I am thinking same as @Zerlyna@lemmy.world. The first time was a wackadoodle that voted Donald. This time it stinks of desperate and paid. IMO by someone from Donald's campaign as they couldn't capitalize on the first attempt.
Was he just waiting there in case Trump randomly decided to go golfing that day?
That honestly wouldn't surprise me. If you've seen the guy's Tweets and YouTube videos, he clearly wasn't very smart or sane. Dude literally travelled to Ukraine to try to "help."
#OperationConserve = #OperationKonserve the first attempt didn't work as they wanted with Biden dropping out and because they have no original ideas....
Only police did the shooting here right. So there is not even something to get over for him. Just a Florida man exercising his rights to bear arms. For all we know he was there to keep an eye out for assassins.
Oh, it will. If they march on the capitol again, Biden will call in the national guard.
Trump didn't do that when he was at the helm because he wanted them to succeed.
I almost want them to try again so this time an example can be made of them, since our legal system refuses to hold extremists accountable for their own actions.
I can see the future... In the next 48 hours Trump (or Vance) will do/say something incredibly stupid and everyone will forget about this assassination attempt.
Has it even been confirmed as an assination attempt?
Everything I've read points at it being a Florida man hanging out in the bushes by the golf course with an AK. I don't think they've confirmed he was even on the course.
Also remember we, the people, don't actually elect the president. We merely suggest we would like person X or person Y. Our vote is meaningless for the actual picking.
Regardless of how we vote. Each state picks "electors" who then "elect" our president for us. We don't get to vote for who the electors are either. So like we have zero voice.
If we could somehow control the electors's brain to force them to go republican or democrat, then there's no need for electors. Thus we must assume that the electors do not vote like we would like. Instead, they have their own mind and agenda and vote preference.
But we cannot change this process. So I will keep voting as I do, but I will know that it is mostly bullshit. I would much prefer it if the actual electors could be identified by name and location so ads can get shoved up their ass constantly on their preferred method of communication.
Most states have laws restricting faithless electors in some way, including voiding such votes (which has happened). Though, some lack enforcement mechanisms. The Supreme Court has upheld penalties for faithless electors within the past five years. As a result, it's vanishingly rare.
It's still a dumb system that is unrepresentative and relies too much on people just doing the right thing, but this characterization isn't totally accurate.
I don't want him to be killed because I don't want him to become a martyr, but I wish one of these chucklefucks had done some serious, permanent damage.
The first one set off an orgy of corporate news garment-rending for almost a full week which goosed the RNC views as well.
Don't think it was nothing. (Even though it was, technically, nothing.) Your Favorite Teacher From Elementary School's Fascist Racist Elect-A-Rapist Movement benefitted handsomely from that one.