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RANDYWILDMAN
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BlueWavePsych
(3,056 posts)
BSDemon
(29 posts)Pinback
(12,961 posts)
Details:
- https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/armed-trump-fans-biden-bus/
And of course Trump claimed that his supporters protected the bus!

- https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/02/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-claim-his-supporters-were-pro/
The video below has a detailed report on this and other incidents. I have a queasy feeling that theyll be trying worse this time around.
Quiet Em
(1,532 posts)She speaks for me.
forgotmylogin
(7,723 posts)If they'd rushed him out of there and he'd gone quickly and seemed concerned, but the moment his adrenaline kicked in he was poised for the "tough guy gets shot but survives" photo op.
He and the MAGAts are going to blame this on "democrat rhetoric" but that's projection as Democrats aren't sending out ads with cross-hairs over people's faces and talking about "the coup will be bloodless...if they allow it" type of shit.
Horse with no Name
(34,115 posts)K&r
dalton99a
(86,084 posts)MagickMuffin
(17,324 posts)She is sensible and lays it all out!
Jeebo
(2,370 posts)Who is she? She is really clever, entertaining, articulate, personable, and SANE. (Merely sane used to be a low bar, but given the level of political discourse in the past few years, sane now has become a high bar.) She should run for something. I would sure vote for her.
I especially like her name for the orange con man. She calls him Orangina Pervalicious Felonious Schlumper McPhee. I love that! (The closed captioning says she said Felonia, but I think she said Felonious.) I get Orangina, Pervalicious and Felonious, but I'm trying to figure out Schlumper and McPhee. Whatever, I love it! I call him the orange con man, one of the regular callers on Thom Hartmann's show calls him Agent Orange (I love that one too), one frequent poster here on DU calls him that orange thing, but Orangina Pervalicious Felonious Schlumper McPhee gets my award for the best one.
-- Ron
Seinan Sensei
(822 posts)
about a Scottish squirrel
Its repeating chorus included the squirrels name:
Angus McFergus McTavish Dundee
Wonder if Boston Smalls name for TSF harkens back to that?
onetexan
(13,913 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(10,928 posts)Solly Mack
(93,785 posts)aka-chmeee
(1,189 posts)Well, after all, he does have immunity.
C Moon
(12,679 posts)is going to cry out for an investigation into whether President Biden was involved.
wnylib
(25,183 posts)I nominate MTG as the most likely to call for it first.
Beck23
(327 posts)Thanks for pointing that out.
misanthrope
(8,374 posts)He might be one of the Orwellian animals who are "less equal."
vapor2
(1,754 posts)Shoonra
(575 posts)Whoever did the captioning on this bit of Twitter needs to go back to junior high. Really dumb mistakes in spellings and even choices of words.
littlemissmartypants
(26,525 posts)
SamKnause
(13,993 posts)keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Beck23
(327 posts)That's a good definition of karma
Trump and his supporters have made death threats, doxxed people, and generally ruined lives of election officials, elected representatives, and anyone who dared testify against him in court.
Stormy Daniels is thinking if moving her family to Canada because of the death threats. What about the two election officials who had to move because of the threats?
XanaDUer2
(15,075 posts)Many lives have been destroyed by him. Hes a violent traitor and sex offender. I have zero concern or sympathy for him.
Qutzupalotl
(15,192 posts)The SS knew he was no longer in imminent danger at that point.
Other than that, great rant.
xocetaceans
(4,019 posts)It would have seemed more prudent for the Secret Service to have restrained Dirtbag Donnie from his desperate grasping at a campaign photo-op (lest it be a final, truly ugly one), to have treated the situation as completely unsecured, and then to have proceeded to a location which would have been known to be fully secured.
At the end of the day, Dirtbag Donnie might have learned how Mike Pence might have felt on Jan. 6. (That is doubtful, though. Trump is not strong on empathy.) After all, what was it that Trump said about Pence? Wasn't it "He deserves it [the hanging the crowds of Trumplodytes wanted to administer to Pence]" or something close to that? A rope or a bullet...there is not much of a difference after all is said and done. Both were assassination attempts, and Trump only cares about the one that involved him. Pence would have been just a politically expedient expendable on the way to an illegitimate second Trump term if Trump's insurrection had succeeded.
Kali
(56,039 posts)otherwise why form shield around him at all?
Farmer-Rick
(11,623 posts)You don't form a shield unless you think the (or a ) shooter is still active. It's difficult, slows escape and impedes access to medical care.
Qutzupalotl
(15,192 posts)or they would not have done it. The shield is SOP after a shooting out of an abundance of caution, since, as you say, there could have been another shooter. But they assessed the situation and determined it was safe enough to proceed.
It's not that strange that Trump would mug for the cameras. I also don't find it strange that the SS lets him do what he wants, up to a point, J6 being a notable exception. (Imagine telling Trump no.)
oasis
(51,922 posts)
Quixote1818
(30,524 posts)Martin68
(24,900 posts)chouchou
(1,554 posts)Bravo!
SpankMe
(3,363 posts)And while all the things were going on that she's talking about, the left was NOT reciprocating with its own violent rhetoric.
c-rational
(2,898 posts)iluvtennis
(21,025 posts)Uncle Joe
(60,578 posts)Thanks for the thread demmiblue
nilram
(3,055 posts)Kali
(56,039 posts)pretty good
patphil
(7,351 posts)But then that's a fantasy. The truth is what it is, and it's so damn depressing.
Fear, anger, hatred, and violence rule in the crazy land of the Maga's..
And this is just one more expression of that crazy. We've got a long way to go.
bhikkhu
(10,763 posts)But I'm guessing there will be no end to crying about it.
Compassion should be reserved for the dead and wounded in the crowd maybe, who just went to participate in a political event, which is pretty important to be able to do safely in a democracy. Those guys didn't deserve it.
mellow
(97 posts)Clearly the fault of folk criticizing him.
Nimble_Idea
(2,494 posts)and killings in church....imagine their family values.
they have already lost any sympathy because they are gutter trash extremists.
Cha
(306,835 posts)Brilliant!!
Evolve Dammit
(19,784 posts)LilElf70
(686 posts)What a rocking video. The friggin truth, in all it's glory.
3catwoman3
(26,077 posts)BAM! Thats some damn fine wordsmithing there.
Easterncedar
(3,792 posts)I hadnt thought about the picture being risky.
LetMyPeopleVote
(157,542 posts)eppur_se_muova
(38,199 posts)Then when that odd "ga-lunk" sounded at the end, it was at top volume.