• altphoto@lemmy.today
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    19 hours ago

    Maryland Puerto Rico? Nah! I like States that don’t inundate annually… Looking at you Flo, Lou and Texy Texas! Big states, crying. All crying came to me asking for help. They would say things to me like Mr. Orangeousness, could you please save our children. I send refrigerators to save the children, but nah! Look, ICE cream is good! It’s a good success thing. Success in the refrigerator. Saved, all saved. Crying, big big States. And so I don’t understand, wanna save children? Here’s the fridge! Confusing! Bigly confusing!

    Anyway.

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      1 day ago

      When a critical mass of americans realize how many people don’t hate them, aren’t resentful violent cunts, and would happily work together with them to make nice things for everybody, that’ll be good news.

      Sooner the better.

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        1 day ago

        “If you don’t test for it, you won’t get so many cases.”

        He said this during covid. This was his logic. I don’t think he’s gotten smarter since the last time. Not sure his handlers are much smarter themselves.

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      20 hours ago

      I wish he’d hit too, but I don’t think it’s fair to call him a shit shot. All things considered, he almost fucking pulled it off.

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        14 hours ago

        Nah, if you can’t hit that large a target from 135m you’re a shit shot. Kid should have been accurate up to 300m, especially with an AR-15.

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              8 hours ago

              1 MOA at 300 yards is 3 inches. That margin of error is the difference between grazing an ear and a kill shot.

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                8 hours ago

                That’s why when you’re trained you know to aim for center mass. He was roughly 150m from Trump, that’s a 1.5" group at 1 MOA. If you didn’t hit your target within 8 shots at that distance, you’re a shitty shot. You would never qualify in the military that’s for sure, and their standards are laughable.

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                  5 hours ago

                  Again, he was a skinny teenage kid, under some pressure that neither you or I have ever shot under. I’d rather applaud the effort than criticize the very near miss.

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        22 hours ago

        The bullet missed. The injury to his ear was from the secret service agent slamming against his head as he ducked down. Replay footage of the event confirmed.

        But i doubt it was staged. It was a real assassination attempt. Maybe the next one will go better. Thoughts and prayers.

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          You see that video of someone on Trump’s staff ushering in photographers to get a better shot less than 5 seconds after Trump was “hit”?

          Crazy that in that moment of totally unprepared chaos, his first thought wasn’t personal safety, or safety for the president, but rather moving journalists into an exposed area in an active shooter zone for a better angle of Trump posing.

          Crazy how we still know almost nothing about the shooter, nor is anyone really calling to find out.

          Crazy how the Secret Service watched the shooter crawl across the roof, while people in the crowd shouted and pointed at him, but didn’t take any kind of shot until after he opened fire.

          Now, was it a real assassination attempt? Yea, probably. But there’s enough weird stuff that I can see why people question it.

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            Crazy how the Secret Service watched the shooter crawl across the roof

            I don’t think that’s how that happened. It was local PD that was informed. There was a fuck up in their communication with the SS.

            Crazy how we still know almost nothing about the shooter, nor is anyone really calling to find out.

            We know enough that neither side can use him as a political tool, so people care less.

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      Insulting that we have always taken care of our neighbors, giving them our tax dollars in hurricanes, and our hospitals during the pandemic, but now they feel that they don’t need to return the favor. We’re all Americans. Will you really abandon us that quickly?