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Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a
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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:38:16 -0700
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On 9/23/2024 8:39 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:10:07 +1000, Mad Hamish
> <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:41:34 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:15:08 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> 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.

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