2024 General Election Thread

Post by **Leisher** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:10 pm

I'm seeing lots of black people making "Trump's the real first black president jokes".

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:12 pm

If nothing else, we'll have 4 more years of amusing "not my president" civil disobedience.

Damn the Man. That gets forgotten under D presidents.

Post by **Leisher** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:13 pm

1 attendee confirmed killed. Another in critical condition. Per CNN.

Post by **Troy** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:13 pm

Guess the shooter wasn't a (formerly active) Marine, eh?

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:14 pm

Troy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:13 pm Guess the shooter wasn't a Marine, eh?

Ha! I had that exact thought within a minute of the shooting.

Peeps in the back would be splattered with brain matter.

Post by **Leisher** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:22 pm

Troy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:13 pm Guess the shooter wasn't a (formerly active) Marine, eh?

Troy's working on his standup career.

If you watch the video, Trump moved his head seemingly as the same time as the first shot. That might have saved him some additional damage.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:28 pm

I'd need to know the distance to guess how many inches his last minute head movement saved him. It sounded like a decently powered rifle, compared to the pistol pops right after..... but I'd GUESS the round wasn't supersonic.

At 500 yards there's a distinct delay in a supersonic .556 rifle round (which is small) between hearing the crack of the round zipping over your head, and then hearing the bang of the rifle.

"Sounded like a BB gun." What a retarded idiot.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:48 pm

GORDON wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:28 pm compared to the pistol pops right after.....

Someone said a SS counter-sniper team got him. If it was another rifle, it was farther away and sounded like handgun pops compared to the closer rifle.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 9:46 pm

GORDON wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:08 pm "Ok.... you need to be a really good shot, you need to nick his ear from 300 yards. Yeah you're going to hit an innocent in the backdrop, but acceptable losses. And don't worry, we totally won't kill you ourselves to shut you up."

Welp..... what went down matches this pretty well.

Post by **Troy** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 9:58 pm

A bullet going past trump from the NYT.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 10:05 pm

Oh damn.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 10:42 pm

Here's my wildcard prediction:

Next public appearance he makes, someone else will take a shot at him.

There are a whole bunch of unhinged lefties walking around with wide eyes tonight, and it's soaking in that someone made the person that's been built up in their minds as Super MegaHitler, bleed. It's possible, is ringing through their heads. It's going to happen again.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 11:21 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/13 ... -in-the-us

Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago who has studied American attitudes toward political violence since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, conducted a nationwide poll on the topic last month. It found that 10 percent of those surveyed said that the “use of force is justified to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president.” A third of those who gave that answer also said they owned a gun.

Seven percent of those surveyed said they “support force to restore Trump to the presidency.” Half of them said they owned guns.

Far left more unhinged than far right. Not a surprise to everyone.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jul 13, 2024 11:52 pm

Ooof. A political thing just snuck past my facebook blocks, and the comment thread is hundreds of "ha ha better luck next time" memes.

I'd forgotten for a minute how psycho my fellow humans are.

When I quit social media (I dont count FB because I block everything that isn't about food, hiking, scuba, and sci-fi) I forgot about that.

Post by **Leisher** » Sun Jul 14, 2024 1:45 am

That picture is amazing.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, has now been officially identified as the shooter.

Post by **Troy** » Sun Jul 14, 2024 4:04 am

Leisher wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:22 pm
Troy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:13 pm Guess the shooter wasn't a (formerly active) Marine, eh?
If you watch the video, Trump moved his head seemingly as the same time as the first shot. That might have saved him some additional damage.

Butterfly effect for sure. We are in a dark timeline, but there's a bunch of other ones in the multiverse where Trump brain was just spattered all over the crowd and something like a mini Civil War erupted. Woah.

Good week for me to be locked up in a law firm. Or in a courthouse with metal detectors and feds.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Jul 14, 2024 8:50 am

Went to a concert last night from 5pm to 11pm... did I miss anything?

Post by **GORDON** » Sun Jul 14, 2024 10:26 am

TheCatt wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2024 8:50 am Went to a concert last night from 5pm to 11pm... did I miss anything?

A whole bunch of psychos went on Facebook with their real names and celebrated attempted murder.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Jul 14, 2024 10:28 am

GORDON wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2024 10:26 am
TheCatt wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2024 8:50 am Went to a concert last night from 5pm to 11pm... did I miss anything?
A whole bunch of psychos went on Facebook with their real names and celebrated attempted murder.

Bitches be crazy.

Post by **GORDON** » Sun Jul 14, 2024 10:30 am

Being exposed to it for a few minutes last night shook me. I'd forgotten how sick most people are, since quitting reddit and fark.