control?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Kind of like how his rhetoric is causing people to call in bomb threats in Springfield? I hope the second attempt really puts fear into his heart: it's not just one crazy guy, there could be gunmen everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I really don't want Trump to get shot and killed.

I really really want Trump to live the rest of his life in constant fear and paranoia, never able to enjoy the things that he loves, isolated from the world and starving for the adulation of the people who will quickly forget him in the prison of his own making as he taps away at his phone on his own little social media bubble, grasping at being relevant again until the day he dies of natural causes and the nation lets out a wet fart of false sympathy and lowers the flags to half staff for the day while the news media puffs him up one last time before they, too, stop giving a shit and we close this chapter of our lives and our nation.

That requires Harris to beat Trump in November, so I need the fucker to stay alive until then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Eh ill take my "good enough" if he gets brained, especially if its one of his former supporters. He is dangerous enough that death is easier to work with, while id prefer he had a aneurism on stage and rapidly go into death seizures ill take whatever to remove him. Consider his imprisonment to be a good desert, but right now we are starving so dont bitch about the expired MRE or cold McDonald's hamburger.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

People say anti trump centrist republicans are a political dead end but it seems at least two of them were willing to make concepts of a plan with a gun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

They're not dead center, so they're ackshually diehard leftists, didn't you get the memo? The left is trying to kill Trump! Clutch those pearls hard!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago

This statement is expected from the Gaslight, Obstruct, Project political party.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Trump supporters are to Trump what Trump is to the Republican party.

They thought they could harness the crazy. Now they face growing existential threats for not being crazy enough.

The find out phase is getting spicy!

Insert your Russian nesting doll of consequences jokes below.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It's consequences all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

To be fair to him the speech made sense when he was practicing it because he was looking in a mirror.

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