As I think the shooting was a plan by Trump and the far right, I'm willing to bet that they told the shooter to take out somebody in the crowd. A sacrifice to the cause (of course, the shooter was himself then silenced before he could be apprehended and told to talk). Trump and the righties have no concern for anyone's lives but their own. They've shown nothing but callous disregard for others.
I'm not quite ready to go all conspiracy-theory on this mess just yet. Presuming we can get an unbiased opinion from the attending doctor (yet one more in a series of big asks!), it's possible that we might learn something.
OR ... Trump's people could step on everything and leave a conundrum behind.
Seeing who Trump is and who the Heritage Foundation are and how much they both lust after absolute power in the US, I wouldn't put anything past them. I really think they'll go to any length to get what they want.
I hear you. I just want to hear more evidence about this whole business. I don't think we have anywhere near enough data points to draw any conclusions.
I guess what bothers me the most, is the amount of time that went by from the first sighting of the guy on the roof until the shot was taken.
I mean, holy hell, your one job is PROTECTING your guy. There's some strange random person spotted by several people, crawling around on a nearby roof. You get your guy the hell out of Dodge, STAT. You don't second guess yourself, you just get your guy out of range first and then deal with the roof crawler.
That was my first thought, trumpolini was shaking in his boots during the BLM protests in DC. He hid in a bunker. He is a coward and the raised fist was a "tell" it was planned.
Aaaaand this is why we have so many right-wing conspiracy theories. Because once you hate something, you will imagine all sorts of crazy stuff about it just so long as it fits your narrative. I will give you 10-1 odds that this is exactly what it appears to be; a lone shooter, sincerely trying to kill Trump.
Now, a nice, pointed *sane* response to the shooting would be to ask Trump: since the Republican answer to gun violence is more guns, does this mean that you are going to request that more civilians bring guns to your future rallies? [And when the USSS and GOP start preventing guns at his rallies, point out that they are showing what a lie their 'more guns' rhetoric is.]
Aside: JD Vance a good choice. Young, midwest, got that rural/country vibe. Sigh.
Yes he was. C'mon, don't be that guy. The dude went to a rally with his family. He shielded them from a gunman's bullet and got shot for it. Trump's an authoritarian ass but "going to a Trump rally" is not a justified death sentence.
He supported Trump. He was at a rally. Neither of which are breaking any laws that I'm aware of, unlike the Orange Turd. And neither of which deserve a bullet.
Copeland has all the warmth and charm of a rotting corpse. That people delegate their thinking to him does not fill me with optimism regarding the future of our species. Copeland is a world class religious grifter, who demonstrates the disconnect between religion and morality about as well as it can be. His unconditional love for the most grotesquely immoral President in our history sickens me.
Republicans want to use this to silence We The People not to talk about Project 2025.
We can talk about the threat Project 2025 is to the constitution and the rule while also promoting the peaceful way we should handle this threat, which is to vote!
That's why I'm still wearing this "Reject Project 2025" shirt 👇
How about a prayer for the wife and daughter who survived because their firefighter husband and father stepped into the line of fire? Or even a prayer for him (not that there is much chance there's still a he there, or that prayer would have any effect, still the gesture is something)
Terri and George had to cover their right ears because Dopeland was blowing the wind of god through them and it was whistling through their heads and out their left ears.
So if a small chunk of the Orange Messiah's ear can't be surgically sewn back on, it will be carefully preserved and venerated as a holy relic, and soon it will be attributed to miraculous healings of ears, hearing problems, and all sorts of other injuries and maladies. In accordance with the Self-Anointed One's First Principle, that every interaction must be transactional, viewing of the Miracle Auricle will require a fee.
Yeah I'm wondering if the shooter was a full-on 'abortion is murder' fundie who had decided Trump's 'let the states decide' was some sort of betrayal.
We'll have to see. And be prepared for an answer of 'nope, no internally consistent logic of any sort, dude was just crazy' because sometimes that's the way it is.
Alex Jones fan is one rumor, it is said Jones said they'd be better off if they got rid of trump, and put someone in that could win, but I'm not screwing up my search engine trying to find out.
Wow, someone fixed it. The one I saw had the entire bullet with the casing flying through the air. You’d think the gun nuts would know more about how bullets work, but no, they needed someone to point it out to them after it’s been on social media for a couple days.
Couple of tornadoes in the area. No trailer parks. They were after wildlife areas and campgrounds today. (I quit watching after my local area was clear, hope there isn't more serious damage elsewhere.)
It does seem like the most simple-minded people are drawn to it. If the forced-birthers are any example.(does not apply to those indoctrinated as children, before their brains were properly formed, or escapees from said torture).
Thinking about this in the context of Trump and his son mocking Nancy Pelosi and her husband after someone attempted to assassinate her and ended up almost killing her husband. Evangelicalism, a place for the scumbags of society to hide in plain sight.
Televangelism's most punchable face g̸r̸a̸n̸d̸s̸t̸a̸n̸d̸i̸n̸g̸ ̸f̸o̸r̸ ̸g̸r̸i̸f̸t̸i̸n̸g̸ ̸o̸f̸f̸ ̸o̸f praying for reality TV's most punchable face. What a world.
If Jesus or Yahweh or whoever were actually protecting Trump, why did that .223 round come anywhere NEAR him, let alone his ear? If Trump is all that sanctified and shit, the bullet should have boomeranged around and took out Crooks, long before the Secret Service snipers did.
But then, Yahweh seems to just LOVE close calls, don't he? 😝
𝑊𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝'𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑟…
What, no prayers for Corey Comperatore's family?
𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒'𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛, 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑡.
Corey Comperatore's gravestone.
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑜𝑑.
That He let an innocent bystander, a firefighter, be killed rather than Trump?
Corey Comperatore wasn't sanctified by Yahweh to lead the revolution. Whether he is remembered by Trump's mob in the long run is likely a tossup.
As I think the shooting was a plan by Trump and the far right, I'm willing to bet that they told the shooter to take out somebody in the crowd. A sacrifice to the cause (of course, the shooter was himself then silenced before he could be apprehended and told to talk). Trump and the righties have no concern for anyone's lives but their own. They've shown nothing but callous disregard for others.
I'm not quite ready to go all conspiracy-theory on this mess just yet. Presuming we can get an unbiased opinion from the attending doctor (yet one more in a series of big asks!), it's possible that we might learn something.
OR ... Trump's people could step on everything and leave a conundrum behind.
Seeing who Trump is and who the Heritage Foundation are and how much they both lust after absolute power in the US, I wouldn't put anything past them. I really think they'll go to any length to get what they want.
If it was staged, something went wrong. I can't imagine him agreeing to bleed, however minor.
Edit: I'm also surprised, if so, they didn't sacrifice an SS agent.
I can't imagine the Secret Service agents being a part of such a scheme.
That blood might have been unexpected; unintended.
I hear you. I just want to hear more evidence about this whole business. I don't think we have anywhere near enough data points to draw any conclusions.
I'm also hungering after evidence. Keep in mind that my thoughts are just my opinion.
Face it, it's trumpworld, we never will.
I guess what bothers me the most, is the amount of time that went by from the first sighting of the guy on the roof until the shot was taken.
I mean, holy hell, your one job is PROTECTING your guy. There's some strange random person spotted by several people, crawling around on a nearby roof. You get your guy the hell out of Dodge, STAT. You don't second guess yourself, you just get your guy out of range first and then deal with the roof crawler.
At least that's how I understand it.
That was my first thought, trumpolini was shaking in his boots during the BLM protests in DC. He hid in a bunker. He is a coward and the raised fist was a "tell" it was planned.
If it were real, Trump would've decided "Fuck, it's not worth it. I quit. Let somebody else be President."
Instead, there he is with his fist raised. Fake.
Bingo, he’s nothing if not a major coward.
A bald eagle on Trump's desk got him to flinch and wheel away in fright.
Yup. Planned and fake.
Aaaaand this is why we have so many right-wing conspiracy theories. Because once you hate something, you will imagine all sorts of crazy stuff about it just so long as it fits your narrative. I will give you 10-1 odds that this is exactly what it appears to be; a lone shooter, sincerely trying to kill Trump.
Now, a nice, pointed *sane* response to the shooting would be to ask Trump: since the Republican answer to gun violence is more guns, does this mean that you are going to request that more civilians bring guns to your future rallies? [And when the USSS and GOP start preventing guns at his rallies, point out that they are showing what a lie their 'more guns' rhetoric is.]
Aside: JD Vance a good choice. Young, midwest, got that rural/country vibe. Sigh.
Re: JD Vance as a "good" choice, "good" is a VERY relative term! 😝
"sanctified by Yahweh to lead the revolution." a la Saint Ashley.
If you wanna make a saint, you gotta break some windows.
If the fireman was thee to support a 34-count FELON, SEDITIINIST-inciter, rapist…he’s no innocent victim!
Yes he was. C'mon, don't be that guy. The dude went to a rally with his family. He shielded them from a gunman's bullet and got shot for it. Trump's an authoritarian ass but "going to a Trump rally" is not a justified death sentence.
Yes, innocent of course. And stupid, of course. Alas. Poor man.
He supported Trump. He was at a rally. Neither of which are breaking any laws that I'm aware of, unlike the Orange Turd. And neither of which deserve a bullet.
You're right. It shouldn't shock me how clueless my fellow believers can be but it does.
Copeland is a very sick man - morally, mentally, spiritually. I’m glad we reap what we sow and get judged individually 🙏
Copeland has all the warmth and charm of a rotting corpse. That people delegate their thinking to him does not fill me with optimism regarding the future of our species. Copeland is a world class religious grifter, who demonstrates the disconnect between religion and morality about as well as it can be. His unconditional love for the most grotesquely immoral President in our history sickens me.
He has been grifting since I was a kid... that is a few years ago.
If their Jesus was there helping Trump, why didn't he give a shit about the guy who got killed and the other two who were badly wounded.
Copeland is a moral leper.
🎯🎯🎯
Republicans want to use this to silence We The People not to talk about Project 2025.
We can talk about the threat Project 2025 is to the constitution and the rule while also promoting the peaceful way we should handle this threat, which is to vote!
That's why I'm still wearing this "Reject Project 2025" shirt 👇
https://libtees-2.creator-spring.com/listing/reject25
VOTE! Our entire future depends on it.
All this would be funny if it weren't part of such a dangerous dynamic.
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Really, working up a big-time boo-fucking-hoo for Trump among the faithful ... 🤢🤮
How about a prayer for the wife and daughter who survived because their firefighter husband and father stepped into the line of fire? Or even a prayer for him (not that there is much chance there's still a he there, or that prayer would have any effect, still the gesture is something)
They're focused on spinning this so that Crooks is now an 'illegal'.
Funny how they think a name like 'Crooks' is Hispanic. He's so white he makes Wonder Bread look like pumpernickel.
How?
Um, Ken ... RIGHT ear! You wouldn't want people thinking you're a leftist, now, would you?
He had a 50-50 chance and he fucked it up.
Terri and George had to cover their right ears because Dopeland was blowing the wind of god through them and it was whistling through their heads and out their left ears.
So if a small chunk of the Orange Messiah's ear can't be surgically sewn back on, it will be carefully preserved and venerated as a holy relic, and soon it will be attributed to miraculous healings of ears, hearing problems, and all sorts of other injuries and maladies. In accordance with the Self-Anointed One's First Principle, that every interaction must be transactional, viewing of the Miracle Auricle will require a fee.
It's Not Easy Being God:
https://soundcloud.com/rich-hersh/1-song-it-s-not-easy-being-god
Shooter was a registered Republican. Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what his religion was?
Oops!
Is Drag Queen a religion?
My second guess is Kenyan Muslim Atheist.
Yeah I'm wondering if the shooter was a full-on 'abortion is murder' fundie who had decided Trump's 'let the states decide' was some sort of betrayal.
We'll have to see. And be prepared for an answer of 'nope, no internally consistent logic of any sort, dude was just crazy' because sometimes that's the way it is.
Alex Jones fan is one rumor, it is said Jones said they'd be better off if they got rid of trump, and put someone in that could win, but I'm not screwing up my search engine trying to find out.
Deflected just like this: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9c0427d7c029870366110357191c0414d814201246453735aeb9a895a6bfdff7.jpg
Wow, someone fixed it. The one I saw had the entire bullet with the casing flying through the air. You’d think the gun nuts would know more about how bullets work, but no, they needed someone to point it out to them after it’s been on social media for a couple days.
OTOH, YHVH provides glorious weather for Pride parades while sending tornados to trailer parks in the bible belt. :)
Like this
https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/451382352_1715203282599360_7786664482391352881_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=a5uQ51i0VYUQ7kNvgF8Vczx&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-1.xx&oh=00_AYA8phcNOxLQqRtMaNxsqxNUj8KpqA27dNc8fcjWFl-1Uw&oe=669B92BE
Couple of tornadoes in the area. No trailer parks. They were after wildlife areas and campgrounds today. (I quit watching after my local area was clear, hope there isn't more serious damage elsewhere.)
Tornado watch til 1AM.
My motto...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPC-xbMoRx8
While giving the finger.
It’s the white supremacist okay sign.
Good eye.
And the memes just keep on coming! 😝
Jeez! These people are fucking weird.
That's not the weirdest of them – there are plenty of YouTube's of Copeland acting even weirder.
Religion does that to a person.
It does seem like the most simple-minded people are drawn to it. If the forced-birthers are any example.(does not apply to those indoctrinated as children, before their brains were properly formed, or escapees from said torture).
I have to wonder if any conservative is giving their "Gun Control means hitting what you aim at" bumper sticker the side-eye these days.
More resolute than ever.
Thinking about this in the context of Trump and his son mocking Nancy Pelosi and her husband after someone attempted to assassinate her and ended up almost killing her husband. Evangelicalism, a place for the scumbags of society to hide in plain sight.
🎯
Televangelism's most punchable face g̸r̸a̸n̸d̸s̸t̸a̸n̸d̸i̸n̸g̸ ̸f̸o̸r̸ ̸g̸r̸i̸f̸t̸i̸n̸g̸ ̸o̸f̸f̸ ̸o̸f praying for reality TV's most punchable face. What a world.
If Jesus or Yahweh or whoever were actually protecting Trump, why did that .223 round come anywhere NEAR him, let alone his ear? If Trump is all that sanctified and shit, the bullet should have boomeranged around and took out Crooks, long before the Secret Service snipers did.
But then, Yahweh seems to just LOVE close calls, don't he? 😝
god-duhs aim is always suspect