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Not a surprise. One other thing. Anyone else notice how front and center Joe Biden has been? He’s definitely taking an opportunity here.

He will most certainly will put himself in line of danger, but it won’t be at big rallies. Chances are he’s going to find ways to circumvent the SS, which means more irregular meet-and-greets and questionable photo opportunities.

Intriguing… At the very least, he’s not going to be allowed to freewheel his way through rallies at random airport tarmacs and parking lots. The Secret Service is going to lock his shit stained ass down, and that means: he’s going to have to stick to expensive, controlled venues, his public profile will be curtailed (no more golf lunches), access to Mar-A-Lago will be heavily restricted, ???? and, his social media will get screened. Retreating now means he’s going to be trapped once the shock wears off after next weeks RNC. We’ll see what he does then; in all likelihood he’s going to have difficulty reaching the independent voters that benefitted from loose access.

The Secret Service did the best job anyone could do in the situation. The kind of audience Trump plays to and surrounds himself with are the very ones endangering him.

All this discussion of Trump suddenly becoming the front runner is dependent on Trump becoming sympathetic to voters that oppose him. Assassination attempts are most often used successfully as part of an image makeover, and they work by boosting the profile of a candidate who is lackluster or people know little about. Trump is not only a well known, he’s polarizing. Chances are, his speech on this event next week will not only ignore the fact that the shooter had no known ideology, they’ll lean into the same obscure narrative of Trump Derangement Syndrome by generic leftists that he’s pushed ad nauseam for the better part of four years. His policy platform won’t change. He won’t suddenly become an empathetic likable figure who’s misunderstood. All this is to say he has nobody to galvanize.

I can think of one reason why the venue might not have been properly secured. Trump has been increasingly relying on public venues, often on very short notice, because of his horrid reputation of stiffing the bill. No modern president would ever appear in some of the places Trump has had a rally because they’re outdoors, in public spaces that are not designed for large gatherings. Add the fact that Trump usually ignores his security team when choosing where and when to appear and you have recipe for disaster.

It’s a conspiracy!

I’m just here to see what the latest on the false flag op is…. Because we all know that some random dude that is on record as being a registered Republican who somehow gave to an unrelated Dem action committee and is now conveniently dead after one of the worst assassination attempts I’ve ever seen is totally legit.

Oh I know she’s an antisemite. She’s just being a bigot at the wrong time. Supposed to keep the Jew hatred under wraps until the election is over. Now someone is going to have to do a little false flag op to get the heat off. Lol.

I’m slow… but why would she be so vocally anti Israeli if she’s supposed to be Trump’s future DEI side piece? Is it some kind of stupid false flag to get conservatives to rally for Netanyahu?

Was she directly hired by Baldwin? I kind of think that would have been a more important point in his prosecution.

It was overreach from the beginning. This should have been handled in civil court where Baldwin’s role as a producer could be litigated, and he does have civil liability for not maintaining a safe workplace.

That’s between me and the Ghosty in my dreams.

How do you wish him a Happy Sunday? Because I do it in my own special way.

When you all going to invite me to the ghostier group chat?

I clicked it. Who else needs to? Maybe @[classic swim] will click it.

Getting in a vehicle collision is no fucking joke. I'm glad your're ok.

I think there’s enough evidence to suggest he’s probably not going to physically hold up for four more years, and now is the time to address it by getting Kamala out there.

I'm just going to post this here from the other thread: You don't have to read it again, but it definitely had me looking for the PSP traits the doctors in the article mention, particularly the one about his eye movement and his vocalization. Jury's still out after just this news conference.

I get that, and you're not wrong. I really feel like it's easy to overlook a lot of the workshopping these young local politicians are doing, because the dysfunction and an absence of tangible gains wears on patience. The current progressive movement is in its infancy at a time when its platform centers on increasingly urgent issues; it's why an otherwise caretaker Biden administration has outsized emotions attached to it. We really shouldn't be feeling excited about the prospect of four more years of stalemate, just hopeful that we've bought enough time to see results in cities like New York and Los Angeles that can be carried to the national level.

I don’t know if it’s grim, but there’s a reason there aren’t any “dream” candidates. The superstars of the progressive movement are working at the munincipal / district and, occasionally, state level in states that don’t have a major metropolitan region. The issues that are most important to Democrats are regionally located, even if they’re more or less universal, because those issues interconnect at the local level.

This isn't a usual campaign, though. He's up against an equally suspect old man who hasn't run anything close to a coherent campaign.

That's the general consensus. I voted her into the Senate, and I don't even know much about her as a politician other than there was purportedly an unofficial agreement between her an Newsome about staying out of each other's lane when he was looking at his national prospects when running for governor. True or not, the implication is that the party was trying to boost her national prospects early on.

What about Kamala Harris doesn't work for you? In all likelihood she'd be the candidate if Biden drops out anyways because there are no other candidates with a national profile that could possibly step in.

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