• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I absolutely love how little people are caring about this assassination attempt.

    Everyone kind of just wants the same thing and I love that solidarity.

    If this had happened to any other president in my lifetime it would be a much bigger cataclysmic event. And I love that it’s not going to help his polling.

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      13 hours ago

      It’s like the boy who cried wolf. The first time a President is almost killed that’s big news. The fourth time, a lot less interesting.

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    15 hours ago

    A white California man tried to KILL our deeply unpopular pedophile president so we need to get RID of the fillibuster so we can FUND the DHS so that they can DEPORT more BROWN PEOPLE!

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    1 day ago

    The National Guard never stopped patrolling the streets of Washington DC. The DC police has been placed under federal control. The president himself has called Washington DC “perhaps the safest” city in the United States.

    If there’s a “moment of national danger” happening under those circumstances, maybe it’s not resources that are the problem. Maybe leadership is the problem.

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    This assassination attempt was almost definitely a false flag.

    Let’s, for sake of argument, say it wasn’t.

    The location has plenty of security, security that successfully stopped the gunman.

    In what world would this mean “obviously we need more security.” The security worked, it has enough funding, also the thing that protects the president is the secret service which is part of the department of the treasury, not DHS.

    So the secret service did their job and stopped a threat and for some reason that means we should give an unrelated part of the government more money.

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      Maybe… There have been so many times we’ve said x event was the Reichstag Fire. And sure, I’m not denying it could be this time, but I don’t think we should automatically call it such yet.

      I’m willing to admit they’ve tried to make other events be that catalyst, but thus far, it has largely failed. At least in the sense of the transition to complete autocratic dictatorship they want. They’ve absolutely made enough progress and damage to be very dangerous in other ways, but they are clearly wanting a full dictatorship.

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    1 day ago

    Raise your hand if you suspect the shooter incident was more like an orchestrated fundraiser.

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    I was worried this might happen after Trump was wailing about the Filibuster the other day. If only Dems had more than 48 seats in the last 13 years maybe we could have done something about all this.

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      If Biden hadnt supported aipac’s favorite genocide we all wouldnt be in this mess. But the money was just too good for Biden and almost everyone else in congress – on both sides of the aisle-- to pass up. So here we are.

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        Biden was way too lenient with Israel, but he very demonstrably kept aid flowing into Gaza and withheld large bomb shipments as Israel closed in on population centers, reportedly yelled at Netanyahu over the phone and was always fighting for a ceasefire which included the terms of hostage release which China vetoed in the UN.

        Unfortunately he kept selling all other arms to Israel with emergency powers and his admin vetoed all other ceasefire terms.

        Regardless, anybody who truly cares about even a single Palestinian life needs to vote out the GOP by any means necessary.

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    They were always going to nuke the filibuster during trumps term. I’m shocked it lasted this long. This whole thing is starting to look like a big coordinated plan. Just hard to see what the end game would be.

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      For sure, but not to MAGAts and a couple million more idiots with the right to vote…