Trump Assassination Attempt(s)

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berryvol said:
One side offered prayers and condemned the attack yesterday. The other was quick to blame the other for what happened. You’ll never hear the second sentence apologize, as you’ve seen throughout all these threads. They’ll continue to justify the rhetoric and claim any bad thing that their side does on conspiracy. I hope and pray it’s a minority of the right that feels that way, but my faith in that grows dimmer by the hour.
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Absurd. There was plenty of ugly rhetoric coming out “the Left” in the immediate aftermath, not to mention in the weeks and months leading up to this.

You reek.
 
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I didn’t realize women had such a presence in the secret service. I’m all for equality, but when the director is a woman, her assistant is a woman, and when 2 people assigned to Trumps personal detail are women…. You have to think they’ve moved beyond equality and into the realm of trying to be cool by liberal standards.
 
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Corey Comperatore saved his family by covering his daughters and wife with his body. Greatness was found in the actions of a retired firefighter and a humble and loving father. Heroes abound in the most unlikely way.

"A real-life superhero': Man killed at Trump rally lauded for his final act — protecting his family."

"In Corey Comperatore’s final moment, he did what came naturally to the father of two daughters: He protected his family. With his own life.

“He shielded my body from the bullet that came at us,” one daughter, Allyson Comperatore, wrote in a social media post. “He loved his family. He truly loved us enough to take a real bullet for us.”

His wife said he “died the hero he always was.”

“Corey was a girl-dad. Corey was a firefighter. Corey went to church every Sunday,” the governor said at a press conference in Butler.

Flags in Pennsylvania will fly at half-staff.

www.post-gazette.com

'A real-life superhero': Man killed at Trump rally lauded for his final act — protecting his family

In Corey Comperatore’s final moment, he did what came naturally to the father of two daughters: He protected his family. With his own life. “He...
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berryvol said:
One side offered prayers and condemned the attack yesterday. The other was quick to blame the other for what happened. You’ll never hear the second sentence apologize, as you’ve seen throughout all these threads. They’ll continue to justify the rhetoric and claim any bad thing that their side does on conspiracy. I hope and pray it’s a minority of the right that feels that way, but my faith in that grows dimmer by the hour.
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What?

Their candidate was just shot and you think they should apologize????
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
The shat would have hit the fan 1 inch the other direction..

We all know that
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I agree. But my point is so many have called Trump supporters crazy gun nuts. Yet like I said, zero riots. If this happened to Biden and it was a Trump supporter, liberals would be rioting and destroying businesses like they always do.
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That's me quoting you, I'm not trying to "claim" you said anything, you literally said it. I'm only asking a question, because you're fussing about one sides conspiracies, when the other did it first, and more.
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hahahaha @WoodsmanVol gets schooled as usual 😂😂😂😂
 
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bpalmer28 said:
I didn’t realize women had such a presence in the secret service. I’m all for equality, but when the director is a woman, her assistant is a woman, and when 2 people assigned to Trumps personal detail are women…. You have to think they’ve moved beyond equality and into the realm of negligence due to a desire to be cool by liberal standards.
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Broad brush there.

I’m positive there are females that can competently serve in frontline operations for the Secret Service.

The problem is the visuals that went out to America of the team in front of that car.
The problem is the SS promoted an apparently unqualified individual to lead (who just happens to be female).
 
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evillawyer said:
Republican nutjob tries to kill another Republican nutjob. And who's/what's to blame ... DEI. Gotta love the GOP.

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Who was head of secret service? A woman. It was her job to secure the area and make sure this type of thing never happened. Sorry to burst your biased bubble but Cheatle has to accept the lions share of blame for this.
 
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85SugarVol said:
Broad brush there.

I’m positive there are females that can competently serve in frontline operations for the Secret Service.

The problem is the visuals that went out to America of the team in front of that car.
The problem is the SS promoted an apparently unqualified individual to lead (who just happens to be female).
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So am I! When we were watching yesterday I told my wife that one of the women covering Trump was a bad ass. She agreed. But it’s rare for a woman to be most qualified to provide security, and 2 of the 5 assigned to Trump’s personal detail are women so I odds are they are probably trying too hard with the DEI stuff. Just assign the most quality person for the job, and if a woman beats out the men, build a statue or something.
 
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evillawyer said:
Republican nutjob tries to kill another Republican nutjob. And who's/what's to blame ... DEI. Gotta love the GOP.

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Well it’s common sense so I don’t get your point. Some people don’t have good sense though. Secret service should be some of the most dangerous people on the planet.
 
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bpalmer28 said:
Well it’s common sense so I don’t get your point. Some people don’t have good sense though. Secret service should be some of the most dangerous people on the planet.
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I posted about this earlier, if you care to comb through my posts. But the USSS is by and large just regular guys who feel a calling to service (much like the military). It’s not what is depicted in popular culture. There’s no hiring quotas or DEI that caused this, likely just pure ineptitude on several levels.
 
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berryvol said:
I posted about this earlier, if you care to comb through my posts. But the USSS is by and large just regular guys who feel a calling to service (much like the military).
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If this is true, the SS needs a new director.

Edit: sorry if my tone is snippy. I’m just tired 😂
 
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berryvol said:
One side offered prayers and condemned the attack yesterday. The other was quick to blame the other for what happened. You’ll never hear the second sentence apologize, as you’ve seen throughout all these threads. They’ll continue to justify the rhetoric and claim any bad thing that their side does on conspiracy. I hope and pray it’s a minority of the right that feels that way, but my faith in that grows dimmer by the hour.
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Are you for real? The side that offered prayers was being opportunistic because they thought it would make them look good, but did and said everything imaginable to create this atmosphere over the past seven years.
 
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bpalmer28 said:
And you’re cool with that?

I’m sorry but I don’t think normal people should be protecting the most important person in the world.
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I certainly don’t disagree with you.

Some of our most important federal government positions (USSS, FBI, etc) have had issues hiring for the last 5-10 years due to underfunding (I might add a lot of this nation wants to continue to slash fed employee funding, for better or worse) and half the country makes them the villains when anything goes wrong.

And, with the people I know at least, there’s lots of “badass” vets and people with combat experience that would love the job, but they aren’t even mentally qualified for the typical desk job. The weight of mental acumen vs physical ability is quite the trade off when deciding life or death. While the two aren’t mutually exclusive, it certainly seems that jobs like the USSS have an issue attracting and paying for the best of both.
 
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Some quotes from the aftermath of Paul Pelosi. For any who are wondering if the same standards were applied…

"The Republican Party and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories. It is shocking, but not surprising, that violence is the result. As citizens, we must hold them accountable for their words and the actions that follow," she tweeted.
- Hillary Clinton

"There are those who will dismiss the meaning of the assault on Pelosi as the act of a lone, unsettled man. But he was echoing far-right conspiracy theories, legitimated by cynical people for their own purposes. There were many hands on that hammer."
- David Axelrod

"The New York Times put the attempted assassination of the United States Speaker of the House below the fold. If you want to know just how numb America has become to Trump’s inspiring of fascist violence, here it is,"
- Joe Scarborough

"It was an assassination attempt, an extension of January 6th, the full expression of the new mantra of a political party gone insane. Call it that! I WANT Biden to state this MAGA terrorism was inspired by Trump,"
- Keith Olberman

"Donald Trump has been spreading The Big Lie for 2 years. The violent assault on Paul Pelosi and the attempt to murder Speaker Pelosi is directly related to that Lie. Donald Trump is 100% responsible for this and Jan.6. He must be indicted and never be allowed to hold office."
- Rob Reiner

"We should not be shocked that this happened. We have seen the storm clouds of political violence assemble. There is a direct line from January 6 to today. And it stretches even farther backward. We should be very careful about using the term 'fascism,' but a political system plunging toward normalized violence and instability is one that is taking on very dark undertones,"
- Dan Rather

"There is a swelling mass hysteria on the political right. It is lubricated by lies, bigotry, misplaced grievances, and apocalyptic rhetoric. It can be found in the memes on social media, the chants of 'lock her up,' the armed patrols of voting drop boxes, and certainly the violent attempted coup at the Capitol."
- Elliot Kirschner
 
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85SugarVol said:
He’s saying only the Right participated in the rhetoric. It’s a trash assessment.
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I do not believe this. I’m mostly saying, democrats came with decency in the wake of the attack, only for the right to call for their heads. I think both sides brought this upon our nation before it. This has been a steaming kettle since 2008, if not before.

Also, there’s been plenty of trash takes/tweets/opinions from the left in the wake of this tragedy.
 
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