Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after shots fired at his Pennsylvania rally

It may bring MAGA nuts a few steps closer to the violence they're eager for an excuse to unleash. If they believe they're under immediate attack they will feel entitled to attack back. That said, I'm not sure how much difference this will make in the end. Eventually they'll get violent anyway because they're fascists.

And he’ll overplay his hand, freak everyone else out which drives voter turnout and he loses. Hopefully.

That's what happened with Reagan.

He is already, but he learned not to speak his mind on that.

sounds like the best way to ensure a Trump rally is safe is to ensure every single person there is armed.

That last part is the terrifying bit, honestly. Trump is an egomaniac with the attention span of a toddler. He's an unguided projectile of spite and vanity.

Imagine someone competent filling his shoes with the unprecedented powers that were recently granted by the supreme court and the rabid MAGA fanbase behind them.

The potential for lasting damage goes (even further) off the scale. I shudder to think what that might actually look like.

Honestly, in the event Biden loses, the best hope the US has is Trump's general incompetence.

This man wants to do things that will make me and many people i love dead or suffering. How do you not understand how we could feel this way?

Do you not realize how terrible it is that he missed? You of all people as a "flaming liberal" should be the most angry. This essentially secures trumps presidency, its the best thing that could have happened to his campaign.

Yeah you are definitely a lib alright.

This comment section is so fucked!

You libs drone all the time in every media how the guy is an enemy of democracy, second coming of Hitler and needs to be stopped for any price. Yet you are "revolted" when someone taken it seriously.

I’m a flaming liberal

tell us something we don't know

“May you live in interesting times” generally isn’t said with good intentions; interesting can be bad.

Take civil rights legislation in the 60s; a lot of what LBJ accomplished was credited to the national feeling after the Kennedy assassination. Would JFK have been able to accomplish all that if he had served eight years with public sentiment toward civil rights being divided?

I think the same thing about the Apollo program. Kennedy gave that speech and then died, and now not only did we have to beat the Russians we had to do it for a beloved slain president.

There's also an episode of Red Dwarf where they go back in time and convince Kennedy to be the second shooter on the grassy knoll, because his survival would have started WWIII.

If there were any security/civil rights/general spying on people bills that were floating around but were too unpalatable to push through, those are most likely going through now.

Also if the shooter turns out to be anything other than a straight white cis male, then whatever group they were part of is probably gonna have a bad time for the foreseeable future.

The election chances have just shot up.

I seriously do not understand the "My idealogical rival got shot at, I now endorse my idealogical rival." take. Nobody that isn't already voting for Trump LIKES Trump.

Apparently the shooter was in the crowd, which means it wasn't a long gun of any kind. Probably a pistol, something small enough to conceal. 22 makes sense.

I think if it was strong enough to bloody his ear like that then a few centimeters difference could potentially have done very serious damage.

If conservatives can whine and bitch about everything being fake news, well sounds like they can dish but they can't take it.

Making the mother of all omelettes here Jack. Can't fret over every egg

Crisis actors. They have gotten quite good at this thing.

That's no attempt, that's instant death.