Not being able to pull off an assasination in a country where citizens can legally buy an assualt rifle must be an embarrasment in the history of assasins.
it was an incredibly close shot. looks like he coincidentally moved his head the exact moment the shot rang, if he hadn't he would be gone. factors like windage also play a role. idk which outcome is worse.
I also don’t know which outcome would be worse but I do know which one I really wanted in that moment.
MAGA world would collapse from infighting to be the new figure head. So I know which outcome I'd have preferred.
Both Trump and the Shooter surviving would have been best. If the kid was able to say exactly why he did it, then all the conspiracy would die. An Trump would have some uncomfortable questions about his involvement with Epstein. That second part might still happen. But likely won't.
Definitely this one. This just killed my hope that he loses again, and you know the Gravy Seals are going to step up their harassment and violence towards people - and that would have been true either way. At least with the other outcome he doesn't get in.
He couldn't have asked for a better gift for his campaign.
As someone indicated below, he's now a living martyr. I would place money that he uses this to galvanize his following and it actually benefits him in the polls.
He needed to die in an embarrassing way (lethal dose of ex-lax?) for it to hurt his reputation.
I don't buy the 'pave the way for someone worse' argument. Who would that be? I can't think of anyone right now, except for maybe De Santis in terms of actually being somewhat competent.
Might not be a politician. He wasn't before he became president.
A perversion of the word Martyr as it requires one to walk in faith. The appropriating of religious symbols merely as an aesthetic is really on brand...
him dying would've turned him into a martyr and basically solidified him as a saint, if not a god, to the maga crowd. I can imagine the repercussions of that. there's also the possibility that someone worse replaces him, someone just as fascist and selfish but twice as competent, and that would be disastrous. y'know, the whole "guys I went back in time and killed Hitler" trope/joke.
He's already a god to his followers. People literally paint him as the second coming of Jesus Christ. There is no one worse in this moment than Donald Trump.
Sure there are people who are worse. There are people behind their movement that have not stuck their head up and are competent.
Sure, yet none of them are able to do what Trump does. That's why it's taken 40+ years for them to get to this point. The Mitch McConnells and such might be politically saavy, but they don't have the "charisma" of Donald Trump to actually pull off the end game. That's why they all protect him so much, he's a cult figure, which can be difficult to fabricate.
Yeah but then he couldnt be in the oval, which is what actually matters lol.
Now he’s a living martyr.
Trump at his next public appearance.
this is true...
and basically solidified him as a saint, if not a god, to the maga crowd.
I'm pretty sure that's already true, but I see your point overall.
A lot of them already called him "the God Emperor", so...
Assuming it was actually the bullet that injured his ear, and not the 10 secret service guys wrestling a 78 year old man to the ground.
In the video he reacts to something before being tackled, kinda ducking his head a little and grabbing at his ear. He was hit by something, but I've heard some conjecture it may have been shrapnel from a shot teleprompter, so seems to either be that or a bullet itself.
And all the pellets hit abe and no bystanders
Abe was shot from just a few meters away though. Hard to miss at that distance (well, one would think. The assassin missed his first shot).
To be fair, it was a point blank shot, and there wasn't secret service up the ass everywhere.
There needs to be a period or lime break between "in a cave" and "with a box of scrap"
I know it was a typo, but a lime break does sound great. Maybe a gin rickey?
I like the way you think
Wait
What's going on...?
There was a shooting at a Trump rally. Details are still being released. The meme is referencing the successful assassination of Shinzo Abe a couple years ago.
Were people hurt?? Ffs America
One attendee and the shooter are dead
Tbf, when one says "shooting" it conjures up images of an active shooter scenario. What happened was more aptly described as an assassination attempt. Target (trump) wounded (barely), one (or possibly two) bystanders dead, shooter dead.
Fun fact: this will be the 34th mass shooting in the month of July in the US. This qualifies as a mass shooting because there were 4 casualties.
Fun fact: Tetsuya in the Japanese dictionary means:
徹夜 - てつや - 🇬🇧staying up all night
A not-so-fun fact: The Tetsuya in his name is actually 徹也. Just a coincidence that it sounds the same as "staying up all night". Fun coincidence though.
....goddamn. I am conservative but this is top tier memeage. And he is okay so... I think we can all have a laugh! 😂 Very funny. 👍🏻
No matter what side you're on, this is the funniest fucken meme I've seen in a while.
The difference is that Tetesuya was able to kill the PM because he did it at point blank range.
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