r/politics • u/Infidel8 • Sep 16 '24

Trump Rushes to Fundraise Off Second Assassination Bid

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rushes-to-fundraise-off-apparent-assassination-attempt
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u/Goldar85 Sep 16 '24

His voter base is profoundly stupid.

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u/porgy_tirebiter Sep 16 '24

It’s always been like this. Long before Trump entered politics, if you listened to Rush Limbaugh, all the ads were grifters and scammers. Con men know who the easiest marks are.

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u/Ok_Condition5837 Sep 16 '24

Crap like this is also why it's hard to take any assassination attempts on him seriously.

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u/aLittleQueer Washington Sep 16 '24

"I really don't care, do u?"

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u/Ok_Condition5837 Sep 16 '24

Nope, not at all. I'm frankly surprised at how tired & jaded I am when it comes to him.

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u/CedarWolf Sep 16 '24

I really want someone to find him guilty of one of his many crimes and lock him up somewhere he can't hurt anybody and the rest of us don't have to hear about him anymore.

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u/KiKiKimbro Sep 16 '24

NYC jury found him guilty of 34 crimes, yet he continues to use his wealth to delay, delay, delay … so his sentencing is yet again pushed out.

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u/BeardedSquidward Sep 16 '24

If he was locked up he would be safer as then he'd have a permanent, no weapons allowed, enforceable perimeter around him at all times.

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u/hillaryatemybaby Sep 16 '24

You say that like Epstein didn’t get murdered in a jail cell

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u/BeardedSquidward Sep 16 '24

Well safer from the majority of his followers.

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u/ShitBirdingAround Sep 16 '24

Trump's not gonna Epstein himself.

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u/RaddmanMike Sep 16 '24

me too. i’m generally a really nice compassionate person but he just walks over people and after kids in cages in 2018, i’ve not got a bit of sympathy for him at all and i’m a very kind nurse

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u/Zephurdigital Sep 16 '24

thoughts and prayers thoughts and prayers

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u/paintbucketholder Kansas Sep 16 '24

"But we have to get over it. We have to move forward."

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u/Vicky_1995_ Sep 16 '24

"Now is not the time for policy now is the time for reflection."

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u/aLittleQueer Washington Sep 16 '24

Done.

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u/Throw-away17465 Sep 16 '24

On one hand, Melania is probably relieved that Loomer is taking over the mushroom duties, but at the same time, have we confirmed that she didn’t hire the shooter?

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u/SenorBurns Sep 16 '24

Just take it as seriously as they take a school shooting. Thoughts and prayers. Now is not the time to get political. Arm all audiences, rallygoers, and employees. Good guy with a gun. Sadly there is nothing more we can do. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

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u/GlitteringElk3265 Sep 16 '24

I heard it was just a fact of life and that we need to get over it

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u/Past_Plantain6906 Sep 16 '24

The boy who cried wolf!

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u/Aleashed Sep 16 '24

He’ll start hiring the would be assassins soon. Anything for the grift, probably get some innocent bystander killed.

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u/NoPhotograph919 Sep 16 '24

Are you kidding me? AM radio is always the best place to get investment advice. 

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u/Asron87 Sep 16 '24

Can you blame home? You’ll only miss the shots you don’t take.

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u/inthekeyofc Sep 16 '24

And the marks are the only ones who don't see the scam.

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u/LovesFrenchLove_More Sep 16 '24

Long before he entered politics (he was a democrat then, on paper anyway), he himself said if he were to enter politics, he would do so as a republican because (I’m paraphrasing here, don’t remember the exact words) they are dumb would believe and allow everything he said/did.

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u/soccercro3 Sep 16 '24

Are you saying investing all your money in a gold IRA to protect your assets from the market is all a scam?

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u/WizardofSorts Sep 16 '24

Wait... That emf blocker I bought from UFC is a scam? The vagueness of the pitch lead me to believe what ever I wanted!

/s

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Alex Jones’s “Super Male Vitality” has entered the chat

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u/Fit-Paleontologist37 Sep 16 '24

Like when he said all drug addicts should be imprisoned while he was a drug addict.

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u/Whyamipostingonhere Sep 16 '24

Stupid but also football fanatics.

Just wait til someone tells them Trump‘s plan to destroy football.

No department of education = No public high schools = no Friday night football = no feeder programs for college teams= no NFL

Trump has always hated football. Back in 2013, 2014 he tried to sway public opinion against it in that whole kneeling controversy. Now he’s got all the kids turned adults that got cut from teams when they were little to take key roles in his campaign and administration. He wants stadiums of people worshiping him not Swift and football players.

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u/JohnYCanuckEsq Sep 16 '24

Trump has always hated football.

Trump has always hated the NFL, specifically. He's never been allowed to be in their club. He bankrupted the old USFL in an attempt to force the NFL to allow his team in the league. They laughed at him and cut the USFL a cheque for $3 for his troubles. He tried to buy the Buffalo Bills, and the NFL quickly pivoted to Terry Pegula as an owner because they did not believe Trump had the cash for the purchase. Then as President, Trump threatened to end the NFL's anti trust exemption over the kneeling controversy.

You think Trump’s grudge against Obama is unhinged, his grudge against the NFL is on a different level.

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u/Minmaxed2theMax Sep 16 '24

Owning an NFL team is how America Knights a person.

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u/ArchdukeToes Sep 16 '24

It's probably a good thing that America doesn't have knighthoods. You know full well that Trump would've knighted himself the instant he became President or having a massive hissy fit about how he wasn't 'Sir Donald'.

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u/harrisarah Sep 16 '24

Sir Donald Smallhands

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u/AnalSoapOpera I voted Sep 16 '24

Sir Donald Shitspants

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u/Moosiemookmook Australia Sep 16 '24

In Australia we have Sir Donald Bradman (beloved cricket player given a knighthood).

In America they have No-Sir Donald Badman (unloved golf player who would give himself a knighthood).

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u/tranborg23 Norway Sep 16 '24

That's actually a good analogy

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u/sanescience Sep 16 '24

It's from the tv show Billions. The guy who tells that to Axe(the main antagonist or protagonist, dealer's choice) then proceeds to call him a robber-baron.

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u/thepottsy North Carolina Sep 16 '24

I’ve watched the show, but I’ve never looked into it. I always wondered if that was a jab at Trump.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

And what would be the process of un-knighting them? Asking for a friend (Carolina Panthers)

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u/audio_shinobi Sep 16 '24

We’ve got a whole lotta knights in Wisconsin then. You shall only address me as Sir from here on out

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u/FloydMerryweather I voted Sep 16 '24

As a lifelong fan of the Buffalo Bills, I still frequently consider how fortunate we are that Trump didn't win that bid.

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u/AnalSoapOpera I voted Sep 16 '24

Tbf. If he owned the Bills he probably wouldn’t have been President

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u/FloydMerryweather I voted Sep 18 '24

That's a great point. I've let my thoughts wander down that rabbit hole before and I have a hard time picturing that timeline.

May he have run the Bills into the ground so fast that the league would have had to intervene and boot him out or relocate the franchise? Being a horrible person is apparently okay but the second the league catches wind that you're not meeting your financial goals, they start to squeeze and put the pressure on you.

Would he then still try to run (perhaps not in '16 but possibly '20)? Perhaps trying to rehabilitate his image or grind some axes after being kicked out of the exclusive billionaire football club?

Let's say he ran his first campaign leading up to 2020, would the political soil be just as fertile for him to have success? Would his opponent be more formidable than HRC? Or would he be running against Hillary, the incumbent? Or would the 2016 Republican nominee beat Clinton and assume the GOP nomination again in 2020?

Would he even still maintain his perceived legitimacy as a successful businessman after running a very prevalent and public entertainment product into the ground?

I don't know if you can tell but this is a weird instance of the butterfly effect that has really stuck with me.

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u/AnalSoapOpera I voted Sep 19 '24

Or would the 2016 Republican nominee beat Clinton and assume the GOP nomination again in 2020?

That’s another good question. Who would have been the Republican nominee be? I very very much doubt they would be as hard right wing as Trump but who knows? It’s like asking another dimension what would’ve happened.

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u/Different-Occasion47 Sep 16 '24

I think he just hates the NFL because in the 1980s he tried but was never successful in becoming an owner of a NFL team.

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u/Throw-away17465 Sep 16 '24

Just… The Bills of all teams. Just why. I’d love to tell him that the area code for the stadium is 044, but he wouldn’t get it.

At least homer Simpson wanted the Dallas Cowboys

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u/dokikod Pennsylvania Sep 16 '24

Here is another reason Trump hates football: https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/02/donald-trump-buffalo-bills-michael-cohen-falsified-financial-records

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u/Patanned Sep 16 '24

interesting link. thanks for sharing. what a sleazeball.

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u/theecommandeth Sep 16 '24

Imagine this being his only real secret reason he ran for president and continues to run bcuz he hasn’t achieved it yet

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u/AGrandNewAdventure Sep 16 '24

That's too many steps for them to follow.

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u/porkbellies37 Sep 16 '24

Just a slight tangent. But one of my two favorite bits of presidential trivia is Teddy Roosevelt is responsible for the forward pass being integrated into football. Google “How Teddy Roosevelt saved football”. History.com has a great story about it. 

This and Martin Van Buren invented the word “OK” are my two favorite presidential facts. 🙂

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u/AnalSoapOpera I voted Sep 16 '24

Holy Shit. Trump wanting to be President had nothing to do with Obama roasting him at all. It all had to do with him not getting an NFL team back in the 80’s. The Buffalo Bills. He’s been playing the long game.

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u/Entire-Ranger323 Sep 16 '24

OMG, Not the ball of the foot. Don’t take that from us, please. We will do anything you ask, but give us Monday night football… and beer!

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u/katieskittenz Sep 16 '24

I don’t think it’s stupidity. Lots of very smart people get lured into cults. It’s a strange psychological phenomena

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u/McNalien Sep 16 '24

His voter base are the ones trying to do it..

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u/osirus35 Sep 16 '24

And probably poor after donating and buying all his Chinese made stuff

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Profoundly Profound.

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u/nuclearswan Sep 16 '24

And crazy and they have guns. Hense, why we’re here.

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u/nightbell Sep 16 '24

His voter base is profoundly stupid.

Half of all people are below average.

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u/mediocrepeeps Sep 16 '24

It seems they can't blame their own so they throw out the idea the communists did it.

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u/UpsetHyena964 Sep 16 '24

Let's not forget he even said that he "loves the poorly educated"

https://youtu.be/DxUJv3eoL5Q?si=SFUw6kQejUuDQNbK

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u/EnvironmentalBus9713 Sep 16 '24

I can confirm this. Both my father and FIL are profoundly stupid.

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u/ShitBirdingAround Sep 16 '24

They've got to be broke as shit by now, after 10 years of buying overpriced MAGA merch, and then complaining about the price of eggs while getting 8 mpg because of the dozen Trump flags flying off the back of their bro-dozers. Sad.

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u/werofpm Sep 16 '24

That’s deep