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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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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 22:41:38 -0700
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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
>>> <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.
>>
>      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.  ;)

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