July 13, 2024
Trump Was Just Shot
I just received a call from my Dad. Trump has been shot. I won't go over my misgivings about the guy, they are here if you care, but those misgivings are irrelevant right now.
A leading candidate for the presidency has been shot.
Given the immense polarization in the country right now his is how you get a Civil War.
Don't do that.
It appears that Trump is OK with only a graze and the loss of a bit of his right ear, though one of the rally-goers behind him was reportedly shot in the head and killed.
Everything is in a state of flux at this time and the story changes moment to moment. Trump appears to be OK, but I'm old enough to remember Reagan being shot. They thought he was OK until he coughed up blood.
I'm still dubious about Trump's ability to win the election given the intense institutional and self-imposed headwinds he faces, but, given the optics, I do suspect this incident is unlikely to add measurably to those headwinds.
The photo was taken by Evan Vucci
...this despite CNN's headline, still desperately trying for a "Biden vs the stairs" moment.
The combination of this manner of media coverage, with the reality that a candidate that many in the desperate, hurting half of the country see as some sort of savior was shot (and one of his supporters murdered) is not likely to calm the tensions this nation is under.
My fear is that someone will seek retribution. Be assured, THAT will not get diffident coverage. Once a nation goes tit-for-tat assassinations it goes into a dark place.
This happened less than an hour ago. We still don't know what we don't know.
So everybody stay safe.
And above all stay calm.
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After hearing about this, I talked to an elderly (Silent Generation) friend of mine (I'm an Xer) who I used to talk to about current events during a carpool to work back in the 'oughts. Back then she was a pretty good barometer of the middle. Very intelligent and worked in a lab for most of her career. She proceeded to shock me about how if only Trump wouldn't be a dictator and how he models himself after Putin. But she couldn't provide any cases where this was true in his first term. She'd always been down on him for not "acting Presidential" despite the fact that Trump is really more a throwback to pre-WWII presidents than the more Europhilic post WWII Presidents. She also, for the first time, came out as fully rabid man-made climate change due to the heat wave.
I contrast this with some family friends I met up with last May. A very good Christian Family that I was closely connected to as a kid. Pretty-much the epitome of what I would thing of from the term .I had pegged the parents as likely to be sympathetic to illegal immigrants and probably mildly left leaning given they'd lived their lives in Taxachusetts and the father was a teacher. Nope. Hard core MAGA all the way, and, even to me who largely agreed with them, very harsh sounding. There was no Christian charity there.
I knew the hardening of positions was going to happen according to Fourth Turning theory, But to see it in action has been shocking none the less. If ther theory holds true, and it's been like clockwork thus-far, we've got another 6-9 years of this, and it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
I contrast this with some family friends I met up with last May. A very good Christian Family that I was closely connected to as a kid. Pretty-much the epitome of what I would thing of from the term .I had pegged the parents as likely to be sympathetic to illegal immigrants and probably mildly left leaning given they'd lived their lives in Taxachusetts and the father was a teacher. Nope. Hard core MAGA all the way, and, even to me who largely agreed with them, very harsh sounding. There was no Christian charity there.
I knew the hardening of positions was going to happen according to Fourth Turning theory, But to see it in action has been shocking none the less. If ther theory holds true, and it's been like clockwork thus-far, we've got another 6-9 years of this, and it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Posted by: StargazerA5 at Sat Jul 13 21:03:02 2024 (sG4Li)
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"She proceeded to shock me about how if only Trump wouldn't be a dictator and how he models himself after Putin. But she couldn't provide any cases where this was true in his first term."
There's a lot of that going around.
There's a lot of that going around.
Posted by: Rick C at Sun Jul 14 12:36:37 2024 (MItL9)
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Did you see the children in Uganda?
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Thu Jul 18 10:43:42 2024 (LZ7Bg)
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That so many Democrats profess a belief that the assassination was faked proves PT Barnum's (?) saying, the part that includes: "You can fool some of the people all of the time..."
Posted by: ubu at Sat Jul 20 15:18:04 2024 (jH+gB)
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