Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bobbie Sellers 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 08:48:40 -0700 Organization: none at all Lines: 79 Message-ID: References: <20240913a@crcomp.net> <20240915a@crcomp.net> <5bmgejp760n2h46b05jb6poptpanq8mgp5@4ax.com> <86e08bb6-77a6-118d-1118-8216c9c45f4a@example.net> Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:48:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="af191156ec4357fbb2de1143333efa86"; logging-data="2914945"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/dWy6ylUacKNMNLwbrXybc" User-Agent: Betterbird (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BCmxKPMlXiD+QPjweGBsjaLtsxI= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4088 On 9/23/24 05:10, 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 Don't forget the Iranians who want to kill Trump because he threatens them with war. bliss -- b l i s s - S F 4 e v e r at D S L E x t r e m e dot com