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Hannity Falsely Calls Trump’s Would-Be Assassins ‘Democrats’ (www.mediaite.com)

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This will be their narrative now.

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[-] 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not a democrat, not really a republican either. Mostly just crazy.

Supports Trump 2016
Supports anyone but Trump 2020 - Briefly likes Bernie but then mainly has a parasocial relationship with Tulsi Gabbard (offers to write speeches, sends speeches to their email). Eventually gets on board with Biden Harris.
Somehow likes Kim Jong Un, has another parasocial relationship inviting to Hawaii and asking to be an ambassador.
Latches onto George Floyd protests supporting police reform.
Latches onto Hong Kong supporting independence. Again reaching out to be a kind of diplomat in a parasocial relationship with Carrie Lam and including his phone number and email. He does that a lot.
Latches onto supporting Ukraine. Has a parasocial relationship with Zelenskyy. Goes there and volunteers to help recruit eventually but people thought he was nuts over there. Kept offering to provide thousands of Afghan soldiers?
Asks Elon Musk about selling him a rocket to attack Putin...
Latches onto Taiwan supporting independence. Again offering thousands of Afghan soldiers.
Writes a book telling Iran they should assassinate Trump.
Believes China has a pneumonia bioweapon it's using to silence democracy
This election his dream ticket was Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley (and yet Ramaswamy is not pro Ukraine while Haley is so I'm not sure why he'd want Haley as the VP)

https://i.imgur.com/MU5PECk.png - here's a png of some of the tweets he made

[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Like, isn't he alive? Can't someone ask him what his motives were?

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Can't someone ask him what his motives were?

You assume the FBI, secret service, and every other 3 letter agency who can get access to his cell aren't doing exactly that?

Given his biography, I would expect a string of conspiracy laden answers and generally incoherent explanations, though.

[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But isn't that the most honest answer. Some form of mania. The GOP want us to live in a world where only democrats can ignite extremist violent outbursts. All while courting extremists. If the democrats rhetoric makes people violent then surely the GOPs rhetoric will do the same?

I dunno. I'm trying to apply logic to an illogical argument. So much of the time we should just shut these people off and work are hardest to deplatform them rather then just fact checking. It's a type of pollution, which is fine in small doses, but it's destroying the public square. That and all the shameless advertisments.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Do we even know he wanted to hurt Trump in the first place? He made no attempt at attacking him, he was just hiding with a weapon. Which might have been in order to protect Trump from assassins as far as we know. Did anyone ask?

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[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 96 points 3 days ago

Don't be like Hannity. If you find yourself lying to support your view, change your view.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

But then how will I support my view that I'm the world's greatest lover?

[-] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 17 points 3 days ago

I would maybe have believe "in Japan" squid Man, don't be greedy.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

That settles it. There's only one way to prove this: take off your pants and bend over.

[-] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 15 points 3 days ago

Do I look like several salary men on a train with a funnel to you?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

...yes?

[-] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 10 points 3 days ago

A great eye and all those soft tentacles what a catch you are. World's greatest!

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Sorry, we all have to make sacrifices.

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago

These fucks are bitching about this while their candidates openly encourage domestic terrorism against Haitians.

Fuck 'em.

[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 55 points 2 days ago

His dream ticket was Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy. He was not a Democrat.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

That too, but more importantly, he wasn't a registered Democrat. Which is what makes you a Democrat.

[-] Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 2 days ago

That's really a terrible way to make that assessment. I'm registered as a Republican in my state so I can vote in their primary, but that doesn't reflect who I actually support.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

How do you think the parties count their numbers?

[-] Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 2 days ago

That's moderately useful for statistics purposes, but that's all. It does not mean every individual person who registers as Republican believes in Republican values and votes for Republicans. Nor is it a complete list, plenty of states don't require registration for primaries so there are lots of people who don't bother declaring either way.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

they also called the jan 6th people "antifa".

The funniest possible outcome is if Biden pardoned the dude.

[-] bizzle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm calling "no balls" on Biden pardoning this guy

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

idk, I'm hoping Dark Brandon makes one final appearance. It should be obvious this guy need mental help, not prison. And that assassination attempts are the logical result of proclaiming you want to be a dictator.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

When you train your base to be militant whenever they don't get their way, you can be assured that you will always be on the chopping block. Look up the French revolution. Or even the fascist uprisings in Germany and Italy. I fighting will happen because you created an environment in which decent is punishable with death.

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[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Person: Votes for Trump. Republicans: A Democrat!

Anyways even though Hannity is LYING about Assassination attempts can DEMOCRATS please tone down Their Rhetoric?

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Imo, saying you want to be "dictator day 1" this is the obvious outcome. This is 100% Trump's own statements that caused this.

[-] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

Looks like that that dumbass Hannity forgot his tie and acted like an idiot again.

What an idiotic dumbass!

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[-] Mobiledecay@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

They have to shelter their base from the truth. ☺️

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago

I just saw someone on Gab insist that Thomas Crooks was a registered Democrat...

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[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago

The undecided voters this year have really been deciding with a vengeance

This latest guy having a ton of Ukraine posts is probably also part of them being like "he's a democrat"- there's even a picture of him with blue hair

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