No mixed feelings at all. I am unequivocally sad that we lost Richard Simmons today 😢😢😢
Damn this is how I found out. Extra sad now, thanks.
And Dr Ruth. That lady was such a charming little horn dog.
Nothing mixed. Fully sad he didn't die and this will cement his win in the coming months. We're fucked.
I don’t have mixed feelings. No-one should ever, attempt, to assasinate a would be dictator.
I rather it never happened. But him surviving is the worst outcome.
Yeah... Surviving that basically won him the election.
Roughly my thoughts today: https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/451/084/544/739/972/original/47d31a58ddc70f80.png
I have thoughts and prayers for the bullet that couldn't do it's job
Absolutely not. My feeling of disappointment was completely unequivocal.
Not mixed, the attempt does not improve or reduce his ability to run the country. What it does however is increase his chances of winning.
Gives me Reagan and Hitler vibes.
Its disappointing. Good someone had the balls to actually try and show he is serious when he says the 2A is there to prevent fascism. Sad he failed.
After thinking about this REALLY REALLY HARD...offing him will do nothing to stop the creep of facism. You have an entire party now aligned with the idealogices that the 3rd Reich had. And it's the entire party. MAGA killed the GOP after they got rid of Cheney. You cut one head off and 3 more will pop up identical to him...with vindication. Its going to be a yearly struggle and I'm afraid we won't be able to hold them back forever.
Killing him potentially turns their party against themselves as they fight each other for the power vacuum it creates
Doing it before he picks a VP furthers that unity divide
There's a reason the Allies kept trying to assassinate Hitler during WW2, and it wasn't because they thought it was a bad plan to end the war.
Not saying I agree or disagree with you. Just sayin' how it happened last time.
After thinking about this REALLY REALLY HARD…offing him will do nothing to stop the creep of [fascism]
Who would step in to replace Trump? Trump has worked hard to discredit anybody who could potentially challenge him. Strongmen often groom a son to take over for them, but only after they've been in power for many years. Trump might want Junior to take over, but I doubt even Trump's hand-picked yes-men would accept Junior at this point.
Instead you'd almost certainly get a power vacuum with various Republican factions trying to take over.
You cut one head off and 3 more will pop up
And those 3 would start snapping at each-other trying to become the dominant head. And, as long as they're distracted snapping at each-other, they're not going to be focusing on us.
IMO, Trump is also the only thing holding this right-wing coalition together. As soon as he's gone the factions are going to turn on each-other. The bad thing is that they've already shown that they're going to get violent when they feel their grip on power is slipping. I'm sure this assassination attempt is going to lead to right-wing violence, and if it had succeeded it would have been a lot more violence.
The most dangerous thing about Trump is that he's he's got almost half the US behind him. There are probably more cruel Republicans, and probably some who would be more effective at implementing their cruel policies. But, not many who would be able to get so much support and keep the coalition together.
The Republican base is getting smaller each year as old people die. It's not a popular platform with the younger voters. If the US can avoid a Trump win this year, the MAGA version of the Republican party will probably fall apart. Then it will be back to the regular corporatocracy that the US has been dealing with for decades. If he does win... well I'm glad I don't live in the US.
No mixed feelings here, just heaps of disappointment.
No mixed feelings, I’m absolutely devastated about how much harder saving the USA will be from today.
Not mixed. Just disappointed.
Disappoint in not enough to describe my feelings.
I feel like I'm blocked under a huge building about to collapse at any moment and a huge piece of the support pillar just came off...
...that's how i feel right now.
Pessimistically, I don’t see how the system gets better without full collapse.
But wow imagine a few normal candidates running again. Imagine getting to vote for politics and not in a rule-breaking popularity contest.
If your feelings weren't mixed you either don't value human life or you don't value democracy.
Edit: a bystander was killed and so was the 20 year old gunman. This is the human life I'm referring to.
is Democracy really just a choice between an evil and a good? the USA needs way more politcal parties than just two.
The USA needs ranked choice voting
What? The current events are an attempt on someone's life with the goal of saving what semblance of democracy we have left.
Did y'all seriously miss the memo? It's pretty obvious what he meant if you haven't been under a rock for the last 24hrs.
We aren't running out of humans, and we don't live in a democracy...
Turns out you don't have to be running out of humans to value human life.
If I have a bowl of rice, and one of the grains is actively trying to end my way of life, I don't mind when someone shoots at it with an assault rifle.
My feelings weren't mixed on Trump. I hope the next person has better aim.
I was just plain old sad about Richard Simmons, Dr Ruth, and Shannen Doherty. They all deserve better.
I've not looked at the news yet, Lemmy was my first stop. I'm thinking.... earthquake in the Kremlin?
There's a lot of really nice architecture there, it'd be a shame for it to be lost in rubble.
That, or we got disqualified from the Euros final xD
Trump got shot at. Trump fine (hence the meme), shooter dead, couple bystanders dead.
You mean this: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-use-poc-exploits-in-attacks-22-minutes-after-release/ ?
Pretty regular stuff if you ask me
Yeah, I guess the convicted felon is destined to expire on his golden throne while trying to push out a Big Mac.
Today was a bad day
I'll say it out loud: On the one hand, dying of cancer sucks. On the other, Shannon Doherty was really mean to her coworkers.
Pretty worried about the comments man. Murdering (or trying to) a candidate of any political party is terrible.
People often talk about going back in time to kill baby Hitler. By all measures Trump would like to be a new Hitler and his most fervent supporters see him as that. Is it surprising people would support such an action to stop him?
Oh no, I wasn't having mixed feelings, I was disappointed that someone took a shot at the king and missed.
