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[–] cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world 200 points 2 days ago (34 children)

We dont yet know if the assassin is from the left

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It won't matter as they will accuse the left regardless.

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Joe Biden did it on his bicycle.

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 29 points 2 days ago

It was a tandem with...OBAMA IN THE BACK

Thanks Obama!

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

360° no scope headshot. Biden invented that move in WW1.

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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have wondered from time to time where the militant left is.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Bitching, on the internet.

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago

What if... there is a civil war, but it's old-school conservatives vs MAGA?

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 142 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I mean, just going off the last two people who shot at trump in the last year...

There's no reason to say this wasn't MAGA yet.

It could be someone who thought Kirk wasn't going far enough because he still wanted to talk

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I am fully convinced the trump thing was a false flag operation. They specifically selected a mentally unhealthy kid who was a bad shot. Trump wasn't grazed by the bullet. The movements of his security and the press to set up that photo op paints it's own damning picture.

Charlie is just to much a fucking idiot to adhere to the same security protocols as literally every conservative event.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 32 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The reason that I just can't take that idea seriously is that, well, there at least was someone actually shooting, so if it was faked the way they would have to do it would be along the lines of "shooting at Trump, but intentionally missing". That would be a fairly dangerous move though, if your fake shooter's aim was off, there's the risk that it accidentally becomes a real assassination instead, and that level of risk feels out of character for Trump.

Further, were it staged, I'd expect it to be designed to advantage Trump as much as possible. Surely the "shooter" would be revealed to be one of the many demographics he riles people up against, or at least an outspoken democrat, and surely they would have played it up as much as possible throughout the election instead of having it done well before the final weeks and letting it get buried by the news cycle before people actually went to the polls.

He also surrounds himself with loyal but often incompetent people, and is an old man prone to saying embarrassing things. Would he really have been able to keep such a fake a secret even for this long?

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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

I don’t know… The many layers of shocking incompetence across several different law enforcement agencies? Certainly sounds like a Trump administration thing. Nothing surprising about that. Did the trump administration take huge advantage of it? Absolutely. Was the ear graze and blood faked? Probably.

But I still believe that the attempt was real.

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[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

True but really when we look at Kirk the only not far enough he could be doing is Epstein. Otherwise he's jackboot all the way.

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[–] Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This sucks for Kirk's family. They should release the Epstein files.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

those kids will totally get bullied by other kids showing them the video of their dad dying. that's all I really feel bad about today.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yea. About the only thing sad about this.

Like, they are still kids, Charlie might have been a bigoted fascist but that's far too complicated for children to fully understand; to them, he was just "Dad".

It is truly unfortunate for them they had the ill fate of being born to such a horrible person, but that horrid person was spreading rhetoric which has resulted in countless other children losing parents themselves. All I can hope is that those kids grow up to understand this.

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[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 72 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I'm willing to bet it's a right-winger. Some deranged psycho that bought into the right-wing conspiracy hate sphere they always use and has an axe to grind with Charlie's flip on releasing the Epstein files.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Hoping it’s feral ass MAGA realizing they have been fooled and starting to turn

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 13 points 2 days ago

It's pretty much what happened with trump's near success.

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[–] kidney_stone@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Is there any confirmation that the shooter was in any way a leftist, or motivated by left wing ideals? From all I know, it was some random guy who could have been a right winger who thinks Trump is centralizing the government which goes against his Ayn Rand ideology; or it could just be a loonie.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For all we know, it could have been an incompetent hunter two kilometres away.

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[–] Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

None, here's what we probably know

It was probably done with a rifle at some point, shooter was on a roof, shooter ran away, that's about what we know at this point.

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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

We don't even know who did it. This meme is stupid. Could've been another MAGA idiot getting mad at something he said.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Worse than stupid, it's dangerous.

The current fascist administration is DESPERATE to find and paint a segment of a population to not only blame this on, but also to round up and punish that segment.

I don't think we should be cowering in fear of the administration and their cronies, but we can't do any good if we're all locked up, deported to Narnia or being burnt at the stake.

Especially bad considering that this is massively likely to be a right-wing veteran if he's ever caught.

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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (6 children)

My money is on a Trump/CIA plot to distract from the Epstein files.

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[–] breezeblock@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 days ago (6 children)

You can’t convince me this and the trump shooter aren’t right wing gambits.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Will this one finally distract from the Epstein files?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

This is a safer way to look at the Epstein birthday book (PBS link) if you’re interested. Still a PDF. https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2025/09/Request-No.-1.pdf

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[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Trump ordered all flags at half mast until Sunday. If I had a flagpole, I'd be racing to add an extension on to it, even if it looked like shit, to raise it higher.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago

It's like flying the flags at half-staff if Joe Rogan took too much ket this weekend.

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[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] mcbenavides85@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago

They gonna learn the hard way.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (19 children)

Didn't they not even find the shooter? It could be like trump's failed assassin

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 22 points 2 days ago (8 children)

It's someone from the right. It's always someone from the right. Every single time

Popping off solo is an exclusively conservative extremist position

Leftist extremism is group based

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