i straight up Forgot trump got shot. it's been 10 days and it's just not a story anymore. wild

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i straight up Forgot trump got shot. it's been 10 days and it's just not a story anymore. wild
republicans were milking this and media was amplifying them, then they found out he was a republican with a trump sign on his lawn and fucking stopped talking about it immediately. Not even trump talks about it, it went from "took a bullet for this country" to nothing in zero seconds flat
yeah once it wasn't ideological it's not useful
or it's anti-useful because if it wasn't an antifa supersoldier it just looks bad for the "guns are great, cops are great, violence is strength" party
but Democratic politicians are far too genteel to say that out loud, so you end up with no one wanting to talk about it
yeah like, if any democrat had the courage of their convictions (or, you know... convictions at all) they would be zeroing-in on this but of course they aren't even acknowledging it
yeah lmao! more of that kind of thing happening is basically their platform and everyone knows it, including them. there's nothing for them to ideologically crack down on that isn't their psychological base. and doing anything about the catastrophic security failures is accountability for cops, watching that part (fail to) unfold is especially funny to me right now. really it is intensely funny how it's such a non-story that biden getting really sleepy completely upstaged the entire thing
very funny thing to be like "wow that's crazy. anyway," about. literally any other politician could have made hay about fearing for their life, tightening security at rallies, the violence of the opposition, etc., but that sort of thing will just piss off the only people still showing up at trump events.
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They should do it again