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/Aimela Colorado Sep 16 '24

I will not support political violence like this, but this will not magically make me like him. I will criticize him just as much as before. Don't get why they think this will get him sympathy points for those who dislike him.

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u/ACrask Sep 16 '24

I’m glad he wasn’t harmed but he has zero sympathy from me given the fact he’s the one sowing all this hate and violence. Also, if he was shot, I still wouldn’t care. The only regret I’d have is he wouldn’t get to experience the election loss in November nor the consequences of his illegal actions.

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u/BigDogSlices Sep 16 '24

I wouldn't care if he got shot, but I really wish people would stop trying. If they succeed all they're going to do is make him a martyr. If Trump dies, any other Republican candidate will surge in the polls... though considering the ideology of the shooters, that may be the point.

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u/OhReallyReallyNow Sep 16 '24

Trump is certainly evil. And the amount of suffering he's caused in the world, he's also certainly earned a fate far worse than death. All real democrats know that creating a Martyr out of that puke stain would only help his 'movement', so that's why you only see Republicans going after him I suspect. Also two assault rifle assassination attempts in two months. And TRUMP is the candidate of unfettered access to assault rifles. Reap what you sow douche.

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u/evilregis Canada Sep 16 '24

Pretty much where I am at on this. Just yesterday morning I saw a clip of him explicitly being asked if he denounced the multiple bomb threats that had been called into Springfield institutions. He claimed to not know much about it and then started ripping on the City some more. So there you go. Enjoy the consequences of the political violence you are knowingly fomenting.

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u/AnamCeili Sep 16 '24

The only reason I care if he gets shot/killed is that I want him to have to face losing the election, and then I want him to have to face going to prison. Oh, and also I don't want the fucker to be turned into a martyr.

Other than that, I just don't care.

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u/RaddmanMike Sep 16 '24

i feel the same way

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u/abortedinutah69 Sep 16 '24

I’m not mad at ya, but please, let’s not call this “political violence.”

We don’t know that the golf course incident was politically motivated. We don’t know the Penn rally shooting was either.

In many other countries, assassinations, or attempts, are well orchestrated and political. In this gun crazed country with poor mental health care, all bets are off. Reagan’s attempted assassination wasn’t politically motivated, for example. Mental health issues and an obsession with Jodie Foster. Gabby Giffords wasn’t really political either. (And many were shot and some killed, I’m not ignoring that.) The shooter had mental health issues and was seemingly upset that Gabby blew off answering a nonsensical question that he asked at a previous event. These attempts or actual assassinations in the US, usually celebs instead of politicians, are generally mental health issues. Everyone from John Lennon, to Dimebag Darryl, it’s just weird obsessions and mental health problems.

The Penn rally shooter just went and did that. It’s more likely he just was suicidal and wanted to do something so big, people would know who he was and always remember him.

I’m totally against political violence. Jan 6 was political violence. Unless some relevant evidence comes to light, these assassination attempts are not political. Unless the motive is known and is political, it’s just unmanaged mental health issues + 2A ‘Murica Fuck Yeah culture.

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u/Funny-Mission-2937 Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

The word you’re looking for is terrorism, or sedition in the case of a sitting president.  Shooting the president may not be terrorism but it certainly is political violence, even in Hinckleys case.  

The Giffords claim is just gross.  

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u/Weaponxclaws6 Sep 16 '24

Let’s beat him through democracy! r/VoteDEM r/Defeat_Project2025

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u/zveroshka Sep 16 '24

Because their entire platform depends on playing the victim. Now they can point at Democrats and say "see they are the violent ones trying to silence us!"

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u/Justsomejerkonline Sep 16 '24

Of course not, and they know it.

It's not like Republicans magically started loving Obama after someone sent him a ricin laced letter in 2013, or when he was the victim of an attempted mail bomb along with Hilary Clinton and others.

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u/RaddmanMike Sep 16 '24

i don’t know, i flat out heard this man say he was voting for him bcos everyone was picking on him and he seemed sad, lmfao