WHAT

  • Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump was shot at a rally in PA.

TRUMPS STATEMENT

“I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW SO FAR

  • gunman is dead
  • Trump “is fine”
  • one attendee is dead
  • another attendee is in critical condition

News Sources

  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    52·
    4 months ago

    Gotta love how people are instantly pulling a QAnon deal of “ITS A FALSE FLAG, FAKE NEWS, NOTHING HAPPENS WITHOUT A GRAND CABAL!”

    Somehow Trump is a mastermind of this. The dude who can’t hide stolen files properly, can’t lie on his taxes properly, and loses money on a casino, somehow has the ability to rig a false flag assassination attempt.

    Are NeoLibs that so far into the Kool-Aid that Dipshit Trump is also a grandmaster 5D chess player of this, while not being able to string words together? It’s not like he’s ever been a good actor.

    “Now Trump’s gonna say Biden tried to kill him.”

    He already said that.

    “Now Trump’s gonna call for repression of the left.”

    He already did that.

    “Now they’re gonna say Trump is a martyr.”

    They already say that.

    “Now the right is gonna get violent with their political opponents.”

    They already do that.

    “Now the fash are gonna push for an enabling act.”

    They already are doing that.

    It’s equally frustrating and vindicating that people are waking up to the alarms minorities have been sounding for… decades? Even during 9/11, people were saying this is the start of the end for any form of freedom. Then we had economic crash after crash. Then more rights removed. More drone strikes. More illegal wars.

    Then we tried to warn about Trump. No one cared. He won. The people who said he would hurt did get hurt. People acted shocked.

    Biden came in. Ignored the people in jail cells, ignored COVID for better polling, refusing the new powers given to him to do anything better for the country at large, and slowly turning into a walking skeleton.

    And every single time people have said “Hey this is bad for any form of democracy” people said it was overblown, nothing bad would happen. Then it got worse and worse. Voting didn’t solve most of the issues. Protesting did. And then both parties clamped harder on protestors and increased funding to the militarized police.

    Welcome to Weimar Germany, America. People have only warned you for decades. If this doesn’t wake anyone up, then you’ll sleepwalk as you claim ignorance on why you’re “just following orders”.

    • SirDerpy@lemmy.world
      11·
      4 months ago

      First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was MLK’s white moderate.

      I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate,

      who is more devoted to “order” than to justice;

      who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice;

      who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”;

      who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”

      Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      Welcome to Weimar Germany, America.

      I’ve been armed 24/7 since 01/06. Women, POC and LGBT folks are the largest gun purchasing demographic. They too got the memo. So no, I’m not giving up my AR-15 or anything other gun.

      It’s like liberals skipped history class. We’re months away from “red hats” grouping up and patrolling neighborhoods for “undesirables”.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Like did anyone see what the cops did to us during the George floydd protests? Plus warren VS district of Columbia Supreme Court ruling says cops aren’t there to protect us.

        We’re on our own. I wish we lived in a good place, but that’s not where we are. Or ever will be. Because we are here, and we live LIKE THIS.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          We are indeed on our own. That type of thinking is what rural people excel at, and look how they vote.

          No idea what the answer is. Violence, or even defense, from the left will be crushed, just like you said about the protests.

          All I can say is that I will do me best to defend my family. If shooting back means my death, so be it. But unlike many libs, I’m not going to roll over when they come for me and mine.

    • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      You realize Trump was already previously part of a conspiracy to overthrow the election and was convicted of this, right? It’s not like he’s new to this kind of organizational crime. No one thinks he’s a mastermind; they think he’s a con artist and they just don’t trust him. And I’m not saying it was a false flag, I’m just pointing out that people are basing this on past evidence of his behaviors.

      This is also not a qanon level of a conspiracy, it’s quite mild.

      Here’s what right wing conspiracies have to say so far about the shooting (I highly recommend monitoring them to gauge how they will react the next few days):

      https://kansascitydefender.com/national/trump-shooting-antifa-conspiracies/

      Right-Wing Accounts Launch Mark Violets Antifa Conspiracy in Light of Trump “Assassination Attempt

      Please note this has been DEBUNKED.

    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      4 months ago

      Not advocating for the theory, but it’s borderline unbelivable that the man gets shot in the ear, and is more concerned about his shoes than his life, then stops to do a fist pump. This is the same man who dodged the draft.