That would also let the GOP pick the VP unless they lose control of the House. Not an ideal situation.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof

I was never going to vote "for Joe" and I'm not planning on voting "for Kamila". I vote for my kids. Who wants them to get a good education? Who wants them to have control over their own bodies? Who wants to leave the world a better place for them? Whichever candidate is the best for my kids is who gets the vote. I'd vote for an inanimate carbon rod before Trump because even a president who did nothing would be better for the future than Trump.

You can really tell when they take away his screen time and post for him.

I prefer candidates who didn't get shot.

What was in it for him? What a sucker. What a loser.

Long ago, shit was regulated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairness_doctrine&diffonly=true

Please, not another octigenarian

Posers. REAL Trump fans would have a friend shoot their ear with an AR from range first.

/s, obviously. We all know they don't have friends.

That was a wild fitness class...

Let me guess, the conspirators can all be found hiding in the basement of a pizzaria?

I was talking about if it had been a member of the Secret Service that misidentified the guy as the shooter

So I've got this dog... She's a 2 year old rescue. She was supposed to be someone else's, but she was so traumatized by something that they couldn't train her, couldn't even pet her, and eventually, one thing led to another and we ended up with her. Took about 2 months before anyone in the house could even pet her, but now she's super lovey to everyone who lives in my house. She is "growling and barking when someone walks past the house on the other side of the street" levels of protective, though, and it's disruptive to our lives. It would be easy to just kick her or yell at her or get a shock collar and solve the problem that way, but I haven't done that because I've spent a lot of time rehabilitating rescue dogs and I know that abusing her will male her stop barking but at the cost of her personality. If our house becomes another abusive situation, she'll regress and, rightly, start being scared of people again... maybe forever this time. Instead, I got a sonic egg that distracts her when she barks, and I'll gently pet her and talk softly to her when she's spazzing out. She is slowly getting better. Some days, it's still frustrating and disruptive, but the way i solve the problem is important to my desired outcomes. I want a dog that loves and trusts me and my family and still wants to protect us but doesn't feel like we need protection from everyone who walks by.

In the same way, and as you said, with much higher stakes, I want Trump to lose , and I want the US to remain (and even improve) our democracy. Political assassination is incompatible with functional democracy. I know the US has a lot of problems with our democracy, but I'm not ready to "kick my dog" yet. I still want to save it. That does NOT mean I won't put the dog down if she bites one of my kids, but I kick her, then she bites... that's on me.

I think "killing political opponents is detrimental to democracy" and "let's save democracy" are pretty consistent.

Violence never works out for its victims. And seldom for its perpetrators. That's literally the point.

That was one of my theories, too, but I didn't want to be the first to say it. It'd be a heavy load to carry, knowing you shot an innocent person like that.

I have no reason to suspect this was staged but,I mean, it's a pretty compelling fit to the current narrative... Trump strong, Biden old and feeble. Plus, all that coverage of Project 2025, "Trump’s big weakness," just died with that first gunshot. Evangelicals will eat this up with their "he's Chosen" LARP. I can already imagine the "bulletproof" NFT trading card series...

As long as Trump doesn't die of a heart attack, this is only going to help him.

Man, I would love to watch his supporters work through the dissonance on that one. On one hand, they already chose Trump over their god... On the other hand, "come and take it" culture is right up there with evangelicalism as far as being really ingrained.

Do we know yet whether the would-be assassin or Secret Service hit the bystander? I was driving when it happened and am still getting up to speed

Edit/update: It seems the gunman was on a rooftop, not in the crowd, so, no idea what happened. I have a few theories, but I'm not gonna risk starting rumors.

"sudo is not recognized an an internal or external command"

• and cops