legal cat 🐾: no, def. not. I distinctly remember republicans making fun of paul pelosi after his head was hammered in.

What will definitely suck is all the cable news talking heads solemnly agreeing that "all this talk of quote unquote fascism" is irresponsible

literally already

Lol, lmao

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These guys know not to let a good disaster go to waste

Oh gods the statements.of sympathy that are gonna come from democrats that absolutely would not be coming from republicans if someone had shot at Biden

no, def. not. I distinctly remember republicans making fun of paul pelosi after his head was hammered in.

Pelosi's Twitter account put out a generous expression of sympathy for Trump this evening, and the top comments are all people mocking the attack on her husband

Wait, seriously? I hate that I didn’t know that and was just pulling out my most heinous related Republcian memory. This is going to go exactly how we think it is, isn’t it?

Jesus.

Literal effing facepalm bsky.app/profile/josh...

From a Biden campaign official: “The Biden campaign is pausing all outbound communications and working to pull down our television ads as quickly as possible.” — Matt Viser, WaPo

Biden wants to lose the election. That’s the only explanation.

Not really, no

There is a zero point zero percent chance that Trump would have done the same if there was an attempt on Biden’s life. It’s why Dems will lose every time.

Narrator: That was not in fact the only explanation

Arrested development

Grow up.

This is standard procedure for both sides when something traumatic happens to one of the candidates - family death, accident, severe illness - about a week of step back from the heavy hitting. Do I think the Republicans will do the same? Not this time. But there is precedent for this.

Deplorable is too soft a word.

Which is why I have no sympathy. Absolutely none.

This is why they go low we go high was the worst political advice in history

This isn’t going high. It’s going stupidly irrational.

Especially now that it’s turned out that the shooting was coming from inside the house.

Thanks a lot Michelle!

Meanwhile, Joe Biden is suspending his campaign to show solidarity with Donald Trump or some such idiotic bullshit.

More likely that's just an excuse to keep Biden out of the public eye until November.

This is standard procedure for campaigns when something bad happens in either candidate's life. There is precedent for this.

Standard for whose campaigns

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True for both sides - until possibly now. Let's see what Trump's camp does. I would not put it past them to thumb their noses at standard conventions of decency campaign wise.

I believe further MAGA radicalization is a goal here. 17 dimensional chess is complicated.

They staged this attempt for this precisely! I will never believe that this was a genuine attack! The shooter was made into hamburger, so we will never know why or how he decided to do it!

Most likely answer is simply a disturbed person, probably with severe internet poisoning. And probably one of theirs, frankly.

No, not in this instance imo. Looking at Scamalot Trumpistan and his odd fist pumping reaction to murder, this deadly stunt was too useful for the fully compromised foreign asset. 17 dimensional chess is complicated and Vladimir has bet everything on getting this joker elected.

Well I suppose we’ll find out more. But Occam’s Razor is undefeated, man. A lot of guns out there!

Don’t go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole. It leads nowhere good.

Political theater to provide a fist pumping photo opportunity for Scamalot Trumpistan. Of course death was inevitable. The multiple security failures are notable too.

We will almost certainly get a detailed picture of the guys life who did it and agonize fruitlessly for months in comment sections over which side he represented.

He was an idealistic young kid, registered as republican in 2021, & voted first time in his life for republicans in the 2022 midterms. There is no way, that he would be so disgruntled w trump, as to attempt a killing! There is no way, he came up w that, but he may have listened to ppl he trusted!

He was willing to help someone, but we will never know, because he was made into hamburger meat, to make sure, he won’t talk!

The Pittsburgh Tree of Life shooter lived not too far from the address given in news reports.

Let’s see what happens next. Trump got his campaign photographs will his signature fist pumping. 17 dimensional chess is complicated.

That's why trolls on top was the worst idea Twitter had. Makes this sort of thing seem more widespread

“Trump’s going to get sympathy votes!” From who? Looks like conservatives are doing all they can to immediately squander any kind of sympathy they might have possibly garnered.

Yeah people think being normal and not psychotic about an assassination attempt is weak sauce but doing what feels cathartic and doing what most voters think of as decent behavior are two different things

That’s because the right wing is unhinged and the reason for all this

Someone's attempted to community note it, even

Twitter is a hell site. It’s full of bigotry, extremism, and nutcases, and the ads are almost exclusively coming from crypto/“AI” grifters and rightwing & religious groups. It is SO MUCH WORSE than before Musk.

They’re bad people.

An asymmetry of decency

Or in some cases with politicians, stupidly irrational.

Her liberalism is literally terminal holy shit. The saddest case of civility brain I've ever seen.

It’s not civility. It’s a caricature of civility.

Clearly, it's gone from Vichy Twitter to full on Nazi Twitter now.

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