Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:41:38 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 112 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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:41:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="957ef204394b8b8890ba47591b674901"; logging-data="3262639"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+kcKiWqHoAgbRNdQTWY4ge" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:laxZQi/9GURfok/62CZptMZ4Pno= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 5772 On 9/23/2024 8:41 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > On 9/23/24 18:38, 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: >>> >>>> 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, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> “Ban democrats from owning guns. Why would they object?” >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 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 >>> >>> It's a Republican interpretation. >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> 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? >>> >> He didn't shoot because he never got a line of sight on Trump. >> >     He left a note saying that he was going to attempt to kill > Trump and apologizing for failing to do so. >     He was using the wrong sort of gun so his planning was > defective. The gun he was using was not very accurate at over > 100 yards and the closest he  could have gotten was at least > 3 times further. >     Assasins this year are not a good crop. ;^) > Part of being a good assassin is that no one hears about you. ;) -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.