It's a face eating extravaganza - for the leopards that is.

He didn't miss, he hit people in the crowd.

It's about what I expect from conservative shooters. Shooting everyone except the people who should be shot.

"I went forward in time...to view alternate futures. To see all the possible outcomes of the assassination attempt."

"How many did you see?"

"Fourteen million six hundred and five."

"How many were successful?"

"All but one."

Because it was a stunt to make the fat orange idiot look like a hero.

"Inches from a better world" has been a common phrase on my mind, with the added benefit of really needing a lot of context before the magastappo get pissy.

Everyday I curse him for missing

When it comes to presidential assassinations, there's really no replacing the efficacy of Marine Corps marksmanship training.

He's so cartoonishly moronic, he makes Portal 2's Wheatley look like a Harvard graduate.

Anti-intellectualism is one hell of a drug.

He is going to "common sense" America into Idiocracy. Remember his fantastic solution to COVID (injecting bleach + UV)? Or nuking hurricanes? When you make all the scientists run away, you end up with "the idea sounded good in my head... after a few beers".

trying to fuck the country

No just the blue states who dont like him

Edit: keyword "trying." Hes trying to fuck the blue states. yall down voting me into oblivion like trump doesnt have a clear vendetta against calfiornia. Yea, hes hurting the whole country as collateral damage, but lets not pretend that parts on purpose. Hes an idiot who has never understood the ramifications of his decisions. This orange turd see and opportunity to hurt california , and he takes it becuase its California, not because hes smart enough to understand

Edit 2: in this same thread is a Comment that says "hes just trying to destroy california" with clear upvotes. Has lemmy become the reddit hive mind already? Sheesh

Easy: it didn't happen in a democratic country.

In his previous term there were people in all positions that would say no. He didn’t like that and fired people constantly, rotating through an inordinate amount of staff.

This time round they pre-planned everyone in every inch of federal government. All loyalists. No one will say no. They all fall in line and do as they’re told.

Trump and his handlers will strip mine and destroy the country from top to bottom completely unchallenged. And any challenge will simply be sidestepped or simply ignored.

The dams are entirely the responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineers, and the US President is the commander-in-chief.

The only ways for this to not happen is for the President to have their mind changed, or the President is removed from office, or, the order is refused enough (at cost of being fired/court-martialed) that nobody will carry them out.

The great powers of the US Presidency is meant to expedite government action. We are currently far from the scenario where Congress, by the will of the US voters, will remove the current President.

We have three branches in the federal government - executive, legislative, judicial. Legislative creates laws. Judicial basically decides when they apply/arbitrates their implementation. Executive branch is the actual meat of the entire thing, containing basically every other federal government institution, which is (in broad strokes) a giant hierarchy with the President at the top, with the ability to override every decision. It's because the people who designed this system had monarchism as their primary frame of reference and basically designed "monarchism with a couple restraints". People like to think it's democracy with checks and balances, but the democratic elements are worthless and the checks and balances have completely failed.

I think he has no idea what he is doing, and he has dismantled all the guardrails.

He knows exactly what he’s doing, or at least, someone else proposed this and explained it to him. What he is doing is: ruin Californias agriculture. This water would’ve been needed in summer, when the place runs dry.

So come August, chances are, California agriculture is withering on the vine with no way to water it. At which point Orange Führer will blame the state government, just like he did with the wildfires. CA will suffer politically and economically, which is the real goal here.

Side-note but this is exactly the reason why my country never asked for my ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation (and AFAIK is not legally allowed to do so). We learned from WWII that this is too great of a liability to entrust to future, potentially hostile governments. The Nazis poured over every written registry of Jewish population census to make a handy murder list, maybe we shouldn't facilitate their job next time?

(Side-side note: because of what I just said it is very surprising that Germany keeps a registry of everyone's religion for tax purposes, like maybe just find any other way to allocate subsidies?)

(Side³ note: I'm going to guess unfortunately my government does have "legally trans" people in a database due to the logistics of changing legal gender)

Oh no don’t worry there is plenty of leopards eating people’s faces going on. I’ve seen so many crying about how these tariffs are gonna cost them jobs. Also saw some posts by conservative women pissed off when they found out DEI includes them as well not just people of colour

When they elected him the first time i tgought: hah, i bet they feel really stupid now because how incompetent he was. Nope, they doubled down and did it again.

He knows exactly what he's doing here. He's punishing the blue state specifically.

Terrorism is when you do it. Politics is when the establishment does it.