Path: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.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 18:38:16 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 95 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 03:38:15 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="957ef204394b8b8890ba47591b674901"; logging-data="3203684"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+2OneuXtkJyE5Y8O+5043V" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:VvsXBUjsO4eTnReQkmct7VjmUTk= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4962 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. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.