Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:17:31 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 117 Message-ID: References: <20240913a@crcomp.net> <20240915a@crcomp.net> <5bmgejp760n2h46b05jb6poptpanq8mgp5@4ax.com> <86e08bb6-77a6-118d-1118-8216c9c45f4a@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:17:34 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="732aeea25822619f117af0f8cbb152a5"; logging-data="3421682"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18BiJ72LD72lVOJK4RZYmHK1pDAnFbAZ6A=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:v3an1WQpUyCe83UHE9tvCc5f0jw= Bytes: 5592 On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:38:16 -0700, Dimensional Traveler wrote: >On 9/23/2024 8:39 AM, Paul S Person wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:10:07 +1000, Mad Hamish >> wrote: >>=20 >>> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:41:34 +0200, D wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Paul S Person wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:15:08 +0200, D wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, 15 Sep 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 9/15/2024 9:02 PM, Don wrote: >>>>>>>> The Horny Goat wrote: >>>>>>>>> Paul S Person wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I don't recall Trump holding a whip in his fist after being = shot. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I don't recall much being made of the assassination attempt in = the >>>>>>>>> debate at all frankly especially not by the heavily Dem leaning= ABC >>>>>>>>> crew. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Another assassination attempt?!?! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The State, Deep in the bowels of hell, acts as though Trump can >>>>>>>> singlehandedly reverse centuries of sociological ratcheting. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ObSF: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> "Flow my Tears" the Francis "Shakespeare" Bacon said. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Danke, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> =93Ban democrats from owning guns. Why would they object?=94 >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Brilliant! Everyone wins. Nr of guns go down, democrats don't like= them >>>>>> anyway, and the republicans get to keep theirs! Lynn for = president! >>>>> >>>>> Of course, this presupposes that any attempts on Trump are by >>>>> Democrats. >>>>> >>>>> AFAIK, that has not be demonstrated yet. The Donald has pissed off = a >>>>> lot of his former followers by waffling on abortion in an attempt = to >>>>> avoid a Kamalaslide. And a lot of those are armed and have very = short >>>>> fuses. >>>>> >>>> >>>> From >>>> >>>> = https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/nx-s1-5113801/trump-shooting-assassination= -attempt-suspect-ryan-wesley-routh >>>> >>>> "He once supported Trump, but recently donated to Democrats" >>>> >>>> Sounds democrat to me. >>> >>> There's been differing stories >>> The latest information I've seen is that he was registered democrat >>> before he lost voting rights for a felony convinction around 2002 >>> He regained voting rights in 2012 and has been unaffiliated since >>> >>> He posted in 2020 that he'd voted for Trump in 2016 but wanted him = out >>> and he made contributions to various Democrats in the primaries, his >>> only political donations (total about $140 so hardly huge amounts) >>> >>> This year he tagged Nikki Haley into a post suggesting she could form >>> a combined ticket with Vivek Ramaswamy to make a ticket "we could all >>> get behind" >>> >>> So "he's a democrat" seems a dubious interpretation >>=20 >> It's a Republican interpretation. >>=20 >> Anything to avoid the possibility that Trump's dissing everyone but >> his base and then betraying his base on the topic of abortion could be >> coming back to haunt him. >>=20 >> And, to blame Democrats for /daring/ to follow Trump's lead ("how dare >> they! only /we/ can do that!" -- a cry echoed recently by Hezbollah >> upon receiving a dose of their own medicine) and so provoking the >> attempts. >>=20 >> But, in this case, I think he's just a nutter. And /that/ is assuming >> he meant to shoot at Trump; since he didn't shoot, who can say what >> (if anything) he had in mind? >>=20 >He didn't shoot because he never got a line of sight on Trump. Also, it appears that he wrote a letter stating that he was, indeed, intending to get Trump. Since this was entered in court, it has a certain amount of ... plausibility ... other stories do not, although given the Kraken suits ... well, this time it's a prosecutor, not an idiotic Trump lawyer (most of whom have, apparently, been fined/sanctioned/removed from the bar -- the courts having a low tolerance for nonsense). --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"